Chapter 371: Separation of Immortals and Mortals

Li Yuanping returned to the town, still feeling anxious and angry. With red eyes, he entered the central hall. It was dark everywhere, and two small lights flickered faintly.

He dragged his tired body to the highest seat, took a document, but couldn't read it. He coughed twice in annoyance and swallowed the blood.

Dou Yi rushed in busily and climbed up the steps. Li Yuanping whispered:

"Grind the ink."

Dou Yi ground the ink honestly. Li Yuanping waved his hand and he left. Li Yuanping picked up the pen, slowly calmed down, and thought carefully for a while.

The position of the head of the family requires balancing the outsiders in the family, managing the spiritual fields, and distributing the family salary. It involves the interests of almost the entire family from fetal breathing to qi training. Since Li Xuanxuan became the head of the family, the rule of single inheritance was set when the four veins were established.

Now that the Li family has been united in suppressing the family, they can naturally designate the head of the family at will. The wise will be the king, and the foolish will obey.

But once this precedent is set, the direct bloodline of the descendants who have been influenced by the talisman will gradually become distant, and each of them will have different origins, conflicting interests, and each will support a lineage, which will cause chaos.

"If that time comes, the position of the head of the family will become a means for several ordained monks to fight for power and profit and plunder the family..."

"What's more..."

Li Yuanping calmed down and his mind became more agile. He said to himself:

"Looking at Ming'er's appearance, he is still useless after all. If the Li family is handed over to him, how can he suppress the outsiders? How can he control Li Jiman?"

Li Yuanping was the only one sitting at the head of the hall. It was dark. His eyes lingered on the weak light and his voice was low:

"In the end, the family lacks a great master to suppress it. The foundation can be built, but the purple mansion is hard to hope. If it is not blessed by great luck, it will inevitably decline or split..."

He stared blankly. The light of the morning sun had slowly risen from the front of the hall. His brother Li Yuanjiao stood quietly in front of the hall door. Li Yuanping was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't notice it at all.

Chen Xi slowly climbed up the steps of the central hall, and Li Yuanping said in a muffled voice:

"The current clan law was made by my great-grandfather. In the past, there were only a few people in the family... How could I have imagined what it would be like today? Blindly inheriting the clan law is probably not a good idea."

Li Yuanping then realized that Li Yuanjiao was standing in front of him. He looked at him with a twinkling look and said softly:

"Brother, if I die, who will be the head of the family, suppressing the outsiders, driving the Shanyue, managing the clan, and cultivating the younger generation?"

Li Yuanjiao paused, Hesitantly said:

"At present, the only one who can take on the great task is Xijun. Apart from him, Xiyi is too kind, and Ximing is..."

"The Xiyue generation is already so difficult! Several of them are highly talented, and no one should be assigned to lead the family."

Li Yuanping continued:

"If the Xiyue generation just passes away, what should we do if the Chengming generation has no hero?"

Li Yuanjiao vaguely understood something and replied:

"If so, there is nothing we can do."

"Brother, I want to change the clan system."

He fiercely Ran stood up and said:

"The power of the head of the family is too great. It was established when Xiang Pinggong was alive, but how many people in the clan can match him? This method can concentrate power and benefit, but it is too difficult to manage."

"It is impossible for the younger generation to produce a son with superb political tactics and low talent. Ximing's matter seems accidental, but in fact, his family is no longer qualified for such a ruling method. Sooner or later, something will go wrong."

Li Yuanjiao looked at him deeply and said nothing. After a long while, he said gently:

"Just do it, brother will help you."

Li Yuanping seemed to have completely recovered from his disappointment with his eldest son. Instead, he had a sense of depression. He said in a deep voice:

"Measure the spiritual land first, make a list and record it...divide the power!"

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For the aristocratic families, it is almost impossible to find out the private spiritual fields. Even the Qingchi Sect has no way to calculate the spiritual fields of the aristocratic families under its rule, and can only collect tributes according to the number of foundation building.

There is no other reason. As long as the illusion array is covered, a small piece of land will be inconspicuous in the vast mountains and seas. Unless by chance, the spiritual consciousness will not be able to find anything.

Although the Qingchi Sect has a special secret method to break the array, it is impossible to check every inch of land one by one, so it can only estimate according to the ground veins and spiritual veins.

This is also the reason why many relics in the sea still exist after the war between immortals and demons. The illusion arrays of these sects are more advanced, and you can't find the entrance even if you hit your head.

However, Li Yuanjiao just asked for the magic mirror and moved it lightly. Every inch of land in the entire Li family can be seen clearly. Which Wang surnames secretly built small courtyards and secretly marked spiritual fields are exposed one by one.

"Sure enough..."

This is inevitable. Several Wang surnames under the rule of the Li family have privately developed spiritual fields. They secretly built courtyards on the barren land in the mountains that the Li family disliked, set up illusion arrays, and planted rice privately.

