The clansmen returned to the mountain

After they finished discussing who would remain at Peach Blossom Pavilion, his father, Liu Shihao, began busily searching everywhere for a Flying Boat Artifact to purchase.

However, there were only a few dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators in all of Purple Forest Market, and few of them owned a Flying Boat Artifact. Fewer still were willing to sell one.

His father, Liu Shihao, also visited every business in Purple Forest Market that sold spirit artifacts, but found no flying boats for sale.

Fortunately, before Liu Qiuju left, she had also asked her senior sister, Li Yufei, to help the Liu Household purchase a flying boat spirit artifact.

Later, Li Yufei learned that Senior Brother Zhang, a cultivator at the great perfection of Foundation Establishment who was also stationed at Purple Forest Market for the Azure Cloud Sect, was willing to sell his second-tier lower-grade flying boat spirit artifact after purchasing an upper-grade second-tier one from the sect.

Li Yufei immediately passed the news to her father, Liu Shihao. With her introduction, Liu Shihao met Senior Brother Zhang and, after some bargaining, spent forty thousand low-grade spirit stones to purchase the second-tier lower-grade Flying Boat Artifact, the Green Feather Boat.

After bringing the Green Feather Boat back, Liu Shihao showed it to the Liu Household Cultivators.

In the courtyard, his father, Liu Shihao, took the Green Feather Boat out of his storage bag. Everyone saw a small blue-green boat about a foot long.

Once Liu Shihao activated it with his Foundation Establishment magical power, the Green Feather Boat quickly grew, eventually becoming a blue-green flying boat thirty feet long and eight feet wide.

Everyone was thrilled to see it. This flying boat belonged to the Peach Blossom Mountain Liu Lineage itself, and it was the Liu Household's first flying boat. It held great significance for them!

After boarding, everyone found that its interior was quite spacious and could accommodate more than ten people. Among second-tier lower-grade flying boats, it was quite good.

Although activating a flying boat spirit artifact required a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator to infuse it with magical power, once it was in flight, it could be powered by spirit stones as well as magical power. However, its spirit stone consumption was usually considerable.

Although the Green Feather Boat could not compare with the Wu Household's Cloud-Piercing Boat in size or sturdiness, its greatest advantage was speed. It could fly six thousand li in a day, making it somewhat faster than the Wu Household's Cloud-Piercing Boat. Among second-tier lower-grade flying boat spirit artifacts, it was quite good.

With the Green Feather Boat, the journey from Peach Blossom Mountain to Purple Forest Market would take only a few short days, making travel fast and convenient.

If the lineage's Demon Hunting Team used the Green Feather Boat to patrol their territory, it would also be safer and more convenient! With this boat, they could begin developing the other first-tier spirit veins within their territory!

However, purchasing the Green Feather Boat had all but emptied the Liu Household's coffers.

Previously, the lineage had spent so many spirit stones purchasing a Foundation Establishment Pill and building Peach Blossom Pavilion that nearly a century of the Liu Household's savings had been exhausted.

A large portion of the forty thousand spirit stones spent on the Green Feather Boat had been borrowed from the clansmen. Liu Changxu alone had lent the lineage three thousand spirit stones.

Seeing how excited the Liu Household Cultivators were, his father, Liu Shihao, specially took everyone outside Purple Forest Market for a flight, letting them experience the thrill of flying once more.

Sitting aboard his own household's flying boat felt wonderful to Liu Changxu! It also made him yearn all the more to reach Foundation Establishment!

After purchasing the Green Feather Boat, his father, Liu Shihao, piloted it back to Peach Blossom Mountain with the clansmen who were returning home!

After seeing off his father and the other clansmen, Liu Changxu began busying himself with Peach Blossom Pavilion's affairs!

Grand Elder Liu Qiusheng was already nearly a hundred years old. He remained at Peach Blossom Pavilion only to deter petty troublemakers and oversee the overall situation. Thus, he assigned its day-to-day affairs to Liu Changxu and several other clansmen.

His third uncle, Liu Shijie, and fifth elder brother, Liu Changshun, were father and son, both wholly devoted to cultivation. Neither was skilled at receiving guests and seeing them off, so they were mainly responsible for storing, managing, and transporting goods.

His thirteenth uncle, Liu Shiju, was skilled at receiving guests and seeing them off. As the front-desk shopkeeper, he handled customers and managed the shop's outside hires.

Because the lineage lacked sufficient personnel, Peach Blossom Pavilion currently employed thirteen Qi Refinement cultivators: eight men and five women.

The first through third floors each had two attendants. The fourth-floor restaurant employed two spirit cuisine masters and two attendants, while the fifth floor employed three spirit item appraisers.

His fifteenth uncle, Liu Shichao, was dependable and steady. He managed purchasing and was also responsible for refining pills and crafting talismans.

As an elder-designate of the lineage, Liu Changxu was responsible for refining pills and crafting talismans while also assisting Grand Elder Liu Qiusheng in managing Peach Blossom Pavilion. His work therefore kept him very busy.

In truth, Liu Changxu did not enjoy taking part in managing Peach Blossom Pavilion. His greatest concern was still cultivation and striving to break through to Foundation Establishment as soon as possible. He had no desire to become involved in the pavilion's complicated daily affairs.

However, the few clansmen at Peach Blossom Pavilion were now so busy that they could barely untangle themselves from their work, and Liu Changxu often had to step in to help. This seriously disrupted his cultivation.

His father, Liu Shihao, likewise did not want Peach Blossom Pavilion's affairs to delay his son's cultivation. Before leaving, he told Liu Changxu that once he returned to the lineage, he would definitely convene a meeting to discuss candidates for a new shopkeeper, bolster the pavilion's staff, and relieve Liu Changxu, Grand Elder Liu Qiusheng, and the others of their duties.

And so Liu Changxu spent a month in a whirlwind of work. Throughout that month, he busily helped Grand Elder Liu Qiusheng manage Peach Blossom Pavilion's various affairs while also refining pills and crafting talismans. He had very little time left for cultivation, not even enough to learn sword flight.

This situation continued until the arrival of the clansmen newly assigned to Peach Blossom Pavilion. Only then did it end. Yet the people who arrived left Liu Changxu both surprised and delighted!