Dao Companions Help Me Live Forever

Chapter 128: Zhao Family's Remaining Guest Official

Zhao Family Ancestral Hall.

After leaving the courtyard, Yu Xian met with the new Zhao Family steward, Zhao Jia, in the ancestral hall.

As a newly promoted Foundation Building cultivator of the Zhao Family, Zhao Jia unexpectedly understood the situation and directly signed the master-servant contract that Yu Xian had modified from the blood contract given to him by the Zhao Ancestor.

The blood contract was of a high level, and it was unknown where the Zhao Ancestor had obtained it. Now that it was used on the Zhao Family cultivators, it was a result of cause and effect, an unfulfilled retribution.

As for the other high-ranking members of the Zhao Family, they were all forced to take poison and had their spiritual consciousness marked.

Without these methods, even if Yu Xian truly captured the high-ranking members of the Zhao Family, it would take a lot of effort to restore the Zhao Family's operations.

After all, he couldn't personally farm, mine, or engage in business.

But with Zhao Jia and the two surrendered elders, even if he killed a large number of Zhao Family members in front of the Zhao Ancestor, it wouldn't affect the Zhao Family's operations.

In the eyes of others, the chaos in the Zhao Family seemed more like an internal conflict.

As the saying goes, the victor is king and the loser is defeated.

The second branch of the Zhao Family, where the female elders were located, was not spared this time and became sacrifices in front of the Zhao Ancestor, the final straw that made the Zhao Ancestor speak up.

On the other hand, the first and third branches of the Zhao Family did not suffer much damage.

"Master."

Zhao Jia had a pleasing smile on his face and had no trouble calling Yu Xian "master."

He was not even fifty years old yet, but he had already broken through to the Foundation Building stage. In the future, he would have at least one or two hundred years of good life left. How could he accompany the Ancestor to his death?

"It is your ancestors who have a grudge against me."

Yu Xian waved his hand and said, "I have no intention of humiliating you. Having you sign the master-servant blood contract is just a form of insurance.

I am a guest official of the Zhao Family, and from now on, you can call me Guest Official Yu. As long as you obey, we can pretend that this master-servant blood contract never happened.

You can be the new Ancestor of the Zhao Family, and I will be the old Guest Official of the Zhao Family."

"Yes, Guest Official Yu."

Zhao Jia readily agreed, and his smile became genuine.

Even though he knew that Yu Xian's words were meant to comfort him, the blood contract had already been signed. Could a change in address really make a difference?

But it sounded pleasant.

Otherwise, if he were to call Yu Xian "master" in front of others, it would be a loss of face for the Zhao Family.

Seeing the flattering smile on Zhao Jia's face, Yu Xian felt a chill in his heart.

If he didn't have the blood contract in his hands, he wouldn't dare to use this person. Otherwise, he wouldn't know when he would be stabbed in the back.

"The chaos in the clan land and the market in the district has almost subsided, but the situation in the Zhao Family in Shangyang City is still unclear.

You grew up there since you were young, and now you have also broken through to the Foundation Building stage. So this time, I plan to let you go to Shangyang City to handle the Zhao Family's properties."

Saying that, Yu Xian took out a stack of contracts.

"These are the land deeds and house deeds of the Zhao Family in Shangyang City. Handle them discreetly, even if you have to sell them at a discount.

As for the spiritual fields of the Zhao Family, dispose of them as usual."

The Zhao Family occupied a few hundred acres of land in the Zhao District and had developed over a hundred acres of spiritual fields. If they could be sold at the market price of Shangyang City, they would be worth at least a million spiritual stones.

But unfortunately, they couldn't be sold.

Firstly, there were not many land transactions in Shangyang City, and no one could handle such a large volume. Selling at a steep discount could directly collapse the land prices in Shangyang City in a short period of time.

At that time, other cultivators and aristocratic families who held land deeds in Shangyang City would probably not hesitate to go to war to suppress the Zhao Family.

The other most important reason was that the land did not belong to the Zhao Family.

Because these lands were bestowed upon the Zhao Family by the Dan Yang True Immortal as a place to stay, they still belonged to the properties of Shangyang City.

The Zhao Family had to pay a portion of the rent to the True Immortal every year.

Otherwise, with the size and strength of the Zhao Family, how could they occupy such a large piece of land in Shangyang City?

With such a large piece of land, even if they threw in a million spiritual stones, they could still produce several Foundation Building cultivators.

As for the properties of the Zhao Family in the slums.

They had long been wiped out by a beast tide, and even if they were to be rebuilt and the land divided, given the current situation of the Zhao Family, they could forget about reclaiming their previous land.

So it was better to give up on them altogether.

With this in mind, the so-called Eight Great Cultivation Families of the Zhao Family sounded impressive, but internally, they were extremely weak.

Therefore, Yu Xian didn't have much hope for the so-called Zhao Family in Shangyang City and thought that selling them for tens of thousands of spiritual stones would be enough.

After all, it was a windfall.

"Oh, by the way, you can keep thirty percent of the sold spiritual stones."

Yu Xian said to Zhao Jia.

Still the same sentence, it was a windfall of spiritual stones, and it wouldn't hurt to share some.

Zhao Jia was stunned for a moment, then excitedly accepted the order, "Guest Official Yu, rest assured, I will definitely sell them at a high price."

"Now that the Zhao Family's strength is weak, we can no longer stir up trouble in places like Shangyang City. We should act low-key.

