Lingxiao Immortal Clan

Three months later.

In a quiet room in a courtyard halfway up Lingxiao Mountain.

Ling Pengyun felt that he had no help from the Gathering Spirit Pills in the past three days, and could only take the spiritual fruits for cultivation. He muttered to himself with a little helplessness on his face.

"First-level middle and upper-grade spiritual fruits are only first-level spiritual objects after all, and their spiritual energy is far less than that of the second-level lower-grade Gathering Spirit Pills. The spiritual energy gained from taking spiritual fruits for three days is not as good as that gained from one day with the help of the Gathering Spirit Pills. It's really a bit slow."

"The Gathering Spirit Array in my hand is only a first-level lower-grade one. The spiritual energy condensed by opening this array is not as much as that obtained by taking spiritual fruits."

"I still have to invest on my own to buy a batch of Gathering Spirit Pills in the future."

Ling Pengyun, who has been in seclusion for six months since entering the foundation-building stage, had used up the six Gathering Spirit Pills given by Ling Yunhong three days ago.

Without the second-level Gathering Spirit Pills, he could only take the first-level middle and upper-grade spiritual fruits left over from the Qi training stage to cultivate.

As for setting up the first-grade inferior spirit gathering array that he bought from his sister Ling Penglin in the early years, it was the most inferior choice, and he would not use it easily.

Directly absorbing spiritual energy for cultivation was not in Ling Pengyun's cultivation plan, after all, this method was too slow.

Considering that there was no spirit gathering pill in his body now, the speed of cultivation by taking spirit fruit was a little slower, so he planned to put down his cultivation temporarily, and instead patted the storage bag on his waist and took out a palm-sized earth-yellow small shield from it.

As soon as he took out this shield, he mobilized his spiritual consciousness and poured it into the magic shield, and arranged the spiritual consciousness imprint in it.

This yellow small shield is called the mixed rock shield, and its grade is as high as the second-grade inferior.

It was bought by Ling Yunhong from the Xiyang small meeting six months ago, at the beginning of this year, and given to Ling Pengyun.

Because he had the spirit gathering pill in his body some time ago, and his cultivation was not stable, he had to postpone the matter of offering this magic shield for the time being.

Now, he no longer had the Gathering Spirit Pill, so he naturally put the matter of refining the shield on the agenda.

This mixed rock shield was a brand-new magic weapon, and no one had placed a spiritual imprint in it.

In less than three days, Ling Pengyun successfully refined the shield.

Once the refining was successful, Ling Pengyun injected a spiritual power into the magic shield and started playing with it.

As the spiritual power was injected, the palm-sized mixed rock shield flashed with yellow light and suddenly grew larger.

In just a moment, the shield grew to two feet long and wide.

Then, the shield also supported a yellowish-brown light curtain to protect Ling Pengyun.

In order to test the defensive power of the magic shield light curtain, Ling Pengyun waved his hand and took out the twelve first-grade high-quality Qingling swords used in the Qi training period from the storage bag, and formed the twelve flying swords into the Earth Demon Sword Formation.

Once the sword formation was formed, he controlled it and bombarded the magic shield defense light curtain.

"Boom!"

The twelve flying swords that formed a sword formation slammed into the light curtain, making a roar. However, the Earthly Evil Sword Formation only shook the shield light curtain slightly, causing a small wave on the light curtain.

Seeing this scene, Ling Pengyun couldn't help but sigh.

"Such a defensive power is worthy of being a defensive light curtain that can only be supported by magic weapons of the second level or above."

"If I were still in the Qi training stage, I'm afraid it would be difficult to smash this light curtain in a short time even if I used all my strength."

"It seems that my first-level Qingling sword is indeed difficult to keep up with my cultivation."

"If there is a chance in the future, I have to find a second-level attack magic weapon."

It is difficult for a first-level defensive magic weapon to support a light curtain. Only a second-level magic weapon can support a defensive light curtain.

There are many reasons for this, the main reason is that only the second-level spiritual iron has the ability to transform into a light curtain through the spiritual power injected by the cultivator.

When Ling Pengyun just built his foundation, he told Ling Pengyun about the financial difficulties of the family.

Because the Ling family has purchased shops in the newly established five county towns in Jiaozhou in recent years, and bought a foundation-building pill for Ling Pengxing, the spiritual stones accumulated by the family for more than 200 years have been consumed.

It is good to be able to equip Ling Pengyun, the family's new foundation-building cultivator, with a second-level defense magic weapon that is much more expensive than the attack magic weapon.

"Now that the mixed rock shield has been refined, it's time to look for the spirit-gathering pill."

