The Longevity Family: Starting From The Branches And Leaves

Chapter 105: Great Harvest and Profound Stage Puppet Technique (Seeking Subscriptions)

Chen Ling once again used his divine sense to search within a radius of a hundred zhang, confirming that there were no other cultivators present.

Only then did he take out the storage bag and two storage rings from the corpses.

He condensed the Qinglian Thunder Flame and completely incinerated the nine bodies.

Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The Gao Family, as one of the three families in the Star Sword Sect with peak Foundation Building cultivators, was not comparable to ordinary Foundation Building families like the Qin Family.

Once exposed, there would be huge trouble.

Fortunately, the battle was very short, lasting only a dozen breaths, and they didn't have time to send out any distress signals.

Moreover, the chances of being discovered in this wilderness were very small.

But regardless of whether they would be discovered or not, he had to kill these members of the Gao Family!

He was very clear about it.

In this world, it's survival of the fittest, the strong are respected. If you don't kill, others will kill you. There's no reasoning to be had.

There was no deep enmity between him and the Gao Family.

But when they made a move, they killed over a dozen members of the Chen Family.

Even if he wanted to hide, he couldn't!

He then walked in front of Chu Xiong and scanned him with his divine sense.

His brows furrowed involuntarily.

Chu Xiong's palms were a mass of flesh and blood, and his right arm was completely severed.

Fortunately, there were no other serious injuries. With his cultivation at the ninth level of Qi Refining, he would be able to recover after a period of cultivation.

He hurriedly helped him up and infused spiritual energy into his body.

After a moment.

A slight groan, Chu Xiong slowly opened his eyes.

Seeing Chen Ling's worried expression in front of him, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he forced a smile, "Ling'er, I'm still alive!"

"Is the mine okay? Cough cough..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly coughed violently, spewing out a mouthful of blood.

Chen Ling's eyes turned red, and he quickly took out the healing pill and blood-nurturing pill, smiling, "Father-in-law, the mine is fine. Take the pills first and rest well."

Chu Xiong nodded with a smile. Now that his daughter was the only support in the Chen Family, he naturally had to protect the mine well and give his daughter face in the Chen Family.

Then he closed his eyes and sensed his injuries, bitterly smiling, "It's not too serious."

Among the wandering cultivators, he was definitely a ruthless person.

"Old man, bear with it, I'll reattach this severed arm for you!"

Chen Ling said in a deep voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, he infused spiritual energy into Chu Xiong's arm, using his divine sense to quickly reset the broken bones.

Enduring the intense pain, Chu Xiong didn't make a sound.

Then Chen Ling tore off his own sleeve and carefully wrapped and fixed it.

After dealing with Chu Xiong's injuries, he scanned the other unconscious clan members with his divine sense.

Their cultivations were relatively low, and most of them were knocked unconscious by the pressure and wouldn't have any major problems.

Soon, some of them slowly woke up.

Shen Zhen also arrived with the clan members.

For the sake of safety, Chen Ling did not tell them about killing the Gao Family cultivators.

Just arrange for Qin Tong to take over the responsibility of guarding the mineral veins.

And instruct him to be cautious and careful. If there is any movement, activate the geomagnetic sword formation.

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"Master, should we report this to the sect or the five elders?" Inside the cabin of the Yunzhou ship, Shen Zhen asked cautiously.

The death of more than ten clan members is a big deal!

Chen Ling remained silent for a while, then shook his head and sighed helplessly, "Forget it, once we inform the sect, the news of the cracked gold ore here will leak out, and it may attract even bigger trouble."

"And given the current situation of the sect, they may not necessarily intervene!"

Now we can only hope that Gao Wu hasn't spread the news of the mineral veins.

Upon hearing this, Shen Zhen also wore a worried expression and said helplessly, "But if we continue like this, other clans will definitely suspect something when they see that our clan's magical artifacts are constantly being produced. If they investigate a little, they will probably discover the mineral veins here!"

"Hmm!" Chen Ling thought for a moment and had no other good ideas. Ultimately, it was a matter of strength. He smiled bitterly and said, "We can only speed up mining and strengthen our vigilance."

Seeing Shen Zhen's worried expression, he continued, "Once the construction on the mountain pass is roughly completed, select some powerful individuals from our clan to form a battle hall. They will patrol between the mining site and the clan every day."

Shen Zhen nodded, "That's the only way!"

"As for the clan members who died in battle this time, Shen Shu should arrange for their closest relatives to receive generous compensation, with each person receiving three hundred clan contribution points."

