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Chapter 441 Leaving the Ancestral Land

The Liu family's Mingquan Valley is a water-based valley, with a clear spring in the middle.

The water in the small pool that Feng Jin saw when she followed Zhang Rushan in earlier came from the clear spring in Mingquan Valley.

Like the Three Mountains, what makes Mingquan Valley special is its clear spring.

Every twelve hours, a stream of water would gush out from the spring, lasting for ten minutes.

Along with the spring water, there was also the sound of flowing water that resounded throughout the ancestral land.

Although the sound resounded throughout the ancestral land, it was not harsh.

Not only is it not jarring, but the sound of the flowing spring can soothe the negative emotions of those who cultivate themselves.

The members of the six clans had tried cultivating when this voice rang out, and found that it was twice as effective with half the effort.

This voice is not only helpful for breaking through certain cultivation bottlenecks, but it also provides a certain boost to thinking about other things, similar to a group benefit buff.

Because the sound is audible at a fixed time, most people in the ancestral land prepare before the sound is heard, making the most of those ten minutes.

As the saying goes, those who are near the water get the moon first.

The Liu family, who possessed a spring, naturally had advantages that others did not.

The clear spring resounds throughout the ancestral land only twice a day, twelve hours apart. But in reality, between these two times, the spring will also make a sound that can only be heard within the Valley of Singing Springs ten times.

Although the effect of these ten sounds was not as good as the two times, it still benefited cultivation. This was definitely an opportunity that was hard to come by in the outside world.

Thanks to the special nature of this spring, almost every member of the Liu family can cultivate two or more auxiliary cultivation techniques.

It's important to know that after reaching the eighth version of the exercise, unless you encounter a spiritual object like the Fire Jade, you need to accumulate it little by little over time.

Therefore, apart from physical exercises, most male cultivators only practice one additional skill to enhance their strength.

In this way, one can both refine one's qi and blood and enhance one's strength; anything more would be a case of neglecting one aspect for another.

However, in the Liu family, the minimum requirement for cultivating auxiliary techniques was raised to two.

The Liu family's strength has not only not declined, but has actually increased.

Of course, if that's all there is to it, it's comparable to the Zhang family, but still falls short compared to the Wang family's Black Sand Body Refinement and the Li family's Fire Jade Blood Qi.

But the clear spring in Mingquan Valley is itself a spiritual entity!
When the spring gushes out water, a special energy is added to the water during that time.

If you enter the spring water during this period to cultivate your qi and blood, you will absorb this special power.

Any cultivator who absorbs this power will have their Qi and blood power change from red to a mixture of red and blue.

Blue on the outside, red on the inside.

The longer someone cultivates in the spring, the greater the proportion of blue in their appearance!
It is said that the blood and qi of the Liu family's centenarian patriarch have lost all their color and turned completely blue!

This blue blood energy, instead of the explosive power of the original blood energy, has gained a continuous and uninterrupted characteristic.

Two eighth-edition Yang Xiu of equal strength, one with normal Qi and Blood power, and the other with half of his Qi and Blood power being blue.

Both of them withstood the Black Abyss's attack at the same time. Yang Xiu, who possessed the power of blue blood energy, lasted 1.5 times longer than an ordinary Yang Xiu.

If the ghost is a Blood Calamity, Yang Xiu, who possesses blue blood energy, can even have his consumption and replenishment cancel each other out, allowing the Blood Calamity-level ghost to keep attacking without taking any damage!

Therefore, the Liu family called this blue energy the power of gentle water.

The blue aura and blood energy thus became the symbol of the Liu family.

The above summarizes the benefits that Mingquan Valley brings to the Liu family and the entire ancestral land in terms of cultivation.

Besides this, Mingquan Valley is also regarded as the 'clock' of the entire ancestral land!
The people of the ancestral land discovered that there was a twelve-hour interval between the two major cries in Mingquan Valley, and a two-hour interval between the minor cries.

If converted to ancient time units, each time the spring murmurs, it is exactly one hour apart!
After discussing it, the families decided to use Mingquan Valley as the timekeeping device!

Even the 'sun' in the sky will light up and darken along with the sound of the springs in Mingquan Valley!
Feng Jin had never seen the sun go dark, but according to Xia Youjie, the sun going dark was not completely without light; it was more like the full moon on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In this way, the ancestral land was divided into day and night, so as not to become disconnected from the mortal world.

Feng Jin was curious about this and asked Xia Youjie about the 'sun', but Xia Youjie gave the same answer and did not tell her.

After Mingquan Valley comes the last valley among the three mountains and two valleys.

Hidden Gold Valley!
Hidden Gold Valley belongs to the Chen family. If the spiritual objects in the other three mountains and one valley are all beneficial to cultivation, even the Green Bag Fruit has the effect of cleansing the marrow and improving aptitude.

