Recalling his life in the Ethnology, Ding Zhengyi was very fortunate to be able to have such a stable environment, which allowed him to lay a relatively solid foundation in the early stage of cultivation.

The steady improvement of cultivation and knowledge reserves is inseparable from the support of the family, and the ancestors of the family have spent a lot of effort to formulate various family rules for the sustainable inheritance and development of the family.

There is a special course on the history of the family in the field of ethnology, and the following sentence is engraved on the wall of the family study: "With history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall, and with people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses." Ding Zhengyi pondered that history education should be to let the younger generations remember the spirit of their predecessors for the development of the family, so as to produce a strong sense of belonging to the family.

The ancestor of the Ding family is named Ding Hao, and thousands of years ago he founded the Ding Xiuzhen family in this spiritual vein land. It is said that he was originally an ordinary peasant child of the Xuanshan Kingdom, because the qualifications of the six spirit knots were included in the inner gate of the Xuanshan faction in the five-year spirit body test, and then he was lucky to build the foundation after a lot of hardships, but he injured the foundation during a mission to the sect, resulting in no hope for further cultivation in the future.

In the early years, due to the prospect of building a foundation and the environmental constraints in which he was located, Ding Hao did not consider getting married and having children, and after the foundation of cultivation was damaged, the relatives in the secular family had already died, and on weekdays, he fought wits and courage with his opponent because of the resources required for cultivation, and he didn't feel empty, and he felt a little lonely after suddenly losing his goal due to injury.

Therefore, Ding Hao married a rather beautiful outer disciple, and spent time in Xuanshan to play in the mountains and rivers, and after a long time, he felt free. Who knew that the birth of an heir, which was rare for many years during the foundation building period, turned out to be his turn.

Then his son was born, and his life had a new goal, and the son named Ding Gongcheng placed a lot of expectations on Ding Hao, but unfortunately it was later discovered that he only had the cultivation qualifications of only three spiritual knots, and many years of pampering made Ding Gongcheng's character very cowardly and incompetent, and he was destined to not have much high achievements in cultivation, so Ding Hao simply put his hope on the next generation.

When Ding Gong grew up, Ding Hao did not hesitate to break the monogamous convention of monks in the Qingyun Continent, and married two female monks from ordinary families for him, and successfully obtained six grandsons and two granddaughters.

Unfortunately, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, only two of the grandchildren have spirit bodies, and the best qualifications are still only three spirit knots. Frustrated, Ding Hao had to spend some means to apply for an inferior spiritual vein in the Xuanshan faction as a family residence for Ding Gongcheng's family to thrive.

After assisting a large family to initially settle down in the land of spiritual veins, perhaps it was because of the continuous tossing and exhaustion of mental strength over the years, or maybe it was more nostalgic for the good times of freedom and ease, Ding Hao did not stay in the family to continue to develop the family power, but left some cultivation resources for the newly built family, and returned to the Xuanshan faction to continue the decadent life after the injury just now.

This inferior spiritual vein occupied by the Ding family is located in the southernmost part of the Xuanshan Kingdom, not far from the coast, and is a delta land formed by the two tributaries of the Longyou River that run through the entire Xuanshan Country and branch into the sea.

Although many of the spiritual veins in the Xuanshan Kingdom controlled by the Xuanshan Sect nominally belong to the Xiuzhen family, every year, each Xiuzhen family needs to supply the Xuanshan Sect with different amounts of cultivation resources according to the quality of the spiritual veins where they are located.

When the Xiuzhen family, which originally occupied the spiritual vein, could not provide enough resources to the Xuanshan faction due to defeat or other reasons, the Xuanshan faction would urge them to move out of the spiritual vein as a whole and let them fend for themselves, and the remaining spiritual veins would often be distributed to the emerging family forces, because the resources available for development in the eyes of the sect were really limited.

According to the size of the merits made by these disciples, the Xuanshan faction grants these newly built Xiuzhen families a period of exemption ranging from decades to hundreds of years, which can not only make the disciples who contribute to the sect grateful to Dade, but also obtain a long-term and drought and flood cultivation resources for the sect.

The resources supplied to the sect on the Xiuzhen family are basically settled with Lingmi, which is the most basic cultivation resource in the Xiuzhen Realm, and it is also the most important cultivation resource in addition to the spirit stone. The more you eat the high-level spiritual rice, the more you can nourish the monk's body, and the stronger the promotion effect on assisting the monk to meditate and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

At the same time, the spiritual rice has the characteristics of large yield and high consumption, each mu of spiritual field can produce 100 catties of spiritual rice even if it is sown at will under the care of the monks, if the yield per mu reaches more than 200 catties is not uncommon, and the function of the qi cultivator to maintain the function of the spiritual body needs at least about 30 catties of spiritual rice every year, and the demand for high-level monks is greater.

