Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 282 Never Ending
Linsha Island.

The atmosphere in the family meeting hall was somewhat subtle.

Ling Changqing and Ling Qiyue sat on the large throne on the high platform, their faces calm and silent.

Tang Qiuyao, Qin Yun, Ling Yuzhu and Ling Yulu sat on both sides, none of them concealing the aura of their Nascent Soul cultivation.

Below the jade steps, more than a dozen men, women, old and young all had seats. They all had solemn expressions, and the arrogance in their eyes had dissipated a lot.

The reason is very simple. There are as many as six Nascent Soul True Lords from the Ling family who have appeared, and it seems that there is more than one aura of peak Nascent Soul masters lingering in the hall?
It is conceivable that there must be an unknown powerful force secretly supporting the Ling family, otherwise their rise would not have been so fast.

Therefore, when hard power may not necessarily prevail, the leaders of these eleven Nascent Soul forces can only put aside their arrogance and start communicating in a relatively peaceful manner.

Otherwise, if the talks really fail, they may not be able to gain the upper hand even if they join hands, even if they have people behind them.

The current situation in Yuzhou's immortal cultivation world is difficult to describe. The mere Nascent Soul forces are not enough to protect themselves. If they really get into any big trouble, they still have to find a way to deal with it themselves. The backers behind them may not be in the mood to take care of them.

"...Fellow Daoist Ling, your development in recent years has indeed exceeded our expectations."

Song Yuanshan, the head of the Ice Sea Sword Sect, forced a smile and said in a gentle voice:
"We have no other intention in visiting you, but we hope to sign a peace agreement with you, so that the younger generations of both sides will not cause conflicts when they go out in the world."

Zuihua Palace's headmaster Su Zhenxia chuckled and said, "You own five sea areas, so I guess the annual resource output must be quite high. We can discuss business cooperation!"

She could understand the elegant meaning by listening to the music. Since she saw Song Yuanshan's intention, she would not sing against it and immediately agreed with it.

The abbot of Shengxiangmen, Faming, frowned, then his expression softened and he said with a smile:

"What Fellow Daoist Su said is very good. I heard that Fellow Daoist Ling and his wife are both fourth-level alchemy masters. I wonder if they can help our Shengxiang Sect refine some suitable elixirs? The price and other things are negotiable!"

Regardless of whether he had complaints in his heart or not, since these two heavyweight allies had changed their minds, he naturally would not choose to be stubborn.

The rest of the Yuanying Zhenjuns also spoke up, each one more friendly than the other, almost making people believe it.

Everyone present here is at least an old fox who has practiced for hundreds of years. It is impossible for any of you to be stupid. How can face be as important as substantial interests?

Since we cannot match the other party in terms of hard power, it becomes normal to change our attitude and make friends with them.

Ling Changqing groaned for a few breaths without making any expression, then nodded: "Our Ling family has risen too quickly, and we don't know much about the surrounding forces. I was thinking of visiting them one by one in the future.

Since you fellow Taoists are interested, and you are all here today, why don't we discuss it carefully!"

If the Ling family was not indeed unsuitable for further expansion, he had no intention of letting them pass so easily.

Of course, the current situation is also a good result. After several years, when the Ling family's strength and foundation are further enhanced, we can settle accounts with them.

As a result, the planned military action to hold the two sides accountable and jointly exert pressure turned into a scene where the two sides sat down for friendly exchanges and discussions on cooperation.

The whole meeting went quite smoothly. At the end, Ling Changqing, who was in a good mood, hosted a banquet to entertain the guests, which was a great pleasure for both the host and the guests.

It was not until the Yuanying Zhenjuns said goodbye and left, and the Tianzhou tower ship took off, that they fully reacted.

"Just...just let it go like this?"

Fa Ming shook his shiny bald head and asked with some disbelief.

"if not?"

Su Zhenxia smiled and said, "They have the home advantage, and the backers behind them are not necessarily worse than us. Do we really want to turn against them?

If we fall out, what can we gain? We certainly can’t take away the five sea areas under the name of the Ling family. Wouldn’t it be a waste of time then?”

Fa Ming fell silent, and the other Yuanying Zhenjuns also looked at each other in silence for a long time.

To put it bluntly, they were not of one mind. Who doesn't have his own little plans?
Since the target is a tough nut to crack, no one will easily risk their own belongings to fight a force with which they have no grudges.

Song Yuanshan pondered and said, "Since they have someone behind them, let's just leave it at that. I just hope this family will be more law-abiding from now on and stop making trouble!"

Su Zhenxia chuckled: "Cooperation is also a good choice. It is beneficial to both of us. As for the future, we will talk about it in the future!"

She was open-minded about it. After all, Zuihua Palace was on the Yuzhou Continent, far away from the Ling family's territory, and her family would not be the first to suffer.

What if hundreds of years later, the Ling family really reaches the doorstep, the Zuihua Palace can just surrender and become a subordinate. The head of the family is extremely lustful, so I think he will not leave his followers no chance to live, right?
……

In the council hall.

