Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

In addition, although the Lingxiao Business Alliance is quite strong now, with people like Yan Siyi who possess many powerful spiritual treasures and even master many profound divine abilities, it is still a newly promoted Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator.

However, the Ghost Realm that the Hunyuan lineage intended to attack was, after all, under the command of a Void Refining Ghost Realm force in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.

Indirectly, it is likely that there are not only many powerful figures stationed there, but also that if a crisis occurs there, the Refining Void Ghost Path force behind it will likely send many more powerful figures from other places to provide support.

Therefore, such a major disturbance is especially dangerous.

Furthermore, the higher-ups of the Qingxia Realm and the Wanhun Ghost Realm had agreed countless years ago that, unless during the Three Thousand Year Realm War, neither side at the Void Refinement stage should act arbitrarily.

It's not appropriate for someone at the Void Refinement stage like Ling Pengyun to show his face.

However, Ling Pengyun was truly uneasy about relying solely on Yan Siyi to lead the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance to assist the Hunyuan lineage.

Fortunately, hundreds of years ago, Ling Pengyun had already arranged for the Star Sea Ancestor and the family's genius, Ling Lihao of the Fu clan, to enter the Cold Spirit Minor World to try to clear their identities.

As time goes by, the matter will soon be completed. In fact, it will only take a few years for them to finish the task and reach the Qingxia Realm through the teleportation array set up by the Extreme Cold Immortal Sect in the Cold Spirit Minor Realm, where they will reunite with the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance.

Their strength was quite formidable. The Star Sea Ancestor possessed extraordinary comprehension and exceptionally well-rounded talent, mastering special paths such as swordsmanship and magical cultivation, making his strength far surpass that of his peers.

Although the family's genius, Ling Lihao, has a relatively singular talent, specializing only in talismanic arts, he is extremely proficient in this art.

Furthermore, his mastery of talismanic arts was so profound that he became a top-tier fifth-order talisman master at a young age and accumulated an extremely rich foundation in talismans.

Moreover, he also switched to cultivating advanced talisman techniques, transforming into a powerful talisman cultivator who could draw talismans in the void to assist in fighting enemies.

He even crafted a powerful set of natal talismans.

Therefore, his strength was exceptionally formidable, even comparable to that of the Star Sea Ancestor.

Under such circumstances, once they arrive at the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance, the strength of the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance will also increase by several times.

When that time comes, with them and Yan Siyi, a total of three Nascent Soul stage cultivators, in charge, even if the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance participates in the Hunyuan lineage's attack on the Ghost Path Small Realm, and this matter is particularly dangerous, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance will have a good chance of protecting itself.

There's even a chance they might have the opportunity to plot military exploits and, in turn, obtain a larger share of the profits from the ghostly lineage of that small realm afterward.

Afterwards, Ling Pengyun gave Yan Siyi a few more instructions and then began to refine the various inheritances once again.

the other side.

Hunyuan Immortal City, Lingxiao Business Alliance Headquarters.

A quiet room.

After learning of Ling Pengyun's idea through a message, Yan Siyi couldn't help but strongly agree with it.

'My husband's suggestion is quite good.'

"Moreover, according to my husband, the time for the Ancestor and Li Hao to completely clear their names is approaching. Therefore, once they arrive in the Qingxia Realm, my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance will still be able to join them before the Hunyuan Clan makes their move."

Yan Siyi was lost in thought.

Afterward, she chatted briefly with Ling Pengyun before ending the communication and informing Ling Wantong of Ling Pengyun's plan.

"Wantong, although we still need to wait a few more years before we can inform the Hunyuan lineage that we will participate in the battle to attack the small realm."

"However, preparations for this must be made in advance, and such a great battle is not only a contest of the strength of both sides, but also a contest of the supply of spiritual items."

"Therefore, in recent years, you must remember to use the power of the Merchant Alliance to accumulate more war-prepared spiritual items in preparation for future troubles."

Yan Siyi gave Ling Wantong detailed instructions.

"Don't worry, Ancestor, I will definitely handle this matter well and will never let you down."

When Ling Wantong saw that his family intended to participate in the war to attack the small realms, his eyes lit up.

Furthermore, gathering all the necessary war-prepared spiritual items might be difficult for ordinary forces, but it is incredibly easy for the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance, which has powerful families and other forces backing it up.

After a brief chat, Ling Wantong went to gather war supplies and led some family members from the merchant alliance to rent various shops in Jin Yuan Market to expand the alliance's business.

In addition, in recent years, besides intentionally arranging for powerful figures such as the Star Sea Ancestor to come to the Qingxia Realm, the family has also arranged for many artisans and ordinary cultivators skilled in business to come to the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance to help.

In fact, nearly 70% of the current high-ranking members of the Lingxiao Business Alliance are family cultivators.

