Chapter 761: Distributing Spirit Veins, Setting Up Teleportation Formations

One month after Song Qingming returned to the family, Zhao Mengling, having finished refining the secret technique, arrived at "Mount Funiu" as promised to remedy the source of the Gilded Fruit Tree.

With Zhao Mengling, a third-tier mid-grade spirit planter, personally taking action, the subsequent process went very smoothly. In less than half a day, Zhao Mengling successfully transformed the refined secret technique into a spirit talisman and integrated it into the foundation of the "Gilded Fruit Tree."

Seeing that the speed at which the spirit tree absorbed spiritual energy had stabilized, Zhao Mengling left the Song family's rear mountain "Spirit Medicine Garden" with satisfaction.

"Junior Brother Song, in just over ten days, once the spirit tree has completely refined this talisman, the lost source will be fully restored."

"Although the integration of the spirit talisman went very smoothly this time, it is still hard to say whether it can help it advance successfully. I estimate it will take half a year to see the results."

"I have two second-tier Ebony Talismans here that will help the spirit tree absorb spiritual nutrients faster. You just need to stick one on the roots of the spirit tree every month."

After receiving the spirit talismans handed over by Zhao Mengling, Song Qingming immediately transferred them to Song Yuanxue, who was standing to the side, and then took a spirit stone bag from his body and stuffed it into Zhao Mengling's hand.

"This matter is all thanks to Senior Sister Zhao for coming to help despite the hardship. It is just a small token of my appreciation; I hope you will accept it."

Seeing Song Qingming stuffing over a thousand spirit stones into her hand again, Zhao Mengling did not accept them directly this time. Instead, she put away the smile on her face, waved her hand, and said:

"Junior Brother Song, you are too polite. This remedy method did not require much time; it was just a small favor. Junior Brother has already given me spirit stones for this before, so how could I be embarrassed to accept these? If word got out, wouldn't everyone think I was a money-grubber?"

"Junior Brother, quickly take back the spirit stones, otherwise I will be angry."

"This... this matter was Junior Brother's oversight. I hope Senior Sister will not be angry. Please follow me to the mountain to taste some tea and rest for a moment."

Seeing Zhao Mengling's expression change and her firm refusal to accept the spirit stones, Song Qingming did not insist further. He hurriedly put away the spirit stones in his hand, offered a smiling face, and led Zhao Mengling to the "Hui Xian Pavilion" at the top of the mountain.

Zhao Mengling had been in the Core Formation stage for many years and had always liked making friends within the "Xiaoyao Sect," paying close attention to her reputation.

Knowing that she would not accept the spirit stones, Song Qingming could only let Song Yuanfang go to the family's Treasury Pavilion to pick out two bags of relatively precious spirit tea to send over, which finally made Zhao Mengling accept them with a pleased expression.

Over the years, Song Qingming had always interacted with other elders in the sect with mutual courtesy. Even when facing people like Fang Baixuan, who had reached Core Formation later than him, he never thought of taking advantage of them.

This time, Zhao Mengling was willing to help by personally coming to "Mount Funiu" to remedy the spirit tree's source, which was already out of respect for him. No matter what, Song Qingming could not let her return empty-handed.

After chatting and drinking tea with Zhao Mengling for a while, seeing her stand up to take her leave, Song Qingming hurriedly sent her off personally, only stopping outside the mountain before returning to the clan.

Over the next few months, Song Yuanxue and the others carefully tended to the "Gilded Fruit Tree" according to the method Zhao Mengling had described. Indeed, hard work pays off; half a year later, the fruit tree actually successfully advanced to the third-tier mid-grade.

This time, the "Gilded Fruit Tree" not only successfully advanced, but also successfully bore a mature third-tier mid-grade spirit fruit. This immediately made the entire Song family overjoyed.

On the other side, after Xu Cheng Ziyan informed the sect's two Supreme Elders, Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian, of Song Qingming's request for the "Cangyuan Mountain" spirit vein, unsurprisingly, the two had no objections to the Song family wanting to manage this spirit vein and agreed on the spot.

The Song family also paid a great price to obtain this spirit vein, spending a full seventy thousand spirit stones to successfully purchase this third-tier spirit vein from the sect's General Affairs Hall.

