Song Qingming returned to Lingyuan Mountain with a nervous mood. Seeing that he looked worried, Song Changxin thought that he had encountered something on the way back and asked him a few questions out of concern.
Only then did Song Qingming realize that he was indeed too worried. Even if the Liu family suspected him, the worst that could happen was that he would return the things to them. Now he had a stable source of spirit stones. As long as he was willing to spend time making talismans, he would definitely not lack resources for cultivation in the future.
Thinking of this, Song Qingming finally calmed down and started to laugh with Song Changxin. Since his accident two years ago, Uncle Jiu had cared about him a lot more. Every time he was going on a long trip, Song Changxin would give him some instructions, and Song Qingming was very touched by this.
Next, in order to adjust himself, Song Qingming began to make talismans day and night. He was so busy that he finally stopped thinking about the Liu family's affairs.
What he didn't expect was that a few days after returning to Lingyuan Mountain, his thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong, who came to Lingyuan Mountain to transport supplies as usual, brought him shocking news.
Two days ago, for unknown reasons, the Liu family of Jingyuan Mountain was expelled from the Xiaoyao Sect overnight. Except for a few Liu family cultivators who were outside, more than 30 Liu family cultivators were all sent to serve in the mines by the Xiaoyao Sect. The clan leader Liu Tianlong committed suicide on the spot. Since then, there has been no more Jingyuan Mountain Liu family in Qinghe County.
After hearing the news that Liu Tianlong had died, Song Qingming was stunned for a long time. He really didn't expect that he had just let go of the matter, but he didn't expect that the Liu family, which had made him worried a few days ago, disappeared overnight.
After hearing the news, Song Qingming, who should have been very happy, had no smile on his face. Instead, he looked heavy. The sect was high and mighty, and it was not easy for a small family like the Song family to survive. If they were not careful, they might end up like the Liu family in a day or two.
Song Qingming thought that the Liu family was wiped out by the Xiaoyao Sect, which was most likely related to the water spirit fruit in Liu Tianlong's storage bag. Now that this spirit fruit was in his possession, it might also bring such a catastrophe to the Song family.
After getting Liu Tianlong's storage bag, he thought about this question more than once. The water spirit fruit looked like a spiritual object that had just been picked not long ago. Could it be that the trip to the Floating Cloud Mountains organized by the Liu family was really for the water spirit fruit? Now the sudden destruction of the Liu family is very likely related to this thing.
Of the 50,000 mortals under the jurisdiction of Jingyuan Mountain, except for a small number who had to move to Qinghefang, the rest were all divided up by nearby families. Most of them were taken in by the Huang family, and even the Song family was allocated more than 2,000 people. The fourth elder who was in charge of the family's affairs racked his brains to arrange for these 2,000 people, and had no choice but to send his family's cultivators to send 200 of them to Lingyuan Mountain for resettlement.
When Song Changxiong came this time, he also informed Song Changxin and Song Qingming in advance that they should quickly arrange for people to build new residences for mortals in the next few days so that they would be ready to receive the two hundred mortals from the Liu family at any time.
Song Changxin seemed to have become accustomed to the ups and downs of families in the world of immortal cultivation. After hearing the news, he just nodded and was a little troubled about how to arrange these mortals.
Lingyuan Mountain is located in a remote area, and there are not many cultivated fields. The original food supply had to be supplemented by Funiu Mountain every year. Now that there are two hundred more people, the existing food is definitely not enough.
After Song Changxin and Song Qingming discussed it, they decided to open up some new fields in Lingyuan Mountain. Otherwise, relying entirely on Funiu Mountain for food supply in the future would definitely not be a long-term solution. Now that there are two thousand more people in Mujiao Town, the situation in Funiu Mountain must be very tight.
If we can solve this problem ourselves in Lingyuan Mountain, it will save us a lot of trouble in the future, and we won’t have to wait for food to be delivered from Funiu Mountain every time.
After several days of investigation, the two decided to arrange the new mortal residential area on the west side of Crescent Lake. This was originally where Song Qingming lived, and there were four or five small buildings next to it, which had never been inhabited.
