Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 215 Business Cooperation
At three poles in the sun.

When Ling Changqing walked out of the boudoir with a slightly haggard look, even his steps were unsteady.

Full-scale mobilizations like the one last night are actually rare.

Normally, the beauties would discuss on their own and take turns to sleep with Ling Changqing for dual cultivation, with at most three or five sisters working together.

With Ling Changqing's strength, dealing with such a small situation is naturally a piece of cake.

It's just that Ling Changqing got a little too cocky yesterday, and rode on Ling Qiyue to bully her, offending her badly. The female head of the family was furious, so she stepped up on him and called all the sisters to join the group.

It seems... I still need to work harder to improve my cultivation, otherwise I will lose my power as a husband in the future.

Ling Changqing muttered to himself as he walked around the courtyard, silently reciting the Dragon Elephant Brahma Sutra. The aching and hollowed-out feeling receded like the tide, and the long-lost vigor and vitality returned to him.

Ling Qiyue, who ate too much last night, has gone into seclusion. It is estimated that it will take a month. If nothing unexpected happens, she will reach the peak of the Golden Core realm.

In the eyes of others, Ling Changqing now has beauties on both sides and enjoys all the blessings.

But only these beauties understand that they are the biggest beneficiaries.

Xue Qingtan and Meng Feiyu, two reincarnated masters, had used some special secret methods to test that a female cultivator at the Jindan stage could gain from practicing with Ling Changqing for two months. If it was a female cultivator at the foundation-building stage or the Qi-training stage, the gains would be even greater.

At first glance, the two-month increase in cultivation seems like nothing, but over time, the improvement in cultivation is very significant.

This is just the improvement in cultivation. In addition, there are also fine-tuning and optimization of spiritual root qualifications, improvement of destiny, blessing of luck and fortune, and a series of tangible and intangible benefits.

Let’s put it this way, even if a woman is mediocre in other aspects except for her pretty face and good figure, as long as she can continue to practice dual cultivation with Ling Changqing for ten or eight years, coupled with basic cultivation resources, she will definitely be able to become a foundation-building cultivator.

If the women are talented, beautiful, and have excellent spiritual roots, they will undoubtedly gain more benefits.

For them, as long as they get the favor of Ling Changqing, the son of destiny, that would be the step to heaven.

Moreover, Meng Feiyu mentioned that in her era, there was a person who was suspected to be the son of destiny. However, he was only a flash in the pan and soon disappeared.

If a woman could give birth to a child for Ling Changqing in the future, she would definitely be a favored daughter of heaven with great fortune and possessing earth-grade or even heaven-grade spiritual roots.

It is no wonder that many major forces in Yuzhou are obsessed with Ling Changqing. It is really too important. As long as they can accept him into the family, it is no less than obtaining a top-level ancient weapon to suppress the family's destiny.

"Owner……"

Song Xuelan, who was wearing a red dress, with bright eyes and white teeth, and a radiant face, came hurriedly, bowed and said:

"The person in charge of Huanzhen Pavilion and Juhaixuan has come to visit. When do you plan to meet them?"

Ling Changqing thought about it for a moment, and remembered that this was an appointment he had made yesterday, so he nodded:

"Please ask them to sit in the living room for a while. I will come over later."

"Ok."

Song Xuelan took the order and left.

Ling Qiyue was in seclusion, and Tang Qiuyao had gone out to inspect the mine and medicine garden, so it was naturally his turn to be the head of the family headquarters.

Ling Changqing wandered in the courtyard for a while, changing his appearance and body shape to shield himself from good luck and fortune, before he leisurely returned to the pavilion.

Now, except for the beauties around him, no one else has ever seen his true appearance, and his external name has even been changed to Ling Changxing.

In the luxurious and magnificent hall.

Two guests were sitting upright. One of them was an old man with white hair and beard, who looked vigorous and energetic and was dressed in a colorful gown. Judging from his aura, he should be in the late Jindan stage.

This is the person in charge of Huanzhen Pavilion in Changqingzhou: Yu Dongyang.

