Chapter 296: Steady Development

Fortunately, the war with the Heavenly Sea Alliance was ten thousand miles away and would not affect Wei Guo for the time being, so Song Qingming didn't have to worry about this.

On Mount Funiu, ever since Song Qingming promulgated the family rules encouraging everyone to learn immortal cultivation skills, basically all cultivators of the Song family had learned one or two skills that could be brought out.

The most common immortal cultivation skills in the immortal cultivation world are alchemy, talismans, artifacts, and arrays. After these years of development, the Song family had greatly improved in every direction.

Ever since Second Sister Song Qingwan was injured a year ago, the family also began to pay attention to cultivating other alchemists. Currently, there were already a few good seedlings, among which the best performer was Song Xintang, ranked ninth in the Xin generation.

Although he was only a four-element spiritual root cultivator, he had some talent in alchemy. Following Song Qingwan to learn alchemy in the market for only five years, his level had already surpassed that of his elder clansmen who were earlier than him. Although he was not yet as good as Second Sister Song Qingwan back then, he was not far behind. As long as he was given a little more time patiently, it shouldn't be too far for this kid to break through to a mid-grade alchemist. Seeing that there were good seedlings, Song Qingwan, who was healing, also felt more at ease.

Besides the Fourteenth Old Song Qingsi, whom Song Qingming personally taught, the Song family's array masters had increased by three or four in these few years. Although these people's talent was not as good as Song Qingsi's, it was no problem for them to set up some ordinary arrays. As long as they could persist, they would also have the opportunity to raise their array level to high-grade in the future.

The skill of an array master is very difficult to earn spirit stones in the early stage, so most people would not prioritize this skill. After the Great Elder of the Song family passed away and the Twelfth Aunt suddenly died in the demonic beast turmoil, the entire family was left with only Song Qingming, an array master with an average level, almost breaking the inheritance in this regard.

Fortunately, now that there were rewards for learning immortal cultivation skills, many skills that were relatively niche in the early stage had begun to have people take the initiative to develop in this direction. With the family's spirit stones to help, as long as you had talent in this regard, it would be easier to learn.

As for talisman making and artifact refining, these two skills were relatively common in the immortal cultivation world. Now, more people in the Song family were learning them. The Song family already had more than one high-grade talisman maker and artifact refiner. The Song family's market shops were never short of magic tools and spiritual talismans all year round. Sometimes when business was bad, the shops even accumulated many.

Not only that, but the Song family also began to dabble in other relatively niche immortal cultivation skills. Spiritual plants, beast taming, puppets, spirit searching... and other immortal cultivation skills already had talents in this regard. Although their level was not very high now, as long as there was inheritance in this regard, it would always be useful in the family's smooth development in the future.

Regardless of which immortal cultivation skill, as long as you could raise your level to first-tier high-grade, you could easily earn spirit stones. This was also Song Qingming's biggest original intention back then, letting them at least have a way to support themselves. Similarly, this was also a major help for the family's future development.

For an immortal cultivation family to develop steadily, it is best to prepare a few more paths in advance. Now the family still has some surplus every year relying on the market and several mines, but if the family's situation is not good in the future, even if these assets are gone, as long as everyone has some skills to make money, they won't worry about a few spirit stones.

Besides these, the Song family had also increased its investment in spiritual fields and spiritual medicine gardens over the past twenty years.

Cultivating spiritual fields is the most practical and stable investment return project in the immortal cultivation world. Cultivators must eat spiritual rice before establishing Foundation. This kind of spiritual item basically doesn't worry about sales. Besides satisfying their own cultivators, they can also take out a portion to sell in Qinghe Market every year. This is a very stable income for the family. Although compared to other places that make money, it is not much, but it wins in stability. Over time, it is also very considerable.

The Song family's original dozens of acres of spiritual fields had expanded to two hundred acres after more than ten years of expansion. Although compared to families like the Huang family who had over eight hundred acres of spiritual fields, the gap was still far, but this had also accumulated quite a bit of foundation for the future Song family.

However, with more spiritual fields, the Song family's cultivators seemed insufficient. Every time it was busy farming, the Song family had to mobilize manpower from all over the place, sometimes even having to hire a portion from the vassal families below to help.

The Song family now had a total of fifty cultivators, and they had to be dispersed to several places to manage family industries. The people left on Mount Funiu were indeed a bit tight. It is estimated that it will take a few decades for the next generation of family cultivators to grow up before they can slowly get rid of this trouble.

After staying on Mount Funiu peacefully for more than a year, news came from Qinghe Market again, forcing Song Qingming to come out of closed-door cultivation and arrive at the market.

After Lu Yuanfeng was transferred away, the impact on Qinghe Market was not very great. Feng De, who was stationed in the market, was quite respectful to this old senior, and he reused the disciples and confidants Lu Yuanfeng left in the market. He didn't try to abolish some market regulations set by Lu Yuanfeng before, and his partnership with Song Qingyu didn't cause any contradictions.

Not long after Feng De arrived at Qinghe Market, Song Qingming took the initiative to visit him. Although this newly established Foundation Xiaoyao Sect cultivator didn't act as seasoned as Lu Yuanfeng, he was considered a steady and capable person. After Song Qingming exchanged with him, the relationship between the two also pulled much closer, and they exchanged their cultivation insights before parting.

After arriving at the Immortal Phoenix Tower, which hadn't been visited for a long time, Song Qingming looked up at the signboard and found that it seemed to be much newer than before. It is estimated that it was smashed in the last market turmoil and has now been replaced with a new one.

Although it was still the same name, Song Qingming felt in his heart that it seemed to be different from before, and he remembered what he looked like when he came here before.

After walking in, he saw that the position where the old man Li Quan sat had been replaced by this mixed kid Song Xinhu. He and Li Hongyu were now managing this restaurant quite well, and the business was not worse than when Huang Siyuan was there back then.

Li Quan was lucky enough to survive in the battle of Qinghe Market a year ago, but he was also injured. His old bones were injured and it was indeed difficult to recover completely. Now he has retired to the second line, and he rarely participates in the affairs of the restaurant, basically handing them all over to Song Xinhu.

"Hongyu, Seventh Uncle has come. Don't be busy first, hand it over to them to handle!"

Seeing Song Qingming walk in, Song Xinhu hurriedly ran to the back kitchen to call out Li Hongyu, who was busy. Now that the business of the Immortal Phoenix Tower was so good, naturally, she was not the only spiritual chef.