A Large Number of Shen Clan Refugees Enter the Ling Clan

Ling Pengyun did not hide anything and carefully told Ling Ruda the reason for Ling Ruxian's death.

"Damn this Demon Beast Uprising! I thought the Lineage was powerful enough to Demon Beast Uprising peacefully, but I never expected that some clansmen would still die in battle, including someone as powerful as my thirteenth brother!" Ling Ruxian said angrily.

"Thirteenth brother, did you leave any words before you died?"

"Yes, our thirteenth great-grandfather instructed us that if we had the opportunity, we should avenge him by killing Bai Jiaqian, the head of the Chen Guo Tongyang Bai family, and helping him reclaim the method for operating the Earthly Fiend Sword Technique," Ling Pengyun said.

"I thought my thirteenth brother had already let it go... Well, the hatred of losing an arm is an obstacle to his Dao Path, so how could he easily let it go?"

"The Bai Clan's affairs do indeed need to be addressed, both publicly and privately. However, this matter requires careful consideration. We will discuss it together after the Demon Beast Uprising has ended and Yun Hong has Lineage."

"Let's not dwell on this matter any longer. Let's take our thirteenth brother back to the clan for burial as soon as possible."

"I will also return to the Clan Mountain with you to see off my thirteenth brother. After that, I will return to Xia Zhi Mountain to guard the area."

"Okay." Ling Pengyun nodded in response and returned to the Clan Mountain with Ling Ruxian.

After the two men brought Ling Ruda's body back to the Clan Mountain, they gathered more than twenty elderly, weak, women and children from the clan outside the ancestral hall.

He informed these clansmen of the death of the Lineage's Second Elder, Ling Ruda.

At the same time, a funeral was held for Ling Ruda, his body was burned to ashes, and the ashes were put into a small earthenware jar and placed under his memorial tablet in the ancestral hall, where he was worshipped by the Ling Clan clan.

With this matter concluded, Ling Pengyun convened a clan council to elect someone to fill the vacancy left by the fallen Second Elder, Ling Ruda, to oversee the fishpond in the underground cave of Azure Stone Lake and to take care of the Spirit Plant of Azure Stone Mountain.

The clan now consists of either elderly people whose cultivation has dwindled to less than one-tenth and whose lifespans are nearing their end, or younger members of the clan with low cultivation levels, as well as women.

Ultimately, the group had no choice but to select Pill Refining Chengxin, the Lineage's key alchemy prodigy who had recently entered the Qi Training Fourth Layer Ling Chengxin was ranked fourth among the Cheng Generation, to guard the underground cave of Azure Stone Lake.

Ling Ruda also lent Ling Ruda's Immortal Spirit Crane to Ling Chengxin so that he could escape when he encountered a group of Demon Beast that he could not defeat.

Half a month later.

At noon on this day, a large group of filthy, ragged mortals, carrying their families, entered the territory of the Ling Clan's Xia Zhi Town from the northern Ice Flood Dragon County with panicked expressions.

These circumstances alarmed Ling Chengxin, who was stationed in the underground cave of Azure Stone Lake, the northernmost border of Xia Zhi Town.

Ling Chengxin quickly darted out of Azure Stone Lake and looked towards the source of the commotion.

Seeing the massive commotion, which was caused by a thousand mortals, he immediately felt relieved, as he had initially thought it was a horde of Demon Beast.

However, a sense of doubt welled up in his mind.

"The mortals in my Ling Clan Territory are all well protected. This place where I am stationed is also the outermost edge of the Lineage. These mortals could not possibly be ordinary members of the Lineage."

"Now, in this time of Demon Beast Uprising, mortals belonging to various forces are being protected by those forces. How come so many mortals are entering my Ling Clan Territory from Ice Flood Dragon County at this time?"

"To the north lies Ice Flood Dragon County. Could it be that some family in Ice Flood Dragon County was wiped out, causing its mortals to become refugees?"

Thinking this through, Ling Chengxin's expression brightened slightly.

If those mortals were truly refugees, the Ling Clan would have had a perfect opportunity to gain these thousand mortals for free.

Although the number of mortals was not small, it was better than nothing.

