Chapter 451

During the recent ten years, the entire Song family has also developed very quickly. Nowadays, the Song family has more than one hundred and twenty cultivators, and the family mortals have already exceeded one hundred thousand. This foundation is not much lower than other old-fashioned Foundation Establishment families.

The increase in family cultivators and mortals will naturally bring a great burden. For this reason, Song Qingming and many elders of the Song family have also spent a lot of effort these years to find more ways for the family to earn spirit stones.

Besides the original market shops and the income from several mineral veins, the Song family has also spent a lot of energy these years to learn from other old-fashioned cultivation families and invested many spirit stones in cultivating spiritual veins and opening up new spiritual fields.

Nowadays, there are many more cultivation families in Qinghe County than before, and the income from the shops in Qinghe Market has also dropped a lot. Sometimes, because the surrounding situation is turbulent and business is not good, the family still needs to take out some spirit stones to subsidize it.

Compared to the income from mineral veins, which will sooner or later be eaten up, the spiritual veins and spiritual fields opened up are assets that the family can pass on forever. These are also the biggest guarantee for them to maintain family stability in the future.

Besides these, the Song family has also had great changes in other aspects these years.

The Song family now has four Foundation Establishment cultivators including Huang Siyuan, and its strength on the surface in Qinghe County has already faintly exceeded the Huang and Gao families. These years, there have also been some new Qi Refining families migrating to the vicinity of Mount Funiu, becoming vassal families under the Song family.

These vassal families also voluntarily hand over some spiritual items to Mount Funiu every year to exchange for the Song family's protection of them. This aspect can also be considered to provide a not small income for the Song family every year.

The rules of the cultivation world are like this. The relationship between the strong and the weak is more about interests. If a Qi Refining family wants to get the protection of a Foundation Establishment family, they must hand over some spiritual items to exchange for it.

Similarly, if a Foundation Establishment family like the Song family wants to survive safely in the Wei State controlled by the Carefree Sect, they must abide by the rules of the Carefree Sect. No matter what high-grade mineral veins or other high-grade spiritual items needed by the sect are discovered in your territory, they must be reported and handed over to the Carefree Sect first.

Just like when the Wang family of Mount Fengtou discovered a rare Geng metal mineral vein back then, no matter whether it was the Wang family or the Song family, facing such a large sum of wealth, they did not dare to covet it casually and could only report it to the Carefree Sect, waiting for the sect to send people to deal with it.

Although the Carefree Sect also gave the Song family and the Wang family some shares of the mineral vein afterward, compared to the original value of the Geng metal mineral vein, this was just a tiny bit of petty profit.

Not only these, the Carefree Sect also occupies most of the interests in almost all markets in Wei State. Because they control these cultivation resources, major cultivation families in Wei State also have to continuously transport talents to the Carefree Sect for their own survival and development.

Besides Song Xinyu, the Song family has also sent several people with better spirit roots to worship in the Carefree Sect these years. Song Qingming also very much wanted to keep them all in the family, but if he forcibly kept them, the Song family would not be able to provide a Foundation Establishment Pill for everyone in the future.

Instead of watching them end their path like those family predecessors, it is better to send them to the Carefree Sect, so that they have a chance to strive for a Foundation Establishment opportunity themselves in the future.

Moreover, the Song family now has a Foundation Establishment elder, Song Xinyu, in the Carefree Sect. After these children worship in the sect, they can also be considered to have a relatively stable backing, and their days will not be too difficult.

Besides these, the Song family has also expanded a new way to earn spirit stones these years, which is brewing spiritual wine.

Back then, after Song Qingming accidentally saved Fu Sanshan and bought a spiritual wine recipe from him, the Song family began to arrange for cultivators in the clan to learn wine brewing skills and try to brew spiritual wine themselves.

These years, Fu Sanshan stayed on Mount Funiu, and after having better resources and conditions in the Song family, he really improved several kinds of spiritual wine with better quality.

Although Fu Sanshan also consumed many spirit stone materials while researching and brewing spiritual wine in the Song family, the spiritual wine recipe he developed, after being put into mass production, soon brought a business that the Song family could operate for a long time.

Although there are many cultivation families in Qinghe County that have wine brewing skills, the quality of the spiritual wine brewed is not high. After Fu Sanshan modified the original recipe, the spiritual wine brewed now is better in both taste and quality, and soon opened up the market in Qinghe Market.

Nowadays, the Song family has already opened a tavern specifically in Qinghe Market to sell these self-brewed spiritual wines, and the tavern's business is very good, and it can create a profit of several hundred spirit stones for the family every year.

Even Song Qingming himself did not expect that a Qi Refining rogue cultivator he accidentally saved back then could bring such a huge benefit to the Song family today.

In order to keep this talent, Fu Sanshan, the Song family also spent a lot of thought, not only letting him serve as a guest elder of the Song family, but also giving him a higher salary than other elders every year. Family elders like Song Xintong are now planning to arrange a marriage for Fu Sanshan, intending to let him directly marry into the Song family.

