Chapter 225: Several Generations of Planning (Two-in-One)

"The eastern part is cut off from the Linghe area, the southern border offers treasures to that old dragon, the northern Ziyan Sect has been an ally for many years and is quite honest, but the western side has been cut off by Xiao Chuting..."

Chi Zhiyun sat quietly on the colorful throne, holding his forehead in silence, feeling quite terrified in his heart. Only after sitting in this position did he realize what Chi Wei had said before he died. The Qingchi Sect is now sitting on a volcano that is about to erupt.

Chi Wei just died, and the Xiao family established itself as an immortal clan. Several other immortal sects have repeatedly tested it, and the families in the counties are eager to move. If it weren't for the four Early Zifu cultivators sitting in town, I am afraid there would have been a big problem.

"Now we can only appease and get close to the Xiao family, keep them neutral, and then severely suppress the families. As long as there are four Early Zifu cultivators in the sect, nothing big will happen."

Chi Zhiyun thought of the four Foundation Establishment cultivators who appeared in the Xiao family overnight and felt itchy with hatred. He patted the armrest hard and said hatefully:

"This family is truly hateful!"

Chi Zhiyun was still thinking, but someone came up from below and said respectfully:

"Sect Master... There was a turmoil in Linghai County. A group of demon cultivators incited loose cultivators in the county to attack the market set up by my Qingchi Sect. Fortunately, several peak masters arrived in time, and the crowd dispersed. Only a few poor loose cultivators were caught."

Chi Zhiyun looked up incredibly and said in a deep voice:

"How is it possible! A few loose cultivators dare to collide with my Immortal Sect market?!"

The man hesitated for a while and replied:

"Sect Master! According to several peak masters, these people seem to be bewitched by demon arts, appearing crazy, I am afraid it is not simple."

"Demon arts?"

Chi Zhiyun paused. In ancient times, everyone often said that demon heads should be killed. Now few people distinguish between immortals and demons. If you have to say it, it is still the strangeness of curse arts, I am afraid it cannot be separated from it.

"Don't worry about it for now."

He waved his hand and said in a low voice.

The man bowed and continued:

"Si Yuanbai came out of the tower, packed up the things of Qingchi Peak, and didn't talk to that True Person, and went out of the peak by himself."

Chi Zhiyun laughed lightly and nodded:

"Let him go."

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Li Tongya rose on the wind and walked all the way east. He landed in the Guanyun Peak market. Now that Xiao Chuting has become a Early Zifu, this place has changed its atmosphere. From time to time, cultivators come down specifically to discuss the news of the Xiao family.

Li Tongya looked for a spirit medicine shop. An apprentice at the Embryonic Breath stage was counting medicinal materials in front of the cabinet. Seeing Li Tongya, he stood up immediately, walked up with a flattering face, and smiled:

"Is the master going to buy medicinal materials?"

"Mm."

Li Tongya nodded and said in a low voice:

"Treasure medicine."

The apprentice was stunned, knelt down hurriedly, and said tremblingly:

"The small one spoke too much: May I ask if you are a Foundation Establishment senior!"

"Correct."

Li Tongya responded softly, and the apprentice kowtowed several times, his voice still trembling, and said tremblingly:

"The small one's cheap voice insults your ears. Please go upstairs, senior."

Li Tongya couldn't speak for a while. He didn't expect Foundation Establishment cultivators to be so noble. He opened his mouth, and seeing the apprentice still trembling, he didn't speak in the end and went upstairs silently.

The decoration on the second floor was obviously much more luxurious. Several Qi Refining cultivators were looking at the counter, picking medicinal materials. Li Tongya had just entered the door, and everyone looked over. Spiritual sense touched Li Tongya, and they retracted in horror, all saying respectfully:

"Greetings, senior!"

"Greetings, ancestor!"

Li Tongya saw a group of Qi Refining cultivators looking at him cautiously, and the whole medicine building was quiet. He had to wave his hand and said:

"You all do as you please, I just came to look for a medicinal material."

"Yes!"

Several Qi Refining cultivators saw Li Tongya speak, so they had to walk around with their heads hard. They looked at each other and tacitly retreated one after another. Not long after, there was only one buyer, Li Tongya, in the huge building. The shopkeeper was disturbed in his business, but he had a flattering smile and said respectfully:

"What are your orders, senior?"

"Is there treasure medicine."

The shopkeeper's eyebrows jumped when he heard Li Tongya's words, and he said tremblingly:

"The Qingchi Sect forbids the sale of treasure medicine. Only the Qingchi Sect can buy and sell it. Senior is joking."

Li Tongya paused, looked at the appearance of a group of Qi Refining cultivators, and had a guess in his heart, saying in a low voice:

"It seems that Foundation Establishment cultivators no longer use this market?"

Then the shopkeeper said respectfully:

"Senior, the Guanyun Peak market provides spiritual objects and magic tools for Embryonic Breath and Qi Refining. There are not often Foundation Establishment cultivators visiting. Senior can go to the nearby families to ask, maybe there is news of treasure medicine..."

