Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 768 Let's make our move tonight!
With a thought, Yang Zhengshan stepped on the vines and rose up in front of Yu Qingyi.

"Hehe, little lady, you're not struggling anymore!"

He chuckled and even reached out to pinch Yu Qingyi's round cheek.

Yu Qingyi gave him a charmingly disdainful look. "I'm almost eighty years old, and you call me a young lady! You old man, aren't you ashamed!"

Yang Zhengshan blinked, and the vines on Yu Qingyi's body became much thinner, but they still bound Yu Qingyi tightly.

Yu Qingyi was originally dressed in a neat and unremarkable outfit, but being bound like this revealed her exquisite and delicate body.

Judging by her age, Yu Qingyi is now seventy-seven years old, which is quite old.

The problem is that Yu Qingyi still looks like she's in her late teens, even more beautiful than when Yang Zhengshan first saw her.

When I first met Yu Qingyi, she wasn't the kind of woman who was stunningly beautiful. Her round, oval face and slightly plump figure made her very pleasing to the eye.

Now, fifty-one years later, Yu Qingyi's face is as white as jade, her skin as smooth as cream, and her round oval face makes her look even more elegant and beautiful. Even her figure is exquisite and shapely.

Looking at the lovely woman in front of him, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but reach out and touch her slender waist.

"Stop fooling around!" Yu Qingyi could tell what the old man was thinking just by looking at Yang Zhengshan's eyes.

"It's getting late!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

Yu Qingyi rolled her eyes. "Let me go first!"

"That's much more charming!"

Yu Qingyi was completely speechless.

"Haha~~"

Yang Zhengshan laughed loudly, and then the two of them vanished into thin air, reappearing in the bedroom.

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The popularity of Yang Family Winery lasted for two days, but even after the grand opening promotion ended, the winery's business remained very good.

Although many guests regretted missing the grand opening sale, they still flocked to the winery's finest wines.

As time went on, the residents of Xuegu Town became even more fond of the spirit wine from Yang Family Winery.

In just a few days, more than ten martial artists suddenly appeared in Xuegu Town because of the spirit wine from Yang Family Winery.

Spirit wine that can help martial artists break through their cultivation level will naturally be sought after by countless martial artists.

In reality, the spirit wine from the Spirit Source Land isn't that magical. The reason people feel it can help martial artists break through to the Innate Realm is entirely due to survivor bias.

A dozen or so people may sound like a lot, but don't forget that Snow Valley Town has a population of thirty to forty thousand, among whom there are quite a few martial artists with a cultivation level of half-step Xiantian, numbering in the hundreds.

Even if half of these people drank the spirit wine from Yang Family Winery, that would still be two or three hundred people, and only a dozen or so would break through. The probability of that is not very high.

It's just that new things are more likely to generate discussion, which creates a strange situation.

When neighbors walk through the streets and alleys, they all talk about this.

Has your eldest son broken through to a higher level?

"no!"

"Oh dear, that's a real pity. My nephew only drank half a jin of peach blossom wine, and he broke through to the next level that very day!"

"Who says otherwise! My brother-in-law broke through after only drinking peach blossom wine for three days!"

"It's alright, maybe if Dalang drinks for another two days he can break through!"

And so, the reputation of Yang Family Winery grew. Those who had made breakthroughs said that the winery's spirit wine had miraculous effects, while those who hadn't made breakthroughs planned to buy more and drink it for a few more days.

For more than ten days in a row, business at Yang's Winery was booming.

As dusk fell and the winery closed, Luo Zhen, carrying the ledger and storage bag, went to the backyard to report the winery's business for the day to Yang Zhengshan.

"Patriarch, we sold 1,342 catties of spirit wine today, earning 432 spirit stones! That's 30 spirit stones less than yesterday!" Luo Zhen said.

Yang Zhengshan took the ledger and glanced at it casually, saying, "Hmm, it's almost stabilized! It'll probably stay around four hundred spirit stones for a long time to come!"

The amount of spirit stones he earned in the past few days had been decreasing, far less than before, but Yang Zhengshan was not disappointed at all.

The day with the most spirit stones was the second day after the business opened. On that day, more than 10,000 catties of wine were sold, and more than 400 catties of the Hundred Fruit Wine were sold, bringing in a total of more than 5,000 spirit stones.

Then on the third day, they received more than three thousand spirit stones.

On the first day after the grand opening sale ended, we earned over a thousand spirit stones. After that, the amount decreased by about a hundred spirit stones each day, and today, we have only earned a little over four hundred spirit stones.

