Chapter 216 Reactions from all parties

"Friend Qianqing, we can talk about other things next, such as refining pills." After cooperating with the Li family, they are more deeply bound in interests, and the relationship between the two families will definitely be more friendly.

As long as both parties do not violate the law in the cooperation, the relationship between the two families will be further improved.

"Okay, okay." Li Qianqing knew what Ma Tianxing wanted after hearing this, "If Mr. Ma wants to refine second-level pills, I will definitely give you a discount, so that your gains will be 20% to 30% more, there should be no problem."

The 20% to 30% more that Li Qianqing refers to here is naturally more than the gains from refining for the elders of Qingfeng Valley.

Other foundation-building immortal families let him refine second-level pills, and with his current level of alchemy, he would make a lot of money, and even the core members of the family knew that it was a big profit.

The extra pills will flow into the Li family's clan treasury for exchange by the Li family's foundation-building cultivators.

"Hahaha, that's what Qianqing said. It's still a long time before the elixir matures. I will let you know when the time comes."

"Okay." Li Qianqing thought of something and continued, "Old Ma, let me make it clear first. At present, I am only sure of the second-stage early elixir. If it is a second-stage middle-grade elixir, I may have to wait five or six years to see the situation."

"Understood." Ma Tianxing nodded.

Li Qianqing should not have refined a second-stage middle-grade elixir yet.

With this cooperation, he hopes that Li Qianqing can also produce better results when refining a second-stage middle-grade elixir, so that they can be more assured to give the elixir to Li Qianqing for refining.

About two quarters of an hour later, Ma Tianxing sent Li Qianqing to the foot of the mountain.

All the content that should be discussed has been discussed, and Li Qianqing does not need to stay here for a long time. Time is precious for cultivators.

Ma Tianxing watched Li Qianqing's figure gradually disappear before returning to the mountain.

In addition to the benefits, this cooperation with the Li family also has certain risks. But compared to the risks, they could get a lot of benefits, so he agreed to Li Qianqing's conditions quickly, and they talked about it quickly.

This is an opportunity for their Ma family.

For the future, they have to prepare well now.

Li Qianqing, who left, returned to Changqing Mountain at almost the fastest speed.

This trip to Wutong County was one open and one secret. Since the news of his visit to the Ma family was not deliberately concealed, it would not take long for other foundation-building and immortal cultivation families in Wutong County to know the news.

With Qingfeng Valley watching, it would definitely not work to come secretly. The news of his visit to the Ma family was important to let Qingfeng Valley know the situation, indicating that their Li family was doing something and had already intervened in the power disputes in Wutong County. Their past would also make the local situation more tense.

If it was not to give an explanation to Qingfeng Valley, and if he really wanted to intervene in the power disputes in Wutong County, Li Qianqing would not be so blatant.

Li Xingsheng, who was in the dark, secretly went to the Ding family, a Qi-refining family.

Compared with the foundation-building immortal families, the Qi-refining immortal families received less attention, and almost no one knew that Li Xingsheng had been to Wutong County.

These days, everyone's attention must be focused on him.

The development of the dark line is also very important, which is conducive to their Li family to gain more benefits in the power disputes in Wutong County.

"Thirteenth uncle."

Li Xingsheng had already returned to Changqing Mountain and now came to Li Qianqing's cave.

"How is the matter going?" Li Qianqing asked.

"It's going very smoothly. The Ding family has agreed to our conditions. The price they want is just to help them refine a top-grade magic weapon for free in five years. They provide the materials and we are responsible for refining..." Li Xingsheng reported the situation.

After leaving the Ding family, he quickly returned to Changqing Mountain.

When he came back, the Fengyun horse ran faster, and he returned to Changqing Mountain faster than Li Qianqing.

"Not bad." Li Qianqing nodded.

He was very satisfied with Li Xingsheng's work, and it was right to add Li Xingsheng.

After today, Qingfeng Valley has dealt with it, and the seeds of their Li family's development have been planted in Wutong County.

In the days to come, they will not make any moves, let the forces in Wutong County guess for a while.

...

Wutong County.

Chen family's ancestral land.

The news of Li Qianqing's visit to the Ma family was received by their Chen family the fastest.

