Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 30 Chongming City

"Father, Senior Brother Han said that we will reach Chongming City in half an hour."

Jin Shilun rode his horse from the middle of the team and caught up with the team leader Jin Huohua.

"Okay, I understand. Just go and serve the immortal well. You don't have to worry too much about these things." Jin Huohua nodded.

After seeing Zhang Gouneng's ability, he attached more importance to whether Jin Shilun could enter the immortal path. The hard work of several generations of the Jin family was wiped out in a moment.

The wealth and honor in this world are but passing clouds. Nothing is more important than having a monk in the family.

"Master is resting now. My two brothers are considerate of me and asked me to go back to see my father."

"There's nothing to see here. We have the help of our clan members. Why do we need you? Hey, what's that in front?"

Jin Huohua suddenly saw several animal-skin warriors riding on giant beetles appear in front of the team.

The giant insect was as tall as a small building, with a mouthparts big enough to bite off a fat pig. Its black shell was as shiny as a mirror, causing the mortals who saw it to panic and there was an uproar in the team.

"The team stops! Shilun, go and ask the three immortals for instructions, quickly." Jin Huohua instructed his son and hurried to the front of the team.

"I'll go right away!" Jin Shilun also realized the urgency of the matter and rode away on horseback.

"Whose team are you from?" The leading beast-skin warrior was arrogant, with an expression of arrogance on his ugly face. He patted his beetle vehicle to signal it to stop, and asked Jin Huohua loudly.

"We are from the Chongming Sect, and we are heading to Chongming City." Jin Huohua replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"It's Chong Mingzong." The face of the leading animal skin warrior turned a little ugly.

"Which family's spirit slaves are you? Why did you trespass into the territory of our Chongming Sect?" Han Yundao and Duan Anle, two boys, had already heard the news and came here. They looked like little adults, riding on a horse to the front of the team and questioned the leading warrior.

"We are the clansmen of Master Lu from Fangshi Mountain. We have mistakenly entered your precious land and we will leave now."

"How could you get lost from such a long distance? Do you people in the Lu family rely on your butts to see the road?" Han Yundao didn't buy his trick and scolded him.

"Let's go, let's go." The leading warrior didn't dare to retort after being scolded, and gestured to the people behind him. They quickly gave way to the main road and retreated to the foothills on both sides, leaving only deep pits on the main road that were trampled by beetle limbs.

"Master Jin, let's continue on our journey." Duan Anle immediately said to Jin Huohua.

"Yes, yes." Jin Huohua responded repeatedly. The two children drove away several warriors whose depths he, a mere Wuzong, could not even understand. The image of Chong Mingzong in his heart rose to a higher level, and he suddenly felt that the future of Jin family was brighter.

"The Lu family of Fangshi Mountain is quite famous in the area," Han Yundao turned his horse around and led Jin Shilun by the reins back to the center of the team. "The Lu family alone has seven Qi training cultivators, four of whom are in the middle stage and three in the early stage."

"It sounds like the Lu family is not weaker than us, but..." Jin Shilun has learned a lot about the Chongming Sect from Han Yundao and Duan Anle along the way.

"Humph, they are nothing but a bunch of useless people. Last time, the son of the Lu family's patriarch bullied the good people, and was caught by the Third Uncle and taught a lesson. Later, the entire Lu family came to attack."

"That means the three commanders have won a complete victory." Jin Shilun said.

"At that time, Master was visiting friends outside, and Second Uncle was in Xuanwei City and couldn't return in time, so Third Uncle was the only one in the sect." Han Yundao dragged out the sound again.

Jin Shilun knew that he was a child, so he continued, "Then the sect is very dangerous."

“Hehe, at that time, Third Uncle showed no fear in the face of danger and went into battle alone, without even using the sect’s large formation. Four of the seven cultivators of the Lu family were seriously injured, and if the remaining three had not begged for mercy quickly, they would have definitely been seriously injured as well.” Han Yun said this, shaking his head, looking very proud.

"So amazing!" Jin Shilun admired sincerely.

"Junior brother, don't learn from Third Uncle. Although he is the best in fighting, he also gets scolded the most by Master. But it's really strange, how come the servants of the Lu family came to Chongming City." Duan Anle asked curiously.

"I don't know. I'll leave it to my master to decide." Although Han Yundao was also surprised, he didn't take it to heart.

"Oh? Someone from the Lu family? Flowery limbs and black armor? The Grass Witch Cult sells six of them for fifteen spirit stones. They are willing to spend spirit stones on a mortal. It seems that the Lu family is even richer than the legend says!"

Kang Dabao was also puzzled. Even if the Lu family was willing to give some pseudo-spiritual beasts such as the Flower-limbed Black-armored that were tamed and sold by the Grass Witch Cult to some mortals, they would only give a small number to close people.

What are these people doing in their own territory? Forget it, I don't want to think about it. If there is really a big thing, it won't be done by a group of mortals.

While talking to his disciples, they arrived at the city of Chongming.

This city was first built during the reign of the Five Dynasties, which is only about seventy years ago. However, after being repaired by successive generations, it is now no less than the several towns under Pingrong County in terms of scale and population.

These cities are also not protected by the David Dynasty, but are governed by the Chongming Sect and, of course, do not pay taxes.

But now it is almost the same. Even Pingrong County is protected by people sent by Hemu Dao. What can David Immortal Dynasty use to protect it? A county magistrate at the second level of Qi training? !
The current lord of Chongming Sect is a member of Kang Dabao's clan, and this is also an unwritten rule of Chongming City.

The He family had held the position of city lord for decades, and fifteen years ago, it was successfully taken over by Kang Dabao's cousin Kang Dahou.

