Chapter 297: Ways of doing things

In the reception room of Changqing Mountain.

"Senior Li." Huang Xinzhong immediately bowed when he saw Li Qianqing.

"Xinzhong, please sit down." Li Qianqing nodded and spoke in a friendly manner.

The Huang family has not caused any mess in Xiangshui County in the past few decades, so Li Qianqing's attitude towards them is still very good. In addition, the gifts sent by the Huang family during the foundation-building banquet for the younger generation are very good, which shows that the Huang family is really attentive.

Huang Xinzhong sat down and looked at Li Qianqing, who was always looking at him. He knew that Li Qianqing was waiting for him to speak.

"Senior Li, this is the case. Our ancestor's life span has been exhausted." When mentioning this matter, Huang Xinzhong's eyes dimmed a little.

Neither he nor the deceased Huang Zhifeng thought that the Huang family had only been a foundation-building force for more than a hundred years. At the beginning, Huang Xinzhong was still thinking about his success in building a foundation and continuing the identity of the Huang family as a foundation-building and immortal cultivation family. In the end, he failed to build a foundation and had no chance to build a foundation. He could only be stuck at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

"My condolences." Li Qianqing sighed softly.

Among all the cultivators of the Huang family, the one he had the best impression of was Huang Zhifeng.

Huang Xinzhong was able to come to see him at this time, and he almost thought of this possibility.

"It's great that the ancestor can die of old age." Huang Xinzhong forced a smile, and then talked about the main business of coming to Changqing Mountain this time, "Senior Li, now our Huang family is no longer a foundation-building and immortal cultivation family. We want to become a subsidiary force of your family."

According to the information they learned from the Huang family, Li Qianqing was not mainly responsible for the Li family's subsidiary family.

But he is not going to Changqing Mountain now, but coming to Changqing Mountain to find Li Qianqing, all of which are instructions given to him by the ancestor Huang Zhifeng before his life was exhausted.

The conditions they offered to be affiliated with the Li family were easier to achieve on Li Qianqing's side, and they didn't even have to give so much, because Li Qianqing was not only sensible, but also more concerned about friendship. Huang Zhifeng had the most contact with Li Qianqing in the Li family, so naturally they had a certain friendship.

Although he passed away, Li Qianqing would definitely not ignore this relationship.

This was his understanding of Li Qianqing and his trust in Li Qianqing.

"Have the things in Qingfeng Valley been dealt with?" Li Qianqing did not agree first, but asked first.

When the Huang family was still a foundation-building family, they were affiliated forces of Qingfeng Valley. When they changed back to a Qi-refining family, this relationship was generally dissolved.

The affiliated forces of the four major sects of Zhao State are not without Qi-refining-level affiliated forces, but these Qi-refining-level affiliated forces are usually less than 10,000 miles away from Qingfeng Valley. However, the Huang family and the Li family are both 30,000 miles away from Qingfeng Valley. Therefore, when the Huang family became a Qi-refining family, this layer of affiliated relationship should be dissolved.

"It's all done. Now our Huang family is an independent Qi-refining force." Huang Xinzhong nodded. If these things were not done, he would not dare to come to Li Qianqing.

"Well, it's good that it's done. Tell me about your conditions for affiliation." Li Qianqing looked at Huang Xinzhong and said.

The Huang family is different from other Qi-refining immortal families in Xiangshui County. They changed from a foundation-building immortal family back to a Qi-refining force. The resources that the family can produce are still the same so far. Therefore, if they want to be affiliated with the Li family, it depends on what they can offer.

If other Qi-refining cultivator families in Xiangshui County are affiliated with the Li family, they will know how much resources they have to provide every year.

"Our Huang family has two spiritual veins, namely the ancestral land Pingding Mountain and Ningnong Mountain..."

When they were still a Qi-refining immortal family, the Huang family had only one spiritual vein. After becoming a foundation-building immortal family, in addition to turning the family's ancestral land Pingding Mountain into a spiritual vein land with three micro-spiritual veins, they also took Ningnong Mountain through some means.

This spiritual vein land has only one micro-spiritual vein.

In Xiangshui County, as a newly-promoted foundation-building force, they could only take so much at most. The Li and Jiang families would not be happy to expand further, unless the family became stronger, they would have the capital to expand again.

"... Ningnong Mountain is the family we offer to the seniors, and in Pingding Mountain, we will also divide a micro-spiritual vein for the seniors." Huang Xinzhong quickly finished the attached conditions of their Huang family.

