Putting Down Roots!

Upon hearing Qian Guangjin's request, Zhao Yanchuan spread out a beast register on the table.

"Brother Qian, do you want the spirit rat?"

Zhao Yanchuan flipped through the beast register, pointing to several of them. "These kinds all have decent survival abilities. Which one catches your eye?"

Qian Guangjin leaned closer to take a look, and the smile on his chubby face froze slightly.

"Brother Zhao, the breeds in your animal register are quite different from those sold in the market outside."

"Of course they're different."

Zhao Yanchuan pushed the teacup forward. "White Cloud Temple has cultivated spirit beasts for a hundred years, and some of them have special bloodlines or are improved and mutated varieties, so naturally they have their own unique characteristics."

Qian Guangjin a sip of tea, his gaze falling on a drawing of a gray-black spirit rat.

"What's the story behind this one?"

"Gray Mist Spirit Rat, adept at burrowing underground, peak first tier."

"This rat is extremely fast at burrowing underground and is also very alert, making it a highly versatile and useful tool for surveillance, searching, and exploration."

"It's just a bit ugly."

Qian Guangjin waved his hand. "It's for survival, why bother with fancy looks? As long as it can run, that's enough."

How much is one?

Three hundred Spirit Stone.

"This is a bit expensive."

"This rat was fed with a secret medicine from a young age, and its nose is even more sensitive than a dog's. Besides burrowing underground to save its life, it can also help you find mineral veins and geography. Three hundred Spirit Stone, you won't lose out."

"Cost price, that's not expensive."

Qian Guangjin examined them for a long time, then finally slapped his thigh and said, "Okay! Ten will do first. If they work well, we'll order regularly in the future."

"Happy."

Zhao Yanchuan nodded slightly, then immediately sent someone to take the goods, and the money and goods were settled.

As for the Sacred Blood Sect, Zhao Yanchuan only casually asked a couple more questions, "What is the origin of the Sacred Blood Sect, and why is it causing so much trouble?"

"It's not exactly fierce, but it's annoying."

Qian Guangjin his head. "They rob a few batches of goods every now and then on the trade routes, and then run away. You can't catch them if you fight them, and the righteous forces don't bother with it."

"The four major sects of the Liang Kingdom are too busy taking care of themselves to have time to suppress a heretical cult."

"The major Golden Core clans and sects below will not easily offend anyone or waste their own resources to fill the hole."

"As for the various Foundation Establishment minor clans that followed, even if they wanted to encircle and annihilate the Sacred Blood Sect, they might not be able to defeat them, so the matter was dragged on like this..."

To put it bluntly, everyone is stalling.

"In the end, we'll see which side can't hold out any longer and has to exert its full strength to suppress us. Once that side has suffered a loss of strength, the other forces will naturally turn their attention to annihilating the side that contributed. In the end, not only will the problem be solved, but everyone will also get a big share of the spoils, so naturally no one will want to contribute anymore..."

"After all, I'm doing my job to rid the people of harm, only to end up serving myself up on someone else's dinner table. No one would do something so thankless and exhausting."

Having understood the situation, Zhao Yanchuan nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

He had no interest in the Sacred Blood Sect.

It's enough to know about this; if you encounter it on your business journey in the future, just go around it.

After seeing Qian Guangjin off.

Zhao Yanchuan sat in the courtyard, pondering his next move.

The first step in what our ancestor entrusted to us has been taken: trade routes have been opened and connections have been established. Next, we need to acquire property.

The following six months.

Forty li north of Tianyuan City lies a desolate hilly area.

Zhao Yanchuan stood on the hillside, watching countless ordinary people bustling about below.

Thousands of ordinary craftsmen are digging foundations and building stone walls at the bottom of the valley.

Further away, some disciples of the clan used their spiritual power to cut through the rocks, shaving the massive boulder into neat blocks.

This is a mid-grade second-tier Spirit Vein that Zhao Yanchuan rented from the Guiyuan Sect for tens of thousands of Spirit Stone...

The Spirit Vein isn't of top-tier quality, but its advantage lies in its remote location, surrounded by mountains, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Even more remarkably, the Spirit Vein descends into a valley, naturally forming a closed Spiritual Qi cycle, ideal for raising beasts.

"We'll include that low slope on the east side as well."

"We'll be building a zoo in the future, so the space can't be too small."

Zhao Yanchuan was planning a grand scheme.

This Spirit Vein will become the foundation of the Zhao Household in the Yuan Continent.

At that time, residences will be built at the top of the mountain along the Spirit Vein; a medicinal garden will be opened in the middle layer to grow spiritual herbs; and a beast garden will be set up in the valleys and forests at the bottom layer to raise spiritual beasts.

At that time, we will also need to recruit some Rogue Cultivator to establish towns for ordinary people, so as to be self-sufficient.

Once the scale is established, it will gradually expand, eventually encompassing the nearby low hills and designating them as its own territory.

As for Origin Return Gate, although losing 40% of the profits was painful, it brought them a protective umbrella, so it wasn't a big deal.

In the Yuan Continent, no Rogue Cultivator Aristocratic Clan without a powerful backer can survive more than three generations.

Zhao Yanchuan gazed at the distant mountains, his mind already calculating which peaks were suitable for raising large Demon Beast and which valleys were suitable for grazing spirit rats...

When we arrived, my cousin Yanshan said that establishing a Beast Pasturing Mountain was of paramount importance.

The Beast Pasturing Mountain near White Cloud Temple provides the sect with countless resources. Every few years, it produces a large number of spirit medicine Spirit Plant, as well as a large amount of Demon Beast resources.

If another site can be established in the Yuan Continent, this place can also become a resource-producing area for his White Cloud Temple, supplying the development of this area.

This can't be rushed; it has to be done step by step.

Time flies by in the blink of an eye.

In the third year since the Zhao Household settled in Tianyuan City, their shop expanded from two rooms to eight, and their business scope also expanded from spirit beasts to spirit medicine, talismans, and refining materials.

The monthly net profit is stable at around 10,000 Spirit Stone. After deducting the 40% offering from Origin Return Gate and various expenses, the Zhao Household family still receives more than 5,000 Spirit Stone.

Zhao Yanchuan invested most of this money in the construction of the Spirit Vein.

Over the course of three years, a continuous series of pavilions and palaces were built on the Spirit Vein, with all sorts of supporting facilities springing up one by one.

The seven halls are: Pills, Talismans, Arrays, Weapons, Beast Taming, Spirit Plant, and General Affairs.

Various palaces, residences, cave abode, along with long corridors stretching across the mountains, transformed this place into a fairyland in just three years.

Two additional mountain peaks were also designated specifically to receive visiting caravans.

The animal park nestled in the mountains is of paramount importance.

Zhao Yanchuan brought over a batch of baby spirit rats, two litters of black dog puppies, and more than a dozen mixed-colored spirit birds from White Cloud Temple.

The zoo is quite large, providing ample space for the animals to grow.

In a few more years, once the herd has grown larger, they can be sold to outsiders.