Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 112 Ling Yulu: Junior brother is still capable!
A night without words...

When it was bright, Ling Changqing, in high spirits, dressed neatly and walked out of his senior sister's boudoir with satisfaction.

Then came Tang Qiuyao, with rippling eyes and radiant face, who got out of bed with a hint of laziness, sat down in front of the red jade dressing table with hairpins and flowers, and began to get ready and dress up.

Then, Ling Qiyue, who looked a little haggard, sat up silently, hugging the quilt, and watched Tang Qiuyao's actions expressionlessly.

"...How was it? Did Senior Sister and Junior Brother sleep well last night?"

Tang Qiuyao tilted her head and spoke with a smile on her face, charm flowing in her beautiful eyes.

"You still said that!"

Ling Qiyue said angrily: "You two made such a fuss, and then you made me... this is really too much!"

Tang Qiuyao smiled and said, "You can't blame us for this, right? It was you who insisted on joining, saying you wanted to learn..."

"Stop!"

Ling Qiyue's beautiful face was as red as a rosy cloud, and she gritted her teeth to stop the slut from continuing to talk nonsense.

Last night she was really blinded by greed and accompanied Tang Qiuyao in doing ridiculous and shameful things to please her junior brother. It was simply... If this got out, she would be too ashamed to face anyone!

Seeing that her senior sister looked like she might go crazy at any time, Tang Qiuyao wisely stopped provoking her and changed the topic:

"No matter what, Junior Brother obviously likes you more. I see that his cultivation is improving rapidly, so it shouldn't be long before he can be with you..."

Ling Changqing did not break his promise last night, he really just rubbed against Ling Qiyue. But the technique of rubbing against her is very learned.

Anyway, Ling Changqing himself was very happy, Tang Qiuyao was also very happy, and Ling Qiyue should... be very happy too.

Of course, she herself may not think so. After all, the feeling of being kept on suspense and stuck at the last minute is really too torturous.

At the critical moment, the infatuated Ling Qiyue changed her mind and decided to just eat her junior brother regardless of the consequences and deal with other things later.

Fortunately, Tang Qiuyao intervened in time and protected Ling Changqing, preventing Ling Qiyue from succeeding.

"Don't do this again in the future!"

Ling Qiyue sighed. Even with the determination and determination of a Jindan Zhenren, it would be impossible for her to stick to her original intention when faced with such an opportunity as her junior brother.

If the unspeakable game like last night were to happen again, Ling Qiyue was sure that she would definitely take the most crucial step and forcefully push Ling Changqing down.

Tang Qiuyao thought about it and nodded in agreement: "Okay then, I won't let you play with fire anymore. Wait until he reaches the middle stage of foundation building!"

The ideal situation, of course, would be to wait until Ling Changqing also reached the realm of Golden Core True Person, and then the two of them could practice dual cultivation.

But Ling Qiyue definitely can't wait that long, so the middle stage of foundation building is the minimum requirement.

Ling Qiyue blinked her beautiful dark eyes, looked at Tang Qiuyao's plump and charming snow-white body for a while, and asked faintly:

"You, vixen, should be not far from the middle stage of foundation building, right?"

The stunningly beautiful woman nodded calmly, "It will probably take another year or so before you can be promoted. Practicing with him will have a much better effect indeed."

I am afraid of comparison in everything.

She didn't realize it before, but with a Taoist partner like Ling Changqing, Tang Qiuyao discovered that her cultivation level could improve at such a rapid pace.

"You're getting an advantage!"

Ling Qiyue rolled her eyes at her hatefully, and with her amazingly long legs she pushed aside the quilt, revealing her captivatingly beautiful body. She got up from the bed and began to put on her clothes.

After the two girls finished dressing up, they walked out of their boudoirs hand in hand. Ling Changqing was already waiting for them in the inner garden's flower hall, and the maids had prepared a sumptuous breakfast.

Ling Qiyue glanced at the young man with a blushing face and said nothing. The two girls sat down at the table silently and began to enjoy their breakfast.

Generally speaking, when a cultivator reaches the foundation-building stage, he basically only relies on elixirs and spiritual energy, and will only eat to satisfy his appetite.

Ling Changqing is not very clear about other people's habits, but he himself still likes to enjoy high-end ingredients such as spiritual wine, spiritual rice, and spiritual beast meat.

"There are not many elixirs left in the family treasury. Go to the alchemy room to help out later!"

When it was almost over, Ling Qiyue whispered to him.

"Ok."

Ling Changqing agreed. After last night's close contact, his relationship with his senior sister had become even closer, and was no different from a true dual cultivation couple.

Tang Qiuyao watched with a smile, and did not continue to provoke Ling Qiyue.

For the next six months, Ling Changqing no longer went out, but stayed in the alchemy room, concentrating on refining pills and honing and improving his attainments in alchemy.

