Chapter 1 Lin Shiming

Zhao State, Yunzhou, Xing County.

Xing County is vast and sparsely populated, with many mountains and hills.

Among the mountains and rivers, Fangmu Mountain is the most majestic, surrounded by clouds and mist all year round. You can only know its height but not its peak.

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At this time, in a small building in the peak.

A young man in a white robe stared closely at a glowing soul-enriching array.

In the center of the array was an insect egg as big as a bowl. It was obviously time for the egg to hatch, and the surface was already covered with cracks.

With a flash of spiritual light, two sickle-like golden feet broke out of the shell with a click.

Then a light golden mantis head appeared.

"Finally hatched!" Lin Shiming was extremely happy.

What others could not see was that there was another line of words in Lin Shiming's eyes.

The golden finger benefit that belongs only to him as a time traveler, a reminder to see every day.

"Please feed it with first-level spiritual water, and you will get a spiritual beast that can grow into the third level, a mutant of the green-winged mantis, the golden-winged mantis."

Lin Shiming is a time traveler. In his previous life, he was an unlucky IT otaku. Now he is the son of Lin Houyuan, the head of the Fangmushan Lin family, and the seventh in his generation.

Lin Shiming is very satisfied with this time travel. Not to mention his background and status, just seeing the system prompt makes him feel that there is hope for cultivation.

And it was because of seeing the prompt that Lin Shiming spent ten spiritual stones to buy this half-dead insect egg at a stall in the textile market.

You should know that the Fangmushan Lin family is one of the foundation-building families in Yunzhou, and currently there is only one foundation-building great cultivator.

And an egg that can cultivate a third-level foundation-building demon insect will be sold at a sky-high price that the entire Lin family dare not imagine even if it is put in the big auction in Yunzhou.

A normal green-winged mantis has a thin layer of light gold on its wings, and the rest is normal green.

The mutated golden-winged mantis in front of him not only has its wings completely covered in gold, but also has a golden body.

Especially the pair of front feet, which are as dazzling as gold, and the sickle teeth are also very large, which looks particularly sharp.

The body size is also about twice that of the normal green-winged mantis, and it is as big as a baby when it hatches.

"Squeak!" The golden-winged mantis flapped its wings and flew to Lin Shiming's shoulder, rubbing Lin Shiming with its light golden triangular head.

Before the eggs hatched, Lin Shiming used his own blood essence to cast the blood covenant magic array secret technique, and used spiritual energy to cultivate spiritual insects.

The golden-winged mantis naturally regarded Lin Shiming as his parents.

Of course, in addition to being overjoyed, Lin Shiming did not forget the system prompts. He took out a jade bowl from the storage bag, and then carefully took out a jade bottle, and poured a full bowl of first-level spiritual water into the jade bowl with heartache.

This level of spiritual water is produced by the Qinglian spiritual spring in the back mountain of Fangmu Mountain. As the son of the head of the family, Lin Shiming can only receive one kilogram of spiritual water in half a year.

And just this kilogram of spiritual water can be sold for more than ten spiritual stones. One bowl of it can be equivalent to half a month of hard work for a cultivator.

At this moment, the spiritual stones around the soul-enriching array all dimmed and exhausted their power.

"Grow up quickly!" Lin Shiming couldn't help but rub the head of the golden-winged mantis, his eyes full of expectation.

"Squeak!" In a blink of an eye, the jade bowl was empty, and the golden-winged mantis looked at Lin Shiming with a smack of its lips.

Obviously one bowl of spiritual water is not enough!

Lin Shiming took out the jade bottle from the storage bag again with a painful heart and filled the jade bowl.

After three times in a row, almost one kilogram was consumed, and the golden-winged mantis was contentedly lying on Lin Shiming's shoulder, closed its eyes, and rested quietly.

Lin Shiming took out the spiritual beast bag and put the mantis in it.

After the excitement, Lin Shiming couldn't help but start thinking about the future path of cultivation.

The golden-winged mantis is so gluttonous, and the cultivation resources it needs are obviously higher than his, which makes him quite distressed.

His own spiritual roots are three spiritual roots of gold, wood and fire, which are not good in the qualifications of cultivating immortals, and the resources required are also huge.

The Lin family is only a foundation-building family. With his fifth-level cultivation, he can only receive 2 spiritual stones per month, including spiritual water once every half a year and three catties of spiritual rice per month, which is about 40 spiritual stones in half a year.

The reason why he was able to live so comfortably before was that Lin Shiming could see the prompts and plant spiritual plants quite handy, and his father also rewarded him from time to time.

The system prompts are not against the sky. Most of the prompts he sees every day are about how to solve the problem of spiritual plants or the problem of practicing exercises.

A small number of prompts are that the third-level spiritual plants in the medicine garden on the mountain are mature, and you can get a third-level Ganoderma lucidum by picking them.

Or there are third-level treasures on the mountain, which can be obtained by breaking the formation at night.

Lin Shiming was speechless and helpless about this kind of reminder.

