Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1150: Chapter 773: Method to Fully Master the Spirit Source Land (Part 2)

Ji Linfeng is a sly old fox who has lived for over a hundred years. Naturally, he has his own way of handling things.

If you can’t seize it, then cooperate. If cooperation is not possible, then try to get as much benefit as possible. Even if you have to lose face and intentionally flatter, it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s beneficial to yourself and the family. Some face is worth nothing.

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"Cooperation?"

In the Yang family winery, Luo Zhen looked at Ji De’an in surprise.

This time, Ji De’an did not directly approach Yang Zhenshan, but sought out Luo Zhen.

Because his status and position are not equivalent to Yang Zhenshan’s.

Yang Zhenshan is the Family Head of the Yang family, and also a martial artist at the Heavenly Gang Stage, while although he is a director of the Cold Cloud Sect and a spokesperson for the Ji family, he is only a martial artist at the Earth Evil Stage.

Previously, he could rely on the might of the Cold Cloud Sect to stand on equal footing with Yang Zhenshan, but now knowing that the Yang family’s strength might not be weaker than Cold Cloud Sect, he can no longer stand on equal footing with Yang Zhenshan.

"That’s right, it’s cooperation!" Ji De’an smiled and said, "My Ji family has a shop in the martial cultivators’ workshop in Ancient County city. Although it’s just a general store, it can also help to sell spiritual wine!"

"Also, my Ji family has a store on Turtle Island that can also help sell spiritual wine!"

"As long as you are willing to cooperate with my Ji family, we can sell your spiritual wine to Ancient County city and Turtle Island!"

Luo Zhen asked with some confusion, "Where is Turtle Island?"

He knew about Ancient County city, although he hadn’t been there, the Secret Martial Guards collected a lot of information about the Sea of Spirit, and the files about the Spirit Source Land’s Clan Hall and various branches could be accessed.

But about this Turtle Island, he knew nothing, and the Secret Martial Guards did not provide information regarding it.

Ji De’an was not surprised by this question and replied, "Turtle Island is also a martial cultivators’ workshop, in the Northern Tomb Sea Area, built by the Four Families of Northern Tomb; it’s about over a thousand miles from our Cold Valley County!"

Luo Zhen suddenly understood, he knew about the Northern Tomb Sea Area; north of Cold Valley County is the Northern Tomb Sea Area, starting from the northern part of the Stormy Sea Area and heading east until the Snow Cliff area of the Yunxiao Mountain Range, it’s all Northern Tomb Sea Area.

The southern part of the Northern Tomb Sea Area was the former Dazhao, to the east is the Snow Cliff area of the Yunxiao Mountain Range, and in the sea near Snow Cliff, there are some islands and martial forces; the Four Families of Northern Tomb are the martial forces in that sea area.

"I see!" Luo Zhen thought for a moment, then said, "I still need to consult the Family Head on this matter, please wait a moment, Master Ji!"

He felt cooperating with the Ji family was quite promising, the Spirit Source Land had a large storage of spiritual wine, and the production capacity was very large. If sold only in Snow Valley Town, the output of the Spirit Source Land’s winery could certainly not be consumed.

And they wanted to open more shops which was not easy and required careful planning.

But it would be much easier to cooperate with the Ji family, as a local force, the Ji family had connections with many forces in the Sea of Spirit and Northern Tomb Sea Area, having them as agents could save them much trouble and time.

Luo Zhen thought this way, while Yang Zhenshan only considered briefly before agreeing to cooperate with the Ji family.

For Yang Zhenshan, the thing he lacks most now is time; he needs to spend more time cultivating, but for Spirit Source Land to develop it needs to earn a lot of spirit stones.

This is a contradictory matter.

Because he is the only one who can freely enter and exit the Spirit Source Land.

Anything needing handling by the Spirit Source Land has to go through him.

If it’s just about importing and exporting materials, it doesn’t take much of his time, but if all sorts of matters need him to convey, then it becomes extra troublesome.

Now it’s just one winery, and he can handle it casually, but if there were several wineries scattered in various locations, then he would not have enough time to handle them.

So having a partner is quite good.

The Ji family might not be the best partner, but it is a suitable one to try cooperating with.

After Yang Zhenshan decided, the cooperation between the two families was quickly reached.