Ling Pengyun stood up and walked out of the quiet room, heading towards the general affairs hall, the only place in the family that sells spiritual objects.

His courtyard and the general affairs hall are both on a large flat land halfway up Lingyun Mountain, and the distance is also very close.

After a while, Ling Pengyun entered the general affairs hall.

There was no one else in the General Affairs Hall, only Ling Ruxian, who was in charge of the General Affairs Hall, kept fiddling with a sandalwood abacus, flipping through the account book, and checking to avoid mistakes.

"Pengyun, have you consolidated your cultivation?" Ling Ruxian, who was checking the account book, saw Ling Pengyun coming, raised a smile on his face, and asked.

"The Third Ancestor gave me six Soul Gathering Pills six months ago. With the help of those six Soul Gathering Pills, I consolidated my realm three months ago, and even practiced for three months, which improved my cultivation a lot." Ling Pengyun said truthfully, and then told the purpose of his visit.

"As for my coming this time, I plan to buy Soul Gathering Pills."

Ling Ruxian heard the words, and the smile on his face increased, and he said with a smile.

"It's good that your cultivation has been consolidated. There are many families that make Gathering Spirit Pills. Your third grandfather's success rate in refining Gathering Spirit Pills is more than 30%. As long as you have contribution points or spirit stones, you can buy them in the family."

"If you buy Gathering Spirit Pills with contribution points, it will be cheaper, 140 contribution points per pill. If you buy it with spirit stones, it will cost 200 spirit stones per pill according to the market price."

"How many Soul Gathering Pills do you need?"

The General Affairs Hall sells spiritual objects. If the clan members have contributed points to buy them, they are always sold at 70% of the market price.

This method is also to increase the enthusiasm of the clan members to work for the family.

Contribution points are different from salaries. They are issued every month. Contribution points can only be obtained by working for the family.

When Ling Pengyun heard Ling Ruxian ask how many Soul Gathering Pills he needed to buy, his expression moved slightly. He mobilized his consciousness to inject it into the storage bag to check the number of soul stones in the storage bag.

When he found that there were 1,853 soul stones, he said.

"Nine Soul Gathering Pills."

After saying that, he summoned 1,800 soul stones from the storage bag to the ground.

The 1,853 soul stones in his storage bag were the rewards that the family had paid back to Ling Pengyun for refining the Thousand Green Spirit Swords in the past three years.

He had 3,000 spiritual stones in three years, but more than five months ago, Ling Yunhong, who participated in the Xiyang Small Meeting held every three years in Xiyang County near Jiaomang Lake, helped him buy three bottles of fifty-year-old Changqing Spirit Water, giving the family 300 spiritual stones for each bottle, so he had 900 spiritual stones left.

In addition, during the three years of his retreat, he spent some spiritual stones on Feng Yingpeng, the two Songhua Spirit Chickens, and the three earthworms, leaving only 1,853 spiritual stones.

As for buying Changqing Spirit Water, it was given to Feng Yingpeng to help it enter the late stage of Qi training as soon as possible.

Only when Feng Yingpeng enters the late stage of Qi training and can travel more than 8,000 miles a day, it will be useful to Ling Pengyun in the foundation building period.

Ling Ruxian saw that Ling Pengyun spent 1,800 spiritual stones at once, and his expression was slightly surprised.

But thinking that Ling Pengyun had refined a large number of Qingling swords for the family and received a lot of rewards, he was relieved.

"I don't have any Soul Gathering Pills on me. I need to go to the clan storehouse on the top of the mountain to get some. Wait for me for a moment." Ling Ruxian put away the 1,800 spirit stones, said something, and left the General Affairs Hall.

After waiting for a moment, Ling Ruxian returned to the General Affairs Hall again.

As soon as he entered the General Affairs Hall, he took out seven medicine bottles from his storage bag and handed them to Ling Pengyun.

Ling Pengyun was a little surprised when he saw this. Generally, pills are packed in two per bottle.

Logically, the five medicine bottles should be enough to hold the nine Soul Gathering Pills he bought.

He mobilized his spiritual sense and scanned the seven medicine bottles in his hand, but found that there were as many as fourteen Soul Gathering Pills in them.

"Eleventh great-grandfather, why are there five more Soul Gathering Pills?" Ling Pengyun asked in surprise.

"You don't need to think too much. The extra five Soul Gathering Pills were purchased by me with my contribution points."

"Although these Soul Gathering Pills are not many, I hope you don't think it's too little. Although I have children, there is only one Yunfu Zuye. You know the situation of your Yunfu Zuye. Although he has many wives and concubines, he has many children, but they are all mortals, and none of them has spiritual roots."

