Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 766 It's perfect to make the Fan family the scapegoat!
Night falls inside the Fan Family Restaurant.

Fan Chengyue sat in a room on the third floor, with an octagonal table in front of him filled with wine jars and cups.

That's right, these are all spirit wines from Yang Family Winery.

The Fan family, the only force in Snow Valley Town, and even the entire Cold Valley County, that has expertise in spirit wine, has always regarded the spirit wine business as their exclusive domain. Anyone or any force that wants to do spirit wine business in Cold Valley County must first obtain the Fan family's consent.

Today, a Yang family winery suddenly appeared in Xuegu Town, and the Fan family naturally couldn't ignore it.

Fan Chengyue was the person in charge of the Fan family in Xuegu Town. At this moment, he was savoring the feeling brought by each kind of spiritual wine.

He only looked up abruptly after he had finished drinking the fruit wine in one gulp.

"Are these all spirit wines from that Yang family winery?"

His face was long and narrow, with slightly protruding cheekbones, deep-set cheeks, and skin taut against his bones. His eyes were like cold pools, deep and unfathomable, gleaming with a cold light, as if they could see through people's hearts and harbor indifference and calculation towards all things in the world.

Upon hearing this, the young man standing opposite him quickly lowered his head and cautiously replied, "Uncle, these are all spirit wines from the Yang Family Winery. My seventeenth brother and I personally bought them from the Yang Family Winery!"

Fan Chengyue pursed his thin lips, his mouth slightly downturned, "Tomorrow I'll investigate the background of this Yang family!"

At this point, he already regarded the Yang family as the biggest threat to his Fan family.

The most important source of wealth for the Fan family is this Ice Soul Spirit Wine, while the quality of the Hundred Fruit Brew from the Yang family winery is even higher than that of the Ice Soul Spirit Wine. If the Yang family is allowed to sell the Hundred Fruit Brew, it will definitely affect the Fan family's spirit wine business.

This is no small matter.

Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents.

Cutting off someone's cultivation resources is an irreconcilable blood feud.

The Fan family has been able to continue for over three hundred years entirely thanks to the source of their wealth: Ice Soul Spirit Wine.

However, a strange light flashed in his eyes immediately. "Spirit wine? The Yang family can actually brew so much spirit wine? If only my Fan family could brew this much spirit wine too!"

A pair of eyes, deep-set, gleamed with icy coldness.

Rather than getting rid of the Yang family as a competitor, he would rather take the Yang family's spirit wine for himself!

……

Inside a courtyard at the entrance of the Hanxiao Sect.

Ji De'an carefully poured a glass of wine and then placed it in front of an old man with white hair and beard.

"Grandfather, this is the Hundred Fruit Wine from the Yang Family Winery! I've tasted it, and it has the effect of condensing true qi. It's especially effective for martial artists in the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend stages to condense their true essence!"

The old man before them was Ji Linfeng, one of the six Heavenly Gang stage experts of the Hanxiao Sect. He was also one of the Heavenly Gang stage experts stationed in Xuegu Town by the Hanxiao Sect.

The Ji family is also a considerable faction within the Hanxiao Sect. In reality, a sect is an alliance of several families. After decades or even centuries of development, many sects may even evolve into a situation where one family owns the surname.

The family and the sect were merged into one, and the sect became a tool for the family to grow and expand.

The Hanxiao Sect has not developed into a situation where one family or clan controls the sect. Instead, a few long-established families control the power of the Hanxiao Sect, and the Ji family is one of those families.

Ji Lingfeng picked up his wine glass and drank it down. Then he closed his eyes and carefully felt the gentle spiritual energy spreading through his body. In his dantian, strands of pure spiritual power fell down like fine rain, merging with his true energy and transforming into a strand of true essence.

A moment later, a glint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Its effects are actually no worse than the Qi-Nourishing Pill!"

"Yes, grandson thinks this Hundred Fruit Wine is even better than the Qi Nourishing Pill. The Qi Nourishing Pill cannot be taken frequently, but this Hundred Fruit Wine can!"

"You can only take one Qi-Nourishing Pill per month, but even if you only drink one cup of this Hundred Fruit Wine a day, its effect in a month is equivalent to taking three Qi-Nourishing Pills!"

"Most importantly, it's cheaper than Qi-Nourishing Pills. Even without discounts, it's only twenty spirit stones per pound!"

Ji De'an said, his eyes shining.

For innate martial artists, the most important thing is to condense their true essence.

From the moment a martial artist enters the Earthly Fiend stage, their cultivation involves drawing Qi into the body and refining true essence.

This is an extremely slow process, requiring painstaking effort.

There are two conditions that can accelerate this process. The first is to find a place with abundant spiritual energy, which will make cultivation twice as effective. The second is to consume various spiritual items and elixirs that can enhance the spiritual energy within the body.

Low-grade elixirs might have some effect on Earthly Fiend stage martial artists, but they are almost useless to Heavenly Gang stage martial artists.

