At Last, Returning to the Clan

As for Ling Yunhong's statement about using the Spirit Seeking Rat in Ling Pengyun's hand to search for Demon Beast lairs, it was because winter was approaching and the temperature was dropping sharply, so most of the Demon Beast had entered their caves, making it difficult for the Immortal Spirit Crane King to use its eyesight to find Demon Beast tracks as it used to.

Under these circumstances, Ling Pengyun took out the Qi Early-Stage Qi Training Spirit Seeking Rat that he had obtained from killing the Evil Cultivator several months ago.

Relying on the Spirit Seeking Rat's ability to sense Spiritual Qi, the group searched for the hibernating dens of the Demon Beast Demon Beast during their hibernation and killed the Demon Beast inside.

However, their good fortune was short-lived. Three days ago, the Spirit Seeking Rat led the Ling Clan clan to a Bear Demon Nest, where they happened to stumble upon Foundation Establishment bear demon that had been sleeping in the lair, out hunting for food.

Because the bear Demon Cultivator at the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment and was very powerful, while the Spirit Seeking Rat was too weak, the group following the Spirit Seeking Rat didn't have time to rescue it, and the rat was killed by the Foundation Establishment bear demon.

Fortunately, Ling Pengyun and the others were also quite strong. With the help of the formation and the attack of Ling Yunhong, who was in the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment, they spent some time killing the Foundation Establishment bear demon, which could be considered revenge for the Spirit Seeking Rat.

Ling Pengyun was quite tempted by what Ling Yunhong had just said. "Given the current situation, returning to the clan is indeed a safer option. I haven't been able to find a suitable time to give the two bottles of Cloud Forest Spirit Water that I bought with Contribution Points to the Thorn Vine. After returning to the clan, I will have enough time to give it to the Thorn Vine."

Since Ling Penglin and the others returned to the mountain, he has been traveling around the Serpent Dragon Lake area with Ling Yunhong and others for the past six months, searching for weaker groups of Demon Beast. They have killed one or two thousand Demon Beast, as well as six Foundation Establishment Demon Beast. These six Foundation Establishment Demon Beast do not include the two Foundation Establishment Flame Tiger that he killed with the Liu Clan.

Every month, Ling Yunhong, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, would take the Demon Beast corpses he had collected that month to the Ice Flood Dragon Market Town to exchange for Contribution Points. The Contribution Points he received were still divided into seven and three parts: seven for Ling Yunhong and three for Ling Pengyun, who had mastered the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array.

Although the three-thirds of the profits were divided equally among the nine people who set up the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array, Ling Pengyun did not get much of a share. However, since Demon Beast group had killed so many Demon Beast, Ling Pengyun Ling Yunhong had received a total of 480 Contribution Points.

This is just what Ling Penglin and the others gained after returning to their clan. If you add the benefits they received from seizing the Rock Armor Ape Mountain Range, guarding the Rock Armor Ape Mountain, hunting the Fireball Rat Demons, and the Golden Feathered Sparrow Group, he gained a total of 925 Contribution Points.

Ling Pengyun was extremely satisfied with this huge gain, which was achieved in just six months.

At the same time, he was also worried that venturing deeper into the Serpent Dragon Lake territory might be dangerous. Earning a large number of Contribution Points in a short time was good, but he also had to be alive to spend them.

However, although he longed to return to his clan, he did not speak, but waited for the other elders to speak first.

After a long while, Ling Rufan agreeing to return to the clan, and only then did others begin to speak one after another.

"Since everyone agrees, let's set off immediately," Ling Yunhong said.

At dusk, the Ling Clan and their group of ten left the desolate valley and stealthily made their way north.

After four days of stealth travel, covering more than 6,000 li, the group finally left the territory of Serpent Dragon Lake and entered the territory of the human race's Ice Flood Dragon County.

Ice Flood Dragon County is the new county town established by the Hundred Spirits Sect half a year ago after seizing the vast territory of the Serpent Dragon Lake.

Since the Hundred Spirits Sect controls five prefectures in both Ning and Jing provinces, the Ice Flood Dragon County was not included in the maps of the two provinces by the Hundred Spirits Sect. Instead, it was designated by the Hundred Spirits Sect as the starting prefecture of "Jiao Province".

