Chapter 1 Lin Changqing

Tang Dynasty, Southeast Road, Pingyang Prefecture, Yunxing County.

Yunxing County is one of the thirty-six counties of Pingyang Prefecture. It has a vast area, sparse population, and many mountains and hills.

Among the mountains and rivers, Jiufeng Mountain is the largest. The nine peaks are shrouded in clouds and mist all year round and are shrouded by a clan protection formation. Outsiders only know its height but cannot see its peaks, so it is named Jiufeng Mountain.

At this time, in a small building on the main peak of the mountain, a young boy in a green robe was staring at his mother, Xu Wenying, who was holding a large bowl of eight-treasure chicken soup in his hand.

He was about seven or eight years old, with a pair of big eyes sparkling with anticipation. When he was in the yard just now, he had already smelled the fragrance of chicken soup and his saliva was almost flowing.

Even with his experience of being a human in two lifetimes, it was difficult for him to resist the temptation of this fragrance because it was so fragrant.

The boy's name is Lin Qing. Lin Qing is a reincarnated person. He was an orphan in his previous life. Through his own efforts, he became a surgeon.

However, due to frequent overtime work, he was overworked and died suddenly on the operating table. He was only 36 years old.

His current reincarnated identity is the seventh generation of the Lin family of Jiufeng Mountain, the son of Lin Maosheng.

Lin Qing was quite satisfied with this rebirth. At least he was born in a family of immortal cultivators and had the opportunity to practice immortal cultivation.

When Lin Qing was just reincarnated, he was still not used to it. After all, for a young man with a mental age of 36, it was too difficult for him to adapt to the sudden transition from an adult to a baby.

So when Lin Qing first started to grow up as an infant, he didn’t like to eat!
Lin Qing struggled, resisted, and shouted for help (crying loudly), but in the end she was caught by her mother and taken back to the cafeteria to eat. Later she found that resistance was futile, so she just accepted her fate!

Fortunately, the love of parents is all-embracing! Slowly, Lin Qing accepted this change and accepted her parents and family in this life from the bottom of her heart.

"Little greedy boy, the dishes are ready. Go to Baicao Garden and call your grandfather and your father to come back for dinner." said the mother with a smile.

Lin Qing agreed, trotted out the door, and ran to the entrance of Baicao Garden with ease.

Baicao Garden is a second-grade superior spiritual plant garden unique to Grandpa Lin Qing’s lineage. It is the result of the efforts of several generations. It contains some precious spiritual medicines, spiritual herbs and some spiritual fruit trees.

He skillfully picked up a small stone from the roadside and threw it onto the formation barrier at the door.

Not long after, a hole appeared in the formation restriction.

Then, grandpa and father came out.

"Grandpa! Father!" Lin Qing shouted.

Grandpa Lin Fandao touched Lin Qing's head and chuckled, "I knew it must be you, little Qing, who came to call Grandpa for dinner, right?"

Lin Qing responded.

Lin Qing is the eldest grandson in the family and has spiritual roots, so he is very much loved by his grandfather.

The father also touched Lin Qing's hair and said, "In a few months, it will be the day for the family to test their spiritual roots.

When you know what spiritual roots you have, you can start practicing, and you won’t have to throw stones at restrictions anymore!"

Everyone in the family knew that Lin Qing had spiritual roots. Without spiritual roots, one would not be able to eat too many things with spiritual energy.

If mortals eat some elixirs or fruits that have a little spiritual energy, they can prolong their life.

But if people without spiritual roots eat high-grade Eight Treasures Chicken Soup, they will most likely die from bloating.

Although this is only a low-grade spiritual food of the first level, the fact that he can eat a low-grade spiritual food also proves from the side that Lin Qing has spiritual roots, but we don't know the quality of the spiritual roots yet.

Lin Qing wolfed down his meal, said goodbye to his family, and went out to play with his friends.

Because he was reincarnated and was born with wisdom, Lin Changqing knew that he must not act too special and must make himself look like an ordinary child.

So the best way is to get along with them, play with them, and play the same way ordinary children play.

Otherwise, if you behave too strangely, such as being aloof and unsociable, or doing something unreasonable, people will suspect you. But this is the world of immortal cultivation, so they naturally have the means to find out what's going on.

So Lin Qing simply treated himself as an ordinary child and played as he pleased. Later, he got used to it and found that it was quite fun to relive his childhood again.

And they also made a group of friends. In simple terms, they are in the same gang.

After all, cultivating immortals is not a one-man show. One also needs some partners and friends who can help and support each other.

There is nothing stronger than the relationship between those who have grown up together, except of course family and partners.

