70: Chapter 70 Luo Chen departs, Zhou Xin is pregnant

After the annual salary was converted into a monthly salary, even the minimum amount would allow for twelve Spirit Stones per year, and those in the Foundation Establishment Stage could obtain over a thousand Spirit Stones annually.

However, this was nothing to the current members of the Li Family; as long as it allowed them to quickly improve their Cultivation, Li Luochen did not feel it was a waste at all.

With higher Cultivation, they could farm more Spirit Fields and secure more resources for the Family.

After contracting the Spirit Fields to individual households in this way, everyone would take great care of their fields and would absolutely not be negligent, and perhaps the amount of Spirit Rice produced in the Spirit Fields might even increase.

Thinking of this, Li Luochen suddenly said, "After harvesting the Spirit Rice each year, you may keep twenty percent, and the rest must be turned over to the Family. Remember this: do not buy Spirit Rice from outside to earn contribution points; I will be able to detect it."

Hearing Li Luochen's words, the members of the Li Family were pleasantly surprised. They had not expected to be able to keep twenty percent of the Spirit Rice, which was truly a great gain.

They had originally thought that after the fields were contracted out, they would not receive the annual straw, which would be a loss for the Family members with weaker Cultivation, but for the sake of the foundation establishment pill and essence spirit true liquid, they had no objections.

They had not expected such a turn of events; being able to keep twenty percent of the Spirit Rice was of significant value.

Even if one contracted a hundred acres of Low Grade Spirit Fields, they could harvest sixty thousand catties of Spirit Rice each year, and twenty percent of that was twelve thousand catties—that was worth twelve hundred Spirit Stones.

The Family now had fifty-nine members; apart from those who were still too young, it was unclear if the Spirit Fields outside were enough to distribute.

It seemed they needed to continue expanding and clearing more Spirit Fields. There were still many mountain peaks in the Yunmeng Mountain Range occupied by Yao Beasts, and he could go bully them after his Cultivation Breakthrough.

Regardless, he had to get a mount this time.

The Li Family members began to ponder, mainly considering how many Spirit Fields they should contract.

The Li Family had cleared quite a few Spirit Fields, and if they were to be distributed, how much would be considered appropriate for each of them?

There were fifty acres of 2nd-tier Low Grade Spirit Fields, one hundred ninety acres of 1st-tier top grade Spirit Fields, three hundred sixty acres of 1st-tier high grade Spirit Fields, seven hundred ten acres of rank 1 medium grade Spirit Fields, one thousand five hundred twenty acres of Rank 1 Low Grade Spirit Fields, and three thousand two hundred ten acres of ordinary Spirit Fields.

This quantity was not small, but in total, it was only nearly six thousand acres, not even ten thousand acres.

Li Luochen did not care about this; he wanted to contract these Spirit Fields out as soon as possible. As long as the Family members were farming, he could wholeheartedly go into seclusion to Cultivate.

His Cultivation had been at the Foundation Establishment Peak for a long time, and he had to find a place to go into seclusion to Cultivate.

"Yanshu, Yanzhong, Yanlong, Yanhu, Changsheng, the five of you should not contract any 1st-tier Spirit Fields for now; take good care of these fifty acres of 2nd-tier Spirit Fields for me."

"I have 2nd-tier Spirit Medicine growth acceleration liquid here, which can speed up the growth of the peiyuan flower by tenfold."

"In at most two and a half years, the peiyuan flower will be mature. I will give you each fifty contribution points. What do you think?"

Li Yanshu quickly said, "Father, no problem."

The others naturally had no issues either. It was indeed a bit of a waste of talent to have the five of them look after the 2nd-tier Spirit Medicine peiyuan flower, but there was no other way for now; the Li Family had too few 2nd-tier Spiritual Veins.

Li Luochen continued, "Not only that, if there are any Spirit Fields the Family hasn't contracted out, they will be left to you, and the contribution points will also belong to you."

Hearing this, Li Yanlong and the others finally became excited.

