"I killed an idiot who had just reached Foundation Establishment and didn't even know the Sword Kinesis Technique. He wasn't smart enough and chased me for more than a thousand miles, but I killed him instead," Wang Daoyuan replied.
"Daoyuan, you're amazing! It's unheard of for a seventh level Qi Refinement cultivator to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Quickly take out a few jars of wine and celebrate. "
"Your goal was the bar?" Wang Daoyuan said disdainfully.
Wang Jize smiled and asked, "Shouye is so good at hiding. Daoyuan, how did you find him?"
Wang Daoyuan had expected this question and immediately answered, "I killed that Foundation Establishment cultivator and obtained a secret method to find people. However, this secret method is related to the Thousand Spirit Sect. If it's leaked, the Wang family will be destroyed. Therefore, I can't hand it over to the family for the time being. Please forgive me.
In addition, there's also a Foundation Establishment cultivation technique and a spell. They're not directly inherited from the Thousand Spirit Sect, but I can hand them over to the family. "
After saying that, Wang Daoyuan took out the Earth Origin Technique and Earth Shaking Technique jade slips and handed them to Wang Jize.
Wang Jize took the jade slips and scanned them with his divine sense. He knew that these cultivation techniques were quite good. Apart from the water attribute cultivation techniques, the Wang family didn't have much else. The Earth Origin Technique was even better than the earth attribute cultivation techniques collected by the family.
Therefore, he handed the two jade slips to the first elder and instructed, "These cultivation techniques are indeed good. They can be cultivated to the peak of Foundation Establishment. They're much stronger than the cultivation techniques of the same attribute collected by the family. Zhiren, give Daoyuan two thousand contribution points. "
Wang Zhiren took the jade slips and placed them in the Technique Pavilion.
"Grandfather." Wang Daoyuan cupped his hands and said, "There's no limit to the number of times I can use this secret method. It won't harm me and can continue to find others.
As long as there's an item with its scent, I can find the person. "
Wang Jize was overjoyed and immediately ordered, "Quickly order someone to bring the personal belongings of Zhian, Zhiming, and the others."
Not long after, Wang Daoyuan received the personal belongings of his eight grand-uncles. After bidding farewell to everyone, he left Jadespring Peak and headed northwest.
Wang Daoyuan was a Foundation Building cultivator. Once he was hunted down, he would've run far away in such a long time. With Wang Daoyuan's speed, it would've taken him years to find him. Therefore, Wang Daoyuan first looked for the other granduncles, and then the patriarch.
As for the other seven people, they would first look for the Twelfth Uncle according to their importance to the family.
After releasing the Soul Chasing Bees and searching for half a day, they finally found the body of the Twelfth Uncle under a cliff. He had been dead for two or three days.
Looking at the wounds all over his body, he should have been besieged by a group of Qi Refinement cultivators. Unable to defeat them, he jumped off the cliff and eventually died from blood loss.
The Twelfth Uncle was obsessed with alchemy and was not good at fighting. Apart from the few poisons he had refined himself, he had no other means to fight the enemy.
More than half of the pills sold by the clan came from him. A few years ago, the family was suppressed by many parties and could not make ends meet. It was all thanks to the efforts of the Twelfth Uncle and the Ninth Uncle who desperately refined pills and talismans to earn spirit stones. They barely managed to maintain the family's morale …
His lifelong wish was to become a Rank Three Pill Refinement Master and leave behind an alchemy legacy for the family. Unfortunately, due to the burden of the family's financial situation, he never had the time to improve his alchemy skills.
Since four years ago, the family's situation had improved and there was a lot of surplus every year. The family had the financial resources to support his improvement. Unfortunately, he only lived a good life for four years before he met with this unexpected disaster.
In the wilderness, there was no condition to bury him. He could only take out a few talismans to cover his face and temporarily store him in the space of the spiritual pearl. He would be buried properly when he returned to the Jade Spring Peak.
Wang Daoyuan did not have time to be sad. He could only suppress his emotions and continue to search for the whereabouts of the other six granduncles.
The death of the Twelfth Uncle gave Wang Daoyuan a bad feeling. A pill refinement master who was not good at fights of magical powers was besieged by several Qi Refinement cultivators. The other six granduncles were older and weaker. Their chances of survival were very slim.
