Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

Chapter 190 The Wen family’s dilemma (3500 words, please subscribe)
A few days later, on January [-] of the following year.

At noon on this day, Ling Jin, the steward of the General Affairs Hall, finished handling the affairs of the General Affairs Hall, then left the General Affairs Hall, walked to the gate of a courtyard halfway up Lingxiao Mountain, and knocked on the door.

After a while, a fair-skinned young man opened the door from inside the house.

Seeing Ling Ru arrive first, this person looked a little doubtful, raised his hands to say hello respectfully, and asked.

"Eleventh great-grandfather, why are you here?"

This fair young man is none other than Ling Pengqiu, who is ranked No. 20 and seventh in the Peng generation.

"Pengqiu, do you still remember that a few months ago, you and I were talking about going out to guard low-level spiritual veins?" Ling Jinxian said with a smile.

"Of course I remember!" Ling Pengqiu said.

"It's the new year now. Your [-]th ancestor, Ling Yunlang, has been stationed at Luan Shi Gang with a first-order low-grade spiritual vein for five years. His mission has been completed, and you can go directly to take over now." Ling Enter the first path.

Ling Pengqiu looked happy when he heard this.

He has been able to go out to guard low-level spiritual veins and earn double tributes.

"Thank you, Eleventh Great-grandfather, for taking the trouble."

Ling Jin waved his hand first, patted the storage bag on his waist, summoned many spiritual objects, a map, and a letter from it on the ground, and said.

"It's just a small matter. I've already prepared the roster for the personnel movement in the General Affairs Hall, and you can set off on your journey."

"As for the offerings you make when you go out to guard the rocky hill, it will be double what it is now. You will get ten spiritual stones and twenty kilograms of green jade spiritual rice every month. The additional yellow bud pill that the family will give you every month will also be Grow to two."

"This batch of spiritual objects is for you to enshrine in the next six months. There are a total of sixty spiritual stones, 120 kilograms of green jade spiritual rice, and twelve yellow bud pills."

Seeing so many spiritual creatures appearing in front of him, Ling Pengqiu's expression gradually became more fiery and he secretly said with joy.

"In just one month's salary, those two yellow bud pills are enough for me to practice for twenty days."

"With the help of the ten spiritual stones and spiritual rice from the monthly offerings, I am fully able to purchase spiritual fruits that are better for my cultivation. With the accumulation of these spiritual objects, my cultivation will progress at a certain speed. A few minutes faster than now.”

"That map depicts the detailed locations of spiritual veins within the family's territory."

"As for that letter, it was given to your [-]th Grandfather, so be sure to keep it safe."

Afterwards, Ling Ruxian warned Ling Pengqiu about the dangers of cultivating the immortal world before leaving.

Ling Pengqiu put all the things Ling Rushui had given him into the storage bag, and then returned to his courtyard to sort out the debris in the house.

After finishing these chores, Ling Pengqiu took out the map that Ling Jinxian had just given to him from his storage bag, depicting the detailed locations of spiritual veins in the family territory, and looked at it carefully, looking for the chaos that needed to be garrisoned this time. Stone hill location.

After finding the location, he did not delay too much, blessed a light body technique, and left the Lingxiao Mountain.

Within a few days, Ling Pengqiu, with the blessing of the Light Body Technique, rushed thousands of miles and arrived outside the Rock Hill.

"Twentieth Grandfather, I am Pengqiu. This time the family asked me to come and take your place here."

In order to avoid entering the Rock Hill rashly and touching the formations arranged inside, Ling Pengqiu shouted loudly into the Rock Hill.

Within a moment, an old man with a scholarly temperament rushed out from the rocky hills and came to Ling Pengqiu.

This old man is Ling Yunlang who is stationed in this rocky hill.

When Ling Yunlang saw Ling Pengqiu's arrival, he felt a little confused.

When he mobilized his spiritual consciousness and swept it over Ling Pengqiu's body, he realized that the aura released by Ling Pengyun had reached the fourth level of Qi training.

"Fourth level of Qi training!" Ling Yunlang secretly said in surprise.

There were not many members of the Ling clan, and they basically knew each other. Ling Yunlang had also met Ling Pengqiu a few times, and he probably knew Ling Pengqiu's age and qualifications.

