Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 370 Engaging in Marriage with Wang Qingshang
“Junior brother, you are a prodigy. There’s no need for you to be the city lord of this immortal city. Focusing on cultivation would be more beneficial to the sect.”

In the main hall of the Lingxiao Sect, Zhou Ling sat down with his two senior sisters, Xin'er, and others.

Jin Yun spoke up.

She also attended the Qingyun Immortal City celebration today.

In her opinion, with Zhou Ling's talent, his cultivation would progress even faster if he could focus on his cultivation within the sect.

"Don't worry, senior sister, these concubines won't affect my cultivation."

"And it can also bring me a lot of resources!"

Chen Ling smiled and said.

The staff of various departments within the Immortal City have now been mostly assigned.

It didn't have much of an impact on him.

"It's good that it won't have any impact. The gap between our Lingxiao Sect and Zixiao Sect is too large now."

"Disciples should focus on cultivation and improve their cultivation level as soon as possible."

For her, as the senior disciple, the most important thing was to assist Zhou Ling in bringing glory to the Lingxiao Sect.

Although Zhou Ling appears to be living a glamorous life as the city lord of Qingyun Immortal City, in her opinion, it actually hinders her cultivation progress.

But they also knew that Zhou Ling needed sufficient resources to cultivate.

Even now, many of the Lingxiao Sect's resources need to be obtained through Zhou Ling's efforts.

Of course, this is definitely a good thing for the Lingxiao Sect.

Because Zhou Ling is the sect leader of Lingxiao Sect and also the city lord of Qingyun Immortal City.

This will be a significant advantage for disciples of the Lingxiao Sect.

Even now, Zhou Ling is a highly sought-after figure throughout the entire Qingyang Immortal Realm.

"Second Senior Sister, the family's formations and the formations of Qingyun Immortal City will depend on you from now on!"

Zhou Ling smiled and said to Fang Yuyun.

Neither of the two senior sisters wanted to be bound by anything, so they did not take up any positions in the Immortal City.

But now, in the entire Qingyun Immortal City, Fang Yuyun has the highest level of array formation cultivation.

Therefore, the Lingxiao Sect, the Zhou family, and the Qingyun Immortal City then set up various magic arrays.

Zhou Ling planned to hand everything over to her.

"Junior brother, leave this to me."

“Your junior disciples are all third-tier array masters; they can even set up fourth-tier arrays.”

Fang Yuyun said with a smile.

Then she changed the subject, saying, "But let me make this clear first, I'll be getting paid for setting up the Qingyun Immortal City formation."

"Setting up this magic array consumes an extreme amount of magical power and spiritual sense!"

"Senior sister is extremely poor right now; she doesn't even have enough spirit stones to buy fourth-grade pills!"

Towards the end, Fang Yuyun looked like she was complaining about being poor.

"Don't worry, senior sister, you'll definitely get your reward!"

Zhou Ling nodded.

Setting up the magic array for Qingyun Immortal City naturally requires payment.

"Junior sister, I do have some spirit stones on me, I can lend them to you first!"

Jin Yun took out a spirit stone bag, handed it to Fang Yuyun, and smiled.

"Thank you, Senior Sister, but there's enough spiritual energy here right now, so we don't need spirit stones for the time being!"

Fang Yuyun smiled and declined her senior's offer.

"Ok!"

"You just need to tell me again!"

Jin Yun then put away the spirit stone bag.

"Junior Sister Xin'er, these are some of my experiences in cultivating third-order formations. Since you also cultivate formations, why don't you take a look!"

At this moment, Fang Yuyun handed a jade slip to Wang Xin and said with a slight smile.

"Thank you, senior sister!"

Wang Xin accepted the jade slip and bowed in thanks.

Her progress in formations was even faster than in alchemy.

We are now able to set up a second-tier high-grade magic array.

There's no problem starting to learn about third-order magic arrays.

"Senior sister, the array plate for a fourth-tier warship in the workshop has been almost completed in the past two days."

"I'll need your help setting up the fourth-order magic array then, and assisting me in inscribing the fourth-order inscription!"

Zhou Ling smiled at Fang Yuyun again.

Although they hadn't known each other for long, Zhou Ling felt that his second senior sister was even stingier than him, so he added, "If this fourth-tier warship is successfully forged, I will give my senior sister 20% of the profits."

Although the workshop has expanded considerably during this period, the number of warships that need repair in Five Spirit Immortal City is still quite large.

At the same time, now that Qingyun Immortal City has become a fifth-grade city, the original warships also need to be upgraded.

These tasks were naturally undertaken by the Zhou family workshop.

Therefore, the workshop is currently overwhelmed with manpower.

Even though a lot of people have been transferred from Xuan Yuan Dao Academy to help these days.

Many of them were third- or even fourth-level weapon refiners from the Dao Academy.

However, there is still a shortage of manpower.

Fortunately, the situation in Five Spirits Immortal City is stable now, so a slight delay in the repair of the warships won't have a major impact.

