Ji Shuchen stayed in the Immortal City for several days.
Soon, concerns over matters in his lineage prompted him to bid Li Ping farewell.
He was the patriarch and currently the Ji Lineage's strongest cultivator. He could not remain away for long.
The Yan Household and Ji Lineage were now united, and the two would likely live and raise future generations together on Little Plum Mountain.
Li Ping was generous with his rewards to Ji Shuchen. He not only bestowed several bottles of pills to improve his cultivation, encouraging him to cultivate diligently, but also gave him ten second-tier lower-grade spirit talismans as a last resort should the lineage face danger.
Naturally, Ji Shuchen was deeply grateful. He promised to protect the secret beneath Little Plum Mountain and look after the Yan Household for Li Ping.
Li Ping nodded with a smile.
He was a rogue cultivator, free of the concerns that came with lineage disciples, so he would leave both the underground spirit land beneath Little Plum Mountain and the astonishing number of demon beasts in the Cold Pool to the Yan Household and Ji Lineage.
But any high-grade spirit materials and relics of ancient cultivators within the formation on the island at the Cold Pool's center belonged to him.
After some thought, he added another reminder. "Oh, and if Little Plum Mountain's spirit land isn't enough for both lineages' cultivators, don't set your sights on the underground spirit vein just yet. You can rent a plot of spirit land from the Yu Household at Azure Peak Lake. For my sake, they should refrain from making things difficult for you."
As successive generations of juniors grew up, the number of cultivators in the Ji Lineage and Yan Household had increased.
The surface spirit land on Little Plum Mountain covered