However, the spiritual creatures in Hidden Gold Valley did not provide any support for cultivation.

However, the Chen family did not become the weakest of the five major families as a result.

The reason lies in the spiritual object in the underground space of Hidden Gold Valley!
Beneath the Hidden Gold Valley lies a mine called Gold Essence!

Golden essence cannot accelerate cultivation, nor does it strengthen the physical body, nor can it clear one's mind.

But it can be used to make weapons!
In the Great Xia Dynasty, most high-level Yang cultivators do not carry cold weapons.

As for the reason, it is naturally because ordinary cold weapons not only cannot transmit the power of qi and blood, but when the power of qi and blood covers the cold weapon to maintain the weapon's killing power against ghosts, the consumption will be aggravated!
The only cold weapon material in the Great Xia Dynasty that can be used as a Yang-style weapon is Blood Yang Stone!

The pair of vajras that Monk Mo Pao used to subdue demons were made of blood yang stone.

The blood consumed by those two Vajra pestles alone would be enough to create a sun with a diameter of ten meters that could cover the entire city.

If all high-level Yang cultivators were to be equipped with Blood Yang Stone weapons, then the corresponding number of Warm Yang would have to be reduced.

No matter how strong one person is, they cannot save the city from the omnipresent and insidious evil spirits.

Therefore, compared to Blood Sunstone weapons, Warm Sun is more favored by the Bureau of Public Opinion.

Of course, for powerful high-level Yang cultivators like Monk Mo, the Bureau of Investigation will still reward them with Blood Yang Stone weapons under various pretexts to ensure their high-end combat strength.

However, although the Blood Yang Stone can be activated by the power of Qi and blood to unleash a rich Yang energy, its own strength is not high.

If you encounter a physical Black Abyss, or even a powerful physical Blood Calamity, your Blood Sun Stone weapon may be destroyed.

This is a fatal flaw.

But gold essence is different!
The golden essence beneath Hidden Gold Valley is a very special spiritual substance.

By adding a certain proportion of gold essence to a cold weapon, the weapon can effectively transmit the power of qi and blood.

The more gold essence added, the less qi and blood energy is consumed.

According to the Chen family's tests, if 30% of the gold essence is added to a weapon, it will transmit 50% of the power of qi and blood.

After that, for every 10% increase in the gold content, the conduction efficiency will increase by 20%.

When the gold essence content reaches 60%, it will not only fully transmit the power of qi and blood, but will even amplify the power of qi and blood by 10%!

Don't underestimate even one-tenth of your Qi and Blood power. For Yang Xiu of the eighth version of the Strengthening Exercise, this one-tenth of Qi and Blood power is enough to kill several Blood Calamities.

Most importantly, this one-tenth of the Qi and blood power is not just ordinary Qi and blood power.

Whether it's the black light energy that appears from the Wang family's black sand body refinement, the fire jade energy from the Li family, the green energy from the Zhang family's consumption of the green sac fruit, or the soft water energy from the Liu family, all of these can be amplified by the golden essence!
This is only 60%!

If a weapon is made entirely of gold essence, in addition to the original characteristics of the power of blood and qi, it will also have an added golden sharpness!

This sharp aura can increase the point-to-point attack power of Qi and Blood by 50%!
However, this involves the principle of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements, and different attributes have different effects through metal-based weapons.

The Wang family's dark aura belongs to the earth element, and earth generates metal, so its sharpness will reach 70%.

The Liu family's gentle water power belongs to water, and metal generates water. Its sharpness remains unchanged at 50%, but the gentle water power is enhanced and increased by another 20%!

The two families mentioned above are alright, but the remaining two are the difficult ones. The green wood-attribute blood energy of the martial artists who consumed the Qingnang Fruit in the Zhang family is countered by the metal attribute. Not only is their sharpness reduced to 30%, but the original corrosive effect of the wood attribute will also disappear completely.

As for the Li family's Fire Jade Qi and Blood Power, it is even more powerful. Using a weapon made entirely of gold essence, not only does it not receive the enhancement of sharpness, but the Fire Jade Qi and Blood Power will also be reduced by 20%!

Therefore, the Zhang and Li families never use weapons or equipment made entirely of gold.

For them, weapons mixed with 90% gold essence are the best choice.

Therefore, the Chen family's position in their ancestral land is somewhat similar to that of the Zhang family at Qingnang Mountain; both are the ones being sought after.

After learning about this, Feng Jin frowned and asked Xia Youjie about it.

Why not supply the Bureau of Investigation with gold essence? If there were gold essence or even fire jade, the Bureau of Investigation's high-end combat strength could at least double!
But Xia Youjie's subsequent explanation silenced him.

Both gold essence and fire jade are limited in quantity.

Observations over the years have revealed that the formation of the two minerals, fire jade and gold essence, is related to their respective reserves.