In addition to the annual supply of resources, they have many more attached conditions compared to the Qi-refining and immortal cultivation families. This is also unavoidable. After all, the Huang family has lost the foundation-building cultivators now. With this little strength, they can only have the same as a top Qi-refining and immortal cultivation family.

As for not being affiliated with the Li family, they can be a top Qi-refining and immortal cultivation family in Xiangshui County.

This idea should be possible at the beginning. The Li family will not take action against them at this time, but as time goes by, the Li family will definitely take action.

The Li family gave them face based on their self-consciousness. If they were not conscious, the Li family would not show mercy to them.

It is not a good idea to not be affiliated with the Li family at the beginning, and then become affiliated later to accumulate resources first. This will seriously reduce the impression of the Li family on the Huang family, and when they become affiliated with the Li family, they will spit out even more things.

The ancestor Huang Zhifeng has paved the way for the Huang family. Now the family is completely in the hands of Huang Xinzhong. He will not uncover the road paved by the ancestor, and should continue like this.

"Yes." Li Qianqing nodded gently after hearing the conditions Huang Xinzhong said, "Just give us Ningnong Mountain, and you don't need the spiritual veins of your Huang family's ancestral land. Instead, provide three times more resources every year."

Huang Xinzhong was stunned when he heard this, and then hurriedly thanked him.

"Thank you, senior!"

At this moment, Huang Xinzhong was very excited. The spiritual veins did not need to be removed. Their ancestral land still had three micro spiritual veins. Although the resources they provided every year increased from one to four, they still made money.

You should know that the amount of spiritual energy provided by two micro spiritual veins is 2.2 times that of one micro spiritual vein, and three micro spiritual veins provide 3.6 times. The difference can be imagined.

Now if you want to become a subsidiary force of the Li family, if there is only one micro spiritual vein in the family, you have to provide almost 40% of the income every time. Therefore, for many Qi-refining and immortal-cultivating families, providing so many resources every year is equivalent to no development of the family. The remaining resources can only maintain the annual consumption of family members.

From two micro-spiritual veins to three, the income of this extra micro-spiritual vein, although more than 80% of it is still from the Li family, they also make some money. Of course, Huang Xinzhong is not most concerned about this.

Rather, the three micro-spiritual veins can provide the cultivation environment that the foundation-building cultivators need. Such an environment provides a potential younger generation of the family to cultivate, and their Huang family is more likely to become a foundation-building cultivation family again.

Huang Xinzhong was very excited because Li Qianqing not only did not suppress them, but also gave them more opportunities to return to the foundation-building cultivation family.

"Xinzhong, you are also the patriarch of a clan now. It's not good to write your thoughts directly on your face." Li Qianqing smiled slightly, and for Huang Zhifeng's sake, he gave a pointer.

"I am not usually such a senior. This is a manifestation of my trust in the senior." Huang Xinzhong complimented, and he was also speaking from the heart, because Li Qianqing did not ask for the spiritual veins of their ancestral land, which made Li Qianqing's position in his heart much higher.

"Okay." Li Qianqing's smile remained unchanged and accepted Huang Xinzhong's compliment.

Huang Xinzhong calmed down his current mood.

‘What the ancestor said is indeed correct. It is right to come to see Senior Li Qianqing.’

The evaluation of the ancestor Huang Zhifeng on the Li family is that the biggest factor affecting the current style of the Li family is Li Qianqing. As long as Li Qianqing is still in the Li family, the way of doing things should not change.

The conditions changed by Li Qianqing are beneficial to their Huang family, but this is also a manifestation of the Li family’s confidence. They think that it is nothing for their Huang family to develop, and even if they develop, they will not threaten the Li family at all. Of course, on the other hand, they also trust their Huang family and know that even if their Huang family really develops, they will not have any extra tricks.

When their Huang family is sincere, the Li family is more sincere than them.

“Senior, in addition to this matter, there is another thing that you came here this time. This matter needs your help.” In addition to his own family, the three Qi-refining families that were previously affiliated with their family.

“You say.” Li Qianqing motioned Huang Xinzhong to talk about it.

"Our Huang family had three affiliated forces before, but now they are no longer affiliated with us... After our Huang family, they will be affiliated with the predecessors' families. They also want this, but the resources they provide each year are only 50% more than what they originally provided to our Huang family."

These three Qi-refining immortal cultivation families have only one micro-spiritual vein.

Now they can provide the Li family with about a quarter of their annual income, which is about 15% less than the Qi-refining forces affiliated with the Li family in Xiangshui County.