Among the foundation-building immortal cultivation forces in the entire Wutong County, they and the Ma family both belong to Qingfeng Valley. Normally, the relationship between the two families should be very good. After all, the other two foundation-building immortal cultivation families are affiliated forces of Tianhe Sect, and their upper sects are different, so there is no good relationship to speak of.

However, the Chen family and the Ma family have cooperation, but there are also frictions. The relationship between the two families can only be considered average, and it cannot be described as good.

This is due to the civil strife in Wutong County, because the relationship between all forces is more complicated because of the strife.

In the cave of Chen Bokui, the head of the Chen family.

At this moment, there are already Chen family cultivators reporting the information they have collected to them.

"Ancestor, Li Qianqing of the Li family went to the Ma family yesterday." The cultivator in charge of collecting intelligence from the Chen family came here as soon as he learned the news.

Compared with other counties that are not chaotic, the collection of intelligence information in Wutong County is very important.

Without sufficient information, how to develop the power and what to do next may make mistakes.

"The Li family actually contacted the Ma family?"

The head of the Chen family was very surprised to receive this information.

Normally speaking, the Li family should be developing well in Xiangshui County. It is not a good strategy for the Li family to come to Wutong County to join in the fun.

"Okay, I know, you can go down... By the way, you must always pay attention to the situation of the Ma family during this period."

"Yes, ancestor!"

Soon he was the only one left in the cave.

The relationship between their Chen family and the Li family is generally bad, because they used to be on good terms with the Jiang family, but unfortunately the Jiang family was not competitive and was destroyed by the Li family, resulting in one less foundation-building immortal cultivation force they were on good terms with.

With their current relationship with the Li family, there is no contact but it is not tit-for-tat.

However, if the Li family intervenes in the power dispute in Wutong County and damages the interests of their Chen family, the two families will have to confront each other.

"I hope they just have a simple exchange."

This is just what Chen Bokui, the head of the Chen family, wants to see, but he also knows in his heart that things are probably not as simple as he thinks.

The Li family went to the Ma family at this time, and the nature of Wutong County, the possibility that the forces from other counties came to Wutong County and found the local foundation-building immortal cultivation families was really small just for friendly exchanges.

"Observe the situation first, and wait for the movements of the Sun family and the Chang family..."

In any case, their Chen family and the other two families are affiliated forces of Qingfeng Valley. In the complex Wutong County, there is also another affiliated force of the Tianhe Sect of Zhao State. Compared with their Chen family, these two families should be more worried about what Li Qianqing wants to do when he comes to the Ma family.

Regarding the situation of the Li family and the Ma family, even if he goes to the Ma family, the old guy Ma Tianxing should not tell him the situation.

Chen Bokui, who understands this, will not take any action.

At this time, watching quietly is the best choice for them.

...

Three days later.

In Wutong County, the cultivators of the Sun family and the Chang family have gathered together.

The combined strength of their two families may not be as good as the total strength of the Ma family and the Chen family, but the relationship between their two families is much better than that of the Ma family and the Chen family.

It is precisely for this reason that they did not suffer much in the power struggle in Wutong County.

Wutong County is now in chaos, but it is also a kind of chaotic balance.

"Uncle Chang, I believe you should have heard the news." Sun Wubin said when he saw the head of the Chang family.

Of the two families, the overall strength of the Sun family is stronger than that of the Chang family. Take the foundation-building cultivators as an example. The Sun family has a total of two foundation-building cultivators, while the Chang family has only one patriarch.

Currently, the Chang family, a foundation-building cultivation family in Wutong County, is the only one with a single foundation-building cultivator. Twenty years ago, the old patriarch of the Chang family had exhausted his life and passed away, which also made the overall strength of the Chang family much weaker.

Unlike other counties, if there is only one foundation-building cultivator in the foundation-building cultivation family in Wutong County, many actions are not very convenient. The only foundation-building cultivator basically has to guard the ancestral land of the family.

This is the ancestral land of the Chang family.

Sun Wubin is not the current patriarch of the Sun family. His patriarch is still in the ancestral land of the Sun family.

They knew the importance of Li Qianqing's visit to the Ma family, so the Sun family sent him, a foundation-building cultivator, to the Chang family to discuss and see if there was any countermeasure.