"I don't have much life left. Your Yunfu Zuye is now over 80 years old, and he has only 20 to 30 years of life left at most."

"It is still unknown whether he can give birth to a child with spiritual roots with his wives and concubines in his last life."

"Even if he really gives birth to a child with spiritual roots, your Yunfu Zuye, who has not much life left, may not be able to take care of him too much."

At this point, Ling Ruxian paused for a moment and pleaded rarely.

"Under these circumstances, if there are really talented children in my lineage in the future, please give me more support."

Ling Ruxian has a son named Ling Yunfu, who is also a family elder like Ling Ruxian.

Ling Yunfu serves as the fourth elder of the family. He is deeply influenced by his father's talent in business and has a very high talent for doing business.

Therefore, Ling Yunfu is often sent out by the family to manage the family's store business in major market towns.

Now, Ling Yunfu personally manages a treasure pavilion opened by the family in Xiyang Market, which was established in recent years.

When Ling Pengyun heard Ling Ruxian's words, he also understood the true intention of the five spirit gathering pills.

He had no intention of this.

It is human nature to pave the way for future generations.

Besides, Ling Ruxian has been very kind to him. If there is a person with spiritual roots in Ling Ruxian's lineage, it would not be a big deal to help the future generations.

"Eleventh Great-grandfather, you are too kind. Even without these five Spirit Gathering Pills, I will take good care of the people in your lineage who have spiritual roots. All my spiritual plant skills come from you."

"Even the thorn vine, my life spirit plant, was carefully selected by you. You bought the second-level thorn vine spirit seeds from other places at a high price. If it weren't for the thorn vine spirit seeds you gave me, I would never have reached my current level of cultivation so quickly."

"I have always remembered this kindness in my heart. If there are people with spiritual roots in your lineage, regardless of their talents, I will do my best to support them." Ling Pengyun said with a serious look.

Hearing this, Ling Ruxian was very satisfied and smiled with satisfaction on his face. He sighed in his heart that he did not make a mistake in the first place and did not let down his early training on Ling Pengyun.

"Very good, very good." Ling Ruxian said with a smile.

"Eleventh Great-grandfather, as for the five Spirit Gathering Pills you gave me, I will not be polite." Ling Pengyun said.

"Of course, you can take it." With Ling Pengyun's assurance, Ling Ruxian said generously.

The two chatted for a while, and finally, Ling Ruxian told Ling Pengyun that the family would hold a year-end summary meeting six months later and asked Ling Pengyun to come.

After agreeing to this, Ling Pengyun left the General Affairs Hall and returned to his courtyard's quiet room.

In the quiet room.

Ling Pengyun sat cross-legged on the futon and took out the fourteen Soul Gathering Pills obtained from the trip to the General Affairs Hall from his storage bag. He looked slightly happy and muttered to himself.

"The family now has four foundation-building cultivators. To supply four foundation-building cultivators, we need to take out some Soul Gathering Pills to be placed in the alchemy shops opened by the family in various markets. However, there are still such a large number of Soul Gathering Pills. I guess the success rate of the Third Ancestor in refining this Soul Gathering Pill is not low."

"This is a great thing for the cultivators of our family. In the future, if I need Soul Gathering Pills, I can go to the General Affairs Hall of the family. I don't need to look for Soul Gathering Pills like ordinary foundation-building cultivators."

"At the beginning, the share of the Xuanshui mine in the family was from one hundred to one hundred. It is wise to exchange the second-level alchemy inheritance with Lingmen. "

"But when I think about it, the third ancestor is really talented. He has only been in the field of alchemy for more than ten years, but he has achieved such success in alchemy. I think he will not stop here. In the future, as long as there are enough spiritual stones, I don’t have to worry about not being able to buy them. "

Any spiritual object that enters the second level is extremely rare. For example, the second-level low-grade Gathering Spirit Pill is rarely available in the shops of major markets. Only the Gathering Spirit Pill that appears in the auctions of various markets will be more.

Thinking of this, Ling Pengyun thought of Ling Yunhong’s cultivation.

"The Third Ancestor should be only about 120 years old, and he has not suffered any serious injuries. He still has at least 120 to 130 years of life left."

"Eight or nine years ago, the Third Ancestor had already entered the fourth level of foundation building, and now he may have entered the fifth level of foundation building."

"According to the Third Ancestor's cultivation speed, if nothing unexpected happens, there should be no problem in breaking through to the perfection of foundation building in the remaining 120 to 30 years of life."

"Maybe the Third Ancestor still has a chance to break through to the golden elixir."

Thinking of this, Ling Pengyun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he secretly looked forward to the future achievements of Ling Yunhong, the patriarch who changed the development of the Ling family.

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