Xuanwu has nine counties, one hundred and thirty-six cities and twenty-seven states, of which Ruyang City belongs to Nanyang County among the nine counties, although it is not a county government, but its influence in Nanyang is not inferior to Nanyang Mansion, which is the county capital, and it can even be said that it is three points larger. The reason for this is because there are two major immortal cultivators in Runan City, the Xie family in the south city and the Wang family in the north city!

It is said that these two families are the vassal families of the 'Cangyue Sect' of the Great Immortal Gate hidden in the Golden Tooth Mountains fifty miles outside the city. Moreover, it is rumored that two small spiritual veins have branched out from the Golden Tooth Mountain Range, one of which extends to the Qiulong Courtyard of the Xie family in the south city, and the other leads to the Bixiu Mountain Villa where the Wang family in the north city is located. As a result, the two families have frequently emerged from the elite and intelligent, and they have finally become a big family after hundreds of years of accumulation and precipitation.

In the cultivation realm of the Xuanwu Kingdom, monks have two cultivation systems: the basic system and the refinement system.

The basic system is the 'body', which is the realm of the monk himself. In the Xuanwu Kingdom, there are three major stages, the first stage is the Qi training period, which is divided into thirteen layers. The foundation building period of the second order and the Jindan period of the third stage are divided into three small stages: the beginning, the middle and the last, and generally speaking, the masters of a sect are all high-level monks with the Jindan period.

The refinement system is 'use', which is the level of supernatural skills possessed by monks. It is also divided into three major stages, apprentice, scholar, and teacher. The first two phases have three levels, and the latter one has only two levels. For example, in the Absolute Poison Sect where Xia Pan is located, the first stage is a junior drug disciple, an intermediate drug disciple and a senior drug disciple. The second stage is the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Poisons. In the third stage, there are only two levels: the Poison Master and the Great Poison Master.

And so on, there are swordsmen, swordsmen, and swordsmen in sword cultivation. There are apprentices, warlocks, and magicians. There are practitioners, alchemists, and alchemists.

Of course, everything in the world is relative, there is no absolute yang or yin, there is a useful body in the body, and there is also a body in use. Some of the refinement exercises themselves are in harmony with the body and application, such as 'Hercules', 'Sharp Metal', etc. It's just that they are more focused on skills and can't attain immortality.

No matter what period of cultivation it is, it needs a steady supply of resources, which is not something that an individual or a family can do. Even a family of immortal cultivators with a history of hundreds of years, such as the Xie family, could only select a very small number of outstanding children in the clan to cultivate, and this process was only limited to before the foundation was built. Therefore, if you want to go further in the cultivation realm, you must take refuge in those immortal cultivation sects that have spiritual veins and other resources.

And there is no free lunch in the world, if you want to get the resources of the sect, then you have to complete the tasks released by the sect. These quests require the possession of the corresponding supernatural skills, so the refinement system is a must.

The body and the use complement each other, and each layer of the auxiliary exercises needs to be supported by the corresponding ontological realm, and no one can cultivate the auxiliary exercises to a higher level alone.

Xie Pengfei, the head of the Xie family, who is now at the helm of the Xie family's Qiulong Academy, is not only a high-level warlock in addition to having the Great Perfection realm in the late stage of foundation building.

In the Xuanwu Kingdom, the refinement system is generally divided into eight gates: sword, technique, body, pill, poison, weapon, beast, and talisman. The sword is a sword cultivation, the sword is regarded as life, only the sword is cultivated, and the individual attack power is super strong. The body is a physical cultivation, mainly to exercise the physical body. Dan is Dan cultivation, collecting medicine and alchemy, and is the most important auxiliary component of the general sect. Poison is poison cultivation, good at making poison and driving poison, vicious and ruthless, killing people invisibly. The instrument is the instrument cultivation, refining the magic instrument, and the Dharma plate, which is an auxiliary part of the sect. The beast is a beast cultivator, good at raising and driving spirit beasts, responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy in the sect, finding spiritual veins and spiritual treasures, and guarding the mountain gate. Fu is a rune cultivator, proficient in formation runes, mysterious, and enjoys a very special position in the sect. As for the cultivation of arts, it is mainly based on the magic power of the five elements, which is the largest component of the major sects.

