"What's the difference between a small family and a big one?" Mo Qingchu asked with a slight frown.

  Yunzhi nodded heavily and said, "Yes, as a cultivator like you, our clan holds a competition every year. Now that it's July, the annual small competition will be held by the end of the year."

  Meng Qingchen said with a dark expression, "I've just arrived and don't know much about the situation in the clan. It seems I need to ask around more." He then asked, "Yunzhi sister, can you tell me about the specific circumstances of this little competition?"

  Seeing Mo Qingchen's expectant face, Yunzhi's face slightly reddened as she said: "Miss, that small ceremony is only allowed to be watched by the clan's cultivators and personal attendants of mortals. As I just became your attendant, I had not seen it before, but I know it happens once a year."

  Mo Qingchen's eyes fluttered in disappointment, but then he thought that Yunzhi was just a little maid, and it was already good that she knew so much. If she hadn't mentioned it today, he wouldn't have known about Xiao Bi's matter, and when the time came, he would have been caught off guard and might have even been beaten up by them. No wonder Xiaoshi looked at him with such a meaningful gaze today!

  "Thank you, Yunzhi sister." Mo Qingchen said.

  Yun Zhi hastily said: "I don't dare accept Miss's thanks, Miss, come this way."

  Mo Qingchen, who had no sense of direction at all, followed Yun Zhi and walked across a cloud bridge. When they turned into the fake mountain, they happened to bump into someone face-to-face.

  "Fourteenth Uncle." Mo Qingchen called out to Mo Fourteenth, who was dusty from the wind, and felt an inexplicable sense of closeness despite not having seen him for a day.

  Mo Xiuliang saw Mo Qingchen and smiled slightly on his originally serious face: "Young girl, go to Chaoyang Hall for cultivation today, how does it feel?"

  Mo Qingchen stared at Mo Fourteen's face, and for some reason, he felt a hint of playfulness flashing in his eyes. Having already somewhat recognized Mo Fourteen's sinister nature, Mo Qingchen suppressed the urge to roll his eyes and said, "It's very lively."

  "Oh, what a lively method, let's talk about it with Uncle Fourteen." Mo Fourteen said with a light smile.

  "They seem to dislike your joining." Mo Qingchen said frankly. Mo Fourteen was the one she was most familiar with at present, and if she wanted to understand the situation, it was better to be honest.

  "Hehehe." Mo Xiāng smiled quietly.

  Mo Qingchen looked at Mo Fourteen with a puzzled expression as he couldn't stop laughing quietly.

  Mo Xi patted Mo Qingchen's head and said, "It's normal that they don't welcome you. When I was training at Chaoyang Hall, every time a new person joined, they would make things difficult for him."

  "Why is this?" Mo Qingchen asked, muttering to himself that this was still traditional after all.

  "Because there are many wolves and little meat!" Mo Fourteenth said.

  Mo Qingchen rolled his eyes and remained silent.

  Mo Xiāng looked at the little person who was still not as tall as his waist, and finally softened in his heart, sighing: "Lü Tóu, you've also suffered before, I suppose you're more mature than other kids. Let's talk about family matters with Fourteenth Uncle."

  Mo Qingchen nodded hastily and Yun Zhi quietly retreated two steps, following him at a steady pace.

  "Our Mo family, a thousand years ago was also known as the Upper Repair True World Family. The most famous one is an ancestor of ours, who was born with the Clear Heart Crystal Fire. She was a renowned alchemy genius and our Mo family's foundation was quite rich because of her. However, after that ancestor, we never had another cultivator with the Clear Heart Crystal Fire again. After losing our main cultivation method due to an accident, we slowly declined. Now, we are just a small and unremarkable cultivation family." Mo Fourteenth said slowly.

  Mo Qingchen couldn't understand what "clear heart and crystal fire" meant, but he silently lamented the scene before him - the bustling servants coming and going in groups, who would have thought that the Mo family had already become a declining small family? It seems that what ordinary people strive for is just something that these immortal families can easily obtain.

  Mo Xiuzhi saw Mo Qingchen's seriousness and continued, "Nowadays, Luoyang City, including the Mo family, is controlled by four immortal families. The output of Luoyang City is not much, there is only a small spiritual mine that is allocated among these four families according to their share. This amount of output is far from enough for the cultivation needs of our many immortals. Therefore, for us immortals who are in the middle of refining Qi and later stages, we still have to participate in various tasks just to barely meet our own cultivation needs."

  "Fourteenth Uncle, so you just returned from completing a task today?" Mo Qingchen asked.

  It seems like a good harvest. Mo Xiǎng heard the words and smiled slightly, saying: "Not bad, I just came back and didn't expect to run into you, Ya Tou. Ya Tou, are you curious why all of you are cultivating together in Chaoyang Hall?"

  "En." Mo Qingchen nodded.

  "The spiritual vein where the Mo family is located is a scattered and miniature spiritual vein. Except for the residence of the clan leader and Sixth Uncle, the place with the thickest spiritual energy is the Chaoyang Hall. Unfortunately, it's too small, only enough to build a small Chaoyang Hall, so it's used for children under 15 in the clan to cultivate. Although cultivating together can't compare to solo cultivation in terms of purity, it's not without its benefits." Mo Fourteen changed the subject and said, "Girl, now that I've mentioned this, do you understand why they reject newcomers?"

  Mo Qingchen thought for a moment and said softly: "Resources?"

  Mo Fourteenth nodded and said, "What you said is not wrong, it's because of resources. The resources for cultivation in our Mo family are extremely limited, so every additional person means one more person to compete with, to fight over. Moreover, your grandfather is the only alchemist within the clan..."

  It dawned on Mo Qingchen that the resources used for cultivation, such as crystal nuclei, elixirs, and artifacts, were extremely scarce in the Mo family. It was likely that the Chongyang Hall had always encouraged competitive education, so the arrival of a new person would naturally trigger a sense of rejection from all the old people.

  But he himself was not only a killer who emerged halfway, but his grandfather was also an alchemist. Naturally, someone would think that Grandfather would secretly give more elixirs to himself, and the ones given to others would be fewer...

  In that case, the top priority is to figure out what's going on with Xiao Bi in the clan.

  "Fourteenth Uncle, I heard that every year there is a small competition within the clan?" Mo Qingchen asked.

  Mo Xiuyuan was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing: "Little girl, you know quite a lot, don't you?"

  Mo Qingchen scolded, "What are you talking about, Fourteenth Uncle? Mo Qingchen doesn't know anything about the small competition in the clan. Didn't you say yesterday that the first two layers of Qi Refining are no different from ordinary people? If so, then what's the point of competing for us, the people of Chaoyang Hall?"

  Mo Fourteenth patted Mo Qing's head and said, "You little girl, you're really clever. Although the first two layers of Qi Refining are no different from ordinary people, but after all, the flexibility and strength of the body must be stronger. As long as one enters the Qi Refining stage, age is not a problem anymore. Who has more power depends on how much spiritual energy they have in their body. The small competition within the clan is an opportunity to allocate resources. There are two things you will be competing in at the Yangyang Hall: one is divine sense and the other is actual combat. Do you understand, little girl?"

  Mo Qingchen was just about to nod when he heard a voice say: "Hey, Fourteenth Brother, who are you talking to?"