"Did your alliance discover a large Qingxuan iron ore vein?"

After receiving the Qingxuan Iron Essence, Chen Ping was in a good mood for a moment and said casually with a hint of temptation.

Qingxuan Iron Essence is a third-level ore that can generally only be derived from large-scale Qingxuan Iron Mines.

"Haha, fellow Taoist swung out more than 200,000 spirit stones with a wave of his hand. Could it be that your Chen family has found a spirit stone mine?"

Shangguan Jin made a fortune and was in a good mood, so he was not angry at Chen Ping's presumptuous remarks, but instead joked with deep meaning.

Chen Ping was slightly stunned and apologized: "Don't blame me, fellow Daoist Shangguan, it was Chen who was abrupt. I have to rush back to Haichang, so I'll take my leave first."

"It's rare for Fellow Daoist Chen to come here, why not stay in our Yehuo League for a few days?"

Shangguan Jin persuaded with a smile.

"Definitely next time."

Chen Ping declined and cupped his hands, then stopped talking and flew directly out of the window on the second floor of the hall.

"I wish you, Daoyou Chen, a safe journey."

Shangguan Jin smiled and narrowed his eyes.

It wasn't until Chen Ping's figure was about to disappear from sight that the smile on his face suddenly faded, and his expression suddenly turned into a frown, then a ruthless expression, and he became extremely hesitant.

"He dares to come to our Bazhu Island alone to carry out large-scale transactions. He must be relying on someone behind him. Maybe there are several monks from the Chen clan hiding outside the island. Why should I shoot myself in the foot? Anyway, I have earned enough spiritual stones this time.

I have created several spiritual weapons."

Talking to himself softly like this, Shangguan Jin's face regained its previous calmness, and he frowned and said: "Well, let's think about how to face Alliance Leader Yang's accusation next."

…

After leaving the Yehuo Alliance station, Chen Ping looked for the direction and charged into the northern sky with all his strength.

He did not stop at all along the way, flying for four thousand miles in a row. It was not until he passed by a small desert island that he took a few pills to restore his physical strength and mana to their peak.

"Shangguan Jin is not very courageous, but there is nothing wrong with being cautious."

Chen Ping said something strange and angrily.

Before leaving, his consciousness covered the entire basin, and he could clearly see the changes in Shangguan Jin's expression.

As long as this guy dares to have evil thoughts, Chen Ping will go on a killing spree to destroy the Yehuo Alliance and take away the Sun of Earth Fire.

It's certainly uncomfortable to be besieged by more than a dozen foundation builders, but if you pay some price, you can still barely kill them all.

But Shangguanjin finally gave up the pursuit, so naturally Chen Ping would not seek trouble to impose charges.

Who doesn’t have evil thoughts?

Even he occasionally had the treacherous idea of ​​overthrowing the Lan Yue Sect.

As for the tens of thousands of extra spiritual stones spent on purchasing Qingxuan Iron Essence, Chen Ping was not very annoyed by this loss-making business.

When the Pure Yang Sword is released, he will immediately have the strength to truly rival the early stage of Yuan Dan. If you lose some sesame seeds and peanuts, you will lose them.

After resting for several hours, Chen Ping touched his storage ring, released a spiritual boat, rode the wind and waves, and embarked on his return journey again.

…

More than half a month later, Chen Ping returned to Haichang Island.

At this time, it was ten days later than he expected.

Because his luck on the way back to the clan was not that good, he accidentally broke into the place where a group of second-level fish monsters lay their eggs.

So, not surprisingly, he was regarded as an intruder, and hundreds of first-order fish demons, led by five second-order fish demon kings, launched a frantic attack on him.

After Chen Ping finally killed all the fish, he veered off course and entered an unfamiliar sea area.

He just wanted to escape the light and leave, but he never expected that a huge creature more than ten feet tall would emerge from the deep sea.

Chen Ping used his spiritual sense to explore and found a result that frightened him.

The monster beast at the early stage of the third level, the Dark Sky Golden Rose Spider.

This spider itself is only of the bloodline of the earth demon. According to common sense, it is difficult to advance to the third level.

