"This ......" Shi Qiulan frowned slightly, and was silent.

Shi Jin couldn't help, and looked at her sister anxiously.

The sound of "knowing, knowing" sounded outside the door of the quiet hall, which was extremely harsh.

After a long while, Shi Qiulan's face was embarrassed, and he said softly: "It is indeed recorded in the classics that there is a kind of elixir, called the longevity pill, which can increase the longevity of mortals or monks by ten years, but it is just ......"

"Just what?" Shen Yun Huoran stood up and asked with an anxious expression.

"It's a legend, and I've never heard of it ever before. Shi Qiulan shook her head and sighed, "Even if there really is, it is extremely precious, I am afraid that even the Linglan Realm cultivators will snatch their heads......

When Shen Yun heard this, it was like a basin of cold water poured from head to toe, he sat down blankly, and asked unwillingly: "Is there any other way?"

Shi Qiulan still shook her head and said with a wry smile: "Actually, Pei Yuan Dan and Purifying Pill can improve the physique of mortals and increase longevity, but that is only for young adults, and the old age and blood decay are really unable to withstand such spiritual objects." ”

Shen Yun sighed and shook his head silently.

"Brother Shen, don't be too sad, birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, Yuan Ge Lao has been at ease all his life, and now he is eighty years old, which is very rare among mortals. Seeing this, Shi Qiulan hurriedly persuaded.

"Yes, Brother Shen, don't think about it. Shi Jin also said on the side.

"Alas, no matter what, thank you Patriarch Shi for bothering ......" Shen Yun sighed with a sad face, his eyes were red, and he poured a sip of tea sullenly.

"Brother Shen was polite, but unfortunately he couldn't help anything. Shi Qiulan hurriedly waved her hand and glanced at Shi Jin.

Shi Jin understood and said with a smile: "Brother Shen, it's the first time you come to my Lingfeng Mountain, can I take you to the mountain and visit the scenery?"

"Yes, the view from the top of the peak is indeed unique. Shi Qiulan laughed in response.

Shen Yun was helpless in his heart, manpower was sometimes exhausted, and he nodded in response.

Walking out of the main hall with Shi Jin, I saw that the courtyards behind were connected, and the ancient trees were coiled around, but there was no figure in sight, it was very clean, and there was still a peach forest not far away, which had not yet borne fruit at this time.

Thinking that the old man had mentioned Shanglingfeng's specialties, he asked casually: "I don't know Shanglingfeng, what are the specialties?"

"Shang Lingfeng, there is plenty of aura here, and the medicinal materials are more famous. Seeing Shen Yun's mood recovering, Shi Jin was secretly happy in his heart, pointed to one place and said with a smile, "There are a few rare medicines, and there are people in the clan who specialize in cultivating them." ”

"Medicinal materials?" Shen Yun was slightly stunned, his eyes suspicious, "Since Shangling Peak is rich in medicinal materials, then what did you go to the Old Demon Ridge to collect medicine in the first place?"

"Brother Shen doesn't know, these so-called good medicines are also given to mortals, and there are very few monks like us who can use them. Shi Jin sighed, shook his head slightly, and said, "So we need it, and we still have to go out to pick." ”

"I see. ”

"In fact, some spirit grasses are also planted in the clan, but these spirit plants have too high requirements for spiritual energy, and they often die......"

Shen Yun smiled bitterly in his heart, it seemed that if he wanted to improve his cultivation, he still needed to go out on an expedition and look for spiritual plants.

After passing through a few more porches, a fragrance of flowers came to his nose, Shen Yun turned to the left and looked, but it was a garden, in which all kinds of flowers were blooming, and there were a few thick pomegranate trees, full of red branches.

"It's a dwelling for the monks of the clan. Shi Jin pointed to the large attic at the back of the garden and smiled.

"Oh, I don't know how many monks of the nobility are cultivating?" Shen Yun asked with a curious expression.

"Well, it's just seven or eight. Shi Jin sighed.

Shen Yunxin said that seven or eight were not less, and when he asked, he realized that they were only low-grade qualifications, and their strength was stuck in the Spirit Realm.

At this time, Shi Jin pointed to the winding and narrow stone steps in front of him: "This step leads to the peak, Brother Shen, please." ”

Shen Yun nodded, and looked up, the stone steps were only half a zhang wide and more than ten zhang long, and the strange thing was that there was a water curtain-like light shield at the end of the steps.