Wang Daoyuan spent ten days to find all six granduncles. Unfortunately, none of them survived.
He also tried to use the Soul Chasing Peak to search for traces of the clan leader. However, the clan leader was a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Even if he escaped, he would use Sword Kinesis Flight. The scent he left behind would also be in the air. A gust of wind would leave nothing behind.
Taking the bodies of the seven granduncles, he bought seven coffins in a town of mortals within the family's territory and temporarily placed the bodies.
This town was called Linhe Town. It was located on the banks of the Clear Li River and was only a few dozen kilometers away from the Jade Spring Peak. The mortals in the town were mostly members of the Wang Family, the descendants of Wang Chengzu. Seeing that the cultivators in the family had passed away, many people helped to clean up the bodies and set up a mourning hall to pay respects to the seven granduncles.
The town was overseen by the family's cultivators. These people were usually the same as the six granduncles. They didn't have good cultivation talent and didn't have any special skills. They were placed in the family's mortal settlements to protect the family and fend off monster beasts.
Wang Daoyuan asked the overseeing cultivators to look after the bodies of the seven granduncles while he rushed back to the Jade Spring Peak to report the news.
According to the family's rules, if a clansman died in battle outside, as long as the body could be recovered, the clan leader and the elders would personally take them home and bury them in the ancestral grave behind the Jade Spring Peak.
Wang Daoyuan wore a white cloth on his head to mourn for the seven granduncles. As soon as he arrived at the Jade Spring Peak, a clansman came forward to ask which granduncle had passed away. Wang Daoyuan didn't reply and went straight to the Executive Hall.
Wang Jize and Wang Zhiren were both there. Seeing Wang Daoyuan wearing mourning clothes, Wang Jize asked, "Who is it?"
Wang Daoyuan couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into tears. "The clan leader couldn't be found. The bodies of the other seven granduncles are all in Linhe Market."
Wang Zhiren also started crying. Wang Jize raised his head and closed his eyes without saying anything, but two lines of tears still flowed down uncontrollably. Wang Jize had watched the seven granduncles grow up. Wang Jize was already more than 150 years old and had never married or had children. In his eyes, the 'Zhi' generation were all his children. Now that seven of them had passed away, it was like a white-haired man sending off his black-haired children …
Wang Jize wiped away his tears and ordered, "Inform all the clansmen to go down the mountain and take them home together."
The descendants of the seven granduncles wore mourning clothes and walked at the front. Although Seventh Uncle Wang Shouhong wasn't a descendant of the Twelfth Uncle, he learned the art of pill-concocting from the Twelfth Uncle. "A teacher for a day, a father for life." He also wore mourning clothes like the sons of the Twelfth Uncle. He held a mourning staff in his hand and carried a soul-summoning banner.
Wang Jize led the elders and followed behind the filial sons. Wang Daoyuan and the other juniors carried all kinds of items and followed at the back.
Generally, when a clan member passed away, unless it was the clan leader or elders, the clan wouldn't hold a memorial ceremony. The Wang Clan inherited the rules left behind by Wang Chengzu. Like the mortals of the secular world, the entire clan held a memorial ceremony for the deceased.
It was also because of this that the Wang Clan was extremely cohesive. For hundreds of years, there were very few clan members who betrayed the clan.
When the cultivators of the Wang Clan arrived at Linhe Market, there were already many mortals who came to pay their respects.
Regardless of whether they were mortals or cultivators, the filial sons returned the greetings one by one. A day later, the number of people who came to pay their respects gradually decreased.
Wang Jize touched the seven coffins one by one and shouted in a low voice, "Children, let's go home …"
The filial sons led the way in front. Wang Daoyuan and the cultivators of the 'Dao' and 'Shou' generations carried the coffins back to Yuquan Peak.
After returning to Yuquan Peak, they placed the seven coffins in the ancestral hall for seven days. The entire Yuquan Peak was in mourning for three months in all the buildings and caves.
After seven days, the bodies of the deceased would be cremated by the clan leader or elders and buried in the ancestral grave at the back of the mountain.
The reason why they had to be cremated was to prevent heretic cultivators from stealing the corpses of cultivators and using them as materials for refining corpses. In order to strengthen the evil aura of refining corpses, heretic cultivators would make them kill their blood relatives. Not only could the deceased not rest in peace, but they would also bring disaster to their clansmen.
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