Golden spiders have the characteristic of hibernation and aestivation, and they remain in a deep sleep state for at least half of the year.

It seemed that his own breath posed a slight threat to it, and it woke up.

Without saying a word, Chen Ping used the Demonic Escape Shadow Step to escape hastily. Fortunately, the Golden Rose Spider's movement was slow and he lost the enemy and hid back under the sea.

Seeing that he was out of danger, he immediately pulled out the sea area map and added the coordinates of the spider demon into it.

"That spider demon should have just advanced to the third level, and is not a fish that slipped through the net during the Lan Yue Sect's purge."

Chen Ping said thoughtfully.

In the future, if he breaks through the Yuan Dan, he will definitely find an opportunity to kill the Golden Rose Spider.

Although reporting to Lan Yue Sect would get some considerable rewards, Chen Ping had no intention of giving it up.

Third-level monsters are full of treasures. If they are refined into high-level puppets, they will be much more practical than ordinary magic weapons and talismans.

The top of Fuge Mountain.

There was silence in the cave, and Xue Yun did not know where to go.

In front of the bamboo house, there was a jade slip suspended. Chen Ping glanced at it with his consciousness and found that it was left by Taoist monk Xue Yun.

It means that she has led the monks from the worship hall to go to sea to find ways to make money, and it may take several months or even a year before she returns to the family.

Chen Ping's heart moved and he crushed the jade slips in his hands into powder.

The worship hall is self-reliant, and of course he is happy to see success.

Otherwise, as the number of guests gradually increases, the annual salary alone will be an extremely exaggerated expense.

Moreover, he reminded Xue Yun many times that the worship hall must be developed based on the principle of survival of the fittest.

In short, within the scope of the ninth level of Qi training, those who are inferior in strength or have no hope of promotion to foundation building can be arranged to act as the vanguard of the battle and charge into the battle.

While strictly controlling the number of people, the strength of the worship hall will become stronger and stronger.

He kept five drops of pure water on hand, intending to put them in the worship hall.

But the way to obtain this thing is not to exchange it with spiritual stones or resources.

Chen Ping wanted Xue Yun to formulate the specific process.

After all, the second and third-class guests in the enshrinement hall are all monks at the peak of Qi training, and there is more or less hope of breaking into the foundation building.

This requires careful screening.

Let’s not mention the spiritual root qualifications for now, but at least the character and loyalty must pass the test.

After thinking for a while, Chen Ping sent a message to Chen Yiru and asked her to come and meet him.

After receiving the message, Chen Yiru immediately stood up and walked towards the bamboo house with light steps.

"Aunt Ru, these two one-line Foundation-Building Pills were purchased with the family's public wealth. Please accept them as the leader's reward in the Pill-winning Competition."

Seeing her entering the room, Chen Ping handed over two jade boxes and gave instructions calmly.

The family's Foundation Building Pill has always been kept in the treasure house.

But the one who is currently building the foundation of the treasure house is Hui Qiuyan, the fifth elder.

Chen Ping didn't have any trust in this woman at all.

Chen Xingchao at least has the orthodox Chen family bloodline and will basically not do anything that harms the interests of the family.

But Hui Qiuyan was raised by Broken Star Sect and taught martial arts. Her feelings for the sect were even higher than those of the Chen family.

Otherwise, even to avoid suspicion, she should not have frequent contact with the monks of the Broken Star Gate during such a sensitive period.

"Sure enough, you bought the Foundation Establishment Pill."

Chen Yiru reached out to catch it with a teasing look on his face.

Before, Chen Xingchao and his wife questioned each other, but Chen Ping said without changing his face that he didn't buy it. He was really a dishonest guy.

Chen Ping smiled softly and said: "The rules of the pill-taking competition remain unchanged, but the rewards for the top ten can be more generous. Before the third elder retreated, he felt ashamed to be the hands-off shopkeeper, so he offered to take the pill

Fifty years of salary subsidies will be given to the family."

"In my opinion, it would be more practical to use his salary to increase the rewards of the elixir-winning competition and encourage the younger generation to practice diligently."

"Well, the third elder is selfless and has never forgotten his family in seclusion. He deserves our respect."

