Chapter 66

Baiyun Feng here is located inside the Yunwu Mountains, with almost no enemies, and it is also quite secluded. Building a city here and expanding the population is a good choice. That valley is enough to expand to tens of thousands, or even one hundred thousand people, without any problems.

After returning from this task, Su Fan would suggest to the family to build a city here at Baiyun Mountain.

However, the only concern is that the spirit vein of Baiyun Feng is too low, only first-grade mid-tier.

Once a city is built, it must have several cultivators sitting in town, and in the end, it might even need an elder at the ninth layer of Qi Refining to sit in town.

However, for a first-grade mid-tier spirit vein, mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators are fine, but for late-stage Qi Refining, especially ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivators, it is already insufficient; at least first-grade high-tier is required.

This is also why mortals building cities are generally established around spirit veins.

Therefore, if one wants to build a city in the Baiyun Feng valley, one must upgrade the spirit vein here. There are two ways to upgrade a spirit vein: one is to set up a Spirit Gathering Array here to gather the spirit energy of the surrounding fields to nourish the spirit vein.

It's just that this method takes a very long time, often requiring several decades.

Another way is to use spirit stones to improve the spirit vein. According to Su Fan's estimation, to upgrade from first-grade mid-tier to first-grade high-tier, at least one thousand spirit stones are needed, and a Spirit Gathering Array must also be set up.

One thousand spirit stones—whether the family can make a net profit of one thousand spirit stones in a year is still an unknown.

Therefore, Su Fan didn't dare to be certain, but mentioning it wouldn't be bad.

Of course, these are just his inner thoughts; it is still several years before he completes the family task.

Su Qiren naturally didn't know Su Fan's thoughts. He looked at the spirit fields beside him, where the Jade Treasure Rice was about to be harvested, each grain plump like a small pearl, and he also smiled.

"You are being modest."

"However, you have taken good care of these three mu of spirit fields. These three mu of Jade Treasure Rice are quite substantial, estimated to be eight or nine hundred jin. After selling them and handing them over to the family, there should be eight or nine spirit stones left."

"In the first year, there is so much; next year there will be even more. Ninth Brother, you are truly remarkable. When I was on my first family task, I actually had to pay in quite a few spirit stones."

After finishing, he smiled with envy.

"Hehe! This is also a good job arranged for me by Granduncle. This time when I go back, I must thank him properly." Su Fan was naturally grateful; his task this time was more of a benefit, and there must have been many people fighting to do it.

Thanks to the Fifth Elder.

"We are all family, no need to be so clear-cut."

"Eh! Ninth Brother, is this a Black Fire chicken?"

Suddenly, the Black Fire chickens in the distance attracted Su Qiren's attention.

"Yes, these three are. Eldest Brother, those eight eggs you gave me before, I hatched three of them, and the other five failed, so I ate them."

"You were able to hatch them?"

Su Qiren asked with wide eyes.

"What's impossible about that? The eight eggs you gave me still had life force; they weren't dead eggs. As long as you give them a temperature similar to a mother hen, plus spirit energy, you can generally hatch a few. It's a pity that the eight eggs you gave me had been kept for too long, and the life force of the other five had faded too much to be hatched."

"I plan to raise these three. The two females can be kept to lay eggs continuously, and the male can be sold. This is a not-so-small amount of spirit stones!"

"You want to raise them? The cost is not small! And it takes a long time. Why not sell them now? Three chicks are worth nearly thirty spirit stones."

Su Qiren was surprised, but his expression became serious.

"Eldest Brother, I feed them with spirit rice, and they grow very fast. I estimate they can grow up in about three years."

"Look at these three; they have only been hatched for three months, but they look bigger than some that are a year old!"

In these three months, Su Fan scattered all his own rations of Jade Treasure Rice to feed the three Black Fire chickens, while he himself went into the mountains to hunt game.

He was not as high-minded as many immortal cultivators who didn't eat mortal food; for him, it was just about being full, anything was fine.

"Three years later, these two Black Fire chickens can lay eggs. In a year, one Black Fire chicken can lay at least thirty Black Fire eggs, which is also six spirit stones."

"And I can continue to hatch them. As long as there are a dozen or so, then in a year, the profit will not be low. Even if I pay some spirit rice, each one can still have a profit of two or three spirit stones per year."

Su Fan calculated an account. After Su Qiren heard it, his eyes also widened. According to Su Fan's speculation, as long as there were a dozen or so Black Fire chickens, then five years later, the annual profit would be a full twenty or thirty spirit stones, so what about fifty, or a hundred?

Of course, he also knew that a first-grade mid-tier spirit vein could at most raise a dozen or so; otherwise, any more would mean competing with them, the cultivators, for spirit energy.

But even so, three or five years later, at least for a dozen years, this is all profit. And when it gets old and stops laying eggs, it can still be sold for ten or twenty spirit stones.

This is definitely a very cost-effective business.

He couldn't imagine that Su Fan, at such a young age, had such a brain.

This Black Fire chicken is a first-grade low-tier demon beast. Ordinary people, upon seeing it, just kill and eat it, the feathers are used as auxiliary artifact-refining materials, and the eggs are spirit treasures containing spirit energy. No one had ever thought of raising them domestically.

Generally, those raised in the immortal cultivation world are mostly spirit beasts or something.

Spirit beasts, even many second-grade spirit beasts, often have low combat power and a gentle temperament.

Of course, there are also some combat spirit beasts. For example, the Yunyang Sect has a third-grade high-tier bird, which is the sect's protector, with strength comparable to a late-stage Purple Mansion human.

"Ninth Brother, if you can really succeed, then this time when I return to Liuyun Market, I will also keep an eye out for you. If I encounter Black Fire chicken eggs, I will buy them for you."

Su Qiren finally smiled and patted Su Fan on the shoulder. This is also good. Ninth Brother has such ability; it would be very good to become the family's spirit planter or beast tamer in the future. It's a pity the family has no inheritance techniques for beast taming.

However, relying on these to earn spirit stones is also a craft.

Su Qiren was not jealous; after all, he could now earn dozens of spirit stones a year, and once he could refine first-grade high-tier artifacts, he would earn even more then.

The profit of one artifact could even reach over a hundred.

After all, generally, a first-grade high-tier artifact costs at least three hundred spirit stones, a better one five hundred, and like a top-tier first-grade high-tier defense artifact, it can be auctioned for eight hundred.

However, that kind of artifact is generally refined by second-grade artifact refiners.

But Su Qiren didn't belittle himself; the family's inheritance in arrays and artifact refining is quite good, at least there is a second-grade inheritance.

He didn't say he could become a second-grade artifact refiner, but he had great confidence in becoming a first-grade high-tier one.

Therefore, seeing Ninth Brother find a way to make money, he was sincerely happy for Su Fangu.