Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 85 Conflict
In the inner garden flower hall.

"...I haven't seen Deacon Ling for a long time since we last met. I wonder how he is doing?"

Ling Changqing, who was sitting at the main seat, put down the teacup in his hand and asked gently.

No matter what, Ling Zifeng was quite caring towards him back then and was his first benefactor, so Ling Changqing remembered this favor.

The girl in the green dress looked embarrassed, her bright eyes and dense eyelashes trembled slightly, and she said timidly:

"My uncle is still the same as always, working in all weathers, managing a large group of pearl divers, and going out to sea every day to collect resources for the family..."

Ling Changqing nodded. After he broke through the sixth level of Qi training, he seldom went on Ling Zifeng's ship. In recent years, he has been staying with his senior sister.

According to the girl named Ling Menghuan, Ling Zifeng's cultivation has already broken through the seventh level of Qi training, but due to his mediocre aptitude and old age, he is afraid that he will not be able to make any further progress in this lifetime.

Of course, given the deacon's status and position, he should have a lot of extra income every year, so he has the resources to educate his own children.

Ling Menghuan is his niece. Her parents died when she was young, and she was raised by Ling Zifeng's wife. She has relatively better qualifications and talents.

Therefore, after repeated consideration, Ling Zifeng finally decided to give up his daughter and send her to Ling Changqing instead.

Favors are valuable and should be used wisely. If you send an unqualified candidate, you will end up wasting opportunities and the gains will not outweigh the losses.

"From now on, you will stay in this spiritual cave to practice,"

Ling Changqing said, "Song Xuelan will arrange a room for you to stay in, and the monthly training resources will be three times the standard for direct descendants. What do you think?"

Ling Menghuan was slightly startled, then her face turned slightly red, and she said happily: "Okay, everything is up to you, Senior Brother."

Although she was a direct descendant of the family in the past, she had limited qualifications and could not be valued by the top management. She could only receive a share of resources from the family treasury every month and could not receive any other preferential treatment.

With Ling Changqing, not only can he obtain three times the amount of resources every month, but he can also enjoy the cultivation environment of the second-level spiritual vein blessed land all year round. The speed of improving his cultivation will inevitably be several times faster than before.

"but……"

Ling Changqing looked the other person up and down, frowned and asked:

"You look a little thin. Have you been injured before? And you haven't fully recovered yet?"

Ling Menghuan's expression changed slightly, and he hesitated for a moment before nodding gently:

"That's right, but my uncle said that my injury will not affect my practice, and I will recover as long as I recuperate slowly."

Ling Changqing waved his hand, and her face became even redder with embarrassment, but she still stood up and walked over gracefully, stretching out her white wrist for him to examine.

"Yeah, it's a little troublesome, but it's not a big problem."

After a while, Ling Changqing withdrew his hand and said:

"I will try to make you a furnace of Qi-replenishing and essence-replenishing elixirs. You just need to take them regularly and you will be back to normal in at most half a year."

This girl's injuries were probably the result of an accidental injury in her early years. Fortunately, they were not serious and could be easily dealt with by her own means.

After talking for a while, Song Xuelan led her away and went to the backyard to arrange accommodation.

Ling Changqing got up and went to the inner study, intending to study the Vajra Demon Subduing Art he had just obtained. Although he didn't want to practice it now, it would be a good idea to familiarize himself with the content.

Cultivation consumes resources, and the demand for resources for physical cultivation is particularly exaggerated, just like technical talents such as elixirs, talismans, weapons and formations.

If you are not a powerful force at the Jindan level or above, you cannot cultivate a decent physical cultivator at all. It is too resource-consuming.

If Ling Changqing was not wealthy now, he would not be able to consider such a luxurious and wasteful development path.

Of course, if there are sufficient resources as a foundation, and the three paths of sword cultivation, magic cultivation, and physical cultivation go hand in hand, your future achievements will surely be outstanding, and your combat power will surpass that of ordinary cultivators of the same level.

"...Sir, there is a foundation-building cultivator who wants to meet with me. He is said to be a senior elder of the family."

A moment later, Song Xuelan came in to report.

"Which elder?"

Ling Changqing was a little surprised. Apart from Ling Qiyue and Tang Qiuyao, he had little interaction with other senior elders of the Ling family.

That is to say, he had some contact with the elegant and beautiful Elder Qin Yun. After all, she and her daughter Ling Bingyun were both rare beauties.

"Never mind, let's go and have a look."