The corners of Chen Yiru's mouth twitched, obviously trying very hard to hold back his smile.

This is Chen Ping's obvious revenge.

When he fled Haichang City, Chen Xingchao was furious and withheld his salary for several years.

Now, Chen Xingchao was forced to come back tenfold.

"Ping'er, Broken Star Sect sent envoys here a few days ago."

Chen Yiru said: "However, I sent him away because you are not in the clan."

"Oh, what's the purpose of the visitor from Broken Star Gate?"

Chen Ping said calmly.

"The resources provided are increased by 50%."

Chen Yiru glanced at him and said succinctly.

Since the Chen family occupied Haichang Island, every ten years, they have to escort around 30,000 spirit stones to the Broken Star Gate.

This number has maintained for six hundred years and has not increased.

This sudden and huge increase in confessions from the Broken Star Sect is clearly aimed at Chen Ping, the new leader of the Chen family.

"The news from Hui Qiuyan?"

Chen Ping half-squinted his eyes and said coldly.

"I'm not sure. The Broken Star Sect has deployed several spies in our Haichang City. The family has known about it for a long time."

Chen Yiru thought about it for a while and replied.

After Chen Ping defeated Chen Xingchao and completely took control of the family, just over a month later, Broken Star Gate sent envoys to Haichang Island, saying that no one had tipped off the information, and even a fool would not believe it.

"If Shangzong sends someone again, Aunt Ru, just agree."

Chen Ping blew the palm of his hand and said calmly: "The Broken Star Gate has protected our clan for hundreds of years. Now that we are at war with the Defying Star Sect, it is a time when resources are being burned. It is natural for us to do our best."

"In the past few years, the family business has been affected by the two wars and has suffered a lot. Every year, there is almost no balance of public wealth on the books."

Stretching out a jade finger and pressing the center of his eyebrows, Chen Yiru said somewhat helplessly.

"The family elders will make up for the shortfall equally. The ancestor Chen Xinyou asked the younger generation to build a foundation and carry the cauldron. At this time, are you still guarding the spiritual stone and waiting to die?"

Chen Ping snorted coldly and said in a bad tone.

The fact that the family is short of money does not mean that the senior members of the family are living in poverty.

The newly promoted elders Chen Dieyu, Chen Zhoukang and others may only be able to afford fifty or sixty thousand spiritual stones, but the old foundation builders such as Chen Mu Nian, Chen Tong and Chen Xiangwen have at least one hundred thousand and upwards.

Especially the second elder Chen Mu Nian, this woman has lived for more than 190 years, lives alone, and has never raised any direct descendants. This kind of mother who only eats but does not vomit has accumulated a resource of 150,000 spiritual stones.

I don't think it's much at all.

As for Chen Yiru, not to mention Xue Yun, their net worth is far above that of casual cultivators of the same level.

"Of course I have no problem sharing the contribution, but for the others, Ping'er needs to come and talk to each other one by one."

Hearing the dissatisfaction in his words, Chen Yiru quickly expressed his attitude.

"Auntie Ru, please inform the second elder to do this. Just say it is my wish."

After pondering for a long time, Chen Ping said gloomily.

Chen Mu Nian practiced Shui Qing Xin Jue, which made her withdrawn and careless.

Chen Ping also had a headache to deal with this old woman who looked like a hedgehog.

His initial plan was to set up a mining hall after the Pure Yang Sword was refined.

Ye Mofan is in charge of the mining hall, and Chen Munian forced her to have the title of honorary deacon.

Out of sight is out of mind. Anyway, this woman only has a few dozen years left in her life. The rest of her life will not be as good as searching for mineral deposits for her family all over the world.

"Auntie is not the Third Elder who only takes sides against you, Ping'er. She is purely against everything I support."

With a tangled look on his face, Chen Yiru finally gritted his teeth and explained.

"I know, so I just hit her."

Chen Ping shook his head and smiled, and said leisurely: "Next, I plan to continue to retreat and improve my cultivation. I will take care of my family's troubles."

"Business matters."

Chen Yiru nodded and said seriously.

The Chen family has already produced ten foundation builders, who are almost the same as the former Jin family.

