After saying that, Yang Yong left Yuquan Peak, and Wang Daoyuan and the others sent him outside the mountain.
Subsequently, the three Zifus of the Wang family, plus the clan leader, discussed the development strategy for the future in the council hall.
The patriarch, Wang Daochang, spoke first: "Elder Jin has passed away, the decline of the foreign clan is just around the corner, and the fifth uncle has become the guardian envoy of Qinglifang City again.
Our Wang family is in a good situation, should we continue to expand our business scope, or should we postpone it for a while?
The family now has sufficient resources, and my brother-in-law and brother-in-law can also refine flying boats.
Coupled with the newly trained second-level formation masters and weapon refiners, a twenty-foot-long flying boat can be refined in about a year.
If we expand with all our strength, it will only take a few decades for our Wang family's business to cover the Netherworld Sect's territory."
Uncle Twelve thought for a while and said: "I think it's better to hold off for a while. With the family in its current situation, it doesn't make much sense to rely on business to grow big.
The annual income far exceeds the needs of the clan members. No matter how many spiritual stones there are, they cannot be given to the clan members at once.
Without a single Jindan cultivator to support it, no matter how big the business is, it can only be done by the Zifu family.
Moreover, the more ostentatious you are, the easier it is to be suppressed."
Wang Daoyuan continued: "The local department is also on guard against our Wang family. I am not in a position to reveal the specific situation.
But you must have some confidence in your heart. The sect leader is not at ease with our Wang family. This can be regarded as the attitude of the entire local clan.
The current situation within the Netherworld Sect is very delicate. Among the monks of the Zi Mansion, 60% are from the local lineage, 30% are from the foreign lineage, and 10% are from the family lineage.
Among the foundation-building monks, our family line accounts for 60%, the local lineage accounts for 30%, and the foreign lineage only accounts for 10%.
Within the next hundred years, most of the monks from the Zifu who are from outside will be dead.
At that time, the family line will completely suppress the foreign line.
If this trend continues, in two hundred years, the family line will also have an advantage among the Zifu monks, suppressing the local line.
Four or five hundred years later, the family line may also have an advantage among the Golden Core monks.
If this continues, the local line will be replaced by our family line.
Those local people will not just watch us seize power step by step.
The family has been operating in the Nether Sect territory for too long and has deep roots.
The sect still expects us to work hard, but they will not suppress us comprehensively, but will only deal with the ones who jump the highest.
Once Elder Jin died, our Wang family became the only family among the forces affiliated with the Netherworld Sect to have three monks from the Purple Mansion.
Although we are all still in the early stages of the Purple Mansion, we all have the potential to form a golden elixir and may threaten the status of the local family.
If it continues to expand, it will definitely face suppression from the Netherworld Sect.
In my opinion, let’s stop here.
Don’t expand your business scope for the time being, manage the central and northern parts of Qingli County well, and you can also increase investment in the northern part of Heyang County.
If you have extra energy, move more clan members to the secret realm.
If you want to continue to expand, you have to wait for the golden elixir monk to appear in the family."
Wang Daochang nodded: "The family can still have a balance of hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones every year. Even if it does not expand its business, it can guarantee that there will be no financial problems in the next hundred years.
If we continue to transfer monks to the secret realm to share the pressure on the family, it will not be a problem to maintain the current finances for two hundred years."
The fifth uncle smiled and said: "Two hundred years is enough time, I don't have much hope of forming a golden elixir.
But both Shouye and Daoyuan have great hope. Two hundred years later, the family will have two golden elixir monks.
By then, our Wang family will really have nothing to fear in the Netherworld Sect."
Wang Daochang smiled and said: "In that case, let's develop Zhuilong Ridge well, and wait until the twelfth uncle and the seventh brother form a golden elixir before expanding externally."
The fifth uncle is about to take over as the guardian of Qinglifang City, and there will be no time to modify the natal magic weapon in the future.
Wang Daoyuan asked: "Fifth Uncle, has your natal magic weapon been transformed?
