Chapter 535: Family Management

Seeing that the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the "Heavenly Fire Roc" were constantly rising, Song Song Yuanfang's face immediately revealed a hint of joy, and he hurriedly led the several family beast tamers behind him out of the "Heavenly Fire Roc's" cave.

After slaying the second-tier giant python with Song Song Yuanhao on Mount Mount Qingzhu, the "Heavenly Fire Roc" swallowed the snake gall in its body on the spot, which finally allowed it to find the opportunity to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. Not long after returning to Mount Mount Funiu, it soon fell into seclusion to break through.

It generally takes a spirit beast slightly longer to break through its cultivation base than a human cultivator. The "Heavenly Fire Roc" was in seclusion this time until half a year later, when its cultivation base officially broke through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, before it flew out of its cave.

Upon learning that the "Heavenly Fire Roc" had successfully advanced to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, Song Song Qingming specifically returned to Mount Mount Funiu to check on its condition.

The "Heavenly Fire Roc," which had just come out of seclusion and was gulping down food, saw Song Song Qingming, whom it had not seen for a long time, immediately abandoned the food in front of it, came before Song Song Qingming with a happy face, and kept showing off the thunder light on its body, which had become even more powerful.

"Hehe! Not bad, you are also stronger than before!"

After soothing the "Heavenly Fire Roc" for a while, Song Song Qingming had Song Song Yuanfang call over the several beast tamers in the family who took care of the spirit beasts and rewarded them well.

Some spirit beasts have low attack power but great strength; after being tamed, they can be used to help cultivators transport goods. Others have spirit beast materials on their bodies that are quite valuable, or their meat is very delicious. These types of spirit beasts that can create benefits for the family in a short time are the ones that most cultivation families like to tame the most.

During the ten years Song Song Qingming sat in Mount Mount Tuoyun, except for the Song family having some shares in the Mount Mount Tuoyun market, the Song family had not actively intervened in other affairs on the mountain. The management rights of the Mount Mount Tuoyun spiritual vein had always been in the hands of the "Golden Cloud Pavilion" controlled by Lin Lin Yutang and the others.

Rather than inviting a Golden Core cultivator of unknown background to take charge of Mount Mount Tuoyun, Lin Lin Yutang and the others were certainly willing to continue cooperating with the Song family. As long as the "Golden Cloud Pavilion" could retain the management rights of Mount Mount Tuoyun and yield some more benefits to the Song family, Lin Lin Yutang and the others were also very willing.

Although the ten-year agreement with Mount Mount Tuoyun had been completed, because Lin Lin Yutang and the others had not yet found a suitable retreat, and under their full retention, Song Song Qingming had not yet completely ended his agreement with Mount Mount Tuoyun from all those years ago, promising to continue to protect them for a period of time.

The Golden Cloud Pavilion not only possessed the ownership of the Mount Mount Tuoyun spiritual vein and 30% of the shares of the Mount Mount Tuoyun market, but also secretly controlled several small markets like Mount Bailong around Mount Mount Tuoyun. Over these years, Lin Lin Yutang and the others had also earned quite a few spirit stones.

Without the care of a Golden Core stage teacher, even if Lin Lin Yutang and the others had sufficient spirit stones, it would be very difficult for them to find a way to get better Five Elements Core Formation spirit items. Wanting to fully support Zhang Rong's successful Core Formation was not an easy matter.

Regarding the request from Lin Lin Yutang and the others to extend the agreement, after careful consideration, although Song Song Qingming did not directly promise Lin Lin Yutang and the others that he would stay in Mount Mount Tuoyun to sit in command for a long time as per the previous agreement, he did agree that he would continue to protect Mount Mount Tuoyun on the surface.

"However, managing a family involves many affairs after all. Some trivial matters below should be safely handed over to other elders of the family to handle. There is no need to do everything yourself, and do not let this delay your own cultivation."

This type of spirit beast, although very powerful in combat, is also very difficult to serve; sometimes they might even attack the beast tamers who tame them.

Hearing Song Song Qingming's affirmative words, a hint of relief immediately appeared on the faces of Song Song Yuanfang and Song Song Yuanxue.

"Hmm! The family now has too many industries, and the number of cultivators is still somewhat insufficient. This is indeed a problem, and we still need to think of a way to handle it properly. Song Yuanfang, what do you think about this matter?"

After Song Song Qingming returned to Mount Mount Funiu this time, he was not in a hurry to return to Mount Mount Tuoyun, intending to stay in the Song family for a few more days and wait until Song Song Qingyu was ready to go into seclusion before going to protect her.

Whether it was the Song family or Song Song Qingming, their reputation in the State of Wei over these years had always been quite good. Having dealt with Song Song Qingming for so many years, Lin Lin Yutang could also see that Song Song Qingming had no intention of occupying the Mount Mount Tuoyun spiritual vein.

"Thank you for your understanding, Seventh Great-Uncle. We two actually also want to steal some leisure, but now that the family has more and more industries, some relatively important matters cannot be decided by the people below."

During the ten years Song Song Qingming sat in Mount Mount Tuoyun, Lin Lin Yutang and his fellow disciples rebuilt the "Golden Cloud Pavilion," and the power of the local loose cultivators of Mount Mount Tuoyun, represented by them, also developed very quickly.

When Song Song Qingming first cooperated with them, his main purpose was still for the two cultivation art inheritances left by Chen Chen Jinliang, plus a little push from the Xiaoyao Sect behind them.

For one thing, the family's Mount Mount Funiu spiritual vein had not yet been upgraded to the third tier. Song Song Qingming staying in Mount Mount Tuoyun, which had better spiritual energy, to cultivate was more beneficial to his own cultivation.

