"Yes, Patriarch."
Han Daojing agreed without hesitation. Han Zhangxiang's worries were not unreasonable.
"By the way, how is Changming now?"
Han Changming can refine the Foundation Establishment Pill. Based on this alone, the Han family is stronger than other immortal cultivation families.
"Chang Xin, Chang Lu, and Ben Fu can all refine second-level pills. Chang Ming's burden is much lighter. He has been in seclusion for these years and has not yet obtained a third-level demon pill to refine a foundation-building pill for him."
"From now on, Changming just needs to refine the foundation-building pill. Don't take up too much of his time. Let him practice with peace of mind."
Han Zhangxiang ordered that Han Changming was the Han family’s highest-level alchemist, and as the number of the Han family’s second-level alchemists continued to increase, Han Changming became much more courageous.
Han Daojing took out a light blue magic disk from his arms and entered a spell. A man's voice suddenly sounded: "Uncle Daojing, Senior Zhu Mingming from Danyang Island is here to visit, and there are ten cultivators."
Han Debiao and Zhu Mingming met during the war ten years ago, and since then, the two families have had frequent contacts.
"Invite them to the meeting room and have someone prepare tea."
"Yes, Uncle Daojing."
Han Zhangxiang raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "Is the Zhu family of Danyang Island as famous as the Fang family of Qingchan Island?"
Han Daojing nodded and said, "That's right. Debiao and Deling are acquainted with Zhu Mingming. We have some business dealings with the Zhu family, but this is the first time Zhu Mingming has visited us."
"You should receive him well and see what the Zhu family wants to do. No one comes to see you for no reason. The Zhu family must have something to ask for."
The Zhu family excels in formation and is well-known in the Red Algae Sea.
Not long after, Zhu Mingming came to the meeting room, and Han Zhangxiang had already hidden himself.
After a few simple greetings, Zhu Mingming explained his purpose: "Friend Han, we would like to purchase a second-level, top-grade puppet beast from your Han family. The price is negotiable."
A second-grade, top-quality puppet beast is considered a rare commodity in the Red Algae Sea. The refining of a second-grade, top-quality puppet beast is difficult, takes a long time, and has a high price.
A second-level, top-quality puppet beast can be used as the family's trump card. Whenever a second-level, top-quality puppet beast appears on the market, it will be bought quickly.
In the Red Algae Sea, only the Han family sells puppet beasts. However, the Han family never sells second-level high-quality puppet beasts to the outside world. In addition to the high difficulty of refining, the refining materials are also an important factor.
A second-grade, top-quality puppet beast needs to be refined with the spirit of a second-grade, top-quality demon beast. If the refining fails, the spirit of the demon beast will be destroyed.
The second-grade top-grade puppet beasts refined by the Han family were not enough for their own use. After hundreds of years of accumulation, the Han family now had seven second-grade top-grade puppet beasts. However, driving a second-grade top-grade puppet beast requires a large amount of spiritual awareness. It is quite difficult for a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building to drive it, but it is relatively easier for a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.
The cost of refining a second-grade top-quality puppet beast is enough to refine two sets of second-grade magic weapons. The cost is too high. The Han family has worked hard to refine a second-grade top-quality puppet beast and will not sell it easily.
"Second-level high-quality puppet beast?"
Han Daojing frowned. Currently, only Han Zhangxiang in the clan could refine a second-level top-grade puppet beast.
If it were in the past, the Han family would not agree, but Han Zhangxiang has already advanced to the Jindan stage, and the success rate of using Dan fire to refine the puppet beast is higher.
"Promise him to buy a set of second-level illusion array from the Zhu family. It will be of great use to me."
Han Zhangxiang's voice rang in Han Daojing's ears.
Zhu Mingming knew the value of a second-grade high-quality puppet beast. After a moment's silence, he said, "Friend Han, isn't your Han family trying to collect the inner elixir of a third-grade golden-eyed beast? Our Zhu family happens to have one. We will use the inner elixir of a third-grade golden-eyed beast to exchange for two second-grade high-quality puppet beasts from you. What do you think?"
A foundation-building pill costs tens of thousands of spirit stones, a second-grade top-quality puppet beast costs at least 80,000 spirit stones, and two of them cost 160,000 spirit stones. A third-grade demon beast's inner pill is not worth 160,000 spirit stones.
The inner elixir of the third-level golden-eyed beast is what Han Changming wants. It is estimated that Han Changming will use it to make pills. Han Daojing will definitely help Han Changming get it.
"We in the Han family don't have many second-level high-quality puppet beasts, so this is not easy to do."
Han Daojing looked embarrassed, and then he changed his tone and continued, "Your Zhu family is proficient in formations. We want to buy a set of second-level illusion formations. What do you think, Fellow Daoist Zhu?"
"Second-level illusion array!"
Zhu Mingming frowned. It was not easy to set up an illusion array. It required materials such as the Heavenly Illusion Wood. Other second-order arrays were easy to set up. The Zhu family did not have many sets of second-order illusion arrays.
