Chapter 37: The Thirty-Seventh Mansion Meeting
Two months passed, and grandpa and aunt still hadn't returned, and there was no news. They had been gone for seven or eight months.

The whole family was worried, even though they didn’t say it!

On this day, Lin Changqing was taking care of the spiritual field at Ao Yun Peak when he suddenly received an early warning. Looking in the direction of the warning, he saw two people flying towards Ao Yun Peak. When they got closer, he saw that they were his tenth brother Lin Changhao and his twelfth sister Lin Changlian.

Seeing them land in the yard, Lin Changqing hurried to greet them and said quickly: "Tenth brother, twelfth sister, why are you here? Is there something wrong?"

"If nothing happened, then we couldn't come?" Lin Changlian said with a smile.

"Brother Jiu, we are here to invite you to attend the Seven Prefectures Meeting in three days." Lin Changhao said:

"What is the Seven Prefectures Small Meeting? I've never heard of it!" Lin Changqing was confused.

"I think you have become stupid from practicing, you don't even know about the Seven Prefectures Meeting!" Lin Changlian was speechless.

"I really don't know. How about I make a pot of tea and we sit down and talk slowly."

Lin Changlian said proudly: "That's more like it."

The three of them sat down in the small pavilion in the yard. Lin Changqing also liked to sit here when he rested. There were two ordinary peach trees beside them. The peach blossoms on the trees were lush and green. When the wind blew, it brought a faint fragrance, which was very artistic!

Lin Changqing did not take out the green jade tea produced in the space, but brewed a pot of ordinary spiritual tea and took two plates of spiritual fruits produced in Baicao Garden to entertain the two little friends.

The three of them drank tea, enjoyed fruit and chatted for a while before they remembered the important matter they had just discussed.

Lin Changlian then went on to explain: Qingyun Sect controls seven prefectures, including Pingyang Prefecture, Dongyang Prefecture, Danyang Prefecture, Qiyun Prefecture, and Jinzhou Prefecture. Every year, Qingyun Sect recruits disciples in the seven prefectures in turn.

Ordinary mortals who are eight years old or above can participate in the spiritual root testing conference organized by Qingyun Sect, and as long as they have spiritual roots, they can join Qingyun Sect.

Of course, Qingyun Sect also welcomes independent cultivators and family cultivators to join, but once they join Qingyun Sect, they will have no connection with their original family, so there have always been very few family cultivators joining.

Moreover, Qingyun Sect does not allow families to test the spiritual roots of children from other families. Even if they know that the child has spiritual roots, as long as he is not a member of the family, he must be handed over to Qingyun Sect.

The ordinary mortals of the seven prefectures are the main source of disciples for the Qingyun Sect, and are also the foundation of the Qingyun Sect. No family is allowed to interfere, this is the iron rule set by the Qingyun Sect.

It was a warning left by a certain foundation-building family with blood. Therefore, no one dared to violate it in the past few hundred years.

This year it is the turn of our Pingyang Prefecture. Not to mention the ordinary mortals, but also the independent cultivators of the seven prefectures, or other people who are interested in joining the Qingyun Sect, or the cultivators who come to watch the fun, will come to the Pingyang Prefecture market. Therefore, it is called the Seven Prefectures Small Gathering by all the families of the seven prefectures.

It will definitely be very lively then. We are here to invite you today to go with a few of us so that we can take care of each other on the way.

Lin Changqing thought about it for a moment, nodded and agreed: "Okay! Let's go together then!"

After agreeing on the time and place, they said goodbye and left. They also had to go and make an appointment with their fifth brother Lin Changjie and sixth brother Lin Changyuan!
Lin Changqing actually wanted to take some time to go to the market, and since he happened to meet the Seven Prefectures Gathering and everyone could go together, it would be even better.

The purpose of this time is to go to Wanbao Pavilion to see if we can find a suitable contract method. Otherwise, we dare not plant the bloodthirsty thorn vines!

By the way, I was also browsing the street stalls. It seemed that the owner of the gambling stone shop had invited me to visit his shop!

