Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

'A chance to refine one's spiritual energy?'

Yan Siyi was extremely surprised upon hearing this.

Furthermore, if an ordinary person had said this, she certainly wouldn't have taken it seriously.

However, she was, after all, Ling Pengyun's Daoist partner, and had accompanied him in his cultivation for thousands of years. Therefore, she knew that Ling Pengyun possessed great opportunities.

In fact, in her early years, Ling Pengyun had given her a Yin-Yang Primordial Essence and ordinary Yin-Yang Primordial Qi.

It was precisely because of those two special opportunities that she was able to reach the current state of perfect Nascent Soul.

Otherwise, given her own aptitude, she would probably only reach the Nascent Soul stage at most.

Therefore, she couldn't help but believe Ling Pengyun's words about the opportunity to refine the Void.

At the same time, she was very sensible and did not ask any further questions.

"Don't worry, my husband. I will do my best to lay a solid foundation in the future and strive to live up to your expectations."

"Furthermore, my husband, I am truly grateful for your willingness to grant me another opportunity..."

Immediately afterwards, Yan Siyi used the communication mirror to express her assurances and gratitude to Ling Pengyun.

"Madam, there's no need for that. After all, we are husband and wife."

"Moreover, only when husband and wife work together can they achieve great things."

Ling Pengyun smiled as he used the communication mirror.

He then chatted warmly with him and entrusted him with the task of developing the business alliance.

Developing a business alliance might be extremely difficult for outsiders.

However, the business alliance is backed by top-tier Nascent Soul power families with incredibly strong foundations, providing a continuous stream of resources.

Even in critical moments, the family can receive resources from all the major forces of the Cangxuan lineage, as well as from the Star Immortal Sect, a major alchemy sect in the Tianhe Realm.

Indirectly, the merchant alliance no longer has to worry about not being able to sell high-level spiritual items to the outside world.

Furthermore, the current business alliance is backed by a newly promoted Void Refinement cultivator like Ling Pengyun, making it incredibly powerful.

Moreover, there are cultivators like Ling Wantong, who are skilled in business management, who are in charge of managing the business alliance, and even Yan Siyi, a top-grade fifth-level spiritual chef who has reached the Nascent Soul stage, who is in charge every day.

Therefore, it is incredibly easy for the business alliance to develop rapidly today.

Yan Siyi was even confident that she could work with Ling Wantong to quickly increase the size of the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance by one or two times, reaching 30 to 40% of the power of an ordinary Void Refining Merchant Alliance, and that their annual income could potentially increase to a thousand fifth-order spirit crystals.

However, it would be difficult to go further and truly rival the Refining Void Merchant Alliance. This matter requires the presence of a sixth-tier Hundred Arts Master.

However, sixth-order masters of all arts are extremely rare, and there are none in any family or even in the Heavenly River Realm.

As for hiring, it's even more difficult, since most of the sixth-tier Hundred Arts practitioners in the Qingxia Realm either established their own forces early on, or joined various major forces early on, or were even cultivated by various major forces themselves.

As a result, business alliances of the size of a family simply have no opportunity to hire such people.

Alternatively, there is another way that can allow the business alliance to quickly rise to prominence.

That would be like the Hunyuan lineage, which directly used a portion of the spiritual energy from a sixth-order spiritual vein as a price to establish a vast immortal city market, and then used this as a foundation to create an excellent business environment for its merchant alliances.

But that's not realistic either.

It is also worth mentioning that the Lingxiao Business Alliance of the family has now reached the level of a top-tier Nascent Soul Business Alliance, with an annual income of two to three hundred and fifty-level spirit crystals.

As for the ordinary Void Refining Merchant Alliance, their annual income can reach at least 3,500 spirit crystals, which is 30 sixth-order spirit crystals.

'Can the family-based merchant alliance only grow to 30-40% of the Refinement Void Merchant Alliance's level in such a short time? That's a bit of a pity. It seems I still need to quickly comprehend my strengths in weapon crafting and spiritual plant cultivation to the sixth rank.'

"However, I must say, if the Merchant Alliance could reach 30-40% of the power of the Void Refinement Merchant Alliance, it would be acceptable. After all, a Merchant Alliance of this scale is much stronger than before, and it could also significantly increase my income in terms of cultivation resources, while also benefiting the development of the family."

Ling Pengyun muttered to himself, a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

He then handed the matter over to Yan Siyi for management.

Immediately afterwards, he ended the communication and began to go into seclusion to improve his natal cultivation technique, the "Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Book," as well as three special inheritances: spiritual plants and weapon crafting, by utilizing the profound inheritances of the Frost Immortal Sect.

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the other side.

Black Stone Valley, the territory of the Hunyuan lineage.

'My husband didn't specifically explain why he asked me to develop the merchant alliance, but it's highly likely related to his urgent need for resources after just entering the Void Refinement stage.'

