Family Cultivation: Evergreen of the Song Family

Bingzhou is located in the northern part of the Da Qi cultivation world, bordering Bozhou to the north, Qingzhou to the south, Hezhou to the west, and Mengzhou to the east.

This piece of land is surrounded by three forces: the Jinwu Sect, the Demon Subduing Palace, and the Baicao Hall. The only vacant side is Bozhou, but to the north of Bozhou is the Lu State cultivation world, and the pressure is no less than that of the other sides.

This is also the reason why none of the three forces wants to incorporate Bingzhou into their territory.

But there is a more important issue besides this.

Bingzhou is really too barren, even poorer than the original Lingzhou. There is only one third-level spiritual vein in the territory, and it is a water spiritual vein.

These spiritual veins are divided into five elements spiritual veins and attributeless spiritual veins.

Attributeless spiritual veins, such as the third-level spiritual vein in Cangmang Peak, are rich in spiritual energy and can be used by cultivators of any spiritual roots. They are the first choice for establishing a sect.

The five elements of spiritual veins further down are more extreme, but they also have their own advantages and special features.

The Wood Spirit Vein is rich in wood-attributed spiritual energy and vitality, and is most suitable for the growth of various spiritual plants. It can serve as the foundation for the development of a sect and will be directly occupied once discovered.

For example, the Song family has a second-level wood spirit vein and a first-level wood spirit vein. Relying on these two wood spirit veins, the Song family almost monopolized the entire Lingzhou's spiritual medicine market.

There are also earth spirit veins below, which are equally popular. They are often accompanied by spirit stone veins or other non-metallic veins and have great development value. Under the influence of the power of the laws, the veins will slowly recover. As long as the planning is proper, they can almost continue to be mined.

The gold spiritual vein is similar to the earth spiritual vein, and is also accompanied by a large number of metal ore veins, and its development value is equally huge.

The Fire Spirit Vein is only accompanied by a small amount of fire-attributed spiritual medicines and minerals, but the temperature inside it, which is comparable to that of spiritual fire, is suitable for refining large magical instruments such as fortresses and skyships.

It just so happens that this water spiritual vein, in addition to being accompanied by a very small number of water-attributed spiritual medicines, has the only function of generating a spiritual lake, which can be used to raise spiritual fish or something.

But looking at the world, the thing that is most in abundance is lakes. Even though the Song family does not have spiritual water veins, they still raise a large number of spiritual fish.

Of course, the Bingzhou route is of the third level and is much more valuable, so it is worth developing if you have the energy.

However, being worthy of development does not mean that Bingzhou can accommodate a Zifu force to survive and develop, because in addition to the lack of attributeless third-level spiritual veins, Bingzhou also lacks third-level mineral veins and spirit stone mineral veins.

They looked down on the Demon-Subduing Hall and the Baicao Hall, and naturally the Jinwu Sect looked down on it even more. In the past, they would send people to plunder it from time to time, but now they won't even take a look at it.

If not for this, Bingzhou would have been annexed long ago and would not have allowed a group of foundation-building cultivators to become "mountain kings" for so many years.

It's okay for some foundation-building cultivators to make some small trouble, but if the Purple Mansion forces go there, they will be courting their own destruction. This is the consensus of everyone in the Da Qi cultivation world.

Therefore, Bingzhou and its "good brother" Bozhou have always existed as buffer zones between the Da Qi cultivation world and the Lu cultivation world, and there has never been a Purple Mansion-level family or sect.

Now Song Qingxi actually said that a cultivator who had achieved the Great Perfection of Purple Mansion had founded a sect in Bingzhou. This really made Song Changsheng a little stunned. How could he be so disappointed?
"Do you know the name of this casual cultivator?"

The total number of Purple Mansion Great Perfection cultivators in the Da Qi cultivation world was just over two hands, and the number of independent cultivators could be counted on one hand. After thinking about it, Song Changsheng didn't think that there was anyone who would be so pessimistic.

"I don't know her exact name, I only know that she is a woman who calls herself Qingtian Shangren, and the sect she founded is called Qingtian Sect."

"Qingtian Sect?" Song Changsheng couldn't help but be stunned. Although practicing cultivation means going against the will of heaven, calling himself Qingtian is still a bit too arrogant. He is no less arrogant than his ancestor Song Taiyi, whom he has never met.

It is impossible for him not to have heard of such an arrogant name. The only explanation is that this so-called Qingtian Shangren is not from the Da Qi cultivation world or even from the surrounding cultivation worlds.

