Chapter 534 Family Management
Seeing that the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the "Sky Fire Peng" in front of him were constantly increasing, Song Yuanfang's face immediately showed a trace of joy, and hurriedly led several family beastmasters behind him to withdraw from the "Sky Fire Peng" cave.
After killing the second-level giant python with Song Yuanhao in Qingzhu Mountain, the "Sky Fire Peng" swallowed the snake gall in its body on the spot, which finally gave it an opportunity to break through the middle stage of foundation building. Soon after returning to Funiushan, it soon fell into seclusion and breakthrough.
It usually takes a little longer for monsters to break through than human cultivators. The "Sky Fire Peng" closed its doors this time, and it didn't fly out of its cave until half a year later when its cultivation officially broke through to the middle stage of foundation building.
After learning that the "Sky Fire Peng" successfully advanced to the middle stage of foundation building, Song Qingming also specially returned to Funiushan to check on its situation.
The "Sky Fire Peng" who had just come out of retreat and was eating voraciously, immediately threw away the food in front of him when he saw Song Qingming, whom he had not seen for a long time, and came to Song Qingming with a happy face, constantly showing the lightning on his body that had become more powerful.
"Haha! Not bad, you are also stronger than before!"
After Song Qingming comforted the "Sky Fire Peng" for a while, he asked Song Yuanfang to call several beastmasters who took care of spirit beasts in the family and rewarded them well.
The difficulty of learning the way of beast taming in the world of immortal cultivation is no easier than other immortal cultivation skills. It also requires some personal efforts and talents, especially to tame those monsters with higher levels and bad tempers.
Although this kind of spirit beast has very strong combat ability, it is also very difficult to serve, and sometimes even attacks the beastmasters who tame them.
There is no high beast taming inheritance in the entire Weiguo immortal cultivation world. Even in the Yuanying sect like Xiaoyao Sect, there are only some second-level beastmasters, and there are no beastmasters above the third level.
The Song family also has relatively few talents in learning the art of taming beasts. There are only five or six cultivators who have mastered this art in the family's beast taming hall, and the highest level is only a first-class upper-grade beast tamer. Their main tasks are to take care of the "Sky Fire Peng" and tame some low-level spirit beasts with relatively gentle temperaments in the back mountain.
Some spirit beasts have low attack power but great strength. After being tamed, they can be used to help cultivators carry goods. Some have some valuable monster materials on their bodies, or their meat is very delicious. This kind of spirit beast that can generate income for the family in a short period of time is what most families who cultivate immortals like to tame the most.
After returning to Funiu Mountain this time, Song Qingming was not in a hurry to return to Tuoyun Mountain. He planned to stay in the Song family for a while, and wait until Song Qingyu was ready to retreat before going to protect her.
Although the ten-year agreement with Tuoyun Mountain has been completed, because Lin Yutang and others have not found a suitable way out, Song Qingming has not completely ended the agreement he made with Tuoyun Mountain at that time under their full retention, and agreed to continue to protect them for a while.
During the ten years when Song Qingming was in charge of Tuoyun Mountain, Lin Yutang and his fellow disciples rebuilt the "Golden Cloud Pavilion", and the local independent cultivators in Tuoyun Mountain, represented by them, developed rapidly.
The Golden Cloud Pavilion not only owned the ownership of the spiritual veins of Tuoyun Mountain, but also 30% of the shares of Tuoyun Mountain Market. It also secretly controlled several small markets around Tuoyun Mountain, such as Bailong Mountain. Lin Yutang and his fellow disciples have earned a lot of spiritual stones in recent years.
Unfortunately, a few years ago, Lin Yutang and his fellow disciples spent a lot of spiritual stones to manage relationships and exchanged a "Jade Dust Pill" from the Xiaoyao Sect in order to support Zhang Rong in forming a pill. As a result, Zhang Rong retreated for several years, but still failed to form a pill successfully.
Without the care of the Jindan period master, even if Lin Yutang and his fellow disciples had sufficient spiritual stones, it would be difficult for them to get a better five-element pill-forming spiritual object at once. It was not an easy task to fully support Zhang Rong in forming a pill successfully.
Tuoyun Mountain, a spiritual vein, is located at the front line of the Fuyun Mountain Range surrounded by monsters. Without a Jindan cultivator, it will definitely not work for a long time. Since Zhang Rong has failed to form a pill this time, Lin Yutang and others must consider other ways out for Tuoyun Mountain.
After the ten-year agreement with Song Qingming expired, Lin Yutang and his friends thought about it again and again, and finally asked Song Qingming for help. They decided to use the method of mutual employment to extend the agreement between Tuoyun Mountain and Song Qingming.
Lin Yutang and his friends have considered it over the years. After the ten-year agreement with Song Qingming ended, they invited other Jindan cultivators to sit in Tuoyun Mountain. However, it is easier to invite gods than to send them away. Once an outside Jindan cultivator takes over Tuoyun Mountain, it will definitely be impossible for the "Jinyun Pavilion" to control the entire Tuoyun Mountain in the future.
Nowadays, Tuoyun Mountain Market is still prosperous, bringing a lot of income to "Jinyun Pavilion" every year. Zhang Rong also has the hope of forming a pill. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Lin Yutang and his team will definitely not be willing to take this path and give up the control of Tuoyun Mountain's spiritual vein to others.