Ling Changqing said that since Ling Qiyue's third batch of foundation-building pills came out, several foundation-building cultivators have been born in the Ling family. Based on the principle that things are rare and valuable, the foundation-building cultivators in the family are no longer considered too noble.

At least compared to the three foundation-building eras, their status and voice have been weakened. After all, there is a real Jindan Zhenren above their heads who suppresses everything.

Arriving at the front hall, an old man in a yellow robe with white hair and beard and a haughty look was sitting on a chair with his thin lips tightly pursed.

Behind him stood a young man with slicked hair and powdered face, dressed in brocade, who was at the fifth level of Qi training. He was waving a folding fan in his hand, looking around with a rolling look, seeming to be envious of everything around him.

Ling Changqing came out from behind the black jade painted screen and frowned slightly when he saw the old man and the young man with unfriendly expressions.

He remembered that he seemed to have met that young man in brocade clothes at a family gathering. His name was Ling Yang. He had wanted to harass Ling Bingyun at the beginning, but ended up being slapped in the face.

"Elder, you are..."

Taking a step forward, Ling Changqing asked patiently. He was not familiar with the senior figures of the Ling family, so it was naturally impossible for him to remember the appearances and names of all the elders.

Moreover, this old fellow had obviously just successfully established his foundation, and he was probably just an unknown elder of the ninth level of Qi training. If Ling Qiyue hadn't had enough foundation-building pills, it wouldn't have been his turn.

The old man in yellow robe looked a little embarrassed when he heard this, and snorted coldly:
"I am Ling Yuanji, the family's newly promoted foundation-building elder. Little guy, you really are... relying on the family head's favor, you don't even know who you are, right?"

Ling Changqing's voice turned cold: "I really don't know. It seems that we don't have much contact with each other. I wonder what the elder is doing here today?"

It's true that he understands the ways of the world, but that doesn't mean he has to be nice to all the trash, not to mention that this guy has bad intentions.

Ling Yuanji's eyes flashed with anger, but he held it back after thinking about it, and said stiffly:
"Master Changqing, I came here specially to discuss something with you. You are just a cultivator in the Qi training stage now, and you don't need a second-level spiritual vein cave at all."

"Why don't you listen to me and lend me this cave for cultivation temporarily, and return it to you after you have established your foundation in the future?"

"..."

Ling Changqing's face became even colder. It turned out that this old guy was thinking about his cave temple. He wanted to borrow it without any reason? He was probably the kind who would never return it!

"How about it?"

Ling Yuanji forced a smile on his old face: "As long as you agree, I will owe you a favor and I will definitely repay you in the future!"

Although Longhuan Island is large, the number of second-level spiritual vein caves is limited.

As there were more and more new foundation-building cultivators in the Ling family, by the time Ling Yuanji succeeded in building his foundation, there were no suitable second-level spirit vein caves available on the island.

This narrow-minded old guy was naturally unwilling to accept this, but he did not dare to protest to Ling Qiyue, so he set his sights on Ling Changqing.

In his opinion, a mere young man in the Qi training stage actually occupies the best and largest spiritual vein cave as his own training ground, almost on par with the head of the family. How on earth does he rely on that?
So we have this scene today.

In his opinion, he had devoted his whole life to the family, so what was wrong with occupying a second-level spiritual cave? Wasn't this natural?

"If you don't want to lend it, Elder, please go somewhere else!"

Ling Changqing said coldly, this bastard is taking advantage of his age and he is too lazy to even try to be perfunctory.

"you……"

Ling Yuanji was stunned for a moment, his old face instantly turned purple, and Ling Yang's expression was equally ugly.

"Boy, you better think it over carefully!"

Ling Yang said angrily: "It will be bad for you to offend my grandfather. You were just a distant relative before. What qualifications do you have to act so great in front of my grandfather?"

Ling Changqing said coldly: "You are a direct descendant? But you are already in your forties or fifties, and you are just a good-for-nothing at the fifth level of Qi training. How can you be so arrogant in front of me?"

"Go away, you are not welcome here!"

Since the relationship has already been torn apart, Ling Changqing naturally will not have any more concerns. The worst that can happen is that they can just fight.

"Good, very good!"

Ling Yuanji laughed in anger: "You are indeed a wild and disrespectful boy with no manners. Today, I will teach you a lesson on behalf of the master of the family..."

A cold, pleasant, murderous voice sounded faintly:

"Ling Yuanji, who do you think you are? Do you think it's your turn to teach Tang Qiuyao a lesson?"

As he spoke, the temperature around him suddenly dropped to freezing point, and hundreds of sharp sword beams broke through the air and enveloped the grandfather and grandson...

(End of this chapter)