Perhaps guessing Song Changsheng's thoughts, Song Qingxi nodded and said: "According to the investigation, she is not from the surrounding cultivation world, but from the Great Chu cultivation world in the north of the Lu cultivation world. As for why she came to our Great Qi to establish a sect, it is not clear.

Fifth Grandfather guessed that she might be coming for the third-level water spirit vein in Bingzhou."

"This is the only possibility at the moment." Song Changsheng nodded slightly.

No matter how unpopular the Water Spirit Vein is, it is still a third-level spirit vein. As long as you are willing to invest and set up a giant [Spirit Gathering Array], the spiritual energy accumulated for a period of time can barely meet the consumption of the Purple Mansion cultivator to break through the Golden Core Stage. Of course, this process will be more difficult, but it is also a hope.

This method is used by the vast majority of people in this world. After all, fourth-tier spirit veins are not easy to come by. All the fourth-tier spirit veins in the Da Qi cultivation world combined are just over a handful in number, and they are all controlled by the Jindan forces.

It is difficult for ordinary Purple Mansion cultivators to even occupy a third-level spiritual vein, let alone a fourth-level one.

Since this Master Qingtian is already a Purple Mansion Great Perfection cultivator, he must want to go one step further. Looking at the entire Da Qi cultivation world, the only thing that is relatively easy to fight for is the third-tier water spirit vein in Bingzhou.

However, it seemed that he had put in a lot of effort. As far as he knew, there were at least three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators practicing together on that third-tier water spirit vein.

If it weren't for the powerful cultivation of Fairy Qingtian, it would have been impossible to snatch it away.

The other party's establishment of a sect in Bingzhou had no impact on the Song family, as the two parties were not in the same circle of interests.

"By the way, has the founding ceremony of the Qingtian Sect been held?" Song Changsheng suddenly said with interest.

"It happened. It happened last month. It was just a little hasty."

"Careless? Tell me in detail." Song Changsheng became interested.

“When the founding ceremony was held, there were only a few disciples accompanying the Qingtian Sect, and there was not even a decent venue. However, it didn’t matter because there were not many people attending.

Only people from Baicao Hall, Fumo Hall, and Jinwu Sect went there. Fifth Grandpa also asked Changxiu to go there and prepared a gift. "

"Have the family members gone too? It won't hurt to be kind to others and get to know them." Song Changsheng nodded slightly, expressing his approval of Song Luzhou's way of handling the matter.

He has always adhered to the principle that more friends mean more paths. Although he doesn't know how long this so-called Qingtian Sect can exist, this will not prevent the Song family from building good relations with them. Even if they cannot be friends, they cannot be enemies either.

After all, the Song family already had enough potential enemies. Song Qingxi hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Qingshi took advantage of the opening of the Qingtian Sect to recruit disciples and planted a lot of spies there. Will this..."

Song Changsheng smiled and waved his hand, saying: "It's right to be kind to others, but we must be on guard against others. The intelligence network is the guarantee of the family's safety, and we must be well prepared.

Qingshi has done a great job on this point. This is exactly the responsibility of the Wind Whispering Palace. You also need to keep this in mind. There are no eternal allies in this world, only eternal interests. You must always be vigilant. "

"I understand, uncle."

"By the way, does the Jinwu Sect have any response to the Qingtian Sect? Bingzhou was the Jinwu Sect's private territory, and suddenly someone took over their territory. It's impossible for them to not have any response, right?" Song Changsheng asked curiously.

Song Qingxi chuckled and said, "Of course there was, and it was very rude, but Qing Tianshangren was very cunning, and he was able to greet me with a smile under such circumstances.

After the founding ceremony, the Jinwu Sect's envoy and Qingtian Shangren had a private conversation for a while. No one knew what they talked about, but judging from the Jindan Sect's envoy's expression afterwards, the two must have had a very pleasant conversation. "

Song Changsheng said calmly: "Haha, the usual tricks of the Jinwu Sect are nothing more than coercion and inducement. That Qingtian Shangren has just arrived and has no foundation at all. He has no other choice but to rely on the Jinwu Sect.

After all, strictly speaking, Bingzhou is the territory of the Jindan Sect, and her actions can be regarded as a declaration of war. The Jinwu Sect also sent people to participate in the founding ceremony instead of directly attacking them, which was already a great honor for her. "

"By the way, not long ago, Tianxiao Sect sent an elder to Cangmang Peak, apparently wanting to renegotiate the spiritual wine trade agreement with the family."

"Has the final payment been settled?" Song Changsheng asked back.

Before Zhang Sheng died, he took away hundreds of jars of [Hanchi Niang] from the Song family, and only paid a small portion of the deposit at that time.

