Chapter 257 Vassal

Just when the institutional reform of the Song family was in full swing, two strange Qi-refining cultivators suddenly came to visit Funiushan one day.

These two people were in the late Qi-refining stage, both surnamed Xu, and were cousins ​​within the fifth generation. They came from the foot of Guyang Mountain of Xiaoyao Sect. The purpose of this trip was to discuss something with the Song family.

Originally, it was enough for Song Changfeng, the clan leader, to come out to receive two Qi-refining cultivators like this, but the two also brought a letter to Song Qingming.

Looking at the three words "Xu Ziyan" written on the envelope, Song Changfeng immediately knew the identity of the writer. When he went to Yangshanfang to deliver spirit stones to Song Qingming, he had heard Song Qingming mention Xu Ziyan. Later, when Song Qingming successfully built his foundation and came back, he also knew that Xu Ziyan helped him a lot when Song Qingming built his foundation.

Since the other party had taken out Xu Ziyan's letter, Song Changfeng naturally wanted to show the sincerity of the Song family, and quickly sent someone to invite Song Qingming over.

"Fellow Daoist Xu mentioned in the letter that you two are going to find a place to stay in Qinghe County?" Song Qingming knew the purpose of the two people's visit immediately after reading Xu Ziyan's letter.

According to Xu Ziyan's letter, the ancestors of these two people are the same senior brothers of her master Liu Xingfeng, that is, the descendants of Xu Ziyan's direct master. Their experience is almost the same as that of the Song family. After the ancestor of the family suddenly died, they lost their backers and were always excluded in Guyang Mountain. That's why they chose to leave Guyang Mountain and find another place to live, just like the ancestors of the Song family.

Liu Xingfeng's senior brother was originally a veteran cultivator who had been building the foundation for many years in Xiaoyao Sect. When Liu Xingfeng was young and had not yet built the foundation, this senior brother Xu took good care of her. He was different from most hard-working cultivators. He was more greedy for worldly pleasures. After building the foundation, he quickly married many wives and concubines around him. Over the past hundred years, he has left many descendants.

During the monster turmoil more than 20 years ago, Liu Xingfeng's senior brother had bad luck and died in the battle to support Guiyunfang. After his death, although the descendants of the Xu family received a good pension from the sect, it was a pity that none of them had outstanding talents and had the hope of building a foundation. Their lives were getting worse and worse, so they had the idea of ​​leaving Guyang Mountain.

Half a year ago, they asked Liu Xingfeng for help and wanted to find a relationship with her to help take care of it. Liu Xingfeng agreed to repay her senior brother's kindness to her. It happened that Xu Ziyan was also in Liu Xingfeng's cave at that time, so she did a favor to help her master Liu Xingfeng organize this matter. She wrote a letter on the spot and gave it to Xu Changrong and others, asking them to come to Qinghe County to find Song Qingming.

"Senior Song, please give us a convenience for the sake of Senior Xu. As long as you don't dislike us, our Xu family is willing to be a vassal of the Song family and obey your orders." The old man who spoke was the patriarch of the Xu family of this generation, named Xu Changrong.

"Alas, I am a close friend of Xu Daoyou. Since it is something she has entrusted to me, I will not refuse. Don't worry, I will arrange someone to accompany you two to go around the surrounding area tomorrow to see if there is a sacred mountain suitable for you to settle down. If you need any help, please feel free to ask me."

What Xu Changrong and his friends asked for was not a difficult matter for Song Qingming. There are still many unowned sacred mountains in the area around the Song family. As long as they like them, it will be fine.

On the contrary, having one more vassal family under the door is actually a good thing for the Song family in the long run. Song Qingming is now looking forward to having more immortal cultivation families under the Song family.

The Song family now has only more than 50 cultivators. Once they encounter some wars and need to recruit a large number of cultivators, they will be a little stretched. The last time they went to Yingchao Ridge to suppress bandits, Song Qingming almost pulled all the late-stage Qi-refining cultivators who could be dispatched to barely gather ten people. Compared with other foundation-building families, their foundation in this regard is indeed too shallow.

The northeastern area of ​​Qinghe County, which is now controlled by the Song family, is close to Yunwu Mountain. It is considered a relatively remote corner of Qinghe County. There are only five immortal cultivation families under their control.

Compared with the most powerful Huang family in Qinghe County, there are more than 20 vassal immortal families under their control, and they can easily gather a late-stage Qi-refining team of dozens of people. The Song family is really far behind in this regard.

"Thank you for your care, senior. This talisman was passed down by my ancestor. Since we have become disciples of the Song family today, this talisman will be presented to you as a thank you gift." Xu Changrong said while smiling and raising his hand to present a second-level low-grade talisman to Song Qingming.

Song Qingming did not refuse this, but took it and looked at it. He found that it was a rare defensive talisman, which should be worth 300 spiritual stones on the market. It was still useful to him, so he put it directly into the storage bag.

It was a very normal thing for the Xu family, who had just arrived and joined the Song family, to give Song Qingming a heavier gift. After all, when they arrived here in the future, they would rely on the Song family for care, so it was better to establish a good relationship in advance.

Although Song Qingming will give Xu Ziyan some face now and will not deliberately make things difficult for them, it is hard to say what will happen in the future. Once they leave Guyang Mountain, their relationship with Xiaoyao Sect will be completely severed. Naturally, it is unlikely that Liu Xingfeng will always speak for them. Just like the ancestors of the Song family, they will have to rely on themselves in the future.

After getting Song Qingming's approval, Xu Changrong and his brother Song Qingshi went around the next morning. They were determined to leave Guyang Mountain and were very cautious about the location of their family in the future.

After going around for several times, Xu Changrong and others finally chose a sacred mountain hundreds of miles away from Funiushan as the future residence of the Xu family.

Although the spiritual vein level of this sacred mountain is not as good as the Funiushan of the Song family in the past, it has a very good terrain. There are not only vast flat lands for farming around it, but also a river for mortals to survive. It can accommodate tens of thousands of mortals to live here, which is not much worse than the current Funiushan.

Although the population of the Xu family is not large now, there are only eight cultivators and less than a thousand mortals, but in the future, as long as they take root in Qinghe County and have a wider living space, the population of the family will gradually increase. By then, they will look like a family of immortals.

With the Song family as an example, the Xu family may also be able to produce a talent like Song Qingming in the future, who will lead everyone on the road to reviving the family's glory.