Relocating the Mortals
Yang Mingtian nodded, took the map, carefully selected three hundred First Rank Spirit Vein that were relatively close to each other.
"Now that you have decided on the Spirit Vein tomorrow, you can send people directly to the Muddy Swamp Territory and inform my Ling Clan. They can then go and guard these three hundred Spirit Vein."
"There is one more thing. The Rock Scale Snake Den, Second Rank Spirit Vein jointly owned by our two clans in Yuan Province, will not have enough manpower to guard it in the future. My clansman Peng Liang, who was originally stationed there, will be used for other purposes. Therefore, the Spirit Plant in the Rock Scale Snake Den will have to be taken care of by your clan tomorrow."
"However, the Spirit Plant that ripen there each year will still be divided equally between our two clans; this will remain unchanged."
Ling Pengshan.
"This is easy to discuss. For years, nobles have been sending people to oversee the area. The distribution of Spirit Plant profits between our two clans has always been 50/50. Our clan has benefited for so many years, so it is indeed time for our clan to send people to guard the area."
Yang Mingtian said with a smile.
After chatting for a few more minutes, Ling Pengshan hurriedly bid farewell to Yang Mingtian, mounted his Lineage's Immortal Spirit Crane King —which had been stuck at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer for many years until recently, when it finally broke through to the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer —and flew away from Level Cloud Mountain.
Meanwhile, Yang Mingtian, still at the foot of Level Cloud Mountain, watched Ling Pengshan's departing figure, his smile growing ever wider.
"With the Ling Clan's three hundred First Rank Spirit Vein, the Lineage's annual income can increase by at least tens of thousands of Spirit Stone."
"If the Lineage saves some money in the future, it will be no problem to save enough Spirit Stone to buy a common Golden Core Spirit Object within fifty years."
"In this way, Siqi will also have the opportunity to break through to the Golden Core stage."
"If Siqi can really break through to the Golden Core in the future, my Yang Clan will be rich! Hahaha."
Yang Siqi and Ling Pengyun's cousin Yang Siling, who also came from the Yang Clan, are of the same generation. His Spirit Root attribute is the same as that of Ling Chengxin, a second-level Alchemist of the Ling Clan. Both of them have Dual Spirit Root of fire and wood, and their talents in cultivation and Pill Refining are extremely strong.
At the same time, he is also the most promising member of the Yang Clan to break through to the Foundation Establishment Completion, and is highly regarded by Yang Mingtian, a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.
After the initial joy, Yang Mingtian, who had served as the Clan Head the Yang Clan clan for decades, suddenly realized something.
"The Hundred Spirits Sect has been blocking the number of Spirit Vein of our Foundation Establishment Family all these years precisely to prevent our Foundation Establishment Family from being able to gather the Spirit Stone needed to purchase Golden Core Spirit Object."
"The Ling Clan's Old Ancestor Ling, who possesses extraordinary comprehension, must also know about this matter."
"But he still did it, giving the Yang Clan this opportunity."
"Judging from Old Ancestor Ling's reputation, it's unlikely that Old Ancestor Ling would want to raise my Yang Clan like pigs, fatten them up, and then slaughter them."
"Thinking about it this way, this Old Ancestor Ling's magnanimity is much greater than that of the Golden Core cultivators of the Hundred Spirits Sect."
"Now that Old Ancestor Ling has given the Yang Clan this opportunity, let's see if the Yang Clan can seize it."
On the other side.
After leaving Level Cloud Mountain, Ling Pengshan, following the instructions in Ling Pengyun's letter, made another trip to the "Cloud Mist Wen Clan", "Azure Bamboo Wang Clan", and "Tiger's Roar Liu Clan", all located in Huai River County, as well as the "Shen Clan" and "Sun Clan" in Jiao Province, which had a good relationship with the Ling Clan.
They inquired with the five Foundation Establishment Family about whether they were willing to help the Ling Clan manage a portion of the Spirit Vein in the Muddy Swamp Territory.
The Cloud Mist Wen Clan and Azure Bamboo Wang Clan suffered heavy losses during the Small Demon Uprising, with all their Foundation Establishment Cultivator killed. To this day, neither clan has recovered, and there are still no Foundation Establishment Cultivator stationed within their clans.
The two families have been able to continue to this day thanks to the support of the Ling Clan.
The relationship between these two families is therefore quite delicate with the Ling Clan, with the Ling Clan seemingly taking the lead.
In addition, these two families are both located in Huai River County, just like the Ling Clan. The Ling Clan knows these two families very well, which is why Ling Pengyun is willing to give them an opportunity to earn more Spirit Stone and strengthen their Lineage.
Over the years, Tiger's Roar Liu Clan of Huai River County has been honest and law-abiding, and has had no conflicts with the Ling Clan. In recent years, she has also married many female cultivators into the Ling Clan.
Therefore, Ling Pengyun gave the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan a chance.
The Shen Clan and Sun Clan families in Jiao Province also have a good relationship with the Ling Clan family, and cultivators from both families often visit each other.