Fortunately, over the years, the Song family had obtained many spirit veins and monster materials through the Northern Expedition against the demon race. Coupled with the windfall from the family discovering the "Shuangfeng Mountain" spirit stone mine, the treasury had already accumulated over one hundred thousand spirit stones.

Just taking down the third-tier spirit vein of "Cangyuan Mountain" would not hurt the family's foundation for the time being.

However, in order to be more low-key and not appear too wealthy in front of others,

When Song Qingming discussed the price of taking over the spirit vein with Xu Cheng Ziyan, he still complained quite a bit, letting the sect agree to pay half of the spirit stones first, with the remaining balance to be paid off by the Song family over ten years.

Regarding this, Xu Cheng Ziyan was naturally understanding.

The Song family had just taken down "Bai Shiling" a few years ago and had invested a lot of spirit stones in this third-tier spirit vein. The sect was naturally clear about this without Song Qingming needing to say much.

Therefore, when Song Qingming made this request, Xu Cheng Ziyan did not say much and quickly agreed.

Moreover, Xu Cheng Ziyan also represented the sect in agreeing that if the Song family wanted to build a marketplace on "Cangyuan Mountain" in the future, the sect could invest and hold shares. Then, the two sides could operate the marketplace together, which would also relieve a lot of pressure on the Song family.

Song Qingming also expressed his agreement with Xu Cheng Ziyan's idea on the spot.

It was just that the "Cangyuan Mountain" spirit vein was located in a remote area, and currently, there were not many human cultivators in the vicinity, so it was not yet suitable to build a marketplace there.

It would not be possible to manage this spirit vein well for the time being. It is estimated that it will take at least three to five years for the surrounding area to slowly develop before enough cultivators can gather around "Cangyuan Mountain" to open a marketplace and earn spirit stones.

After obtaining the "Cangyuan Mountain" spirit vein, Song Qingming immediately arranged for the family's Foundation Establishment elders, Song Xuanting and Song Xuanyu, to take dozens of cultivators to "Cangyuan Mountain" to take over the spirit vein.

Then, they first set up a third-tier low-grade mountain-protecting formation above the spirit vein and began to renovate this third-tier spirit vein that had been occupied by monsters for many years.

In addition to the "Cangyuan Mountain" obtained by the Song family, the other several third-tier spirit veins conquered by the "Xiaoyao Sect" in the Northern Expedition also found their owners one after another.

The owner of one of the third-tier spirit veins, "Youyun Mountain," was the rogue cultivator Zhou Ziyang, who had participated in the Northern Expedition together with the "Xiaoyao Sect."

Song Qingming had long expected that Zhou Ziyang would obtain a third-tier spirit vein from the sect.

After all, ever since Zhou Ziyang returned to the State of Wei, he first helped the sect resist the demon race's blockade at "Guyang Mountain," and later followed the "Xiaoyao Sect" in several major battles in the Northern Expedition, all of which involved significant contributions.

Zhou Ziyang was not an elder of the "Xiaoyao Sect," but he had contributed so much to the sect one after another. It was indeed justifiable to want to obtain a spirit vein in the north after the war. On this point, it was also difficult for the "Xiaoyao Sect" to refuse.

Originally, Song Qingming thought that Zhou Ziyang would be like Zhang Tieyang, choosing to join the "Xiaoyao Sect" directly and become a guest elder of the sect.

But what he did not expect was that although Zhou Ziyang had received several active solicitations from the sect, he did not nod in agreement.

Instead, he chose to emulate the late Ancestor Chen of "Tuoyun Mountain." After obtaining the third-tier mid-grade spirit vein of "Youyun Mountain," he directly opened a sect there and recruited disciples extensively, wanting to create a force of his own like Chen Jinliang.

In the cultivation world, there are cultivators like Zhang Tieyang who are open-minded and love to enjoy life, but of course, there is no shortage of people like Zhou Ziyang who are devoted to the Dao and want to create a foundation in this cultivation world.

Regarding Zhou Ziyang's choice, although Song Qingming was a little surprised, he still admired his ideas quite a bit.

In any case, Zhou Ziyang was indeed a person who dared to think and act. Even if his achievements in the future were not as good as Chen Jinliang's, he would still leave a deep mark in the hearts of the cultivators in the Wei State cultivation world.

