Chapter 120 Family Heritage
After the Song family returned to Funiu Mountain, the exhausted old patriarch Song Gushan did not take a break and quickly made arrangements to bury the members who sacrificed their lives for the family in the cemetery on the mountain. He also personally presided over the funerals of several members who died in battle.
The fourth elder was buried next to the grave of the great elder. There were several old graves nearby, all of which were monks of the ancient generation who had passed away. Song Gushan also specially asked someone to clear a piece of open space for him on the other side of the grave of the great elder.
Not long after the Song family members were buried, the Huang family sent people over to deliver the pension for this conscription and some rewards for them, which amounted to more than a thousand spirit stones. However, everyone did not feel anything when they saw these spirit stones. After all, these were exchanged for the lives of several dead members.
The fourth elder who managed the family's gold storage pavilion was no longer there. The old patriarch could only temporarily store these spirit stones in the gold storage pavilion and distribute them after selecting the candidate to take over the gold storage pavilion.
After the funeral was done, the old patriarch chose a good day and summoned all the monks of the Song family to the meeting hall. He announced to everyone on the spot that he would resign from the position of patriarch that he had held for decades and pass on the core power of the family to the new patriarch, the sixth uncle Song Changfeng.
After the sixth uncle Song Changfeng took over as the patriarch, he quickly redistributed the original positions of the elders of the family and selected several new elders on the spot to help him manage the entire family.
The ninth uncle Song Changxin, who had always been reluctant to take charge of things, took over the position of the original fourth elder and served as the family's good deeds elder, responsible for managing the spiritual objects in the gold storage pavilion and the exchange of clan members' merits. This part is relatively leisurely and does not require frequent trips down the mountain. It is more suitable for a hardworking monk like him who likes to practice.
Thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong took over the affairs of the original Song Changfeng and became the new law enforcement elder of the family. He managed the family's monster hunting team and the guarding of Funiu Mountain. He was already very familiar with this aspect. In recent years, since the sixth uncle had too many things to do, these things were basically handed over to him.
Fifth aunt Song Changling served as the elder of the family's general affairs, responsible for teaching the young monks in the family school on the mountain, and managing the affairs of the family's mortals and the annual spirit testing ceremony. She has been guarding Mujiao Town for many years and is very familiar with these things.
There is no change on Song Qingming's side. He continues to assist the patriarch in managing some trivial matters in the family, doing some welcoming and sending off, and running errands. It is a bit like the role of the great elder at the beginning. This is also the family's intention to train him to understand more about the specific situation of various affairs in the family.
Song Gulan, the former third elder, was still in charge of the family's spiritual plant affairs. She wanted to retire early like the old patriarch, but there was no suitable person to replace her for the time being. With Song Gushan's insistence, she agreed to continue to help the family for a while, and then replace her when the family found a suitable candidate.
Now there are nearly 30 cultivators in the Song family. In addition to the old patriarch who is too old to take action, there are five cultivators in the late stage of Qi training. The overall strength is much stronger than when Song Qingming just came down the mountain. Many cultivators of the Qing generation have also gradually grown up.
After the topic of the succession of the old and the new ended, several elders put forward many of their own ideas and suggestions for the future development of the family.
First of all, in terms of family affairs, the thousands of mortals who migrated from the Liu family have been intermarrying for more than ten years, which has also injected a lot of fresh blood into the family. In recent years, the probability of discovering spiritual roots among mortals is also much higher than before.
However, the number of mortals that Mujiao Town can support has almost reached its upper limit. With the continuous growth of population, the living space required will also increase exponentially. There are few fields left in Mujiao Town. If the Song family wants to support more people, they must build new mortal villages.
Dangers are everywhere in the world of immortal cultivation. Mortals without the care of cultivators are very vulnerable. Any low-level monster that sneaks into a village can cause great damage in a short period of time. If the Song family wants to build a new village, they must first find a fertile land suitable for mortal cultivation, and then use spirit stones to refine a small spirit vein, arrange a mountain protection array, and arrange for cultivators to garrison and manage for a long time. These are all indispensable things, and they also require a lot of spirit stones.
After everyone discussed it, everyone agreed to build a new mortal village. The clan leader Song Changfeng decided to find a few mortals from Mujiao Town to guard together tomorrow, and first find a territory suitable for building a village near Funiu Mountain.
To refine the spirit vein, you need to prepare hundreds of spirit stones first, and then refine a spirit gathering array. This is not a big problem. Hundreds of spirit stones can still be taken out by the family. With Song Qingming's array level, a spirit gathering array can be refined.
The only difficulty is that a top-grade defensive mountain protection array is required. Song Qingming is not able to refine this. Only the original elder Song Gubai has this ability. Now he can only send a message to his second sister Song Qingwan first, asking her and the fourth uncle to go to Qinghefang to see if there is a suitable top-grade mountain protection array.
The mountain protection array is different from the arrays that Song Qingming had previously refined and carried with him. This kind of array must be arranged according to the spiritual veins of mountains and rivers. It can protect a large area and is more powerful. However, the market demand for this kind of thing is not large. After refining a set, the general immortal cultivation family can even use it for hundreds of years. It is hard to say whether a small market like Qinghefang can buy it in a short time. Even if you ask a top-grade array master to refine a set, it will take at least half a year.
The second thing was raised by the clan leader Song Changfeng, about the family's training of younger cultivators.
In the past, all Song family cultivators could receive some spirit stones for free every year before they came of age for cultivation. They would stop issuing them after they turned 18, and then you could only rely on completing the tasks issued in the family's gold storage pavilion to earn spirit stones, including many family cultivators such as clan leaders and elders.
However, the family treats cultivators with outstanding cultivation talents and good spiritual roots differently. In those days, the third brother Song Qingze was given a lot of cultivation resources by the old clan leader and the great elders in order to cultivate him because of his outstanding cultivation talents, which also caused dissatisfaction among many cultivators in the clan.
Song Changfeng decided that in order to treat every family cultivator fairly, this similar system would be temporarily abolished from today, and all family cultivators would be treated equally in the future. This was also agreed by most of the elders present.
After deciding on these two major matters, everyone discussed some other trivial matters before ending this new family meeting.
Song Qingming, who had just finished participating in this family meeting and was about to return to his cave, suddenly remembered that he had an important matter that he had not had time to deal with, and directly stopped the clan leader Song Changfeng who was about to leave.
"Clan leader, I want to ask for leave from you for a while next month to go to Xiaoyao Sect to meet an old friend."