The more spirit rice you eat, the more you can improve your cultivation efficiency, so for tens of thousands of years, spirit rice and spirit stones have almost been the same trading currency in the cultivation realm, and the two have always been maintained at one pound of low-grade yellow tooth rice for one low-grade spirit stone, one pound of middle-grade white tooth rice for ten lower-grade spirit stones, and one pound of high-grade purple tooth rice can be exchanged for a medium-grade spirit stone.

Just as the spirit stone is the foundation of the sect, the spirit field is also the foundation of the Xiuzhen family.

The spiritual field has extremely high requirements for the concentration of spiritual energy, and the inferior spiritual veins can only be cultivated within a hundred zhang around the spiritual eye.

In addition to the family ancestral hall built at one spiritual eye and the slightly larger scale of the clan science, the other three spiritual eyes only built a cultivation secret room of several square meters, and all the surrounding areas that meet the cultivation conditions are cultivated, and only where the cultivation conditions are not met are there houses for the descendants to live, cultivate, and live, so that only more than 100 acres of spiritual fields have been reclaimed around each spiritual eye.

As a land rich in spiritual energy, Lingtian can only be cultivated by monks who can sense spiritual energy during the Qi cultivation period. The cultivation steps of various spiritual plants are complicated, and it is necessary to practice supporting spiritual cultivation spells in order to take care of them during the growth period of spiritual value, and spiritual rice, as the simplest spiritual plant, has relatively low requirements for cultivation, but in the early stage of qi cultivation, monks can only cultivate about one acre, otherwise it will delay normal cultivation.

Fortunately, the ancestor Ding Hao has made a lot of contributions to the Xuanshan faction, and the Xuanshan faction exempted the Ding family from two hundred years of worship, so the family can smoothly survive the predicament when the clan was established and can be passed down to this day.

Perhaps it was the will of heaven that the fourth generation of the family finally appeared a monk with the qualification of five spiritual apertures, which is the fourth ancestor recorded in the history of the family.

Although the qualifications of the fourth ancestor were not enough to join the Xuanshan faction and become an inner disciple, he was still brought to the sect by the ancestor in his early years and taught him personally for several years. The cultivation of basic exercises and spells is quite solid, and in his twenties, he dredged a few spiritual networks, so that his qualifications were further enhanced to become a six-spirit cultivator, and his cultivation also broke through to the late stage of qi training.

Later, when the ancestor was about to die, he let the fourth ancestor return to the family to continue cultivating, relying on the small amount of resources left by the ancestor or successfully cultivating to the perfection of qi training, with the family's heritage, there was really no consumption for building a foundation.

The fourth ancestor traveled for several years in the Xuanshan country and even the Lingwu country in the north to earn foundation building resources, and it was the spiritual objects accumulated in these years of travel plus some luck that allowed the fourth ancestor to build a foundation by chance.

After the success of the fourth ancestor in building the foundation, due to the slow progress of his cultivation due to the limitation of qualifications, he had to shift his attention to running the family, feeling that the family provided too little assistance to the clansmen in cultivation, and at the same time, the family monks also lacked the willingness to contribute to the family, and lacked a positive and united atmosphere.

Therefore, he drastically expanded the family ancestral hall, revised the family genealogy, built the family genealogy, and in order to improve the cohesion of the family, he also compiled the character generation of the descendant monks, and distinguished the elder and the younger by the character generation, so as to establish a positive family style and mutually beneficial family rules, and most importantly, established a mode of operation based on the family's contribution points, and finally made the family cohesion into a whole.

The last three generations of the family branch are respectively "Chang Zhongzheng" to set the generation, the disciples of the side branch can only add the generation to show the identity of the branch after the detection of the spirit, the education of the clan from an early age makes returning to the branch a lifelong desire of the side branch, and there is a natural sense of closeness to the branch of the branch.

Although the fourth ancestor failed to go further in the end, what he did laid a solid foundation for the inheritance of the family. For more than 1,000 years, the family branch has guaranteed at least one foundation monk to sit in the town, and it has been propagated for dozens of generations, with a total population of more than 100,000 and hundreds of monks, and the overall strength of the family is also ranked in the Xuanshan Kingdom.

Although among the hundreds of monks in the family today, in addition to the third Bo Ding Zhongdao, only the current family patriarch, that is, Ding Zhengyi's second grandfather Ding Changming, cultivated to reach the foundation building period, which is not the largest number of foundation building monks in the history of the family, but the second grandfather has only been building the foundation for more than 60 years, and he has cultivated to the sixth layer of foundation building at the age of less than 100 years, which is also the result of his dredging of the three blocked spiritual channels during the qi training period and the promotion of the innate six spiritual apertures to the acquired seven spiritual apertures.