Yang Zhengshan estimated that the number would continue to fall, and once everyone's enthusiasm subsided, it would gradually drop to around three hundred spirit stones.

This situation was to be expected. Snow Valley Town was not a prosperous place. Although there were many innate martial artists here, most of them were poor and far less wealthy than the martial artists of the Spirit Sea.

Therefore, earning 300 spirit stones a day is already quite good.

As for the tobacco business, it was far less popular than the spirit wine. In just over ten days, only a few heavy smokers bought some to try.

However, this does not negate the potential of the tobacco business. Martial artists are far less accepting of tobacco than spirit wine, but over time, it will certainly cultivate many loyal customers.

Yang Zhengshan believes that the tobacco business still has great potential in the future.

It might not be as good as spirit wine, but it can still bring him a lot of spirit stones.

“Once the winery business stabilizes, you should also familiarize yourself with the local medicinal herbs and exotic beasts. We’ll need to acquire a large quantity of them in the future,” Yang Zhengshan said.

The Spirit Source Land is rich in spiritual herbs, but the variety of spiritual herbs there certainly cannot compare to that of the vast Cloud Mountain Range.

Yang Zhengshan wanted to use the abundant medicinal resources of the Yunxiao Mountains to increase the variety of medicinal herbs in the Spirit Source Land.

Especially some precious spiritual herbs, even in the land of spiritual origin, cannot be cultivated in a short period of time.

The growth of medicinal herbs can take decades, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years.

Currently, the Spirit Source Land can only cultivate some low-level spiritual herbs; truly high-grade spiritual herbs still need to be purchased from outside.

The same applies to exotic beasts; both their corpses and cubs are worth acquiring in large quantities.

Every part of a mythical beast is valuable, and some can even be used to make medicine and pills.

Yang Zhengshan not only wants to increase the variety of spiritual plants in the Spirit Source Land, but also the variety of exotic beasts in the Spirit Source Land.

Therefore, it is essential to open a shop in Snow Valley Town that specializes in buying and selling elixirs and exotic beasts.

However, Luo Zhen and his companions didn't know much about the types and prices of spiritual herbs and exotic beasts, and they needed to figure these things out gradually before they could open a shop.

"Understood, Your Majesty. I have already arranged for people to inquire about the prices of spirit herbs and exotic beasts. However, this may take a long time!" Luo Zhen said.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "No rush, let's train the manpower first. We can hire a few outsiders who are familiar with this to do this, but we must have our own people who are proficient in this!"

"Yes!" Luo Zhen nodded in agreement. The types of spiritual herbs and exotic beasts are incredibly diverse. Some exotic beasts are inherited from their bloodline; their ancestors were exotic beasts, so they have a stable bloodline. Other exotic beasts are mutated because they have consumed rare and precious herbs. Such exotic beasts have almost no information to refer to.

The blue wolves represent a lineage of bloodlines, and their descendants are all exotic beasts.

The Crimson Cloud Horse is a mutated beast that has been induced by consuming rare and precious materials. They have not yet formed a stable bloodline, so their offspring may be either mutated beasts or ordinary horses.

The same applies to elixirs. Some elixirs are elixirs by nature, while others mutate into elixirs because they grow in special environments.

In the land of spiritual origins, many spiritual plants are mutated from ordinary species, with the spiritual tea tree being the most valuable example.

Yang Zhengshan had never transplanted spirit tea trees before, but now there are many spirit tea trees in the Spirit Source Land.

Many herbs that were once considered precious medicines have now seen their quality improved.

"What's the reaction from the Fan family?" Yang Zhengshan then asked.

Luo Zhen shook his head slightly, "There's been no reaction yet, but we've noticed they're trying to find out where we came from!"

"How did you find out?"

“Many people have tried to trick us into revealing information recently, but we’ve managed to fob them off!” Luo Zhen said.

Those who can emerge from the Land of Spiritual Origin are all specially trained individuals, subject to strict secrecy regulations.

The Spirit Origin Land also has its own Secret Martial Guards, but these guards are not an independent organization; instead, they are directly integrated into the Dharma Protector Hall.

Everyone who comes out must undergo training and instruction at the Dharma Protector Hall.

Outsiders who want to know their origins have no other way than to try to get information out of them.

They exist in Snow Valley Town without any origin or source; they just appeared out of thin air, so naturally, their origins cannot be traced.

“The Fan family will definitely take action. Be careful from now on, and try not to go out, lest you get kidnapped!” Yang Zhengshan said.

Yang Zhengshan didn't know much about the Fan family's situation. The information he had came from the Secret Martial Guard, but the Secret Martial Guard's information was only superficial and could only be used as a reference, not as a basis.

