Everlasting

"I heard that the first thing many monks do after coming to Yu County is to try the blue spiritual fish from my Chen family."

Chen Nianzhi listened with a smile and began to collect spiritual peaches.

The spiritual peach tree grows very fast. This year it has reached the first level of high quality and has produced more than 160 spiritual peaches.

He picked one hundred and thirty pieces and planned to put thirty pieces into the family treasury. One hundred pieces were taken to Yuyangfang and sold, and the remaining thirty pieces were kept by himself for practicing and entertaining guests.

Early the next morning, Chen Nianzhi said goodbye to his old uncle and two siblings, and followed Chen Changlu and others to Lingzhou Lake.

Because they had to bring live fish to Yuyangfang, a few people could only hold the rented Huoyun Mara fish, so the journey was not very fast. It took them more than ten days to reach Yuyang. Square.

This Yuyangfang is the only Xiuxianfang city within tens of thousands of miles of Yu County. Hundreds of immortal cultivating families, large and small, in Yu County, plus thousands of scattered cultivators, basically rely on this market to communicate with each other.

This city has always been jointly controlled by the six foundation-building immortal clans, and it stands to reason that the Chen family is one of them.

It's just that the Chen family declined overnight sixty years ago and was unable to send foundation-building monks to garrison here, so the tax revenue of Yuyangfang City was no longer shared by the Chen family.

You must know that Yuyangfang City has great benefits. The annual tax revenue alone exceeds 5,000 spirit stones. Even if the six major families share it equally, each of them can get nearly 1,000 spirit stones.

Unfortunately, it is precisely because the interests of Yuyangfang City are too great. If you are not careful, you will attract the attention of demon cultivators and outsider cultivators, so a large number of strong people must be stationed there.

Except for the Chen family, each of the six major families in Yu County has sent a foundation-building monk to guard here. The Chen family has no one to contribute, so naturally it loses this huge source of tax revenue.

Speaking of which, this was Chen Nianzhi's first time coming to Yuyangfang. He looked at Yuyangfang with curiosity.

Chen Changlu saw his expression and explained from the side: "Don't underestimate Yuyangfang City."

"There are five foundation builders and more than 500 Qi-training monks stationed in Yuyangfang. They join forces to activate the Heavenly Sword Demon-Slaying Formation. Even the monsters of the Purple Mansion may not be able to reap the benefits."

The two walked while chatting, and soon arrived at the Changqing Building of the Chen family.

The Chen Clan of Immortals still has three shops left in Yuyangfang City, one of which is leased to other Xiaoxian Clan.

The two rooms for personal use are Changqing Tower and Evergreen Pavilion. Changqing Pavilion is the shop where the family receives elixirs, magic tools and other supplies for cultivating immortals. Changqing Pavilion is one of only three restaurants in the city.

Ever since the Chen family opened up Lingzhou Lake more than ten years ago, with delicacies such as Cangqing Lingyu, the business of Changqing House has become more and more prosperous, gradually outperforming the other two.

Especially in recent years, with the increase in the output of Cang Qing Spirit Fish, the annual income of Evergreen House has exceeded 300 Spirit Stones.

This alone accounts for 30% of the family's annual income.

In addition, the output of spiritual rice from Lingzhou Lake has increased in recent years, and the elixirs that the family has been operating for hundreds of years have gradually matured. Therefore, the family's deficit has been gradually smoothed out, not only reaching a balance of payments, but also slightly improving. balance.

If the Daqingshan spiritual veins were not mortgaged and the family could still run the business of transporting the Five Elements Essence to Tianxu Mountain, then the annual balance of the family treasury might reach seven to eight hundred spiritual stones.

"It seems like the harvest this year is really good."

Several people took Lingyu to Changqing Tower, and the second elder came out to greet everyone.

With a smile on his face, he asked everyone to release the spiritual fish into the backyard fish pond. The spiritual fish would not be sold in a day.

Compared with ordinary monster meat, the green spirit fish is not only delicious in texture, but also freshly slaughtered, so it is much more delicious.