The effects of mid-grade spiritual pills are quite good, increasing cultivation speed by about 30%.

However, the price of mid-grade elixirs is much higher.

A low-grade spirit pill only costs a few spirit stones. For example, the Wood Spirit Pill and the Water Spirit Pill only cost one or two spirit stones.

A mid-grade spirit pill costs several dozen spirit stones, while a Qi-Nourishing Pill costs fifty spirit stones.

A pound of Hundred Fruit Wine is comparable to a Qi Nourishing Pill, and it only costs twenty spirit stones, plus a 20% discount.

Why were Yang Zhengshan, Yu Qingyi, Zhou Tianci, and others able to raise their cultivation to the Heavenly Gang stage within five or six years?
One of the main reasons is that the Spirit Source Land has an almost unlimited supply of spirit wine.

Ji Linfeng looked at the empty wine glass in his hand, his surprise and excitement growing stronger.

"If I can drink this spiritual wine for a long time, maybe I will have a chance to try to break through to the Martial God Realm!"

Upon hearing this, Ji De'an was startled.

"Really?"

"Yes, it really is! This spirit wine can double my cultivation speed!"

Ji Linfeng took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement, and said calmly, "If nothing unexpected happens, I will probably need another thirty years to cultivate to the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Gang Stage, but by then my lifespan will be almost over!"

"With this spirit wine, I can save at least ten years of my life!"

"No, this kind of spiritual wine doesn't conflict with the Qi-Nourishing Pill. If I have both, I'm confident I can reach the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Gang Stage within ten years!"

At this point, he couldn't help but get excited again.

Ji De'an's eyes also flashed with excitement.

His excitement stemmed not from Ji Linfeng's opportunity to break through to the Martial God Realm, but from the fact that he also had such an opportunity.

However, he quickly suppressed his excitement and said with some distress, "Grandfather, we don't have the Golden Body Technique!"

Ji Linfeng's excitement faltered slightly, but he smiled and said, "Then let's go and try our luck in the ancient ruins!"

He used to think he had no chance of breaking through to the Martial God Realm, so he never thought of risking his life in the ancient ruins.

But now that he has the opportunity, he naturally has his own ideas.

As for whether he is qualified to go to the ancient ruins, it is not difficult. As long as he is willing to spend some spirit stones, he can still buy a spot to enter the ancient ruins.

Just like Yang Zhengshan bought a spot from the Lu family.

Ten years later, the timing is perfect.

“That Yang family!” Ji Linfeng suddenly lowered his voice.

Ji De'an immediately understood what he meant and gently shook his head. "This Yang family might be a reclusive family. They not only know how to brew wine, but they also seem to have a lineage of array formations!"

The value of the Hundred Fruit Wine goes without saying; for both of them, this alone represents a continuous source of wealth. Ji Linfeng's idea was also simple: first, to seize the Yang family's assets; if possible, it would be best to take everything from the Yang family for himself, including the winemaking process, the spiritual fruits and spring water used for winemaking, and so on.

Secondly, if they cannot seize the Yang family's assets, then they should control the Yang family and make them work for the Ji family.

As for the third point, if they confirm that the Yang family is someone they can't afford to offend, then they should obediently cooperate with them and take advantage of the grand opening promotion of the Yang family's winery to buy more of their fruit wine.

“Array formation inheritance!” Ji Linfeng was taken aback.

Ji De'an immediately took out the Spring Breeze Token from Yang Family Winery. Ji Linfeng frowned slightly after looking at it, "This is just a simple restriction!"

“But they actually managed to apply the restriction to this tiny jade tablet!” Ji De’an said.

Among the various martial arts, the most complex is the art of formations, which is far more complex than alchemy and weapon crafting.

This is not to say that alchemy and weapon crafting are easy, but rather that the art of array formation is the most difficult to begin with.

Alchemy only requires knowing a few runes to refine a type of pill. A low-grade alchemist may only be able to refine two or three types of low-grade spiritual pills.

Similarly, weapon crafting is similar; only a small number of runes are needed to craft a low-grade spiritual weapon.

Of course, this is only from the perspective of runes; in reality, alchemy and weapon crafting are easy to learn but difficult to master.

The art of formations is difficult to learn and master.

There are many types of magic arrays, including human arrays, earth arrays, heaven arrays, weapon arrays, and so on.

The so-called human formation can also be understood as a military formation. It is a formation based on people, supplemented by armor made with runes and secret techniques, forming a powerful military formation that gives ordinary soldiers the ability to challenge stronger opponents.

The so-called earth formation is a formation that relies on the terrain to arrange the formation, borrowing the power of mountains, rivers and plants, such as connecting the earth veins, fire veins and water veins. Earth formations are mostly used to protect large formations, and can obtain powerful protective power by borrowing the power of the terrain.

The ancient formation is a typical earth formation, and it is not a single formation. From the outer protective formation to the inner palace's protective formation, as well as the power transmission formation in the power transmission hall, all of them borrow the power of the underground spiritual veins. Otherwise, they could not have been maintained for ten thousand years.