'Therefore, this matter must be resolved as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the Merchant Alliance's development is too slow, making it difficult for them to provide my husband with many resources, it would indirectly affect his path, which would be troublesome.'

Yan Siyi was perceptive and quickly deduced Ling Pengyun's thoughts from their previous communications. As a result, she attached great importance to the development of the business alliance.

She even went to the headquarters of the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance in Hunyuan Immortal City and had a private chat with the Alliance Leader, Ling Wantong.

During this time, she also informed Ling Pengyun, as he had instructed, that he had entered the Void Refinement stage, so that Ling Wantong could focus on developing the business alliance.

Secondly, Ling Wantong is a trustworthy and reliable person, so it wouldn't be a big problem to tell him about this.

At this moment, after Ling Wan learned everything, he was overjoyed and even felt very confident.

Moreover, he is indeed highly skilled in business management, and he even seems to have a premonition, having planned for the further development of the business alliance long ago.

“Ancestor Siyi, in my experience, our Merchant Alliance’s development in Hunyuan Immortal City has reached its limit. After all, Hunyuan Immortal City is only so big, and it’s just a sixth-grade low-level market. In addition, the Hunyuan lineage, with its status as the host, has long since seized most of the business share in the Immortal City.”

"Moreover, some powerful forces around Immortal City have also made plans for business in this area. As a result, it is already difficult for our Merchant Alliance to develop to the level of a top-tier Nascent Soul Merchant Alliance. In fact, this is only because our Merchant Alliance took advantage of the fact that Ancestor Pengyun displayed his divine power back then. If it weren't for that, our Merchant Alliance probably wouldn't have been able to reach this point at all."

"Therefore, I plan to focus the main idea of ​​the rapid development of the business alliance on external expansion."

"My main target is the Jin Yuan Market, a massive sixth-grade low-level market comparable to the Hunyuan Immortal City, located near the territory of the Hunyuan lineage, within the territory of the Jin Yuan Valley, an ordinary Void Refining force."

Ling Wantong explained in detail.

In addition, although the family had expanded some businesses in the past, it was only on a small scale.

But now, Ling Wantong is planning to get serious.

As for Jin Yuan Valley, it is an extremely ordinary Void Refinement force.

However, its foundation is stronger than that of the Hunyuan lineage, and it has continued for nearly a million years.

Moreover, it has accumulated some profound knowledge and powerful formations, among other things.

However, throughout its history, it has basically only had one Refinement Void expert in charge.

Furthermore, the current Void Refinement cultivator of this sect has only broken through to the Void Refinement realm in the last thousand years. Indirectly, the current strength of this sect is somewhat weaker than that of the Hunyuan lineage, a scattered Void Refinement cultivation lineage with a veteran early-stage Void Refinement expert, Hunyuan Tianjun, presiding over it.

"Therefore, this sect is relatively easy to deal with. Even if the family business alliance has a conflict with it during the development of its market in the future, it is estimated that with the strength of Ancestor Pengyun, it can contend with it to some extent."

"Of course, when I arrange for the business alliance to develop there, I will also pay attention to a certain degree. I will never take too much of their business share, so as not to provoke their anger. At most, I will only develop their business there to the same level as our family's business in Hunyuan Immortal City, reaching the level of a top-tier business alliance."

Ling Wantong's work style is quite reliable.

Most importantly, the Hunyuan lineage has a good relationship with the Jinyuan Valley.

In addition, the family business alliance has been doing business with the Hunyuan lineage recently, so Ling Wantong has gradually developed a good relationship with the Hunyuan lineage's disciple, the 'Hunwen Daojun'.

Indirectly, the family business alliance could seek their assistance in developing the vast sixth-tier low-grade Jin Yuan Market under the Jin Yuan Valley.

This could also reduce the troubles for the family business alliance when it develops there.

"That's a good idea, let's do it your way."

After listening to Ling Wantong's plan, Yan Siyi couldn't help but admire it and immediately decided to fully support his idea.

Secondly, Jin Yuan Market is the only super market under Jin Yuan Valley, and its scale is larger than that of Hun Yuan Market.

However, the situation there is somewhat different from that in Hunyuan Immortal City.

Because the Hunyuan Immortal City is primarily visited by independent cultivators, and because the Hunyuan lineage extensively leases out spiritual veins around the city, the Hunyuan Immortal City mainly attracts independent cultivators.

As for Jin Yuan Market, because Jin Yuan Valley behind it has a long history of development and has even cultivated many affiliated forces established by its disciples, there is not much space for independent cultivators to practice.

Therefore, most of the customers at Jin Yuan Market are disciples of Jin Yuan Valley or cultivators from its affiliated forces, with only a few being independent cultivators.