The more existing fire gems there are, the faster new fire gems are created, and vice versa.

Therefore, the supply of fire jade and gold essence is controlled every year.

The six major families can't even keep up with the demand internally, so why would they care about the Bureau of Public Opinion?

It's cruel, but it's very realistic.

Thus, Feng Jin gained a complete understanding of the general situation of the five surnames in the ancestral land.

As for the Xia family, Xia Youjie did not elaborate.

He said only one sentence.

“There are no spiritual creatures on Sun and Moon Island where our Xia family lives, but none of the other five families dare to have the idea of ​​seizing Sun and Moon Island.”

Feng Jin was very curious about this.

However, he spends too much time outside. If he wants to understand the situation of the Xia family, he needs to receive the inheritance of the Xia family's cultivation techniques.

This will take more than just one or two hours.

Therefore, he had no choice but to abandon this idea and first bring reinforcements out of the ancestral land to solve the immediate problem.

"Grandpa, I've been out for a long time now, and I don't know what the situation is like outside."

Xia Youjie nodded.

"I suppose the other five families have already prepared their representatives. Let's go then. I'll take you to see the people from my Xia family who will be leaving our ancestral land this time."

With that, Xia Youjie turned and floated off in one direction, with Feng Jin following closely behind.

Soon, they arrived at a large hall where several people were already waiting.

They are all living people.

After Xia Youjie went inside, the group bowed to him and then looked at Feng Jin.

His gaze was appraising, but there was also something about it that displeased Feng Jin.

"Is it the vanguard going this time?"

Xia Youjie looked at the youngest one among them, because he was the only one with a gold-hilted sword slung across his back.

Upon hearing Xia Youjie's words, Feng Jin looked over.

According to Xia Youjie's previous statement about seniority, "Friendly inheriting the ancestors' will, loyal and virtuous initiating future generations," this Xia Xianfeng should be a generation lower than Feng Jin.

He went?

Feng Jin frowned slightly, but said nothing.

"It is I, Ancestor."

Xia Xianfeng bowed and replied.

In the Xia family, once a dead person is enshrined in the ancestral hall, other members of the Xia family must address him as "Ancestor" when they meet him outside, unless the other person is a direct relative, in which case they can address him according to their original generation.

Feng Jin also noticed that along the way, the living members of the Xia family showed great respect to the dead, or rather, to the spirits of the dead.

"Yes, this trip will be the first time our ancestral land of Xia has made a public appearance. We must not tarnish the reputation of the Xia family."

"Yes!"

Seeing that Xia Xianfeng agreed, Xia Youjie said to Feng Jin, "Then let's go. Take your little nephew and go out."

Upon hearing this, Feng Jin did not use her seniority as an excuse, but turned to Xia Xianfeng and nodded, saying, "Let's go."

Soon, Feng Jin and Xia Xianfeng boarded the small boat they had come in and left Sun and Moon Island.

The two did not exchange any words along the way.

Before she even reached the shore, Feng Jin saw Zhang Rushan waiting there.

Feeling puzzled, Feng Jin turned to Xia Xianfeng and had her first conversation with him.

"The other five surnames are not allowed to enter the Xia family's territory?"

Xia Xianfeng's lips curled up slightly on one side.

"No one except the clan leader may enter; otherwise, death will be the penalty."

This rule was so bad that it was like defecating on the heads of the other five families, yet the other five families still obeyed it.

Therefore, mere respect is not enough; one must also feel awe!
Feng Jin became even more curious about just how powerful the Xia family really was.

Soon, led by Zhang Rushan, Feng Jin returned to the rift where the two had entered.

At this moment, five people had already gathered there.

The other five families, like the Xia family, only sent one person.

Fortunately, these five people were about the same age as Feng Jin, all being middle-aged.

Through Zhang Rushan's introduction, Feng Jin learned the names of these five people.

Wang Chuanjun, Zhang Songhui, Liu Xingyun, Chen Delong, and Li Yifeng.

Each person was equipped with golden weapons and equipment, but Feng Jin couldn't be sure what their abilities were.

However, judging from the energy and blood of these five people, they should all be practicing the eighth version of the exercise.

It's highly likely that Feng Jin can't defeat any of these five people.

According to Zhang Rushan, these five people should all be of the same generation as Feng Jin.

However, when they stepped into the rift, apart from Zhang Rushan who went first, the other five waited for Xia Xianfeng to enter before stepping into the rift before Feng Jin.

Feng Jin was the last to leave their ancestral home.

Feng Jin didn't care about any of that. If they could solve the problem with the Bureau of Investigation, what did losing face matter?
With one step, Feng Jin left her ancestral home.

What Feng Jin didn't notice was that after he left, a face that stood out against the sun, which hung high in the sky above the ancestral land and was impossible to look directly at, also disappeared into the sun.

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(End of this chapter)