"Young Master, I don't know how the Zheng Family found out that the Black Flame Copper Mine that our Ling family bought from them actually contained an extremely valuable Black Flame Copper Essence. The current head of the Zheng Family, Zheng Xuanyang, led the elders and elites of the Zheng Family to surround the Black Flame Copper Essence and demand an explanation from our Ling family. What do you think …"
"They've already surrounded the Black Flame Copper Essence. Have they made a move yet?" Ling Dong painfully rubbed his forehead. The Ling family's foundation was innumerable, and he had been extremely busy these past few days.
"Not yet. With Cheng Cheng there, they won't dare to make a move for the time being. But if this drags on, then …" Gao Yuan replied very cautiously.
Due to his special cultivation method, Gao Yuan's body was very sturdy these past few years of cultivation. But just because he was sturdy didn't mean that he was a crude person.
On the contrary, Gao Yuan was an extremely hardworking person. He worked very hard and was very familiar with the affairs of the family. Now, he was acting as Ling Dong's housekeeper. If anyone thought that Gao Yuan was a simpleton just because he was sturdy, then they would be gravely mistaken.
"Hmph, with the Talisman Contract and the Tenmu Temple behind me, they wouldn't dare to make a move." A cold light flashed through Ling Dong's eyes.
The Black Flame Copper Essence that Gao Yuan was talking about was the abandoned mine two hundred miles away from the Ling family's castle that the Mountain God Yin Kang had mentioned. A few days ago, Ling Dong had personally bought this abandoned mine from the Zheng Family of Yangkou City.
This worthless abandoned mine was worth at most a hundred mid-grade Reiki. Ling Dong had spent ten thousand mid-grade Reiki to buy it back. In the meantime, the Zheng Family had delayed for a few days and sent people to investigate the mine. After finding nothing, they finally sold the mine to the Ling family.
He didn't expect that the Zheng Clan would come knocking on his door after just seven or eight days of the Dark Flame Copper Essence.
"Young Master, money moves people's hearts. The Dark Flame Copper Essence mine is extremely valuable. Just the Dark Flame Copper Essence mine that the Ling family has mined in the past ten days is worth seven to eight thousand medium-grade Reiki, more than enough. In the future, when we expand our production capacity, we will be able to produce hundreds of thousands or even millions of medium-grade Reiki a year.
In the end, Gao Yuan added, "Young Master, it would be best if you make a trip there personally. With Elder Cheng around, the Black Flame Copper Motherlode will be fine. However, if you make a move and injure the miners that we worked so hard to recruit and destroy the mine, my Ling Family's reputation will be tarnished when we first established ourselves in Yangkou City …"
Hearing this, Ling Dong stood up and sneered, "If it wasn't for my Ling family's unstable foundation, I would like to see who is standing behind the Zheng Clan and messing with my Ling family. I don't believe that the Zheng Clan will dare to mess with me after I've become the Hall Master of the Tenmu Temple branch and signed a contract with them. "
Gao Yuan frowned and took a step back. "Our Ling family has appeared out of nowhere in Yangkou City and robbed many people of their benefits. It will be difficult to find out who did it."
"Hmph, if those people can't be left out, then I will go there personally. Gao Yuan, you should continue to stay at home. With Elder Ji around, there shouldn't be any problems. If something does happen, you know how to deal with it. "Ling Dong stood up and walked out the door.
When Gao Yuan nodded, Ling Dong frowned and asked, "Gao Yuan, how many of our clan members have reached the peak of the Heaven Dipper Realm in the past few days?"
"Replying to the Young Master, including the small one, there are already 47 people. The other 30 people among the 80 people selected by the Young Master last time are estimated to reach the peak of the Heavenly Dipper Realm in more than ten days and touch the breakthrough."
"Tell them to practice their combat skills … The Celestial Transformation Pool should be there soon …" Ling Dong rubbed his eyebrows and said helplessly.
Ling Dong had the Myriad Stars House, so the cultivation of the Ling family members was improving rapidly. Ling Dong had selected 80 Ling family members, and more than half of them had reached the peak of the Heaven Dipper Realm in 20 days.
However, they encountered a problem when they reached the Celestial Transformation Stage.
The Celestial Transformation Stage was the most important transformation stage for every martial artist, and it required the assistance of the Celestial Transformation Pool.
Ling Dong did not consider this problem when he was crossing the Celestial Transformation Tribulation. However, now that he was in the Long Safe Territory, Ling Dong found that the Ling family members could not attract the Thunder Tribulation, just like the Heaven Dipper Continent before he broke the seal.
If they could not attract the Thunder Tribulation, they could not cross the Celestial Transformation Stage, and their cultivation could only be stuck at the peak of the Heaven Dipper Realm. In the past few days, the Ling family members had tried several times, and they were all like this.
Ling Dong was planning to go to Yangkou City to ask Leng Cuo the reason for this matter, but he did not expect the Zheng family to come knocking on his door.