This is still good. In recent years, there have been more and more non-family cultivators, and they have also been exposed to many cultivation methods from the independent cultivators. Not all spiritual orifices are sent to the Li family. There are even non-family cultivators in the family who go out to seek opportunities and never return.

Li Yuanjiao glanced and saw that even several small sect cultivators of the Xiyue generation were involved. He just sighed silently.

"This land is a bit barren, but it is not free! After all, no matter how good the fields in the clan are, most of the output still needs to be handed over. How can it be as happy as planting and harvesting by yourself."

These Lingtian homes were inspected twice, and the rest were products allowed by the rules. Li Yuanjiao slowly finished drawing the pictures and returned them to the palace. Li Yuanping had been writing furiously for a long time.

Seeing Li Yuanjiao coming back, Li Yuanping took the catalog he had drawn in his hand, circled several fairy mountains, pondered for a while, and said softly:

"Brother, I have carefully examined the path of Lixia County back then and the Yuan family today. Please take a look at my method."

Li Yuanjiao lowered his eyebrows and saw that there were a few big characters at the beginning:

"The duality of clans and the system of peaks and towns."

Li Yuanping looked pale and his eyes were bright, and he explained:

"Nowadays, there are more and more monks in the family. I want to separate the clan system from the clan system. The upper clan will descend from the clan, and the immortals and mortals will live separately. The monks will go to the peak to become a clan, and the mortals will come down to the mountain to become a clan. Unless you are appointed by the Demon Exorcist, you are not allowed to go down the mountain."

"Once a person with a foreign surname or clan possesses a spiritual acuity, he or she will be sent to the main peak, Mount Lijing, to practice. They will be carefully taught by our monks. Those with high qualifications will continue to practice, and those with low qualifications will be sent to other peaks."

"Each fairy mountain establishes its own mansion, disperses the four lineage disciples, and sets up peak masters, pickets, and clan leaders... All the spiritual fields under the mountain are no longer assigned one by one, but are dispatched by their respective fairy mountains."

Li Yuanping said softly:

"The monks from each fairy mountain take turns to assign and exchange them. The collected spiritual objects are directly transported to Lijing and sent to the Meichi Mountain Cave. As for the head of the family...only the head of the family is promoted and transferred. The clan is correcting the right and wrong in the clan. There is a Dharma in the family, corruption and blasphemy of spirits. Most things are bound to be exposed!”

His eyes twinkled and he continued:

"Looking back at today, the reason why many monks with other surnames and branches in the clan secretly grow spiritual rice, search for treasures, transport spiritual objects, and go out to seek enlightenment is simply that there is no other way to go except planting spiritual rice in my family, and there is no way to rise. The space naturally has no attached heart.”

"Now this method not only saves my family from having to look for a talented person with no hope of cultivation to run the family and maintain stability, but also creates a class of power to attract these people to my family..."

Li Yuanjiao read through the detailed regulations in his hand. Of course, there were more than just a few words from Li Yuanping's mouth. There were also a large number of picket restrictions and various cultivation restrictions to limit corruption and rebellion.

"If this is the case, the number of people in the clan's supervision department will be doubled several times, and various positions of power will also be provided with clan salaries to support integrity..."

Li Yuanjiao frowned and looked at it for a while. Li Yuanping's method could indeed favor most of the monks, but it would also greatly increase the cost of ruling the Li family. He was not sure whether the gains or losses would be higher, so he hesitated to say anything.

Li Yuanping smiled confidently:

"Cultivating immortals and seeking Taoism is the most greedy thing in the world. My family will be able to produce elixirs immediately. As long as they are bound to these positions of power, I don't know how many people will flock to them! What's more, the desire for power is one of the nine calamities. If you use two prongs, how can you How many people can resist?"

He said in a low voice:

"As long as the foreign surnames and side branches are dedicated to climbing to power, they can be used by me. There is no need to have a hero who can suppress them and drive them from generation to generation. Even mediocre people are enough."

"Even on ordinary days, I can be promoted at will according to the list handed over by the clan chief courtyard, and I can even manage the family after practicing."

Li Yuanjiao gradually became interested and took over his words:

"In this way, my family doesn't have to pay attention to foreign surnames all the time. As long as we catch a few outstanding people in time, use the clan's daughters as wives, and suppress them with Xuanjian, we can sit firmly in the fairyland..."

"good."

Li Yuanping said:

"So what if we receive more family stipends? My brother is about to break through the foundation building, and the family will definitely be very different by then."

Li Yuanjiao finally nodded in agreement and replied:

"But after all, it is us, the younger generation, who are unworthy and find it difficult to centralize power and delegate power and interests in order to achieve stability. We don't know... we don't know how to see our elders."

Li Yuanping also nodded silently and comforted:

"The most profitable may not necessarily be the most stable. From now on, the family will gradually expand and sooner or later power will have to be decentralized. It is impossible to concentrate it on one person... My family cannot afford to lose."