From this incident, the schemes of the Hundred Spirits Sect became extremely clear.

The Second Rank Spirit Vein in this county are still occupied by disciples of the Hundred Spirits Sect.

It wasn't that the Hundred Spirits Sect was domineering and unwilling to sell its Spirit Vein to cultivators within its territory; rather, the battle to seize territory had been too short, and some of the Qi Refining Lineage and Rogue Cultivator who participated had not yet accumulated enough Contribution Points to exchange for Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, thus no Foundation Establishment Cultivator were born.

Without Foundation Establishment cultivation, even with sufficient Contribution Points, it would be difficult to purchase Second Rank Spirit Vein from the Hundred Spirits Sect.

As soon as the Ling Clan family group of ten entered the territory of Ice Flood Dragon County, they went straight to the Ice Flood Dragon County Mansion in the "Ice Flood Dragon Market Town" opened by the Ice Flood Dragon Manor Hundred Spirits Sect. They handed over the corpses of the few dozen Qi Training Stage Demon Beast they had killed that month, as well as the corpse of the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment bear demon that had killed the Spirit Seeking Rat, to a Foundation Establishment deacon of the Hundred Spirits Sect who was in charge of handling this matter, in exchange for 750 Contribution Points.

Ling Pengyun received 25 Contribution Points Contribution Points, plus the remaining 25 Contribution Points from purchasing three bottles of Cloud Forest Spirit Water, for a total of 50 Contribution Points.

Ling Pengyun considered that the Contribution Points were not many and there was no need to keep them, so he spent them all and bought five First-Tier Superior-Grade spirit fruits.

After buying his things, Ling Pengyun was bored, so he looked at what the other Lineage elders had purchased with their Contribution Points.

The three elders, Ling Rufan, Ling Ruru, and Ling Ruquan, used their Contribution Points to purchase first-tier low- to mid-grade Cultivation Resources. Since their cultivation levels were as high as the Qi Training Late Stage, they naturally did not need such low-grade Pill Refining.

The reason for exchanging them is to buy them for their descendants, to pave the way for their future generations.

The three elders of the Yun Generation, Ling Yunqian, Ling Yuntu, and Ling Yunhe, were selecting spiritual items to enhance their strength, such as Spirit Talisman Cave and Law Artifact artifacts.

Ling Xiaohua, a cultivator who was just one step away from reaching the Qi Training Late Stage, spent a lot of money to buy a fifty-year-old Evergreen Spirit Fruit, which is known to help cultivators break through bottlenecks.

Like Ling Pengxing Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing purchased pure cultivation spiritual items such as spiritual fruits.

As for Ling Yunhong, this Foundation Establishment Cultivator, because his purchase exceeded one thousand Contribution Points, he was led by a Foundation Establishment deacon from the Ice Flood Dragon Manor to a quiet room behind the Ice Flood Dragon Manor counter for a private transaction.

Ling Pengyun gazed at the door to the quiet room behind the counter, wondering to himself.

"The Third Grandfather was most likely going to buy the first-class Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, Hundred Spirits Water, this time."

When Ling Yunhong emerged from the quiet room, he saw that the Ling Clan clan members had spent all their Contribution Points to buy the spiritual items they wanted. Without lingering, he called his clansmen and left the Ice Flood Dragon Manor together.

The Ling Clan family members first accompanied Ling Yunhong to the two shops the Lineage had opened in this market, "Lingxiao Hundred Treasures Pavilion" and "Lingxiao Pill Hall," to inform the only Ling Clan family member working at these two shops, the Fourth Elder Ling Yunfu, that they would no longer hunt Demon Beast and planned to return to the family.

Over the past six months, Ling Yunhong and his group have handed over thirteen Foundation Establishment Demon Beast corpses to the Hundred Spirits Sect, thus qualifying them to purchase two shops within the Ice Flood Dragon Market Town.

Of course, this is just a qualification; purchasing the shop still requires spending Spirit Stone.

The prices at both shops were not cheap; it cost a total of four thousand Spirit Stone to make the purchase.