Curious, he stepped forward quickly and pointed to the light curtain: "What is this?"

"It's a formation. Shi Jin chuckled lightly and stepped out, passing through the light curtain.

Shen Yun also lowered his head and drilled into the "formation", a cool feeling hit, a flower appeared in front of him, appeared on a platform, looked back, and was surprised, the way came into a cliff?

I only heard Shi Jin's faint voice: "Mortals seem, this is a cliff, and only monks can see the clues." ”

Shen Yun seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and suddenly came to his senses, and his consciousness swept.

Sure enough, the cliff turned into a water curtain as thin as a cicada's wings, and the previous scenery was revealed in my mind.

Scratching his head, he felt strange and turned around.

I saw that the platform in front of me was connected to a step more than a foot wide, and it climbed up to the clouds and mist, and went straight to the end, but the starting point of the mountain was not in the stone house, and it was obvious that this was a main road up the mountain.

Turning to the bottom of the mountain, the most striking thing is a large garden of dozens of acres, on the water surface of two acres in size, countless lotus flowers bloom, and more and many frogs squat on the lotus leaves, puffing out their cheeks and singing hard......

At this time, Shi Jin pointed forward and said: "This stone step is mainly for the master of the family to usually receive distinguished guests to climb the mountain and watch the scenery, we just walked for the monks in the lord's mansion to go up the mountain, in order to prevent mortals from taking the wrong path, the formation was set up." ”

"Brother Shi, what is the formation?" Shen Yun was confused, and asked with a smile.

"I wouldn't say that. Shi Jin scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Go back and talk to my sister, copy a copy of the formation foundation jade slip, and Brother Shen may understand it by looking at it." ”

Shen Yun was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly.

Both of them were monks, and they talked about cultivation all the way, and they walked quickly, and it didn't take long for them to come to a long plank road.

The plank road is about half a zhang wide, made of iron birch, but the jade railing is used on the periphery, on which the head of a beast is carved, at a glance, the shape of the mist is unreal.

It was still far from the peak, and the two of them walked along the plank road for about a mile, and finally came to a prominent high platform.

This is a boulder platform with a radius of several zhang, and it is also surrounded by a white marble guardrail.

Above the platform, the clouds and mist are shrouded, and when you step on it, you will suddenly be startled by a burst of clouds, as if walking in the clouds. There are white clouds in the distance, floating only under your feet.

"It's so beautiful!" Shen Yun was amazed, this place felt like entering the Nine Heavens Heavenly Palace, just like a fairyland.

"Hehe, this observation deck, you can even see Liangdu in good weather. Shi Jin pointed to the distance and sighed, "It's a pity that the fog is heavy today, I'm afraid I can't see that far." ”

Shen Yun approached the guardrail and looked in the direction of Liangdu, and sure enough, the smoke in the distance was hazy, overlapping, and he couldn't look far away at all.

Feeling a little regretful, looking down the mountain, countless box-like garden pavilions are endless, pedestrians are like ants in size, busy, the water surface is like a mirror, the river is like a jade belt, inlaid on the earth.

"The people living under the mountain are all from the Shi family, or?" Seeing that the residence under the mountain and the Shifu city wall are very close, and even some gardens are directly connected to the city wall, he asked.

"Yes, the people who live around here are basically from my Shi clan. Shi Jin nodded and smiled.

"So many clansmen?" Shen Yun looked shocked and sighed. Thinking that he didn't know anything about the Xiuxian family, he asked sideways, but Shi Jin knew everything.

It turns out that this Shi family has a history of thousands of years, and after so many years, the children of the clan have spread out, and there are nearly 100,000 people in the vicinity of Shangling Peak.

Every New Year, most of the Shi family's children who have reached the age of five will come to Shangling Peak, and the patriarch will personally determine whether they have spiritual root qualifications. However, most of them don't have spiritual roots, and occasionally find one or two, and almost all of them are low-grade qualifications.

If the clansman has a spiritual root, he will be awarded the corresponding immortal cultivation method and stay in Shangling Peak to cultivate, but due to his low qualifications and lack of spiritual pills, he is usually stuck in the spiritual realm for the rest of his life and it is difficult to break through.

Of course, this is mainly a monk with poor qualifications, who has not advanced for a long time and is prone to losing his enterprising spirit.