In the eyes of a Foundation Establishment clan like the Ling Clan clan, they are treasures. As long as those thousands of mortals Peaceful Residence Inn in the Ling Clan's territory, they will surely be assimilated into the Ling Clan clan within a few years.

With a large number of mortals, numbering in the thousands, the chances of someone with Spirit Root being born in the mortal realm are also relatively high.

Ling Chengxin himself was born of ordinary birth, so he also wanted to see more cultivators of ordinary birth in his clan.

In this way, he could also increase the status of his collateral relatives within the clan.

He wasn't stupid. Although the distinction between the collateral and direct branches of the Ling Clan wasn't obvious at the moment, as the Lineage grew stronger, changes were bound to occur between the two factions.

If his collateral branch falls too far behind the direct branch, it won't be a good thing.

Ling Chengxin waved his hand and patted the Beast Taming Pouch at his waist, summoning a Immortal Spirit Crane from it. He rode the crane and quickly flew towards the large number of refugees who had entered the Ling Clan Territory in the distance.

at the same time.

The large group of refugees were all delighted to see a Daoist priest with an air of Celestial Bone Structure, dressed in a Daoist robe, riding a huge immortal Immortal Spirit Crane in the sky.

Although these refugees are now dressed in tattered clothes, they were once ordinary people under the command of cultivator Lineage and had seen cultivators before.

Furthermore, the white crane in the sky at this moment was several times larger than an ordinary white crane.

Therefore, upon seeing Ling Chengxin riding Immortal Spirit Crane for the first time, the refugees knew that Ling Chengxin was an "immortal".

As if they had seen a savior, they all stopped in their tracks, crying out in despair, and begged the immortal "Ling Chengxin" riding Immortal Spirit Crane to save them.

In less than ten breaths, Ling Chengxin rode his Immortal Spirit Crane and landed on the ground in front of the large group of refugees.

Seeing the refugees talking amongst themselves in a noisy cacophony, making it impossible to understand what they were saying, he frowned and used two minor Law Technique, Amplification and Intimidation, to exert his pressure.

"Silence! Who is the leader among you? Let the leader speak."

With the aid of amplification and intimidation techniques, this sound was not only extremely loud, but also sounded like the roar of a tiger to the thousands of refugees.

Fear immediately rose on their faces, and they dared not wail any longer.

Many young children even had tears welling up in their eyes, on the verge of crying from fright.

For a moment, the place fell completely silent.

Among the thousands of refugees, a robust middle-aged man carrying a child, dressed relatively neatly, immediately handed the child to a dignified-looking woman beside him upon hearing the Immortal Elder riding the Immortal Crane speak.

"Madam, hold Ye'er for a while."

After taking the child, the lady glanced at Immortal Elder young immortal riding Immortal Crane at the very front of the refugee procession, looking quite dignified, and then looked at her husband with a worried expression. She lowered her voice and whispered.

"Husband, will this Immortal Elder from the Ling Clan take us in?"

The dignified woman was also quite knowledgeable. Observing the Daoist robe Ling Chengxin was wearing, she guessed that Ling Chengxin was Ling Clan Xiushui.

"They should, don't worry." The burly middle-aged man wasn't entirely sure if Ling Clan Immortal Elder would take them in, but to avoid his wife worrying too much, he offered a word of comfort.

After saying that, he quickly walked out of the crowd and stood at the front of the refugee procession, in front of Ling Chengxin, who was riding on the back of Immortal Spirit Crane. He bowed respectfully and asked.

"Immortal Elder, we come from Ji Yun County in Ice Flood Dragon County. My name is Shen Qi. I am a resident of Ji Yun County and a member of the Shen Family family, a Foundation Establishment Family in Ji Yun Town. I can be considered the leader of this group."

"More than ten days ago, a large number of Demon Beast broke into the territory of my Shen Family and attacked the vicinity of Ji Yun Town where we live. Due to the attack of the Demon Beast, we mortals could only enter the immortal mountain next to the town, Ji Yun Mountain, where the immortals of my Shen Family are stationed, to avoid the attack of the Demon Beast."

