I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

Cut your losses!

Not only must it be done, but it must be done willingly, so that this Golden Elixir Immortal cannot find the slightest fault.

The fact that these four people could hold power in a place like Tianyun Market, which is full of all sorts of people, for hundreds of years means they must have a keen eye for things.

This Master Su Yu is only a little over a hundred years old.

For a Golden Core cultivator who possesses a lifespan of a thousand years.

At one hundred years old, he is as young as the rising sun.

What does this mean?

This means that as long as Su Yu doesn't perish along the way, he can live in this area for at least another thousand years!

A thousand years!

For Foundation Establishment cultivators like them, most of whom only live for three or four hundred years, that is a period of time that would take several generations to endure.

Befriending a Golden Core cultivator with a long lifespan who is destined to reside here for a long time is the only way to ensure peace for their respective families for the next few hundred years.

Short-term concessions are utterly insignificant compared to the long-term continuation of the family business.

Li Chongshan, the patriarch of the Li clan, took the first half step forward and bowed again.

"We juniors will naturally obey the Master's decree."

"The main peak of Tianyun Market, 'Luoyun Mountain,' is the core of this third-grade low-level spiritual vein, where spiritual energy is most abundant. The Li family is willing to vacate all the spiritual fields and cave dwellings within a hundred miles of Luoyun Mountain for the Su family to settle in."

Not to be outdone, Chen Daoan, the clan leader, immediately chimed in.

"The Chen family is willing to give up thirty first-class shops on the south street of Tianyun Market as the foundation for the Su family's business in the market."

The Wang clan patriarch and the president of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce also expressed their stance, each relinquishing the mining rights of the most core mineral veins within the market and a portion of the monopoly rights over elixirs.

The four of them chatted amongst themselves.

In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, nearly 30% of the core interests of Tianyun Market were handed over.

Su Yu listened quietly, his expression remaining completely unchanged.

He wasn't surprised.

This is the absolute privilege that comes with high-level combat power.

You don't need to draw your sword, you don't need to scheme.

As long as you sit in this position, the people below will naturally cut up the most lucrative profits and serve them to you.

"Thank you all for your help."

Su Yu nodded slightly, acknowledging the favor.

"The Su family is new here and is not yet familiar with many of the rules. We will need your help in handling the many mundane affairs in the market in the future."

A simple, polite remark put the four people below at ease.

This shows that the Golden Elixir Master did not intend to exterminate them all.

As long as they know the rules, they can still make a living in Tianyun Market.

"We juniors will certainly do our utmost and dare not slacken in the slightest!"

The four responded in unison.

……

Three months later.

The grand procession of cars and spirit boats set off from Qingmufang City on the border of Yue Kingdom, and after a long journey, finally arrived at Tianyunfang City.

The Su family of Qianlong has officially completed the second major migration in its family history.

On Luoyun Mountain, the Su family's banner fluttered high.

Inside the main hall of the inner palace, Su Yuan and Su Yao stood before Su Yu, reporting on the progress of the settlement.

"Yu'er, the clansmen have all been settled."

Su Yuan's face lit up with joy.

Although he still had to put on a show of being a "father" in front of his daughter, Su Yao.

But when facing Su Yu, who had already formed his Golden Core, Su Yuan's tone and posture unconsciously revealed a sense of subservience and dependence.

In the world of cultivation, those who achieve mastery come first.

Su Yao assumed it was her father's reverence for Golden Core cultivators and didn't notice anything unusual.

"The concentration of spiritual energy in Tianyun Market is simply astonishing. Several promising talents in our clan have already shown signs of breakthroughs after only a few days of settling in."

Su Yuan continued his report.

Su Yao nodded in agreement.

She is now at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and she feels that cultivating on this third-tier spiritual vein is twice as effective with half the effort. Her eyes are full of admiration when she looks at Su Yu.

"Brother, thanks to you, our Su family is where we are today."

Su Yu sat in the main seat, his expression calm, not blindly optimistic despite the current success.

"Settling down is only the first step."

Su Yu spoke calmly and directly pointed out the Su family's most fatal weakness.

"Have you noticed the spiritual root aptitude of the younger generation of the Li, Chen, and Wang families?"

Su Yuan was taken aback, and then his expression became serious.

During the past few months, he has been in charge of the handover, and naturally he has learned about the three companies.

"I've noticed."

Su Yuan sighed, "The foundations of these three families are terrifyingly deep. Although they don't have many disciples with fourth or fifth-grade spiritual roots, they can produce a few in each generation."

"In comparison, besides you, Yu'er, the best aptitude in our Su family is Yao'er, who has a sixth-grade spiritual root."