After negotiating for a cup of tea, Han Daojing and Zhu Mingming reached an agreement. The Han family would use two second-level puppet beasts and 20,000 spirit stones to exchange with the Zhu family for a second-level illusion array and the inner elixir of a third-level golden-eyed beast.
Zhu Mingming nodded and said, "That's it, Fellow Daoist Han. We will trade at Qingbie Market then."
A business worth 160,000 spirit stones is no small amount.
"No problem, just rest assured, Brother Zhu."
Han Daojing agreed without hesitation, thinking that this deal was quite a good deal.
After chatting for half an hour, Zhu Mingming said goodbye and left.
Han Zhangxiang walked out of the side room with a strange look on his face, and muttered to himself: "The Zhu family has nine foundation-building cultivators, two of whom are in the late foundation-building stage. Why would the Zhu family purchase two second-order high-quality puppet beasts for no reason? Did something happen to the Zhu family? Or did something big happen?"
"I'll ask Chang Yan to pay more attention! It shouldn't be a big deal! Maybe the Zhu family just wants to strengthen their strength."
Han Daojing guessed.
In a quiet green-tiled courtyard, the door of the secret room opened and Han Changming walked out with a firm look in his eyes.
He has been in seclusion for ten years, and his magic power has improved a lot, but he is still in the late stage of foundation building.
The deeper the magic power, the greater the chance of advancing to the Jindan stage. Therefore, foundation-building cultivators will spend a lot of time purifying magic power, and Han Changming is the same.
He had three thousand-year-old spiritual peaches in his hand. One thousand-year-old spiritual peach was enough for him to advance to the great perfection of foundation building, but he was not in a hurry. At his age, it was considered good to have cultivated to the late stage of foundation building. It was heard that the foundation building cultivators carefully cultivated by Haige and other forces were not much faster than him in cultivation speed.
As cultivators who are all in the Jindan stage, the grades of their golden elixirs are different. The higher the quality of the golden elixir, the greater the chance of advancing to the Yuanying stage. Han Changming is now preparing for the Jindan stage. He is not yet a hundred years old, so he is not in a hurry. He can spend more time purifying his magic power to lay a solid foundation for the future Jindan stage.
He took out the Suzaku Pendant, injected magic power into it, and his eyes blurred as he suddenly appeared in the Suzaku space.
Han Changming named the space inside the Suzaku Pendant the Suzaku Space. The spiritual medicine grew well, so Han Changming went straight to the Lingshan Mountain.
Not long after, he appeared in a secluded green-tiled courtyard, on a spiritual mulberry tree. Two colorful spiritual silkworms as thick as an adult's arms were lying on the broad spiritual mulberry leaves, their bodies curled up into a ball.
They have already advanced to the lower second level. If they advance to the third level, they will be able to transform into colorful phoenix butterflies.
They have a large appetite, but fortunately Han Changming planted a large number of spiritual mulberry trees and fed them spiritual medicines and elixirs regularly, so they grow relatively fast.
There was a muffled sound coming from the ground, and two small mounds of earth appeared. Two yellow earthworms with thick waists crawled out from the ground. They were the Soul-Eating Earthworms, and they had also advanced to the second level.
The spirit beast bag on Han Changming's waist began to move. He slapped the spirit beast bag and the thunder rhinoceros flew out.
The size of the Thunder Rhinoceros Insect has more than tripled. It has consumed a lot of thunder-type demon pills or spiritual herbs over the years, and is currently a mid-grade second-grade one.
The thunder rhinoceros worm is invulnerable to swords and guns, immune to water and fire, and has a fast flying speed. The only drawback is that there is only one thunder rhinoceros worm.
Han Changming flipped his hand and took out a small silver grass about a foot long. There were some silver electric arcs jumping on the surface of the silver grass.
Thunder-type spiritual herbs are particularly difficult to find. They cannot be cultivated in the Suzaku Space. Thunder-type spiritual herbs can only grow in areas with more thunder and lightning.
The Thunder Rhinoceros Bug was still a little unsatisfied after eating the silver grass, but Han Changming had no more thunder-type spiritual herbs, so he could only put it into the spiritual beast bag.
Arriving at the cave where the green bream spirit fish was, Han Changming took out a few pieces of bloody meat and threw them into the pool. Soon, the green bream spirit fish floated to the surface and bit the meat frantically.
After finishing all these, Han Changming exited the Suzaku Space.
He walked out of his residence and saw Han Zhangxiang and Ye Xin chatting in the stone pavilion.
"Chief, you are out of seclusion."
Han Changming smiled happily and walked over quickly.
Han Zhangxiang looked Han Changming up and down, with an expression of approval on his face, and said: "Not bad, it seems that you have spent a lot of time refining your magic power over the years, which is a good thing. The more abundant your magic power is, the greater the chance of forming a pill. The golden pill and jade liquid and other pill-forming spiritual objects only play a supporting role. A blacksmith must be strong himself. If your foundation is weak, the pill-forming spiritual objects are useless."
"Husband, you can talk to the clan leader slowly. I will go make a pot of spiritual tea."
Ye Xin greeted him and walked towards her residence.
"Patriarch, I am a little curious, what kind of golden elixir did you produce?"
