The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 9 Elders' Duties, Lease of Lingshan Mountain

In the evening, Li Qing came to the front yard of the Li Clan Ancestral Hall at a leisurely pace.

There is a three-story platform on the left side of the ancestral hall. On the top floor is a purple jade cushion, which is the seat of the clan leader.

The middle level is the elders' seat. Originally there were three green jade cushions on it, and one more was added today.

The third floor was placed with twenty-seven yellow jade cushions. That was the area where the cultivators at the seventh level of Qi Refining and above, that is, the late stage of Qi Refining, sat.

At this time, there were already two to three hundred people surrounding the high platform. In the seating arrangement for the late Qi Refining stage, except for those who were away from home, everyone else had already taken their seats in advance.

"Ah Qing, the Ganlin fruits I planted at home always fall off before they are ripe. When you are free, can you help me check them?"

"Okay, let's do it tomorrow."

"Brother Qing, I'm planning to go explore the secrets of Xuefeng Lake soon. Do you still have any water-repellent pills?"

"No more. But this one is quick to refine. Prepare all the materials, I'll start the furnace right here and refine a bottle for you."

"Uncle Qing, I got a Pure Heart Grass the other day, and I would like to ask you to refine a furnace of Barrier Breaking Pills."

"There are quite a few auxiliary medicines for the Barrier Breaking Pill. I'll write you a list. Let's prepare them first."

Li Qing chatted with them casually for a while.

Soon, clan leader Li Hui and three elders also arrived in front of the ancestral hall, separated the crowd, and sat on the cushions on the high platform.

After Li Hui sat down, he looked around and the noisy environment suddenly became quiet. He pointed to the empty cushion in the middle and said, "Ah Qing, come sit up!"

Li Qing responded with a "yes", used the wind control technique, and sat down on the empty jade cushion.

Li Hui got straight to the point: "Today, Li Qing, the 23rd generation descendant of the Li family, has cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining. According to the rules, he should be the elder of the family. According to seniority, he ranks fourth."

Li Qing had been promoted to the ninth level of Qi Refining for several years, and the others were well prepared. They all had no objection and bowed together: "Greetings to the Fourth Elder."

Li Qing bowed and returned the greeting: "Thanks to the family's training, I have achieved what I have today. In the future, I will fulfill my duties and do my best for the family!"

After all, the Li family was just a small Qi-refining family, with few formalities and no emphasis on rituals. With just a few words, Li Qing's inauguration ceremony was over.

Li Hui asked again: "Fourth Elder, do you have any ideas about the position?"

Li Qing smiled and said, "Everything is subject to the family's arrangements."

Li Hui nodded with satisfaction: "I have discussed with the three elders before, and you will serve as the elder who transmits the skills. What do you think?"

Li Qing was mentally prepared: "Just follow the four elders, I have no objection."

"Fourth Elder, since you are in charge of the transmission of skills, you will have to spend more time and effort in teaching the children of our family in the future." The Great Elder Li Yao smiled and bowed to him.

The third elder, Li Ye, signaled to the disciples present: "The fourth elder has profound attainments in growing spiritual plants and refining pills. Those of you who want to delve into the skills of spiritual plant masters and alchemists should ask him for advice."

The young people present naturally responded in unison.

After deciding on Li Qing's duties, everyone present began to discuss other matters.

The Li family's meetings are relatively open-minded. Ordinary children can offer suggestions, cultivators in the late stage of Qi training can vote on the matters under discussion, and the clan leader and elders hold the veto power.

However, most disciples knew what was going on and usually just listened but did not speak. Those who actually spoke were the backbone of the late Qi Refining stage.

Li Qing had been concentrating on building his foundation before, and had not paid much attention to the family affairs. This was the first time he seriously participated in the meeting, and he felt that there were so many things to worry about. Li Zhe successfully built his foundation, and he would hold a small banquet in Yanling Valley in half a month. The family came to congratulate him. What level of gifts should he give?