The other was a female cultivator in a black gauze dress with ordinary looks and temperament, and she was in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm.

She is the person in charge of Juhaixuan in Changqingzhou: She Qinghua.

Yuzhou’s three major super chambers of commerce organizations are Nebula Falcon, Huanzhen Pavilion and Juhaixuan.

The three chambers of commerce have a long history of inheritance, an unimaginably deep network of personal connections, and countless industries, both overt and covert, spread across Yuzhou and surrounding states.

Rumor has it that they even do business in some small worlds beyond the sky, secret underground realms, and the territories of some ancient intelligent races.

However, in Changqing Island, the Nebula Falcon Chamber of Commerce was the first to arrive, and therefore has the closest relationship with the Ling family.

As for Huanzhen Pavilion and Juhaixuan, they only came into contact with Ling Qiyue after the Ling family unified the entire Feiyu Sea area.

Now they have also set up branches in the Changqingzhou market to run various businesses, but Ling Qiyue still trusts the Xingyun Falcon Chamber of Commerce the most.

Seeing Ling Changqing walk in, they both stood up, bowed, and greeted him in gentle words.

"No need to be polite, my two Taoist friends. Please sit down and chat."

Ling Changqing spoke gently.

Yu Dongyang sat down again, a big smile on his old face:

"Elder Ling is indeed blessed with great fortune and has made great achievements at a young age. He has already reached the Golden Core stage at such a young age, and is also a rare third-level alchemist. I believe that in another two or three hundred years, he will be able to achieve the Yuanying Zhenjun Dao Fruit, right?"

She Qinghua smiled slightly and said, "I really didn't expect that the Ling family would produce two third-level alchemists. This is really enviable. It seems that within a few hundred years, a Yuanying force will be born in the Feiyu Sea."

It was indeed the first time they met Ling Changqing. In the past, it was Ling Qiyue who dealt with them, or Tang Qiuyao.

Ling Qiyue was already stunning enough to them, but they never expected that the handsome young man in black with red lips, white teeth and a stern temperament in front of them was even more outstanding.

How lucky is the Ling family to have produced such an outstanding elite?
Perhaps... in the next cooperation negotiations, we can consider giving the Ling family more preferential terms?

After all, a family with huge potential and the potential to become a Nascent Soul force is worthy of investment from the organization.

Ling Changqing smiled and said, "You two fellow Taoists are exaggerating. Behind you stands the largest chamber of commerce in Yuzhou. What kind of proud sons of heaven have you not seen? My little ability is really not worth mentioning."

Yu Dongyang made a few appropriate compliments, and the three of them naturally got to the point.

"...Fellow Daoist Ling, our Huanzhen Pavilion can provide you with resources worth 10,000 mid-grade spirit stones every year, including various third-level and quasi-fourth-level spirit medicine and spirit grass raw materials, formation talismans, mechanical puppets, spirit tools and magic treasures, etc.

For 50% of it, you need to exchange it with the specialty resources of Feiyu Sea, and they must be resources that meet the third-level standards.

If you feel that this amount is not enough, we can continue to increase the amount by 10,000 medium-grade spirit stones, as long as you can exchange them with third-level and quasi-fourth-level specialty resources..."

Yu Dongyang slowly explained the terms of cooperation.

To put it bluntly, if a force wants to purchase enough cultivation resources to promote its own development, it is not a problem that can be solved by just having spirit stones.

Just like these three super chambers of commerce, the quantity and types of any resources that can be purchased with spirit stones are strictly restricted, and you will not be allowed to buy them all.

Most of the time, the price of spirit stones is just a reference standard, and many forces prefer barter.

Of course, spirit stone itself is also a high-value resource, but it is not scarce, especially in the territories of those big forces, there are many spirit stone veins of different grades.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. In Ling Changqing's previous life, the so-called international currency was simply a pile of paper. How could it compare to real resources such as food, minerals, oil and gas?

Therefore, in international trade, smart countries are more willing to accept physical resources rather than a pile of green paper that may depreciate at any time.