"A mere 20% profit? That's too much to ask!"

Fang Yuyun smiled and said.

Of course, she also knew Zhou Ling's current situation and that he wouldn't lack spirit stones.

It was just a symbolic gesture of politeness.

The matter of the Qingyun Immortal City formation and the warships will be enough for her to earn enough spirit stones.

"this is necessary!"

Zhou Ling said seriously.

"Then I shall respectfully comply!"

Fang Yuyun said with a smile.

Zhou Ling then explained the situation of this Tier 4 warship to her.

This is a Tier 4 Five Elements Warship.

It was specially selected from the jade slips on warship forging given to him by Ji Siqing.

This is the first Tier 4 warship used as a trial.

It was also made for the Lingxiao Sect.

A sect must have its own warships.

At the same time, these five elements are both offensive and defensive.

Moreover, with the help of the Five Elements Spirit Flame, he is quite confident in his ability to utilize the Five Elements attributes.

Especially the Qianyang True Fire, which last time repaired the Purple Cauldron Warship Inscription.

The True Fire of Qianyang already possesses a certain degree of spirituality.

Therefore, refining the warship inscription will be much easier.

As for the materials used to forge the warships, some were purchased by himself, while others were leftover materials from repairing the warships of the Five Spirits Immortal City.

Just building a single Tier 4 warship, according to the statistics Yuan Hu gave him, would require over a million spirit stones in materials alone.

This price is not something that ordinary Nascent Soul families can afford.

"Don't worry, junior brother!"

"Since this is a warship being crafted for the sect, I, as the senior sister, will naturally give it my all!"

Fang Yuyun said with a solemn expression.

"it is good."

"We have two more days, so we should be able to finish. It shouldn't affect our upcoming battle with the Purple Cloud Sect, right?"

"If it will have an impact, then we can refine it again when we get back?"

Zhou Ling thought for a moment and then spoke to Fang Yuyun.

After all, the battle against the Zixiao Sect is of paramount importance.

Moreover, there is only a little over half a month left.

If crafting this array plate consumes too much energy and affects Fang Yuyun's strength, then there's no need to do it.

"No, after all, for warships, formations are only auxiliary and won't consume too much energy."

Fang Yuyun said with a smile.

"Based on what you've said, I'd like to set up an Eight Extremes Heavenly Thunder Formation. What do you think?"

Fang Yuyun thought about it for a moment and then discussed it with Zhou Ling.

"The Eight Extremes Heavenly Thunder Formation? It feels similar to the Eight Extremes Immortal Thunder Technique."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ling paused for a moment, then asked.

"That's right, the Eight Extremes Heavenly Thunder Formation is an evolution and improvement of the Eight Extremes Immortal Thunder Technique."

"Set up eight Heavenly Extreme Array Gates and gather Heavenly Thunder."

"If eight heavenly lightning bolts are activated simultaneously, their power will be extremely terrifying!"

"If we can successfully refine this, we can take it with us when we go to the Zixiao Sect this time."

"If Master doesn't like the Zixiao Sect's protective formation, he can let them test the power of heavenly lightning at any time!"

Fang Yuyun blinked and said this to Zhou Ling.

"Alright, then let's set up the Eight Extremes Heavenly Thunder Formation, in conjunction with the Five Elements Formation Plate!"

Zhou Ling nodded in agreement.

The distance between Qingyun Immortal City and Tianxia Immortal City is too great. Without the aid of a teleportation array, even a fifth-tier warship would need more than half a month to travel there.

The two then continued to discuss the warships.

Jin Yun, standing to the side, offered timely advice to the two.

After some discussion, the two finalized the refining plan.

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Inside the room, an exquisite crystal chandelier cast a soft glow.

"Husband, Mother asked me today that the Ancestor approves of letting Qingshang marry you as well, and asked me to ask you what your opinion is!"

After putting the child to sleep, Wang Xin said to Zhou Ling.

"Xin'er, you can't just say things like that!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ling looked surprised and spoke to Wang Xin.

After a busy day, Zhou Ling was just about to go to sleep when this unexpected event occurred.

No wonder Wang Qingshang kept glaring at me today.

I was so busy that I was completely overwhelmed and didn't have time to pay attention to her.

Perhaps she just wanted to discuss this matter with me.

But being a girl, she was too shy to say it.

"This is no exaggeration!"

Wang Xin said seriously.

"Will Sister Qingchang agree?"

Zhou Ling looked puzzled.

In his mind, Wang Qingshang, like Dean Gong, was a strong woman.

Dean Gong is the kind of strong woman who operates within the bounds of rules and regulations.

Wang Qingshang, on the other hand, is a strong and assertive businesswoman.

With her personality, how could she possibly be willing to marry me?

"Of course."

Wang Xin smiled and nodded.

Looking at Zhou Ling with eyes as bright as stars, she said, "For scions of aristocratic families like us, the prevailing view from a young age is that the interests of the family come above all else."

“Every disciple must dedicate themselves to the interests of the family.”

