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Chapter 440 Black Sand Body Refinement, Fire Jade Blood Qi, Azure Bag Divine Tree

Yin God?

Feng Jin was startled.

No one would casually use the word 'God' in a name.

However, apart from lacking yin energy, Feng Jin couldn't discern any difference between the so-called yin spirits and wise ghosts among the figures that had just appeared before them.

Seemingly sensing Feng Jin's confusion, Xia Youjie walked away from the ancestral hall with his hands behind his back.

After taking one last look at the memorial tablets in the ancestral hall, Feng Jin followed Xia Youjie away.

Do you have any doubts about the form or existence of Yin spirits?

At the edge of Sun and Moon Island, Xia Youjie looked at the willow trees by the lake and asked a question.

"Yes, what's the difference between Yin spirits and wise ghosts? And why are they named 'spirits'?"

Feng Jin asked.

"Hehe, I told your mother these things before when she was practicing my Xia family's martial arts. I didn't expect that her child would have to tell her these things again this time..."

Although he was smiling, there was sadness in Xia Youjie's eyes.

When Feng Jin heard about his mother again, his eyes flickered, and he finally asked about his mother.

"What is my mother's real name?"

"Xia Shanliu".

“Xia Shanliu…”

Feng Jin turned her head and looked at the willow branches swaying in the wind by the lake.

"Friendship carries on the legacy of our ancestors, loyalty inspires future generations... This is the generational naming system of the Xia family. I belong to the 'Friend' generation, and your mother belongs to the 'Good' generation. Logically speaking, all those who marry into the Xia family should have their descendants take the surname Xia. Therefore, you should be called Xia Chengjin."

“You have lived alone for many years, and I know you don’t want to change your name, so I didn’t force you to change your name when you were recognizing your ancestors just now. Fortunately, our ancestors don’t mind.”

"However, you should know that you will always be a member of the Xia family. If you try to use the name Feng Jin in the future, the Xia family will not recognize you. Only by using the name Xia Jin can you do so."

"Of course, if you do anything shameful outside, remember not to use the name Xia Jin."

Seeing Feng Jin's expression froze, Xia Youjie laughed and said, "Hehe, of course, you're all grown up now, not some greenhorn anymore. You've managed the Bureau of Investigation very well."

"In the future, if something like this happens again, just come here to find the family."

Feng Jin stared blankly at Xia Youjie's retreating figure.

Having carried the banner of the Bureau of Investigation for so long, this was the first time Feng Jin felt that someone could help him carry it for a while, allowing him to rest.

"Why haven't you come to see us all these years?"

Feng Jin's words caused a moment of silence between the two.

After a long silence, Xia Youjie finally spoke: "Back then, your mother disregarded the Xia family's ancestral teachings and ran away to marry an outsider and have children. If your mother hadn't died, she would never have been allowed to leave the ancestral land for the rest of her life."

"Back then, in order to prevent the clan leader from beating your father to death, I had no choice but to swear never to step out of the ancestral land and to serve the clan."

"What happened later... hehe, it's all in the past."

Xia Youjie smiled and looked at Feng Jin.

"I thought I would never see my grandson in this lifetime, but I never expected that my wish would come true."

Feng Jin looked at Xia Youjie, her heart filled with inexplicable emotions.

The last time he felt this way was when his younger brother agreed to the Warm Sunshine Project.

"Alright, let's talk about the Yin spirits."

"The Yin Spirit is a unique existence of our Xia family. In the entire Great Xia Dynasty and the entire Blue Star, only our Xia family can cultivate the Yin Spirit!"

"Do you know why?"

Feng Jin composed herself and looked at Xia Youjie.

After a moment of thought, he looked up at the world around him.

"Because of this primordial place of Yin and Yang?"

Xia Youjie nodded in satisfaction.

"That's right, but not accurate. To be precise, it's because of the small island beneath your feet."

Feng Jin was taken aback and looked down.

"This island?"

"Hmm, otherwise why do you think that among the six clans of the Great Xia, only my Xia family can cultivate a Yin Spirit?"

As Xia Youjie spoke, a sense of pride filled his eyes.

"The first person to step into this Yin-Yang Primordial Land was my Xia family ancestor. Without my Xia family ancestor, the other five families would not even know where this place is."

Feng Jin was taken aback.

This account was different from what he had previously heard from Zhang Rushan.

Feng Jin voiced her doubts.

Upon hearing this, Xia Youjie chuckled.

"That was only revealed by my Xia family ancestors in order to complete the five elements in this area."

"Five elements?"

"Correct."

Xia Youjie pointed to the three mountains and two valleys in the distance and said, "This ancestral land has all the elements of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements."

"Wang family's Dieyun Mountain belongs to Earth, Li family's Huoyu Mountain belongs to Fire, Zhang family's Qingnang Mountain belongs to Wood, Liu family's Mingquan Valley belongs to Water, and Chen family's Cangjin Valley belongs to Metal!"

"Only when all five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—are present can the yin and yang of the central place be nurtured."