During the ten years that Song Qingming has been in charge of Tuoyun Mountain, except for some shares of the Song family in Tuoyun Mountain Market, the Song family has not actively intervened in other affairs on the mountain. The management rights of Tuoyun Mountain's spiritual vein have always been in the hands of "Jinyun Pavilion" controlled by Lin Yutang and his team.
Rather than inviting an unknown Jindan cultivator to take over Tuoyun Mountain, Lin Yutang and his team would definitely be willing to continue cooperating with the Song family. As long as the "Jinyun Pavilion" can still keep the management rights of Tuoyun Mountain and give more benefits to the Song family, Lin Yutang and his team would still be very happy.
Both the Song family and Song Qingming have always had a good reputation in Weiguo over the years. After dealing with Song Qingming for so many years, Lin Yutang can still see that Song Qingming has no intention of occupying the spiritual vein of Tuoyun Mountain.
The main purpose of Song Qingming's cooperation with them was to inherit the two skills left by Chen Jinliang, plus a little push from Xiaoyao Sect.
After considering Lin Yutang and his team's request to extend the agreement, Song Qingming did not directly agree to Lin Yutang and his team to stay in Tuoyun Mountain for a long time as agreed in the past, but he still agreed to continue to protect Tuoyun Mountain on the surface.
Firstly, the family's Funiu Mountain spiritual vein has not yet been upgraded to the third level. Song Qingming will stay in Tuoyun Mountain, where the spiritual energy is better, to practice, which is more beneficial to his own practice.
Secondly, the Song family still has 20% of the shares in Tuoyun Mountain Market, which is also a considerable income for the family. In addition, Lin Yutang and others will need to pay Song Qingming an additional amount of spiritual stones every year. These have also made Song Qingming slowly change his mind and not plan to give up Tuoyun Mountain so soon.
Although the agreement was not extended as expected, Lin Yutang and others immediately nodded and agreed with satisfaction after Song Qingming promised to continue to protect Tuoyun Mountain.
The monsters near Tuoyun Mountain have been almost cleared by the monks on the mountain in recent years. The mountain protection formation on the mountain has been greatly enhanced after Song Qingming's improvement. In addition, there are dozens of foundation-building monks guarding it. Even if Song Qingming is not on the mountain, if low-level monsters dare to invade, Lin Yutang and others are enough to deal with it.
The demon king closest to Tuoyun Mountain is their old rival, Yunhe Demon King. This demon king is only in the early stage of Jindan, and it is unlikely that he can break through the current Tuoyun Mountain mountain protection formation in a short time. As long as there are no special circumstances where multiple demon kings attack Lingshan at the same time, Lin Yutang and his men are absolutely sure to defend the formation and wait for the support of Song Qingming or Xiaoyao Sect.
In the meeting hall of the Funiushan family,
Seeing Song Qingming, who was sitting at the head of the meeting hall, looking through the accounts of the family's various industries in recent years, Song Yuanfang and Song Yuanxue, who were standing below, also had a bit of nervousness on their faces.
In the past ten years of sitting in Tuoyun Mountain, Song Qingming basically did not stay in the family for a long time. After returning to Funiushan this time, Song Qingming also took the opportunity to check the situation in various parts of the family.
Because Song Qingyu and other family elders have focused their main energy on cultivation in recent years, the ones who have been in charge of family affairs in the past ten years are mainly Song Yuanfang and Song Yuanxue, who are more interested in family management.
After looking at it for a long time, Song Qingming slowly put away the account book in his hand, smiled, and said to the two people below: "You have done a good job these years. I have looked around the family these days and basically there are no major problems. Thank you for your hard work in this regard.
However, managing a family is a lot of work after all. You should rest assured to leave some trivial matters to other elders of the family. You don't have to do everything yourself, and don't delay your own cultivation."
Hearing Song Qingming's affirmation, Song Yuanfang and Song Yuanxue immediately showed a trace of relief on their faces.
"Thank you for your understanding, Uncle Seventh. We both want to have some free time, but now the family has more and more businesses, and the people below us really can't make decisions on some important matters."
Song Yuanxue nodded and said, "Brother Sixteen is right. Last year, on Lantern Festival, we found a black iron mine with good production next to Baiyang Mountain. If it is mined smoothly, the family can collect enough spirit stones to upgrade the spirit vein soon. But now the family is short of manpower, and mining this vein requires a lot of cultivators in the early stage. We can only put this matter on hold for now."
"Well! The family has too many businesses now, and the number of cultivators is still a little insufficient. This is indeed a problem. We still need to We should find a way to deal with it properly. What do you think about this matter, Yuan Fang? "
Seeing that Song Qingming wanted to hear his advice directly, Song Yuanfang thought for a moment and replied: "Now there are too many family businesses, and we are too busy to handle them ourselves. In fact, we can also consider contracting some of the less important industries outside to other subordinate immortal cultivation families in the surrounding areas.
In this way, we can free up a lot of family cultivators to help manage other family core industries, and we can also directly convert these low-value industries into spirit stones to solve the family's current urgent need for spirit stones. "
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