According to the current cultivation progress, the second grandfather cultivated to the foundation building consummation at the age of one hundred and fifty and still had the opportunity to impact the realm of the Jiedan, so he had basically been cultivating in the spiritual eye in the family ancestral hall all these years, and he generally didn't ask about family trivialities.

In addition to the two foundation building stage monks, there are seven elders who have completed Qi cultivation among the remaining Qi cultivation stage monks, including Ding Zhengyi's own grandfather Ding Changshou, and they each control all the affairs of the family, including the spiritual field, the shop, and the clan treasury.

There are also three or two deacons who are responsible for specific work below each elder, and most of them are late stage Qi cultivation cultivators, taking turns to cultivate at the other three spiritual eyes of the family, and they belong to the middle power of the family.

Some of them, such as Ding Zhengyi's father, Ding Zhongyuan, spent some family contribution points to rent the family's spiritual field, and in addition to the fixed handover of fifty catties of spiritual rice per mu of spiritual field for the consumption of the family for the sect and the genealogy, the additional spiritual rice handed over was counted as family contribution points.

Some are arranged to keep spirit animals and take care of spirit grass and spirit trees for the family, and a certain amount of family contribution points are issued every year according to the results of the deacon's assessment.

The treasures of those families who have the skills of cultivating are placed in the family shop in the market, and while helping to operate, they also occasionally refine the talisman to replenish the store's inventory, although the profit that can be earned by the unfamiliar skills is very small, but because of the family's value, the contribution points to them are much higher than those who work in the clan.

The hundreds of monks of the family are distributed in this way, basically everyone can produce a large number of cultivation resources for the family, and at the same time, the family earns income by selling these basic resources, and then concentrates on wholesale some necessary cultivation resources such as pills from the sect at a low price, plus the remaining family self-production for the family monks to exchange for contribution points.

Those low-level family cultivators with poor qualifications can still have sufficient contribution points to exchange for normal cultivation resources after they have paid enough labor, but because of their limited qualifications, their cultivation will generally stop at the middle stage of Qi cultivation, and most of them will accumulate contribution points for the cultivation of their children after their cultivation stagnates.

In addition to cultivating spiritual fields to plant spiritual rice, the family also opened up a ring-shaped elixir garden with a size of one acre at each of the three spiritual eyes closest to it.

Even if the low-grade spiritual veins are opened up in the elixir garden where the spiritual qi is the strongest, they can only be planted with low-level spiritual grasses that mature in three or five years, these spiritual grasses include the Tranquility Divine Grass that accelerates the monk's concentration and calming qi during cultivation, and the Yunling Grass that stabilizes the cultivation of Qi in the early and middle stages, etc., and after each batch is harvested, in addition to a small amount for personal use, it can also create a lot of income for the family.

Dozens of spirit peach and spirit tea trees were planted around the spiritual eye in the ancestral hall of the family, and the concentration of spiritual energy here could barely meet its growth needs.

In the courtyard of the ancestral hall, there are also some spirit jujube trees and white jade grapes that require a little less spiritual energy, and there are also a lot of snow-spotted bamboos growing around the wall.

It's just that the daily cultivation of these spirit trees and spirit grasses is far more complicated than cultivating spirit rice, and only a few mid-stage Qi cultivation cultivators in the family who are experienced in cultivation and skilled in spirit cultivation spells can take care of it.

In the periphery of the ring-shaped elixir garden, there are pieces of spiritual fields of acres and sizes, and a small number of places with high spiritual energy in the inner circle are planted with two-year ripe medium-grade white tooth rice, and most of the spiritual fields are still planted with one-year-old low-grade yellow tooth rice. All Lingtian harvests fifty or sixty thousand catties of yellow tooth rice every year, which can not only meet the daily consumption of the clansmen, but also the most important guarantee for the family to exchange for other cultivation resources.

Except for the spiritual fields that have been cultivated around the spiritual eye, other places within the spiritual vein range are not suitable for cultivating spiritual objects because the concentration of spiritual energy is too low.

In addition to the courtyards that must be built for low-level family cultivators to live in, only some plants that have no direct effect on cultivation but can assist in the production of cultivation resources can be planted. For example, various trees that can be used by spiritual cultivators to extract a large amount of grass and tree essence can be used by spells, and the grass and tree essence of this spiritual vein land can be injected into the spirit grass spirit tree at the right time, which can speed up their growth.