It is very difficult to enter the Linglan Realm with inferior qualifications, let alone Linglan? and if you can't reach the Linglan Realm, Shouyuan will not change, so many monks think that it is better to give up early and enjoy life instead of practicing penance for decades.

Of course, there are no absolutes, and some monks with poor qualifications insist on penance until they break through the spiritual silence realm, so once they break through, they will immediately become the mainstay and core figure of the family, but that's all.

In fact, the major immortal cultivation families in the entire Daning Kingdom lack cultivators who can cultivate, in order to increase the probability of future generations of clansmen cultivating immortals, even the clansmen with inferior qualifications will be designated by the patriarch to marry and exchange relatives with friendly families.

When Shen Yun heard this, he couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, he was afraid that this move would cause a lot of infatuation and resentment, but he asked in his mouth: "Parents have spiritual roots, do children generally have spiritual roots?"

"It's said that the odds are high, who knows. Shi Jin shook his head with a chuckle, and said proudly, "My sister and I are the exceptions, my father and mother are mortals." ”

The morning sun was hiding behind the thick fog at this time, like a red-hot discus, emitting bursts of heat.

Shen Yun was slightly stunned when he heard this, his heart was so clever, but this involved the secret of the Shi family, and he felt that he was not good at asking more.

Shi Jin didn't care, and motioned for Shen Yun to change his position to watch, while explaining in detail.

In fact, because the parents are mortals and have little hope for their children, Shi Qiulan was already more than seven years old when he came to the test.

In addition to the patriarch at that time, she was also the first clansman to have a medium-grade spiritual root in recent years.

In the second year, Shi Jin turned five years old and came to Shangling Peak, but the patriarch went out on an expedition at that time, and never returned, not knowing whether he was alive or dead, resulting in the entire Shi family not being managed by the patriarch for several years.

Fortunately, later, the only surviving ancestor of the Shi family came out of the hidden cultivation, and this was also the only Linglan Realm monk of the Shi family, almost two hundred years old.

This ancestor is the real foundation of the Shi family, and it is also the Shi family standing near Liangdu, and it is still the last hole card of the three major immortal cultivation families.

Shen Yun leaned on the guardrail, turned around and looked up, the peak was faintly visible, but the distance was at least dozens of zhang, hidden in the clouds and mist, and it was not real.

Hearing that the ancestor of the Shi family was nearly two hundred years old, Shen Yun secretly smacked his tongue.

Retracting his gaze, seeing Shi Jin's gloomy expression, he shook his head and sighed lightly, with a faint regret in his voice: "Originally, if you find that the patriarch's natal card is broken, it means that the patriarch has fallen, but when the previous patriarch went out, he didn't explain to my sister, alas......"

Shen Yun walked over and gently patted Shi Jin on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Obviously, Shi Qiulan's sister and brother were delayed by this irresponsible patriarch for several years, and suddenly said, "What is a natal card?"

"It is a magic weapon that allows a monk to imprint a wisp of his divine consciousness on a jade tablet, and once the monk falls, his natal card will shatter. ”

The Linglan Realm Ancestor of the Immortal Cultivation Family will only focus on cultivation, and will not come out as a director until the survival of the family is at a critical juncture. This time, it was the ancestor who went out for something, and his divine sense swept over Shangling Feng, only to realize that something was wrong.

After a check, I figured out the cause and effect.

At that time, Shi Qiulan was only awarded the exercises, and he was ignorant and knew how to cultivate alone, and he had not yet broken through the spiritual silence realm.

After the ancestor came out, he first established Shi Qiulan as the patriarch in accordance with the clan rules, and then personally guided Shi Qiulan's cultivation, while continuing to select other children with spiritual roots from the clan.

As a result, Shi Jin tested it, and it was actually a medium-grade spiritual root.

The ancestor of the Shi family was overjoyed, and Shi Jin's father, Shi Xingwen, who had made a "great contribution", was established as the head of the family to manage the secular mortal children of the Shi family.

After another period of time, the ancestor saw that Shi Qiulan had grown up, so he asked Shi Qiulan's sister and brother to cultivate hard, and he went back to retreat, striving to make another breakthrough as soon as possible.

After all, the Linglan Realm cultivator, each breakthrough will extend his lifespan a little, although it is not as much as the cross-border realm, but it can increase a little, and even if he lives one more day, he can protect the Shi family for one more day.