"...Husband, are you just going to let them go like this?"

Tang Qiuyao asked, with a hint of reluctance in her tone.

Ling Changqing smiled and said, "This is the most suitable outcome at the moment. Their territories are scattered all over the place, and we can't manage them now. Let's talk about this later."

The Ling family will definitely expand outward, but that will be at least dozens or hundreds of years later. There is no need to think too much about it now, just focus on developing your own business.

Ling Qiyue said, "Don't pay attention to them. Let's do our own things first. Husband, you can accompany the sisters to practice, or go to make pills."

Ling Changqing looked at the pairs of beautiful eyes around him that were full of expectation and said:

"I'd better go into seclusion for a while to consolidate my cultivation, and then I'll come to accompany you!"

"How long will that take?"

Mu Yunxiu asked softly.

"It will only take a month at most."

Ling Changqing replied that he planned to further improve several of his main skills.

Yu Yalan smiled and said, "Then let's go to work first and talk about it after my husband comes out."

After talking for a while, Ling Changqing returned to the training room and activated various shielding magic arrays and restrictions.

He sat down on the cold jade bed, opened his storage bracelet, and took out all the inner cores of various monsters inside. There were so many of them that they almost formed a small mountain on the ground.

This was the money Ling Changqing saved after he killed three Yuanying Zhenjuns and obtained all their belongings. Later, he plundered all the assets in the Guiqing and Longjiao seas.

Of course, the Cen family in the Linsha Sea also contributed a lot, including inner cores of monsters from the second to the fourth level.

Ling Changqing checked the current upper limit of lifespan, which was 1360 years.

So he first spent three hundred years of his life to upgrade his talisman skills to the fourth-level lower grade, and then spent another six hundred years to upgrade it to the fourth-level middle grade.

When the upgrade is completed, the remaining lifespan becomes 460 years.

"Take it, these inner elixirs are all yours!"

Ling Changqing spoke secretly to Gong Ling in his sea of ​​consciousness.

The flame, which was neither black nor white but had a chaotic color, burned silently on the inner core of many monsters and beasts, and disappeared in a moment.

Soon, Ling Changqing's lifespan began to increase steadily, and by the time it stabilized, it had recovered to 2766 years.

The last time he broke through the Yuanying Zhenjun realm, Ling Changqing had already upgraded his alchemy and divination skills to the fourth-grade intermediate level.

Now that he had enough life span, he planned to upgrade the remaining formations and weapon techniques to the fourth-level mid-grade.

In this way, another 1800 years of life were wasted. Ling Changqing's mind sank into the depths of his sea of ​​consciousness and began to communicate with the palace spirit.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, a message with a mysterious rhyme emerged silently:
[Lord of the Era Star Palace: Ling Changqing]

【Bone age: 90/966】

[Cultivation: Nascent Soul Early Stage]

【Luck:404+795】

【Fortune: 395+618】

【Physique:147】

【Root bone: 160】

【Comprehension: 182】

[Soul: 325]

[Dan Dao: 0/160000 (fourth-level medium quality)]

[Talisman: 0/160000 (fourth-level medium quality)]

[Array: 0/160000 (fourth-level medium quality)]

[Weapon: 0/160000 (fourth-level medium quality)]

[Heavenly Secret Numbers: 0/200000 (Fourth-level mid-quality)]

Ling Changqing took a look and felt slightly satisfied. He couldn't hope for the fourth-grade upper grade for the time being. He had to wait until his cultivation base improved and reached the middle stage of the Nascent Soul before he could continue to improve.

Of course, it is basically enough now. After all, Ling Changqing's total amount of mana and the degree of purity and concentration of his mana far exceed those of ordinary Yuanying Zhenjun.

With the blessing of supreme luck and fortune, the speed and success rate of alchemy, as well as the quality of the finished pills, are far beyond the level of alchemists of the same level. Moreover, the performance in the fields of talismans, instruments, and formations is the same.

Ling Changqing silently estimated the time when he would be promoted to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul in the future. It would take at least one hundred or eighty years. This was the result of his dual cultivation day and night. Otherwise, it would definitely take much longer.

However, it is understandable that for the vast majority of cultivators who are able to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, the advancement has already consumed all their potential, luck, resources, etc.

It is almost impossible for them to make further progress in their lifetime, unless they get a new opportunity.

The thresholds to the middle, late, and peak Nascent Soul realms are as difficult as breaking through the Qi training realm to the Golden Core True Person realm. A group of cultivators will be stuck in each of these small realms.

However, these thresholds are meaningless to Ling Changqing. He can be promoted once he has accumulated enough, and his fellow Taoists are no exception.

Thinking of this, Ling Changqing was speechless. Because of him, the Ling family was now dominated by women and weak by men. Most of the cultivators above the Jindan level were women, and they were his Taoist partners.

Among the male members of the Ling family, there are very few who can cultivate to the Golden Core level, let alone the Nascent Soul True Lord. Even if there is no shortage of resources, it is estimated that they will be difficult to appear in the next few hundred years.

