Chapter 756: Allocating spiritual veins and arranging teleportation arrays
One month after Song Qingming returned to the family, Zhao Mengling, who had already refined the secret technique, came to "Funiu Mountain" as promised to restore the origin of the spiritual tree for the gilded fruit tree.
With Zhao Mengling, a third-level mid-level spiritual planter, personally taking action, the subsequent process was also very smooth. In less than half a day, Zhao Mengling successfully transformed the refined secret method into a spiritual talisman and integrated it into the "Gilded Fruit Tree" within the foundation.
Seeing that the speed of spiritual energy absorbed by the spiritual tree in front of her slowly stabilized, Zhao Mengling walked out of the "Elixir Garden" at the back of the Song family with satisfaction.
"Junior Brother Song, as long as the spirit tree completely refines this talisman in a few days, the original lost origin can be completely restored.
Although the process of refining the talisman went very smoothly this time, it is still hard to say whether it can be successfully advanced. It is estimated that the results will not be known until half a year.
I also have two second-level ebony charms here, which can help the spirit tree absorb spiritual energy nutrients faster. You can just stick one on the root of the spirit tree every other month. "
After receiving several spiritual talismans from Zhao Mengling, Song Qingming immediately handed them over to Song Yuanxue who was standing aside. Then he took out a spiritual stone bag from his body and stuffed it into Zhao Mengling's hand.
"Thanks to Senior Sister Zhao for taking the trouble to come and help. I hope Senior Sister will accept this little thought."
Seeing that Song Qingming had stuffed over a thousand spiritual stones, Zhao Mengling did not accept it directly this time, but put away the smile on her face and waved her hand:
"Junior Brother Song, you're welcome. This remedy doesn't take too much time, but it's just a piece of cake. Junior Brother Song has already given me spirit stones for this before. How can I have the nerve to accept them again? If I spread the word, others won't take it seriously." I am a money obsessed person.
Junior brother, take the spirit stone back quickly, otherwise I will be angry. "
"This, junior brother has been negligent in this matter. I hope senior sister will not be angry and come with me to the mountain to taste and rest for a while."
Seeing that Zhao Mengling's expression changed and she was determined not to accept the spirit stone, Song Qingming did not insist anymore and quickly put away the spirit stone in his hand with a smile on his face and took Zhao Mengling to the "Huixian Pavilion" on the top of the mountain.
Zhao Mengling has been practicing alchemy for many years. She has always liked to make friends in the "Xiaoyao Sect" and pays more attention to her own reputation.
After knowing that the other party would not accept the spiritual stone, Song Qingming could only ask Song Yuanfang to go to the family's Golden Pavilion to pick out two bags of more expensive spiritual tea and send them over, and Zhao Mengling accepted them with a happy face.
Over the years, Song Qingming has always been courteous in dealing with other elders in the sect. Even when facing Fang Baixuan and others who formed elixirs later than him, he would not try to take advantage of them.
This time Zhao Mengling was willing to help and come to "Funiu Mountain" to repair the origin of the spiritual tree. She came here just for her own sake. No matter what, Song Qingming couldn't let him go back empty-handed.
After drinking tea and chatting with Zhao Mengling for a while, Song Qingming saw the other person stand up to leave, so Song Qingming hurriedly sent him out in person, and did not stay until outside the mountain and returned to the clan.
In the next few months, Song Yuanxue and others carefully took care of the "gilt fruit tree" according to the method described by Zhao Mengling. Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and the fruit tree actually successfully advanced to the third-level mid-grade after half a year.
Not only did the "Golden Fruit Tree" advance successfully this time, the fruit tree also successfully produced a mature third-level mid-grade spiritual fruit, which made the entire Song family extremely happy.
On the other side, Xu Ziyan informed the two sect elders Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian about Song Qingming's request for the "Cangyuan Mountain" spiritual vein. Not surprisingly, the two of them had no objections to the Song family's desire to manage this spiritual vein. I agreed on the spot.
The Song family also paid a high price to obtain this spiritual vein, spending a total of 70,000 spiritual stones to successfully purchase this third-level spiritual vein from the sect general affairs hall.
