I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 19: The Wild Boar Spirit

This time, in order to expand the market, nearly a thousand mortals were hired from outside. The originally planned brick walls for the expansion were changed to stone blocks, each of which had to be collected by mortals from the mountains and transported for construction. This required a lot of effort, but no one objected. For cultivators, this was ultimately beneficial for safety, as stones are more sturdy than bricks.

For mortals, this naturally increased the construction period, but they received one or two and a half silver coins every month. Such a good thing was hard to come by, and they were overjoyed.

The expansion on the outside was done with stone blocks, while the newly built houses on the inside were all wooden houses. Due to their proximity to the Yandang Mountains, there was no shortage of wood, and the construction progressed quickly. If it had followed the original plan, the interior and exterior would have been completed in half a year at most. However, now that the walls were changed to stone, the construction period was extended, and it would probably take a year.

As expected by Xuan Yu Fang, after the attack of the second-stage demonic beast that day, there were no more second-stage demonic beasts appearing. After all, second-stage demonic beasts were too rare. However, there were still attacks from mid to late Qi Refining stage demonic beasts, but apart from causing casualties among mortals, they posed little threat to cultivators. Everything went smoothly.

After Lin Qing handed over the spirit stones that day, he began to focus on cultivation again. Just over half a year later, Li Qingyu broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, becoming a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

Lin Qing was extremely happy about this and gave Li Qingyu the two first-grade middle-tier magical treasures that he had already bought in advance. They were a sword and a defensive magical treasure. Li Qingyu was overjoyed and looked at Lin Qing with eyes almost filled with tears.

After that, the two of them tested a three-layer water formation, and the power of the formation greatly satisfied Lin Qing. Now that the two of them used this formation together, they were no longer afraid of cultivators at the seventh level of Qi Refining. The level of safety had greatly improved. If Lin Qing were to advance to the sixth level of Qi Refining, he would be able to fight against cultivators at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

However, it would still take him another half a year to reach the sixth level of Qi Refining.

On the day after Li Qingyu's breakthrough, Lin Qing did not rush to cultivate. On this day, he rarely carried Lin Xuen out of the house.

"Master Lin, this must be your son. He really looks like you," a cultivator greeted Lin Qing as he saw him carrying Lin Xuen.

Lin Qing responded to the praise of Lin Xuen with a smile, and Lin Xuen, who was lying on Lin Qing's shoulder, looked around with a mixture of fear and curiosity. His eyes kept moving, looking here and there.

"Xuen, do you want to eat candied hawthorn?" Lin Qing said as he carried Lin Xuen out of Qingmu Village.

"Candied... hawthorn?" Lin Xuen looked at his father, somewhat confused. He had never eaten such a thing before.

Lin Qing pointed ahead, where there was a vendor selling candied hawthorn. Lin Xuen followed his gaze and, although he didn't understand, showed a curious expression as if he wanted to try it.

"Let's go, Dad will buy you candied hawthorn."

Lin Qing felt a strange excitement and walked with Lin Xuen. The old man selling candied hawthorn saw an immortal approaching with a child from afar and became a little flustered. He kept touching his sleeves and cheeks, as if he didn't know where to put his hands.

"How much for the candied hawthorn?" Lin Qing asked as he approached him.

"If this immortal wants to eat, just eat it, no need to pay," the old man said. He sold candied hawthorn for the children in the mortal area, and he couldn't earn much money. Asking an immortal for money was really difficult for him.

"Give me one first."

Lin Qing smiled and then rummaged through his storage bag, taking out one or two silver coins and handing them to the old man.

"Immortal, this..." Looking at the one or two silver coins, the old man became even more at a loss.

Although Qingmuji is currently expanding and there is one or two taels of silver per month, it is only suitable for young and strong men. This old man like him is not needed at all. When he saw one or two taels of silver, he couldn't say anything for a while.

"Take it."

After Lin Qing finished speaking, he left.

"Immortal, let me... let me kowtow to you."

The old man didn't know how to express his gratitude for a while. After Lin Qing turned and left, he knelt down and kowtowed with a bang. When he saw that the immortal didn't look back, he breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.

But when he stood up, he found that there was one or two more taels of silver on the sugar hawthorn stall.

"Did I just remember it wrong?" The old man touched his head with two taels of silver in his hand, feeling extremely puzzled. It was clearly one or two taels just now, how did it become two taels? And when he wanted to kowtow to the immortal again, he couldn't see the immortal's trace anymore.

At this time, Lin Qing was holding Lin Xuen and circling around the expanding stone wall.

In fact, going out with Lin Xuen today to buy sugar hawthorns was just a small matter. The bigger matter was that Lin Qing wanted to see the stone wall being built outside with his own eyes and see the progress of the past six months.

It has been exactly six months since the stone wall started to be built, but the two-meter-deep foundation has not been filled with stones. I saw mortals pulling and pushing stones from the nearby quarry one by one, three people in a group. Although there were rolling logs under the stones, it was still very difficult because the stones were too big. They had to stop after walking a short distance, and the progress was extremely slow.

As for the immortal supervising on the side, he didn't care at all, and didn't even look at these mortals. He was focused on chatting with a young woman in front of him. For him, whether the construction was fast or slow didn't matter. He felt unlucky to have such a job that had no profit and was dangerous and troublesome. He didn't want to bother with it.

Lin Qing looked around the stone wall and then looked at Qingmuji, which was surrounded by the stone wall, feeling worried.

The previous Qingmuji was just a simple earth wall, which was incomparable to the current stone wall, not to mention the more powerful formation that would be arranged next. But the previous Qingmuji was a small village with few cultivators, so it was relatively safe. Since there were more demonic beasts now and the population of Qingmuji had increased, they were now building a stone wall, which made Lin Qing feel a sense of insecurity.

Because from the current perspective, if this expanding market is built, it will be very different from the original Qingmuji, just like a new market.

Can a new market operate safely and stably without being tested by time?

Not to mention, can the current management cultivators handle it?

The previous Qingmuji had a history of more than fifty years, and although it was small in all aspects, there were no major problems. But now the newly expanded market means that many aspects have to start over, and there may be omissions and mistakes.

"There are demonic beasts, demonic beasts!"

"Ah!!!"

While Lin Qing was pondering, suddenly there were shouts from mortals. He looked up and saw a large number of mortals fleeing in all directions, and in the distance, he could vaguely see the appearance of a demonic beast.

The demonic beast was extremely fast and quickly rushed to the stone wall under construction. Lin Qing didn't hide, as this demonic beast was only a mid-stage first-tier wild boar spirit and couldn't pose a threat to him at all.

The supervising cultivator who became nervous when he heard the demonic beast just now also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was only a mid-stage first-tier wild boar spirit. Then he loudly scolded the fleeing mortals, "It's just a mid-stage first-tier demonic beast. Can it eat a few of you? Do you need to run?"

(End of this chapter)