The Yang family would sell spiritual wine to the Ji family at seventy percent of the price. How the Ji family sells it, the Yang family won’t concern itself with, simply put, the Yang family only provides supplies and occupies only the market in Snow Valley Town, leaving everything else to the Ji family to handle.

Additionally, the Yang family acquired another shop in Snow Valley Town, aimed at future opening for spiritual medicine and mutant beast procurement.

With this cooperation, the Ji family undoubtedly got a great deal, but the Yang family didn’t lose out either.

The Yang family only needs spirit stones, as long as the Ji family can provide enough spirit stones, Yang Zhenshan simply doesn’t care about the rest.

Now Yang Zhenshan doesn’t even bother with the Fan family, naturally not wanting to waste time on other matters.

On their first cooperation, the Ji family bought a hundred thousand jin of spiritual wine, paying the Yang family nearly twenty thousand spirit stones.

It must be said, the Ji family is genuinely wealthy, richer than many martial arts families in the Sea of Spirit.

And with these twenty thousand spirit stones, the Spirit Source Land temporarily wouldn’t lack spirit stones for use.

Alchemy, artifact refining, studying arrays, all cannot do without spirit stones.

With sufficient spirit stones, the alchemy dao, artifact dao, and array dao of the Spirit Source Land entered a rapid development phase.

And Yang Zhenshan no longer got distracted by other matters, focusing on cultivation.

Unquestionably, Yang Zhenshan cared most about in cultivation is the "Void Refining Scripture", because the "Void Refining Scripture" not only enhances his divine soul power, but also lets him control the Spirit Source Land better.

What he needs most urgently to control is not anything else, but how to let others also freely enter and exit the Spirit Source Land.

If others can’t freely enter and exit the Spirit Source Land, the interaction between Spirit Source Land and the outside world will always be tethered to him.

This not only limits internal development of the Spirit Source Land, but also wastes much of his time and energy.

If others could freely enter and exit Spirit Source Land, everything external could be left for others to handle, rather than him attending to every matter personally.

This issue has two perfect solutions in the "Void Refining Scripture".

The first is Divine Soul Seed, which means Yang Zhenshan cultivates a divine soul seed planted onto others’ divine soul platform, allowing them to enter and exit Spirit Source Land anytime, anywhere.

Simultaneously, Yang Zhenshan could also appear besides those who hold his divine soul seed at any time.

This method is most perfect, but growing divine soul seeds is not easy; given Yang Zhenshan’s current divine soul cultivation, it simply cannot be achieved in the short term.

And the second method is much simpler, establishing a grand gate for Spirit Source Land, allowing people to enter through it.

For Yang Zhenshan, achieving this is not difficult; he just needs to become the master of Spirit Source Land.

Currently, Yang Zhenshan is striving to become the master of Spirit Source Land.

According to the "Void Refining Scripture" description, mastering Grotto Heaven can be divided into four levels. The first is refining the core of Grotto Heaven, where every Grotto Heaven has a core, and this core is the origin of the Grotto Heaven, everything in Grotto Heaven comes from the origin.

The second involves understanding the Pocket World Law, mastering the laws within Grotto Heaven, belonging to mastering the power inside Grotto Heaven; if reaching this step, one could easily change the sun, moon, stars, world nature within Grotto Heaven, everything within it is just a thought away.

The third level is becoming the master of Grotto Heaven, understanding the Path of the Void, thoroughly using Grotto Heaven.

The fourth level is when the divine soul merges with Grotto Heaven, with it not destroyed, the divine soul is also immortal, Grotto Heaven resides in the void, so the divine soul resides in the void, akin to opening a world and becoming its ruler.

Though those last three levels are too distant for Yang Zhenshan, now he only needs to complete the first step.

And this step is the easiest.

The Spirit Source Land also has its own Origin Core, and this Origin Core is the first Spiritual Spring.

On Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, Yang Zhenshan sat cross-legged in the center above the lake’s Spiritual Spring, with divine soul spiritual sense delving deep into the Spiritual Spring Water of the Spring.

This Origin Core is not an object, nor does it have a specific shape; it’s merely a rule, or can be understood as a form of energy.

Previously, Yang Zhenshan was unaware of the Spirit Source Land having an Origin Core, so he never truly understood this Spiritual Spring. But now, knowing the existence of Origin Core, naturally he thought of this Spiritual Spring, since the Spirit Source Land originally had only this small Spiritual Spring.