Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 69: Longhuan Island Changes Ownership

The postwar meeting lasted only a few moments.

After finishing the important matters, Ling Qiyue ordered the transfer of half of the foundation-building cultivators and hundreds of family members in the Qi training stage to immediately set off to accompany her to Longhuan Island.

This is to completely wipe out the Wu family's foundation and take over their foundation intact.

The reason for being so urgent is naturally to prevent Wu Canglang from destroying the second-level spiritual veins and important industries of Longhuan Island in desperation, leaving a mess for the Ling family.

Although it is not so easy to destroy the second-level spirit vein, but in Ling Qiyue's eyes, Longhuan Island is already her own territory, and she obviously cannot allow outsiders to cause trouble.

In the square outside, more than twenty flying boats were ready to go.

The main elite force was riding on Ling Qiyue's exclusive vehicle, a flying boat of the highest grade spiritual weapon, whose interior space was large enough to accommodate hundreds of cultivators.

"... Senior Sister, can you take me with you this time?"

On the front deck of the flying boat, Ling Changqing spoke to Ling Qiyue despite Tang Qiuyao's dissuasion.

Ling Qiyue hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, you can go with me if you want, but you are not allowed to leave my side."

She was thinking that with Ling Changqing's extraordinary luck and fortune, if they went together to take over Longhuan Island, perhaps the probability of accidents could be reduced.

"Ok."

Ling Changqing agreed. The Wu family now did not have much available strength, so his own safety was not in danger.

Ling Qiyue nodded: "Junior sister, take care of the house. I will be back after I finish dealing with things over there."

Tang Qiuyao agreed. This time, she and the remaining foundation-building elders would stay on Chanxin Island. After all, the foundation of the family could not be lost.

Immediately, more than twenty flying boats with shining lights took off one after another, turned together in mid-air, accelerated towards the open sea, and left glowing trails behind them.

In addition to the monks, the people who went to take over Longhuan Island this time included a large number of Taoist puppets and ordinary mortal troops. They were mainly responsible for maintaining the ruling order of those mortal cities.

Inside the flying boat.

Ling Qiyue, dressed in a snow-white Taoist robe, with a fair complexion, cold and charming, walked leisurely along the long corridor with an elegant demeanor and a swaying figure.

Ling Changqing followed behind her, silently admiring the beautiful woman's graceful and voluptuous body. Her huge and soft moon-shaped breasts swayed slowly, creating many charming arcs. Her body fragrance was faint, and he felt comfortable both physically and mentally.

The internal space of the flying boat is about the same size as the sea ship that Ling Changqing had previously stayed on, so all the cultivators in the middle stage of Qi training can have their own separate rooms.

Ling Qiyue was unaware of the young man's fiery gaze behind her. She walked all the way to her boudoir, opened the restriction and pushed the door open to enter.

The interior furnishings are luxurious and exquisite, and filled with a faint fragrance, which is no less than that on land.

"Please sit anywhere. The conditions here are a little bit simpler than those in the family headquarters."

When they were alone, Ling Qiyue's majestic aura was much more restrained. Her flawless face was slightly flushed, and she spoke to him in a soft voice.

Then, she picked up the green jade teapot on the table with her jade hand and poured a cup of spiritual tea for Ling Changqing.

Ling Changqing took the teacup and took a sip. He felt the fragrance in his mouth and a refreshment in his mind.

"Sister..."

Ling Changqing hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help asking: "What level have you reached in your current cultivation realm?"

"What do you say?"

Ling Qiyue frowned slightly and said with a smile.

"Okay, pretend I didn't ask."

Ling Changqing realized that she would not get the answer, so he simply gave up.

He still didn't quite believe that Ling Qiyue had the special means to temporarily improve her cultivation level. She must have become a genuine Jindan Zhenren.

The reason why it was not publicly acknowledged was probably to give the Ling family enough buffer time to allow the family to have another group of foundation-building cultivators.

Otherwise, the many small forces in the Feiyu Sea area might, in panic and despair, band together to fight against the Ling family.

Although they do not have a Jindan Zhenren in charge, as long as they are willing to spend a lot of money, it is still possible to attract a few Zhendan-level foreign aids, or even attract the intervention of major forces outside the region, and disrupt the Ling family's long-term plan to unify the Feiyu Sea.

Therefore, Ling Qiyue’s current behavior is understandable.

"Junior brother, do you think that our Ling family can protect Longhuan Island in the future?"

Ling Qiyue changed the subject.

Ling Changqing thought for a moment and said, "It will be no problem to defend Longhuan Island and its surrounding islands, including the territories of several other small forces."

"But if we want to continue to expand abroad, the current monks in the family will not be enough. I mean the manpower needed to guard and govern the new territory."

Ling Qiyue nodded slightly: "Indeed, so my plan is to stop expanding after taking down the Wu family and those small forces, and digest and integrate the results that have been obtained first."

"This is the best thing."

Ling Changqing agreed.

Since Ling Qiyue took over the power of the head of the family, the number of Qi training cultivators in the Ling family has increased significantly, and now it is nearly twice that of the Wu family.

