Ball Ball Cultivation

I stayed there for three years. During these three years, I watched my father slowly lay out his plans, teaching the Crown Prince how to govern the country. As long as it didn't involve the dark forces known only to the Emperor, he always took me with him while teaching the Crown Prince! Even the civil and military masters did the same. Was this to train two crown princes, with me being the Crown Prince's sharpening stone? Or did he need a future Emperor who was completely free from the control of the aristocratic families?

Anyway, he just needs to study hard. He will learn whatever the prince wants, including music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, etiquette, horse riding and archery, the way of governing a country, business and financial management, and even the secrets of the inner house!

Father's health was truly failing. He spent most of his time in a coma, waking only once every two or three days. Apart from eating and using the toilet, he would listen to the news of the court and arrange personnel changes. Afterwards, he would explain to my brother and me why he made such arrangements, teaching us everything he knew.

I don’t know if it was because he saw my uneasiness or the ambition that was gradually emerging, but my father explained his future plans for me clearly in front of my mother and the crown prince. When I heard that an independent paradise was the home he had arranged for himself, I saw envy in the eyes of the queen and the crown prince!

As a young child, I was disturbed by my father's arrangement, but then I was completely healed by the envy!

I know that my father's arrangement for me is to open up trade routes across the country and completely defeat the economic advantages of the aristocratic families!

After studying the art of governing a country for so long, my vision is no longer narrow. What about scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans? Merchants are the last. That is a means for scholars and officials to improve their status and it is also a suppression of wealthy businessmen. Merchants without status are very helpless and sad!

He is a powerful prince with his own self-defense force, and he is also a little prince with the title of King Xiaoyao. Who dares to mess with him!

When I really started trading, I realized how many advanced manufacturing techniques my father mastered and how many business talents he had recruited. Those aristocratic families didn't need to deliberately suppress them; their business plummeted, and their products became more affordable and durable. The aristocratic families who had originally banded together wouldn't compromise on quality for a less cohesive group, and the prices were even better!

He really did bring his guards with him and used the prince's name to open businesses all over the country!

Later, I partnered with the Ministry of Revenue to open nationwide bill exchange offices. My father described it as a bank, facilitating the circulation of gold and silver! Then I became a golden man, and everyone from royal relatives to aristocratic families wanted to do business with me! I was so popular wherever I went. And then I looked at my brother, the emperor, after he ascended the throne. He rose earlier than the roosters and slept later than the dogs, and the court and harem were constantly plagued by trouble! Looking back, I felt truly happy and blessed.

For the first time after my marriage, I followed the map my father had given me and led my guards to my fiefdom. It was an island with perpetual spring. I had really wronged my father. I had always thought that an island the size of a small county town was good enough, with a pleasant climate at best. The reality was that this island was at least the size of two prefectures, one-seventh the size of the Great Qi State. Furthermore, the land was fertile, the climate was pleasant, and the scenery was breathtaking. Several primitive tribes were discovered on the entire island!

Following his father's advice, he decided to build the island into a major import and export powerhouse. However, several years passed before the infrastructure was complete, and a severe drought struck Da Qi. After discussing with his brother, he decided to relocate a large portion of the starving population to Tiaohua Island. Construction accelerated, and the beginnings of a small nation gradually took shape.

Build an ideal nation: a republic with gender equality, monogamy, and an enlightened political system. Royal status is just a nice name, and military power doesn't mean absolute authority! This was my father's final description of the future society we two brothers would have. I achieved every single one of them!

My father's disappearance seemed to be within my expectations. I felt that he had no attachment to power or wealth, and had been working hard to cultivate my brother and me from the very beginning.

That must really be a god, who accidentally fell into the mortal world, showed himself beautifully, and then left quietly.

Qiuqiu, who had been away from home for eight years, said goodbye to a group of people and was about to head home. Just as he was about to use his body skills, he felt someone was watching him. Remembering that he was being hunted by several Nascent Soul cultivators, he changed his appearance, restrained his aura, and headed deep into the Heavenly Demon Forest, not wanting to bring danger to his children.

He would collect any high-level spiritual plants he encountered on the road, and occasionally he would kill the monsters that came to him. He lived a comfortable and leisurely life, and he wouldn't trade it for an emperor!

Because all the children he gave birth to were divine beasts, Qiuqiu would not kill all the intelligent demons as long as they did not provoke him.

This time, he fought a flamingo, only in the middle stage of the Golden Core stage. Because of its low intelligence, even with its higher cultivation, Qiuqiu was no match for the demon beast. He captured the flamingo alive and occupied the Fire Cave, a cave nestled on a fire vein, rich in fire energy and possessing a high-quality fire vein. He tied the half-dead flamingo to the cave entrance to guard it while he refined his elixir on the fire vein.

The accumulated elixirs had been basically consumed during the Great Xia Dynasty! His own cultivation had also reached the peak of the early Golden Core stage! However, the cultivation level improved by taking elixirs was inherently weak and needed constant practice to consolidate!

Seeing the flamingo that was badly beaten at the door, and the hateful look in its eyes, she thought of her youngest son, who was innocent and naive and could see through everything at a glance.

The demon beasts were still immature, even at the Golden Core stage, their IQ was no more than that of a three-year-old. The medicinal herbs around them had been used up, and Huahua had exhausted herself to send them out. The herbs could be refined into elixirs using the earth fire here, facilitating the subsequent training.

In order to escape the covetousness of unknown forces, she did not dare to go home to see her children, for fear of bringing unknown dangers home. The young children were unable to cope with the robbery and killing of the Nascent Soul stage. She was useful to them and could barely save her life. Their excellent talents and low cultivation fell into the hands of those with ulterior motives, and after threatening them, she was driven by the enemy. The four children were either killed directly or their memories were erased and refined into human puppets.

Qiuqiu sacrificed and refined the Qingmu Ding, set up a formation and made a fire starter. This was the first time he used earth fire to refine pills. Thinking of the flamingo at the door, he first refined some low-level pills to practice, such as the Qizhi Pill and the Kaizhi Pill. These were all made casually in the past and given to Bai Yi and others as candy beans, which could be used as rent for occupying the cave. However, after using earth fire to refine several batches, the only results were low-grade and medium-grade pills, and occasionally high-grade pills. In the end, Qiuqiu had no choice but to use the pill fire composed of his own five elements spiritual fire.

After several days of refining pills, each with success, Qiuqiu fed the flamingo the lower-grade Enlightenment Pills, which it accepted without fail. In his boredom, he even investigated why the Earth Fire, despite its apparent quality, couldn't make pills. After a month, Qiuqiu had refined every possible herb into pills and discovered the reason why the Earth Fire wasn't working: while its quality was acceptable, its stability was poor, exhibiting irregular movements that led to its failure.

Besides, if the quality of the earth fire is poor, it is impossible to raise a flamingo in the Jindan stage!

After giving the low- and mid-grade Enlightenment Pills to Flamingo, Qiuqiu continued her training. Her goal was clear: to install a signal tower on Mount Everest to contact the children as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, she would search for the long-lost Soul-Melting Grass to refine the Soul-Melting Pill.