Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

Afterwards, he found a secluded spot in Blackstone Valley and practiced a battle with Ling Chengmie and Ling Chengxia.

Both Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengmie are indeed quite strong.

Although Ling Chengxia has not been in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm for long, he has only reforged his natal attack spirit treasure, the Yin-Yang Transformation Profound Treasure, to the fifth-order superior grade.

However, this treasure is extremely powerful, capable of conjuring a Yin-Yang Transformation Orb containing immense explosive power.

In addition, Ling Pengyun had previously given him a common fifth-grade high-quality defensive spiritual treasure.

Indirectly, Ling Chengxia's current strength is somewhat stronger than that of an ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

As for Ling Chengmie, needless to say, with the help of his many spirit beasts, he even has the strength to kill ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.

Moreover, the divine sense and illusion techniques of its new guardian spirit beast, the fifth-rank low-grade Purple Mist Fox, are indeed bizarre and often able to strike unexpectedly.

Its aptitude is also strong, and it has a real chance to reach the fifth-tier top-grade realm.

The Purple Mist Fox was about the same size as an ordinary fox demon, but it had a layer of incredibly soft purple fur, making it look extremely cute.

"This guardian spirit beast you've recently acquired is quite remarkable. Once it matures, it could very well become your right-hand man."

Ling Pengyun looked at the purple mist fox and praised Ling Chengmie.

"That's right, this was carefully selected by me, and my elder brother, the other Nascent Soul cultivators and I went to great lengths to get this fox."

"It was originally the offspring of two fox demons in the late Nascent Soul stage..."

Beastmaster Ling Chengmie recounted in detail the origins of the Purple Mist Fox.

"Is he the offspring of two late-stage Nascent Soul fox demons? No wonder he has such good aptitude."

Ling Pengyun muttered to himself.

Afterwards, he pointed out the shortcomings of Ling Cheng and the other two in combat, then chatted with Yan Siyi and the others for a while, and hosted a reunion dinner.

"It's a pity that Cheng Xin is helping the family take care of spiritual plants in the Tianhe Realm. If she were here, our family would be completely reunited."

Looking at his wife Yan Siyi, his eldest son Ling Chengxia, and his youngest son Ling Chengmie, Ling Pengyun couldn't help but miss his daughter Ling Chengxin, who was far away in the Tianhe Realm taking care of the spiritual plants.

"Husband, why don't we just bring that girl over? After all, our situation here has stabilized."

"Moreover, the family has also rented Blackstone Valley, a rare treasure land of the fifth rank and above, as well as some other treasure lands of the fifth rank and below. Indirectly, even if Cheng Xin comes here, it will not affect her cultivation speed."

"In addition, those precious lands have been planted with many spiritual plants by us, and they urgently need high-level spiritual plants to take care of them."

"While Cheng Xin's strength is average, her ability to cultivate spiritual plants is formidable. In fact, she has been a veteran mid-grade fifth-level spiritual plant master for many years, and can easily take care of the spiritual plants that the family has planted in various spiritual lands here, bringing considerable additional benefits to the family."

"Secondly, over the years, the family has cultivated many high-level spiritual plant masters. Even if Cheng Xin comes here, the spiritual plants planted by the family will not be affected too much."

Yan Siyi also missed her daughter Ling Chengxin very much, so she made the suggestion.

In previous years, the family had only recently arrived in the Qingxia Realm and was in the early stages of development, which was quite difficult.

Moreover, the family has not acquired any high-level spiritual lands here.

Furthermore, given Ling Chengxin's average strength, even if she were brought here, she would hardly be of any help and would likely only increase the danger.

Moreover, he was, after all, the child that Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi loved the most.

Therefore, Ling Pengyun and his wife were reluctant to bring him here.

Instead, they allowed him to stay and stay with the family.

But these days are different.

Yan Siyi's thoughts then changed somewhat.

"That's certainly true. I do miss Cheng Xinmei a bit."

As the eldest brother, Ling Chengxia also liked and missed his younger sister, Ling Chengxin, so he agreed.

"I think that's okay too."

Beastmaster Ling Chengmie was overjoyed and immediately said.

He was, after all, the youngest child of Ling Pengyun and his wife.

Moreover, in their early years, Ling Pengyun and his wife spent most of their time in ascetic practice.

Therefore, he was mostly raised by his older sister, Ling Chengxin, when he was young.

Therefore, he and Ling Chengxin became extremely close.

"Since you all share this intention, and the situation here is indeed quite good."