"Or they can exchange it for a low-grade technique in the Hall of Martial Arts."

Chen Ling thought for a moment and said slowly.

The Hall of Martial Arts was where the clan stored their techniques, and it was planned and established by Shen Zhen. Based on the original Qin family's Hall of Martial Arts, Chen Ling also added the techniques he didn't need.

Like the Fire Dragon Whip and the Splitting Sword Technique.

Clan members could exchange them with clan contribution points.

"Yes, Master!" Shen Zhen replied respectfully.

"Shen Shu, there is one more thing I want to ask you. What is the background of the Zhan family?"

Chen Ling continued.

When he killed Gao Wu just now, he heard him shout the name of another Foundation Building cultivator, Zhan Family Master.

"The Zhan family is also an affiliated family of the Star Sword Sect. There are two Foundation Building cultivators in the family, and they usually rely on the Gao family. The family's inheritance is puppetry."

"The Zhan family used to have a third-rank Puppet Master, but in the past hundred years, their talents have declined, and this generation only has a second-rank Puppet Master."

Shen Zhen replied seriously.

Chen Ling nodded. So it was a Puppet Master, no wonder they were defenseless against Qingtang's attack.

Puppet Masters were similar to Refiners and were extremely vulnerable to close combat.

As a Refiner, he had defensive measures such as magic robes.

But Puppet Masters were extremely passive.

Once they couldn't activate their puppets in time, they could only be beaten.

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After returning to the mountain pass, Chen Ling settled Chu Xiong and instructed Meng Ping to speed up the construction, hoping to relocate the clan members within a month.

Back in his room.

"We will split the spoils of this battle evenly!"

Chen Ling took out seven storage bags and two storage rings, smiling at Li Yourong and Qingtang.

Both of them were now at the Foundation Building realm and needed more cultivation resources than him.

Li Yourong usually went out to hunt demonic beasts and exchange for spirit stones, so she had some resources on hand.

Qingtang stayed at home all day, relying on the spiritual energy in the house and the pills provided by Chen Ling, which were simply not enough.

Both of them nodded without being pretentious.

In order to save time, Chen Ling directly activated the Qinglian Thunder and Fire technique, burning away the divine consciousness imprints on the storage bag and storage ring.

After a stick of incense, everything in the storage bag and storage ring was poured out, forming two piles.

Radiant and dazzling, a feast for the eyes.

"Found it!"

Chen Ling scanned with his divine consciousness and said with a smile on his face.

Hundreds of bottles of elixirs, a large number of talismans, magic treasures, and a small amount of miscellaneous items such as ores.

In addition, there were more than thirty martial arts techniques, including four ordinary high-grade ones, and surprisingly, one lower-grade profound-level puppet technique called "Puppet Transformation Technique".

There were also two second-level puppets and one semi-finished puppet.

"Lucky! Lucky!"

Looking at the two second-level puppets, Chen Ling's heart skipped a beat, involuntarily murmuring.

If it weren't for Qingtang dealing with the head of the Zhan family, catching him off guard and completely suppressing him.

Once he activated these two second-level puppets, it wouldn't be so easy to kill him.

If he sent out a distress signal, other cultivators from the Gao family nearby would come.

That would be dangerous!

Qingtang and Li Yourong also widened their eyes, smiling, their fair skin radiating a seductive glow under the soft light of the crystal lamp.

Chen Ling made a rough estimate, just the items in the head of the Zhan family's storage ring would be worth several hundred thousand spirit stones.

The heads of the Foundation Building families were extremely wealthy, and most of the resources were in their hands.

Especially the two second-level beast puppets and the semi-finished Thunder Ape Beast puppet whose grade couldn't be determined.

As for the profound-level puppet technique, it couldn't be bought on the market, and its price was difficult to estimate.

"Four bottles of Foundation Building Pill, three bottles of Tai Xuan Pill, and two bottles of Zi Wei Pill."

"Foundation Building Pill is a pill for the early and middle stages of Foundation Building cultivators, one pill is equivalent to a month of cultivation."

"Tai Xuan Pill is taken by Foundation Building cultivators in the early stage to enhance their divine consciousness."

"Zi Wei Pill is taken by Foundation Building cultivators in the early stage to increase the chances of advancing to the middle stage."

Looking at Chen Ling taking out the pills from the items of the two Foundation Building cultivators, Qingtang, who usually didn't talk much, eagerly said.