"I heard about it." Chang Yousheng, the head of the Chang family, nodded, "If Wu Bin, my nephew, hadn't come, I would have sent a cultivator to Meifeng Mountain in a short time."

Meifeng Mountain is the ancestral land of the Sun family.

Of course, if the head of the Chang family sent someone over, he would only send a cultivator at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining to discuss this matter. He, the only foundation-building cultivator in the Chang family, really couldn't leave unless there was a special situation.

"In this case, I don't need to say more."

If the head of the Chang family knew the situation, he could get straight to the point.

How should the two families deal with Li Qianqing of the Li family going to the Ma family?

"Uncle Chang, what do you think?"

"Li Qianqing is an important figure in the Li family. I think he is even more important in the Li family than the current head of the Li family, Li Cunliu. If the other three early foundation-building cultivators of the Li family went to the Ma family, it is possible that the Li family did not come to interfere in the affairs of our Wutong County, but in his case... there is no such possibility."

"Yeah." Sun Wubin nodded in agreement, "I think so too, and so does Uncle San. Li Qianqing's going to the Ma family is definitely because the Li family wants to expand their influence in Wutong County..."

A foundation-building immortal family, if it reaches the overlord level in the county, has the ability to expand outward.

At present, there are a total of five foundation-building immortal families in Zhao State that have considerable influence in other counties besides this county. If the Li family really takes this step and has their substantial influence in Wutong County, then the Li family will be the sixth such foundation-building immortal family in Zhao State.

A foundation-building immortal family that dares to do this must have certain capital. For example, the number of foundation-building cultivators in the family must not be less than four.

A family with four foundation-building cultivators is a first-class foundation-building force in Zhao.

At present, the Li family has five foundation-building cultivators, and it is also the overlord of Xiangshui County. After the two conditions are met, it will naturally have the ability to expand the county.

There are also many powerful foundation-building families in Zhao, such as the Su family in Xinyue County. The family has five foundation-building cultivators. Although they are not the overlord-level force in Xinyue County, there is still a Jindan cultivation family above them.

Xinyue County itself is a large county with enough resources for their development. Extending their hands to other counties will do more harm than good to their development.

"...If the Li family is in our Wutong County now, our two families combined are not his opponents."

After all, the forces in other counties are just forces in other counties. They are basically still in their own county and will not invest a lot of energy in other counties.

"The Li family has not been rising for long. Even if they want to intervene in the power struggle here, they will not invest too much energy, otherwise it will be putting the cart before the horse."

"My nephew is right. I think they will not invest too much energy here, but they don't have to deal with the Huang family in Xiangshui County. The relationship between the two families is still okay... So, they may be able to come up with more than we think."

"What does Uncle Chang mean?"

"The strength of our two families is weaker than that of the Ma family and the Chen family. If the Li family intervenes again, we will definitely be at a great disadvantage. My idea is to inform the upper sect about this matter and see what they will do."

Sun Wubin understood that the head of the Chang family wanted some of the affiliated forces of the Tianhe Sect to join the power struggle in Wutong County and compete with the Li family who intervened in this matter.

"What do you think, nephew?" Finally, the head of the Chang family looked at Sun Wubin and asked.

Sun Wubin was silent for a while. He was thinking about the pros and cons.

Although the Sun family and the Chang family are both affiliated forces of the Tianhe Sect, their interests are also very different. For example, whether to ask the Tianhe Sect for help, for the weak Chang family, such a decision will undoubtedly be better.

But it is different for the Sun family. Their Sun family is still quite strong. There are still many cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining in the clan. If they are lucky, in another 20 to 30 years, their Sun family will become one of the three foundation-building immortal families.

The Sun family wants to dominate the situation in Wutong County rather than let the Tianhe Sect get involved here.

"The Li family is a foundation-building immortal family after all. It can't support the Ma family too much. If we just notify the sect, I think it's too hasty. And the relationship between the Ma family and the Chen family, and the Chen family and the Li family is still very ordinary. Maybe we didn't make a move, and the Chen family would make a fuss." Sun Wubin gave his reasons and some analysis, but the most important reason is not convenient to disclose.

"But who can guarantee that the Li family contacting the Ma family at this time is just their intention..."

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