Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

Furthermore, after many years, both Ling Wantong and others have achieved remarkable progress in their cultivation and accomplishments.

Furthermore, Ling Wantong possessed exceptional management skills, substantial financial support from his family, and the backing of a seasoned late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator like Yan Siyi.

He has opened more than a dozen shops in Hunyuan Immortal City, and his business covers all aspects.

This includes not only shops selling special spiritual fruits or plants, but also shops that specialize in refining magical artifacts.

There are even restaurants that sell spiritual food, and inns that rent rooms containing a lot of spiritual energy.

Moreover, Ling Wantong managed it exceptionally well.

For example, acquiring some basic spiritual items and then refining them into spiritual items for sale.

Secondly, it can indirectly sell some spiritual items that the family doesn't need but has surplus and that are difficult to convert into cash under normal circumstances.

For example, fifth-grade lower and middle-grade spiritual treasures.

While such things are not numerous in small places like the Heavenly River Realm, they are not scarce either, especially considering that the number of Nascent Soul cultivators there is not particularly large.

In addition, due to the various conflicts over there, all the major forces have acquired a lot of such treasures.

Moreover, these kinds of items are not easily damaged and can be used for a long time.

Therefore, such items are less common in the market there.

It often takes a long time to sell even one item.

But the situation is different in Hunyuan Immortal City. Although there are many shops selling fifth-tier spiritual treasures here, the market is also large, and as long as the quality is good, they will sell very well.

The same applies to other spiritual beings.

Indirectly, those dozen or so shops all got on track and brought in considerable profits every year.

According to the family's statistics, those shops have already earned back the family's investment in purchasing them.

Moreover, the benefits it brings, even after accounting for various expenses, are more than enough to supply the resources needed for the cultivation of a dozen or so early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.

It was precisely for this reason that the family attached great importance to Ling Wantong.

His family even gave him several fifth-tier breakthrough spiritual items because they knew he had been stuck at a bottleneck for many years.

In addition, he has acquired some spiritual items that allow him to break through realms in recent years, and Yan Siyi has also given him a few.

He thus successfully entered the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, not only greatly increasing his cultivation level but also significantly extending his lifespan.

At the same time, this incident also motivated him to work even harder in family affairs.

In fact, recently he has been planning to win over some old shops in Hunyuan Immortal City to establish a chamber of commerce, expand the scale of his family's shops in Hunyuan Immortal City, and even extend his business to other Void Refinement forces.

Expanding the business to other areas and increasing the size of the stores may seem easy, but in reality, they are very easy to be suppressed.

Moreover, whether it's Hunyuan Immortal City or other places, there are often many powerful individuals.

Furthermore, it is not advisable for the family to reveal too much combat power in the Qingxia Realm in a short period of time, otherwise it may easily bring trouble.

Therefore, seeking cooperation with some established shops to jointly establish a chamber of commerce and support each other is a good approach, offering a chance to carve out a way out in the treacherous business world.

In addition, Ling Pengyun's eldest son, Ling Chengxia, had no management skills and did not possess any special talents.

However, in recent years, he has been leading his younger brother Ling Chengmie, as well as the two heroes of the family, Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming, to various places in the Qingxia Realm to kill high-level demonic beasts.

Furthermore, he cleverly sent most of the various high-level spiritual materials he had acquired back to his family, allowing the family's high-level artisans to refine them into even more valuable spiritual items, which were then sold or used by himself.

Indirectly, the value of the ordinary spiritual materials he and Ling Chengmie obtained undoubtedly increased many times over.

At the same time, the family can also make a small profit from this.

Moreover, he was very strong, having reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm a hundred years ago, and Ling Chengmie and the others were also quite strong.

When he led Ling Chengmie and others on their adventures, he often managed to earn a considerable amount of profit.

With the help of accumulated resources, it has even reached the middle level of its class, and its future is promising.

As for Ling Pengyun, Ling Chengmie, he still focuses most of his energy and resources on cultivating spirit beasts, so his cultivation level is still hovering at the peak of the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

However, his two natal Rock Tortoises and his natal Crimson Flame Dragon, along with their three spirit beasts, had also reached the peak of the mid-grade fifth rank.

Moreover, in recent years, while traveling around with his elder brother Ling Chengxia, he also acquired a special spirit beast, the Purple Mist Fox, which is skilled in spiritual attacks and illusions.

Furthermore, he gradually cultivated it to the fifth-order low-grade level.

In addition, the spiritual beast's divine sense attack was rather strange, and its strength was quite good, which helped Ling Chengmie a lot.