At this moment, Kang Dahou was leading all the leaders in the city, holding ceremonial objects, and standing in line at the city gate waiting for Kang Dabao's carriage.

The first cultivator ancestor of the Kang family can be traced back to nearly a hundred years ago.

He was just an ordinary Qi training cultivator in the Chongming Sect. Throughout his entire life, his cultivation level had never even reached the middle stage of Qi training. Even when he died, there was not a single younger cultivator in his clan.

The monks in the clan are the heaven for mortals. After the heaven fell, coupled with the small number of Kang family members, life under Chongming Sect became more and more difficult.

Not to mention being bullied, I'm also fed up with other people's cold stares.

Since then, the greatest long-cherished wish of the clan members of all generations has been to have another cultivator in the clan to revive the family's reputation, which was not very strong to begin with.

Unexpectedly, the wait lasted nearly a hundred years. It was not until Kang Dabao became the disciple of the previous head of the sect that the Kang family had its second cultivator.

Until Kang Dabao took the position of the head of the Chongming Sect, the family's reputation was not only revived, but had never been so prosperous in any dynasty!

The Kang family has fewer members and fewer relatives, so it has never been as smooth as it is today for them to marry a daughter-in-law. When the big families heard about it, they all sent three or four daughters home!
It can be said that Kang Dahou was given a big chance by being able to take over the position of city lord.

But Kang Dahou was still very nervous.

First, Chongming City governs about 70,000 ordinary people, of which less than 500 are members of the Kang family.

How small is this number? Well, the previous city lord had slept with more than this number of women.

Second, although he and Kang Dabao are brothers, they are not actually close and have only met each other a few times.

Kang Dabao is only the cousin of the cultivator ancestor in the clan and belongs to a small clan; Kang Dahou is the direct descendant of the cultivator ancestor and has always been a large clan.

Over the past hundred years, there have inevitably been some dirty things between the big and small clans. There is a difference between legitimate and illegitimate children, and of course, most of the time it is only the big clan that is dirty and the small clan that is dirty.

Although Kang Dabao lost his parents at a young age and left home early, he was not close to his small clan relatives, so he did not interfere with the clan's unanimous decision to elect him as the city lord.

But he has a cousin after all, and as the city lord, he might become a nobody after one night, so he can't help but worry.

Just as he thought of this, he heard a voice, "Brother Eleven, I haven't seen you for a long time. I hope you are well."

"Welcome, Master." Kang Dahou bowed hurriedly.

"Welcome, Master." All the officials in the city followed suit and saluted.

"Haha, we're brothers, don't do these fake things." Kang Dabao ignored the others, took Kang Dahou's hand and got on the donkey cart.

"I have brought a lot of trouble back to you this time, brother Eleven. I am sorry to have worked hard for you."

"It is an honor to serve the sect."

"I've already told you not to say clichés. Let's not talk about business matters first. Let's just have a good chat about the past, brothers."

next morning
"There are about 1,100 children turning six this year who can participate in the sect's spirit-testing ceremony in July. The number of newborns has increased by 100 compared to last year, reaching 1,600 now."

In the Chongming City Lord's Mansion, Kang Dahou was reporting to Kang Dabao meticulously.

Kang Dabao frowned, the foundation of a cultivator is that of a mortal.

The rate of mortal couples giving birth to offspring with spiritual roots was not high. Even if there were some descendants of cultivators in Chongming City, the rate was not that high.

There are only three cultivators in the sect now, and only Yuan Jin has descendants. The Chongming Sect needs more mortals to reproduce.

According to estimates from previous years' reports, there are more than 20,000 women of childbearing age between the ages of 16 and 35 under the jurisdiction of Chongming City.

In the Chongming Sect, where there is no contradiction between people and land, less than eleven women give birth to children, which is too few. Generally, the spiritual roots and bones of ordinary mortal children can only appear when they are six years old, which takes even longer.

This is not the previous life. How can a couple who are reluctant to light candles at night have any other entertainment activities?
Turning around and seeing a group of pretty maids standing in the hall, Kang Dabao seemed to be thinking about something.

He interrupted Kang Dahou and said, "Brother Eleven, please send some of the maids from the City Lord's Mansion back. They are almost seventy years old, so how can they be used up?"

Kang Dahou blushed and replied yes.

"How many children in the clan will participate in the spirit-testing ceremony this year?" Kang Dabao was actually quite concerned about his own clan. This could be considered as adapting to local customs.

"There are seventeen people, nine men and eight women, nine from the small clan and eight from the large clan." Kang Dahou was obviously much clearer about this matter.

"We are all family, why divide us into big clans or small clans?" Kang Dabao shook his head after hearing this. He never took the conflicts between big clans and small clans to heart. Even teeth can bite tongue. Every family has some dirty things.

"Yes, yes, we are all family." After hearing this, Kang Dahou seemed to have eaten honey and immediately smiled happily.

"The people brought by Kou Yunsheng and Jin Huohua should be properly settled. They are all family members. Don't show favoritism. If you do a good job and win the support of the people, then there is no reason why our Kang family cannot hold the position of city lord."

Kang Dabao patiently gave Kang Dahou a few instructions and sent him out.

This old man always likes to find opportunities to show up in front of me, but I don't have the time to care about his little thoughts. Mortals should take care of their own affairs, and monks should stay out of it.

"This Eleventh Brother doesn't know much. Why doesn't he tell me to hurry up and have offspring? There are so few cultivators in the clan, isn't it urgent?!" Kang Dabao complained as he looked at the plump and thin maids in the hall.

"Forget it, forget it. Just read the Taoist scriptures. There is beauty in the books."

(End of this chapter)