Mysterious mirror hanging high

And why did Master Song insist on removing the poison from his body and healing his injuries before he dared to return to Xingluo Island in a swagger?

He was simply preparing for the worst. Even if Sun Baiyuan blocked him outside the formation, he could still escape calmly.

Otherwise, why would you go to so much trouble to keep yourself in the best condition?

"Master Song doesn't completely trust his grandson-in-law..." Jing Yu thought.

“That’s not true.”

Jing Yu suddenly realized that Master Song did not completely distrust Sun Baiyuan, but the meaning of a seriously injured self and a healthy self appearing outside the Xingluo Island formation was actually completely different.

"Perhaps Master Song would rather delay these years and recuperate outside, simply because he doesn't want to test human nature!"

At this time, Sun Baiyuan's eyes had already fallen on Jing Yu, and he said quietly, "Who is this little brother?"

"White Ape, this young man's surname is Ye, and his name is Yulou. I was able to recover from my serious injuries this time, thanks to young man Ye's efforts."

Song Jianxu smiled and said, "Now that Ye Xiaoyou and Jinghong are getting along very well and have a close friendship, I'll treat them as my own family!"

Jing Yu felt a little helpless, but still took a step forward, bowed and said, "Junior Ye Yulou, I pay my respects to Master White Ape."

"you……"

Sun Baiyuan's calm gaze finally showed a ripple. He looked at Jing Yu's heroic and extraordinary face in surprise, and then felt the deep and solid late-stage foundation-building magic power of the gray-robed young man in front of him. He frowned deeply.

"Let's enter the island first."

Song Jianxu walked in the front, followed by Sun Baiyuan on the side and behind, and Song Jinghong and Jing Yu followed side by side at the end. The four of them rode the light of escape and landed on the highest fairy mountain on the main island of Xingluo Island. On top of this fairy mountain, there was a mansion covering a very large area, which was where the cultivators of the Song family lived.

Along the way, they passed through several hall doors. When the cultivators and mortals they met saw Song Jianxu, they all knelt down and paid homage to him. Some even kowtowed and shed tears, obviously worried about the safety of the ancestor.

"Jinghong, this immortal mountain is full of spiritual energy. It should be the most suitable place for cultivation in the entire Xingluo Island. Why are there so many mortals living here? I see that there are quite a few cultivators at the foot of the mountain. Why not send these mortals down there and let the cultivators cultivate up there?"

Along the way, Jing Yu saw many mortals in luxurious clothes, walking around freely in the fairy mountains and houses. Many of them did not even avoid the monks with cultivation skills. They had no awareness of their status as mortals, which made him feel a little puzzled.

Song Jinghong was silent for a moment, then he said in a voice transmission:

"Brother Ye, you may not know that [Guachou Mountain] is indeed the place with the most abundant spiritual energy on the main island of Xingluo Island, but not all cultivators are qualified to cultivate on the mountain."

"If our Song family is divided by bloodline, it can be divided into three major forces: [Direct Lineage], [Branch Lineage], and [Outside Lineage]."

"Among them, the direct bloodline cultivators are the most noble. They are all the direct bloodline of the ancestor. Those with direct bloodline cultivation, regardless of their realm, can practice in Guachou Mountain."

"The branch cultivators are second best. Although they still share the Song surname, their bloodline is not as close. Naturally, they cannot be as favored by the ancestors as the direct line cultivators. Only the foundation-building cultivators can enter Guachou Mountain to cultivate."

"As for the cultivators from outside the family, they are small clans founded by those who have married into our Song family or have made great contributions to the Song family. They have the lowest status on the island. Even those who have established their foundation cannot enter the mountains to practice. In the entire Xingluo Island, the only cultivator from outside the family, my uncle, White Ape True Man, lives in Guachou Mountain all year round and has an independent cave."

"As for these mortals, they are all blood relatives of the direct lineage cultivators within three generations, and they can also live in the mountains... But if these mortals of the direct lineage cannot produce spiritual roots within three generations, they will be demoted to branch lines and expelled from Guachou Mountain."

"As for the direct line of the aristocratic family, that's another matter. Only the golden elixir seeds among the direct line cultivators can be called that. Now, the direct line cultivators of the Song family are only myself and my great-nephew Song Qingya."

"what?"

Jing Yu was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself, "They say the family system is much more backward than the sect system. I didn't have much exposure to it in Yunchuan Territory before, so I didn't have a deep understanding of it. But now I have experienced it!"

"If we care so much about bloodline differences, how many talents can we cultivate?"

In the Jindan sects in the Yunchuan region, such as [Bishuimen] and [Xiaoleiguan], which are presided over by a great real person in the late Jindan stage, there are at least seven or eight true disciples and Jindan seeds among the foundation-building disciples of each generation who have the potential to form a Jindan.

Even if they are the best among the sect's true disciples like Qiu Zhiyun and Taoist Nun Bo Lei, a sect may not be able to find a temporary "double peak" of its own.

However, for a Jindan family with a great Jindan master in the late stage, having two or three Jindan seeds at the same time is already the limit. There are even Jindan families that are in a period of transition and cannot produce even one Jindan seed that is expected to form a pill within two or three hundred years. Once the Jindan ancestor of the family dies, the entire family will immediately fall apart and be eaten up by the surrounding families.

In Jing Yu's opinion, the sect system of the Xianzhou Realm is already quite backward compared to the free cultivator alliances like the Xiaoyao League. But compared with the clan system, at least the sects that do not use bloodline as the only means of selection are relatively advanced!

Such drawbacks of the family system are not obvious in the Yuanying Immortal Clan. After all, the Yuanying True Lord lives for two thousand years, and the clan is very rich in resources. Generally, a Yuanying Immortal Clan with multiple True Lords can endure a thousand years of hardship and easily produce several direct descendants who are expected to reach the Yuanying stage.

However, the various shortcomings of the family are quite obvious in the Jindan family and even the foundation-building family. The current Song family is the best example.

The clan's ancestor, Song Jianxu, only has less than thirty years left to live. However, among the clan's two direct descendants who have reached the golden elixir stage, only Song Jinghong has reached the late stage of foundation building. The other direct descendant, Song Qingya, who is less than a hundred years old, is only in the middle stage of foundation building. In thirty years, Song Jinghong is the only one who actually has the hope of reaching the golden elixir stage.

If Song Jinghong fails to form the elixir and Song Jianxu dies, the Song family will only have Sun Baiyuan, a Jindan Zhenren from an outsider, left!

After thinking about it, Jing Yu realized that the situation of the Song family was much more complicated than he had imagined. Even when Song Jianxu was alive, there would probably be a lot of trouble. He was a little hesitant about whether to stay here and get involved in this mess.

Following Song Jianxu and the others into the main hall of the clan, they discovered that a group of white-haired old Qigong practitioners were already kneeling there. They kept kowtowing to Song Jianxu who had entered, and cried with joy:

"The Song family's direct lineage cultivators respectfully welcome the ancestor home!"

Song Jianxu frowned slightly and looked down at the old cultivators kneeling in the main hall, all of whom were Qi-cultivating elders of the direct lineage.

Jing Yu, who was following behind him, suddenly had his eyelids jump. He looked at the deepest part of the main hall in disbelief. A group of Qi training elders actually tied up a middle-aged cultivator in the late foundation building stage and made him kneel on the spot, completely ignoring the huge gap in their cultivation levels.

"The Qi training elders tied up the foundation-building cultivators and made them kneel?"

“It’s a complete mess!”