Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1157: Chapter 777: Qi Refining Level 8

The carriage traveled on the spacious embankment for a quarter of an hour, arriving in front of a courtyard.

"Vice Hall Master, that’s your home over there!" Yang Chengyi pointed to a courtyard standing on the hillside.

This area belongs to the courtyards of the major families, and all thirty-one families of the Clan Council have a courtyard here.

Of course, not all clan members live here; only the clan leaders and a few juniors reside here, while the majority of the family members live in Longevity City and the villages to the south.

In the Spirit Source Land, the children of each family have no privileges. Perhaps they can temporarily live here due to family connections, but once they start their own families, they must take up positions, move out, and establish new homes, leading their own small lives.

The Clan Council is composed of many families, but in reality, these families have lost the characteristics of clans, and the scale expected of a family is not maintained, nor does it occur that dozens or hundreds of people from one family live together.

According to Yang Zhenshan’s idea, the concept of family is maintained at the higher levels, that is, the Clan Council, but at the lower levels, the form of family must not appear.

As soon as a man gets married, he immediately separates from his original family and establishes his own household.

In short, it’s a forced division of the family.

This includes the Yang family, and the descendants are the same.

Multiple families’ children mix and live together to prevent everyone from forming alliances based on family and vying for power and profits.

Those who are not from the major families also have equal status and position here.

There are no servants in the Spirit Source Land, though many higher-ups are attended by people; however, these attendants are not servants, they are called attendants.

Attendants are a position, not an identity, and are uniformly arranged by the government department of the Law Enforcement Hall, receiving government stipends.

Jiang He represents the Jiang family and is a member of the Clan Council, considered a council elder.

Therefore, he is eligible to live here.

The carriage stopped, and Jiang He got out of the carriage, while Yang Yunyan stood at the door, smiling and looking at him.

"Husband is finally back!"

"Wife!" Jiang He grinned, his face showing a simple and lovable expression, completely lacking the imposing aura he had on Divine Wood Island.

During the past ten years, Jiang He had been away while Yang Yunyan resided here. Her character is gentle, without many complex thoughts, and she doesn’t participate in Clan Council affairs; she only stays here to look after the children and grandchildren.

Now Yang Yunyan is also nearly eighty years old, yet she looks about forty.

Neither she nor Jiang He are Martial Arts prodigies, starting their cultivation late, and reaching the Innate Realm is mainly due to resource accumulation.

Actually, Yang Yunyan broke through to the Innate Realm at over sixty years old; she looked somewhat aged before, but after breaking through and under the nourishment of various spiritual objects, she underwent a rejuvenation, her hair turned black, wrinkles smoothed, transforming into a look of around forty years old.

The couple had not seen each other for ten years, yet there was no sense of unfamiliarity, and they naturally started chatting about family matters as they entered the courtyard together.

Jiang He was originally a simple and honest person; even though he has changed a lot now, his nature remains that of the young boy from a hunter background.

Yang Yunyan is inherently gentle, being the most mild-tempered among her siblings in the Yang family.

"Where are the children?" Jiang He asked.

Yang Yunyan said, "Ning’er works by my elder brother’s side, currently in Moon Bay, and Feng’er went north. Father has raised a group of Green Wolves in the north, and Feng’er has been taking care of them!"

"Miao’er and Chenhui are in the southern Wanfu Town. Wanfu Town is to be upgraded to a city, and many people have gone there! Chenhui is responsible for city construction over there!"

"As for the other children, most of them have their own duties. You returned in a rush, and I haven’t had time to notify them yet!"

They have two sons and a daughter, along with three grandsons and three granddaughters; all have established families and have their own responsibilities now.

Although the Spirit Source Land is not large, it takes a day or two to call everyone back.

"Do you live here alone?" Jiang He frowned slightly.

"How could that be? Now that you’ve returned, I sent everyone away!" Yang Yunyan smiled.

After all, Yang Yunyan is the eldest young lady of the Yang family, and it’s natural to have attendants. Though she doesn’t need much servitude herself, the proper accommodations are still there, arranged according to the council member’s treatment.

However, she only has four attendants, two guards, and additionally, two elderly women responsible for cooking and cleaning the courtyard, while the guards also double as gatekeepers and coachmen.

In this Spirit Source Land, there’s really no need for guards.

The Spirit Source Land has idlers who indulge in pleasure, but it doesn’t have robbers who resort to looting.

As for the idlers and playboys, throw them into training at Protection Hall for a few years, and they’ll surely change their bad habits.

The couple chatted about recent events, and Yang Yunyan carefully explained the situation in the Spirit Source Land to Jiang He. The next day, she took Jiang He to the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau to pay respects to Yu Qingyi, and then they had a reunion feast with their children and grandchildren.

After that, nephews and nieces came running to visit.

Jiang He and Yang Yunyan may not have high cultivation levels, but their seniority is indeed high.

The lively hustle and bustle continued for several days before Jiang He finally had some peace, and then he went to work at the Clan Council and Foreign Affairs Hall.

It’s not just him; Yang Mingzhi’s situation is much the same.