My Optimized Immortal Life

Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

Three days passed in a flash.

Sanhe Gang, a small courtyard in the back mountain.

Xu Lingxin stood in the shade of a tree, teasing the cold stone python crawling on the branches.

This cold stone python has now grown up, with a body several feet long, and scales all over its body shining silver. Its eyes are as cold as frost, and its tongue is lightly protruding. The aura of a demon beast appears and disappears from time to time, but it becomes a little gentle when it looks at Xu Lingxin.

Xu Lingxin was wearing a red robe and had her long hair tied up high behind her head. She looked a little strange. She had never seen this way of tying hair before she met Chen Qing.

She still remembered what Chen Qing called this hairstyle, something like a ponytail...

When Xu Lingxin thought of this, she couldn't help but look up at the horizon, only to see the blue sky with white clouds floating in it.

It has been a month since Chen Lang left, and I don’t know when he will return.

After Chen Qing left, nothing happened in the Sanhe Gang. After all, Chen Qing had specifically explained this to Luo Qingfeng before leaving. In addition, the attention of the Song Dynasty cultivators was now basically focused on retaking Wanren City, and no one would pay attention to a small gang.

However, recently Luo Qingfeng has been coming to her frequently, wanting her to call Chen Qing back as soon as possible, with the reason being to expand the financial resources. As for the reason, it is because the income from spirit stones in the Sanhe Gang has decreased a lot. Xu Lingxin also knows some of the specific reasons.

The original income of the Sanhe Gang was based on the mutual trading of goods between Wanren City and other independent cultivator markets.

With the help of the Biqing River, the Sanhe Gang transported magical instruments, spiritual objects, spell jade slips and other items in Wanren City to other independent cultivator markets along the river to make a profit.

Although the monsters in Wanren City have been eliminated, it will take at least one or two years to restore the city to its prosperity before the beast tide.

After losing Wanren City, its largest supplier, the Sanhe Gang could only circulate supplies between various markets, and the profit was naturally not as much as when Wanren City was still there.

Luo Qingfeng had a solution to this situation. Their Sanhe Gang had only been established for seven or eight years, and it was already very difficult for them to stabilize Biqingjiang's financial resources. If they wanted to develop in other areas, in addition to the shortage of manpower, the most critical problem was the lack of a foundation-building cultivator.

Before Chen Qing took over their Sanhe Gang, with a foundation-building master in charge, Luo Qingfeng immediately vigorously expanded the Biqing River. While successfully stabilizing this source of income, he also opened up many independent cultivator markets that had not previously reached agreements.

But that’s about it.

The resources around Wanren City are limited, and they are all occupied by some foundation-building families and gangs with major foundation-building skills. Their Sanhe Gang can completely occupy the financial route of Biqing River thanks to Chen Qing's presence.

But after experiencing the beast tide, everything became different.

According to Luo Qingfeng's news, the Luo Yun Gang, which originally occupied two resource nodes in the surrounding area, was targeted by a group of beasts. Its leader Luo Yun unfortunately died while fighting a second-level monster. The Luo Yun Gang was also destroyed by the beasts. Subsequently, the two resource nodes were occupied by the beasts, and other foundation-building forces basically encountered the beasts, suffered losses, and were unable to expand.

Therefore, if Chen Qing could be persuaded, the Sanhe Gang would be able to seize those two resource nodes and strengthen the gang.

Although she knew that taking over these two resource nodes would be of great benefit to the Sanhe Gang, Xu Lingxin felt that even if Chen Qing came back, he would not agree to Luo Qingfeng's plan.

Xu Lingxin and Chen Qing have been Taoist partners for seven or eight years. She believes that she knows Chen Qing quite well. Although her husband's strength far exceeds that of ordinary cultivators, he is extremely cautious and rarely reveals his strength. Even his cultivation level is concealed. Whenever he goes out, he always makes up a false identity.

This is somewhat similar to her previous experience, but even before, she was not as cautious as Chen Qing.

Thinking of this, Xu Lingxin couldn't help but shake her head and chuckled. The cold stone python on the branch saw this, spit out its tongue, and licked Xu Lingxin's fingers.

