It took half a day.
The first grand event to conduct a large-scale selection of Chen Family Immortal Seedlings since Chen Xianhe took charge of the Chen Family fifty years ago came to an end.
Changping County Yamen.
Looking at the eight children before him, the oldest only ten and the youngest merely five, Chen Daoxuan was filled with emotion.
In truth, he knew there must still be Immortal Seedlings hidden among the Chen Family's adult population.
But compared to these children under ten, the value of training adult Immortal Seedlings was simply far too low.
Chen Daoxuan decisively chose to give up on them.
With the eight of them, including Chen Daolian, plus Chen Daochu, who had been diligently cultivating in Chen Daoxuan's cave mansion all along, the Chen Family's cultivators—or rather, future cultivators—had finally broken into double digits, reaching a total of eleven.
Of course.
To truly turn these nine little ones into Qi Refining cultivators, they first had to establish a family Spirit Vein.
Otherwise, once they entered the Qi Refining Stage and discovered there was not enough spiritual energy for cultivation, that would be quite the spectacle.
Chen Daoxuan was confident about this.
Barring any mishaps, the Chen Family's first Spirit Vein would be nurtured within half a year at the latest.
Chen Daoxuan's confidence still came from the trade with the Merfolk Tribe.
It had to be said that although the Merfolk Tribe's market was over a hundred times smaller than Guang'an Prefecture's vast Rogue Cultivator population—
Selling a First-tier low-grade flying sword to a Rogue Cultivator only earned the Chen Family a gross profit of nineteen Spirit Stones, and that did not even include the taxes taken by the Guang'an Prefecture Zhou Family.
Yet trading with the Merfolk Tribe brought in 469 Spirit Stones,