However, this is actually a good thing, since the disciples of Jin Yuan Valley and the cultivators of its affiliated forces are mostly better off than the rogue cultivators.

Moreover, these types of cultivators have a great need for spiritual objects.

Therefore, doing business in Jin Yuan Market is a particularly good choice, but there are also difficulties. The business share there has long been taken up, and the various forces, large and small, that have seized those business shares are more or less involved with Jin Yuan Valley.

Therefore, if you want to do business there, you need to use Jin Yuan Valley as a starting point, and it would be best to get to know the high-ranking officials under its command who manage the market business.

Otherwise, they would easily be ostracized by local shops or business alliances in Jinyuanfang Market, and it would be difficult to even obtain the qualifications to do business.

However, establishing connections with the higher-ups in the market is extremely troublesome, and it is difficult to do so even with the current resources of the family business alliance. After all, there are many cultivators and forces who want to establish relationships with those higher-ups on a regular basis.

Therefore, Ling Wantong only chatted with Yan Siyi for a few words before saying goodbye and going to visit Hunwen Daojun, a member of the Hunyuan lineage with whom he had a good relationship.

Soon after.

Deep within the Hunyuan Immortal City, in a quiet room of the Hunyuan Teahouse, the most famous teahouse in the city and owned by the Hunyuan lineage.

After inviting Hunwen Daojun here, Ling Wantong carefully explained his idea of ​​encouraging the Merchant Alliance to develop vigorously in Jinyuan Market, and asked him to make connections with some high-ranking officials in Jinyuan Valley who manage Jinyuan Market.

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Hunwen, my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance will not let you work for nothing. These are three portions of top-grade fifth-level cultivation spiritual food cooked by my ancestor Siyi. They are particularly effective, and even for a Nascent Soul cultivator like you, each portion can reduce the time you spend tempering your foundation by at least several decades."

"Three parts would take hundreds of years."

"Moreover, after the matter is accomplished, our merchant alliance can also give you three portions of fifth-grade top-quality spiritual food."

Ling Wantong promised great benefits and even immediately handed over three portions of top-grade fifth-level spiritual food to Hunwen Daojun.

Such things are rare, and even a master like Hunwen Daojun would find it difficult to obtain them on a regular basis.

In addition, although Hunwen Daojun had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage at a young age, he had been refining his foundation in preparation for his future breakthrough to the Void Refinement stage.

Therefore, they are quite eager for such excellent cultivation resources.

"After all this consideration, fellow Daoist, aren't you going to give me six high-grade spiritual foods? That's quite a generous offer."

The eyes of the Chaos Daoist Lord lit up slightly.

Subsequently, he considered that the advantages at this time were indeed quite good, in addition to Ling Wantong.

Judging from the early development of the Lingxiao Business Alliance, it is highly likely that a Refining Void Realm expert was behind it.

Moreover, Ling Wantong is particularly skilled in business management.

Most importantly, just as Ling Wantong knew, he did indeed have good relationships with many important figures in Jin Yuan Market because of his connection with Hunyuan Tianjun.

Under such circumstances, it wouldn't be unreasonable to introduce Ling Wantong to the important figures in Jinyuan Market; it would be a simple matter.

Therefore, he agreed to the matter.

"However, Fellow Daoist Wan Tong, let me make this clear first: the business competition in Jin Yuan Market is extremely fierce. If your alliance's business there doesn't develop as you expect after I've acted as a go-between, don't blame me."

"This is a reminder from Lord Hunwen."

"Rest assured, fellow Daoist, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is well aware of this matter."

Ling Wantong said with a smile.

"That's good."

"By the way, I happen to be free today, so let's go straight to Jin Yuan Market. That way, I'll have one less thing on my mind."

"I wonder if you have the time?"

Hunwen Daojun nodded and accepted the three portions of spiritual food handed over by Ling Wantong. He then turned to Ling Wantong and said readily.

"Of course I have the time, and the sooner the better. In fact, I would love to get this done today."

Ling Wantong said with a smile.

Immediately afterwards, he and Hunwen Daojun quickly left the Immortal City.

During this time, he couldn't help but sigh to himself.

'Fellow Daoist Hunwen is truly reliable; after all, in this world, there are very few people who will do their job for money...'

at the same time.

Hunyuan Immortal City, Lingxiao Business Alliance Headquarters.

'I didn't expect that the search and connection work with Wantong would start so quickly; they're really getting better and better at doing things.'

Looking at the message talisman that Ling Wantong had just sent back, Yan Siyi couldn't help but admire Ling Wantong immensely.

Immediately afterward, considering that Ling Wantong would be unable to return in the short term, she temporarily took his place at the Business Alliance headquarters to prevent any unexpected situations from occurring there.

Furthermore, she did possess some expertise in business, which allowed her to handle matters related to the merchant alliance quite well. (End of Chapter)