Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 70 Digestion and Integration
Longhuan Island.

In the inner garden flower hall, a sumptuous banquet has been set out, filled with all kinds of spiritual wines and delicacies, and the aroma is everywhere.

Ling Changqing and Ling Qiyue sat opposite each other, enjoying the delicious and tender second-level monster meat while chatting in soft voices.

"We arrived just in time,"

Ling Changqing said: "Many of the Wu family's important industries are basically intact, and the spiritual vein cave has not been damaged. The receiving process is quite smooth."

Today, Longhuan Island and its surrounding islands are under the effective control of the Ling family cultivators, and order has been restored in mortal cities, towns and villages.

Of course, there are also the four small forces of Zhu Family, Mu Family, Yang Family, and Chiyang Sect. Their cultivators were also almost completely wiped out in the war and were completely unable to resist the occupation of the Ling Family cultivators.

Under Ling Qiyue's arrangement, the Ling family's foundation-building cultivators have gone there separately to take charge, and the process of taking over the land and assets has been uneventful.

Ling Qiyue nodded slightly: "It's just that the Wu family's treasury is almost empty, and there are few cultivation resources left. The situation of those families is the same."

This war has exhausted the Wu family's remaining resources, and they also owe a large amount of foreign debts, such as that of the Hanyue Sect.

"Senior Sister, do we need to care about the foreign debts that the Wu family owed in the past?"

Ling Changqing asked thoughtfully.

According to past practice, when one force is destroyed by another, the foreign debt owed by the original force does not need to be recognized.

But it depends on the situation. If the creditor is strong enough, it is still possible to force the other party to repay the debt.

The Wu family has many creditors, but most of them are not very strong forces, except for the Hanyue Clan.

The more prudent approach is to acknowledge the debt of Hanyue Sect and repay it in installments in the future. There is no need to care about the debts of other small forces.

Ling Qiyue said in a calm tone: "No one will be recognized! This includes the people from Hanyue Sect. If they are unwilling, just come and fight!"

Ling Changqing nodded: "That's fine."

Not to mention whether Elder Tianyang will cause trouble, even the top leaders of Hanyue Sect would probably not be happy to see the Ling family easily swallow up the Wu family's territory, and would most likely take some action.

But Ling Qiyue is now a Jindan Zhenren, or it can be said that she possesses the combat power equivalent to that of a Jindan Zhenren. There are only two Jindan Zhenren in the Hanyue Sect, and they can't do anything to the Ling family.

What's more, their main expansion direction is Fu Yuezhou, and at this stage they cannot have the spare energy to interfere with the situation in Feiyu Sea.

"After a period of time, when the situation is completely stable, I will consider moving the Ling family's base to Longhuan Island."

Ling Qiyue took a sip of the spiritual wine and continued speaking.

Ling Changqing seemed to be thinking: "This is good. After all, the location of Chanxin Island is a bit remote. Longhuan Island is much more suitable."

Chanxin Island, where the Ling family lives, is a relatively marginal area in the Feiyu Sea, and does not have much room for future development.

In the past, due to limited strength, there was nothing we could do and we could only make do with what we had. Now that we have these conditions, we must make some changes.

Longhuan Island is much larger than Chanxin Island, with a dense population, rich mineral resources, more abundant spiritual energy, and is close to the hinterland of Feiyu Sea. Its development ceiling is obviously much higher.

In the future, the Ling family will be centered on Longhuan Island. They can expand in many directions if they advance, and they can protect themselves if they retreat. Their development and growth are just around the corner.

Ling Qiyue smiled slightly, her beautiful eyes gazing at the purple-clad handsome boy opposite her, and said:

"We captured quite a few direct descendants of the Wu family this time. Some of the girls there are pretty good looking. Do you want to pick a few to serve you?"

Ling Changqing shook his head calmly, "I have no idea. Senior Sister Tang has no shortage of people to serve her."

There are only a few female cultivators left in the Wu family. Those women are ordinary people without spiritual roots. In Ling Changqing's eyes, they have no appeal at all and it would be troublesome to keep them around.

Ling Qiyue nodded with satisfaction. She naturally understood Ling Changqing's thoughts, but his current cultivation was limited, so some things could not be rushed. At least they had to wait until he had established his foundation.

Over the next few months, Ling Qiyue stayed on Longhuan Island, taking care of all matters personally in order to digest and integrate this newly acquired land as quickly as possible.