Fortunately, in recent years, the Song family has obtained a lot of spiritual veins and monster materials through the Northern Expedition to the Monster Clan. In addition, the family discovered the "Shuangfeng Mountain" spirit stone veins and made a fortune. Tens of them have been accumulated in the treasury. Thousands of spiritual stones.
Just taking over the third-level spiritual vein of "Cangyuan Mountain" will not cause the family to worry about it for a while.
It's just to keep a low profile and not to appear too wealthy in front of others.
When Song Qingming was discussing the price of taking over the spiritual veins with Xu Ziyan, he still complained a lot to Xu Ziyan, so that the sect agreed to pay half of the spiritual stones first, and the remaining balance was to be paid off slowly by the Song family over ten years.
Xu Ziyan naturally understands this.
The Song family just captured the "White Lion Ridge" a few years ago and invested a lot of spiritual stones in this third-level spiritual vein. Song Qingming didn't need to explain this to the sect, which was naturally clear to them.
Therefore, when Song Qingming made this request, Xu Ziyan quickly agreed without saying anything.
Moreover, Xu Ziyan also agreed on behalf of the Zongmen that if the Song family wanted to build a market in "Cangyuan Mountain", the Zongmen could invest in the market and then the two families would run the market together, which would also share a lot of pressure on the Song family.
Song Qingming also agreed with Xu Ziyan's idea on the spot.
However, the spiritual vein of "Cangyuan Mountain" is located in a remote place. There are not many human monks nearby now, so it is not suitable to build a market here.
It won't be possible to run this spiritual vein well for a while. It is estimated that it will take at least three to five years. As the surrounding area slowly develops, enough monks can gather near "Cangyuan Mountain" to open a market to earn spiritual energy. stone.
After obtaining the spiritual vein of "Cangyuan Mountain", Song Qingming immediately arranged for the family foundation elders Song Xuanting and Song Xuanyu to take dozens of monks to "Cangyuan Mountain" to take over the spiritual vein.
Then he first arranged a third-level lower-grade mountain protection formation above the spiritual vein, and began to transform this third-level spiritual vein that had been occupied by monsters for many years.
In addition to the "Cangyuan Mountain" obtained by the Song family, several other third-level spiritual veins that the "Xiaoyao Sect" conquered during the northern expedition also had their owners.
The owner of one of the third-level spiritual veins, "Youyun Mountain", was Zhou Ziyang, a casual cultivator who participated in the northern expedition with the "Xiaoyao Sect".
Song Qingming had expected that Zhou Ziyang would get a third-level spiritual vein from the sect.
After all, since Zhou Ziyang returned to Weiguo, he first helped the sect resist the monsters in "Guyang Mountain", and then he made great contributions in several major battles in the northern expedition with the "Xiaoyao Sect".
Zhou Ziyang was not an elder of the "Xiaoyao Sect", but he had contributed so much to the sect in succession. It was indeed understandable that he wanted to take a spiritual vein in the north after the war, and it was difficult for the "Xiaoyao Sect" to refuse this.
Originally, Song Qingming thought that Zhou Ziyang would choose to join the "Xiaoyao Sect" directly as a guest elder of the sect, just like Zhang Tieyang.
But what he didn't expect was that although Zhou Ziyang received several active recruitments from the sect, he didn't nod his head to agree.
Instead, he chose to follow the example of Chen Laozu of "Tuoyun Mountain" in the past. After obtaining the "Youyun Mountain", a third-level middle-grade spiritual vein, he directly established a school and recruited disciples here, wanting to create his own power like Chen Jinliang.
In the world of immortal cultivation, there are cultivators like Zhang Tieyang who are open-minded and like to enjoy life. Of course, there are also people like Zhou Ziyang who are devoted to Taoism and want to create a foundation in this world of immortal cultivation.
Although Song Qingming was a little surprised by Zhou Ziyang's choice, he still admired his ideas.
In any case, Zhou Ziyang is indeed a person who dares to think and do. Even if his achievements in the future are not as good as Chen Jinliang, he will leave a deep impression in the hearts of the cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation in Weiguo.