"There are only a few markets in Yue Country that can provide spiritual objects and magic tools at the Foundation Establishment level. When the Wangyue Lake market was there a few years ago, there were Foundation Establishment cultivators coming and going, but unfortunately, it has been destroyed now."

Seeing Li Tongya thinking silently, the shopkeeper smiled flatteringly and said respectfully:

"Senior should go to the families to ask. The immortal families on the peak, the Yuan family on Xunlin Plain, the Yu family and Fei family of Wangyue Lake, should also have news of treasure medicine."

Li Tongya nodded, but smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking to himself:

"Buying treasure medicine from the Xiao family and then sending it to the Xiao family as a congratulatory gift is really too funny."

The shopkeeper looked at Li Tongya's face and said respectfully:

"May I ask, senior... which family's ancestor are you, or which peak are you cultivating on? The small one is willing to inquire for the ancestor. In the future, if there is news, I will send it to the senior immediately."

Li Tongya raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect this person to be a smart and bold one. He knew that this medicine building shopkeeper wanted to climb a high branch and find a backer. It's just that the news of his breakthrough is only known to a few direct descendants and allies, so it is not suitable to spread it, and it is not the time to intervene in this market, so he waved his hand:

"A loose cultivator."

The shopkeeper wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and apologized repeatedly. Li Tongya shook his head indifferently. Seeing that this person was smart, he threw out a headless and tailless topic:

"You keep the news first, and I will come to see it in a few years."

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly. Li Tongya rose on the wind and disappeared over the market. The shopkeeper wiped the sweat and moved slightly, murmuring:

"If there is a Foundation Establishment family backing us, we can lean toward the center of the market, and we don't have to be squeezed out by others every day."

The apprentice behind him stepped forward and asked in a low voice:

"How did the shopkeeper know? What if this person is a loose cultivator... wouldn't we be looking for a grandfather to exploit ourselves?"

The shopkeeper laughed and said in a low voice:

"This senior came up to look for treasure medicine. Where can a loose cultivator afford this? What's more, this person has a majestic bearing. At first glance, he is in a high position. At worst, he has a small temple... You all still have to learn more!"

"Yes!"

The apprentice responded in a low voice, and a group of people happily organized the medicinal materials.

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Li Tongya rose on the wind, and the Guanyun Peak market under his feet became smaller and smaller. He thought to himself:

"My family relies on the big mountain and can produce a lot of medicinal materials and spiritual objects. We also need a shop in the market. What's more, the family has alchemy techniques and alchemy furnaces. In the future, there must be alchemy inheritance, and medicinal materials are indispensable. This person is smart and bold, so keep him as a leisure piece first, and maybe it will be useful in the future."

Li Tongya recalled the reactions of the people around him, and a deep emotion rose in his heart. He only felt that Foundation Establishment cultivators were noble before, but he didn't expect it to reach this point. Back then, Si Yuanbai came down from the sky, and the Li brothers only had the share of being fierce and cowardly. Now he has achieved Foundation Establishment and has become a person of the same level. Everyone calls him an ancestor, and in the Qingchi Sect, he is also at the level of a peak master.

"Three sects and seven gates, Qingchi's thirty-six peaks are the most, roughly forty Foundation Establishment cultivators. I heard that Jin Yu Sect and Xiuyue Sect have more than fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators together. The remaining seven gates are even fewer, with a total of fifty or sixty. Adding up the families and loose cultivators, the Foundation Establishment cultivators in Yue Country should be more than two hundred."

The entire Yue Country has tens of millions of people, and there are tens of thousands of cultivators, but there are only more than two hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, which shows their nobility. The Li family cannot compare with the Xiao family, but compared with other families, it can be considered to have some foundation now, and with the blessing of talisman seeds, Li Xuanfeng is the only one who is expected to establish Foundation.

"As for the Early Zifu..."

Li Tongya sighed secretly. He has seen so many people now. Except for his fourth brother, Li Chijing, only An Jingming can be called Early Zifu material. If you count the people he met once, maybe you can add a Ning Wan.

"Xuanxuan and Xuanling have no spiritual apertures, relying on talisman seeds to cultivate. Being able to reach Qi Refining is already a lot of blessings. Xuanfeng's temperament is too fierce, his mind is too wild, killing people and monsters is fine, but I am afraid it is difficult to reach the Early Zifu."

"Yuanjiao and Qinghong's talent is better, but they haven't reached the level of monsters. With the blessing of talisman seeds, they should have a chance to impact Foundation Establishment, but the Early Zifu is also slim. I don't know how many generations the Li family will have to produce such a character."

He sighed in the long sky, secretly blaming himself for not being satisfied, and murmured:

"With one or two Foundation Establishment, the family can continue steadily and slowly increase the foundation. The Xiao family has a Early Zifu in three hundred years, and my family has not been a hundred years yet. Forcing it is meaningless."

