First Teaching

First Teaching Four days later, the Spiritual Roots of all children aged nine to eleven in one city, three counties, and seven towns had finished being tested.

Li Qianqing had obtained three hundred family Contribution Points, while the other three had each obtained one hundred.

As long as a task was completed, family Contribution Points could be obtained, no matter what the task was. Although testing Spiritual Roots was more like an obligation for the clan's cultivators, it had still taken up four days of everyone's time, and these four days had been spent running between eleven places, with basically no time to rest.

This year, the Li Clan had gained two new cultivators.

From the Qian Generation, Li Qiantong of Three Spiritual Roots.

From the Xing Generation, Li Xingtian of Five Spiritual Roots.

In Changqing Mountain.

Li Qiantong and Li Xingtian sat side by side, listening to Li Qianqing's guidance.

"After your Spiritual Roots were tested and you became cultivators, as far as the clan is concerned, your mission from now on is already different from that of mortals. As for the changes you bring to your families after becoming clan cultivators, I don't need to emphasize them specially. Your parents must have explained them..."

All mortal clansmen knew one thing: giving birth to a cultivator with Spiritual Roots was a merit that could ensure they would never lack food or drink for the rest of their lives. For some Li Clan mortals whose status was already high, having a cultivator child would solidify and further raise their status.

For example, the actual manager of Liyang City had a deceased grandfather who was the biological younger brother of Patriarch Li Cunliu. Most of the managers of the other three counties and seven towns had certain relationships with the Li Clan High-Level Members.

If Li Qianqing's father had wanted it, as long as Li Qianqing had been given some time to operate, he would have had the ability to make him become the actual manager of Yanxin Town. But his father did not have this idea. He only wanted to peacefully live out his life. To have raised a son like Li Qianqing, they felt very fortunate.

As Li Qianqing spoke, he was also observing the two little fellows' states.

Li Qiantong was listening to him speak very seriously. Li Xingtian's state was clearly a little off.

"Li Xingtian!"

"Here, Thirteenth Uncle..." Li Xingtian immediately responded. Thirteenth Uncle's expression had frightened him a little. Compared with Thirteenth Uncle, his father's aura was a little shaman meeting a great shaman.

"Repeat what I just said."

"Ah..."

"Speak!"

"I... I..."

Mother had said that after arriving at Changqing Mountain, he had to be obedient. This place was different from home.

"Thirteenth Uncle, I know I was wrong." After stammering for a long while, Li Xingtian immediately lowered his head and admitted his mistake.

"Where were you wrong?"

"I shouldn't have let my mind wander."

Li Xingtian's little thoughts were clear as day to him. Ever since his Spiritual Roots were tested, this Li Xingtian had shown his problem.

"I want the root reason." Li Qianqing stared straight at Li Xingtian.

"I... I..."

Li Xingtian started stammering again. This time, he was so anxious he was about to cry. Fortunately, Thirteenth Uncle did not hit him.

"Let your Thirteenth Uncle guess. You feel that becoming a cultivator is not as good as staying at home, right? That is the root reason you were distracted. Your mind simply wasn't on this."

Li Xingtian lowered his head. The feeling of having his thoughts seen through all at once felt very bad to his young heart.

At the same time, he also understood that any thoughts before Thirteenth Uncle were as if they were transparent.

Thirteenth Uncle is really too terrifying!

"Xingtian, I'll give you a chance to go back," Li Qianqing suddenly said.

Hearing this, Li Xingtian abruptly raised his head and looked at Li Qianqing. He seemed to want to see from Li Qianqing's face whether these words were true, and whether he was not joking.

"Thirteenth Uncle... is what you said true?" Li Xingtian asked cautiously.

"Of course it's true. Your Thirteenth Uncle's word carries the weight of nine tripods. There's no need to lie to you." As he spoke, Li Qianqing came to Li Xingtian's side and pinched his chubby face. "But with your current lifestyle, before you live to thirty, you'll have a whole body full of wealthy men's diseases."

"When the time comes, riddled with sickness and pain, it will be difficult even for you to live as carefree as you want."

Li Xingtian's eyes widened. He did not want to live in such pain at all.

"Thirteenth Uncle, then what should I do?"

"The solution is very simple. Just become a cultivator. Cultivators all have innate bodies. Not only is living to around a hundred years old no problem, but for their whole lives they also won't be tormented by mortal sickness and pain. When you reach the age to discuss marriage, with your status as a cultivator, it won't be a problem no matter how many beautiful mortal women you want to marry, as long as you can keep yourself busy enough."

Cultivators with Five Spiritual Roots were most suited to this kind of development.

This idea had to be instilled from childhood.

"Thirteenth Uncle, is everything you said true?"

"Of course it's true. Also, wipe your drool."

"Oh, oh. I, Li Xingtian, will marry ten, no! A hundred beautiful wives!" Li Xingtian began to imagine the future.

"You can..." Li Qianqing nodded. Regarding this point of Li Xingtian's, he really had not seen it coming.

He had originally thought that Li Xingtian, born into wealth and honor, only wanted to comfortably live out his life. He had not expected him to have such thoughts too.

"My dad said that after becoming a cultivator, I had to make more contributions to the clan. That's nothing. The key is that he also said cultivators must devote themselves wholeheartedly to the Dao and cannot take wives, because it wastes a lot of time."

"Now that I've listened to Thirteenth Uncle's words, I've completely understood!"

"What have you understood?" Li Qianqing asked.

"My dad is just a common mortal. What the hell does he know about cultivators!"

Just as Li Xingtian finished speaking, he saw Thirteenth Uncle looking at him with the wrong expression, and he hurriedly covered his mouth.

"Watch how you speak. Considering this is your first offense, let it pass this time."

"Mm, mm." Li Xingtian nodded with all his might.

"There is a certain logic to what your father said, but it doesn't suit all cultivators."

Li Xingtian continued nodding desperately. The expression on his face now wrote plainly that he was exactly such a cultivator, the cultivator Thirteenth Uncle spoke of.

"Good. Now listen carefully to me..."

Li Qianqing returned to his original position, and pulled the topic back again.

His guidance just happened to correspond to Li Xingtian's desire. This was naturally very good for him, but when guiding other cultivators in the future, it definitely would not go smoothly every time. It would need three years of slow grinding.

The sun reached noon.

The most basic clan rules, simple guidance, and some basic cultivation knowledge had already been taught.

Finally, Li Qianqing took out two copies of "Qi Induction Art."

After Qi Induction into the Body and opening the Qi Sea, they would enter the Qi Refining stage and could officially begin cultivating Qi Refining stage cultivation methods.

"I'll give you three days to memorize this entire 'Qi Induction Art.' Three days later, you will officially begin cultivating."

When children of cultivation clans underwent Qi Induction into the Body, there were specialized elders to assist them, helping them complete this step better and avoid unnecessary risks.

With a Late-Stage Qi Refining cultivator's control over spiritual power, this could already be done very well.

"Yes, Thirteenth Brother!"

"Yes, Thirteenth Uncle!"

Li Xingtian and Li Qiantong took from his hands the "Qi Induction Art," the most, most basic method in the Cultivation World.

Li Clan children were forced to study and learn characters from the age of six. They had to recognize all characters before the age of nine. Otherwise, when their Spiritual Roots were tested, if they could not even understand the cultivation method, that would make a joke of things.

"Qiantong, stay behind for a moment."