The best reminder is to buy the golden-winged mantis eggs when following the family elders to the market to deliver spiritual materials.

As for other times, Fangmu Mountain prohibits Lin family members under the age of 20 from going down the mountain, so there is no reminder from the mountain.

After collecting the eggs, Lin Shiming began to practice in the room again. The key to cultivating immortals is persistence, and his talent does not allow him to slack off at all.

Lin Shiming practiced the upper-level Huang-grade martial arts of the Lin family, the wood-attributed Qingmu Jue, which can be practiced to the foundation-building stage at most.

Qingmu Jue is not fast to practice, and it is not very beneficial to fighting, but it is better to practice steadily and steadily, and it often has miraculous effects in breaking through the realm.

After each small and large Zhoutian circulation, Lin Shiming will feel refreshed and energetic, as if all the magic power in his body is jumping for joy!

And at this moment, a red light suddenly flashed across the sky, and a sound transmission note broke through the air.

"Shi Ming, come to the meeting hall quickly!"

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The meeting hall is located on the hillside of Fangmu Mountain, facing north and south, with an excellent view.

As the place where the Lin family discusses affairs, distributes tasks and entertains foreign guests, the entire hall is made of marble. At the beginning of the construction, many skilled craftsmen were hired to make the hall look more majestic.

Entering the main hall, two middle-aged men were talking, with a trace of solemnity between their eyebrows.

Among them, the younger one is Lin Shiming's father, Lin Houyuan, while the other, burly and muscular, is Lin Shiming's grandfather, the elder of the Lin family, and a strong physical practitioner, Lin Yuqing.

That's right, even though they look very similar to Lin Houqing, they both look middle-aged, but Lin Yuqing is 90 years old.

For immortal cultivators in the Qi refining stage, they generally have a lifespan of about 120 years, and they can maintain their youthful appearance by consuming a little spiritual power.

If you like it, you can even keep the appearance of children. Of course, the elders of the Lin family are basically middle-aged, so that they can maintain their majesty and make their bodies look less old.

"I've met my father, grandpa!" Lin Shiming hurriedly stepped forward to salute. Lin Shiming admired these two elders.

"Shiming is here. Yes, he has reached the fifth level of Qi training. He is only seventeen years old this year!" Lin Yuqing obviously did not expect that Lin Shiming's qualifications for the three spiritual roots would reach the fifth level of Qi training in only nine years. The second spirit root genius is only at this speed.

Apart from the surprise, there was also a trace of hesitation on his face.

"It makes me laugh, my grandnephew's cultivation depends entirely on the family's support."

"Not bad, not bad. He is humble and polite, and he practices hard. Master, you have given birth to a good son!"

Lin Yuqing couldn't stop admiring, and Lin Houyuan couldn't stop being happy.

"Master, since Shiming's cultivation speed is comparable to Shijie, then the matter of stationing at Qingtao Mountain..." Lin Yuqing said again.

Lin Houyuan also hesitated at this time. Qingtao Mountain is backed by the Qingyun Mountains, and there are many ferocious beasts. There are even monsters from the Qingyun Mountains that come out and run rampant.

Especially now that the second-level low-grade spiritual peach tree on Qingtao Mountain is about to mature, it is very likely to attract birds and monsters.

Lin Houyuan originally did not want his son to go down the mountain in advance to garrison in such a dangerous place, but Lin Shiming took the initiative to mention to him several times before that he would go down the mountain in advance to participate in the garrison mission.

Moreover, the latter's belief in contributing to the family moved him, and the family did lack enough manpower.

But now it seems that his son is talented enough, and his greatest contribution to the family is to work hard in cultivation and not be delayed by mundane things.

"Father, great grandpa, Shiming is willing to go garrison!" Lin Shiming suddenly became excited when he heard about the garrison mission at Qingtao Mountain.

This is what he wants. Sitting on the golden finger of the prompt system, just looking for resources that are obviously unavailable in Fang Mushan has long made him dissatisfied.

He had seen in the prompts what treasures the old patriarch had, but they were useless and there was no way he could steal them.

Now that he has the opportunity to go outside, of course he has to fight for it. There may be danger in Qingtao Mountain, but with warnings, he can predict the danger in advance.

"Father, my practice has reached a bottleneck recently, and I need to go outside to practice!" Seeing that the two elders were still hesitating, Lin Shiming couldn't help but added eagerly.

"Okay, but before going to Qingtao Mountain, go to the family library to collect a second-level high-grade attack talisman and a high-grade defensive talisman! This is the contribution value given to you by the family in advance." Lin Shiming, the queen of Lin, was so insistent that it was difficult to say more. But as the head of the family, it is still okay to seek some benefits for his son who is on duty ahead of time.

"In addition, take an extra ten kilograms of spiritual water and fifty kilograms of spiritual rice! It will be paid to me!" Lin Yuqing also added, and he became more and more satisfied with Lin Shiming.

If everyone in the family thinks like Shiming, why should the Lin family be unhappy?