In the Song family council hall on Mount Mount Funiu,

Seeing Song Song Qingming sitting at the head of the council hall, intently flipping through the accounts of the family's industries over these years, the faces of Song Song Yuanfang and Song Song Yuanxue, standing below, also always carried a hint of nervousness.

In learning beast-taming techniques, the Song family also had relatively thin talent. There were only five or six cultivators in the family's Beast Taming Hall who specialized in this path, and the one with the highest level was only a first-tier top-quality beast tamer. Their main task was to be responsible for taking care of the "Heavenly Fire Roc" and taming some low-tier spirit beasts with relatively gentle temperaments in the back mountain.

Song Song Yuanxue nodded along and said: "Sixteenth Brother is right. Last year, Song Yuanxi found a black iron mine with good output next to Mount Baiyang. If it can be successfully mined, it can allow the family to gather enough spirit stones to upgrade the spiritual vein sooner. It's just that the family currently lacks manpower, and mining this vein requires quite a few cultivators in the early stages, so we can only temporarily shelve this matter for now."

The nearest demon king to Mount Mount Tuoyun was their old opponent, the Cloud Crane Demon King. This demon king's cultivation base was only at the early Golden Core stage. In the short term, wanting to break through the current protective formation of Mount Mount Tuoyun was also unlikely. As long as it was not a special situation where multiple demon kings appeared at the same time to attack the spiritual mountain, Lin Lin Yutang and the others definitely had the confidence to hold the formation and wait for support from Song Song Qingming or the Xiaoyao Sect.

Because several family elders like Song Song Qingyu had focused their main energy on cultivation in recent years, the ones who had been in charge of family affairs for these ten years were mainly Song Song Yuanfang and Song Song Yuanxue, who were more interested in family management.

The spirit beasts around Mount Mount Tuoyun had been cleared out by the cultivators on the mountain over these recent years, and the protective formation on the mountain had been greatly enhanced in power after Song Song Qingming's improvements. Coupled with the defense of dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators, even if Song Song Qingming was not on the mountain, if ordinary low-tier spirit beasts dared to invade, having Lin Lin Yutang and the others there was enough to deal with them.

During the ten years Song Song Qingming sat in Mount Mount Tuoyun, he basically had not stayed in the clan for a long time. After returning to Mount Mount Funiu this time, Song Song Qingming also took the opportunity to carefully check the situation of the family everywhere.

Although they failed to extend the agreement as they wished, having obtained Song Song Qingming's promise to continue to protect Mount Mount Tuoyun, Lin Lin Yutang and the others immediately nodded in satisfaction and agreed.

Secondly, the Song family still had 20% of the shares in the Mount Mount Tuoyun market, which was also a not-insignificant income for the family. Coupled with the fact that Lin Lin Yutang and the others would need to pay an extra tribute of spirit stones to Song Song Qingming every year, these also made Song Song Qingming change his mind, not intending to let go of Mount Mount Tuoyun's affairs so quickly.

Over these years, Lin Lin Yutang and the others had not considered inviting other Golden Core loose cultivators to sit in Mount Mount Tuoyun after the ten-year agreement with Song Song Qingming ended. However, it is easy to invite a god but difficult to send one away. Once an outside Golden Core loose cultivator took charge of Mount Mount Tuoyun, it would definitely be impossible for the "Golden Cloud Pavilion" to control the entire Mount Mount Tuoyun like this in the future.

In the cultivation world, the difficulty of learning the path of beast taming is no easier than other cultivation skills; it also requires some personal effort and talent, especially in taming those spirit beasts that are of higher tier and have irritable temperaments.

Now the Mount Mount Tuoyun market was still quite prosperous, bringing quite a lot of income to the "Golden Cloud Pavilion" every year, and Zhang Rong still had hope for Core Formation. Unless it was a last resort, Lin Lin Yutang and the others would definitely not be willing to take this path and voluntarily yield the control of the Mount Mount Tuoyun spiritual vein to others.

Within the entire cultivation world of the State of Wei, there was no very high-level beast-taming inheritance. Even in a Nascent Soul sect like the Xiaoyao Sect, there were only some second-tier beast tamers, and there were no beast tamers above the third tier.

It is a pity that a few years ago, Lin Lin Yutang and the others spent quite a few spirit stones to pull strings and exchanged for a "Jade Dust Pill" from the Xiaoyao Sect, wanting to support Zhang Rong's Core Formation. As a result, Zhang Rong went into seclusion for a few years, but still fell short and failed to successfully form his core.

Mount Mount Tuoyun, this spiritual vein, is located on the front line of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range surrounded by spirit beasts. Without a Golden Core cultivator sitting in command, it would definitely not work for a long time. Since Zhang Rong had failed his Core Formation this time, Lin Lin Yutang and the others also had to consider other retreats for Mount Mount Tuoyun.

After the ten-year agreement with Song Song Qingming expired, Lin Lin Yutang and the others thought it over and over again, and finally begged Song Song Qingming, deciding to adopt the method of mutual employment to extend the agreement between Mount Mount Tuoyun and Song Song Qingming.

After reading for a while, Song Song Qingming, who slowly put away the account book in his hand, revealed a hint of a smile on his face and slowly said to the two people below: "You have done well over these years. I have looked at all parts of the family these past few days, and basically there are no major problems. You have worked hard in this regard."

Seeing that Song Song Qingming wanted to hear his suggestions directly, Song Song Yuanfang pondered slightly and replied: "Now that the family has too many industries and we are too busy to handle them, we can actually consider contracting some less important industries outside to other subordinate cultivation families around us.

In this way, we can free up quite a few family cultivators to help manage other core industries of the family, and we can also directly convert these industries with low value into spirit stones to solve the family's urgent need for spirit stones."

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