High-level warlocks are already the backbone of ordinary immortal cultivation sects, but it is not easy for Cangyue Sect, one of the seven major sects, to occupy a place. At the beginning, Xie Pengfei's 'Divine Seminary' was only five rooms in total, and the competition for the position of the owner was extremely fierce, and there were as many as six monks in the late stage of foundation building with the level of a high-level warlock, and he defeated five competitors to obtain the position of the owner of the 'Ruijin Room' with difficulty.

However, since then, Xie Pengfei has stagnated in this realm, as one of the four major immortal cultivation families of the Cangyue Sect, there is a lack of a Jindan stage master-level monk in charge, which is inevitably a bit unworthy of the name. Determined that he could no longer improve, he pinned his hopes on his children.

Xie Pengfei has thirteen children, seven of whom have immortal roots, and under his efforts, three of them have entered the foundation building period, and all four of them have also reached the thirteenth layer of the qi cultivation period.

Among them, Xie Fangmo, the boss with the best qualifications, broke through to the mid-stage realm of foundation building not long ago, and the refined one has also reached the intermediate warlock level, with his current age, it is very likely that he will become another Jindan stage magician of the Xie family!

Xie Fanghe is Xie Pengfei's third son and one of the six who do not have an immortal root. However, Xie Fanghe is quite good at management, most of the family's business is basically managed by him, and his personality is humble and deferential, so he used to be very loved by Xie Pengfei.

But in the family of cultivating immortals, of course, the most important thing is to cultivate to the level of cultivation, although Xie Fanghe, who does not have immortal roots, is very good in business, it is not easy to subdue the children of the clan. The Xie family is a big family, and there are not a few other branches that have immortal roots, but they are not as powerful as this branch. In order to consolidate Xie Fanghe's prestige in the Xie family, Xie Pengfei planned to choose a female cultivator with immortal roots as his partner, so that the son born by Xie Fanghe in the future would have a high chance of having immortal roots.

Xia Pan married into the Xie family under this circumstance. Xia Pan herself has a thirteen-level Qi cultivation period cultivation, and she is also a high-level drug disciple of the Absolute Poison Sect, after she came to the Xie family, the consequences were as Xie Pengfei imagined, and with her assistance, Xie Fanghe's prestige in the family has been greatly improved.

After a year like this, Xie Fanghe's long-awaited son Xie Ling was born and inherited his physique, without a trace of immortal roots! Xie Pengfei had nothing to say except for lamenting his son's blessing. I never thought that the daughter-in-law who looked soft and weak actually stole the treasure of the clan, the 'Fire Spirit Bead', for this reason.

Xie Pengfei was furious and personally chased down the Absolute Poison Sect, but when he found Xie Ling, Xia Pan was already nowhere to be found, and only Xie Ling, who had fused the 'Fire Spirit Bead', was left.

As the head of the Xie family, he naturally knew how to use the 'Fire Spirit Bead'. Ever since they got this pearl, the Xie family has never stopped looking for another 10,000-year-old ice essence 'Ice Spirit' that can exert the full effects of the 'Fire Spirit Bead'. Now that he has been so ruined by Xia Pan, in addition to feeling depressed in his heart, he has no way to take Xie Ling, who has the blood of the Xie family.

Unable to find Xia Pan, and unwilling to hurt Xie Ling, Xie Pengfei vented all his anger on Xie Fanghe. When he returned to the Xie family, he first took back most of the business in the clan that he was originally responsible for, and handed it over to the children of the other clans. And the old sect master of the Absolute Poison Sect apologized after knowing it, and married a female disciple named Lingzhi to Xie Fanghe, although Xie Pengfei had a complaint, but he didn't dare to offend this poison master of the Jindan stage realm, so he gritted his teeth and had to agree.

After Xie Fanghe brought Xie Ling back, he became silent, but this matter somehow spread later, Xie Pengfei felt very embarrassed, and since then he has given up the position of the head of the Xie family to his eldest son Xie Fangmo, and he has not come out of the door, claiming to be in retreat and cultivation.

At the same time, because of the 'Fire Spirit Bead', a thick layer of haze has always shrouded the sky over the West House where Xie Fanghe lives.