Withdrawing his thoughts, Li Tongya re-thought about the treasure medicine, thinking to himself:

"Among these families, the Xiao family and the Yu family cannot be asked, the Fei family is as poor as my family, and the Yuan family has never been in contact, but..."

Li Tongya's eyes lit up, and a place appeared in his heart, thinking:

"It is possible to go and ask, and also chat with that person. After all, they are neighbors, and it is best to make a good relationship."

Having made up his mind, Li Tongya rose on the wind and went west.

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"Li Yuanjiao!"

Li Qinghong stepped forward with a smile, her crisp voice waking Li Yuanjiao from his thoughts. Li Yuanjiao snorted indignantly and said angrily:

"Li Qinghong! Haven't seen you for three years, and you can't even call me brother?!"

"Hehe."

Li Qinghong stationed her long spear, the red tassel dancing in the air, and her bright red robe fluttering slightly in the wind. She smiled:

"Are you thinking about my future sister-in-law?"

Li Yuanjiao's expression was embarrassed, he snorted, the corners of his mouth raised, drew his sword, and while laughing, pretended to be angry and said:

"Still poor-mouthed, call me brother quickly!"

After speaking, he raised his sword to block Li Qinghong's cold spear. The two fought dozens of rounds with smiles. Li Qinghong's spear technique had made great progress, making Li Yuanjiao raise his eyebrows repeatedly, but his mouth was unforgiving, shouting:

"You have learned these skills after studying in the family for these years?"

Li Qinghong didn't fight back, but the spear technique became more and more fierce. Both used the Yue River Turbulent Step, but neither was pure. One style and half a move, taking turns to occupy the upper hand, unable to hold on, so they had to laugh and rest the moves, sitting down to talk.

"Qinghong's spear technique has made great progress, and her cultivation has also increased greatly. The three years in the Fei family were not in vain."

Li Yuanjiao said seriously at this time, and Li Qinghong also smiled and replied:

"Brother, you don't know, the spiritual energy concentration of the Fei family's Hanyun Peak is not comparable to my family, and their territory is large, and there are many peaks, no wonder they can raise so many Qi Refining cultivators."

Li Yuanjiao wiped his sweat, put the sword into the sheath, and laughed:

"Isn't it? If it weren't for the support of Huaqian Mountain and Shanyue now, where would the spirit rice come from every meal, and even the offerings in the family could not be paid. Whether it is the elders or us juniors, I am afraid the breakthrough time will be delayed by three or four years."

The two looked at each other, Li Qinghong said in a low voice:

"Brother is right. In Qinghong's view, if it weren't for the expansion and wealth of the family, how could the lineages and surnames be as obedient as they are now? People in the world seek profit and fear death. The ancestor uses prestige to deter, and the elders use profit to soothe, which is the long-term way."

"I didn't expect the daughter generation to have this insight."

Li Yuanjiao teased, then said seriously:

"You hit the nail on the head. The eldest brother will not be here in the future. The Yuanqing generation will be led by the two of us. We must calculate well to suppress the surnames and lineages."

Looking at Li Qinghong's deep agreement, Li Yuanjiao was quite appreciative, feeling like a confidant, and suddenly remembered something, his expression changed, and he said in a deep voice:

"I heard from the elders that you want to cultivate that *Purple Thunder Secret Origin Art*? Father also asked me to persuade you. If Qinghong has any thoughts, why not say it."

Li Qinghong nodded slightly and said in a low voice:

"Exactly. The technique is powerful and is a perfect match for the family's magic weapon. I am a person who loves spears, so how can I not be moved? This lineage already has Yuanyun to inherit, so I can get a free body, but it doesn't matter if I can't have descendants."

Li Yuanjiao had to nod. The two brothers and sisters had made progress in the past three years. After a conversation, they commented on people, and they were all appreciative of each other. Li Yuanjiao looked up with a smile and saw a stream of light coming from the east, saying:

"The uncle has returned from hunting monsters, and that Jin Geng Longbow is truly eye-catching."

Li Qinghong was sad, and said in a low voice:

"I am not afraid of brother laughing. I am also a person with high spirits, and I understand him best. The uncle has the art of killing, but he is trapped in the small world of Lijing Mountain. I am afraid he is not happy in his heart."

"Like a character in a storybook, he should have gone away, happy and vengeful, but he is trapped in the mountains, naturally suffocated, but he never spits it out."

Li Yuanjiao was stunned. It was the first time he realized that such a thing existed. He raised his eyebrows and asked in a low voice:

"Several elders... do they know?"

Li Qinghong pursed her lips and replied:

"How can they not know? They all see it, but the situation is forced, so they dare not say much. Each elder has his own difficulties, all for the family."

Li Yuanjiao was silent, just silently clenching the hilt of the sword, and sighed for a long time:

"With the strength of my clan, several generations have planned for an immortal clan."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 226 =====