As the number of monks increases, the demand for spiritual veins and blessed caves will also increase accordingly, so that in ten or twenty years, the spiritual resources of Zen Heart Island may not be enough.

Therefore, from the Ling family's perspective, external expansion is an inevitable strategy. However, as the territory becomes larger, a corresponding number of cultivators are needed to manage and maintain the ruling order. These people must also be loyal enough to the family, and outsiders are definitely not trustworthy.

The total area of ​​the Wu family's Longhuan Island and its surrounding affiliated islands is about twice that of Chanxin Island, and the scale of mortal islands is nearly three times larger.

In addition, the territories of the four small forces, the Yang family, the Zhu family, the Mu family and the Chiyang Sect, are almost the same size as the Wu family's territory, and so are the populations.

This means that the territory belonging to the Ling family has increased by more than four times.

The Ling family's current number of cultivators is barely enough to defend such a large territory and carry out long-term effective governance, but if there are more, it will not be enough.

Therefore, the Ling family will have to vigorously train new cultivators in the future, and any family members who have spiritual root qualifications must be considered for training.

In addition, immortal seedlings with spiritual roots must be selected from the vast number of mortals in the territory and brought back to the family for cultivation.

……

Longhuan Island.

At this moment, the head of the family, Wu Canglang, who had luckily escaped with his life, has returned to the family headquarters.

Of the main elite force of the family that went to the expedition to Chanxin Island, only a handful of them are left and have escaped back with him.

“…Are these the only people there?”

In the meeting hall, Wu Canglang, with a pale face, asked in a hoarse voice.

There were about a hundred people standing sparsely in the hall, most of them were in the early and middle stages of Qi training, and there were very few in the late stage of Qi training.

As for the cultivator at the foundation-building stage, apart from an elder who stayed behind, the only one was Wu Canglang himself.

In the crowd, a family steward who was at the sixth level of Qi training looked depressed and tremblingly stepped forward to answer:

"Master, all the surviving monks of the family are here."

The Wu family has been multiplying for hundreds of years, and has branched out from generation to generation. Of course, there are more than just these few people, but the vast majority of the clansmen are ordinary people who do not have spiritual roots, and the total number is as high as hundreds of thousands.

"..."

There was nothing but despair in Wu Canglang's eyes.

Elder Tianyang had already fled, Wu Qi and Wu Xiuqing were nowhere to be found, and the rest of the foundation-building cultivators were almost all killed or captured by Ling Qiyue.

The protective formation of the Longhuan Island family headquarters was simply unable to withstand the full-force attack of a Jindan Zhenren.

Wu Canglang understood that the Ling family’s counterattack and retaliation would come soon, and what could the Wu family, which had suffered heavy losses, use to resist?
Is it possible that the glory that has been passed down by the Wu family for hundreds of years will be destroyed in my hands today?

When he thought of this, Wu Canglang felt a chill all over his body and his vision went dark.

The deacon gritted his teeth and whispered, "Master, why don't we just... surrender?"

"Bastard!"

Wu Canglang was suddenly shocked, and his eyes regained some of their sharpness:
"Our Wu family has been passed down from generation to generation until now. How can we hand over such a great foundation to outsiders?!"

"Then... we can only pack up our belongings and leave Longhuan Island with a small number of our direct descendants!"

The voice of Elder Wu Yuanlong sounded slowly. He was the foundation-building cultivator who stayed behind.

When Wu Canglang heard this, his expression changed from gloomy to bright.

Reason told him that this should be the most appropriate choice at the moment. If he could preserve some blood for the family, there might be hope for inheritance in the future.

But when he thought about abandoning the foundation that he had worked hard for hundreds of years and countless clansmen had devoted their entire lives to, Wu Canglang couldn't help but bleed in his heart.

"I, I am the sinner of my family..."

Wu Canglang's voice choked with sobs: "Forget it, let's follow the elder's advice, everyone pack up and prepare to leave!"

The Wu family members present dispersed in an instant as if they had been pardoned.

They were going to intensify their plundering of property and resources, and then run away with their wives and children.

When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. They can no longer care about the survival of the family.

However, in less than half an hour, the Ling family's flying boat fleet appeared in the sky.

At this time, the Wu family's protective formation had been closed, because the formation's base and core components had been dismantled by some clansmen and were ready to be packed up and shipped away.

For a force at the foundation-building level, a set of second-order formations is still of great value, so it cannot be left to the Ling family.

Needless to say, when the Ling family's flying boat landed in the square in front of the Wu family's meeting hall, everything was irreversible.

These members of the Wu family, who were like frightened birds, could hardly put up any resistance and were all captured by the monks of the Ling family.

The head of the family, Wu Canglan, originally wanted to continue running away, but this time he no longer had the third-level talisman in his hand, so he was captured by Ling Qiyue personally.

Only Elder Wu Yuanlong still had some courage left. He led a dozen Qi training disciples to fight back, but then he died under the siege of several foundation building cultivators.

At this point, the Wu family’s hundreds of years of rule on Longhuan Island came to an end.

(End of this chapter)