As for the Heavenly Array, it borrows the power of the sun, moon, and stars through special means. Such an array is beyond the capabilities of ordinary array masters. In any case, there is no true Heavenly Array in the Sea of ​​Spiritual Beauty.

The remaining method is to use magical artifacts to form arrays. For example, a few array flags can be arranged to form an array, or array plates and other array artifacts can be used to form an array.

Regardless of the type of magic array, its essence is inseparable from runes and restrictions.

The so-called grand formation is nothing more than a combination of thousands or tens of thousands of runes and restrictions.

A small restriction is nothing; their Hanxiao Sect also has several restrictions.

However, it is indeed questionable whether the restrictions can be used in a useful way.

To use prohibitions, one must understand their principles and functions.

Although the Hanxiao Sect has several restrictions, they don't know the principles behind them at all, only a part of their function. In any case, the Hanxiao Sect has never thought of using these restrictions for anything.

This is what makes Yang Zhengshan different from these traditional martial artists. Yang Zhengshan believes that alchemy, weapon crafting, and formations are all techniques worth studying. In his eyes, this is probably the science of the cultivation world.

Therefore, he was willing to invest manpower and resources in the research, and believed that as long as he continued the research, he would inevitably reap huge benefits.

And what about the Cold Cloud Sect?
Their superiors were unwilling to waste resources on such a meaningless thing, nor did they think it was something they could handle.

Alchemy and weapon crafting are somewhat better; they are willing to train some people in these fields.

However, on the path of the formation, they dared not have such presumptuous thoughts.

Ji Linfeng held the jade token and fell into deep thought.

Ji De'an hesitated for a moment, then said, "Grandfather, actually the Fan family should be the most anxious right now!"

"You're thinking?"

“The Fan family will definitely not tolerate the Yang family’s winery. We just need to wait and see!” Ji De’an said.

Ji Linfeng nodded slightly, "That's right, we need to be cautious about this matter. It's good to let the Fan family be the first to take the lead!"

Then he looked down at the wine jar in front of him, "But we should still buy more of this mixed fruit wine!"

“This price! I doubt the Yang family will ever offer us such a low price again!” Ji De’an said.

"Isn't their grand opening sale with 50% off everything?" Ji Linfeng asked.

"I understand, grandson. I'll arrange for someone to buy it tomorrow!" Ji De'an said.

"Yes, not just the Hundred Fruit Wine, but also some other spirit wines, just for the younger generation in the family!" Ji Linfeng said.

"Here!"

……

Inside the tailor shop next to Yang Family Winery.

Lady Cui stood by her son's side, watching him drink the spirit wine she had bought that day and then enter a meditative state, her heart filled with anticipation.

Cui Niangzi's husband's surname was Cheng, and he was known as Second Master Cheng.

Master Cheng wasn't a tailor before. His tailoring skills were passed down in Cui Niangzi's family. Don't underestimate this skill. Cui Niangzi's tailoring skills weren't just ordinary mending; she could sew talismanic robes.

This rune-patterned robe isn't exactly armor; it just has some special effects, such as being dust-resistant, durable, and offering a certain level of protection.

Of course, Cui Niangzi also had some skills in making leather armor, which was the reason why they were able to live in Xuegu Town and afford to rent a shop.

When Master Cheng went hunting in the mountains years ago, he encountered a powerful beast and was lucky enough to escape with his life, but he also lost an arm.

Therefore, all these years, Master Cheng and Madam Cui have been running this tailor shop and making a living.

Actually, they lived a pretty good life, with no worries about food and drink, and were considered a wealthy household in Xuegu Town.

However, one question has always been on their minds.

That is, their son is over fifty years old and still has not broken through to the Innate Realm.

In Snow Valley Town, one cannot support a family without reaching the Innate Realm.

Moreover, if they do not enter the innate stage, their lifespan will hardly exceed eighty years, and they will face the tragedy of white-haired people burying black-haired people sooner or later.

So, in order to help their son break through to the Innate Realm, the couple has gone to great lengths over the years, spending their savings to buy all sorts of pills, cultivation resources, and even the Fan family's Ice Soul Spirit Wine several times.

But the results were not ideal!
Their son has been stuck at the half-step innate level for almost eight years and has not yet broken through.

The reason why Madam Cui bought so much peach blossom wine so readily today is that she hopes it will help her son break through his limitations.

She had already decided that if the peach blossom wine didn't work, she would buy some mixed fruit wine the next day. Regardless of whether it would work or not, she would give it a try first!
Master Cheng sat outside the meditation room with his grandson in his arms, waiting. After seeing that her son had entered a meditative state, Madam Cui quietly walked out of the meditation room.

The couple exchanged a glance, everything understood without a word.

They dared not speak, for fear of disturbing their son's cultivation.

Poor parents in the world!

In order for their son to become a Xiantian martial artist, the elderly couple spent almost all of their life savings.

They waited with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation.

(End of this chapter)