This is the difference in background between a nouveau riche and a family with a long history of cultivating immortality.

With Su Yu's sudden emergence, the Su family achieved a devastating military victory.

However, in terms of the breadth and quality of their bloodlines, they are far inferior to these families.

If the Su family of Qianlong wants to truly become an immortal cultivation family, quantity alone is not enough; they must optimize the quality of their bloodline.

Therefore, marriage alliances became an extremely necessary means.

However, after the Su family announced the marriage alliance...

Although the three major families were aware of the Su family's intentions, they dared not refuse.

In order to curry favor with Su Yu, they would even send their best children to his door to solidify their relationship with the Golden Core Guardian.

Of course, Su Yu entrusted Su Yuan and Su Yao with handling all the specific details of the marriage and resource exchange.

He only needs to sit in the position of the retired emperor and control the general direction of the family.

……

In the blink of an eye, fifty years have passed quietly amidst the prosperity and hustle and bustle of Tianyun Market.

Tianyunfang Market, South Street.

This once bustling commercial street, which belonged to the Chen family, is now completely covered with the Su family's banners.

Moreover, the way the entire market operates has undergone extremely subtle changes over the years.

In the hundred acres of spiritual fields on the outskirts of Luoyun Mountain.

The irrigation work that used to require low-level cultivators to expend most of their spiritual energy to complete has now become extremely easy.

Beside the spirit field, dozens of massive machines made of fine steel and wooden tenons are installed.

This is a device called a "water tap".

With just one low-grade spirit stone as the power source for the array, this machine can evenly spray underground spirit water onto ten acres of spirit fields.

Efficiency has increased more than tenfold, and the consumption of manpower and magic power has been greatly reduced.

In the courtyards of every household, there are now running water pipes that do not require spiritual power to operate.

Even in the teahouses of the merchant houses, one could hear tunes coming from a very simple wind-up phonograph.

These are ingenious objects that seem out of place in the traditional world of cultivation, and even have a touch of Earth's industrial characteristics.

All of them were created by the same person.

Su Mo, an ordinary member of the Su family.

Su Mo is the great-great-grandson of the eldest son's branch.

He couldn't be identified as having spiritual roots, so according to the usual practice, he could only start from the bottom in a secular business.

But his mind was like a treasure trove filled with mechanical blueprints; he was an extremely rare scientific genius.

During a family grand ceremony.

The teenage Su Mo boldly showed Su Yu a mechanical wooden kite that he had made that could automatically pour tea.

The elder cultivators were furious and rebuked him for indulging in frivolous pursuits and showing off his strange skills in front of the Golden Core Ancestor.

But Su Yu did not get angry.

As someone who had traveled from modern society, he immediately recognized the clever design of the toy.

This is a true scientific genius.

In the cultivation world where strength is paramount, such mortals are often regarded as oddities and subjected to scorn.

But Su Yu recognized his talent and gave him extremely high treatment and research funding.

For fifty years.

Su Mo did not disappoint Su Yu's expectations.

Although the gadgets he concocted couldn't be used in high-level combat, they terrifyingly increased the Su family's resource production efficiency.

The Su family's production of spirit rice and mining volume increased several times over in just a few decades.

Relying on these continuous material resources, as well as frequent marriage alliances with the three founding families.

The Su family has firmly established itself as the number one family in Tianyun City.

With Su Yu's guidance and the accumulation of massive resources, Su Yao successfully broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Moreover, the strategy of marriage alliances has begun to bear fruit.

Although there are no children with fourth or fifth-grade spiritual roots among the new generation of the Su family, sixth and seventh-grade spiritual roots are already quite common.

Everything is moving in the best possible direction.

But time never stops for anyone.

……

Luoyun Mountain, the secret chamber of the ancestral peak.

The place was filled with an extremely strong smell of medicinal soup, as well as an overwhelming sense of decay and death.

On the bed lay an extremely aged old man.

It was Su Yuan, who was already 323 years old.

The maximum lifespan for those who achieve foundational human cultivation is three hundred years.

Forty years ago, Su Yuan's lifespan had already come to an end.

In order to keep this adopted son, Su Yu went to great lengths to obtain a "Longevity Fruit" from the Cangxuan Sect's treasury, thus managing to prolong his life until now.

But now, the medicine's effects have completely worn off.

Su Yu sat on a round stool beside the bed, looking at his nominal "father," who was actually the son he had raised single-handedly.

"I still have a thousand-year-old tortoise-breath vine in my possession."

Su Yu spoke calmly, as if he were talking about an ordinary object.