It's just that the outside world doesn't know this.

Secondly, the family also spent a lot of effort to arrange for those cultivators to join the merchant alliance, such as fabricating various identities for them.

As for the other 30% of the senior members of the business alliance, they are the owners of the Hunyuan Market shops who established the business alliance with Ling Wantong in the early years.

It is also worth mentioning that ever since the shop owners witnessed Ling Wantong's formidable business acumen and learned from the outside world that Ling Wantong was suspected to have a Void Refinement expert backing him, they have always regarded Ling Wantong as their superior.

Therefore, when they learned that Ling Wantong planned to open a business in Jinyuan Market, they not only strongly supported the matter, but also contributed a lot of spirit stones to help Ling Wantong rent shops in Jinyuan Market.

Upon closer examination, they did provide considerable assistance in this matter.

The entire Lingxiao Business Alliance is now united as one and is developing rapidly.

'Vantone has managed the business alliance very well.'

Yan Siyi, who had been watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but secretly admire him.

Immediately afterwards, she returned to Black Stone Valley to cultivate in seclusion, consolidate her foundation, and prepare for the Void Refinement opportunity that Ling Pengyun had mentioned in the future.

Secondly, she would occasionally cook high-grade medicinal dishes to supply the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance for daily sales.

She even cooked some special medicinal dishes with healing properties and the ability to quickly restore spiritual power, in case something unexpected happened when the Merchant Alliance participated in the war to attack the small realms several years later.

……

the other side.

Deep within the Primordial Immortal City lies Primordial Hill.

Inside a cave.

Hunwen Daojun was having tea and chatting with his master, Hunyuan Tianjun, who was at the Refinement Void level.

"Master, although Fellow Daoist Ling Wantong of the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance has not yet agreed to my proposal to jointly attack the Ghost Realm."

"But according to the observations of my Hunyuan lineage intelligence branch, it seems that it has recently been intentionally accumulating various war preparation spiritual items. In fact, it has not only privately sought out many of its subordinate artisan guests to refine them, but also frequently purchased them on the market."

"But this move is a bit special. After all, there is no need to collect such things in a big way under normal circumstances, and such things are far less popular than cultivation resources."

"Furthermore, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance has always focused on business and rarely engages in bloodshed. Therefore, I speculate that the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is likely interested in participating in the war to attack the small realms, but they seem to be waiting..."

"Perhaps they're waiting for some of their cultivators to break through, or perhaps they're waiting for the Void Refinement cultivator behind them to return to Hunyuan Immortal City to oversee things and prevent us from causing trouble. After all, it's rumored that the Void Refinement cultivator behind them has been training in the outside world for the past few years..."

"That's what the Chaos Daoist guessed," said the Chaos Daoist.

"Your guess has some merit."

"In addition, it would be a good thing if the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance could participate in the attack on that Ghost Path Minor Realm. After all, their strength is not bad, and we are indeed short of manpower in this matter."

"At the same time, we might also be able to observe the Void Refinement Realm expert behind him, since the accuracy of this matter has not yet been confirmed."

"Upon closer examination, your decision to invite them to participate in the attack on the minor realm was quite commendable," Hunyuan Daojun praised Hunwen Daojun.

"This matter is mainly due to your excellent teaching, Master."

"But Master, is it really necessary for us to attack that small Ghost Realm? When you were wandering through the endless void in your early years, didn't you find a much larger... Void Refinement level demon realm by chance?"

"Instead of wasting so much energy dealing with that small realm, it would be better to take a stroll around that great realm of the demon race."

"The Confucian Daoist asked with some doubt."

In addition, he was, after all, the direct disciple and confidant of Hunyuan Daojun. Therefore, he knew early on that Hunyuan Tianjun had accidentally come across a hidden and vast demon realm space during his early travels.

In fact, in his early years, he even assisted Hunyuan Tianjun in planning opportunities there.

"Alas, I have been there many times over the years, and inevitably my whereabouts have been exposed there."

"Therefore, the demons within that vast demon realm were already somewhat wary of me."

"Some early-stage Void Refinement demons there seem to have formed a secret alliance. Therefore, when I went there recently to seek opportunities, I encountered great resistance and did not get anything good."

"Unless you can reach the Void Refinement Realm in the future, and we, master and disciple, join forces, I'm afraid I won't be able to go there and get anything good in the short term."

"Under such circumstances, I came up with the idea of ​​plotting to take over the small ghost realm that we discovered in the endless void years ago. After all, although the benefits of such a small realm are small, even a mosquito is meat. Moreover, the probability of us being able to take it over is extremely high."

The Primordial Heavenly Lord sighed helplessly.

"If that's the case, then this matter is rather difficult to handle..."

"Furthermore, Master... your disciple will definitely seize the time to try to consolidate my foundation and attempt to break through to the Void Refinement Realm."