"For the sake of the family, sacrificing one's own life is a perfectly normal thing."

"Therefore, Sister Qingshang and Mother will not refuse the family's request!"

"Besides, my husband, you are so outstanding. I reckon Sister Qingshang has already fallen for you, but she's just too shy to say it."

"how do you know?"

Zhou Ling asked with a surprised expression.

I never expected Xin'er to have such keen observation skills.

Of course, Wang Xin is his wife, so she naturally has confidence in him.

She thought that in other people's eyes, her husband was so outstanding.

However, he wouldn't think that way.

"Husband, are you afraid I won't agree?"

Wang Xin put her arm around Zhou Ling's and smiled.

"Xin'er, you are my wife. Without your consent, I will naturally not marry any other woman!"

Zhou Ling nodded seriously and said.

In this realm, it is quite normal for cultivators to have multiple wives and concubines.

Although he didn't object, he didn't want to waste too much time on women.

"Sister Qingshang, I don't mind."

"After all, the Zhou family has grown quite powerful, and I can't control it anymore. You marry her; she'll be perfect for managing the family!"

Wang Xin said with a smile.

"Xin'er, hasn't Sister Qingshang already been chosen as the next head of the Wang family?"

"Why would she be willing to marry into my Zhou family?"

Zhou Ling said with some surprise.

Because he was to marry into the Wang family, he made a ten-year agreement to obtain the Golden Elixir.

Zhou Ling was quite surprised that Wang Qingshang was now willing to marry into the Zhou family.

“Mother said that the head of the family still has a long life ahead of him.”

"He relinquished his position as head of the family solely to attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul realm."

"But if it's a few years later, the impact won't be significant!"

Wang Xinru said this.

"If you don't believe me, wait until Mother and Sister Qingshang come over tomorrow, then you can discuss it with them!"

It's clear that Xin'er really agreed to marry Wang Qingshang.

Zhou Ling gently embraced his wife and smiled, "Xin'er, you're so good!"

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The following day, at the Zhou family's main hall.

"Sister Qingchang, is what Xin'er said true?"

Seeing that Wang Qingshang and Wang Yu had indeed come to the door, Zhou Ling asked in surprise.

"Ling'er, this concerns Qing Chang's reputation, how can we joke about it?"

"And all of these were agreed upon by the family's patriarch!"

Seeing Wang Qingshang blushing and too embarrassed to speak, Wang Yu smiled and came to her rescue.

"Just tell me, give me a straight answer."

"Whether I say yes or no, it makes me feel like nobody wants me!"

Wang Qingshang glared at Zhou Ling and said in a somewhat unfriendly tone.

"Qingshang, this matter was decided by the ancestor and is related to the future development of the family. Don't act rashly!"

Wang Yu hurriedly spoke up.

"Aunt Yu, I know, but he won't agree. What can I do?"

Wang Qingshang seemed genuinely anxious.

"Sister Qingshang, I didn't say I wouldn't agree!"

"But you'd better think this through, lest you regret it!"

Zhou Ling said with a serious expression.

Since Xin'er had no objections, he was willing to marry Wang Qingshang.

Wang Qingshang was impeccable in every way. With such a woman being offered to him, what reason did he have to refuse?

His only worry was that Xin'er wouldn't accept it.

Kexin'er didn't seem to have any resistance, so he was happy to oblige.

Now, with the family growing in size...

Whether it's Yuan Hu and the others, or their father and mother, it's simply too difficult for them to manage the family anymore.

As for Xin'er, aside from her lack of ability in this area, she has absolutely no interest in it.

He naturally wouldn't ask Xin'er to do things she didn't like.

If we could marry Wang Qingshang, it would perfectly make up for the family's shortcomings.

"I don't regret it!"

Wang Qingchang nodded.

"Okay, then it's settled!"

"After we get back, I'll have your birth dates and times matched, and we'll find an auspicious day for your wedding!"

Seeing that both of them agreed to the marriage, Wang Yu breathed a sigh of relief and finally settled the matter.

"Mother-in-law, you can discuss this with my mother!"

"However, I will be going to Tianxia Immortal City for a while, and I may not be back so soon!"

Zhou Ling spoke up again.

Are you heading to the Purple Cloud Sect this time?

Upon hearing this, Wang Qingshang asked with concern.

He was a steward of the Xuanting Division.

She also wanted to learn about the feud between the Lingxiao Sect and the Zixiao Sect.

Knowing about the competition between the two sects, he couldn't help but worry about Zhou Ling.

"Ok!"

"I need to go and collect the Qingyun Immortal City formation and make a trip to the Zixiao Sect!"

Zhou Ling didn't hide anything and said it directly.

"Then you'll have to be careful."

"The Zixiao Sect's strength ranks among the top ten of all the sects in the Dao Alliance!"

Wang Qingshang reminded him.

His expression was naturally concerned.

After all, the two had fought against the same enemy before.

They understand each other.

Zhou Ling nodded.

(End of this chapter)