In addition to "Youyun Mountain", there is another third-level low-grade spiritual vein, which fell into the hands of a Jindan casual cultivator from Pei State in the south.
After this person obtained this spiritual vein, as expected, he quickly joined the "Xiaoyao Sect" like Zhang Tieyang and became a guest elder of the sect.
In addition to these third-level spiritual veins, the remaining dozens of second-level spiritual veins, except for a small part of the sect, most of the spiritual veins were taken out by the General Affairs Hall and sold directly at a marked price.
Many of them were local immortal cultivation families and casual cultivators in Wei State, and many came from other neighboring countries after hearing the news. For a time, the entire Wei State also had a lot of foreign cultivators.
After selling so many spiritual veins in its hands, the "Xiaoyao Sect" not only added a lot of cultivators under its command, but also immediately recovered hundreds of thousands of spirit stones and made a fortune.
As the "Xiaoyao Sect" took out many spiritual veins in the north, a large number of cultivators suddenly poured into the entire northern Wei State, and everywhere began to bustle.
These cultivators came to the north of Weiguo to take root. It was not enough to have spiritual veins for cultivation. Various spiritual objects such as elixirs, spiritual talismans, and magic tools were also indispensable.
In just half a year, with the continuous surge in the number of cultivators, the price of low-level cultivation elixirs in the north of Weiguo rose by nearly 30%.
In addition to the "Xiaoyao Sect" making a lot of money here, those merchants who were friendly with the "Xiaoyao Sect" and nearby immortal cultivation families such as the Song family also got a share of the pie.
During the vigorous development of the north of Weiguo, Huang Siyuan, who had traveled to the East China Sea immortal cultivation world several times, also brought back good news for the family and successfully purchased a teleportation array needed by the family.
Since the Song family conquered the third-level spiritual vein "White Lion Ridge" in the northern expedition, in order to facilitate the management of this spiritual vein, Song Qingming wanted to follow the example of the sect and set up a teleportation array on the front line between the family and "White Lion Ridge" to connect the two places.
In this way, if something happens in "White Lion Ridge", the family can rush to the rescue quickly through the "teleportation array", without worrying about the sudden attack of the monster army and the reinforcements not being able to arrive at the front line in time.
On the other hand, the "teleportation array" can also be used to connect the two places, saving the low-level cultivators more than ten days of walking, saving a lot of costs for transporting materials and personnel, which is extremely beneficial to the long-term development of the entire family.
However, the materials needed to refine the "teleportation array" in the world of cultivation are very rare, and are basically controlled by a few large sects. Therefore, it is difficult to see "teleportation arrays" above the intermediate level on the market except for the lowest-level small teleportation arrays.
In recent years, Huang Siyuan has made many inquiries in "Tian Dan City". Finally, with the help of her good friend Ye Qiuyuan, she spent more than tens of thousands of spirit stones to successfully buy a small "teleportation array" that the Song family needs now.
In the world of cultivation, "teleportation arrays" are divided into four types according to the distance of transmission.
The shortest transmission distance is called "small transmission array", and this kind of "teleportation array" generally has a transmission distance of about one or two thousand miles.
When Song Qingming first went to participate in the "Tian Dan League" auction, he took this smallest "teleportation array" to the venue. The cost of setting up a teleportation array of this size is about 10,000 to 20,000 spirit stones.
The "intermediate teleportation array" that can teleport about 10,000 miles is even rarer. This level of teleportation array requires at least 100,000 spirit stones. In the world of immortal cultivation, only major forces above the Golden Core level have the financial resources to set up this kind of "intermediate teleportation array".
The "Xiaoyao Sect" has set up this kind of "intermediate teleportation array" in several important spiritual vein territories of its own.
Over the years, the "Xiaoyao Sect" has fought many battles with the demons. It was because the intermediate teleportation array arranged in the "Guiyunfang" could rush to the front line in time that allowed them to withstand the huge pressure brought by the northern demon beasts.
After the sect's northern expedition this time, in order to facilitate the better management of the spiritual veins that countless cultivators on the northern front had paid the price of blood and worked hard to seize.
