I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 42: A Lukewarm Formation Business

The next day, after waking up, Lin Qing began to work on connecting the passage between the two courtyards. In order to avoid the troubles they had at Qingmuji, Lin Qing decided to directly connect the rooms on the second floor of the two buildings. From the outside, it would appear as two separate houses, but from the inside, they could freely come and go.

Che Yun woke up a bit later and saw that Chao Yun and Li Qingyu were still adjusting to their new identities. When she saw the children, she felt even more embarrassed.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Li Qingyu asked.

Che Yun blushed at Li Qingyu's question, and Li Qingyu smiled mischievously in response.

After a few days, Che Yun gradually integrated into Lin Qing's family and became diligent in her daily tasks. However, Lin Qing reminded her not to neglect her cultivation. Che Yun naturally followed Lin Qing's advice.

With the Concentrated Essence Pills that Lin Qing bought for her, Che Yun began to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

As for her alchemy, she would have to wait until after reaching the fourth level of Qi Refining. By then, alchemy would be easier. Lin Qing had seen Che Yun's alchemy recipes, ranging from low-grade healing pills to high-grade Qi nourishing pills. It was evident that her family had some expertise in alchemy.

In order to prepare for Che Yun's future alchemy endeavors, Lin Qing expanded the range of materials purchased for the store. He even started buying spiritual herbs that he previously didn't purchase, resulting in a considerable increase in purchases.

However, his formation business was still lukewarm.

As time went by, Lin Qing found himself running low on spirit stones. With two stores to support the cultivation of his family of three and the need to purchase materials, his income was not evenly distributed.

Looking at the Five-Linked Water Formation in the store, Lin Qing couldn't help but sigh. When would this formation be sold?

In the vast Xuan Yu Square, was there really no one willing to buy it?

If he could sell one set of the Five-Linked Water Formation each month, all his problems would be solved. But since the day he put up this formation, not a single one had been sold.

Looking at the seven sets of Unlinked Water Formation and the three sets of the Six-Linked Water Formation in his storage bag that had never been displayed, Lin Qing felt a headache coming on.

Helplessly, he had to reduce the purchase of formation materials.

On this day, while Lin Qing was idle and looking at the store, a cultivator walked in from outside.

At first glance, Lin Qing didn't pay much attention to the fact that the cultivator was at the fifth level of Qi Refining. But to his surprise, this cultivator seemed to treat him like a benefactor.

"Shopkeeper, do you remember me?" the person asked.

Lin Qing looked at him for a while but couldn't recall.

Not minding Lin Qing's lack of response, the person became even more excited and said, "Shopkeeper, when you first opened the store, I bought a set of the Three-Linked Water Formation from you. That formation saved my life."

"I vaguely remember something like that," Lin Qing seemed to recall a cultivator who was at the fourth level of Qi Refining and had asked for the Three-Linked Water Formation.

"You were at the fourth level of Qi Refining back then?" Lin Qing asked.

"Yes," the person nodded. Then, he came to the formation sign that Lin Qing had hung up and looked around. After a while, he said, "Shopkeeper, today I want to buy the Four-Linked Water Formation."

"Oh, I have that."

Lin Qing, who was worried about spirit stones, couldn't help but feel delighted. A set of the Four-Linked Water Formation would cost forty spirit stones, and considering that the Five-Linked Water Formation wasn't selling, this was the most profitable formation.

Taking the spirit stone from this person, Lin Qing handed him a set of four consecutive water formations.

After accepting it, the person looked at Lin Qing's five consecutive water formations with a hint of anticipation in his eyes. Lin Qing timely spoke up, saying, "Fellow Daoist, my five consecutive water formations are even more powerful, and you can rest assured that they will definitely work. It's not a bad formation. You can try it in the future."

"I understand," the person replied. Having used the three consecutive water formations, he naturally had complete confidence in Lin Qing's formidable array skills.

However, upon seeing the price of one hundred spirit stones, this person, like the others, shook his head.

"We can discuss this later, shopkeeper."

"Alright, alright," Lin Qing nodded, but in his heart, he knew that it was unlikely to happen in the near future.

Seeing this person off, Lin Qing only sold this set of formations that day. Although the profit was about twenty spirit stones, which seemed like a lot, it was already considered a rare sale. Sometimes, not even a set of first-grade inferior formations could be sold in a day.

"If only there were more demonic beasts," Lin Qing thought of the situation in Qingmuji. With more demonic beasts, formations would sell better.

Although he thought this way in his heart, Lin Qing also knew that it was impossible. Unlike Qingmuji, which was at the foot of the Yandang Mountains, Xuan Yu Fang was quite far from the nearest Yandang Mountains and closer to the Wuji Sect. For hundreds of years, the number of demonic beasts had not increased. On the contrary, in order to protect the demonic beasts, the Wuji Sect had imposed some restrictions on cultivators in the past, which had only gradually been lifted in recent years.

[Congratulations, host. Experience in formations +6, Fire Elemental Root +8]

[Formation Master: Second-grade inferior (14639/150000)]

[Fire Elemental Root: Inferior (1007/1000) (can be breakthrough)]

[Water Elemental Root: Excellent (20451/150000)]

[Wood Elemental Root: Excellent (20440/150000)]

In just a few days, Lin Qing's Fire Elemental Root could be breakthrough. Lin Qing directly chose to breakthrough. However, with the Water Elemental Root and Wood Elemental Root already at the excellent level, the breakthrough to the intermediate level of the Fire Elemental Root did not bring him much improvement. Nevertheless, every little bit counts, and there was still some improvement.

Besides the breakthrough in the Fire Elemental Root, the other aspects had also made some progress in the past two years, and the progress was not slow. It was because both Chao Yun and Li Qingyu had given birth to children, doubling their cultivation speed on top of their original progress. This made Lin Qing much more relaxed. Otherwise, at the previous speed, he would have exhausted himself before making enough progress.

After the breakthrough, looking at his Goldfinger panel, Lin Qing suddenly thought of the black market.

After listening to the words of the King Fellow Daoist of the Baibao Tower, he went to investigate in person and learned that the black market was still located thirty miles north of the Fantong Restaurant. He lost interest in going there at that time. But now that everything had settled down, Lin Qing felt that he could go and take a look.

Thinking of something else, he looked at Che Yun in his arms and asked, "Che Yun, have you heard of the black market in Xuan Yu Fang?"

"Black market?" Che Yun looked at Lin Qing, then seemed to be recalling something. After a moment, she said somewhat uncertainly, "I think I heard my elders mention it when I was young, but it's been so many years, I can't remember clearly."

"Heard it from your elders," Lin Qing felt relieved. Since Che Yun had heard of the black market when she was young and it still existed now, it meant that the black market had been around for a while, and if it had been around for a while, its security should be relatively high.

"Husband, are you going to the black market?" Che Yun asked again.

"Yes, I want to take a look," Lin Qing nodded.

Che Yun remained silent for a moment, then took out something from her storage bag and handed it to Lin Qing. "Husband, if you're going to the black market, I'm afraid it might be dangerous. This is a first-grade superior talisman. Keep it with you."

(End of this chapter)