In addition to "Youyun Mountain," another third-tier low-grade spirit vein fell into the hands of a Core Formation rogue cultivator who came from the Pei State in the south.

After this person obtained this spirit vein, unsurprisingly, like Zhang Tieyang, he quickly joined the "Xiaoyao Sect" and became a guest elder of the sect.

Apart from these few third-tier spirit veins, the remaining dozens of second-tier spirit veins were all taken out by the General Affairs Hall and sold directly at marked prices, except for a very small portion kept by the sect.

Among them, many were local cultivation families and rogue cultivators of the Wei State, and many also came from surrounding countries upon hearing the news. For a time, the entire Wei State also had many more foreign cultivators.

After selling off so many spirit veins in its hands, the "Xiaoyao Sect" not only added many cultivators to its ranks, but also immediately recovered hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, making a fortune.

As the "Xiaoyao Sect" brought out many spirit veins in the north, a large number of cultivators flooded into the north of the entire Wei State, and everywhere began to become lively.

For these cultivators to come to the north of the Wei State to take root, having spirit veins to cultivate is naturally not enough. Various spirit items such as elixirs, spirit talismans, and magic tools are also indispensable.

In just half a year, with the continuous surge in the number of cultivators, the price of low-tier cultivation elixirs in the entire north of the Wei State rose by nearly 30%.

Besides the "Xiaoyao Sect" making a fortune here, those merchants who were on good terms with the "Xiaoyao Sect" and nearby cultivation families like the Song family also got a piece of the pie.

During the period of vigorous development in the north of the Wei State, Huang Siyuan, who had traveled to the East Sea cultivation world several times, also brought back good news for the family: she had successfully purchased a teleportation formation needed by the family.

Ever since the Song family took down the third-tier spirit vein of "Bai Shiling" in the Northern Expedition, in order to facilitate the management of this spirit vein, Song Qingming wanted to emulate the sect and set up a teleportation formation between the family and the "Bai Shiling" front line to connect the two places.

In this way, on one hand, if any changes occurred at "Bai Shiling," the family could quickly reinforce it through the "teleportation formation," without worrying about the monster army suddenly attacking the front line and reinforcements not being able to arrive in time.

On the other hand, it could also connect the two places through the "teleportation formation," saving low-tier cultivators traveling back and forth more than ten days of walking, and saving a lot of costs for transporting materials and personnel, which is a major event extremely beneficial to the long-term development of the entire family.

It is just that the materials needed to refine a "teleportation formation" in the cultivation world are very rare and are basically controlled by a small number of large sects. Therefore, apart from the lowest-tier small teleportation formations, it is difficult to see "teleportation formations" above the intermediate level on the market. Over the years, after Huang Siyuan made many inquiries in "Tiandancheng," she finally, with the help and introduction of her good friend Ye Qiuyuan, successfully bought a small "teleportation formation" that the Song family needed now, spending over tens of thousands of spirit stones.

"Teleportation formations" in the cultivation world are divided into four types according to the distance of teleportation.

The one with the shortest teleportation distance is called a "small teleportation formation." The teleportation distance of this kind of "teleportation formation" is generally around one or two thousand li.

When Song Qingming first went to participate in the "Tiandan Alliance" auction, the one he took to the venue was this kind of smallest "teleportation formation." The price of setting up such a teleportation formation is almost ten or twenty thousand spirit stones.

The more rare "intermediate teleportation formation" that can teleport a distance of about ten thousand li is even more rare. One such teleportation formation requires at least about one hundred thousand spirit stones. Basically, only large forces above the Core Formation stage in the cultivation world have the financial resources to set them up.

The "intermediate teleportation formations" set up by the "Xiaoyao Sect" in several of its important spirit vein territories are of this kind.

For so many years, the "Xiaoyao Sect" has fought many battles with the demon race. It is precisely because the intermediate teleportation formation set up in "Guiyun Fang" could reinforce the front line in time that they were able to withstand the huge pressure brought by the monsters in the north.

After this sect's Northern Expedition, in order to better manage the countless spirit veins that countless cultivators had paid a bloody price to win in the northern front line,

Xu Cheng Ziyan, the sect's acting "Sect Master," quickly made a trip to the East Sea cultivation world, purchased a set of "intermediate teleportation formations" from there, and set them up between "Guiyun Fang" and "Bai Yun Valley."