Song Qingming arranged for the mortals in the mine to build a small house further west of the black iron mine, so that they could live directly next to the mine, which would also make it convenient for him to inspect the mine frequently in the future.
Under the leadership of more than a dozen martial artists, the villagers of Lingyuan Mountain began to cut down trees on the mountain and build new houses. Song Changxin also specially arranged for the miners to stop working for a few days to help build the houses.
Soon, under the leadership of Song Qingming, the villagers of Lingyuan Mountain spent half a month and finally built more than 20 new houses. Together with the few vacant houses, it could barely accommodate 200 people.
After the new houses were built, in order to facilitate management, Song Changxin divided the original mortal miners of Lingyuan Mountain and moved them to the newly built houses on the west side of Yueya Lake. After the mortals of the Liu family arrived, they were dispersed and arranged to blend in with the indigenous people of Lingyuan Mountain.
This is also a common method used by major immortal cultivation families when accepting mortals from other families. On the one hand, it allows them to integrate into the new environment more quickly, and on the other hand, it prevents them from gathering together and causing trouble.
Just a few days after Song Qingming and his men built the houses, Song Changxiong and his fourth brother Song Qingrui escorted more than 200 mortals to Lingyuan Mountain. Under the arrangement of the original village chief of Lingyuan Mountain, these mortals were soon allocated their own houses. After some statistics, there are now more than 500 mortals in Lingyuan Mountain.
There is no shortage of miners on the black iron ore vein now. After some thought, Song Qingming decided to temporarily divide these 500 mortals into two parts. The mortals living on the east side of Crescent Lake will continue to mine in the mine, while the mortals living on the west side will be arranged to cultivate some fields next to the village.
Because Lingyuan Mountain is located deep in the mountains, there are not many fertile fields that can be reclaimed. Song Qingming could only take these people with him and use magic tools to cut through the mountains and rocks, divert water and build canals, and reclaim dozens of acres of land to grow crops.
He even made a special trip to Mujiao Town, got a batch of fish fry and put them into Crescent Lake, and arranged for several families to take care of the breeding. It took nearly two months to solve this difficult food problem.
Fortunately, he had the incomplete map that could quickly restore his magic power. During this period, except for the time spent making talismans, his cultivation was not delayed. However, his ninth uncle Song Changxin did not know this, and was afraid that he was too busy during this period and delayed his cultivation, so he specially sent him some spiritual rice so that he could make up for some of his progress in cultivation.
Song Qingming couldn't refuse this, for fear of making Song Changxin worry about him.
Three months passed in a busy manner, and these mortals of the Liu family finally settled down peacefully. Fortunately, these people were relatively easy to manage. Because their master family had suffered a disaster, compared with those who had to migrate to Qinghefang hundreds of miles away, they were very lucky to come to the Song family.
Mortals are not immune to all diseases like cultivators. When a large number of mortals migrate long distances, some people with weaker constitutions may easily collapse on the road. Moreover, the high-ranking cultivators of the Xiaoyao Sect do not care too much about the life and death of these mortals. As long as there is no large-scale death, they will not take any action to provide treatment.
In order to take care of them, the Fourth Elder dispersed many of the Liu family's mortals who were assigned to Lingyuan Mountain this time. Many of them did not have the Liu family surname. After they were dispersed, they were quickly integrated into the mortals of the Song family.
In order to facilitate management, Lingyuan Mountain, which was originally a village, was divided into two by Song Qingming. The east side of Crescent Lake was still called Lingyuan Village, and the west half was given a new name, called "Yuehu Village". Song Qingyu's father was arranged to be the village chief of Yuehu Village.
After Yuehu Village was established, Song Qingming selected some talented mortals from the newly arrived Liu family mortals to enrich the protective formation warriors and mine guards of Lingyuan Mountain.
Song Qingming asked these people to increase their training intensity every day, and planned to take them to the mountains to hunt some wild animals after a while, which would also help replenish the food rations in the mountains.