Every household in the mountain would plant some spiritual fruit trees, some at the door, some in the yard. When a group of friends were not playing, they would like to remember which family's spiritual peach tree was ripe, which family's spiritual dates were ready to eat, and which family's spiritual bird had laid eggs and had babies.

So the ones who often caused chaos on Zushan Mountain were the famous naughty monkeys in Jiufeng Mountain.

But everyone still likes this group of troublemakers. After all, they are all their own children and relatives, so they will not do anything to them.

Moreover, the atmosphere within the Lin family is quite harmonious, without any major disputes or intrigues.

After all, history has proven that families that frequently engage in internal strife often waste a lot of energy and basically disappear in the long history of the Tang Dynasty.

So every time the spiritual fruits were ripe, the host would take some out to treat them, so the Jiufeng Mountain was full of traces of their happy childhood play.

However, as the ninth day of the first lunar month, the day for the Lin family's unified spiritual root testing, approached, the atmosphere on the mountain became increasingly tense.

When the time comes, those children who are found to have spiritual roots will be given a generation name and arranged to attend the family's school of immortal cultivation, where they will all learn basic immortal cultivation knowledge.

For example, Lin Qing, whose father’s generation name is Mao, then the next generation name is Chang, so his name should be changed to Lin Changqing.

If my sister Lin Ling has spiritual roots, then her name should be changed to Lin Changling.

Disciples without spiritual roots had to leave the ancestral mountain and live in the county town or village at the foot of the mountain. After all, there was a difference between immortals and mortals, so it would be difficult for them to return to the ancestral mountain in the future.

Spiritual roots! There is only one in ten thousand mortals. Only when both parents are immortal cultivators will the offspring have a relatively high chance of having spiritual roots.

However, karma has its own way of life, and it is extremely difficult for immortal cultivators to produce offspring. The higher the level of cultivation, the smaller the chance.

This is also the reason why the Jiufeng Mountain Lin Clan has nearly one million ordinary people, but only more than two hundred cultivators.

Spiritual roots are divided into gold, wood, water, fire, earth, etc. These are the most common ones, and there are also ice, wind, thunder, light, darkness, etc....

But these are still very rare after all. In such a huge Pingyang Prefecture, it is rare to hear of anyone possessing these rare spiritual roots.

Of course, even if there is, it is probably hidden very tightly and will not be easily known to outsiders.

After all, there are all kinds of strange methods in the world of cultivating immortals, such as possession of bodies, puppetry, mind control, and so on, which are endless.

Those big sects have them, like the Lin family’s sect and Qingyun Sect must have them, but these cultivators are the sect’s treasures, and generally they are not easily known to outsiders.

Ordinary spiritual roots can also be divided into good and bad.

Spiritual roots with five attributes have a very slow cultivation speed, and are called pseudo spiritual roots.

Basically, it is impossible to break through the late stage of Qi training, and many people are stuck in the middle stage of Qi training for their entire lives.

Those who possess spiritual roots with four attributes are called mixed spiritual roots, which are slightly better than five spiritual roots.

But they basically stop at the late stage of Qi training, and few break through to the foundation-building stage.

In fact, pseudo-spiritual roots and mixed spiritual roots can also be successfully cultivated, but the prerequisite is that you have a lot of resources and are willing to invest them.

You can also achieve success in cultivation this way, but the resources required are several times that of others, and it is only okay in the previous Qi Refining period.

Like the later stages of foundation building, purple mansion, golden elixir, Nascent Soul, and spirit transformation, they also require several times more resources than others to complete the advancement.

That would not be cost-effective. It would be better to use these resources to cultivate people with true spiritual roots or above.

This is the most reasonable and correct method, so basically all families and sects do this.

Those who possess spiritual roots with three attributes are called true spiritual roots, and their cultivation speed is faster.

You can cultivate to perfection in Qi training before the age of sixty, and with the help of foundation-building pills, there is a 40% to 50% chance of building a foundation.

Those who have two kinds of spiritual roots are called earth spiritual roots. They cultivate very quickly and have a 20% chance of building a foundation on their own. With the help of foundation-building pills, the chance is as high as 60% to 70%.

A single spiritual root with only one attribute is called a heavenly spiritual root. Its cultivation speed is several times faster than that of ordinary spiritual roots. There are basically no bottlenecks in the foundation building and purple mansion. It can be called a child of destiny.

Although Lin Qing knew that he had spiritual roots, there were good and bad spiritual roots. He didn't dare to think about heavenly spiritual roots or earthly spiritual roots.

Just pray to God Jesus, Buddha, the Three Pure Ones, and Aunt Mazu, and give yourself the three spiritual roots.

(End of this chapter)