The Seven Islands of the Muddy Marsh
The dividend of 30% of the tens of thousands of Spirit Stone is 3,000. With more than 30 people, if divided equally, each person can receive about 100 Spirit Stone per year.
One hundred Spirit Stone may not seem like much, but over time, this Spirit Stone can become quite substantial.
For these rogue Rogue Cultivator with weak foundations, it is an important source of Spirit Stone.
As for Ling Pengyun's actions, the most important reason was to recruit these independent cultivators who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage into the market.
The Ling Clan is indeed short-handed at the moment. Only by bringing in these Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator to help maintain order in Lingxiao Ridge can the market have business.
After all, if Lingxiao Ridge, where Lingxiao Marketplace is located, were too chaotic, cultivators would not go Lingxiao Ridge.
If you want those thirty Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator to help, you naturally need to make sure they also benefit from it; only then will they do their best.
The reason why markets are not located in Muddy Swamp Territory is because these Muddy Swamp Territory have not yet been fully developed.
If we wait until this land is fully developed before establishing a market town, it will take too long and cause considerable losses to the Ling Clan.
Rather than that, it would be better to establish the market in the Lingxiao Ridge area where Rogue Cultivator gather. After all, that area also borders the Muddy Swamp Territory, and it will be included in the Muddy Swamp area's map in the future.
The thirty Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity, and immediately agreed to manage the Lingxiao Ridge.
Seeing this, Ling Pengyun was not surprised, after all, the benefits he offered were considerable.
Then, he led this group of Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator and Ling Pengqiu out of the courtyard and began to gather the remaining four thousand Qi Refining Rogue Cultivator in the mountains.
Using the Lineage's Magic Treasure Prototype- level Ling Xiao Flying Boat and forty second-tier Cloud Peak Flying Boat, they made two round trips to Lingxiao Ridge, spending about ten days, and finally managed to send all the Rogue Cultivator back to Lingxiao Ridge.
Ling Pengyun also took away all three hundred or so Spirit Beast cubs from the Lingxiao Ridge Spirit Beast Mountain and cultivated Spirit Field Spirit Beast Mountain there to plant Spirit Plant.
Ling Pengqiu, who was at the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer, was left in Lingxiao Ridge to replace Ling Penglin and guard the five mountain ranges of the Lineage that possessed Second Rank Spirit Vein: Cloud Peak Ridge, Spirit Medicine Valley, Spirit Beast Mountain, Yellow Earth Mountain, Black Earth Mountain.
Having made arrangements for the place, Ling Pengyun led the Second Rank Array Formation Master Ling Penglin, Ling Chengxia, Qian Fei, thirty-one members of the Wan Generation of the Lineage, as well as the twelve Rogue Cultivator and their relatives, and rode the Ling Xiao Flying Boat into the Muddy Swamp Territory.
They arrived at Lingyun Island, a place with Second Rank High Grade Spirit Vein that Ling Pengyun had previously chosen as the temporary residence for the Lineage for the next few decades, and settled down there.
In the days that followed, Ling Pengyun and Ling Chengxia, along with other young clansmen, used "Lingyun Island" as the center to gradually clear the Black Mud from the Muddy Swamp Territory. Based on this Black Mud, they used earth Law Technique to first build artificial islands on six other Second Rank High Grade Spirit Vein deep within the swamp.
After these six man-made islands, each possessing Second Rank High Grade Spirit Vein, were built, Ling Pengyun named them Spirit Medicine Island, Spirit Beast Island, Shrub Island, Earth Spirit Island, Yunyi Island, and Hongyun Island, respectively.
Most of the Spiritual Qi on Spirit Medicine Island was used by Ling Pengyun to cultivate Spirit Field, resulting in hundreds of Spirit Field on the island, with thousands of Spirit Plant planted there.
When Ling Pengyun was plundering the Spirit Vein of the Muddy Swamp Territory, he found many immature Spirit Plant and planted them on this island.
Spirit Beast Island is specifically used to house the more than 300 young Demon Beast beasts that Ling Pengyun brought from the Spirit Beast Mountain of Lingxiao Ridge, as well as the more than 600 young Demon Beast beasts that he searched in the Muddy Swamp Territory a few days ago.
Similar to the situation on the Spirit Medicine Island Shrub Island, most of the Spiritual Qi on the shrub island was used by Ling Pengyun to cultivate Spirit Field. On this island, he also cultivated a hundred acres of Spirit Field.
However, the plants planted in these hundred acres of Spirit Field are not spirit medicine, but the three hundred or so Spirit Shrub that Ling Pengyun had previously searched in the Muddy Swamp Territory, as well as the small shrubs he cultivated by pruning the branches of those Spirit Shrub using Spirit Plant techniques.
Based on Ling Pengyun's estimation of the rapid growth characteristics of shrubs, as long as the Spirit Shrub on the island are allowed to grow for one year, then every year thereafter, at least 1,000 catties of Spirit Shrub branches worth 5,000 spirit Spirit Stone can be harvested.
The Second Rank High Grade Spirit Vein on Earth Spirit Island is a pure earth vein, containing no other attribute Spiritual Qi, hence the name "Earth Spirit Island".
The earth-attribute third-tier Yellow Jade Spirit Tree that Ling Pengyun found on Giant Crocodile Island was transplanted to this island.
In addition, he also cultivated hundreds of acres of Spirit Field on this Earth Spirit Island, specifically to grow earth-type Spirit Plant that complement the Spiritual Qi of the place.
Earth-type Spirit Plant can grow at a rate that increases by about 10% in this special environment with extremely rich earth attributes.