Li Yanshu suddenly asked, "Father, what about you?"

Li Luochen smiled and said, "My Cultivation is about ready, and it is time for me to find a place to attempt a Breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage. However, a Breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage will take a long time."

"Yanzhong, once your Cultivation breaks through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, you can take Yanshu and the others to capture other Spiritual Veins in the Yunmeng Mountain Range occupied by 2nd-tier Yao Beasts."

"As long as my Cultivation can break through to the Golden Core Stage, our Li Family will be a Golden Core Family, and we won't even have to fear the Qingsha Sect."

Li Yanzhong quickly said, "Yes, Family Head."

Li Luochen continued, "Alright, leave this Spirit Rice for you all to sell. I am going to Yunmeng Immortal City to attempt my Breakthrough."

As he spoke, he took out all the Spirit Rice harvested this time and handed it to Li Yanlong.

After doing this, Li Luochen looked at Li Yanshu, and his gaze then turned to Zhou Xin not far away.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he instantly appeared beside Zhou Xin.

"Xin'er, are you pregnant again? Why didn't you tell me?"

Zhou Xin touched her belly and said, "I just realized it too, Husband. We are going to have another child."

Li Luochen hesitated; after all, Zhou Xin was carrying his child, and he wondered whether he should really go into seclusion for the Breakthrough.

This time, the Breakthrough was to advance to the Early Stage of the Golden Core Stage, which would take a relatively long time, and he might not be able to see the child being born.

Seeing him hesitate, Zhou Xin smiled and said, "Husband, please go. I will take good care of the child. Besides, her sister has already broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage; she is very strong."

"If you are able to break through to the Golden Core Stage, then the child's father will be a Golden Core Old Ancestor, and they will definitely be very happy."

Since Zhou Xin had said so, Li Luochen had no choice but to nod and say, "Alright, since that is the case, I will go to attempt my Cultivation Breakthrough first."

"You must take good care of your health and stop Cultivating for the time being. When I return, I will help you with your Foundation Establishment."

Zhou Xin smiled and nodded, saying, "Go with peace of mind. Yanshu is here to keep me company."

Li Luochen turned his gaze to Li Yanshu and said, "Yanshu, your mother is in your hands; protect her well."

Li Yanshu smiled and said, "Mm, Father, don't worry. I am a Sword Immortal, after all; I definitely won't let anything happen to Mother."

"Father, hurry and go. I have never seen a Golden Core Old Ancestor before."

Li Luochen looked at the Family members again, nodded slightly, and then his entire figure turned into a stream of light and disappeared.

After he left, Li Yanzhong said seriously, "The Family Head has gone to attempt Core Formation. What we need to do next is to work hard at our Cultivation and strive to have more powerful members in the Family."

"I hope that when the Family Head returns, our Li Family will have over a dozen Foundation Establishment Stage experts."

"Not only that, there are too few Family members. Those of you who can find a Dao Companion should do so, and those who can have children should have children. It would be best if we could have over a hundred cultivators in our Li Family."

"The most important thing is still the Spirit Fields. The Family has quite a few, and the annual income is high, which can maintain the needs of our Li Family's normal Cultivation."

"But before long, we will become a Golden Core power. The Spirit Rice harvested each year won't even be enough to buy golden core formation pills when converted into Spirit Stones, so we need to open up more resource points."

"The Family has a Golden Core Puppet for protection, so we don't need to worry too much. We can actually go out and look for other places to see if we can kill Yao Beasts and acquire Spiritual Veins."

Li Yanlong shook his head and said, "The Yunmeng Mountain Range has limited space. There is a 2nd-tier Yao Beast on a mountain peak not far from our Luochen Mountain, but its strength is a bit powerful, and we might not be able to defeat it."

Li Yanhu said, "We don't necessarily have to fight it ourselves; when we go, we can just bring a Formation and use the Formation to forcibly kill it."

Li Yanshu and Li Changsheng did not speak. Their talent was relatively good, and the other three absolutely would not allow them to go out and fight, so they did not interrupt.