It is extremely strange for someone so young and with the qualifications of the Four Spiritual Roots to have such a level of cultivation.

The family wanted to protect Ling Pengqiu, who had two spiritual roots, but claimed that Ling Pengqiu only had four spiritual roots.

However, I feel relieved when I think of Ling Pengyun, the eighth-ranked Peng character in the family, who has the five-spirit root qualification and has now reached the ninth level of Qi training.

"Pengqiu, I didn't expect that this kid like you would be the one to replace me in guarding this rocky hill." Ling Yunlang said with a smile.

"Twentieth Grandfather." After Ling Pengqiu said hello as a junior, he took out the letter from Ling Jinxian from his storage bag and handed it to Ling Yunlang.

"This letter was sent to you by my eleventh great-grandfather who is in charge of the family general affairs hall."

Seeing this, Ling Yunlang stretched out his hand to take it. With doubts, he opened the letter and looked at its contents carefully.

The general content of the letter is that the family is short of manpower. Ling Rushui, who manages the Lingxiao Rice Hall opened by the family in Yunwu Market, does not have long lifespan, and there is no one in the family to take over for the time being.

As long as Ling Yunlang, a clan member who had just completed a garrison mission, was free, the family planned to send him to replace Ling Rushui and manage Ling Xiao Mi Tang.

If he agrees to this, the Lingxiao Rice Hall can always be managed by him in the future.

As for the matter of letting Ling Rushui return to the mountains to retire, it was Ling Pengyun, a new member of the family who established the foundation, who proposed it, but there was no mention of it in the letter.

After reading the contents of the letter, Ling Yunlang looked overjoyed.

Although managing a store is a waste of time, it will have an impact on your cultivation progress.

But Ling Yunlang is now over seventy years old, and he no longer has much expectations for his cultivation.

Furthermore, for managing a store, in addition to double the offerings, there is also a commission.

This matter is a big deal for an old monk like Ling Yunlang who has no potential.

Although he is old and no longer needs spiritual stones, one of his grandsons had his spiritual roots detected a few years ago.

If he could earn more spiritual stones, his grandson's path would be smoother in the future.

Immediately, he agreed in his heart to the family's proposal to take over from Ling Rushui in managing the Ling Xiao Rice Hall in Yunwu Market.

As for why the family allowed such a lucrative job to be given to him, the situation was explained in the letter, and Ling Yunlang had no doubts.

After all, everyone in the clan knows that the family is short of manpower.After returning to his thoughts, Ling Yunlang put away the letter and then greeted Ling Pengqiu.

"Pengqiu, follow me into the hills. I will introduce to you the spiritual plants planted in the three acres of first-class low-grade spiritual fields developed in this rocky hill."

Ling Pengqiu nodded and followed Ling Yunlang into the rocky hill.

After Ling Yunlang handed over everything in the rocky hillock to Ling Pengqiu, and according to the clan tradition, he made a welcoming banquet for the junior Ling Pengqiu as usual to receive the wind and cleanse him, then he left the rocky hillock and rushed to In the direction of the Yunwu Market opened by the Yunwu Wen Family.

A few days later, Ling Yunlang, who left Luanshi Gang, traveled thousands of miles and finally arrived at Yunwu Market.

As soon as he entered Yunwu Market, he rushed to Lingxiao Rice Hall, found Ling Ruishui, who was in charge of the store, and informed Ling Ruishui that the clan had called him back to the family in advance for retirement.

Regarding this matter, Ling Ruishui was very happy.

He should have ended his management of Lingxiao Midang eight years ago and returned to his family for retirement.

However, the family is short of manpower and has no spare manpower to take charge of the store.

He can only keep putting off the matter of returning to his family to take care of his old age.

Ling Rushui handed over the affairs of Ling Xiao Mi Tang to Ling Yunlang, and took Ling Yunlang to the shops opened by the four major families in Yunwu Market to meet the stewards.

After everything was taken care of, Ling Yunlang did not let Ling Ruishui, who had a short lifespan and had fallen to the fourth level of Qi training, leave directly. Instead, he asked him to wait for someone from the family to take him back to the family mountain.

These arrangements were written in the letter Ling Pengqiu gave.