The first thing to do was to deal with the direct descendants of the Wu family. No matter if they were monks or ordinary people, they were all demoted to slaves, without exception.

Then, the various industries were counted and arranged, such as spiritual caves, shops, spiritual fields, medicinal gardens, pastures, mines, etc. These industries were the foundation for the family's survival and development, so they had to be registered and the corresponding personnel had to be arranged to run them again, so that they could continuously contribute various resources to the family in the future.

The original protective formation of the Wu family on Longhuan Island has been repaired, but Ling Qiyue is a little disdainful of this relatively ordinary second-level formation and is considering investing resources to upgrade it.

Perhaps we can also consider asking the mysterious organization behind Fu Yinxue for another loan and getting a genuine third-order formation, so that the safety of Longhuan Island will be guaranteed.

However, this kind of strategic resource is of great significance and is enough to change the power structure of a region. Even if Fu Yinxue himself has no objection, the top leaders of the organization may not necessarily give in.

So this matter cannot be rushed and needs to be considered carefully.

At the same time, the demise of the Wu family and its allies caused quite a stir in the surrounding waters.

No one had ever imagined that the Wu family, which had great hopes of defeating the Ling family, would be destroyed instead. And it was destroyed so thoroughly that not even a significant enough member of the family could escape.

Whether they like it or not, what they will have to face in the future will be the Ling family, whose power and prestige will increase greatly.

Especially the female head of the family who was suspected to have the strength of a Golden Core True Person, who made the heads of all the forces sleepless at night.

However, no matter how dissatisfied they were, no one dared to object to the Ling family's expansion behavior, for fear of being targeted by Ling Qiyue.

A month later, Hanyue Sect sent an envoy to ask Ling Qiyue to repay the huge debt owed by the Wu family on behalf of the Ling family.

In addition, the Ling family must submit to the Hanyue Sect, serve it as their master, and pay a sufficient amount of tribute every year.

Only in this way will Hanyuemen acquiesce to the legitimacy of the Ling family's annexation of Longhuan Island and surrounding territories.

This self-satisfied and extremely arrogant request immediately angered Ling Qiyue.

Needless to say, the envoy of Hanyue Sect was captured and beaten up by her, and then driven back.

It is said that the top leaders of Hanyue Sect were very angry about this and threatened to send out the sect's elite forces to destroy the Ling family.

However, after they made their threats, there was no further follow-up, which disappointed many small forces around them.

However, this is also an expected result. The current Hanyue Sect does not have the strength to fight on two fronts. If they force themselves to make enemies with the Ling family, they may even be robbed by Fu Yuezhou.

Three months later, after confirming that Hanyue Sect would not take any action, Ling Qiyue finally gave the order to move the Ling family's base to Longhuan Island and officially take root here.

Not only was there no one objecting this time, but after the relocation was completed, many small forces in the surrounding waters also sent envoys with gifts to express congratulations.

Of course, these guys' congratulations were just a cover. The key was to test the opinions of the top leaders of the Ling family and find out the family's next move.

If the Ling family is not satisfied with the benefits they have already obtained and want to expand further, these small forces will have no choice but to stick together and form alliances to protect each other.

Fortunately, Ling Qiyue did not make things difficult for them. She clearly announced at the banquet that in the next few decades, the Ling family would recuperate and would not threaten the safety of surrounding forces.

This made those uneasy small forces feel relieved. Regardless of whether this was credible or not, at least peace for the next ten years could be guaranteed.

"... Senior Sister, Hanyue Sect will not give up. Once the war in Fuyuezhou is over, they will definitely come back to save their reputation."

In the alchemy room, Ling Changqing spoke to the two women.

Tang Qiuyao, wearing a bright yellow dress embroidered with phoenixes, with a beautiful face and elegant manner, smiled and said:
"Why should we care about this? They have a lot of work to do to deal with Fu Yuezhou's forces. They can't be distracted for at least the next 20 years."

"This is also true."

Ling Changqing's opinion was similar to hers. As long as the Ling family could enjoy peace for about 20 years, Ling Qiyue would have enough confidence to compete with the two Jindan Zhenren.

"Okay, in two days, we'll continue working in the sea!"

Ling Qiyue said softly that the medicinal herb resources in the Ling family treasury were almost exhausted, and they had to get some more.

Ling Changqing agreed: "That's no problem."

(End of this chapter)