Of course, such a high price is worth it.

This Ice Flood Dragon Market Town is located within the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect and is the closest market to the Serpent Dragon Lake, a region teeming with Demon Beast beasts. Whenever cultivators from the Hundred Spirits Sect want to enter the Serpent Dragon Lake region to hunt Demon Beast, they will inevitably make a trip to this Ice Flood Dragon Market Town.

As long as the products sold in the Ling Clan's two shops are of good quality, it's only a matter of time before they recoup their costs.

There's a reason why Ling Yunfu, the Fourth Elder was skilled in managing the Lineage's two shops in Huai River Market Town, was transferred here.

With the establishment of Ice Flood Dragon Market Town, Huai River Market Town has lost its advantage of being closest to Serpent Dragon Lake. The loss of this advantage will mean a sharp drop in foot traffic and poor business in Huai River Market Town.

Water flows uphill, and businesses naturally want to open shops in areas with more consumers.

Of course, the Ling Clan did not close the two shops in Huai River Market Town. They sent other members of the Ling Clan family to manage them. After all, even if the profits of the two shops in Huai River Market Town decreased in the future, every little bit helps.

Lingxiao Hundred Treasures Pavilion in Ice Flood Dragon Market Town is essentially a shop formed by merging Hundred Treasures Pavilion and Futang in Huai River Market Town.

This shop has been open for several months and sells over a hundred kinds of spiritual items. However, the most popular items are the three kinds of spiritual rice unique to the Ling Clan Lineage: low-grade, medium-grade, and high-grade Yellow Jade, Azure Jade, and White Jade. Following these are the Spirit Talisman Cave refined by the family's Third Elder, Ling Yunfeng, and the two Law Artifact Mystic Water Sword and Mystic Water Shield, refined by the Lineage's Artifact Refiner, Ling Yun'an.

As for the Lingxiao Pill Hall, it mainly sells pills. Due to insufficient manpower and the lack of Alchemist to refine Pill Refining, it has not yet started operating. In the future, the pills in this shop will be supplied by Ling Yunhong, a First Rank High-Grade Alchemist.

Since the Ling Clan exchanged a share of the Mystic Water Iron Mine for a Second Rank Alchemy Inheritance from the Hundred Spirits Sect, the Ling Clan has changed the development direction of its main Lineage arts and crafts, from Spirit Plant to Pill Refining, with Spirit Plant becoming secondary in the future.

Ling Yunhong, the only Foundation Establishment Cultivator in the Ling Clan, naturally became the key to the transformation of the Lineage's various arts. If he could become a second-tier Alchemist, he could support the Lineage's Pill Refining profession.

It was precisely for this reason that, ever since the Ling Clan obtained that Second Rank Alchemy Inheritance, Ling Yunhong has devoted himself to the study of Pill Refining.

With his good comprehension, powerful Divine Sense at the Foundation Establishment Realm, and the continuous supply of spirit medicine from the Ling Clan family, Ling Yunhong was already able to refine several kinds of First-Tier Superior-Grade pills a year ago, and the success rate was not low.

If Ling Yunhong didn't need to kill Demon Beast to exchange for Contribution Points, the Lingxiao Pill Hall would have already opened for business.

The Ling Clan family members chatted with Ling Yunfu for a while before leaving the Ice Flood Dragon Market Town and returning to their Lineage.

Since they were not in the territory of Serpent Dragon Lake, the Ling Clan family members did not need to worry about their aura being detected and attracting Demon Beast, so they all used Flying Magical Item or flying Spirit Beast to travel.

In just five days, the group returned to Lingxiao Mountain in early December.

Upon entering the mountains, Ling Yunhong led everyone to the Affairs Hall to report their arrival.

When Great Elder Ling Ruda, who was in charge of the Affairs Hall, saw that the last ten members of the Ling Clan clan, who had responded to the call of the Hundred Spirits Sect to exterminate demons, had returned safely, he was overjoyed.

Immediately afterwards, Ling Ruda called on a small number of younger members of the clan, as well as the elders, women and children, to gather together for a good meal to celebrate.