The Family's Spirit Beast Garden

Several hours later.

The Immortal Spirit Crane King carried Ling Pengyun and the Clan Head Ling Yunhong for thousands of miles back to Lingxiao Mountain, landing directly outside the Affairs Hall halfway up the Lingxiao Mountain.

Ling Pengliang, the Great Elder of the Ling Clan, who was checking the account books in the Affairs Hall, saw Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong returning together on the Lineage's Guardian Spirit Beast Immortal Spirit Crane King. He immediately walked out of the Affairs Hall to greet the two.

"Third Grandfather, Eighth Brother, all the other clansmen who went to war against the Luo Clan clan have returned. Why are you only returning now? Did you encounter any trouble along the way?"

"It's not that I've encountered any trouble, it's just that I helped Peng Xing reforge a Second Grade Magic Tool."

"Just now, Peng Yun and I went to the Cloud Mist Wen Clan to arrange a marriage for you. The bride is the newly promoted Great Elder of the Wen Clan, Wen Clan, the Wen Nianling Clan's genius Artifact Refiner."

"I know you were unwilling to consider marriage before you Foundation Establishment, but Wen Nianling crafting is indeed quite good. If she can reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, becoming a second-tier Artifact Refiner is almost guaranteed."

"You should know the value of a second-tier Artifact Refiner. In order to get Wen Nianling to marry into our clan, we had no choice but to bring you out. I hope you won't be angry."

"I hope you will agree to this marriage."

Ling Yunhong did not give Ling Pengliang the opportunity to disagree with the marriage.

When Ling Pengliang learned that he had been arranged to marry someone else, his brows furrowed immediately.

However, what Ling Yunhong said was indeed true. Wen Nianling was a gold mine. Using his own marriage to marry a female cultivator with a great chance of becoming a second-tier Artifact Refiner into the clan was, in any case, a great thing.

He was the Lineage's Great Elder, not an ordinary clansman, and was therefore required to consider the Lineage.

Without much hesitation, Ling Pengliang's tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and he spoke.

"To have such a Daoist companion is truly my good fortune."

"Since you agree to this, if it comes to fruition and Wen Nianling marries into our clan, treat her well and don't mistreat her."

Seeing that Ling Yunhong Ling Pengliang, who had expected it, gave him a word of advice.

Afterwards, Ling Pengliang, Ling Yunhong, and Ling Pengyun chatted for a few more minutes. Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong then bid farewell to Ling Pengliang and left the place.

During the journey, Clan Head Ling Yunhong asked Ling Pengyun a question.

"Peng Yun, you've been stationed away for a long time, and it's been almost two months since you left the Rock Scale Snake Den. Aren't you worried about being delayed for a few more days? Would you like to stay in the clan for a day or two?"

"In that case, you and I can have a casual Dao Discussion matters."

Ling Pengyun had originally planned to ride the Immortal Spirit Crane King directly away from the Clan Mountain and return to the Yuan Province Rock Scale Snake Den, showed a slight change in expression upon hearing this, and then nodded.

"Good".

When Ling Yunhong saw Ling Pengyun respond, a smile appeared on his face. He then invited Ling Pengyun to go up to the top of the mountain and enter the "Great Fortune Cave Residence" to Dao Discussion and chat together.

The Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Immortal Spirit Crane King flew to the Immortal Spirit Crane Nest on the cliff Lingxiao Back Mountain to have a brief reunion with the Qi Training Stage Immortal Spirit Crane inside.

Inside the Great Fortune Cave Residence.

Ling Pengyun chatted Dao Discussion with the Clan Head for nearly half a day before it ended.

He then bid farewell to the Clan Head, left the Great Fortune Cave Residence, and stepped into the High-Grade Spirit Field area on the same mountaintop.

This High-Grade Spirit Field area contains numerous Spirit Field, with even the lowest-grade Spirit Field reaching the First Rank Middle Grade. Among them, there are also many kinds of Spirit Plant planted.

Even the rare spirit fruit trees found elsewhere, there are about twenty first-tier spirit fruit trees here.

These sacred fruit trees are the culmination of the Ling Clan clan's more than two hundred years of history.

It is precisely because the Ling Clan possesses these spirit fruit trees that they are able to obtain a large quantity of first-tier spirit fruits every year.

In years with a good harvest of spirit fruits, there may even be surplus spirit fruits, which can be sold to earn Spirit Stone.

Besides these first-tier spirit fruit trees, in the center of this Spirit Field area, there is also a fruit tree that is five zhang tall, with nearly a hundred small green walnuts growing on its body, and its aura is as high as the Second Rank Low Grade.

Looking at the tree, Ling Pengyun sighed with delight.

"Now that the Lineage is becoming more and more prosperous, when this tree once again produces Second Rank Low Grade Stone Spirit Walnut that is fifty years old more than forty years later, I'm afraid no one will dare to ask my Ling Clan for a second-grade Stone Spirit Walnut."

"This tree can now be said to be unique to my Ling Clan clan."