"And we, situated on the land of Yin and Yang, can naturally obtain the greatest benefits from this space."

Feng Jin looked at Xia Youjie.

"Benefits? It's that you can cultivate a Yin Spirit?"

Xia Youjie looked at Feng Jin and smiled, saying, "The Yin God is just a byproduct. I can't tell you the real benefits. You'll understand after I arrange for you to cultivate the family's secret techniques."

Feng Jin nodded, as if she had thought of something.

"Since my Xia family has the benefit of the Yin God, do the other five families also have similar benefits? Otherwise, they wouldn't be willing to work for my Xia family for free, would they?"

"That's right. Everyone in the world is driven by profit. If there isn't enough profit, the five families of Great Xia will naturally not be content to stay in those five places."

Looking at Feng Jin, Xia Youjie felt satisfied, but also felt a pang of pity for his grandson.

No one is born with innate knowledge. The hardships Feng Jin endured to reach her level are self-evident.

"I'll tell you all about the five families of the Great Xia Dynasty. When you leave, you'll be taking people with you, including my Xia family and people from the other five families."

"I suppose the other five families are also thinking about who to send out right now."

Xia Youjie said with a smile.

Afterwards, Xia Youjie told Feng Jin about the situation of the other five surnames.

After listening, Feng Jin learned the secret of this world.

This world contains Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. Yin and Yang are occupied by the Xia family, while the Five Elements belong to the other five surnames.

The Wang family's corresponding mountain is Dieyun Mountain, where there is a wind cave. Every hour, a strong gust of wind blows out of the wind cave, lasting for an hour. Ordinary people cannot withstand this strong wind; those who have not mastered the seventh version of the "Strengthening Exercises" and enter the wind cave will have their flesh and blood torn away by the strong wind.

Only the seventh edition of the strengthening exercise, which cultivates qi and blood into the body, can withstand that kind of fierce wind.

However, the gale gets stronger over time, and even those who practice the seventh version of the exercise cannot withstand it for an hour.

Only practitioners of the eighth version of the strengthening exercise can completely withstand the strong wind.

As for why they had to withstand the strong winds, it was naturally for the black sand that accompanied the winds!
Every time a strong wind blows, black sand follows, but this black sand only appears in the last minute of each strong wind.

That was also when the gale was at its fiercest.

As long as one can withstand the fierce winds of that era, the black sand in the wind will penetrate into one's body.

This black sand is magical. If no one is in the wind tunnel before the gale ends, the black sand will disappear along with the gale, leaving no trace.

However, if someone is inside and catches the black sand with their physical body, the black sand will remain and emit a special energy within the body, strengthening the body.

Because of this wind tunnel, all the Yang Xiu of the Wang family, from the seventh edition onwards, have very strong physical bodies!
At the same level, even the power of qi and blood cannot break through the Wang family's physical body.

And that's not all!

Once the black sand enters the body, it will not disappear. Therefore, the more times you enter the wind tunnel, the more black sand will accumulate in your body.

Once the amount of black sand reaches a certain level, the cultivator can use their qi and blood to activate the black sand within their body, forming a black glow on the surface of their body.

This black light has a defensive effect against all external forces, including the power of qi and blood, the kinetic energy of firearms, and naturally, the yin power of ghosts and spirits!
With this layer of black light defense, a cultivator at the eighth level of the Wang family's Body Strengthening Exercise can withstand attacks from ordinary Black Abyss practitioners for several minutes without any harm!
Because of the power of the black sand, the Wang family had considered many ways to obtain more of it.

For example, if you throw a corpse into a wind tunnel, hoping to use the corpse to trap the black sand, the corpse thrown into the wind tunnel won't even be able to withstand the strong wind, let alone trap the black sand.

Often, as soon as they were thrown in, they were blown away by the strong winds and left with nothing but bones.

For example, someone who has already received the black sand might want to remove it from their body.

As a result, the black sand dissipated immediately upon leaving the body.

After all the tests failed, the Wang family naturally paid even more attention to the wind tunnel.

Other families often have to pay a price to use the wind tunnel.

Of course, the same applies when the Wang family wants to borrow things from other families.

This condition is called Black Sand Body Refinement, and the layer of black light is called Black Sand Qi.

This is the Wang family, and behind the Wang family is the Li family's Fire Jade Mountain, one of the three mountains.

A special mineral called Fire Jade is produced at the top of Fire Jade Mountain.

Fire jade has multiple effects. One of them is to filter and decompose yin energy, and outwardly it appears to isolate yin energy.

The Fire Jade House outside the crack in the Zhang family's house is actually the Fire Jade Mountain from the Li family.

Secondly, the Fire Jade is helpful for cultivation!

Wearing a fire jade or cultivating in a house built with fire jade will accelerate the circulation of qi and blood.

Zhang Lichen from the Zhang family, whom Feng Jin encountered when she came out, was actually guarding the rift, but she still had to fight for that spot.

As for the reason, it was naturally the house made of fire jade.

