Chapter 242: Joint Development

After Song Qingming told the news of the Wang family discovering the Geng Metal mineral vein, the usually steady Lu Yuanfeng was also greatly shocked. This Geng Metal mineral vein was truly not an ordinary spiritual mine; it was something the Xiaoyao Sect would definitely spare no effort to compete for.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you have been to the mineral vein. Can you tell how much reserve this spiritual mine has?"

"Fellow Daoist, you also know that I am not a spiritual prospector. Moreover, the Wang family has only mined a little bit of this spiritual mine, so it is indeed impossible to tell." Spiritual prospectors who can prospect spiritual veins according to the trend of the earth veins in a short time are very rare. Neither the Song family nor the Wang family has anyone who has learned this skill, so naturally, it is impossible to know the reserves of the mineral vein now.

Lu Yuanfeng nodded and continued: "Since that's the case, let me see if I can invite a spiritual prospector from the sect first, and then we will go take a look together."

Lu Yuanfeng directly sent a letter to Mount Guyang to notify the sect. After all, since it involved a Geng Metal spiritual mine, no one dared to be careless. It was best to find a spiritual prospector to take a look first to see how the Xiaoyao Sect would handle this matter later.

Upon receiving the news that a Geng Metal mineral vein had been discovered in Qinghe County, the Xiaoyao Sect attached great importance to it and soon sent three spiritual prospectors to arrive at Qinghe Market, who then followed Song Qingming and the others to Mount Fengtou.

As these spiritual prospectors went deep into the spiritual mine and continuously prospected the trend of the mineral vein, it took more than ten days to finally have a rough result.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the reserves of this Geng Metal spiritual mine on Mount Fengtou were more than everyone had imagined. Preliminary estimates of the reserves of this spiritual mine suggest that, according to normal operations, two thousand strong mortals could be invested to mine at the same time, and about thirty spirit stones worth of Geng Metal ore could be mined daily, with a total amount that could be mined for about two or three hundred years.

After this accurate news was sent back to the Xiaoyao Sect, the Xiaoyao Sect soon appointed a Jin Dan Elder to come and handle the matter with full authority.

Seeing Chen Xuanxin, dressed in white and looking like an immortal, descending on clouds to Mount Fengtou, Song Qingming was truly a bit surprised. He didn't expect that the person coming would be the Jin Dan cultivator he was most familiar with in the Xiaoyao Sect.

Just a year ago, when Song Qingming sent Song Xinyu to the Xiaoyao Sect, he witnessed the celestial phenomena on Mount Guyang with his own eyes. Later, after returning to Qinghe County, Song Qingming heard some news from the Xiaoyao Sect and learned that the person who formed the Jin Dan that time was Chen Xuanxin.

Back then, Chen Xuanxin had fought side by side with him to eliminate demons, and he had also been in the limelight for killing Yang Wuqi alone. However, only a few years had passed, and it felt like a lifetime ago. His status and that of the other people who traveled with him were now worlds apart, and he had become a high and mighty Jin Dan True Person.

"Greetings, Uncle-Master Chen, Senior Chen!"

Regardless of how Song Qingming addressed Chen Xuanxin in the past, now that he had successfully formed a Jin Dan, Song Qingming certainly had to address him as Senior. This is also the convention of this cultivation world: the capable come first.

Chen Xuanxin nodded naturally at everyone's respectful address and greeted the several Foundation Establishment cultivators he had met before, then led everyone directly into the mineral vein to take a careful look before starting to explain his purpose for coming this time.

Having discovered such a huge windfall as a Geng Metal spiritual mine, the Xiaoyao Sect naturally wanted to swallow this benefit alone. However, since this mineral vein was voluntarily offered by the cultivation family below, according to convention, the Xiaoyao Sect couldn't give no reward at all. They still had to give a little sweetness to let others see it, which could demonstrate their rewards for those with merit, so that more cultivators would come to the sect to voluntarily offer treasures in the future.