After Zhang Sheng's death, the Song family was also one of the suspects of Tianxiaomen. It was too easy for them to ask for the balance payment, and the other party had been pretending to be dead. But now that they are willing to renegotiate the agreement, the balance payment should be settled anyway.

If it were the Tianxiao Sect in its former heyday, Song Changsheng might have considered giving up this part of the benefits to the other party.

But now the Tianxiao Sect is just like the Tianjian Sect, both of them are behaving in a humble manner. He will not give up this part of the benefits no matter what. He would rather cut off the trade with the Tianxiao Sect than be the scapegoat.

"It's settled. Aunt Yu Shi has re-signed the agreement with them, and also raised the unit price a bit."

"well done."

"By the way, has the tavern in Sifang City opened?" Song Changsheng suddenly remembered that he already had a shop in Sifang City. He wondered if Song's [Hanchi Brew] could gain a foothold there.

"We officially started business three years ago. The profits were average in the first few months, but later we got help from Fairy Peng from the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce and the profits increased several times. Last year alone, the net profit reached 150,000 low-grade spirit stones."

"One hundred and fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones?" Song Changsheng's eyes widened. Although he set the price of a jar of [Hanchi Brew] at four hundred low-grade spirit stones, this was pure profit, minus the commission of the City Lord's Mansion and the costs of raw materials, labor, etc.

This is just the revenue of a tavern in Sifang City. If all the taverns in other parts of the family are added together, the annual revenue is estimated to be close to 300,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Once upon a time, the Song family’s total annual revenue was only 300,000 low-grade spirit stones, but now the spirit wine alone has reached that level.

Previously at the Jiazi clan meeting, Xia Yunxue had said that she wanted to develop the spirit wine industry into the fifth economic pillar of the family. It has only been more than ten years, and spirit wine has not only become the economic pillar of the family, but also the undisputed number one, far surpassing the newly emerging [Spiritual Charcoal] industry.

Facing Song Changsheng's surprise, Song Qingxi shook his head and said, "There are only 150,000 because the production of spirit wine is restricted. The production has been limited every month in the second half of the year."

"how come?"

Song Qingxi smiled and said, "Have you forgotten that the most expensive thing about a shop in Sifang City is the rent? Since the family uses your shop, they don't charge rent. This saves over 100,000 spirit stones in rent, so the profit is naturally high."

"Fellow Daoist Peng really gave me a great gift." Song Changsheng sighed quietly. He only knew that the value of the shop was very high, but he didn't expect it to be so high. He could save more than 100,000 spirit stones in a year's rent.

"Fairy Peng even personally promoted the tavern, otherwise the tavern's profits wouldn't be so good. Uncle, the relationship between you and Fairy Peng..." Song Qingxi seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Just say whatever you want to say, there are no outsiders here." Although he said this, Song Changsheng had already vaguely guessed what Song Qingxi wanted to say.

"The relationship between you and Fairy Peng won't develop to that point, right?"

Song Qingxi was brought up by Song Changsheng. She felt no restraint in front of him and would speak out whatever she thought.

"This is probably not what you want to ask, right?" Song Changsheng asked with a smile.

Song Qingxi shook her head and said, "No, I believe your feelings for Fairy Zhuang will not be easily shaken, but rumors have gradually spread within the family. If this continues, it will not be good for the reputation of you and Fairy Peng."

"Friend Peng and I are just friends. The rumors stop here. If there are any more random speculations or rumors, they will be dealt with according to the clan rules. Let Qingshi handle this matter."

Once a rumor is generated, it must be curbed with thundering measures, otherwise it will spread like a plague, and once it spreads completely, it will be difficult to stop it.

"I understand." Song Qingxi breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it was not as advertised outside, it would be fine.

Song Changsheng was silent for a while and then said, "Any news about Qingyun recently?"

Song Qingxi shook his head slightly and said, "Since the last communication three years ago, there has been no news from Brother Yun, but you don't have to worry too much. His soul lamp is still burning brightly. Perhaps his connection has been cut off for some reason. When he is free, he will naturally send a message to the family."

The world of cultivation is vast, and it is normal for cultivators who are training outside to lose contact for three to five years. Song Changsheng is not too worried as long as their lives are not in danger.

It's not that he is careless, but worrying is useless. The Gusu cultivation world is too vast. If Song Qingyun really encounters an extremely urgent situation, Song Changsheng will not be able to get there in time.

Instead of wasting time fantasizing, it is better to relax and think positively. As long as you are still alive...

(End of this chapter)