Other families had obtained some Fire Jade from the Li family in exchange for more or less, but the Li family wasn't stupid and naturally wouldn't supply it indefinitely.

Therefore, being able to cultivate in the Fire Jade Chamber is also a kind of benefit in other families.

Although the Li family didn't say it, other families knew that the Li family's fire jade was graded.

The fire jade that the Li family traded out was all of the lowest grade; the good fire jade was kept by the Li family themselves.

The Xia family possessed a jade pendant made of fire jade marrow, given to them by the Li family. Wearing this pendant allowed them to cultivate at a speed equivalent to cultivating in a room constructed of fire jade.

Because of the Fire Jade, the Li family members cultivate very quickly, far ahead of their peers.

However, the speed of cultivation only provides an advantage in the early stages.

The six major families of the Great Xia Dynasty have not yet developed a ninth version of the Strengthening Exercises, so once one reaches the peak of the eighth version, the path to mastering the Strengthening Exercises ends.

If it's just about fast cultivation speed, it won't be an advantage for the Li family in the later stages.

But the effects of fire jade are not limited to this.

People who wear high-quality fire jade for a long time during cultivation will experience some changes in their qi and blood. Not only will the fire jade exhibit the property of filtering and decomposing yin energy, but it will also evolve into an effect similar to flames.

This kind of flame is very harmful to ghosts and spirits, and people with this kind of energy and blood cannot be invaded or bewitched by certain special ghosts and spirits.

Therefore, the Li family, which possesses the Fire Jade, is not inferior to the Wang family in terms of combat strength due to the Black Sand Body Refinement. In certain specific combat environments, they are even stronger than the Wang family!

However, because high-quality fire jade is produced very slowly, those who want to cultivate with high-quality fire jade still need to strive for it internally.

Besides the Wang family and the Li family, only the last one of the three mountains, the Zhang family, remains!

The Zhang family's mountain is called Qingnang Mountain. There are no special substances on the mountain, so they cannot compare with the Wang and Li families in terms of cultivation.

But there are great medicinal herbs on Qingnang Mountain!

There is a tree on Qingnang Mountain called the Qingnang Tree. The Qingnang Tree bears one fruit every year, and the fruit is called the Qingnang Fruit.

The fruit does not accelerate cultivation, nor does it have the ability to refine the body.

It has three abilities.

Firstly, limb regeneration: as long as the head and major organs of the torso are not completely destroyed, an arm can grow back in seven days after eating a fruit, and in the most severe cases, it only takes forty-nine days to fully recover from the injury.

Secondly, it is a cure-all. No matter how serious or minor the illness, one fruit can bring about a complete recovery, even for cancer, terminal illnesses, or hemorrhoids.

Of course, no one would use a single fruit to treat minor ailments like hemorrhoids or a cold; this was only discovered during the treatment of serious illnesses.

Thirdly, it prolongs life.

In fact, this third ability should be related to the second one. The second and third abilities can even be combined and called "Marrow Cleansing"!
After all, if you are healthy and free from illness, you will naturally live a long life.

Because of the effects of the Qingnang fruit, the Zhang family is very popular in this ancestral land.

However, while a common man is innocent, possessing a treasure is a crime. Therefore, every two years, the Zhang family would take out one fruit to trade with other families. That is, every ten years, out of ten Qingnang fruits, the Zhang family would keep five for themselves, and the other five families would each keep one.

As for what to trade with the fruit?
They are naturally the same thing.

For example, the Wang family's opportunity to refine their bodies in the wind tunnel, and the Li family's high-quality fire jade.

As a result, in recent years, some members of the Zhang family have also emerged who possess Black Sand Qi and Fire Jade Qi and Blood. Among them, the cultivation effects of the Zhang family members who have taken the Green Bag Fruit are even better than those of the Wang and Li families!

Besides this Qingnang tree, the medicinal herbs grown on Qingnang Mountain are dozens of times more effective than those outside!
A ginseng planted on Qingnang Mountain takes three years to grow, and its effects are comparable to those of a century-old ginseng from elsewhere.

In addition, the Zhang family members also reluctantly planted a few Qingnang fruits on Qingnang Mountain.

The second-generation Qingnang tree produces dozens of fruits each year, but its effects are much weaker.

While it's impossible to regenerate a severed finger, it's possible to speed up the healing process.

Later, the Zhang family took this second-generation Qingnang fruit to the mortal world for research and made many medicines with unique effects.

For example, waking up a person in a vegetative state or helping a paralyzed person stand up again.

In the mortal world outside their ancestral home, many high-ranking officials and nobles have been saved by medicines made from the Qingnang Fruit of the Zhang family's second generation.

Therefore, the Zhang family has a lot of influence in the entire Great Xia Dynasty!
If members of other branches of the clan say, "Give me some face," they are very likely to be refused.

But when the Zhang family says, "Give the Zhang family some face," very few people can refuse!
These are the three mountains in our ancestral land!
They are the three elements: earth, fire, and wood.

Beyond the three mountains lie two valleys!
Mingquan Valley and Cangjin Valley.

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(End of this chapter)