"I'll be going back to my family soon, so I can arrange for them to come over at the same time."

"Moreover, given his identity as a cultivator of spiritual plants, it would be relatively easy to clear his name through the Frost Spirit Small Realm under the Frost Immortal Sect. Perhaps it won't take more than a few decades to bring him here."

Ling Pengyun murmured.

After all, he had long been the sect leader of the Chaoyue Immortal Sect, a long-established and superior Nascent Soul power in the Cold Spirit Minor Realm, and held considerable power within the sect.

In addition, the Chaoyue Immortal Sect is, after all, a force that specializes in the way of spiritual plants.

This is similar to Ling Chengxin's expertise in the art of cultivating spiritual plants.

Moreover, like most forces, the Chaoyue Immortal Sect has cultivated some powerful spies to varying degrees.

Therefore, Ling Pengyun planned to use his power within the Chaoyue Immortal Sect to arrange for him to become a spy for the sect, quickly clearing his name.

This way, some time can be saved in the process of clearing one's name.

Otherwise, if Ling Chengxin were to slowly clear her name like he and Yan Siyi had done in the past, it would be a waste of time.

After all, Ling Chengxin's cultivation had already reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, while it would take an ordinary cultivator at least several hundred years, or even a thousand years, to reach that level.

This kind of whitewashing can take a very long time.

"Decades? That's fast."

Yan Siyi and the others were overjoyed upon hearing this.

Afterwards, the family chatted casually again.

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the other side.

Hunyuan Immortal City.

As soon as Ling Wantong returned to this place, he sought out some of the owners of old shops in the Immortal City with whom he had often dealt in recent years, to discuss joining forces to establish a business alliance and expand the business of spiritual items.

Although the owners of those old shops were all of ordinary status, they were just some rogue cultivators in the early or mid-stages of the Nascent Soul realm, or some ordinary rogue cultivators from small forces.

However, they all possess some special skills and techniques, which often allow them to refine some low- to mid-grade fifth-tier spiritual items with special effects and sell them in shops, making them much better than some shops that sell ordinary low- to mid-grade fifth-tier spiritual items.

As a result, they managed to run their stores fairly well.

Moreover, the spiritual items they can refine are not controlled by their families, and most of their shops are located in different parts of Hunyuan Immortal City.

In this way, if they can join the merchant alliance, they can make up for the shortcomings of their family's business in the Immortal City, and the family will also have the opportunity to expand their business to every corner of the Immortal City through their shops.

Conversely, this matter also has some benefits for those established shops.

The two sides can be considered complementary. In addition, the shop owners are not particularly powerful.

Therefore, Ling Wantong was not afraid that the business alliance would cause trouble after its establishment.

At this moment, when the owners of those old shops heard Ling Wantong's idea, they couldn't help but be tempted.

After all, over time, they have all tasted the benefits of running a shop to some extent.

However, like Ling Wantong, they had previously been limited by the lack of a powerful backer, and thus dared not expand their businesses at will, lest they invite trouble.

They have always felt particularly sorry about this matter.

In addition, they have often done business with Ling Wantong in recent years.

Therefore, they were fully aware that Ling Wantong had a veteran late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator of the fifth rank, Yan Siyi, as his backer.

Furthermore, it is known that he is extremely skilled in business management.

Under such circumstances, establishing a business alliance centered around it would indeed be quite feasible.

Moreover, as long as the business alliance doesn't take particularly big steps, it's estimated that with its powerful backers, it can keep things under control.

Furthermore, the benefits brought about by this matter are considerable.

Therefore, the shop owners were inclined to agree to this, and they immediately chatted with Ling Wantong in detail about the division of profits within the business alliance.

Since the spiritual items that everyone is good at selling don't conflict with each other, and given the size of the merchant alliance, once it's established, they can make a living even if they only rely on the alliance to sell the spiritual items they are good at refining.

Therefore, the division of benefits is very easy.

Basically, each party brings out the spiritual items they are good at crafting and puts them in the shops opened by the merchant alliance for sale, increasing the diversity and competitiveness of the spiritual items.

At that time, the profits from the spiritual items sold through the merchant alliance shops will be distributed among the respective parties.

"By the way, if the Merchant Alliance is truly established, a high-level Yuan Soul Contract must be signed to advance and retreat together. Otherwise, if we provoke a powerful enemy, I'm afraid that even though you, Fellow Daoist Wan, can rely on the ancestor behind you to resolve the situation..."