I learned some methods from Master to transform the natal magic weapon. If it is not transformed well, I can help."
The fifth uncle smiled and said: "My decades have not been in vain. I have already transformed it."
After that, he drew a long sword. The sword body did not change much, but the relief changed into a light blue arowana.
Uncle Wu did a good job in cultivating this natal flying sword, and it was much more effective than the previous cultivation of the Black Dragon Sea-Converting Sword.
He continued: "Arowana and black dragon belong to the same lineage, and the differences are very small.
There aren't many changes that need to be made to the natal magic weapon, so there is no refining.
Now this sword is called the Fish Dragon Waterbending Sword, and it is much more powerful than before."
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said: "In that case, I have nothing to worry about.
In the next period of time, I need to look for materials to refine my natal magic weapon, so I can't stay in my family all the time.
However, I won’t run too far, that is, within the Tianzhan Mountain Range, just give me a message if you need anything.”
After explaining some more matters, he left Yuquan Peak and headed to Shuilong Ridge.
The range given by Master Lei Yan is too large. Let's release the soul-chasing bees first and search around Shuilong Ridge to see if there are any exotic flowers or rare birds and animals.
After several months of searching around Shuilong Ridge, I still couldn't find anything.
Zhou Luan sent another message, saying that he had found important information that Wang Daoyuan was interested in.
Let Wang Daoyuan take what she wants to the Shanbei branch.
Previously, I asked her to find the cave of an ancient monk who possessed spiritual fire. Now she has specially sent a message, and there is a high probability that she has more precise information.
Wang Daoyuan felt that the spiritual fire was waving to him, so he immediately put on a cloak of the Forbidden God, wielded his sword and headed back to Yanfang City.
After entering the branch, he returned to the deputy hall master's cave, called his clones Mo Yu and Jackdaw, and after some pretense, he used Shadow Escape and headed to Zhou Luan's cave.
After entering the cave, I found that Zhou Luan was not in front, and the door of the boudoir was open.
Wang Daoyuan asked: "Master, what important news do you want to tell me?
Should you come out, or should I enter your boudoir?"
Zhou Luan chuckled and said, "I found the location of Zhenjun Bailing's cave. Do you dare to come in and have a chat?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Daoyuan was stunned. The Bailing Zhenjun Cave that he had dreamed of was just discovered.
After reacting, he entered Zhou Luan's boudoir without saying a word.
Inside is a garden covering an area of more than three acres, planted with various exotic flowers and plants.
There is also a spring in which there are some ornamental fish, including several Qingjiang carps.
Walking along the path among the flowers, Zhou Luan was still dressed so frugally, lying on a recliner with a handful of red-scaled pine nuts in his hand.
Wang Daoyuan immediately activated the Demonic Control Pendant and suppressed his energy and blood: "This is your boudoir? Why does it look like the Royal Garden to me?"
Also, could you change your clothes?
Seeing you like this, all I can think about is my legs, and I don't have the energy to talk about anything else."
Zhou Luanfeng glanced at him: "Who said, 'There is no woman in my heart, I am the God of Magic'?
Haven't you always called yourself a gentleman? You can't hold it anymore?"
Wang Daoyuan replied without blushing: "I am a gentleman at heart, but my eyes and brain have their own ideas and don't quite listen to what I say."
Zhou Luan said disdainfully: "A lustful person dares to call himself a gentleman, he is really thick-skinned.
If you want to know where Lord Bai Ling’s cave is, just take out the things I want.”
Wang Daoyuan was a little embarrassed now. What Zhou Luan wanted was Ziyun Dan, but he didn't have it ready-made.
The newly planted Ziyun Longwen Ginseng is not mature yet and will have to wait for more than ten years before it can be used to make elixirs.
He could only laugh and said: "Lord Hall Master, I don't have a ready-made Ziyun Pill in my hand. Can you use something else to compensate?"
Zhou Luan turned around, lay on his side on the recliner, and asked with a half-smile: "Then let's see what you can come up with to compensate me."