Many monks in Yu County want to try this delicacy, but the Cangqing Spirit Fish is limited, so Changqing Tower can only sell a limited amount every ten days, and you can't eat it until the day is full.

After releasing the spiritual fish, Chen Nianzhi went to Evergreen Pavilion again. He consigned a hundred spiritual peaches to Evergreen Pavilion and folded 450 spiritual stones.

He has been doing this business for several years. Although 10% of the proceeds from the spiritual peaches go to the family, it saves him the effort of selling and expands the business for the family. It is also a good deal.

After doing all this, he asked an acquaintance to lead the way to Xuanming Pavilion.

Xuanming Pavilion is the property of the Mu family among the six major immortal families in Yu County. The Mu family is the oldest family in Yu County and has been passed down for more than 600 years.

Although the Mu family has not produced an ancestor of the Zifu in the past six hundred years, there have been successive generations of foundation-building monks. Through their management from generation to generation, the Mu family has opened up the largest elixir garden in Yu County.

It is said that their family has nearly a hundred acres of spiritual fields, and the amount of elixirs they grow is several times that of the Chen family. Relying on this elixir garden that has been in operation for hundreds of years, they have trained the only second-level high-grade alchemist in Yu County.

Even the top leaders of Tianxu Mountain Jiang Patriarch and Qingyang Sect sometimes need their high-level elixirs.

It is precisely because of this that the Mu family always has a way to obtain foundation building pills. Counting the three Mu family foundation building monks on the Qingyang Sect side, there are seven foundation building monks in their family.

Its clan leader, Mu Xuanming, is also an eighth-level foundation-building monk, second only to the Lin Clan, the strongest immortal clan in Yu County.

Chen Nianzhi was in need of auxiliary medicine to improve his alchemy skills, so he immediately thought of Xuanming Pavilion.

A monk with an outstanding appearance like him is usually more eye-catching. In addition, he is dressed in white as snow, can be said to be as rich as jade, and has an extraordinary temperament. As soon as he entered Xuanming Pavilion, he attracted the attention of the shopkeeper.

Similar to Tianxu Pavilion, elixir shops such as Xuanming Pavilion rarely see a few customers throughout the day. Generally, those who buy elixirs are regular customers, so there is only one shopkeeper in the shop at this time.

The shopkeeper was a middle-aged female cultivator. When he saw Chen Nianzhi, his eyes lit up at first sight. He thought it was a big customer who was coming, so he hurried over to entertain him.

"I see fellow Taoist being strange. This is my first time coming to Yuyangfang."

"Yes." Chen Nianzhi nodded: "I am a descendant of the Chen family in Qingyuan Mountain. This is the first time I have come to Xuanming Pavilion and I am planning to buy some elixir."

"It turns out he is a monk from the Chen family. He is disrespectful and disrespectful."

The woman showed a slightly disappointed look. Foundation-building immortal clans like the Chen family had their own elixir gardens, so they generally would not buy elixirs from them.

Even if he wants to buy it, he will only buy high-level elixirs, or just make up for the few elixirs he lacks.

The former are usually second-level elixirs and above, which the Mu family will not sell easily, while the latter often bring little profit.

Although a little disappointed, the woman still smiled and said.

"I wonder what the guests want to buy?"

"My furnace of elixirs is still short of a piece of bellgrass."

"The guest will be here later, I'll go get it right away."

The female shopkeeper said, turned around and went to the back room to get the bellgrass.

While waiting for the female cultivator to get the medicine, Chen Nianzhi was sitting in the hall drinking tea, and then he noticed a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old walking in.

The man was obviously a casual cultivator who was traveling for the first time. His cultivation level was only at the second level of Qi training. He looked a little timid when he entered the medicine shop.

The young man glanced at Chen Nianzhi and saw that he had an extraordinary temperament and unfathomable cultivation. He mistakenly thought that he was the shopkeeper of Xuanming Pavilion, so he came forward and whispered.

"Shopkeeper, do you want to collect the alchemy book?"