"Madam, aren't you going to practice today?"

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded in Xu Lingxin's ears.

She was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw Chen Qing standing behind her with a smile on his face.

Seeing Chen Qing coming back, Xu Lingxin immediately threw herself into his arms and hugged him tightly.

Chen Qing felt a little helpless, but he was already used to it, so he hugged Xu Lingxin as well.

He looked at the cold stone python behind Xu Lingxin and put his index finger on his mouth.

The cold stone python was nourished by the cold marrow fluid and its spirituality far exceeded that of ordinary monsters. Seeing this, it immediately climbed back onto the branch and ignored the two of them.

Xu Lingxin hugged Chen Qing for a long time before slowly raising her head and speaking softly.

"Husband."

Chen Qing felt helpless looking at her like this. Xu Lingxin was almost 27 or 28 years old now, but she was still so clingy, like a child, which made him really helpless sometimes.

"It's okay. I'm back."

He could only comfort her softly.

The two of them were affectionate for almost half an hour before Xu Lingxin walked out of Chen Qing's arms. She then told Chen Qing about the situation of the Sanhe Gang and Wanren City during the month he was away.

"The Purple-Winged Green-Scaled Peng was severely injured by True Man Chi Yan and had to retreat. The other demonic beasts occupying Wanren City have been slain by the independent cultivators who came to support them. Wanren City has been taken over by three Jindan cultivators, and the question of its future ownership is currently under discussion."

"Luo Qingfeng wants to occupy the other two resource points and expand the Sanhe Gang's sphere of influence."

After listening to Xu Lingxin's words, Chen Qing fell into thought, but after only a short while, he smiled.

"Don't worry about them for now. I haven't seen you for a month, and I miss you so much."

As he spoke, Chen Qing picked up Xu Lingxin and walked into the room.

……

On the third day after Chen Qing returned, Luo Qingfeng came to him again, but this time Chen Qing agreed to his suggestion and prepared to let Xu Lingxin take action to defeat the monster that occupied the two resource nodes.

Luo Qingfeng was quite surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect Chen Qing to agree so readily. When Chen Qing first came, he always took stabilizing the status quo within the gang as his priority. Apart from asking him to maintain Bi Qingjiang's financial resources, he had never coveted anything else.

However, Chen Qing also had a condition, which was that he wanted to add another 10% to the spirit stones of the Sanhe Gang in the future.

This condition sounded almost like nothing to Luo Qingfeng. When Chen Qing first came, he took away 40% of the spirit stones, which meant that the high-ranking gang members like them could get much less spirit stones. But after Bi Qingjiang's financial resources stabilized, they got more spirit stones than before. If they took over those two resource points, even if Chen Qing wanted 70%, they would still get several percent more spirit stones than before.

Luo Qingfeng thought about it for a long time, but he really couldn't guess what Chen Qing was thinking.

He, Jiang Gongsheng, is very different from other foundation-building cultivators. Other foundation-building cultivators establish their forces in order to earn spirit stones and command low-level cultivators. However, although Jiang Yuhuo took over the Sanhe Gang, he never asked about the affairs of the gang and did not even check the accounts. He only accepted the spirit stones that he handed over every year. If he coveted a part of it, I am afraid no one would find out.

Although he thought so in his heart, Luo Qingfeng did not dare to put it into practice and covet the spiritual stones for foundation building and overhaul? He had not lived enough, so how could he have such courage?

If Chen Qing knew what Luo Qingfeng was thinking, he would only laugh at Luo Qingfeng.

After all, ever since he completed his foundation-building cultivation in Pingxiang Prefecture, he has never lacked spirit stones.

He refined hundreds of pieces of earth fire essence from the earth fire veins, each of which was worth thousands of spirit stones, and often there was no market for them. Therefore, as long as he sold dozens of pieces, he could earn tens of thousands of spirit stones, which was more than the spirit stones that the Sanhe Gang handed over in a year.

Therefore, he really didn't care how many spirit stones Luo Qingfeng handed over to him each time.

What's more, he has now advanced to the Jindan stage, and spirit stones are no longer as important to him as they were when he was refining Qi.