With the connection of the "teleportation formation," although they are separated by tens of thousands of li, they can still reinforce each other, and the entire north of the Wei State has become much more stable because of this.

The "large teleportation formation" further up can teleport a distance of about one hundred thousand li. This is not something that an ordinary sect has the financial resources to set up. According to what Song Qingming knows, there is currently no sect in the entire Fuyun Mountain Range that has this ability.

Even looking at the entire Donghuangxian Continent, only a very small number of top Nascent Soul forces have the possibility of setting up this kind of "large teleportation formation" with extremely high operating costs.

As for the higher-tier "ultra-large cross-state teleportation formations," they can help cultivators directly cross the vast ocean to other cultivation worlds, which is even less common in ordinary places. It is estimated that there are not many in the entire Donghuangxian Continent cultivation world.

This time, the Song family originally wanted to find an "intermediate teleportation formation" like the one used by the Xiaoyao Sect, but after searching for a long time, they could not find any news about such a teleportation formation.

It was not until a month ago that Huang Siyuan, who was at "Mount Funiu," received a letter from Ye Qiuyuan, who had helped find news of a "small teleportation formation" with relatively good quality in "Tiandancheng."

Although this teleportation formation was only the lowest-tier "small teleportation formation," the teleportation distance was much farther than an ordinary "small teleportation formation," and it could teleport nearly four thousand li.

Although this teleportation distance did not meet the Song family's original requirements, it could barely be used, and the price was relatively much cheaper than the intermediate teleportation formation used by the "Xiaoyao Sect," which was relatively more affordable for the Song family.

After some careful deliberation and discussion among the few, Song Qingming still decided to let Huang Siyuan go to the East Sea cultivation world and purchase this "small teleportation formation."

The small teleportation formation brought back by Huang Siyuan can teleport four thousand li, which happens to be about the same distance between "Bai Shiling" and "Chiyan Fang."

After Huang Siyuan brought the teleportation formation back from "Tiandancheng," Song Qingming immediately took all the formation masters in the family and worked day and night for more than a month before finally successfully installing this "small teleportation formation" in the two marketplaces.

As soon as the teleportation formation was set up, several bolder Song family cultivators immediately took the initiative to step forward and applied to test the teleportation effect.

As the white light lit up and flashed by, these people quickly disappeared from the teleportation platform. After a while, white light lit up on the teleportation platform again, and the people who had just teleported away appeared in front of everyone again.

"Reporting to the Ancestor, we have just arrived at Bai Shiling. This is a letter that Ancestor Changze asked us to give to you!"

Looking at the letter sent to him by Song Changze from thousands of li away in his hand, knowing that the teleportation formation had been set up steadily, a trace of joy suddenly appeared on Song Qingming's face.

Although this teleportation formation cost the family nearly forty thousand spirit stones, being able to connect the two marketplaces also brought great convenience to the Song family in guarding these two spirit veins in the future.

With the teleportation formation connected, once the marketplace on the northern front line encounters an emergency that requires support, the family only needs to send cultivators to the nearby "Chiyan Fang" to take the teleportation formation and arrive instantly, without spending too much time.

For a Core Formation cultivator like Song Qingming, it originally took at least an hour to rush to "Bai Shiling." Now, if he takes the teleportation formation from "Chiyan Fang," he can arrive in less than a quarter of an hour at most.

In this way, even if there is no Core Formation cultivator stationed at "Bai Shiling" all year round, there will not be any major safety hazards. At most, it will just cost more spirit stones to activate the teleportation formation.

After the teleportation formations in the marketplaces on both sides were installed, it is now much more convenient for the cultivators stationed on the front line of "Bai Shiling" to return to the family, and they can return to the family to visit relatives and friends at any time.

In addition, the Song family setting up a "teleportation formation" between the two marketplaces can also open it to the outside world and charge a certain fee for cultivators traveling between the two places.

Although the profit of this short-distance teleportation is not high, over time, small amounts can add up to a lot. As long as the family can carefully maintain this "small teleportation formation," the spirit stones spent will sooner or later be recovered.

Since Song Qingming reached Foundation Establishment, after nearly two hundred years of development, the Song family now has many industries outside, but there are not many industries that can stably bring a large amount of profit to the family every year.

