Immortal Cultivation Families: The Rise of the Jinling Immortal Clan

Xia Yuhui: "So it's Fellow Daoist Chen, nice to meet you."

Chen Ruhai: "Fellow Daoist Xia, how have you been? I visited a relative of yours more than ten years ago, and that's how I met you. I wonder if you have some free time? I'd like to invite you to Wanxianglou for a few drinks."

Xia Yuhui thought for a moment and then agreed. In the past, he had lived in his family for a long time and found it difficult to make friends with others. Now it was different; getting to know more cultivators would make things much easier in the future.

The two entered Wanxianglou, the most famous restaurant in the market. This restaurant was jointly run by a Foundation Establishment cultivator and the Guiyun Sect, and it was very profitable every year. Not only that, but there was also a branch in the nearby Wanbao County, which was also run by the same cultivator. The Foundation Establishment cultivator was quite shrewd; by cooperating directly with the Guiyun Sect, although he would lose some of the profits, he also saved himself a lot of trouble.

After the two entered the restaurant, a waiter came forward and led them inside.

Chen Ruhai generously booked a private room, along with a table of spiritual dishes and a pot of spiritual wine. Xia Yuhui didn't stand on ceremony; she accepted the spiritual wine from Chen Ruhai, examined it carefully, and after confirming it was safe, drank it all in one gulp.

As the wine entered his throat, a stream of pure spiritual energy flowed from his mouth down his esophagus into his stomach, and then slowly spread throughout his body. After Xia Yuhui returned home, he could slowly refine this spiritual energy and use it for his own purposes.

This made him exclaim, "This wine is excellent!"

"If the wine is good, drink more."

The two drank and chatted, gradually becoming more comfortable with each other and more familiar with one another. Xia Yuhui also learned that Chen Ruhai had the cultivation level of the eighth level of Qi Refining, and even knew that he was a high-grade spiritual plant cultivator.

Xia Yuhui also revealed his identity as a weapon refiner to the other party.

Chen Ruhai said, "Brother Xia has exceptional talent and has already mastered weapon crafting, one of the four arts of immortal cultivation. With your talent, reaching the Foundation Establishment stage in the future may not be out of reach."

"Brother Chen, you flatter me. I can only refine mid-grade magic artifacts at present. Compared with Brother Chen's current position as a master of spiritual plants, I am really far behind."

"Brother Xia, there's no need for such modesty. The way of spiritual cultivation is easy to begin with, but difficult to master. Since you are a weapon refiner, could you perhaps craft a defensive magic weapon for me?"

After speaking, he took out three sets of materials. He knew Xia Yuhui's skill level well. The magical artifacts that Xia Yuhui was currently crafting could be considered exquisite, but they were still slightly inferior to Xia Guangyao, another artifact crafter in the Xia family.

However, this person has achieved so much at such a young age; given the right opportunity, he might truly make a name for himself. After all, the Xia family is a Foundation Establishment family with a profound foundation, not to be underestimated. Therefore, his idea was to take this opportunity to befriend Xia Yuhui.

Xia Yuhui quickly grasped his intentions, but was quite satisfied. Only in this way could they earn spirit stones.

Xia Yuhui had heard his third uncle, Xia Guangyao, mention that people often came to him asking him to refine magical artifacts, and he would be given five portions of materials. However, Xia Guangyao would always tamper with the materials.

If he successfully refines two sets, he will secretly pocket one of the magical artifacts. To put it bluntly, no matter how many he succeeds in refining, he only claims to have succeeded in refining one. Sometimes, when spirit stones are scarce, he will even claim that all of them have failed.

While such actions might damage his reputation, given Xia Guangyao's standing, the impact would be minimal. Of course, Xia Guangyao wouldn't dare act this way against someone of great power or high status.

In fact, most people who have made achievements in the various arts of cultivation are like this, only differing in their degree of greed. Even those so-called masters are insatiably greedy. Several years ago, there was a rumor that a second-tier alchemist from the Guiyun Sect, while refining Foundation Establishment Pills for someone, not only accepted the payment but also embezzled all the Foundation Establishment Pills.