Ling Chengmie's current strength is exceptionally formidable; even Ling Chengmie, who is in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, is no match for him.

He has successfully navigated the path of beast taming and has achieved considerable success.

The two young talents of the family, Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming, as well as several other Nascent Soul members of the family with good aptitude and character, are all quite young.

However, most of them have good aptitude, and some even entered the Nascent Soul stage in just a few hundred years under the guidance of their families in their early years.

Moreover, they were trained by their families and were all brave and daring.

In addition, they all possess some special skills to varying degrees.

For example, Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming, two of the Ling family's two heroes, are respectively skilled in archery, physical cultivation, and medicine.

Therefore, in recent years, while traveling around with the Ling brothers, Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengmie, they have earned a considerable amount of profit.

In addition, their family has provided them with a lot of resources in recent years.

Their cultivation progressed much faster than before, and most of the young Nascent Soul cultivators, including Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming, even reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

Even the worst among them reached the peak of the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Moreover, after years of hard work, they have not only become more ruthless, but their combat experience has also become exceptionally rich, making them capable of standing on the stage.

This was also the main reason why the family arranged for them to come to the Qingxia Realm to follow the two brothers, Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengmie.

After all, the family has no shortage of people with high cultivation levels, but it lacks people with both high cultivation levels and strong combat abilities.

Moreover, because Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengmie often took care of them in dangerous situations, they never suffered any major injuries or fatalities, at most only serious wounds.

Therefore, the number of them when they came is the same number today.

Even upon closer examination, their adventure team, consisting of Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengmie, already possessed considerable overall strength, with ten Nascent Soul cultivators among them.

Moreover, they were all extraordinary, the elite of the family's younger and middle-aged generations.

In addition, most of them have good aptitude, so they still have a lot of potential.

This is a good thing for the family.

Once they fully develop their talents, the family's overall strength will undoubtedly increase, which will greatly benefit the family's covert expansion in the Qingxia Realm.

"It's been many years since I last saw you. You brats have all made good progress in your cultivation."

"In addition, I heard from Siyi that you have all performed well since you came here, which deserves a reward."

Ling Pengyun looked at the cultivation levels of Ling Wantong and the others and couldn't help but show a hint of satisfaction.

He then took out some ordinary fifth-grade lower and middle-grade spiritual treasures and even ordinary fifth-grade breakthrough spiritual items that he had crafted in recent years and handed them to them as rewards.

Moreover, the spiritual items that Ling Pengyun gave them were all extremely suitable for their situation.

Those with relatively strong cultivation, such as Ling Pengyun's eldest son Ling Chengxia, mostly obtained a powerful spiritual treasure. On the other hand, clansmen like Ling Pengyun's younger son Ling Chengmie, who were stuck at a bottleneck, obtained a breakthrough spiritual item.

In addition, Ling Wantong, who was in charge of the family's business in Hunyuan Immortal City, had made the most contributions among everyone and received the most rewards.

Ling Pengyun even considered that in order to plan for the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, he purchased high-level breakthrough spiritual items, which would have used up most of his savings.

Moreover, he has never been able to acquire a suitable magical treasure.

Ling Pengyun then directly gave him two mid-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures, one offensive and one defensive, which were extremely compatible with the attributes of his cultivation technique.

Although these spiritual treasures are not natal spiritual treasures created based on his cultivation technique, they are still rare items nonetheless.

Moreover, they are quite valuable, with each item worth at least several thousand fifth-tier spirit crystals.

Even if Ling Wantong can make a lot of money by running his shops, it would still take him at least several hundred years to have a chance to get his hands on one.

Therefore, this matter was like a blessing from heaven for him, which could reduce the effort of purchasing spiritual treasures with spirit stones accumulated over nearly a thousand years.

Moreover, with the help of those two spiritual treasures, his strength also increased significantly, even rising from the weakest mid-stage Nascent Soul level to the ordinary level.

He was especially pleased.

"Thank you very much, Ancestor Pengyun."

"Furthermore, I will definitely work harder to manage the family business in the future, and even make it reach the top level in Hunyuan Immortal City, or even expand it to the surrounding areas of other Void Refinement forces."

Ling Wantong was filled with excitement and quickly revealed his goal.

"I'm waiting for that day."

"However, remember, business is necessary, but at the same time, do not neglect your cultivation. After all, the higher your cultivation, the longer your lifespan. The family cannot bear to see a talent like you die of old age."

Upon hearing this, Ling Pengyun couldn't help but have higher expectations for him and gave him a word of advice.

"Junior understands."

Ling Wantong nodded solemnly.