In addition to the two mineral veins of "Shuangfeng Mountain" and "Yinfeng Ridge" which can harvest four or five thousand spirit stones every year, the two marketplaces of "Chiyan Fang" and "Bai Shifang" are also important sources of income for the family.

Not counting other miscellaneous things, just collecting rent for marketplace shops and renting out caves to those rogue cultivators passing by is a considerable income.

Coupled with the profits of the shops operated by the family, the Song family can earn more than five thousand spirit stones from these two marketplaces every year.

As long as these two marketplaces can operate stably and there is such a large income every year, the family treasury will not lack spirit stones.

Therefore, Song Qingming attaches such great importance to these two marketplaces and does not hesitate to spend so many spirit stones to specifically purchase a "small teleportation formation," just to add a few more points of insurance and protection to the marketplaces.

After successfully setting up the teleportation formation, Song Qingming did not rush to leave. Accompanied by Song Xuanling, the Song family elder stationed at the marketplace, he went to patrol the streets of the marketplace.

Although "Chiyan Fang" has been established for less than a hundred years, it is far less long-standing than surrounding marketplaces like "Qinghe Fang" and "Jin Shan Fang."

However, under the careful management of the Song family over the past few decades, the business of "Chiyan Fang" quickly surpassed many surrounding marketplaces and has become the premier large marketplace in the northeast of the Wei State.

The greatest credit for this goes to the couple Song Changze and Liu Yuxin, who were stationed at the marketplace for many years. Most of the rules and regulations currently operating in "Chiyan Fang" were left behind by the two of them when they were here.

Song Qingming later transferred the two of them to "Bai Shiling," also because he took a fancy to the ability of the Song Changze couple to manage the marketplace.

Although "Bai Shifang" is a marketplace operated by the Song family and the "Xiaoyao Sect" together, the Song family holds a larger share of the entire marketplace. Song Qingming also wants to manage "Bai Shifang" into a large marketplace like "Guiyun Fang" in the future.

It is just that "Bai Shiling" is a territory that the Song family has just taken down. Currently, there are not many cultivators and mortals living nearby, and the development speed is not as fast as "Chiyan Fang" was back then. It will still take some time to become the large marketplace in Song Qingming's heart.

After walking around "Chiyan Fang," Song Qingming, who was very satisfied with the situation of the marketplace, praised Song Xuanling a few words, and then prepared to leave the marketplace and go to "Shuangfeng Mountain" not far away to take a look.

Just as he arrived at the entrance of the marketplace, a Song family Qi Condensation late-stage cultivator suddenly chased up from not far away and handed a letter to Song Xuanling, who was following Song Qingming.

After taking the letter and scanning it, a trace of doubt suddenly appeared on Song Xuanling's face, and he hurriedly presented the letter in his hand respectfully to Song Qingming.

"Reporting to the Ancestor, this is a letter that the Sixteenth Grand-Uncle just sent urgently from the clan to find you, saying that there are some things in Qinghe Fang that he wants you to go back and discuss."

"What is the matter in Qinghe Fang? Didn't Yuanfang make it clear in the letter?"

Hearing that it was Song Yuanfang sending a letter to find him to discuss things, Song Qingming asked with some surprise, and then took the letter presented by Song Xuanling.

Seeing Song Xuanling standing on the side shaking his head slightly, Song Qingming did not say anything more and opened the letter in his hand directly.

After looking at it carefully, the originally relaxed expression gradually became a bit solemn, but then quickly returned to calm, and he put the letter in his hand directly into the storage bag.

"Ancestor, are you still going to Shuangfeng Mountain?"

Hearing Song Xuanling's cautious inquiry, Song Qingming shook his head directly and said: "I have something to do today, so I will go back to the family first and will not go there. Later, you send a letter to Linrui and the others to inform them of this matter. I will go take a look next time when I have time."

"You all go back to do your own things. You don't need to send me off."

After speaking, Song Qingming turned and walked out of the marketplace under the gaze of everyone, then took out the "Phantom Boat," which turned into a streak of light and disappeared from the spot.

After leaving "Chiyan Fang," Song Qingming did not choose to return to "Mount Funiu," but controlled the flying boat all the way to the southeast of Qinghe County, heading straight for "Qinghe Fang." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 762 =====