Xu Ziyan, the acting "master" of the sect, quickly went to the East China Sea Xiuxian Realm and purchased a set of "intermediate teleportation array" from there, which was arranged between "Guiyunfang" and "Baiyun Valley".
With the "teleportation array" connection, although they are tens of thousands of miles apart, they can still rush to each other, and the entire northern part of Weiguo has become much more stable.
The "large teleportation array" above can have a teleportation distance of about 100,000 miles, which is not something that ordinary sects have the financial resources to arrange. According to what Song Qingming knows, no sect in the entire Floating Cloud Mountains has this ability.
Even if we look at the entire Donghuang Xianzhou, only a very small number of top-level Yuanying forces can possibly arrange such a "large teleportation array" with extremely high operating costs.
As for the higher-level "super-large inter-state teleportation array", they can help cultivators directly cross the vast ocean to other immortal cultivation worlds, which are even more not seen in ordinary places. It is estimated that there are only a few in the entire Donghuang Xianzhou immortal cultivation world.
This time, the Song family originally wanted to find a "medium-level teleportation array" used by Xiaoyao Sect, but they searched for a long time and could not find out the news of the teleportation array.
Until a month ago, Huang Siyuan, who was in "Funiu Mountain", received a letter from Ye Qiuyuan, who helped to find out the news of a "small teleportation array" of relatively good quality in "Tiandan City".
Although this teleportation array is only the lowest-level "small teleportation array", the teleportation distance is much farther than the general "small teleportation array", and it can be teleported nearly 4,000 miles away.
Although this teleportation distance did not meet the original needs of the Song family, it could still be used, and the price was relatively cheaper than the intermediate teleportation array used by the "Xiaoyao Sect", which was still relatively affordable for the Song family.
After a careful discussion among several people, Song Qingming decided to let Huang Siyuan go to the East China Sea Xiuxian Realm to purchase this "small teleportation array".
The small teleportation array brought back by Huang Siyuan can teleport 4,000 miles away, which is just about the distance between "White Lion Ridge" and "Red Flame Square".
When Huang Siyuan brought back the teleportation array from "Tian Dan City", Song Qingming immediately took all the array masters in the family and worked day and night for more than a month before finally successfully placing this "small teleportation array" in the two square markets.
As soon as the teleportation array was arranged, several bolder Song family cultivators immediately took the initiative to step forward and apply to try the teleportation effect.
As the white light flashed, the few people quickly disappeared on the teleportation platform. After a long while, the white light flashed again on the teleportation platform, and the few people who had just teleported away appeared in front of everyone again.
"Reporting to the ancestor, we have just arrived at Baishiling. This is what the ancestor Changze asked us to give to you!"
Looking at the letter that Song Changze sent to him from thousands of miles away, Song Qingming, who knew that the teleportation array had been arranged steadily, suddenly showed a hint of joy on his face.
Although the teleportation array in front of him cost the family nearly 40,000 spirit stones, it can connect the two markets, which also brings great convenience to the Song family in protecting the two spirit veins in the future.
With the teleportation array connected, once the northern frontline market encounters an emergency and needs support, the family only needs to send cultivators to the nearby "Chiyanfang" to take the teleportation array to arrive instantly, and it doesn't take too much time.
For a Jindan cultivator like Song Qingming, it would take at least an hour to rush to "Baishiling". Now, if you take the teleportation array from "Chiyanfang", you can arrive in less than a quarter of an hour at most.
In this way, even if there are no Jindan cultivators stationed in "White Lion Ridge" all year round, there will not be too much security risk. At most, it will only cost more spirit stones to activate the teleportation array.
After the teleportation arrays in the two markets are installed, it is now much more convenient for the cultivators stationed on the front line of "White Lion Ridge" to return to the family. They can return to the family to visit relatives and friends at any time.
In addition, the Song family arranged the "teleportation array" between the two markets, and it can also be opened to the public to charge a certain fee for teleporting cultivators between the two places.
Although the profit of this short-distance transmission is not high, it can accumulate over time. As long as the family can carefully maintain this "small teleportation array", the spirit stones spent will be recovered sooner or later.