The same goes for Tang Qiuyao. Only Ling Qiyue would go out from time to time to take a tour of the Changqingzhou territory, and kill any foreign cultivators she met.

With her current level of cultivation and three magical weapons at her disposal, even if a fake Dan Zhenren was targeted, it would be difficult for her to escape, not to mention those foundation-building cultivators.

After several rounds of this, the three families, which had suffered heavy losses, had to temporarily stop their harassment. After all, those hired independent cultivators were so angry that they were about to rebel.

People just want to earn resources, not die.

Changqing Island thus entered a period of peace that lasted for several months. There were basically no more foreign cultivators intruding, and the Ling family also had a rare opportunity to recuperate.

In the alchemy room.

The magic circle patterns on the walls and the ground were sparkling with spiritual light and the temperature was overwhelming. A dark golden alchemy furnace about ten feet high stood in the center of the magic circle, and a light blue spiritual flame was burning at the bottom.

In front of the alchemy furnace, Ling Changqing, dressed in a gorgeous purple robe, sat upright, with a focused expression as he performed spiritual spells one after another, controlling the temperature of the spiritual flame expertly.

After half an hour, as the heavy furnace cover slowly rose, milky white clouds rolled out and gathered into Ganoderma lucidum-shaped clouds on the dome.

Ling Qiyue beside him nodded with satisfaction. Another furnace was completed. The level of the junior brother was getting better and better.

After Tang Qiuyao collected the finished pills one by one, Ling Changqing extinguished the spiritual flame and closed the magic circle with ease.

"Thank you for your hard work, Junior Brother!"

Tang Qiuyao spoke softly and handed over a Huiyuan Pill.

Ling Changqing did not refuse. He took the pill and swallowed it. After consuming most of his magic power, he began to recover quickly.

"Sister, what's the situation outside?"

"Isn't it just like that?"

Ling Qiyue frowned and said, "I went out a few times recently and didn't find any intruders after walking around for a long time. I don't know what bad ideas these three families are planning."

Ling Changqing pondered: "I think the three families don't want to continue wasting time like this. After all, the cost is too high."

There must be sufficient rewards for waging a war. If the rewards are little or even nonexistent, those in power will never allow the war to continue and will have to find ways to cut losses and withdraw.

This is the situation with the Bai family, the Yuan family and Yulong Island now. Since they cannot gain any benefits from the Ling family and they themselves have suffered heavy losses, what is the point of continuing to fight?

Tang Qiuyao said calmly: "They definitely don't want to continue fighting, but they are also unwilling to just give up, so there will be more to come."

Ling Qiyue smiled and said, "Then let's just keep wasting time and see how long they can hold out."

Although the Ling family was also under great pressure, they had the resources loaned by the Nebula Falcon Chamber of Commerce and a stronger foundation, so they could hold out for a few more years. In this way, in the sixth month after the harassment stopped, the top leaders of the three families finally stopped their endless internal quarrels and sent a message to the Ling family, asking them to restart the negotiations.

Ling Qiyue agreed and agreed on the negotiation location, on a giant ship off the coast of Longhuan Island.

After all, after the last lesson, the envoys of the three families would never dare to visit the Ling family's headquarters again.

And this time, Ling Qiyue has promised that as long as the three families do not take the initiative to provoke her verbally, she will not take action.

Two days later, in a carefully decorated hall inside the ship, the top leaders of the two families sat together again.

Yuan Wuya, the head of the Yuan family, first proposed that the Ling family could occupy half of the territory of Changqingzhou and have the right to choose the territory first.

The remaining half of the territory will be divided among the three families, and the Ling family can be nominally the master.

Compared with the last request that the four companies divide Changqingzhou equally, this plan seems to have made a lot of concessions, but it still does not meet Ling Qiyue's expectations.

So she refused without hesitation. The Ling family already controls the entire Changqing Continent. Why should they give half of it to you?
So the head of the Bai family, Bai Yunsong, proposed again: the Ling family could occupy two-thirds of the territory, and the remaining one-third of Changqingzhou could be divided among the three families, and the loyalty of the three families could be obtained.

"...Fellow Daoists, Changqingzhou has actually been controlled by the Ling family, so every inch of land, including those peripheral affiliated islands, all belong to us. This is beyond doubt!"

Ling Qiyue, who was sitting in the main seat, spoke with a serious expression.

This is a matter of principle. There is no room for compromise, even if it means another war breaks out.

Shemu sneered: "Your family's assets should be almost gone, right? Can you still fight?"

Tang Qiuyao said indifferently: "It's totally fine. Without saying anything more, it won't be a problem if we delay it for another ten or eight years!"

The three family heads looked at each other and remained silent for a long while.

Ling Changqing, who was sitting next to Tang Qiuyao, thought for a moment and said softly:

“In fact, we know that you have trained a group of foundation-building cultivators during this period of time, and perhaps there are some fake Dan Zhenren among them?

But this is meaningless. If you continue to waste time, even if you use up your last bit of wealth, it won’t change anything.”

