39: The Immortal Clan is developing, and the matchmaker is pregnant (revised)

Xiao Qingyuan did not agree to Zhen Qi, and that very night, he brought Qin Hongniang into his room.

The attendant helped up the delicate and weak beauty; it was the first time she had received his favor.

At the time, Qin Hongniang also seemed puzzled by Xiao Qingyuan's attitude.

Why did Xiao Qingyuan not agree, even after Young Miss Zhen Qi had said all that?

Instead, she looked at Young Miss Zhen Qi and felt she was quite pitiful.

Xiao Qingyuan, however, did not answer this question.

He simply replied indifferently—no destiny.

He had a premonition that if this person were brought into the Family, she would surely be a little expert at causing chaos in his home.

He had not seen an ounce of affection for him in Zhen Qi's eyes.

He only saw exquisite self-interest.

Perhaps this was related to her childhood experiences, which was understandable, but she was truly not suitable to be brought into his home.

Just like that, time flew by, and another three months passed.

Little Jiang had already started to show her pregnancy.

Only then did Qin Hongniang become pregnant.

This allowed Xiao Qingyuan to once again receive a Aptitude feedback of a three-element True Spiritual Root and a complete spinal spirit bone.

Not only did the growth of his True Spiritual Root allow his Cultivation to advance another small step—reaching the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Even his Physique, without the influence of any Body Refining Cultivation Technique, directly advanced to the Middle Stage of Body Refining.

The harvest was considerable!

Four pregnancies in one year made Yang Yan grin from ear to ear.

She busied herself arranging for a warm room to be built for Xiao Qingyuan.

This was a treatment even her own son had never enjoyed.

Zhen Qi, on the other hand, completely disappeared.

And the legend of the Seventeenth Young Master doting on his wife and children spread thoroughly within the Family.

Guanyin Nu and the others completely became objects of everyone's envy.

Those who were pregnant received at least a drop of millennial stone milk, and delicious things never stopped flowing to their mouths.

As for the two toddlers, various Heaven And Earth Treasures suitable for infants were also collected with great effort.

During this time, Zhen Qi still wanted to mend her relationship with him, so she consulted Yang Yan.

After returning, she thought about researching gourmet food.

After all, Xiao Qingyuan had loved gourmet food since childhood and personally made many inventions.

However, Jiang Congqing had already started researching it early on.

In those days, ordinary people's families didn't have much meat, so their cooking skills naturally weren't that great.

Jiang Congbai was completely immersed in it.

Naturally, her cooking gained a few more touches of love.

She actually developed some talent as a Spirit Chef.

It was only when her belly grew larger and larger that Xiao Qingyuan finally told her to stop.

Having tasted Xiaoqing's loving dishes, he naturally had no interest in the superficial things Zhen Qi made.

(This part has been changed; Zhen Qi is not taken in.)

...Three months passed.

Besides following the Family to open up Spiritual Fields and draw Talismans, Xiao Qingyuan also became low-key.

The Xiao Clan Immortal Family first sold off the old master's accumulated Low Grade Spirit Sealing Talismans to the outside world.

These were exchanged for genuine Spirit Sealing Talismans produced by Xiao Qingyuan.

A large group of people grandly dug up the original underground jade statue and replaced it with a better Spirit Eye.

Xiao Tianheng guided Xiao Qingyuan throughout the process, observing and explaining.

Xiao Qingyuan, with the aid of his Spirit Eye, also lived up to expectations.

Leveraging his ability to observe the flow direction of the power of heaven and earth underground, he quickly surpassed Xiao Tianheng, an old farmer who had worked the land his whole life, in the Dao of finding and pinpointing Spirit Eyes.

The student surpassed the master.

The Spirit Eyes he pinpointed never had any mistakes.

This made Xiao Tianheng immensely pleased, lamenting that he had a successor.

Xiao Qingyuan calculated an account.

Regardless of the size of the Spirit Eye used for each mu of Spiritual Field, excluding Talisman investment, the total cost was approximately fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

And the annual income from one mu of Spiritual Field was roughly five Spirit Stones, breaking even in ten years.

Xiao Qingyuan, however, was not satisfied with this income.

This was the most cost-effective method, but it was not the method Xiao Qingyuan was most satisfied with.

After all, he didn't need inspiration to draw Talismans; he was like a ruthless money-printing machine.

Half of his day was spent drawing Spirit Sealing Talismans.

In three months, he had accumulated over five thousand, with a value that had long surpassed ten thousand.

The annual income of five or six Spirit Stones from hard farming seemed insufficient.

