Chapter 38 The Council of Elders
After the competition, the top ten people were rewarded by their families
The first place was Ling Zong of the Ding generation, who obtained a top-quality magic weapon with earth attributes, and Ling Youxian, who obtained a marrow-cleaning pill in the second place. He went one after another to the seventh place, Ling Yourong obtained a primordial pill.
Peiyuan Pill is a second-level middle-grade elixir. After taking it, the Qi-training monks have the effect of strengthening the foundation and cultivating the essence, which is also of some help to the foundation-building monks.
In this way, when he reached the tenth place, he only obtained a second-level low-grade Fire Rain Talisman.
Although Ling Youdao was eliminated in the fourth round, through this family competition, he finally understood what his strength ranks among his peers.
Before taking the marrow-cleaning pill, his strength was ranked more than 30 among the Youzi generation, and this was the result of his persistence and hard work over the years.
As the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail!
Not to mention having the strength of Ling Youxian and Ling Yourong, as long as Ling Youjun and Ling Wei's strength, Ling Youdao will never hide his cultivation. Instead, he will try his best to show his talents in front of the elders of the family.
Because only in this way can he get more cultivation resources, thus making his path to immortal cultivation easier.
But he ranked more than 30 among his peers. Even after taking Marrow Cleansing Pill, he successfully broke through to the seventh level of Qi training and ranked more than 10.
Even if he shows his talent, there are still many better people ahead of him. Moreover, his spiritual roots are not good, so it is difficult to obtain more cultivation resources. Instead, he needs to take on some family tasks corresponding to his own strength.
Even his grandfather is a foundation-building elder, it is useless, because most of the people who can rank ahead of him have foundation-building elders as the backstage.
Showing talent also has some disadvantages.
He is Ling Yuansheng's beloved grandson, so he is naturally easy to attract the attention of outsiders.
Ling Youdao is not an extremely genius, so there is no need for the family to hide them. From the perspective of family interests, children with cultivation like them will be pushed to others and show the strength of the new generation of Cangli Ling family to the immortal world, which is dangerous for him.
To be honest, if other families want to find out through his idea of fighting Ling Yuansheng and find out that Ling Youdao is a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi training, then the cultivator sent to capture him may be the eighth level of Qi training, and even the ninth level of Qi training.
If the result is that he only has the sixth level of Qi training, and with the difference between the middle and late stages of Qi training, the people sent to catch him are probably the seventh and eighth level of Qi training. With his true strength, it is easy to escape and even fight back.
If he hadn't wanted to make Ling Yuansheng happy, he would have suppressed his cultivation to the fifth level of Qi training, so that he would be safer.
To sum up, it means that showing one's own strength will not get great benefits, but will put him in danger.
As for why he was unwilling to tell his family about his true cultivation, perhaps it was because his soul came from the earth and had been out of place with the world since he was a baby, and his heart was filled with strangeness and crisis.
He can be kind to the people around him, but he will not fully trust the people around him.
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Two days later, the owners of the seven houses of the Cangli Ling family gathered in the convention hall in the middle of Qingcang Mountain in Cangli Island.
The owner of the eldest house is Ling Yuanxiang, the owner of the second house is Ling Jieran, the owner of the third house is Ling Jiexin, the owner of the fourth house is Ling Yuanxing, the owner of the fifth house is Ling Yuanqi, the owner of the sixth house is Ling Yuancheng, and the owner of the seventh house is Ling Yuansheng.
Originally, the owner of the Changfang was Ling Jiesheng, and after he was transformed, Ling Yuanxiang took over.
The seven of them are not only the owners of the seventh house, but also the seven powerful elders of the Cangliling clan. They formed the Cangliling clan's presbyterian club and exercised the power of the Cangliling clan leader.
The other elders did not enter the Presbyterian Church, but could only be regarded as honorary elders and could not participate in the decisions on major matters of Cangliling.
Shortly after Ling Jiesheng sat in the process of transformation, Ling Jiexin, who was in charge of Huangcai Island, got the news.
Immediately, Ling Jiexin arranged for Ling Yuanqing and Ling Dingtian to take over the guard of Huangcai Island, and he himself immediately returned to Cangli Island.
The other six homeowners of Cangli Ling family acquiesced to his arrangements.
Because Ling Jiexin was also one of the members of the Presbyterian Church, at this critical period, the other six elders had no reason to prevent him from returning to Cangli Island.
In the past two days, several big dramas have been staged in Qingcang Mountain. The people from the Changfang and the three-bedroom houses on Cangli Island have all been dispatched to win over, persuade, and tempt the people from the other five-bedroom houses.
The two houses have only one purpose, that is, to pull the other five houses into their own camp and prepare for the subsequent elders' meeting.
"The sixth brother is gone. Today, the owners of our seventh house are gathered together to discuss what I should do next in Cangli Ling. Our Presbyterian Church must have a unified opinion.
If we cannot even reach a unified opinion and each person has his own opinions, how can we lead the more than 800 Qi-training monks of Cangliling and convince the younger generations?”
Upon hearing this, the foundation-building monks of the five generations of Yuan said in unison: "Uncle Eight said so much."
Ling Jieran nodded with satisfaction, "The more this happens, we must unite within us, otherwise we will give Fufeng Qian's chance to take advantage of it."
Ling Yuansheng said, "Uncle Eighth, Uncle Ninth, Uncle Six has gone, and it has caused me to lose a lot of combat power in Cangli Ling's family, but it still cannot shake the foundation of Cangli Ling's family.
As long as we organize properly, do our own responsibilities, and be consistent with the outside world, Fufeng Qian will not find a breakthrough, so we will naturally not come to trouble us."
Ling Jieran nodded and said, "The fate is born to the essence of Tao."
Immediately, he looked at everyone and said, "Then I will talk about the arrangements. If you have any different opinions, let's talk about them again. The goal is one, and our Presbyterian Church must have a unified consensus."
"slow!"
Ling Jiexin suddenly said.
Ling Jieran seemed to have already expected it and closed her eyes slightly.
"Brother Ninth, what do you have to say?"
"I have no objection to what Yuansheng said just now."
Ling Jieran asked knowingly: "Oh? Then what are you going to say?"
Ling Jiexin smiled and continued, "I, Cangli Ling, should have a patriarch."
Ling Jieran's eyelids twitched, and the other five elders were also shocked.
"Brother Ninth, do you know what you are talking about?"
"Of course I know what I'm talking about."
Upon hearing this, Ling Yuanxiang shook her sleeves without giving Ling Jiexin any face.
"Hmph, since the ancestor of Taiyi, my Cangliling clan has formed a presbyterian church to jointly decide to manage the family. Uncle Jiu wants to establish a clan leader, which has been a precedent in more than 500 years. Is it worthy of my Cangliling clan ancestors?"
Ling Jiexin smiled and said, "Second nephew, how do you know that ancestors of all generations don't want to establish a patriarch? Maybe they also want to establish a patriarch, and I, Ling Jiexin, want to realize their ideals."
"Uncle Jiu, don't talk to the ancestors of all generations. You proposed to establish a clan leader at this time, but you just want to be a clan leader."
Ling Jiexin's eyes looked like a torch and said proudly: "Yes, I, Ling Jiexin, just want to be the first patriarch."
Chapter completed!