The other clansmen also expressed their gratitude, and they couldn't help but feel more respect for Ling Pengyun.

After all, the family had already rewarded them with some good things for their achievements in the early years.

Under such circumstances, it is truly rare that Ling Pengyun is still willing to offer a benefit.

'This patriarch is truly generous; no wonder he enjoys high prestige within the family and is considered a pillar of the clan.'

'Moreover, it is truly a good thing for us younger generations in the clan to have such elders taking care of us...'

Ling Feixiang and other young Nascent Soul cultivators from the family who were not very familiar with Ling Pengyun secretly felt fortunate.

Subsequently, Ling Pengyun spent several more years meticulously guiding their cultivation, resolving many of their cultivation difficulties, and accelerating their cultivation speed. Only then did he manage to persuade Ling Feixiang and most of the others to leave.

Ling Feixiang and the others immediately returned to the cave they had built in Black Stone Valley years ago to cultivate in seclusion.

In addition, Ling Wantong, Ling Chengxia, and the two brothers Ling Chengmie were specially left behind.

“I am aware of your intention to expand the family business and to bring together other old shops to establish a chamber of commerce, Wan Tong. And such ideas are indeed good. If successful, the family business here can earn more profits.”

“I wholeheartedly agree with this.”

"In addition, I will stay in Blackstone Valley for at least another ten years. For this reason, you can go all out for a while. If you attract powerful enemies, don't worry. As long as they are not Void Refinement cultivators, I will definitely help you clear the obstacles in secret."

"However, remember not to go too far. You need to carefully manage the degree of this."

Ling Pengyun faced Ling Wantong.

"This junior understands..."

Upon hearing that Ling Pengyun would be staying in Black Stone Valley for a period of time, Ling Wantong was overjoyed and quickly nodded in agreement.

Although he was unaware of Ling Pengyun's current strength.

But his father was, after all, the clan's elder, Ling Chengyuan.

Ling Chengyuan and Ling Pengyun also had a good relationship.

He indirectly learned from his father about many of the earth-shattering things Ling Pengyun had done in the past.

According to his father, Ling Pengyun's strength was already comparable to that of Yaoxing Daojun of Yaoxing Immortal Sect, the strongest being in the Tianhe Realm, hundreds of years ago.

In addition, Ling Pengyun's progress in strength has been particularly good.

His father guessed that even if Ling Pengyun had not yet reached the Void Refinement stage, he probably still possessed some of the power of the Void Refinement stage.

Such entities can be exceptionally useful in protecting family businesses.

After all, such a powerful figure is exceptionally strong, and can be counted on one hand even in the entire Hunyuan Immortal City.

In this way, the difficulties he encountered in expanding his business in Hunyuan Immortal City can undoubtedly be resolved to some extent.

The expansion of a family business can benefit not only the family itself.

His family recognized his business acumen in his early years and arranged for him to come here to develop the business, which was agreed upon with him at the time.

He receives a share of the profits whenever his business expands to a certain extent.

Indirectly, the better his family's business was in Hunyuan Immortal City, the more profits he would undoubtedly receive.

And benefits greatly aid the path of enlightenment.

In addition, although his talent was average, he had the heart to become a strong person.

He secretly resolved to expand his business as soon as possible.

At the same time, he also knew that he could not act rashly in this matter, and that he would be guilty of a great sin if he brought too much trouble to Ling Pengyun.

Afterwards, he discussed the business expansion with Ling Pengyun in detail, and then excitedly took his leave and returned to Hunyuan Immortal City.

With his departure, only their eldest son, Ling Chengxia, and youngest son, Ling Chengmie, remained with Ling Pengyun and his wife.

"You two lads are getting more and more energetic. Moreover, it is said that when you led the rest of the family's younger generation of Nascent Soul cultivators to venture into the Qingxia Realm, you often took care of the family's young Nascent Soul cultivators in times of danger."

"That does show some sense of responsibility."

Ling Pengyun praised them.

"It's all thanks to your excellent upbringing, Mom and Dad."

Ling Chengxia said with a smile.

“Brother is right. Without the guidance of Father and Mother, how could my brother and I be where we are today?”

Ling Chengmie also followed suit.

"You two lads are getting sweeter and sweeter with your words. However, you really need to pay attention to the safety of the clansmen who follow you. After all, those clansmen are all promising talents of the clan and the hope for the clan's prosperity."

"But in return, you must also remember to pay attention to your own safety. After all, compared to them, you are more qualified and more important to the family."

"By the way, let me see if your actual combat skills are as strong as the rumors say."

Ling Pengyun patted their heads and said with a smile. (End of Chapter)