If this continues, the Ling family will inevitably become like the Liuying family, with female cultivators controlling the power inside and outside the family, and the male members of the family having a very low sense of presence, no status and no say.

Ling Changqing was not sure whether this situation was good or bad, but looking at the female cultivation forces such as Luhua Palace, Liuying Family, and Shenluo Palace, they seemed to be doing well.

Normally, among the cultivator forces of the same level, those sects or families composed entirely of female cultivators have stronger hard power, enough to suppress certain male cultivator forces with bad intentions in the surrounding area.

Otherwise, these female cultivators would not be able to guarantee their own independence, and over time they would most likely become vassals of the male cultivators.

However, the situation of the Ling family is obviously different. Because of Ling Changqing, in the eyes of outsiders, this family is still a force headed by male cultivators.

Retracting his scattered thoughts, Ling Changqing quickly entered a state of deep enlightenment.

A month passed quietly.

When Ling Changqing finished his training and walked out of the training room again, Qin Yun, Tang Qiuyao, Yu Ruoshuang and other girls were already waiting outside. They were all dressed up and radiant.

Needless to say, Ling Changqing was dragged directly into the inner room of the boudoir by them, and a group of beauties surrounded him impatiently...

Ten days and ten nights later, Ling Changqing was finally able to step out of her boudoir. After enjoying a meal of delicacies from land and sea, she went to soak in the hot springs with her beauties.

The life that followed was extremely happy and extremely boring for Ling Changqing.

According to the results of flipping the cards, the beauties were divided into several groups and took turns to accompany Ling Changqing, especially to sleep with him, which kept him busy all the time.

Ling Qiyue made a list of women who were qualified to serve Ling Changqing, and then divided them into groups of twelve. Those who were drawn would come and practice dual cultivation with him for a day and night, and then the next group would take over.

By this calculation, it will take about a month for each of the beauties to get their turn.

Winter goes and spring comes, and more than three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

After practicing hard day and night, Ling Bingyun and Ling Xueyu finally accumulated enough energy to reach the Nascent Soul True Lord realm, and Ling Zhiqing followed closely behind.

Song Xuelan, Ling Menghuan, Xiao Meiniang, Yang Yunfei, Li Hanyou, Chen Zihan and other girls have already reached the late Jindan level.

As for the latest batch of maids who came in, since it has not been long, they are basically at the Qi training stage, and not many of them are at the foundation building stage. This is because they already had a certain level of cultivation before entering the Ling family.

Liuying Ziying and Qin Mengxuan came over from time to time to have a private meeting with Ling Changqing and practice at the same time.

After the fierce battle, the two women tried to persuade Ling Changqing more than once, hoping that he would accept another group of Taoist companions.

Needless to say, the candidates for reservation were all female cultivators from their two families, and they even brought along a jade slip list. Each of them was extremely talented and stunningly beautiful.

Although Ling Changqing accepted the jade slip list, he did not want to meet them right away so as not to put too much pressure on the girls of the Ling family.

And once this door is opened for them, Bai Qingyi will also make a fuss and ask for more people, and even the sisters Yu Ruoshuang and Yu Yalan will not stop.

Therefore, Ling Changqing made it clear to the two women that they had to wait until he reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and his own safety was further guaranteed before they could let those women come over.

Qin Mengxuan and Liuying Ziying agreed with this. As long as they could convince the little man to give in, the rest would be easy.

After more than a year, Qin Mengxuan's accumulation was complete, so she returned to Luhua Palace to retreat and break through to a new realm. Three months later, she was successfully promoted to the great master of refining emptiness.

Liuying Ziying's accumulation is slightly inferior, but with Ling Changqing's help, she can take this step in ten or eight years at most.

However, another problem was put before Ling Changqing.

That is, Yu Ruoshuang, Meng Feiyu and Xue Qingtan have all reached the peak of the Nascent Soul realm and need to prepare corresponding resources to impact the Spirit Transformation realm.

But for Luhua Palace and Liuying Family, such strategic resources are limited in quantity and cannot be sold to others at will.

"...Husband, shall we go out and retrieve the secret treasure from the Immortal Palace ruins?"

On the large jade-embroidered bed, Meng Feiyu, who was naked and had dazzling snow-white skin, turned over, and put her charming snake-like arms around Ling Changqing, speaking in a sweet voice.

She had mentioned to Ling Changqing at the beginning that there were a number of rare resources hidden in an ancient relic somewhere, including elixirs, magic weapons, talismans, formation diagrams, martial arts books, etc.

Those were all hidden there by her in her previous life. Now Ling Changqing has reached the Nascent Soul stage and has the ability to go deep into the ruins and retrieve the opportunities inside.

Once this is successful, the women will have the resources they need to advance to the Divine Transformation Realm, and there will be no need to find ways to purchase them from outside.

Ling Changqing nodded: "That's fine too. Let's set off together in half a month, shall we?"

(End of this chapter)