Immortal Cultivation Families: The Rise of the Jinling Immortal Clan

Xia Yuhua: "Hmph, you brat, you actually dare to lecture me."

After that, the two exchanged words for a while. Only after Xia Yuhua explained the details of the shop to Xia Yuhui did Xia Yuhui reluctantly leave the room with a pound of spiritual tea.

After leaving the room, Xia Yuhui went outside and said to the busy Xia family members, "Clan members in charge of selling magical artifacts, come to my room for a moment."

The Xia family's shop mainly deals in pills and magical artifacts. However, because the family only has second-tier inheritance in pills and magical artifacts, there are no cultivators in the family who can refine second-tier pills and magical artifacts. At most, they can only refine first-tier high-grade ones.

Among the four arts of cultivation, alchemy and weapon crafting both require a fire elemental root to even begin. Xia Lingshan, the only Foundation Establishment cultivator in the family, does not have a fire elemental root, so it is unlikely that the family will produce a cultivator capable of crafting second-tier pills and magical artifacts in the short term.

As a result, the Xia family has been in dire financial straits over the years.

Upon hearing the call, the busy family cultivators immediately responded and followed Xia Yuhui to his room. A total of eight people arrived; apart from Xia Yurou, who had reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining, the rest were all at the early stage. Most of them were younger than him, and two were from the previous generation who, due to their poor spiritual roots, could only come to the family shop to enjoy their later years.

There are also differences between the five spiritual roots. Some people have excellent spiritual roots, while others may have poor quality of all five spiritual roots. This results in extremely slow cultivation speed, and they may encounter a bottleneck every time they break through a new realm.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Xia Yuhui began his speech.

"My fellow clansmen, I hope that we can cooperate sincerely in the future to jointly develop the shop..."

Since it was his first time, his performance was not good. However, Xia Yuhui did not care too much. He would just have more experience in the future. Given his current status, he was destined to manage part of the family business in the future, and these were things he had to learn.

After he shared his summary with everyone, he dismissed them.

Seeing that there was nothing important to do around him, he prepared to go out for a stroll. Just as he opened the door, he ran into his fourth brother, Xia Yuguang, his sixth brother, Xia Yuzong, and his seventh brother, Xia Yufei.

These three all possess the five spiritual roots and have a very close relationship. Now that they have arrived at the market, they must be inseparable all day long.

After greeting the group, Xia Yuhui invited them inside. Just as he was about to close the door, Thirteenth Sister Xia Yurou, who had returned the way she came, rushed in, clearly wanting another cup of spiritual tea.

"How can you be so presumptuous? What about the business outside?" Xia Yuhui gave a helpless bitter smile, feigning anger.

Xia Yurou: "Fifth Brother, don't worry. I've already sent someone to look after things for a while. There won't be any problems."

Xia Yuhui then sat down and poured spiritual tea for each of the four people, finally filling his own cup to the brim. He took a small sip and immediately felt refreshed.

This guy really knows how to enjoy himself. He doesn't use his spirit stones for anything important, but instead indulges in these things, which has made him somewhat addicted to them now.

The five people sat around the tea table, chatting about this and that, first about their families, then about the Guiyun Sect, and then about the Cai family. The atmosphere became lively.

Xia Yuhui had not spoken so freely in a long time. It was difficult to communicate with that old man, so this kind of atmosphere was exactly what he liked.

Of the four, Xia Yuzong was the most skilled, having reached the sixth level of Qi Refining. For someone with five spiritual roots to cultivate to such a level was no easy feat. Xia Yuhui, curious, then inquired of Xia Yuzong about his experiences over the past few years.

Xia Yuzong smiled and answered truthfully. It turned out that after arriving at the market, Xia Yuzong set up a stall in the market during his spare time and started doing business. In the end, he actually got a bargain and bought a main ingredient for refining Body Tempering Pill from a rogue cultivator at a low price, earning a full forty spirit stones.

This made Xia Yuhui and others even consider setting up a street stall, but in the end they just laughed it off. After everyone finished drinking two pots of spiritual tea, they dispersed. Xia Yuhui did not go out for a stroll, but went straight to sleep.