"But we small, insignificant families are probably doomed."

The owners of those old shops were wary.

"That's natural."

"However, everyone should also keep a low profile. All important matters need to be discussed together. If you cause trouble, you will be expelled from the merchant alliance. Don't blame us for being unethical then."

Ling Wantong said firmly.

"That's natural."

The owners of the other established shops all agreed.

Afterwards, the group discussed the matter further and jointly purchased a top-grade fifth-tier Yuanhun Contract, signing a contract to jointly establish a business alliance.

Moreover, since this business alliance was established under the leadership of Ling Wantong, and among all the shops, Ling Wantong's family business is the largest and has the strongest backing.

Therefore, this business alliance is led by him, and even the name of the business alliance was chosen by him, called "Lingxiao Business Alliance".

Moreover, he also serves as the current leader of the Lingxiao Business Alliance.

As for the owners of the other shops, they are elders of the Merchant Alliance.

Immediately afterwards, the group began to work intensively to merge the shops.

Furthermore, everyone wanted to prevent the elders of the various merchant alliances from using the shops under their jurisdiction to engage in petty theft.

The group also placed trusted individuals in various merchant alliance shops to jointly manage the business. Moreover, if a manager discovers anyone cheating or shirking their duties, they can receive a big reward simply by reporting it.

In addition, the family has a strong financial foundation and owns more than a dozen shops in the Immortal City.

As for the elders of the merchant alliance, although they each only own one shop, there are still many of them.

They own nearly ten shops in total.

Adding the two together, there are more than twenty shops in total.

In addition, the Immortal City is enormous, and it is said that the daily flow of people here reaches at least hundreds of millions of cultivators.

As a result, there are a large number of shops in this area.

Therefore, the twenty-odd shops were not particularly eye-catching.

Afterwards, the group began to compile the spiritual items that each family was good at refining, as well as the spiritual items they had stored.

They then placed them in various shops to expand the variety of spiritual items available in each shop.

Suddenly, the variety of spiritual items in their shops became endless.

It contains special magical artifacts, as well as special elixirs, and so on.

Moreover, many of them are low- to mid-grade fifth-rank spiritual items.

They also plan to run some promotional activities.

For example, if you buy a lot of magical artifacts, you can also get some special elixirs as a gift.

In addition, the names of their various stores have also been changed, and they are all now called "Lingxiao Business Alliance Branch".

After everything was settled, Lingxiao Business Alliance branches opened in various locations.

The predecessors of the branches in various places had been operating for many years and had a certain reputation.

In addition, the branches nowadays have a wide variety of spirit items of good quality, and they also have promotions, including quite a few fifth-grade low and mid-grade spirit items.

As a result, those branches quickly attracted a large number of customers who bought spiritual items or sold some basic spiritual items.

As time went on, because the quality of the spiritual items sold by Lingxiao Merchant Alliance's various branches was consistently good, its reputation gradually surpassed that of most shops in Immortal City that also mainly sold fifth-grade and mid-grade spiritual items, making it rank among the top-tier shops of the same level.

During the festive season, the various branches of the merchant alliance sell spiritual items more quickly, and they can often easily acquire large quantities of high-level basic spiritual materials from outside.

For example, high-level monster hides and such.

They then sought out skilled artisans to refine these items into expensive spiritual objects, which were then quickly sold and converted into spiritual stones.

As a result, the various branches of the merchant alliance are making a fortune every day, and can even bring in at least a dozen fifth-tier spirit crystals of pure profit every month.

This is several times better than the family business and other old shop owners running their shops alone.

Moreover, dozens of fifth-tier spirit crystals are no small amount; if used sparingly, they could even support the cultivation resources of several early and mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators for a month.

In addition, Lingxiao Business Alliance has a large number of stores under its umbrella.

Whether it was the family or the owners of the other old shops in the business alliance, they all received a very considerable share of the profits.

Furthermore, due to their strong family background, they sell a larger number of spiritual items each month, thus capturing a larger share of the business alliance's profits.

The family can receive nearly seventy or eighty fifth-tier spirit crystals as pure profit every month, enough to simultaneously cultivate twenty or thirty Nascent Soul cultivators in the early and middle stages.

Moreover, if one has two or three years of experience, one can directly purchase a low-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasure.

This matter is particularly astonishing, since an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator would need at least several hundred years of accumulation to purchase such a treasure.

Therefore, both the family and the owners of the other old shops in the business alliance were extremely happy about this.

...(End of this chapter)