However, Yang Zhengshan could put himself in the Fan family's shoes. If he were in the Fan family's shoes, he would absolutely not allow the Yang family winery to exist.

Therefore, he estimated that the Fan family would definitely take action against the Yang family's winery.

And the time for taking action should be very recent.

In fact, this is the result that Yang Zhengshan wanted to see. He left Liang Shengze and Qu Changkong here, just waiting for the Fan family to make a move.
As long as the Fan family dares to cause trouble, he has a reason to take action against them.

Just as Yang Zhengshan had predicted, Fan Chengyue could no longer restrain himself. In the past ten days or so, looking at the thriving Yang Family Winery, he could no longer suppress his greed.

What does the booming business of Yang Family Winery signify?
This means that a large amount of spirit stones flowed into the Yang family's pockets.

At this point, he didn't care at all about the impact Yang Family Winery had on their Fan Family Lingjiu business; he only wanted to take over Yang Family Winery for himself.

If they could take over the Yang family winery, the Fan family's spirit wine business would expand several times over, and their profits would also increase several times over.

Just thinking about it gave him an urge to rush into the Yang family winery and capture everyone.

However, Fan Chengyue was not an impulsive person, and Xuegu Town was not a place where his Fan family could act arbitrarily. He still had to abide by the rules set by Hanxiao Sect.

Of course, some rules can be broken.

Today, he is prepared to break the rules.

On the third floor of the restaurant, he smiled and saw a middle-aged man out of a private room.

This middle-aged man was Yuan Bai, another Tiangang-stage martial artist from the Hanxiao Sect stationed in Xuegu Town.

Unlike Ji Linfeng, Yuan Bai came from an ordinary background and had no family support. Even though he was now a Tiangang stage martial artist and held a high position in the Hanxiao Sect, he still had to work hard to secure his own cultivation resources.

For Yuan Bai, being stationed in Xuegu Town was an opportunity to earn extra money, and Fan Chengyue's invitation today was an opportunity for him to earn spirit stones.

Moreover, this opportunity is a long-term meal ticket.

Fan Chengyue has already promised him that he will receive 30% of the profits from Fan Family Restaurant in the future.

All he needed to do was turn a blind eye and let the Fan family take action against the Yang family's winery.

Stepping out of the private room, Yuan Bai stopped and said in a low voice, "Like I said, we shouldn't make too much noise, otherwise I won't be able to explain it to that old bastard Ji Linfeng!"

"If anything really goes wrong, you'll have to clean it up yourselves!"

Ji Linfeng was older and stronger than him, and his status in the Hanxiao Sect was also higher. Although he controlled the law enforcement team in Xuegu Town, he could not ignore Ji Linfeng's existence.

There is a prohibition in Snow Valley Town: violence is forbidden within the town.

Yuan Bai is a typical example of someone who wants to gain benefits but doesn't want to cause trouble.

Fan Chengyue said in a low voice, "Don't worry, my lord, I know what I'm doing!"

Although he looked down on Yuan Bai, Fan Chengyue still spoke with utmost respect.

"Yes, I trust you to handle things!" Yuan Bai patted his shoulder with satisfaction.

Fan Chengyue watched his departing figure, his deep-set eyes filled with a disdainful sneer.

A moment later, he returned to his room, his expression returning to its usual coldness and gloom.

"Is anyone here?"

A deep, icy voice echoed in the room, instantly turning the warm room cold.

In the bright candlelight, a blurry figure emerged from behind the curtain and said softly, "They've arrived. Let's make our move tonight!"

A faint smile appeared on Fan Chengyue's chiseled face. "Soul-Severing Blade, hehe, let me see if your strength is as formidable as the legends say!"

The figure behind the curtain slowly emerged, revealing an ordinary face. "Uncle, will doing business with the Soul-Severing Blade offend the Three Sects of Lingxiu?"

"Offend?" Fan Chengyue glanced at him. "We are not qualified to offend the Lingxiu Three Sects!"

The young man's expression froze.

Fan Chengyue smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, the three Lingxiu sects won't pay attention to a small family like ours!"

His words were harsh, but they were true.

With the strength of the three major sects of Lingxiu, why would they pay attention to a small family like the Fan family?
Even if the three sects of Lingxiu wanted to strike at Duanhundao, they wouldn't waste their time and energy targeting the Fan family.

Besides, the Fan family only spent spirit stones to ask for help; they had no real connection with the Soul-Severing Blade.

Upon hearing this, the young man's expression relaxed. "Nephew understands!"

After saying that, he retreated behind the curtain, turning into a shadow as if he didn't exist.

(End of this chapter)