"But we only held out for a few days. Even with the help of other immortals from my Shen Lineage mountain, we could only barely hold Ji Yun Mountain. Then another wave of Demon Beast joined in, which led to the fall of Ji Yun Mountain."

"We, these thousands of mortals, only managed to escape and survive to this day because of a lull in my Shen Clan Immortal Elder's battle with the Demon Beast."

"Our rash entry into the Ling Clan Territory, which belongs to the Immortal Elder, is also to escape the pursuit of those Demon Beast. There is nowhere left to hide in the Shen Family's territory. Demonic Demon Beast roam freely, and the other towns within the territory have all been occupied by Demon Beast. Therefore, we want to find a safe haven in your Lineage's territory."

"As long as the Immortal Elder is willing to give us a safe place and let us have land to cultivate, we will never leave in the future. From now on, we will all be people of the Ling Clan and change our surname to Ling."

Ling Cheng was quite satisfied with the news.

He had thought it would take some persuasion to keep these refugees in his Lineage, but it turned out to be so easy.

However, Shen Qi Ling Chengxin Qi's actions to some extent.

Changing one's name to save one's life is a great disgrace for Lineage cultivator.

"Aren't you afraid that after your Shen Family cultivators quell the chaos among the Demon Beast in the territory, they will come looking for you and blame you for rashly changing your surname to save your lives?" Ling Chengxin said in a deep voice.

"Although I am a mortal, I have heard of the Ling Clan's reputation. I believe that the Immortal Elder of the Shen Clan will not offend your Lineage's Immortal Elder because of us."

"To be honest, Immortal Elder, I do not have the bloodline of the Shen Family. Among the thousand people behind me, only a handful have the bloodline of the Shen Family and were not originally surnamed Shen."

"I and those thousand or so people were all bought by the Shen Family from the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect to expand the number of mortals under their command. Our surnames were also changed at that time."

"For people like us who are bought and sold, we would be more than willing to save our lives if we could use our surnames," said Shen Qi, a burly middle-aged man, with a helpless expression.

"This situation is understandable." Ling Chengxin suddenly realized, and his doubts vanished instantly.

More than twenty years ago, when the Ling Clan family had just become Foundation Establishment Family and occupied a large area of An Yang County, they also bought tens of thousands of mortals from the Hundred Spirits Sect to expand the number of mortals in the Lineage and lay the foundation.

Now, more than twenty years later, most of those mortals who were bought have been assimilated by the Ling Clan's mortals.

Even those who have not yet been assimilated will inevitably be assimilated after several decades, hundreds of years, or several generations, and their hearts will belong to the Ling Clan.

The Shen Family's initial intention in purchasing Shen Qi and others was the same as the Ling Clan's.

However, the Shen Family was invaded by Demon Beast and was no match for Demon Beast, resulting in this situation.

"We can take you in, but the Ling Clan is not as merciful as the Shen Clan. You must sign a contract with the Ling Clan, guaranteeing that you will not leave the Ling Clan Territory. Once you leave, the Ling Clan will kill you." Ling Chengxin said sternly.

"Immortal Elder, that's only natural," Shen Qi said respectfully.

"Take this map and follow it north. You will reach a small town called Xia Zhi Town in my Ling Clan. Once inside the town, tell the cultivators there about your origins. They should not make things difficult for you."

Ling Chengxin took out a map from his Storage Bag, handed it to Shen Qi, and said something.

However, considering that Shen Qi's group of refugees were too numerous and had no cultivators to protect them, and that they might encounter danger on their journey to Xia Zhi Mountain, which was hundreds of miles away, he instructed the Immortal Spirit Crane he sat on, which was at the Qi Training Late Stage, to escort Shen Qi and his group to Xia Zhi Mountain.

We are currently in a time of Demon Beast Uprising, and Demon Beast frequently appear even within the territory of the Ling Clan.

As for himself, he had to stay here to take care of the underground caves of Azure Stone Lake and the Spirit Plant in Azure Stone Mountain, so he couldn't leave.

After all, Shen Qi and his group of mortals did not travel very fast, and it would take them at least several days to reach Xia Zhi Town.

After dealing with the matter, Ling Chengxin watched Shen Qi and the others leave for a while before returning to the underground cave in Azure Stone Lake to refine pills.