"If we give it to you, it can at least keep you going for another fifty years."

But Su Yuan shook his head with great effort, a relieved smile tugging at the corners of his withered lips.

"Father...no need."

Su Yuan's voice was extremely weak, like a flickering candle in the wind.

"Using such a divine substance as the Thousand-Year-Old Tortoise Breath Vine on a piece of withered wood like me, which is about to burn out, would be a waste of its preciousness."

"The family currently has ten Foundation Establishment juniors... sooner or later there will be rising stars of the fourth and fifth ranks."

"Leave these pills for them...they can save their lives in critical moments...and preserve more of the family's resources."

Su Yu listened quietly, without interrupting or offering any further advice.

He knew in his heart that the temptation of a fifty-year extension of lifespan was hard to resist for any dying cultivator.

But Su Yuan refused.

Su Yuan knew that even if his crippled body survived for another fifty years, it would not be of any real help to the family's potential.

Instead, it will become like a bottomless pit, sucking up the opportunities that belong to the younger generation.

Every generation has its own destiny. This old firewood has burned to its end; it's time to make room for new shoots.

This is also the last weighing of pros and cons for the family by the former head of the family who lived for 330 years at the last moment of his life.

Su Yuan reached out his hand with trembling hands, looking at Su Yu's face, which still retained its youthful appearance due to his retraining.

Although his appearance has changed, deep in Su Yuan's soul, he is still the father who shouldered everything for him.

His consciousness began to blur, and his vision was gradually swallowed by darkness.

But at the last moment, his entire 330-year life flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern.

There was the despair of the night Aokibo City was destroyed.

There is the tedium of practicing swordsmanship in a dilapidated house in Black Wind Valley.

There was the excruciating pain of being forced to establish one's foundation without elixirs in a secret chamber.

He felt a sense of exhilaration, as if he could kill the Zhao family patriarch with a single palm strike above Qingmufang City.

There was also that day outside the city's protective formation, when I watched my father descend as a purple-gold rainbow, and I felt an extreme joy and a sense of security.

He watched his family grow from exiled fugitives into the most powerful clan in Tianyun Market.

I am truly content with my life.

With the last ounce of strength in his body, he uttered his final cry with utmost satisfaction and longing.

"father……"

The words fell.

The hand that had been hanging in mid-air fell limply to the ground.

Su Yuan closed his eyes.

A serene smile, devoid of any regret, froze on his face.

Su Yuan, the second head of the Su family, is a member of the Qianlong family.

He died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 330.

Su Yu sat by the bed, quietly gazing at Su Yuan's remains.

The true pillar of the second generation of the Su family, and the only blood relative in the world who knew the secret of his reincarnation, has come to an end.

He did not shed a tear.

Having reached his level of understanding, he had long since come to see life, death, and separation as inevitable.

He simply reached out and gently tidied Su Yuan's somewhat disheveled white hair.

"Go ahead, I'll watch them walk the rest of the way."

……

Three days later.

The entire Tianyunfang market was dressed in white.

The funeral was of an extremely grand scale.

The heads of the three major families of Tianyun Market, along with the leaders of dozens of smaller families and chambers of commerce that were dependent on the Su family, all dressed in mourning clothes and came to the foot of Luoyun Mountain to pay their respects.

The mourning hall was set up in the main hall on the main peak.

Thousands of cultivators and core disciples of the Su family knelt densely in the square according to their seniority.

A mournful melody played softly.

Su Yu wore a plain-colored long robe and did not use his Golden Core cultivator status to intimidate anyone.

He stood calmly before Su Yuan's coffin, then personally scooped up a handful of yellow earth and scattered it onto the coffin.

At the very front of the crowd.

Su Yao, dressed in black mourning clothes, led ten Foundation Establishment stage elders of the Su family in bowing deeply.

Among these ten Foundation Establishment elders are veterans who have lived since the Qingmufang City era, as well as young prodigies who have recently risen to prominence thanks to their high-grade spiritual roots.

After the funeral.

There was no power transition or turmoil within the Su family.

As a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, Su Yao continued to hold the position of family head, managing all affairs both inside and outside the family.

Su Yu, on the other hand, remained the same supreme ruler who sat atop the ancestral peak, embodying the family's absolute foundation and deterrent power.

A strong wind blew across Luoyun Mountain, scattering paper money everywhere.

Su Yuan is gone.

But the story of the Su family, the hidden dragon, continues to move steadily forward.

……

P.S.: I had some things to do this month, so I can only manage 4,000 words a day. I'll try to update more next month. Please encourage me to update more and give me gifts...