After talking about Song Xinde's matter, Song Qingyu said to Song Qingming: "Qinghe Market side, Xintang sent news again that the Lu family and the Li family had a conflict again half a month ago. The cultivators of both sides had a fight near the Zhong family of Mount Pingliang. It is said that there were casualties, and this matter looks like it is getting bigger and bigger."

"Didn't the Qinghe Market meeting last year already mediate for them? Why did they fight again!" Hearing Song Qingyu mention this matter, Song Qingming was also somewhat helpless.

In these ten years, besides the steady development of the Song family, other cultivation families and various forces in Qinghe County have also undergone many changes.

One of the biggest changes is that since Song Yuanli of the Song family established foundation, it has been less than five years, and someone else in Qinghe County has successfully established foundation. What is somewhat surprising is that this person who established foundation did not come from the original four Foundation Establishment families of Qinghe County.

This person who successfully established foundation is named Li Chengyue, a cultivator of a Li-surname vassal family under the Lu family of Mount Tiexian. Like the Song family back then, after Li Chengyue established foundation, the Li family also quickly promoted from a Qi Refining family to a new Foundation Establishment immortal family.

The former four Foundation Establishment families of Qinghe County have now increased to five.

Among the several Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe County, the style of conduct of the Lu family cultivators of Mount Tiexian has always been relatively poor, and they are naturally very harsh to the vassal families under their command. The Li family, as a vassal of the Lu family back then, was naturally suppressed by the Lu family.

After the Li family was promoted to a Foundation Establishment family, they did not continue to maintain a good relationship with the Lu family like the Song family and the Huang family back then, but the two families soon turned against each other because of some surrounding interests.

This new Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Li family, Li Chengyue, like Song Qingming's friend Xu Ziyan back then, is also a cultivator who took the risk to establish foundation without using a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Cultivators like Li Chengyue who successfully established foundation without using a Foundation Establishment Pill will have stronger magic power than ordinary cultivators of the same rank. After the Li family had this Foundation Establishment Old Ancestor, they developed very quickly like the rising sun, and naturally soon did not put the Lu family, which was already waning, in their eyes.

These years, the Li family not only cleverly took a mineral vein that originally belonged to the Lu family, but also dug away several vassal families from under the Lu family, which completely angered the Lu family, and the two families have already had several conflicts.

Last year, Lu family Old Ancestor Lu Xingde even had a fight with Li Chengyue outside Qinghe Market for this, and it was not until other major Foundation Establishment families came forward to mediate and persuade that the two families temporarily stopped.

Now that not much time has passed, the Lu and Li families have fought again. Song Qingming also shook his head helplessly when he heard this.

It is not that Song Qingming wants to interfere in the affairs of the two families, it is just that these two major Foundation Establishment families are always fighting, making the situation in the entire Qinghe County turbulent, and even the business of Qinghe Market is affected a lot. The Song family naturally does not want such a situation to continue.

Seeing Song Qingming furrow his brows again, Song Qingyu was also helpless and said: "The grudge between the Lu family and the Li family is not a day or two. Now that both sides have fought several times and casualties have occurred, wanting the two families to stop fighting and make peace is indeed not an easy thing.

I think that Seventh Brother, you coming forward to mediate for them last time can already be considered as having done your best. This matter should have been something for Feng De, that kid, to have a headache about, and we don't have to worry about this heart for him all the time."

Song Qingming sighed and shook his head: "They are all cultivators of Qinghe County, so there is no need to make it like this. Qingyu, send a letter to Yuanli and let him go to find Feng De again to discuss, and see if he can invite the Lu and Li families to Qinghe Market to sit down and talk again.

Now the Northern Frontier demon beast turmoil is approaching, and the situation is getting more and more tense. We still have to make some preparations early. You tell Xintang and let him pay more attention to those rogue cultivators from outside from now on, to prevent those bandit cultivators from taking advantage of the chaos to mix into Qinghe County."

"Seventh Brother, rest assured, Xintang has already considered this aspect. Last time he sent a letter and specifically told me about this matter. With him staring at Qinghe Market, there will definitely not be any big mistakes."

Song Qingming nodded and said: "Hmm! It's good that he can think of it. This child is careful in handling things. When we transferred him to Qinghe Market back then, we could be considered to have done one right thing!"

Because Song Qingming failed to establish foundation back then, he could not walk out of it. A few years ago, under the suggestion of Song Qingyu and others, Song Qingming transferred him to Qinghe Market and took over the work of collecting information for the family from Song Xinhu's hands.

After going to Qinghe Market, because he changed an environment and did not have to face too many familiar clan members every day, now Song Xintang slowly walked out of the shadow of failing to establish foundation.

Song Xintang's ability to handle things was originally a leader among the Xin-generation cultivators. Since he was placed in Qinghe Market, Song Xintang took over the responsibility of secretly handling things and collecting information for the Song family, and soon he did it with great vigor.

Nowadays, Song Xintang has networked many rogue cultivators who secretly handle things for the Song family under his command. Compared to other Foundation Establishment families, the Song family finally has a great improvement in collecting information.

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