Immortality and cultivation begin with alchemy and accounting.

However, Bai Xuanjing was more concerned about the migration of the "black-skinned bull beast" mentioned in Bai Jingming's words.

The Black-skinned Bull Beast is a land-based monster and is not good at swimming. If it goes into the sea, it may even be killed and devoured by low-level monsters in the sea.

For this reason, these land monsters usually gather on fixed islands and do not migrate.

Unless the island where they originally lived was occupied, or it was taken over by other monsters.

This change only occurred in the sea area thousands of miles away from Qiufeng Island.

The distance is neither too far nor too close, and it might have some impact on Bai Xuanjing.

Seemingly sensing Bai Xuanjing's worry, Bai Jingming calmly reassured her, "You don't need to worry too much. These black-skinned bull beasts encountered a group of black iron crocodiles in the sea and have all been wiped out."

"However, I did manage to kill a mid-stage Tier 1 Black-skinned Bull Beast during the chaos. Here, take this bull leg."

As Bai Jingming spoke, he took out a cow leg.

The shape of the bull's legs is not much different from that of ordinary bull beasts, except that they are much larger. Judging from the bull's legs, this mid-stage first-tier black-skinned bull beast is probably nearly ten feet tall!

Although the Black-skinned Bull Beast is a demon beast, it is a social creature with a strong sense of community, making it not easy to deal with.

If this were on land, Bai Jingming alone might not dare to provoke him.

But the cattle were trapped by the black iron crocodile, which gave him an opportunity.

However, the Black Iron Crocodile clan was also quite powerful, and given his mission, he didn't dare linger.

As a demon beast, the Black-skinned Bull Beast doesn't have many usable materials, but its meat is of decent quality.

Bai Xuanjing happily accepted the beef leg.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Jingming added, "The migration of the black-skinned bull beast must have a reason. I guess it might be due to the monsters fighting over the island. If that's the case, then so be it."

"But if a cultivator gets involved, they must have some ulterior motive. You can keep an eye out for any events that happen in the nearby seas that might be useful to the family. Collect any information and report it to the family. You will be rewarded."

Bai Xuanjing nodded and agreed.

The two then exchanged the elixir.

Bai Xuanjing took out the Azure Scale Pills from her storage bag and placed nearly a hundred pill bottles in front of Bai Jingming.

Although they are closely related by blood, they handle business strictly by official procedures.

Bai Jingming was always meticulous in his work for the family. He opened each of the pill bottles and carefully checked the quality of the pills.

"You've refined these pills quite well. Your pill-refining skills seem to have improved since last year." Bai Jingming, also a pill refiner, immediately recognized Bai Xuanjing's skill level.

"Do you want spirit stone stipends or contribution points?"

After counting the pills, Bai Jingming asked a question.

The Bai family distributes salaries to its disciples in two ways, one of which is through contribution points.

Within the Bai family, the exchange ratio between contribution points and low-grade spirit stones is one to one.

With contribution points, you can purchase supplies at the Bai Family Contribution Pavilion. Many of these supplies are not easy to buy outside the family or can only be obtained through auctions.

But at the Contribution Pavilion, these items are all clearly priced, and at discounted prices.

However, contribution points can only circulate within the Bai family.

Some disciples need to purchase items from outside, while others, like Bai Xuanjing, are far away and cannot easily return to their clan's territory, so they can only use spirit stones to purchase supplies.

After a moment's thought, Bai Xuanjing said, "Let's split the contribution points and spirit stones in half."

As she spoke, Bai Xuanjing took out her identity token from her storage bag.

The identity token is entirely white, with a uniquely shaped alchemy furnace engraved on its surface.

The Bai family has a long history, but the establishment of the family system was truly accomplished by the six first ancestors five hundred years ago.

These six ancestors were all at the Foundation Establishment stage and were also brothers of the clan. They made great contributions to the development of the Flowing Cloud Sect and received many rewards. In addition, they also acquired some islands during the development process, which enabled them to complete the construction of the family's foundation.

After the passing of the six ancestors, the Bai family was divided into six branches based on their lineage, each branch representing a descendant of one of the six ancestors.

Bai Xuanjing was born into the third branch of the family, and the ancestor of the third branch was not only highly skilled in cultivation but also an alchemist.

The descendants of the three branches all prioritize alchemy as their first career choice, unless they have exceptional talent in cultivation or simply lack the talent for alchemy, in which case they will switch to other Taoist arts.

The alchemy furnace on the identity token is the alchemy furnace of that ancestor.

The identity tokens of the other branches are similar to those of Bai Xuanjing, but they are engraved with patterns of the ancestral artifacts and spirit beasts of each branch.

This item serves as both an identity credential and a carrier of contribution value.

"good!"

Bai Jingming nodded, transferred sixty contribution points to his identity token, and gave Bai Xuanjing sixty low-grade spirit stones.

With the contribution points already in her identity token, Bai Xuanjing now has 236 contribution points.

As for spirit stones, there were more than a hundred of them.

Being sent to an enclave presents two main challenges: firstly, there's little security, and secondly, being away from home alone can be quite lonely.

Therefore, the Bai family paid a considerable salary to these outsourced alchemists. In addition, Bai Xuanjing himself was an alchemist, so he rarely bought pills for refining qi from outside.

Over the past few years, he has basically only taken in money and never spent it, so Bai Xuanjing has accumulated quite a bit of savings.

"There are two more things."

After giving out the spirit stones and contribution points, Bai Jingming slapped his forehead and said.

"Firstly, the alchemist of the family's No. 8 Fire Vein is getting old. He went to the family to submit a letter, saying that he did not intend to continue working as an outreach alchemist and applied to return to the family."

"The family has given their approval, so his fire vein is now vacant and needs to be filled by a mid-level first-tier alchemist."

"It's just that in recent years, none of the younger generation in our third branch have become mid-grade first-level alchemists..."

The allocation of a mid-grade first-tier fire vein is not a big deal; the three branches can decide for themselves who gets it.

However, during the family elders' meeting, someone brought up the matter, and it was put on the table for discussion.

After discussion, the elders all felt that it was a waste to give a first-grade mid-level fire vein to a first-grade low-level alchemist.

Therefore, if by the time this alchemist retires and there are still no newly promoted mid-grade first-level alchemists, the fire vein will be temporarily lent to the fourth branch of the family.

At this point, Bai Jingming sighed, "The fourth branch mainly focuses on weapon crafting, which also requires the inheritance of the fire vein. In addition, the positions of our buttocks are different... Over the years, our two branches have argued fiercely about the fire vein."

"If this No. 8 fire vein falls into the hands of the fourth branch, it may be nominally a loan, but in reality it may be gone forever, and it will be difficult to get it back in the future."

"Therefore, after the elders of the third branch returned and discussed it privately, they felt that it was best to keep the fire vein in our own hands."

"In addition, the elders also intend to cultivate young alchemists, so recently, the third branch allocated a subsidy to encourage disciples to actively break through to become mid-grade first-level alchemists."

"You can get a discount on anything you buy, including mid-grade first-tier alchemy furnaces, manuals, and spiritual herbs for refining mid-grade first-tier pills."

As he spoke, Bai Jingming took out a jade slip from his storage bag.