The new leaders of the three families had gloomy faces and did not utter a word for a long time.

This is indeed unpleasant to hear, but it is the truth.

No matter how unwilling the three families were, they could no longer hold on.

"If the entire Changqing Continent belongs to your Ling family, it won't take many years for your family to be able to swallow up our foundation and unify the entire Feiyu Sea, right?"

Bai Yunsong said in a low voice.

If they cannot stop the rise of the Ling family, it will be the difference between death sooner or later for the three families.

Ling Changqing exchanged glances with his senior sister and said calmly:
“If you three families are really unwilling to accept this, then why don’t we just stop fighting for now, and the Ling family will manage Changqingzhou for 30 years.

Thirty years later, we will fight again. As long as you can win, the territory of Changqingzhou will belong to you!

Even if we are evenly matched, you can still get a share of Changqingzhou's territory resources. Is this a good enough condition?"

"..."

As soon as Ling Changqing said this, the leaders of the three families changed their expressions slightly, frowned, and remained silent.

This condition was very simple. It did not determine the permanent ownership of Changqingzhou. The Ling family was only temporarily in charge.

For cultivators at the foundation-building level and above, thirty years is actually not a long time. At most they can advance to one small realm.

If they could have thirty years to recuperate and restore their strength, perhaps they would then have a chance to take back the precious land of Changqing Island?

After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Bai Yunsong finally spoke:

“It sounds feasible, but you have obtained the rich resources of Changqingzhou, and thirty years is enough to improve the overall strength of the family!

When the war resumes, the three of us will still have no hope of winning!"

Tang Qiuyao smiled and said, "You can't say that, can you? We have to invest a lot of manpower, material resources, and time to operate and build Changqingzhou.

You didn't do anything, just focus on running the family and improving your strength, is this fair to us?"

Shemu snorted coldly: "Don't try to flatter us. At most, you will be in charge of Changqingzhou for 20 years.

Moreover, apart from using the spirit vein caves for cultivation, you are not allowed to mine the rare spirit mineral resources in Changqingzhou. You must keep them as they are!"

The mining of the spiritual mineral resources in Changqingzhou is not allowed, of course, to prevent the Ling family from gaining too many benefits. Otherwise, they will use these resources to cultivate a new generation of children and enhance the family strength too quickly.

Ling Changqing stared at her meaningfully and said in a deep voice:

"Okay, we agree to this condition!"

The environment of Changqing Island will be stabilized in two to three years, and then mortals will be able to migrate there on a large scale to live there.

Twenty years is enough for the Ling family to set up a large-scale third-order protective formation, open up hundreds of thousands of hectares of spiritual fields, medicinal gardens, pastures, forests, etc., and improve the average cultivation level of the family members.

As for not being able to develop those rare spiritual mines for the time being, it’s actually no big deal. He and Ling Qiyue have other ways to obtain a large amount of resources, which will not affect the family’s daily expenses.

Time is on the side of the Ling family. As long as the three families can be temporarily quieted down, Ling Changqing himself will be able to reach the middle stage of foundation building, and even Ling Qiyue may be able to reach the middle stage of golden elixir.

Yuan Wuya frowned and thought for a while, then finally said: "Since you have already approved it, then next... can we sign a ceasefire agreement?"

After all, words are not enough. There must be a specific agreement, and the leaders of both parties must swear by their own will to make each other feel at ease.

So, Ling Qiyue took out a jade slip, engraved the text of the agreement on it, and then gave it to the other party's elder for review.

The agreement will only be effective if both parties confirm that there is no problem with it and ensure its implementation.

It didn't take long for the three leaders to finish checking the agreement, sign it with satisfaction, and stamp it with their seals, thus reaching a consensus.

After signing the agreement, the three leaders ignored Ling Qiyue's attempts to keep them and quickly said goodbye and left, citing family matters as an excuse.

Needless to say, they are afraid that the same fate as last time will happen to them again.

"Finally, we've dealt with these bastards!"

Ling Yulu, the family law enforcement hall elder with a cold and serious expression, said softly: "Junior brother is indeed the most capable."

Ling Changqing smiled and said, "The key is that the head of the family still has to make the decision. I am just giving them a way out."

Ling Yulu's eyes moved, and her beautiful black and white eyes stayed on Ling Changqing for a moment, and she whispered:
"Do you have time to visit my senior sister? I know you like to drink spirit wine, so I specially prepared some."

Her daughter was also on the verge of the ninth level of Qi training and would soon be preparing to build her foundation. So the elder wanted Ling Changqing to help her refine a foundation-building pill.

Ling Changqing looked at the beautiful woman in black with snowy skin, dark eyebrows and elegant appearance, and agreed after thinking for a while:
"If Senior Sister trusts me, I can certainly give it a try, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed."

"It's okay, as long as you try your best!"

Ling Yulu smiled, her fair face slightly flushed.

(End of this chapter)