In the world of immortal cultivation, resource transactions between different forces have more considerations.

The unspoken rule among the major forces is to suppress the development of those middle and lower-level forces and prevent them from rising and growing into higher-level forces as much as possible.

High-level cultivation resources are just like some of the high-tech machinery and equipment in Ling Changqing's previous life. No matter how much money you spend, you can't buy them, and people will simply ignore you.

"...Okay, our Ling family needs to purchase cultivation resources worth 20,000 medium-grade spirit stones from you every year. As for the transaction method, it will be done according to your wishes."

Ling Changqing gave a light-hearted reply.

For a senior Jindan force, a resource transaction amount worth 20,000 medium-grade spirit stones is not a small amount.

However, with the Ling family's financial resources, this amount is completely enough, and it is not enough. Yu Dongyang was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a while, he smiled:

"I almost forgot that you are a big family that controls the entire sea area. This family background is probably not inferior to the Yuanying forces, right?
How about this, we add another 10,000 medium-grade spirit stones? 70% of which needs to be paid with special resources!"

"can."

Ling Changqing nodded and looked at She Qinghua standing beside him.

She Qinghua pursed her lips and said gently:
"Our cooperation terms are basically the same as Huanzhen Pavilion's, and the annual quota is also 30,000 medium-grade spirit stones. I wonder if you can afford it?"

"can."

Ling Changqing still nodded without any hesitation.

The two of them looked at each other in bewilderment. After a long while, Yu Dongyang sighed slightly:

"It seems that the Ling family's financial resources are even more substantial than we imagined. Then the scale of the cooperation between the Nebula Falcon Chamber of Commerce and you should be even larger, right?"

"This? Hehe..."

Ling Changqing smiled but said nothing. Everyone is not stupid and some things do not need to be spoken out.

She Qinghua pondered and said, “In this case, our Ju Hai Xuan branch can hold an auction in Chang Qing Zhou Market every year.

At the auction, there will be no less than 100 sets of rare resources each time, and they are mainly third-level resources. What do you think, fellow Daoist?"

"Very good, let's just leave it at that!"

There was a slight smile on Ling Changqing's face. This was indeed what the Ling family needed at the moment.

"Well, our Huanzhen Pavilion can also hold auctions regularly. If you have any special needs in the future, you may as well talk to me in person."

Yu Dongyang also said this.

Ling Changqing also agreed with a smile. The three super chambers of commerce were all willing to have good relations with the Ling family, which was naturally something they wished for.

As for the specialty resources they need, Ling Changqing only needs to go out to sea twice a month and open the furnace to refine pills from time to time, and he can basically get them all.

Of course, since this concerns the development plan of the entire family, Ling Qiyue cannot throw all the burdens on Ling Changqing alone. The other Ling family members and elders all have to work.

After talking for a while, Yu Dongyang tentatively proposed to outsource some of the high-value mines, third-level spiritual fields and cave temples in the Feiyu Sea area to two chambers of commerce for operation, and the profits would be settled to the Ling family once a year.

Ling Changqing thought about it for a moment and then rejected this proposal which sounded good.

The Ling family has limited manpower. If they allow cultivators from outside forces to enter the Feiyu Sea in large numbers and get involved in these important industries, it is hard to say what will happen in the future.

Therefore, this matter will not be considered even after a hundred years. Anyway, the Ling family has plenty of development resources and does not need to increase revenue and reduce expenditure in this way.

Fortunately, Yu Dongyang was just making a suggestion, and when he saw Ling Changqing refuse, he did not insist.

She Qinghua also mentioned that they could provide loans to the Ling family. Whether it was spirit stones or other cultivation resources, the Ling family could ask Juhaixuan for a loan, as long as they used the real estate in Feiyu Sea as collateral.

This proposal was also politely declined by Ling Changqing, who stated that the Ling family's current financial situation was good and there was no war, so there was no need to borrow money from abroad.

She Qinghua couldn't help feeling a little regretful, but didn't say anything.

After a while, the two leaders said goodbye, and Ling Changqing stood up and escorted them out of the cave.