As for the reason, it is very simple. Ling Pengyun, who had transferred Ling Rushui back to his family for retirement in advance, was worried. Ling Ruishui, whose cultivation had begun to pass for many years, traveled thousands of miles to return home alone.

At the beginning, when Ling Pengyun was still stationed at Qingshi Mountain, he gave him a salary, and Ling Ruguo, who had begun to lose his ordinary cultivation with Ling Rushui, was attacked by a monster on his way back to his family, and his vitality was injured. Although he killed him, Monster, but the speed at which Ling Ruguo's spiritual energy evaporates has accelerated a bit.

A few years later, Ling Ruguo died due to exhaustion of his longevity.

A few days later, it was noon on January [-]th.

Outside the Yunwu Market, a huge green-haired roc suddenly fell from the sky to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a young man jumped off the back of the bird.

"Counting the time, I haven't been here for nearly eight years."

The young man looked at the market in front of him, with a hint of memory in his eyes.

This young man is none other than Ling Pengyun.

And that green-haired Peng bird is the Fengying Peng.

After being distracted for a moment, Ling Pengyun came back to his senses.

"You wait here. I will be out in a few hours. During this time, please do not wander around to avoid danger."

Ling Pengyun gave instructions to Feng Yingpeng beside him, and then walked towards the entrance of the market.

At this time, Wen Ruoli, a late-stage qi-training monk from the Yunwu Wen family who had been stationed at the Yunwu Market for nearly ten years, was alarmed by the arrival of the late-stage qi-training Feng Yingpeng and appeared at the entrance of the market.

When he saw the face of the person riding the late Qi-training Feng Ying Peng arriving, he frowned and thought about it carefully.

After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly remembered the identity of the visitor.

"This young man should be Ling Pengyun, a member of the Ling Xiao Ling family who has improved a new type of improved spiritual rice in recent years and is extremely famous."

"It is said that this person has five spiritual roots, but with his strong understanding and spiritual consciousness, he has raised his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi training at the age of twenty. I don't know if it is true?"

Curious about Ling Pengyun's cultivation, Wen Ruoli mobilized his consciousness to scan Ling Pengyun's body as he walked towards the market, but he did not detect any leakage of Ling Pengyun's aura.

"How to hold your breath?" Wen Ruoli wondered secretly.

Before Ling Pengyun arrived this time, he gathered his aura as much as possible into his body.

Although there is still a little bit of breath leaking outside because he has not understood the method of holding breath, but those little bits of breath leaking out are not something that Wen Ruoli, who is in the late stage of Qi training, can detect.

He did this because he didn't want to be too high-profile.

Now he is in the realm of the Yunwu Wen Sect, and he has just joined the Foundation Establishment. If the Foundation Architect of the Yunwu Wen Sect finds out about this, he might take action against him.

After all, the Ling family and the Wen family are on the border. Once the Ling family becomes strong, how can the Wen family live comfortably in the future?

Just when Wen Ruoli was confused, Ling Pengyun had already walked up to him and handed the Yunwu Market pass token to Wen Ruoli.

"This is my pass. Can I enter the market?"

"Of course." When Wen Ruoli heard the call, he came to his senses, checked the authenticity of the pass, and handed it back with a single word.

After Ling Pengyun put away the pass token, he stepped into the Yunwu Market.

Wen Ruoli looked at Ling Pengyun's figure in a daze.

"The younger generation of the Ling family is really full of talents. There was Ling Pengxing who was a rare sword cultivator and his cultivation aptitude was extraordinary, and there was Ling Pengyun who improved the high-quality spiritual rice."

"On the other hand, I, the Yunwu Wen Sect... are not able to take on the challenge. Only Nian Ling of the younger generation can do it."

"Four years ago, the Foundation Building Pill that Ling bought from Xiyang Xiaohui was almost always given to Ling Pengxing, the most talented person in Pengzi's generation. I don't know if Ling Pengxing has successfully built the Foundation now."

"Once this person builds the foundation, the Ling family will have three more to build the foundation."

"In a few decades, when the Ling family's manpower shortage problem is solved and the spiritual veins in their own territory are digested and the need for external development is reached, they will inevitably target the Yunwu Wen family."

"There is only one Foundation Builder in the clan. Once the Ling family takes action in the future, they will be helpless."

“I don’t know how the family will deal with such things in the future!”

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