Li Yuanjiao chatted with him for a few words, and with a heavy heart, he went to Wutu Mountain by himself, preparing to practice for a period of time to stabilize his cultivation, then retreat to break through and build the foundation.

………

Yuting Mountain.

The snow on Yuting Mountain was still white and dazzling. Li Xijun opened his eyes, exhaled white breath, and hit the long sword in his hand, condensing a thin layer of frost.

"The "Cold Truffle Snow Technique" is a third-level skill after all. The body is exposed to snow and the feet are exposed to the cold wind."

His white clothes are fluttering, and his cultivation has reached the first level of Qi training, which has stabilized his cultivation. His true energy is as white as frost, flowing around his side, and combined with the Qingfeng in his hand, it is spotless.

In just over two years, the three Xiyue generations made breakthroughs one after another, adding three more direct qi practitioners to the Li family.

Li Yuanjiao and Li Qinghong went into seclusion one after another. Both direct descendants and foreign surnames in the family have made great progress. There are not many minor sects of the Yuanqing generation. The Li family did not have many minor sect monks until the Xiyue generation. The brothers and middlemen are the main ones. Gradually, Started to take charge of Lingtian.

According to the Li family's patriarchal clan, most of the descendants of Li Mutian's concubine brothers gradually turned from minor sects into branches due to the scarcity of spiritual apertures, and withdrew from the stage of history.

Due to the restrained heirs of the two eldest sects of the Li family, the Xuanjing generation, Li Xuanling and Li Xuanfeng, the four sects of the Li family only flourished in the third generation, mainly the sect formed by the concubine's son of Li Xuanxuan and the sect of the concubine's son of Li Yuanyun. , took over the authority of the previous generation.

Of course, in Li Xijun's opinion, this was too good to be true. Hundreds of mortal elders of the same generation as his father would not appear above his head. The estranged patriarchal relationship in the center of power would become closer, and many conflicts could be cleared up.

"Sir."

An Siming came up with his sword, bowed his hands to him, and asked respectfully.

Li Xijun had been in seclusion for a year and a half, and suddenly he felt that An Siming's energy and spirit were different. It seemed that he had a head start in life, and he seemed extra diligent. He suddenly smiled and said:

"But you have a wife?"

An Siming was stunned for a moment, waved his hands repeatedly, and continued:

"Young Master is joking, Young Master Xi'e is already waiting at the foot of the mountain."

Li Xijun floated on the wind and landed at the foot of the mountain. His brother Li Xi'ao had been waiting for a long time. He was wearing light armor and looked more and more mature at the age of twenty-six or seventeen.

Li Xi'ao also practiced qi cultivation, and practiced "Jianghe Yiqi Jue". He married a woman from the Tian family, and most of his concubines were chosen from the An family, so he had many children, most of whom were two or three years old.

Since Li Xi'an was a father, he grew a beard, wore armor and tied his hair. He was quite majestic. He came up to him with a smile and said:

"Long time no see, brother."

Li Xijun nodded slightly and landed next to him. The heavy horse snorted and looked at him warily.

Li Xijun's spiritual consciousness swept away and he saw that there were monks standing on both sides, mainly his brothers from common people and those from poor families, standing respectfully on both sides.

When Li Xiya was young, he loved to protect his brothers and make friends with the monks. In the past, they had received kindness from Li Xiya, but now they swarmed around him.

Li Xi'ao waved his generous hand, and everyone retreated. The two of them walked on the bluestone road. Li Xi'ao said with a gentle voice:

"This year you and Xi Ming have been practicing in seclusion. Things at home have changed a lot. The head of the family has reformed the clan system. It is no longer what it used to be."

So he recounted what happened in the past year and a half, Li Xijun frowned, and after listening to him talk about it, Li Xi said:

"Now it's easy to do this. Several fairy mountains have changed their system, palaces have been built, and all the monks have cooperated very well...with their own money and efforts..."

"They naturally cooperate!"

Li Xijun just went back and forth in his mind and knew clearly. His face was not very good-looking and he said coldly:

"The clan has given them positions of power and salary. They are not fools. Naturally, they are very happy!"

As Li Xijun said this, he thought to himself:

‘No wonder the spiritual energy of Yuting Mountain has dropped a lot. It turns out that monks have entered the mountain! The family should start building the spirit gathering array... so as not to delay the direct lineage's practice. ’

Li Xiya smiled quickly and smoothed things over:

"I don't want them to get it for nothing. The clan has arranged various general affairs. They are also running around outside on weekdays. Now they can earn some subsidies for the family, so that they won't let..."

Li Xijun saw that he still didn't understand, and seeing no one around, he sighed:

"Brother, the elders have no choice but to share the power. The younger generation should feel ashamed..."

As the Li family slowly changes its political system in the process of expansion, it will also plant hidden dangers and outbreaks.