Chen Ling smiled and handed the nine-grade pills to them, saying, "I don't need these for now, you can split them!"

"As for the six high-grade spirit stones and one thousand three hundred medium-grade spirit stones, divide them into three parts, one for each person."

"As for the talismans, martial arts techniques, ores, etc., you can choose the ones that can be used."

"Okay!" Li Yourong smiled and took the pill bottles.

Every time she hunted monsters with her teammates, dividing the spoils was her favorite thing to do!

Chen Ling put the puppet technique into the storage ring.

This was the biggest gain this time.

He also put away about ten bottles of Qi Gathering Pills, to use for himself or give to He Yunxiu and the others.

As for other runes, magic tools, etc., that were not needed, they would be put into the family's martial treasury later.

Then, Chen Ling poured the divided items into two storage rings and handed them to the two of them.

Taking the storage rings, the two of them smiled, their beauty beyond compare.

This trip's harvest was worth at least tens of thousands of spirit stones.

After dividing the items, night fell gradually.

Chen Ling and the other two hastily had dinner and then sat in meditation to cultivate.

With the lesson from last night, Chen Ling also didn't want to provoke both of them at the same time.

However, before long, Li Yourong's hot body quietly approached...

It wasn't until the sky gradually brightened that Li Yourong and Qingtang finally fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Ling, on the other hand, had no sleepiness. He quietly got up from the bed and sat on a cushion on the floor.

"The puppetry technique I obtained from Chu Yu has reached a proficient stage, and its potential has reached its limit. This Xuan-level 'Puppet Transformation Art' came at just the right time."

Chen Ling thought to himself.

Since the self-destruction of the Golden Ink Armored Poison Spider puppet last time, Chen Ling hadn't crafted any other puppets.

On one hand, he didn't have enough time. Every day, he practiced cultivation, refined tools, and spent time with his family. This was one of the downsides of having multiple wives; it was too time-consuming!

There were so many wives to spend the night with, and he couldn't possibly keep up.

On the other hand, he hadn't found suitable materials. Intact second-level demonic beast corpses were not commonly found on the market.

As for crafting first-level demonic beast puppets, it wasn't very significant for him at the moment.

Afterward, he took out the jade scroll of the "Puppet Transformation Art"!

He infused his divine sense into it.

Soon, a large amount of information abruptly appeared in his mind.

Chen Ling carefully watched for a quarter of an hour, memorizing every word of the technique, and then withdrew.

This "Puppet Transformation Art" was a cultivation method obtained by the Zhan family from the puppet sect Linglong Sect. Its grade was lower Xuan-level.

It contained various methods of puppet crafting, and even puppet formations.

Although it was difficult to understand, fortunately, Chen Ling had a solid foundation in puppetry.

Watching it gave him a feeling of everything falling into place.

Even if he couldn't understand it, it wouldn't be a big problem. He could add points later!

For puppetry, the most important thing was the power of divine sense.

The strength of divine sense was the key to determining how much achievement a puppet master could attain.

This was also the similarity between puppetry and refining tools.

However, the cultivation methods for divine sense were extremely rare and precious.

Unless one had an orderly inheritance, it was impossible to obtain them.

A puppet master, without the assistance of a powerful divine sense, could at most control a second-level puppet even with Foundation Building cultivation.

In that case, the advantage of being a puppet master would be completely gone.

In addition to the many restrictions of puppets, they wouldn't have much chance of winning against a cultivator of the same level.

But Chen Ling's divine sense was exceptionally powerful, and the "Elemental Soul Technique" he cultivated was also a lower Xuan-level soul technique. With his current cultivation, it was effortless to control three or four second-level puppets.

Afterward, Chen Ling checked three puppets.

Two of them were second-level puppets, the Fire Armor Wolf and the Blue Scale Eagle, one skilled in speed attacks and the other having aerial superiority.

But what surprised Chen Ling the most was the semi-finished Thunder Ape puppet.

It was a puppet made from the basic skeleton of a third-level demonic beast Thunder Ape. Its flesh had completely dried up, and it seemed to have been stored for many years.

However, its aura was still astonishing.

Once successfully crafted, it would definitely be a divine treasure for a Foundation Building family.

Of course, it wasn't an easy task to craft such a third-level puppet.

Not only did it require various third-level materials, but it was also difficult to find the blood of a third-level demonic beast.

It also required a powerful secret technique of the divine soul to be able to completely control it.

With such gains, Chen Ling was quite satisfied.

(End of this chapter)