This five-zhang-tall giant tree was a Second Rank Low Grade Stone Spirit Walnut Tree that the "Lineage" of Huai River County jointly acquired more than ten years ago when they followed the Hundred Spirits Sect to conquer Jiao Province.

The second-tier Stone Spirit Walnut that this tree produces used to be allocated to other Lineage. However, a few years ago, the second-tier Stone Spirit Walnut that this tree produced were distributed to the other four families in Huai River County.

Now that the Luo Clan has been wiped out, only four families remain in Huai River County: the Lingxiao Ling Clan, the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan, the Azure Bamboo Wang Clan, and the Cloud Mist Wen Clan.

Ling Pengyun's gaze shifted, turning to the Stone Spirit Walnut Tree, where a nearly eight-foot-long circular beehive hung from the largest branch.

This beehive was placed here by Ling Pengyun more than Fruit Flower Bee years ago.

Now that winter has just begun, the Fruit Bee inside the hive are all sleeping to get through the cold season.

At the same time, one can take advantage of the long winter slumber to cultivate oneself and improve one's skills.

At that very moment, the queen bee, the largest bee in the hive, which was about half the size of a human head, sensed Ling Pengyun's arrival, awoke from her slumber, and opened her eyes.

It quickly flapped its wings, flew out of the hive, and came to Ling Pengyun's side.

Seeing that the aura emanating from this bee had reached the Qi Training Ninth Layer, Ling Pengyun was slightly pleased.

"It was worth the one pound of Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Honey that I gave to this bee two months ago."

Two months ago, before Ling Pengyun went to the Hundred Spirits Sect to ask for a talisman, he came here to collect some First Rank Middle Grade Fruit Flower Honey produced by the Fruit Flower Bee clan.

He gave the bee a pound of Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Honey that he had bought from the Body Cultivator Qin Shi six months ago.

It helped the queen bee, whose cultivation level was only at the Qi Training Eighth Layer, to improve her cultivation.

The queen bee chirped a few times at Ling Pengyun with a hint of gratitude.

Ling Pengyun has a bond with this bee through Recognition of Ownership Restriction, and he understands the meaning of the bee's words.

He scanned the huge beehive behind the queen bee with his Divine Sense and found that there were as many as five thousand ordinary Fruit Bee inside.

When the number of Fruit Flower Worker Bee reached forty-one, thirty-three, and seven respectively in the early, middle, and late stages of Qi Refining, he spoke.

"No need to thank me. The number of Qi Training Late Stage Fruit Bee and worker bees in the hive is already quite good. For the next period of time, you should make good use of the Spirit Honey produced by the hive to break through to the Qi Refining Consummation Realm."

Upon hearing this, the Fruit Flower Bee nodded solemnly.

Its intelligence, enhanced by the Yin Yang Primordial Qi, is much stronger than that of Demon Beast of the same level. It understands that if it fails to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm for a long time, it will probably be abandoned by Ling Pengyun.

This can be seen from the fact that Ling Pengyun has spent more and more time visiting this place over the past decade.

It also understood that only by staying by its Master Ling Pengyun's side could it have meat to eat and go further on its Dao Path.

Ling Pengyun ignored the bee and waved it away.

Then, it transformed into a Qing Feng and descended to the Spirit Beast Garden behind the mountain, where it sought out Ling Yunhan, the Beast Tamer managed the Spirit Beast Garden.

"Second Grandma," Ling Pengyun greeted Ling Yunhan with a cupped-hand salute.

"Peng Yun, why have you returned to the clan? I heard from the clansmen that you were developing Spirit Field at Falling Dusk Mountain in the Luo Clan's territory. Is the development of those Spirit Field finished?" Ling Yunhong asked with some doubt when he saw that it was Ling Pengyun who had arrived.

"Indeed, now that I've finished dealing with the Luo Clan's affairs, I have some free time, so I came here to take a look. Grandma, I wonder how the Spirit Beast beasts in the Spirit Beast Garden are doing?"

After giving a brief reply, Ling Pengyun asked a question.

Two months ago, he returned to his Lineage.

However, he had important business to attend to at the time, so after taking the Fruit Flower Honey, he hurriedly left the Lineage.

Now that he has the time, he naturally wants to come here and take a look.

After all, this Spirit Beast Garden was one of his life's work.

Apart from the Lineage's original Mountain-Opening Ox and Gong Pig, the Demon Beast inside were all carefully selected and captured one by one from countless Demon Beast during the Demon Beast Uprising.

"Currently, there are nine kinds of Spirit Beast in the Spirit Beast Garden."

"Our Lineage already had Mountain-Opening Ox. In the last four years, we have had two more calves. Now, the number of Mountain-Opening Ox in our Lineage has reached exactly twenty."

"The number of Gong Pig hasn't changed much; after all, once the number of these pigs reaches a certain level, they will be slaughtered."

"Four years ago, during the Demon Beast Uprising, the five White Cedar Sheep you captured have given birth to a lamb every year for the past four years."

"Apart from the lamb that was just born this year, the other eight White Cedar Sheep can yield several kilograms of high-quality material for making Daoist robes and Law Artifact every year, namely white shank wool."