But before going, I have to tell my family so that they don't worry. And I can't let my sister Lin Changling know, otherwise she will definitely go with me. At most, I can bring her some gifts when I come back. After finishing the work of Aoyun Peak and Baicao Garden, Lin Changqing went home. In the evening, the family gathered together for dinner. Before Lin Changqing had time to say that he wanted to go to Pingyang Market, his mother mentioned the matter of the Seven Mansions Meeting, and his sister said on the spot that she wanted to go.

Of course her mother disagreed, and she was so angry that she cried on the spot. Lin Changqing had to come forward to comfort her, promised to bring her a gift, and also promised to take her to Ao Yun Peak to play.

Because my sister can't fly yet and has never been to Ao Yun Peak, she has always wanted to go there, and now she is satisfied after getting the promise.

In fact, my sister is very sensible and knows that she is now a key protected person. Going out will cause trouble to her family and the clan leader. Since she can receive gifts and go to Aoyun Peak to play, she is already very satisfied.

Of course, it would be even better if she could go and watch the fun! But she probably would have to build her foundation before she could be freer.

Lin Changqing then told everyone about the plan of going to Pingyangfang with a few people to attend the Seven Prefectures Gathering.

After thinking about it, my parents agreed and told me to be careful when I go out, as safety is the most important thing.

My father also gave the Tianleizi in his hand to Lin Changqing for self-defense. This Tianleizi was given to my father by my grandfather.

The mother gave him three first-grade top-grade earth escape talismans and three first-grade top-grade wood escape talismans, all of which can be used to escape when he cannot win.

The second uncle also took Lin Changqing to teach him his experience of traveling outside. Lin Changqing once again felt the deep love of his family and could only keep it firmly in his heart.

Two or three days passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Lin Changqing got up early on purpose, completed his daily training tasks first, then packed up and went to the agreed place to meet up with his companions.

Of course, all 124 amethyst scorpions are now in his spirit beast bag. Chuyi is cruising high above his head, providing Lin Changqing with high-altitude warnings, and will wait until Pingyang Market to put it into the spirit beast bag.

Everyone set out together. Because they didn't have the family's wind boat this time, they set out early on purpose. Lin Changlian borrowed his father's first-level spiritual boat, and everyone took turns to operate it. Although it was not as fast as the wind boat, it was not too slow.

After more than two hours of flying, they finally landed at the gate of the market town, which took about an hour longer than the wind boat. Fortunately, the journey was smooth and nothing happened. Lin Changqing also put Chuyi into the spirit beast bag.

He took out the identity token that he had purchased with two spirit stones. After checking it, he successfully entered the market. There were quite a lot of people there, even more than at the last auction.

Because although Qingyun Sect is recruiting disciples, not everyone is recruited, especially disciples like independent cultivators who have not been trained in the sect since childhood. There are qualification requirements for them. The minimum requirement is four spiritual roots, and one of the spiritual roots must be above 40 points.

Another method is to break through the platform set up by Qingyun Sect. As long as you defeat three Qingyun Sect disciples of the same level and have a clean identity, you can directly join Qingyun Sect.

Therefore, any independent cultivator with some strength in the seven prefectures would not miss the opportunity. Of course, where there are people, there are business opportunities. Many cultivators took the opportunity to set up stalls to sell things, and the scale of this auction was much larger than the last one.

After discussing with my friends the time and place to meet up later, we went our separate ways.

There are quite a lot of strange and weird things. Although no halo items have been found yet, the things on the stalls have also opened Lin Changqing's eyes.

And it wasn't without gain. After just a while of strolling around, I used 300 spirit stones to receive three second-grade top-quality chalcedony ganoderma seedlings. It was a good start, so I continued to stroll around.

There are all kinds of things along the way, including ancient treasure maps, fragments of magical instruments and spiritual tools found in ancient monks' caves, old angry-looking Vajra Buddha statues, bones and skins of various monsters, and some incomplete manuals on martial arts techniques.

(End of this chapter)