According to Chen Xuanxin's statement, the Xiaoyao Sect will occupy ninety percent of the shares of this mineral vein in the future, and the Song family and the Wang family will share the remaining ten percent together. Of course, they can only share spirit stones; all Geng Metal ore must be transported back to the Xiaoyao Sect.

To better develop this spiritual vein, it is also necessary to upgrade the spiritual vein on the side of the spiritual mine to the second tier, build a second-tier formation to guard this place, and then invest more mortals to mine the spiritual mine with all their might.

These necessary investments must be borne by all participating parties. The Xiaoyao Sect is responsible for the major part of the spiritual vein upgrade, while the Song family and the Wang family must find ways to provide enough mortal miners in the future to help mine the spiritual mine. As for the later transportation and processing of the ore, this is naturally the responsibility of the Xiaoyao Sect.

There is also the guardian of the mineral vein. The main guardian of the spiritual mine must still be led by the Xiaoyao Sect. They will arrange two Foundation Establishment cultivators here, and for the remaining Qi Refining cultivators, all three parties must send a portion of cultivators to guard the spiritual mine here.

Song Qingming had no opinion on the distribution of benefits. He was actually quite satisfied that the Song family could get a little bit this time. After all, they just voluntarily reported the matter and picked up an income of several hundred spirit stones a year for nothing, which could be considered a very good deal for the Song family.

As for the Wang family, it was also a pie falling from the sky. A fixed income of five hundred spirit stones a year was much more than what they could get from mining other mineral veins. If they were really given ten or twenty years of stable and peaceful time to develop, the Wang family would be very likely to cultivate a Foundation Establishment cultivator to change the fate of the entire family. But in the end, who let them be so lucky to find such a large Geng Metal spiritual mine.

Even Lu Yuanfeng, who helped deliver the letter, received a reward of several hundred spirit stones, which shows that the Xiaoyao Sect was indeed rarely generous this time.

After distributing the benefits of all parties, Chen Xuanxin soon left and returned to the Xiaoyao Sect, and Mount Fengtou was handed over to the two Foundation Establishment cultivators he brought.

Seeing that Chen Xuanxin did not mention the matter of the Wang family mining the spiritual mine in violation of regulations without knowing it before, everyone on the scene breathed a sigh of relief. Otherwise, if this matter were to be pursued, the Song and Wang families would certainly be severely criticized, and whether they could still share this ten percent of the shares would be uncertain.

Naturally, it takes some time to upgrade the spiritual vein of the Mount Fengtou spiritual mine to the second tier. After discussing this matter, Song Qingming and Song Changfeng also returned to Mount Funiu together.

Since it had been agreed, after the Xiaoyao Sect arranged things on the side of Mount Fengtou, the Song family would first send some cultivators to garrison there. As for the mortals, long-distance migration is inconvenient, so in the early stage, it will mainly be handed over to the people of the Wang family. After the spiritual mine stabilizes in the later stage, the Song family will consider migrating some mortals over.

Half a year later, as the spiritual vein on the side of Mount Fengtou finished upgrading, the Geng Metal mineral vein also began to enter stable mining. Song Qingming arranged for Shi Chun, who originally managed the Treasure Pavilion, to go to Mount Fengtou to help the family manage the affairs there.

After all, Shi Chun had been hanging around Guiyun Market for many years, and he was already proficient in dealing with people. There were not many people in the Song family who could compare to him in this aspect.

Now that the family's finances had slowly recovered, there were spirit stones coming in and out of the Treasure Pavilion, and it was no longer just a ledger like in the past. The Song family also attached more importance to the Treasure Pavilion than before. Although Shi Chun was deeply trusted by Song Qingming, he was, after all, a guest elder who joined the Song family halfway. In the past two years, several older elders like Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng had already begun to have some criticisms about him managing the Treasure Pavilion.

Song Qingming also took this opportunity to simply arrange for Shi Chun to be stationed at Mount Fengtou. With a second-tier spiritual vein, it was enough to satisfy his cultivation. Jointly developing the spiritual mine with the Xiaoyao Sect and the Wang family was also a very important matter for the Song family. With an old hand like Shi Chun watching over it, Song Qingming could also be a little more at ease.

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