The Second Rank High Grade Spirit Vein on Yunyi Island and Hongyun Island produce Water Spiritual Energy as the majority of the Five Phases Spiritual Qi energy.
Taking this into consideration, Ling Pengyun chose Yunyi Island as his and his Daoist partner Yan Siyi's place of cultivation.
Hongyun Island was left by Ling Pengyun to Ling Yunhong, the Clan Head also cultivated the water-attribute Azure Sea True Scripture and had not yet returned to the clan.
Ling Penglin, Second Rank Array Formation Master, and an elderly First Rank Low Grade Array Formation Master named "Niu Chang" set up arrays to protect the Spirit Vein that formed the artificial island.
Although this Niu Chang is very old, already eighty or ninety years old, it doesn't have much time left to live.
However, among his descendants, there were as many as five who possessed Spirit Root. It was just a pity that none of his five descendants inherited his legacy in array formation, nor did they have any other Hundred Arts Talent. Their cultivation aptitude was also not strong; they were just ordinary people with four or Five Spirit Root, making it difficult for them to join the Hundred Spirits Sect.
In the future, his five offspring, without his help, would also become ordinary Rogue Cultivator.
The hardships faced by ordinary Rogue Cultivator in the Cultivation World are well known to the older generation of cultivators, such Niu Chang.
For the sake of the future Dao Path of his five offspring who possess Spirit Root, Niu Chang had no choice but to respond to the Ling Clan's call half a year ago, hoping to obtain a Spirit Vein through the Ling Clan.
With the help of Spirit Vein, after his death, his descendants could also earn meager amounts of Spirit Stone by planting Spirit Plant, allowing them to go further on their Dao Path, rather than having to risk their lives to kill Demon Beast for a living.
The other eleven artists summoned by the Ling Clan were mostly in the same situation, which is why they responded to the Ling Clan's call to exterminate demons half a year ago and a little over half a month ago.
They each performed their duties. The only Second Rank Low Grade Alchemist, Wang Yun, the second-tier Talisman Crafter Xiahou Shan, and his two First Rank Middle Grade Talisman Crafter apprentices, along with the First-Order Low-Grade Weapon Refiner, used the materials from the Ling Clan's batch of Demon Beast to refine spiritual objects.
The remaining six Spirit Planter, along with Qian Fei, a First Rank Low Grade Spirit Planter, were respectively on Lingyun Island, deep in the Muddy Swamp, and on seven islands with Second Rank High Grade Spirit Vein, including Spirit Medicine Island, to take care of the Spirit Plant being grown there.
Three days later.
For nearly a month, Ling Chengxin, a second-tier Alchemist of the Ling Clan, and Lin Fan, Ling Clan Guest Elder of the Ling Clan with the talent of beast taming, have been traveling by flying boat. After traversing millions of miles, they have finally entered the first vast territory that the Ling Clan had occupied in the White Cloud Mountain Range, namely "Lingxiao Ridge".
However, to Ling Chengxin and Lin Fan's surprise, as they ventured deeper into the Lingxiao Ridge territory, the number of rogue Rogue Cultivator appearing around them increased.
Furthermore, they observed along the way that there were many Rogue Cultivator residing on the Spirit Vein that originally belonged to the Ling Clan.
Puzzled, Ling Chengxin led Lin Fan to a nearby Spirit Vein Spirit Vein and inquired about the several rogue Rogue Cultivator residing there.
From the words of those Rogue Cultivator, Ling Chengxin and Lin Fan also learned that Ling Pengyun, the Old Ancestor of the Ling Clan, had killed the Golden Core Demon King of the Swamp Giant Crocodile Clan at the foot of Yan Sun Mountain in the Autumn Sun Swallow Territory, annihilated the huge group of Demon Beast in the Muddy Swamp that wanted to attack the Autumn Sun Swallow Territory, and thus occupied the Muddy Swamp Territory that covered an area of 200,000 miles.
Ling Chengxin was overjoyed upon learning of this.
He immediately let out a long sigh and thought to himself, "Finally, my Lineage won't have to live under someone else's roof and make a living in the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect anymore."
"With Peng Yun Earl, it is truly a blessing for our Ling Clan."
Although the area of Huai River County is nominally owned by the Ling Clan, the true Master is the Hundred Spirits Sect.
The Ling Clan was merely a tenant, with the rent being a disguised form of annual "offerings" to the Hundred Spirits Sect.
If the Hundred Spirits Sect wanted to reclaim the Spirit Vein of the Ling Clan in Huai River County, the Ling Clan would have no way to stop them.
Lin Fan, who had just joined the Ling Clan as Guest Elder in the art of beast taming, showed a hint of disappointment on his face.
A month ago, he followed Ling Chengxin from the Hundred Spirits Sect territory to this place to support the Ling Clan because Ling Chengxin had arranged for the Ling Clan to open up the Muddy Swamp Territory, Ling Clan could help him improve his cultivation to the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment stage.
Now that the Muddy Swamp Territory has been conquered by the Ling Clan, the matter of assisting with cultivation is naturally no longer possible.
"If only I had come earlier, but what bad luck! I missed such a good fortuitous opportunity."
Lin Fan sighed inwardly in resignation.
After a cultivator enters the Foundation Establishment, it is extremely slow to improve their cultivation level. His cultivation aptitude is not particularly outstanding; it can only be considered average.
If one relies solely on him to serve as Guest Elder in the Ling Clan's beast-taming arts, the few Spirit Gathering Pill he receives each year would require at least thirty or forty years, or even fifty or sixty years, to reach the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment.
Only with more and better Cultivation Resources can his cultivation progress be accelerated.