Since Song Qingming established his foundation, after nearly two hundred years of development, the Song family now has many industries outside, but there are not many industries that can bring a lot of stable profits to the family every year.
In addition to the two mines of "Shuangfeng Mountain" and "Yinfeng Ridge" which can harvest four to five thousand spirit stones every year, the two markets of "Chiyanfang" and "Baishifang" are also important sources of family income.
Not counting other miscellaneous things, just collecting rents from shops in the market and renting caves to those casual cultivators who come and go is a considerable income.
Adding the profits of the family-run shops together, the Song family can earn more than 5,000 spirit stones from these two markets every year.
As long as these two markets can continue to operate stably, with such a large amount of income every year, there will be no shortage of spirit stones in the family treasury.
That is why Song Qingming attached so much importance to these two markets, and he did not hesitate to spend so many spirit stones to buy a "small teleportation array" just to add a little more insurance and protection to the market.
After successfully setting up the teleportation array, Song Qingming was not in a hurry to leave. Accompanied by Song Xuanling, the elder of the Song family stationed in the market, he went to the streets of the market for a tour.
Although "Chiyanfang" was established less than a hundred years ago, it is far less ancient than the surrounding "Qinghefang" and "Jinshanfang" markets.
However, under the careful management of the Song family in the past few decades, the business of "Chiyanfang" soon surpassed many surrounding markets and has become the leading market in the northeast of Weiguo.
The biggest contributors are Song Changze and Liu Yuxin, who were stationed in the market for many years. Most of the rules and regulations that are currently in operation in "Chiyanfang" are still left by the two of them when they were here.
Song Qingming later transferred the two of them to "Bai Shiling" because he saw the ability of Song Changze and his wife to run the market.
Although "White Lion Square" is a market town jointly operated by the Song family and "Xiaoyao Sect", the Song family occupies a larger share of the entire market town. Song Qingming also wants to operate "White Lion Square" into a large market town like "Guiyun Square" in the future.
However, "White Lion Ridge" is a territory that the Song family has just conquered. There are not many cultivators and mortals living nearby. The development speed is not as fast as "Chiyan Square" at the beginning. It will take some time to become the large market town in Song Qingming's mind.
After a round in "Chiyan Square", Song Qingming, who was very satisfied with the market town situation, praised Song Xuanling for a few words, and then prepared to leave the market town and go to "Shuangfeng Mountain" not far away.
Just when he arrived at the entrance of the market town, a late Qi training master of the Song family suddenly hurriedly chased up from not far away and handed a letter to Song Xuanling who was following Song Qingming.
After Song Xuanling took the letter and glanced at it, a trace of doubt suddenly appeared on his face, and he hurriedly presented the letter in his hand to Song Qingming respectfully.
"Report to the ancestor, this is the letter that the sixteenth uncle just sent to you urgently from the clan, saying that there are some things in Qinghefang that he wants you to go back to discuss."
"What is the matter in Qinghefang? Didn't Yuanfang make it clear in the letter?"
Hearing that it was Song Yuanfang who sent a letter to discuss something with him, Song Qingming asked a little unexpectedly, and then took the letter presented by Song Xuanling.
Seeing Song Xuanling standing aside and shaking his head slightly, Song Qingming didn't say anything more and opened the letter in his hand directly.
After taking a closer look, his face, which was originally a little relaxed, gradually became a little solemn, and then quickly regained his calm, and put the letter in his hand directly into the storage bag.
"Ancestor, are you going to Shuangfeng Mountain next?"
Hearing Song Xuanling's cautious question, Song Qingming shook his head and said, "I have something to do today and I have to go back to the family first, so I won't go there for now. You can send a letter to Lin Rui and others to inform them of this matter later. I will go and see them next time when I have time.
You all go back to your own business, and I don't need to see you off."
After saying that, Song Qingming turned around and walked out of the market under the gaze of everyone, and then took out the "Phantom Boat" and turned into a beam of light and disappeared on the spot.
After leaving "Chiyanfang", Song Qingming did not choose to return to "Funiu Mountain", but controlled the flying boat all the way to the southeast of Qinghe County and headed straight for "Qinghefang". (End of this chapter)