Upon hearing this, Hunwen Daojun felt a bit more pressured.

"This matter cannot be rushed. After all, we haven't collected many spiritual materials for the Void Refinement stage yet. If you rashly attempt to break through to the Void Refinement stage, it could cause a lot of trouble."

Hunyuan Tianjun patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

Although he was extremely interested in that great realm of the demon race, he cared more about the future path of his personal disciple, Hunwen Daojun, whom he had been nurtured since childhood.

Even recently, his main purpose in secretly going to that demon realm was to search for high-level spiritual items and try to bring them back to the Qingxia Realm to exchange for Void Refining spiritual items to help Hunwen Daojun break through to the next realm.

Secondly, it is for one's own spiritual path.

His aptitude has almost reached its limit. Unless he has a special opportunity or a huge accumulation of resources, it will be difficult for him to advance his cultivation further.

Therefore, he has not devoted much attention to his spiritual path in recent years.

'Master is truly wonderful.'

The Daoist Master Hunwen couldn't help but feel moved.

"No need to overthink it. By the way, in the near future, find some more reliable merchant alliances within the Immortal City and see if other merchant alliances are interested in attacking that Ghost Path Minor Realm."

"After all, there are still too few merchant alliances willing to help us attack the Ghost Path Minor Realm. If something goes wrong during the attack, we may lose a lot of manpower, which is something we can hardly accept."

"The Primordial Heavenly Lord instructed."

Furthermore, he was not afraid that too many business alliances would lead to those alliances taking away most of the ghost vein benefits of that small ghost realm.

After all, those merchant alliances only have the right to use the ghost vein for three thousand years at most.

Three thousand years may be a long time for others, but it is nothing to the Primordial Heavenly Lord.

He even has at least five thousand years of lifespan left.

Under such circumstances, as long as he survives for three thousand years, he can completely transform that small ghost realm into his own exclusive property and firmly control all the ghost veins within it.

"Understood, Master."

Lord Hunwen agreed wholeheartedly. After chatting with Lord Hunyuan for a while, he began to carefully select other suitable immortal city merchant alliances for cooperation.

……

In a blink of an eye.

Ten years have passed.

During this period, Ling Wantong quickly gained a foothold in Jinyuan Immortal City thanks to his strong management skills, the large number of spiritual items produced by the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance, and the cooperation from Jinyuan Market.

Furthermore, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance frequently offers high-grade, high-quality pills, spiritual foods, and other such items.

The business alliance is doing particularly well.

Even now, the Merchant Alliance's annual income there can be consistently around 100 Tier 5 Spirit Crystals.

While this profit is not comparable to the profits the Merchant Alliance made in Hunyuan Immortal City, it is only one-third of the profits made in Hunyuan Immortal City.

However, business in Jin Yuan Immortal City is only just beginning.

The number of stores and reputation of the business alliance there are both slightly insufficient.

However, Ling Wantong was confident that if the Merchant Alliance were given several more decades, its business there could be comparable to that in Hunyuan Immortal City.

In addition, during this period, it also accumulated a large number of war-prepared spiritual items with the help of the merchant alliance.

It is also worth mentioning that a few years ago, as Ling Pengyun had predicted, the Star Sea Ancestor and the family's genius, Ling Lihao, both cleaned up their identities through the Cold Spirit Small Realm and arrived in the Qingxia Realm, and went to the Merchant Alliance to take charge.

Therefore, the Merchant Alliance had already made arrangements with the Hunyuan lineage to cooperate in attacking the Ghost Path Minor Realm.

As time went on, it was time to set off.

This day.

Deep within the Hunyuan Immortal City, beneath the sixth-grade low-rank Hunyuan Mountain, a large number of direct descendants of the Hunyuan lineage, whom they had painstakingly cultivated in recent years, as well as the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance and countless cultivators under the command of the twenty or so Nascent Soul level merchant alliances in the Immortal City, gathered together.

There are even hundreds of millions of them, and you can't see the end of them at a glance.

Moreover, they were all inside some enormous flying ships.

In an instant, the area around Hunyuan Mountain resembled a massive fleet of flying boats, even obscuring the sun in the sky.

The surroundings suddenly darkened.

In addition, Yan Siyi, Xinghai Laozu, and Ling Lihao, three Nascent Soul stage cultivators from the Lingxiao Business Alliance, were all present.

Many other merchants and members of the Hunyuan lineage who had reached the Nascent Soul stage also participated.

Even upon closer examination, there are at least twelve Nascent Soul cultivators at the peak of their Nascent Soul stage gathered here today.

As for the number of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, it reached one or two hundred.

There are countless other types of beings, such as Nascent Soul and Golden Core.

In total, the number of cultivators must be at least tens of millions. (End of Chapter)