The next morning, Xia Yuhua knocked on the door and woke Xia Yuhui up.

Xia Yuhui: "Brother, what is it? So early?"

"Is that too early? Get up quickly and refine the magical artifact."

"Huh? Why? In such a hurry? The inventory is already depleted?"

"My third uncle has been busy with some matters recently, so he hasn't sent any magical artifacts for the past two months. I can only rely on you to refine them."

Left with no other choice, Xia Yuhui had to follow Xia Yuhua to the weapon-refining room.

Inside the weapon-refining room, all kinds of materials were prepared. In the center was a mid-grade weapon-refining furnace, with a raging earth fire burning beneath it, emitting intense heat.

The entire weapon-refining room was filled with scorching heat. Witnessing this scene, Xia Yuhui couldn't help but sigh. He had thought his family was poor, but he never expected that he had underestimated his family.

After bringing Xia Yuhui here, Xia Yuhua left.

Xia Yuhui spent some time organizing the materials here, totaling 20 low-grade magic artifacts and 7 mid-grade magic artifacts. These materials could sustain Xia Yuhui for several months. Based on the profit sharing and his success rate, Xia Yuhui could earn at least 120 spirit stones after refining all the materials. However, Xia Yuhui would not spend all his time refining magic artifacts.

A month later, just as Xia Yuhui was about to go out for a walk and relax, he overheard Xia Yurou talking to a rogue cultivator.

The rogue cultivator asked, "What exactly is going on here? Why has the quality of our magical artifacts not only failed to improve, but has actually decreased?"

Xia Yurou: "Fellow Daoist, please don't be angry. There have been some issues with the clan's weapon-refining techniques recently, so this market is being run by another weapon refiner. Therefore, we have already reduced the price of this magic weapon by two spirit stones. If you are still not satisfied, I can arrange to reduce it by another spirit stone. If you insist on buying a higher quality magic weapon, you can wait a few days until it is delivered. I will personally inform you to come and purchase it."

Upon hearing this, the rogue cultivator's anger subsided slightly, so he put down his magical artifact and turned to leave.

"Then let me know in a few days. What I need are high-quality magical artifacts." He said before leaving.

As the rogue cultivators walked further and further away, Xia Yuhui and Xia Yurou exchanged a smile. Xia Yuhui then gave an awkward, bitter smile, ignoring the funny face Xia Yurou was making, and turned to leave.

He longed to perfect his magical artifacts, but unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he could never catch up with Xia Guangyao, the artifact refiner who could create high-grade magical artifacts.

However, he firmly believed that given time, he would definitely achieve something, after all, his spiritual sense far surpassed Xia Guangyao's, and his talent for weapon crafting was not inferior.

As he strolled down the street, looking around at the goods on the stalls, someone suddenly came up to him and tried to pat him on the shoulder.

Xia Yuhui instantly became alert and nimbly dodged. Upon seeing this, the handsome young man raised the corners of his mouth and revealed a warm smile, saying, "Fellow Daoist Xia, there is no need to panic. This humble Daoist has no ill intentions."

Xia Yuhui frowned and carefully probed the man's cultivation level with his divine sense. To his surprise, even at such close range, his powerful divine sense could not fathom the mystery within.

So he quickly bowed to the man and asked, "May I ask your honorable name? Have we ever met before?"

A warm smile, like a spring breeze, bloomed on the man's face as he returned the greeting, saying, "I am Chen Ruhai of the Chen family. My Chen family and the Xia family are now related by marriage."

After a moment of thought, Xia Yuhui finally remembered that the Chen family was a Qi Refining family in Jinling County. When the Xia family was at its peak, the Chen family was a vassal of the Xia family. More than ten years ago, when the Xia family was in decline, the Chen family parted ways with them, but did not become enemies. Instead, they frequently formed marriage alliances. Xia Yuhui vaguely remembered that his fourth uncle, Xia Guangfan, was married to a cultivator from the Chen family, and it seemed that more than one female cultivator with spiritual roots had married into their family.