After returning to the branch in Fangshi, Yu Dongyang invited She Qinghua to come over to talk, and she did not refuse.

A quiet room with simple furnishings.

Yu Dongyang took out twelve small and exquisite formation flags, set up formation restrictions around them, and then invited She Qinghua to take a seat.

"...Fellow Daoist She, what do you think of the Ling family in Changqingzhou?"

Yu Dongyang asked in a low voice with a serious look on his face.

She Qinghua shook her head slightly: "I feel a little confused, according to the existing information, this seems to be a Jindan force that has only been promoted for a few years.

But based on what we have seen and heard, their assets are much richer than we imagined. In addition to the large amount of land resources, they should also have other sources of income that we don’t know about.”

Yu Dongyang smiled and said, "Anyway, this is a good investment target. Regardless of those plans, we can benefit a lot just from the current cooperation content."

"Well, that's true."

She Qinghua had no objection to this. As long as the cooperation with the Ling family could continue, both they themselves and the organization behind them could obtain sufficient benefits.

"Okay, let's leave it at that for now."

Yu Dongyang changed the subject: "The secret mission entrusted to us by the higher-ups, to find the legendary son of destiny, what do you think should be done?"

As the top forces in Yuzhou, the top leaders of Huanzhen Pavilion and Juhaixuan could not turn a blind eye to the existence of the Son of Destiny.

Therefore, all their industrial bases across the country have received the news and are required to pay attention to the matter and report it immediately once they have any news.

She Qinghua said helplessly: "This task is too difficult to complete. It is not enough to describe it as looking for a needle in a haystack. It is better to just go with the flow."

What this means is that whether or not the trace of the son of luck can be found depends entirely on God's mood and cannot be forced.

"It seems like that's all."

Yu Dongyang sighed again. How great would it be if the son of luck could belong to Huanzhen Pavilion?

As long as he is there, all the ancient cave ruins and immortal secret realms secretly recorded in Huanzhen Pavilion may be opened under the auspices of the Son of Destiny, and the countless opportunities contained therein will belong to the organization.

Unfortunately, this is just some thought and I'm afraid it will never be realized.

……

Dozens of days later, Hanyuezhou.

At the mountain gate, sect leader Ma Deqing was strolling leisurely in the newly built magnificent palace with a faint smile on his face.

After several years of careful management, the Haoyue Sect has finally gained a firm foothold here and has regained the aura of a veteran Jindan force.

Ma Deqing felt that he was not far from the Nascent Soul True Lord realm. As long as the sect could develop peacefully for dozens or hundreds of years, he might have the opportunity to take that step.

By then, the Haoyue Sect will return to the ranks of Nascent Soul forces.

Ma Deqing can not only destroy the Ling family of Changqingzhou and avenge the previous humiliation, but also lead his disciples to expand the territory to the surrounding areas.

Just when I was thinking about the happy part, a true disciple hurried over in a flash of light, and said in a panic:

"Master, something terrible has happened! Some unknown robbers have sneaked into the mountain gate and are now killing our disciples..."

"what?!"

Ma Deqing was stunned for a moment, then he flew into a rage and said, "Where did these blind thieves come from? How dare they set their sights on our Haoyue Sect? Let me go and take a look!"

At this time, the mountain gate was in chaos.

Masked monks in black, holding all kinds of spiritual weapons and magical treasures and exuding murderous aura, can be seen everywhere. Once they find a monk from the Haoyue Sect, they will kill him ruthlessly, and their shrill screams will resound through the sky.

The square was covered in blood, and the mutilated bodies of Haoyue Sect monks were scattered everywhere.

Even their souls had been taken away and imprisoned by special magical instruments, and they would not be freed until they died.

Ma Deqing, who had just rushed out, saw this scene and was immediately furious. He roared with a sullen face:
"You bastards, you...how dare you?! I will fight you to the death!"

No one responded to him. In a blink of an eye, five or six black-robed monks surrounded him, and all of them were Jindan Zhenren.

(End of this chapter)