Li Xuanshan was born relatively fat, and his face was full of wrinkles when he smiled, and his eyes, which were not big, only had a slit left.
After saluting Ninth Brother Li Xuangang, he also sat down here and turned to say a few words to Li Xuanting.
He mainly talked about matters related to the treasure ship setting sail, so the next moment, Li Xuanting stood up from the wooden chair, held his hands to the two clan brothers, turned around and retreated from the room.
Not long after he left, the Li family's treasure ship began to slowly start to move, and the main magic circles on the ship's hull were also opened.
As the ship gradually exited the port of Binhaifang City, a light blue protective light curtain also appeared on the surface of the ship.
After the treasure ship retreated to the open area of the Tianhe River, it began to turn around, sail upstream, and speed towards the upper reaches of the Tianhe River.
The destination of the treasure ship was Tianhefang City, where the Li family held 30% of the market share.
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In the room, Li Xuangang and Li Xuanshan sat opposite each other. The former dispersed his tyrannical consciousness and felt the current state of the treasure ship. After the treasure ship's speed increased and stabilized, he took back his consciousness.
He knew it and looked at Li Xuanshan opposite.
The first person to speak was Li Xuanshan. He asked Ninth Brother Li Xuangang why he suddenly appeared in Binhaifang City.
Li Xuangang briefly talked about what happened, and then he glanced outside unconsciously. This time he was the one who spoke.
"Why did you bring Xuanting out in the first place?"
Li Xuanshang was obviously startled when he heard Ninth Brother's plain tone, but he immediately concealed the look on his face and replaced it with his usual shameless look.
"I knew I couldn't hide this from you, Ninth Brother!"
"Um?"
Li Xuangang continued to look at him expressionlessly, so Li Xuanshan did not dare to talk nonsense anymore and continued to explain:
"It takes a lot of people to completely control a treasure ship. In fact, some places don't need a monk to control it, so I thought... can I use puppets instead? In this way, the manpower saved can still be used
Use the family in other matters."
"And isn't Xuanting the only puppet master in the clan? So I want him to come to the treasure ship and follow him for a while to see if this plan is feasible?"
Li Xuangang glanced at him, but there was still no emotion or anger on his face.
"How is the result?"
Upon hearing this, Li Xuanshan's face fell down for a moment, and then he immediately showed a little longing.
He opened his mouth and said:
"It's not possible now. Xuanting's cultivation level is too low, and his level of puppetry is too low. Only if he can enter the second level of puppetry and can refine at least fifty top-quality second-level puppets can he be replaced.
There are about twenty tribesmen in the late stage of Qi refining on the treasure ship."
Li Xuangang nodded silently, not too surprised by this conclusion.
Moreover, he also knew that when Xuanshan abandoned his boss' efforts to bring Xuanting from Puppet Peak to the family's treasure ship, it must not be just the reason he mentioned, but there must be other plans.
But since Li Xuanshan didn't say anything, he didn't ask too much.
First, Xuanshan only looks harmless to humans and animals, but in fact he has a lot of eyes, and he may consider some things more carefully than he does.
Second, he has returned the rights of the elder in charge. If Li Xuanshan has any additional plans for the treasure ship, he can just go find his eighth uncle.
Based on this, after listening to Li Xuanshan's explanation, Li Xuangang stopped looking for the root cause.
Instead, Li Xuanshan changed the subject and mentioned a new matter to him.
"Brother Jiu, what do you think of building an auction pavilion in Tianhefang City?"
"Auction Pavilion?"
Li Xuangang frowned, but he did not speak immediately and signaled Li Xuanshan to continue.
So the latter thought that Ninth Brother Li Xuangang was interested in this, and immediately there was a hint of excitement on his face and his speaking speed became faster.
"Brother Ninth, you also know that the size of Tianhefang City is almost sufficient now, and the number of monks coming and going is also growing steadily. This has the basic conditions for running the auction pavilion."
"Besides, now that the fifth uncle has been in the Golden Core Realm for many years and has completely stabilized it, the follow-up issues of the auction pavilion can also rely on the prestige of the family and the fifth uncle to maintain."
"And I have made inquiries in various major cities over the years, and I have a general understanding of the internal operation of the auction pavilion."
"But... it may be a little difficult for our Li family to collect the original resources of the Auction Pavilion alone, but we can work with the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain."
"In addition, I now have a rough idea of how to raise various resources. The next problem that needs to be solved is..."
Li Xuanshan talked a lot, and finally asked tentatively:
"Brother Ninth, what do you think?"
Li Xuangang listened quietly. He didn't reply until Li Xuanshan stopped talking:
"In my opinion, this matter is a little too hasty. Moreover, the fifth uncle is still performing the task of the Corpse Sect. This matter must at least wait until he returns to the family before discussing it."
"Brother Ninth..."