"The nineteen Gale Wolf Pack have given birth to eight wolf cubs in the past four years. These eight wolf cubs were born with the cultivation level of the Innate Realm, and their aptitude is quite good. So they were all purchased by the clan members with Contribution Points, and Recognition of Ownership Restriction was set up for them to become Spirit Beast."

"The seven Black Armored Turtle Egg that you sent back to the clan six months ago have all hatched. When those seven little Black Armored Turtle hatched, their cultivation levels were at least at the seventh or eighth level of the Innate Realm. Based on my experience, they all have the potential to reach the Qi Training Middle Stage."

"Those two White Feather Horse also gave birth to a White Feather Horse last year. However, the White Feather Horse clan is inherently lacking in talent. The White Feather Horse's innate realm was only barely at the Innate First Layer of the Innate Realm. This foal will probably only linger in the Early-Stage Qi Training of its life."

"However, this horse is quite fast whether it is running on the ground or flying with the wings on its back. Some of its people have tamed it and raised it as Spirit Beast."

"After nearly four years of my continuous use of aphrodisiac techniques, half a year ago, one male and one female of the three Golden Scale Bird finally took a liking to each other and mated."

"About half a month ago, the pair of birds laid a nest of four Golden Scale Bird, but those four eggs have not yet hatched."

"After they hatch, I plan to disperse these Golden Scale Bird to various parts of the Lineage to patrol the Lineage territory or act as messengers. After all, these Golden Scale Bird are not strong. Their only redeeming qualities are their speed and the golden scales that provide good defense."

"Those four Mud Armor Pig have given birth to about ten piglets in recent years, but these pigs are inherently weak. It would be good if they could cultivate to the Qi Training Third Layer, so no one in the clan would want to take them."

"However, the skin of this Mud Armor Pig is quite sturdy, making it a good material for crafting inner armor magic Law Artifact."

"Therefore, every year, apart from maintaining the number of pigs to the size of two hands, the remaining Mud Armor Pig that reach adulthood will be slaughtered and skinned."

"The five Ground Drilling Rat you captured from the Hui ethnic group have given birth to two litters of mice in the past two years, and the population has grown to fifteen."

"Now, those fifteen Ground Drilling Rat have all been taken away by special people in the clan and arranged to search for Spirit Land or mineral veins deep underground within the Lineage's territory."

"Although this Lineage has been occupied by the Lineage for over twenty years, there are some hidden places, or even Spirit Land deep underground, which are difficult to discover."

"Now, only four years later, with the help of those Ground Drilling Rat that can burrow underground as if it were flat ground, the Lineage has discovered two more miniature Spirit Vein deep underground."

"Those two miniature Spirit Vein have now been developed by the Lineage, with Spirit Field cultivated on them and clansmen stationed there."

As soon as Ling Yunhan talked about the situation at the Spirit Beast Garden, a smile appeared on her face.

"Making the most of everything, the Spirit Beast in this Spirit Beast Garden are not just eating for free, which aligns with my idea."

"Second Grandma, you've worked so hard these past few years."

Ling Pengyun said with a smile.

"There's no hardship involved. After all, I get rewards for raising these Spirit Beast."

"Oh, right, there's another piece of good news. Six months ago, Cheng Yue, the youngest of the five generations in the Lineage, who is the seventeenth in the Cheng Generation and whose Spirit Root was just discovered from the mortal world, Cheng Yue the talent to control beasts, and her talent is even higher than mine."

"Two years ago, the Lineage used Sand Soil Ore to exchange for a complete first-order Beast Taming Inheritance from the Hundred Spirits Sect. With this inheritance, Xiao Cheng Yue's beast taming skills can at least reach the First Rank Middle Grade, and there is even a good chance that it can reach the First-Tier Superior-Grade."

"Once Xiao Cheng Yue grows up a bit more, the Spirit Beast herd in this Spirit Beast Garden will surely become even stronger."

Ling Yunhan said with a hint of joy on her face.

"Congratulations, Second Grandma, your successor is in the family."

Upon hearing this, Ling Pengyun's face lit up with even more joy. He offered his congratulations and then inquired further.

"Where is Cheng Yue? I'm away from home all year round and have never seen that little girl."

He knew all too well how distressed Ling Yunhan, the Lineage's only Beast Tamer, had been since the establishment of the Spirit Beast Garden, that there was no one to carry on the Lineage's beast taming tradition.

"This girl was born into the mortal world and knows nothing about the Cultivation World. Your Aunt Xiao Ying became pregnant three months ago, and her belly is now quite large."

"I didn't let her come here to help, and told her to stay home and rest during her pregnancy. My son-in-law, Zhu Wen, also needs to refine Spirit Talisman Cave for the Lineage and can't spare any time."

"I am getting old and have to take care of the Spirit Beast in this Spirit Beast Garden, so I am unable to teach this girl about the knowledge of the Cultivation World."

"So I sent this girl to the Clan School to study, just like the other juniors in the clan who had Spirit Root."

"He will only return at noon each day, and then I will teach this child how to tame beasts."

"That way, I can relax a bit more," Ling Yunhan said.

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