However, the real reason why Ling Pengyun was willing to help these two clans was that during the last Demon Beast Uprising, Ling Pengyun took advantage of the opportunity when the Shen Clan and Sun Family Clan Mountain were attacked by Demon Beast to make a copy of the core talisman-making inheritance of the Shen Clan, and took away most of the Earth Silk Spirit Silkworm and Spirit Mulberry Tree that the Sun Clan had established itself on.
Ling Pengyun also took away the second-tier silkworm breeding inheritance of the Sun Clan.
In addition, Ling Pengyun also obtained many foundation-building techniques and Qi-cultivation techniques from these two clans.
Ling Pengyun was willing to give the Shen Clan and Sun Clan Lineage a good opportunity to earn Spirit Stone in order to repay his past karma.
Of course, the conditions offered to these Five Great Clans were different.
The Cloud Mist Wen Clan and Azure Bamboo Wang Clan, which can be considered vassal Lineage of the Ling Clan, are the Spirit Vein that Ling Pengyun is willing to entrust to them for management for five hundred years.
Ling Pengyun only wished to entrust the Spirit Vein he desired to the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan, the Shen Clan, and the Sun Clan family for two hundred years.
These five clans naturally wouldn't refuse the good thing of having more Spirit Vein, but they didn't have many people, so they only took fifty First Rank Spirit Vein from the Muddy Swamp Territory.
When the five families unite, there are 250 Spirit Vein.
Adding the three hundred Spirit Vein that the Yang Clan wanted, the Ling Clan has rented out a total of five hundred and fifty Spirit Vein this time.
According to Ling Pengyun's plan, there are still nearly a thousand Spirit Vein that need to be temporarily rented out, and they cannot be left idle.
However, Ling Pengyun did not plan to rent out the remaining thousand Spirit Vein within the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect, so as not to arouse the dissatisfaction of the Hundred Spirits Sect. The thousand Spirit Vein would be arranged in another way.
After all, none of the five families, including the Peace Cloud Yang Clan, the Cloud Mist Wen Clan, and the Azure Bamboo Wang Clan, would relocate their clans to the Muddy Swamp just because the Ling Clan leased their Spirit Vein to them.
Their situation is different from that of the powerful Ling Clan; the Spirit Vein within the Hundred Spirits Sect's territory are their roots.
The reason that caused dissatisfaction among the Hundred Spirits Sect was that the Five Great Clans, relying on the wealth brought by the Spirit Vein of the Muddy Swamp Territory, would only become stronger in the time it took.
They are at least capable of becoming the strongest Foundation Establishment Family in their county.
This was enough to change the power structure within a prefecture.
As the superior of these Five Great Clans, Hundred Spirits Sect has never wanted its forces within its territory to become stronger. Now that the Lineage forces that it has finally managed to control may become stronger, it would be strange if Hundred Spirits Sect didn't have any objections.
If the Ling Clan only recruits five Lineage, such as the Yang Clan, it will be fine. But if they recruit more Lineage, it will inevitably disrupt the power dynamics of the entire Hundred Spirits Sect territory.
Under such circumstances, it is possible that Hundred Spirits Sect might even wage war against the Ling Clan.
After handling this matter, Ling Pengshan, the acting Clan Head of the Lineage, began to travel to various villages within the Lineage's territory. Together with the Ling Clan cultivators stationed in those villages, he relocated the mortals in those villages to the vicinity of their respective towns, preparing for the relocation of mortals to the Muddy Swamp Territory.
The number of people in the various mortal villages of the Ling Clan is quite large, at least close to ten thousand.
This also makes it extremely time-consuming for ordinary people to relocate.
It took Ling Pengshan and the other Ling Clan cultivators nearly three months to complete this task.
Subsequently, Ling Pengshan led dozens of cultivators from his Lineage and spent considerable effort catching all the common fish in the rivers and lakes throughout Huai River County.
Even in the vast Huai River, no fish can be seen anymore.
Ling Pengshan and his group also had a very good harvest, catching millions of ordinary fish alive.
Ling Pengshan plans to release these ordinary fish into the Muddy Swamp later.
Ling Pengshan was aware that Ling Pengyun was leading his people to clear the Muddy Swamp Territory and clear the silt in an attempt to turn the area into a large lake.
Lakes are the most suitable places for fish farming.
The Muddy Swamp Territory was originally a swamp with few fish. If the fish population in that area is to be increased in the future, it will be necessary to release some fish into it to breed.
These millions of ordinary fish may seem like a lot, but in Ling Pengshan's eyes, they are just fish fry.
As time quietly passes, these millions of ordinary fish will multiply and grow in the Muddy Swamp lake several times, even ten or dozens of times.
With these fish, the Ling Clan family will be able to migrate to the mortals on the other side of the muddy lake and have a better life.
After waiting for about half a month, the Hundred Spirits Sect, which had already made an appointment with the Ling Clan, also dispatched a large fleet of flying ships to the Ling Clan to help Ling Clan relocate mortals to the Muddy Swamp Territory of the White Cloud Mountain Range, millions of miles away.
The Hundred Spirits Sect's fleet of flying boats numbered over a hundred, and each time they could transport nearly 50,000 mortals to the Muddy Swamp Territory for the Ling Clan.
After four round trips, the Hundred Spirits Sect's fleet of flying boats relocated a total of 200,000 mortals from the Ling Clan to the Muddy Swamp.