Li Qianqing thought about it for a while, then nodded.

"Okay, let's do as you say."

For the current Li family, this little bit of benefit is nothing, but if there is no Huang family to help them negotiate, even if the three clan heads who provide resources come together, they will basically not be able to negotiate.

The main reason why he can agree is that, the performance of the Huang family in the past few decades.

However, what surprised Li Qianqing a little was that the Huang family would actually intercede for their previously affiliated Qi-refining families. This does not seem to be the style of the Huang family.

Is it difficult for the Huang family to be influenced by their family, or is it deliberately behaving like this?

"Thank you, senior." Huang Xinzhong thanked again after hearing this.

He was not surprised that Li Qianqing agreed to it. This was also what Huang Zhifeng asked him to do. The ancestor said that this would definitely succeed. It was almost impossible for Li Qianqing of the Li family to refuse unless his concept changed.

After discussing the most important things, Huang Xinzhong exchanged a few words with Li Qianqing and left.

He was not a cultivator in the foundation-building period, so Li Qianqing did not need to send him down the mountain. He directly arranged for the family cultivators to send Huang Xinzhong off.

"There are not many Qi-refining forces."

Li Qianqing opened a map of the power distribution of Xiangshui County, and then ticked four places on the map, indicating that these four forces became affiliated forces of the Li family.

Since Li Xundi built his foundation, he has collected a group of Qi-refining forces and actively became affiliated forces of their Li family.

After the family develops further, the Qi-refining forces of their Li family will be affiliated, and the resources provided every year will continue to increase.

Under such circumstances, the Qi-refining forces in the family with only one micro-spiritual vein basically cannot be affiliated with their Li family. There are too many resources to provide, even the cultivators in the family are satisfied. In this way, the family development is not stagnant, but regressing.

Li Qianqing knew very well in his heart that if the Qi-refining forces did not attach to their Li family now, they would continue to gamble. The bet on their Li family would be like this. Eight foundation-building cultivators were almost the limit.

‘After I have formed the elixir, these Qi-refining forces should also disappear. ’

Li Qianqing smiled and put away the map. The family needed more spiritual veins for further development, and these spiritual veins were naturally selected from the Qi-refining forces that had not yet attached to their Li family.

After he formed the elixir, the Li family would also completely control Xiangshui County.

…

After Huang Xinzhong returned to the family's ancestral land, Pingdingshan, he did not tell the three Qi-refining forces that had previously attached to their Huang family about his good news, but held a high-level meeting as soon as possible.

The Qi-refining forces that were returned by the foundation-building immortal family currently have only five high-level members in the family, but there are a total of ten Qi-refining late-stage cultivators in the family.

In the State of Zhao, there are two Qi-refining ninth-level cultivators in the family, and there are more than seven Qi-refining late-stage cultivators, which is the standard of the top Qi-refining forces.

Although the family lacks foundation-building cultivators, the current power of the Huang family is far beyond this standard.

“How is the situation of the second uncle? Did the Li family make more requests?”

The meeting had just begun, and Huang Xinzhong had not sat down for long, and the family cultivators could not help asking.

"Yida, the ancestor said before he died that the Li family is not what you think, why are you still like this?" Huang Xinzhong shook his head.

Huang Yida is the foundation-building seed of the family. If nothing unexpected happens, Huang Yida will become the head of the Huang family after he abdicates.

Huang Xinzhong now sees that Huang Yida is still like this. He needs to think carefully about the position of the head of the family. He is afraid that Huang Yida will make small moves against the Li family after he takes office, and then their Huang family will not be far from destruction.

The Li family is as good to friends as they are to enemies.

"Now our Huang family is no longer a foundation-building force, but the Li family can still sit still." Huang Yida's idea in his heart is that the Li family should change their Huang family's requirements, such as asking for the two micro-spiritual veins of Pingding Mountain and leaving them only one.

With the current size of their Huang family, if there is only one micro-spiritual vein in the family, even if there is no need to supply resources every year, there are not enough resources for so many Qi-refining cultivators.

If they are left with only one micro-spiritual vein, they can continue to weaken the power of their Huang family.

He had thought of a good strategy for the Li family.

Now listening to the second uncle's words, it seems that the Li family is not as he thought, which really proves that the ancestor is right.

"Change your mindset, from now on, our Huang family will provide four times the resources every year, in exchange for not having to remove any of the ancestral micro-spiritual veins."

"What!" Huang Yida widened his eyes, a little bit unable to believe what he heard.