To open up a spring in his own backyard, Xiao Qingyuan chose to invest resources without regard for cost.

On one hand, he invested in his exclusive Spiritual Field, regardless of the size of the Spirit Eye, replacing all with high-quality Spirit Sealing Talismans.

On the other hand, he almost desperately expanded the area of the second branch's Spiritual Field.

Leveraging the advantage of his Spirit Eye, he continuously opened up Spiritual Fields at a rate of ten mu per month.

In three months, he had managed to open up over a hundred mu.

An annual income of at least five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones was quite substantial (this was a previous typo, now corrected).

Not to mention, with high-quality Spirit Sealing Talismans and more advanced Spirit pinpointing techniques, his per-mu yield would most likely double.

What delighted him was this:

The hidden benefit after excavating the spring eye was that the Spiritual Qi concentration in the backyard visibly increased, becoming comparable to Cultivating in a Spiritual Vein.

Seeing this, the other branches of the Xiao Clan Immortal Family also quietly brought out their hidden reserves, taking out the Spirit Stones meant for purchasing Medicinal Pills, and increasing the number of Spiritual Fields in each branch by more than ten times.

With an inexhaustible supply of Spirit Sealing Talismans.

Regardless of whether they could irrigate them all, simply increasing the Spiritual Qi concentration was a huge hidden benefit.

So, they all similarly chose to build spring eyes for their own exclusive Spiritual Fields.

Among them, Third Uncle Xiao Yanrui was the most active.

After all, if his descendants were not ambitious, with this spring eye, could the Xiao Clan Immortal Family still cancel his branch's property?

Therefore, he put in his best effort.

This brought the total number of Spiritual Fields in the entire Xiao Clan Immortal Family to an astonishing level—a full five hundred mu.

It completely emptied the Xiao Clan Immortal Family.

And even this was not the limit of the Xiao Clan Immortal Family, but rather the limit of Xiao Qingyuan's ability to draw high-quality Spirit Sealing Talismans.

After all, although he drew many Talismans every day, he couldn't draw only Spirit Sealing Talismans.

At most, half.

The success rate of high-quality Spirit Sealing Talismans only increased from one in twenty to one in ten.

Five per day was the limit.

In three months, he had only drawn less than five hundred.

Xiao Qingyuan gave a small portion to the Xiao Clan Immortal Family.

The clansmen used a mix of high-quality and genuine ones, which had already transformed the Xiao Clan Immortal Family.

Next year's per-mu yield would visibly increase significantly.

The rest of the high-quality ones were all used on Xiao Qingyuan's own hundred mu of Spiritual Fields; regardless of the size of the Spirit Eye, he only used high-quality Spirit Sealing Talismans... and even in his spare time, he would quietly activate his Spirit Eye to observe the changes in the underground Spirit Eyes, hoping they could give birth to millennial stone milk.

He diligently recorded the power of heaven and earth around each Spirit Eye.

Summarizing the patterns.

He believed that one day, he would find a way to artificially Cultivate millennial stone milk.

And Xiao Tianheng was not ambiguous either; after the Xiao Clan Immortal Family's foundation was almost completely depleted.

He immediately sold a large number of genuine Talismans to the outside world.

And this day was the last day Xiao Tianheng would go to the market to exchange for Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

"Qingyuan, what do you want? Grandfather will bring it back for you. Why do you suddenly want to come with Grandfather?"

"You know, Grandfather's trip to the market this time carries great risks."

Xiao Tianheng was first stunned when he saw him.

Then he was cheerfully happy.

Xiao Qingyuan handed over all five thousand genuine Spirit Sealing Talismans to the Xiao Clan Immortal Family.

As a result, the Family used 2000, which was less than one-third.

They then sold another thousand to friendly Xiao Clan Immortal Familys at a high price, gaining over six thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Xiao Qingyuan received over five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, as well as fifty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones used for opening up Spiritual Fields.

Even so, the Xiao Clan Immortal Family still owed Xiao Qingyuan nearly ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Making him the Xiao Clan Immortal Family's biggest creditor.

To be honest, he was now numb to Xiao Qingyuan's Talisman drawing skill.

He could draw ten a day, and any more would cause the success rate to plummet.

Yet, the other person drew fifty a day without breaking a sweat.

See?

The old master hardened his heart and decided to sell all two thousand five hundred genuine Spirit Sealing Talismans he didn't need.

To help his good grandson recover some blood.

Otherwise, Xiao Tianheng, who had been dignified his entire life, would truly be too embarrassed in his old age.

Xiao Qingyuan's interest was piqued upon hearing this.

This time, he also wanted to sell Talismans...