Ultimately, the Foundation Establishment cultivators could no longer tolerate it, so they joined forces to assassinate the second-tier alchemist outside the Guiyun Sect. However, they ultimately failed, and the Guiyun Sect was furious, directly dispatching seven or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators to hunt down these rogue cultivators.

As for the outcome, it is unknown. It can only be said that cultivators with high levels of cultivation can earn a lot of spirit stones. Those with even higher levels are not limited to spirit stones. As long as they can refine high-level pills and magic weapons, many people will compete to exchange them for rare and precious materials.

The three sets of materials Chen Ruhai gave Xia Yuhui were for refining mid-grade defensive magic weapons. Xia Yuhui had tried to refine one before, but the success rate was low. However, in the past few days, Xia Yuhui had been engrossed in refining magic weapons in the refining room, and the success rate had improved slightly.

Whether these three materials can be used to forge a mid-grade magic weapon depends entirely on luck.

Xia Yuhui had already decided that if he couldn't successfully refine it, he would buy some materials himself, refine it, and then hand it over to Chen Ruhai. This was to protect his reputation. After all, if he failed the first time, probably no one would dare to ask him to refine weapons in the future.

Therefore, Xia Yuhui nodded repeatedly and calmly accepted the materials. "Brother Chen, please come to my Xia family shop to check the results in ten days."

"Of course, then I'll have to trouble you, Brother Xia. Don't worry, I will definitely offer you the reward, whether it succeeds or not."

After that, the two chatted for a while, and before they knew it, Xia Yuhui had steered the conversation to spiritual plants.

"Brother Chen, as a cultivator of spiritual plants, you must have acquired quite a few spiritual items."

"Alas, to my shame, although I am already a top-grade spiritual plant cultivator, my family's resources are quite meager. I have always been cultivating spiritual plants for the family, and I only have a few kinds that belong to me."

"Oh, I wonder if Brother Chen has any intention of selling? To be honest, I recently wanted to buy a mid-grade spiritual plant."

Xia Yuhui had recently become quite envious of Xia Yuhua and thus desired to purchase a spiritual plant as well. Coincidentally, he had recently saved up some spirit stones while refining artifacts for his family, and the spiritual soil outside his cave had yet to be planted with anything.

“Since Brother Xia is interested in purchasing, then I will tell you the truth. I currently have a mid-grade ironwood tree and a mid-grade pear tree. As for those low-grade spiritual plants, let’s not mention them; I’m sure Brother Xia wouldn’t be interested.” Seeing that Xia Yuhui was actually interested in purchasing spiritual plants, Chen Ruhai also became interested and told him about the spiritual plants he had available for sale.

Xia Yuhui pondered for a moment, then asked, "How much are Brother Chen's pear trees valued?"

“No problem. Given our relationship, I will offer Brother Xia the best possible deal. Aside from the fee I pay you for crafting the magic weapon for you, you only need to pay me 50 spirit stones.”

Although Xia Yuhui knew that this item was expensive, he did not expect it to be this expensive. However, he also knew that this was a discount given by Chen Ruhai, after all, he firmly believed that Chen Ruhai would not dare to cheat him, a disciple of a Foundation Establishment family.

“Then it’s a deal! I trust Brother Chen’s character. Here are 50 spirit stones. Bring the spirit plant with you in ten days.”

After the transaction was completed, Xia Yuhui finished eating the last piece of monster meat and was about to leave with Chen Ruhai when a servant suddenly entered, carrying a pot of spirit wine.

"Did you perhaps send the wrong thing? I didn't order a second pot of spirit wine," Chen Ruhai asked, frowning.

The servant smiled and explained, "Immortals, you've misunderstood. This pot of spirit wine was a gift from my young master."

Xia Yuhui asked in confusion, "Hmm, who is your young manager?"

The waiter immediately explained that the so-called young manager was actually a disciple of the Foundation Establishment cultivator who was now in charge of the restaurant. He had come to deliver the spirit wine today, probably hoping to become acquainted with Xia Yuhui, since business people need to have many friends.

Servant: "My young master also brought a message: the Xia family's prodigy has emerged from his cocoon."