Now there is only one Yuan Dan overhaul that can suppress luck.

Chen Xingchao, who had the strongest magical power before, was defeated by Chen Ping, and all the foundation builders knew clearly what this meant.

Chen Ping, who was only in the late stage of foundation building, actually had strength comparable to the Half-Step Yuan Dan!

And once he breaks through the Yuan Dan, his magical power must be far above that of ordinary people at the same level. Maybe even Jin Zhaoheng can compete with him.

Therefore, Chen Yiru willingly helped him manage the family.

The stronger Chen Ping is, the greater her chance of condensing Yuan Dan in the future. This is a choice that benefits both sides.

"Ping'er, the candidate for the deacon of the Fifth Hall has been decided."

Seeing that Chen Ping had no other instructions, Chen Yiru just said slowly: "Chen Qiudong from the Internal Affairs Hall and Chen Lei from the Law Enforcement Hall will not make any changes. There are three new deacons, namely Chen Ting from the Xingzhi Hall, Chen He from the Foreign Affairs Hall, and Chen Hongjie from the Chuan Gong Hall.

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"Very good, but has Hongjie advanced to the ninth level of Qi training?"

Chen Ping took a sip of tea and said it was neither salty nor bland.

"He just broke through last month."

Chen Yiru smiled and said: "Hongjie has been training in Chuan Gong Hall for many years, and he is your cousin. Everyone recognizes him very much."

The latter reason is the key point.

There are so many people at the peak of Qi training who have been in Chuan Gong Hall for decades, so why not use them?

It's just that with the support of Chen Ping, the senior clan members dare not open their mouths even if they are not convinced.

The examples of the three clan elders are there. Chen Ping is not someone who respects the elderly and loves the young.

At this point, the Chen family has completely fallen into his hands.

Several deacons from the Fifth Hall, including Chen Qiudong and Chen Hongjie, were his confidants.

Chen Ting, Chen Heze and Chen Yiru are inextricably linked.

The remaining Chen Leining has always been a loyal supporter of the patriarch Chen Tong.

But under Chen Ping's suppression, even Chen Tong lost all his power and was ignored. How could he be a small Qi practitioner?

Chen Leining was the last trace of face he left for Chen Tong, which was better than nothing.

To be honest, Chen Yiru and Xue Yun's arrangements show nepotism in every aspect.

But Chen Ping didn't think much about it.

When you have achieved great success and have great power, it is human nature to help those close to you.

Of course, if these guys go too far, Chen Ping will definitely let them have a taste of what thunder means.

Just like Shangguan Jin who couldn't resist the temptation and secretly sold Qingxuan Iron Essence to him, if he were Alliance Leader Yang, he would have to skin him to make a warning to others.

The two chatted for a while, then Chen Yiru said goodbye and left.

After drinking the tea in one gulp, Chen Ping walked step by step towards the pool deep in the courtyard.

He dug a cave about ten feet long and wide into the rock wall, tiptoed, and floated into it.

Sitting down cross-legged, Chen Ping took out several pill bottles from his arms.

Duhuo Powder and the Golden Flower Jade Dew Pill with three patterns are all treasures with the best auxiliary effects in cultivation at the current stage.

"call."

Chen Ping took a deep breath, poured out a handful of Duhuo Powder, and applied it decisively on his lower abdomen.

The next moment, it seemed like tens of millions of intense heat spread out from his body, flowed to his limbs, and then returned to his Dantian.

Then, Chen Ping struck while the iron was hot and swallowed another Golden Flower and Jade Dew Pill without hesitation.

The temperature around him rose rapidly, and the scorching spiritual power brought a heat wave over him. Flames of condensed substance suddenly emerged outside his body, distorting a small area of ​​air around him.

…

Time flies like an arrow, and six years have passed by quietly.

Chen Ping was dressed in Tsing Yi and stood quietly on the water with his hands behind his back.

Looking at the mana aura leaking from him, it was clear that he had entered the realm of foundation-building perfection.

But the strange thing is that there is no joy in his face, instead it is gloomy and cold.

"How did she crack the spider web blood seal?"
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