Han Changming asked cautiously. Han Zhangxiang had two spiritual objects for forming elixirs, so the quality of the elixirs he formed should not be too high.
"Middle-grade golden elixir, the golden elixir and jade liquid you brought back are quite effective. I thought it was a low-grade golden elixir, but it turned out to be a middle-grade golden elixir. Changming, I plan to continue to fake my death and take people to the outer sea for development. The outer sea is rich in immortal cultivation resources. If you are lucky, you will hopefully produce a high-grade golden elixir."
Han Zhangxiang said truthfully that it was already very good that two spiritual objects for forming golden elixir could produce a mid-grade golden elixir.
"Go to overseas for development!"
Han Changming was somewhat tempted. The resources for cultivating immortals in the Red Algae Sea were scarce. If he continued to stay in the Red Algae Sea, even if he could form an elixir, the quality of the elixir would not be very high.
The outer sea is rich in resources for cultivating immortals. If the opportunity is great enough, he will have the chance to produce a top-grade golden elixir.
"That's right. The cultivation resources in the Red Algae Sea are occupied by the four major forces. It is very difficult to get a piece of Golden Elixir and Jade Liquid. The cultivation resources in the outer sea are particularly rich. Of course, opportunities and risks coexist. The outer sea is particularly dangerous, and there are even monsters in the transformation stage."
Han Zhangxiang thought about it and decided to open a shop in the open sea to sell puppet beasts and slowly build up his network.
"No problem, I'll listen to the clan leader."
The daughter and two sons have all advanced to the foundation-building stage, so Han Changming doesn't need to worry about them. He has long wanted to go to the open sea to see the world, and it would be best if Han Zhangxiang took the lead.
At this time, Ye Xin came over with a teapot and tea sets and poured tea for them.
"Ye Xin, you should go with Ye Xue and Chang Ming! If you follow me to the outer sea to develop, the chances of forming a pill will be higher."
Ye Xin smiled slightly and said, "Wherever my husband goes, my sister and I will go."
While drinking the spiritual tea, Han Zhangxiang talked about the Yang family's plot against the Han and Chen families.
"The Yang family! I never expected that the feud between our Han family and the Chen family would become more and more serious. It turns out that it was the Yang family who did it. What a pity for Sister-in-law Qi."
Han Changming said in a regretful tone.
When Lu Yue died of poison, Han Changjing almost collapsed and cried loudly. It took him a month to calm down. His mind was completely focused on his son.
Han Benxian has spiritual roots, but only four of them. Han Changjiong puts all his energy on Han Benxian, hoping to help him advance to the Foundation Establishment stage. However, Han Benxian is not serious about cultivation and has only reached the fourth level of Qi Refining so far, which makes Han Changjiong worried.
The Han and Chen families have been old enemies for hundreds of years, but the Yang family has certainly added fuel to the fire. If the Han family hadn't risen so quickly, the Yang family would have been the most powerful immortal cultivation family in the nearby waters.
"Clan leader, is this how you plan to deal with the Yang family? My seventh brother has always wanted to avenge his seventh sister-in-law."
After Lu Yue left, Han Changjing did not remarry and devoted himself to cultivating Han Benxian, which shows how deep his feelings for Lu Yue were.
"I have a plan, but it requires your cooperation. It will kill three birds with one stone."
Han Zhangxiang said confidently that when Zhu Mingming came to his house today, he came up with a plan.
He briefly talked about his plan, which would require the use of Han Dehao.
"This plan is good. There is no problem with the Chen family. If the Yang family doesn't fall for it, the plan won't work."
Han Changming expressed his opinion that Han Zhangxiang's plan had a lot of room for maneuver, but the Yang family might not be fooled.
"Hehe, this depends on Desheng. If he cooperates with us, the chances of the Yang family setting a trap are higher. Okay, Benfu and the others are back. I'm leaving first. Don't let the news that I'm still alive leak out."
After saying this, Han Zhangxiang turned and left.
"Madam, the clan leader's plan requires the arrangement of a formation. I'll leave this to you and Uncle Daojing."
Han Changming held Ye Xin's hand tightly and spoke in a gentle voice.
Ye Xin has spent a lot of time studying formations in recent years. She believes that hard work pays off, so when she encounters a problem she doesn't understand, she asks Han Daojing for help. She has made great progress and can now set up a second-level formation.
"I have only learned the basics. The key is still up to Uncle Daojing. I hope we will not affect the clan leader's plan."
Ye Xin said modestly that she hoped to take this opportunity to prove herself.
After a while, Ye Xue, Han Benfu and Han Benzhi walked in, their faces full of joy.
"Dad, we got a second-level mid-grade lightning demon pill."
Han Benfu took out a palm-sized green wooden box and handed it to Han Changming.
"Thank you for your hard work. I was just worried about where to find a lightning-attribute demon pill for the Thunder Rhinoceros Insect!"
Han Changming was not polite and accepted the thunder-attribute demon pill.
That night, the family of six had dinner together. Han Benfu and Han Benzhi talked about their process of hunting monsters. Han Changming commented from time to time. The family talked and laughed, and they were in a happy mood.