Due to the open and covert struggles with the Zhang and Chen families, the revenue of Qinghe Valley Market has dropped sharply. How can we recover the losses?

The Great Zhou Kingdom is at war with the neighboring Great Le Kingdom, and needs to dispatch a group of cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage to join the war. Who should be assigned?
Every single thing is difficult to handle.

But these have little to do with Li Qing. Most of his lineage are mortals, and only he and Li Wei have embarked on the path of cultivation.

They couldn't get too much of the profits. It was not the turn of him, an alchemist, and Li Wei, a rookie, to fight with the army.

Therefore, when making decisions, he would just follow the clan leader, go with the flow and express his opinion, and that would be the end of the matter.

After an hour of discussion, the meeting came to an end with the urgent matters being agreed upon and some long-standing issues being put aside.

Li Hui was about to adjourn the meeting when a message talisman flew in from outside the family residence and landed in his hands.

Li Hui used his spiritual sense to see it, and his face lit up with joy: "Great news! It turns out that there are people in the upper sect who are good at cultivation!"

When Li Yao heard what he said, he knew it was a message from Li Zhe, and asked quickly, "Where does the happiness come from?"

Li Hui smiled and said, "Just now, Zhe'er sent a message saying that Yanling Valley is interested in renting out several sacred mountains by the Xuefeng Lake to plant sacred plants for us Qi Refining families."

Xuefeng Lake is located near Qinghe Valley and is the largest lake in Qingzhou. It is said that there is a third-level spiritual vein underneath, and spiritual energy is emitted outward all year round.

Several large forces, including the Great Zhou Dynasty, Tanyuan Fairy City, and Yanling Valley, have all enclosed land near Xuefeng Lake.

Although the several hills occupied by Yanling Valley have no spiritual veins and are not convenient for opening caves, they are more than enough for growing spiritual rice and spiritual medicine.

The second elder, Li Fang, asked, "I wonder how much rent Yanling Valley will charge?"

"I only charge ten low-grade spirit stones per mu per year." Li Hui stroked his beard and hesitated a little. "But it must be based on the entire mountain, and you must pay off ten years of rent first."

Low-grade spirit stones are mainly circulated among cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage. Above them are mid-grade spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones, and top-grade spirit stones, all of which are monetary units regulated by Emperor Yuan.

Through the art of transformation, natural spirit stones can be refined into cubes with a constant spiritual energy content at a very low cost. It is simple to make and easy to identify.

"The rent is a concession." Li Fang frowned slightly, "But the rent is a mountain. With the family's financial resources, I'm afraid it will empty the family's savings."

He was in charge of the storehouse and knew the family's resources. In order to arrange a genuine foundation-building pill for Li Zhe, he spent a lot of money and didn't recover for more than ten years.

A mountain in Xuefeng Lake has at least 100 acres of land, and the rent for ten years is more than 10,000 low-grade spirit stones. If they really have to pay such a large amount of spirit stones, the whole family will have to tighten their belts to live.

"But, for the development of our family, we have to rent this mountain!" Third elder Li Ye expressed his support without hesitation.

The Li family of Qinghe Valley has been passed down from generation to generation. More and more clan members have been found to have low and medium spiritual root qualifications, and the number of them embarking on the path of cultivation has gradually increased.

The small section of the spiritual vein occupied by the Li family was no longer sufficient to support the growing number of cultivators. As a result, only those with medium-grade spiritual roots could enter the spiritual vein to practice.

Unfortunately, the Li family was not good at business, and there was a big gap in the cost of spiritual stones. People with low qualifications had no way to practice, and they were very resentful. If this continued, people's hearts would be scattered.

After everyone present discussed it, Li Hui finally made the decision: "Rent! We must rent! After we get through the first two years of hard times, our family's livelihood will improve."

Li Qing received another task assigned by the family: after renting the hilltop, he would select suitable spiritual plant varieties, plan the planting area, and then be fully responsible for the planting and maintenance of the spiritual fields and medicinal gardens.

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