Once the Dan Yang True Immortal leaves, the Zhao Family will become a piece of fat in the eyes of others."

So after dealing with the industry, he took the other clan members back to their clan territory and gave it to anyone who wanted to fight for it."

Yu Xian was not greedy. The resources from the Zhao family's land and the income from the market were enough to satisfy Yulan's cultivation to the Foundation Building realm.

As for the decline of the Zhao family, it had nothing to do with him.

If it weren't for the uncertainty of Dan Yang Zhenren, the entire Zhao family would have been wiped out by now.

Zhao Jia nodded reluctantly, "You have spoken wisely, Yu Keqing. Zhao Jia will follow your orders."

He wanted to divide the land with Yu Xian in Shangyang City, after all, being the boss himself was more enjoyable.

If he could find a way to remove the blood contract, he would not hesitate to betray Yu Xian.

But now, it seemed that the entire Zhao family could not escape from Yu Keqing's nightmare.

"Go quickly and come back. I'll wait for you for half a year."

Yu Xian gave a deadline directly, so as to prevent Zhao Jia from delaying and causing unnecessary trouble in the end.

"Yes."

Zhao Jia left reluctantly.

...

The temporary chaos in the Zhao family did not have a great impact on the family.

On the contrary, the second branch was completely wiped out, leaving a large number of job vacancies. In order to fill these new positions, there was competition within the Zhao family, which stimulated a strong vitality.

It made the Zhao family look even more prosperous.

Yu Xian took the blood-stained Wan Yu Ling Shi from the second branch and distributed the other industries and fragments to the first and third branches, as well as Zhao Shiwen representing the Zhao family market.

Afterwards, he continued to act as a detached shopkeeper. As long as he was given enough Ling Shi, he didn't want to bother with the affairs of the Zhao family at all.

So he generously delegated power and handed over all matters to Zhao Shiwen.

Now, Zhao Shiwen had been promoted to the chief manager of the Zhao family, theoretically having the power to handle all the affairs of the Zhao family.

Under Zhao Laozu's foolish move, Zhao Shiwen's dream was realized in an instant.

Unknowingly, half a year had passed.

In the main mansion of the ancestors.

Yu Xian, under the astonished gaze of Zhao Laozu, transformed his Foundation Building mana into blood-colored flames, merging the four different-colored bamboo sections into one, forming a four-section long bamboo that looked like a short flute.

"Zhao Dao-you, thank you for your guidance. If it weren't for your selfless teaching, I wouldn't have been able to comprehend the Four-Color Youhuang Formation so quickly and integrate the formation core."

Now that the Zhao family's protective formation is completely under my control, I am not afraid even if a peak Foundation Building cultivator attacks."

While poking Zhao Laozu's heart tube, Yu Xian's palm revealed a formation disk that seemed square yet not square, round yet not round. It was Zhao Laozu's spiritual tool, the Formation Control Compass.

The Formation Control Compass is not a combat spiritual tool, but an auxiliary tool for formation masters. Although it is only a low-grade spiritual tool, its value is not lower than that of a high-grade spiritual tool. It is the most valuable item on Zhao Laozu's body, even more valuable than a talisman with only one attack left.

He was able to comprehend a set of second-grade high-quality compound formations in just half a year. Zhao Laozu's guidance was one aspect, and the help of the Formation Control Compass should not be ignored.

At this point, Yu Xian felt that he had stepped into the realm of a second-grade middle-level formation master and had the ability to independently arrange second-grade middle-level formations.

Once he became a second-grade high-quality formation master, he could start researching his own unique formations. Once he reached the third-grade through deduction, he could advance to become a third-grade formation master.

Zhao Laozu had only stayed at this stage, and the Four-Color You Huang Formation was the culmination of his lifelong study of formations.

Of course, now it belonged to Yu Xian.

Hearing this, Zhao Laozu remained expressionless and said, "Yu Xian, you have extraordinary talent in the field of formations, but unfortunately, once you enter the demonic path and come into the view of important figures, it will only bring great calamity.

But if you don't join a higher sect, you will never obtain higher-level formation inheritances.

Your talent is not as good as having none.

Unfortunately, I don't have much time left and won't be able to see the pain you will experience when you can't make any progress due to the lack of inheritance."

"In fact, I don't have much pursuit in the field of formations. At first, I just wanted to make a living," Yu Xian smiled and picked up a cup of wine. "But thank you, Zhao Dao-you, for your reminder. I will definitely not let anyone discover my identity in the demonic path.

Here, this is today's Revival Wine."

Now that Zhao Laozu's meridians were severed, his dantian destroyed, and his sea of consciousness sealed, he relied on a cup of Revival Wine every day to sustain his life.

Of course, it was also related to his extraordinary body in the Foundation Building realm. If an ordinary person suffered such injuries, surviving for three hours would be considered lucky.

After feeding Zhao Laozu a cup of Revival Wine, Yu Xian left in a cheerful mood.

Now that the entire Zhao family relied solely on him, he was happy every day and had no worries about the future.

If he couldn't make progress in formations, he would study alchemy and talisman-making.

There were plenty of tricks in the cultivation world to pass the time.

When he broke through to the Gold Core stage, then the Nascent Soul stage, his strength would be in place, and higher-level inheritances would naturally come to him.

"It's another beautiful day."

Yu Xian looked up at the sky, turned around, and went to the inner courtyard.

In these days of nearing a breakthrough in formations, he had been spending time with an old man who was half-dead and neglected those around him.

(End of this chapter)