"If you really have such thoughts, Xuan Shan, you can carefully report it to your eighth uncle when you find an opportunity to return to Taiqiu Mountain. This is not a trivial matter. It is your fifth uncle and eighth uncle who can make the final decision."
Li Xuanshan knew Li Xuangang's attitude, and his face darkened obviously. He also knew that building an auction pavilion in Tianhefang City might not be the most suitable opportunity for his family.
To support the normal and orderly operation of an auction pavilion, I'm afraid the family still needs time and needs to accumulate deeper knowledge.
So he sighed inconspicuously:
"Then I understand. When my fifth uncle comes back in the future, I will find an opportunity to go back to the mountain."
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The matter regarding the auction pavilion came to an end, and then Li Xuangang and Li Xuanshan discussed some other matters.
When night fell, the latter retired from here, and Li Xuangang, who stayed in this room, also sat quietly for a while, then began to hold his breath and concentrate, and started practicing with the help of the spirit gathering array on the treasure ship.
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The treasure ship sailed up the Tianhe River. About a month later, Li Xuangang successfully returned to the port in Tianhefang City.
While Li Xuanshan was directing the tribesmen to load and unload goods, Li Xuangang took Li Xuanting and left the port.
Once they were some distance away from Tianhefang City, the two of them jumped onto the Mo Qing flying boat, turned into a ray of light and headed straight towards Taiqiu Mountain.
In the evening of the third day, they successfully arrived at Taiqiu Mountain.
"Brother Ninth, I'll leave first!"
Li Xuangang put away the Mo Qing flying boat and nodded in response. After watching Li Xuanting turn around and walk towards Puppet Peak, he also took off and flew to the top of Taiqiu Mountain.
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At the top of the mountain, Li Changji and Li Xuangang sat down at a stone table. The latter briefly talked about some of his experiences related to his trip to Qimingfang City, and then took out the eight fairy Poria cocos plants from the storage bag.
Li Changji reached out and picked up one of the plants, looked at it, and then put it down again.
But his eyes still stayed on the two plants of Poria cocos that were still a little active.
"Can these two strains survive?"
"It should work."
After a simple conversation, Li Xuangang took the six lifeless plants back into the storage bag, while Li Changji held the remaining two plants in his hands.
"In that case, you should try to refine the Xianling Dan Xuangang, and I will arrange these two fairy poria plants later..."
Li Xuangang nodded in agreement, then took out a spirit beast bag from his waist and said:
"Eighth uncle, there are thirty-three venom spider eggs inside. They are all still alive. However, I have no time to deal with them right now, so if possible, I can arrange them for Yuxian, whether they stay in the family to hatch and serve as spiritual beasts.
, or let the caravan take it to the market to sell it, it should be feasible."
Li Changji took the spirit beast bag and immersed himself in his spiritual consciousness to check it briefly. He found that the quality of the thirty-three venom spider eggs inside was not low, so he took back his spiritual consciousness and said:
"Nowadays, there are many tribesmen performing various tasks outside. Sometimes they will inevitably encounter some emergency situations. If they can have such a spiritual beast to assist them, I think it will be helpful to them."
"Then these spider eggs will stay in the family, and I will explain the hatching and exchange matters to Yuxian later."
This arrangement is actually more in line with Li Xuangang's tendency. The family is not too short of spiritual stones now, so spending such a sum of resources on cultivating venom spiders is actually irrelevant.
Therefore, he did not object at all and nodded directly in agreement.
Finally, Li Xuangang also took out the useless spider silk cocoons from the storage bag and the demon beast materials that he had prepared, and handed them to Li Changji.
These things are good materials for refining weapons. He originally planned to send them to Qi Peak himself. Now that he has to go to Dan Peak later, he will entrust them all to his eighth uncle and ask him to bring these things to Qi Peak.
The same goes for my uncle.
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When the evening wind blew in from outside the mountain, Li Xuangang said goodbye to his eighth uncle Li Changji, and then turned into a ray of light and flew to the top of Danfeng Peak not far away.
And Li Changji didn't stay there for too long. When Li Xuangang's figure disappeared in the clouds, he took the two fairy poria plants in his hand to the back of the top of Taiqiu Mountain.
Here, he used his family token to open a small medicine garden, and within the time of one stick of incense, he planted the two fairy Poria plants that Li Xuangang brought back from Qimingfang City.
The majestic spiritual energy belonging to the fourth-level spiritual veins surged up and was slowly absorbed by the two third-level spiritual plants.
After Li Changji performed the Spiritual Rain Technique, they obviously regained their vitality, and the leaves were no longer as dim as before, but became brighter.
Seeing that these two immortal Poria plants had a chance to survive, Li Changji checked some other high-level spiritual plants in this small medicine garden before leaving, and turned around to activate the protective circle here again.
Returning to the top of the mountain, he stayed for a moment, and then jumped down from the sea of clouds. When he appeared again, he had already arrived at the Affairs Pavilion on the mountainside.