Outside the courtyard, Ling Dong moved his Divine Thought, and the Star Descending Plate in his Sea of Consciousness suddenly spun. When a seven-colored starlight was cast, the abandoned mine pit 200 miles away that Ling Dong had been to flashed in his mind.
The air dispersed like water waves, and with the disappearance of Ling Dong's figure, calmness was instantly restored.
This was the Magical Teleportation that could only be performed by Constellation Realm powerhouses. In addition to moving around freely with the user as the center, as long as the martial artist had been to a place before, he could teleport there with his powerful Divine Soul power.
However, the distance of this movement was related to the Divine Soul power of the martial artist. With Ling Dong's Divine Soul power at the early stage of the Purple Soul Realm, coupled with the slight assistance of the Star Descending Plate, the distance of teleportation was at most 200 miles, which was very convenient.
If it was an ordinary martial artist, he would have to consider using this long-distance teleportation. After all, the consumption of Divine Soul power caused by a long-distance teleportation was not something that could be recovered in a few hours.
However, Ling Dong had the Star Descending Plate, and the consumption of Divine Soul power from a single teleportation could be recovered in a quarter of an hour by the Star Descending Plate. Therefore, Ling Dong extravagantly used Teleportation.
"Master Cheng, why don't you enjoy the good fortune of being a Tenmu Temple Protector and Revered Martial Artist? Why did you come to this dusty and desolate mountain to make things difficult for my Zheng family?" Zheng Xuanyang, the head of the Zheng family, with a white face and a short beard, was trying to persuade Cheng Dongyuan.
However, Cheng Dongyuan, who was called Master Cheng, ignored him. He just closed his eyes and sat cross-legged in the air at the entrance of the Ling family's Black Flame Copper Ore with a solemn expression.
Strands of azure energy flowed out from his body, frightening the dozens of people in the Zheng family. They didn't dare to act rashly.
Cheng and Ji, who was previously mentioned as overseeing the Ling family, were the two Revered Martial Artists of the Tenmu Temple assigned to the Ling family by Gongsun Zhanyi, the former governor of the Tenmu Temple.
Originally, these two Revered Martial Artists were extremely dissatisfied with being assigned to a small Deputy Hall Master. However, when Ling Dong offered them fifty percent more than what the governor of the Yuanzhou Province had offered, these two old men obeyed Ling Dong's orders.
Five hundred thousand mid-grade Reiki was definitely a huge sum. Just these two old Star Monarchs alone cost the Ling family a million mid-grade Reiki. This didn't even include the ten Constellation Realm martial artists of the Tenmu Temple who were under Ling Dong's command.
If the Ling family didn't take advantage of this opportunity to expand, they wouldn't be able to last much longer.
But then again, although the Ling family had to fork out 1.1 million mid-grade Reiki a year for the two Star Monarchs, ten Constellation Realm, and a hundred Qui Star Realm martial artists of the Tenmu Temple, the Ling family's strength had taken a qualitative leap because of this.
At the very least, they now had martial artists guarding their shops and mines. The Ling family really couldn't afford to take out their clansmen at the moment.
"Cheng Dongyuan, don't f * cking be so shameless! They might be afraid of you, but I'm not! If you don't get out of my way, don't blame me for being merciless. " A white-bearded old man behind the Zheng Family's patriarch, Zheng Xuanyang, couldn't help but get angry when he saw Cheng Dongyuan's indifferent attitude.
"Patriarch, please calm down. Let your grandson talk!" Zheng Xuanyang, the patriarch of the Zheng Family, hurriedly stopped the so-called patriarch of the Zheng Family who was about to make a move. He said to Cheng Dongyuan with a serious expression, "Master Cheng, the Ling family cheated us of our mines. Why are you dragging yourself into this mess?"
"The Ling family cheated you of your mines?" Cheng Dongyuan finally raised his eyelids. "Why did I hear that it was the Zheng Family who sold an abandoned mine for 10,000 mid-grade Reiki to bully the Ling family, an outsider?"
Cheng Dongyuan's words angered the patriarch of the Zheng Family behind Zheng Xuanyang. "One side is willing to hit, and the other side is willing to suffer. How is this bullying? Besides, the Ling family was the one who deliberately cheated us of our mines. "
"Sigh, Old Zheng, it's been so many years, but you're still so stubborn. No wonder you're the famous Zheng Youli of Yangkou City! If you're in the right, you can do whatever you want. Even if you're not, you can still be domineering! No wonder, no wonder the Zheng Family is still so cowardly after so many years! "Cheng Dongyuan shook his head and sighed.
After being exposed in front of so many people by Cheng Dongyuan, the patriarch of the Zheng Family felt a little embarrassed. He rushed forward and shouted at Cheng Dongyuan, "You with the surname Cheng, are you going to get out of my way or not? If you don't, I'll … "
"What will you do to this place? Clan Leader Zheng, the seal is here. I want to know if the words of the Clan Leader of the Zheng Clan are like farts, to the point that you don't even remember the seal that you personally made? "Ling Dong, who had walked out from the depths of the mine, raised the seal in his hand and asked with a gloomy face.
Zheng Xuanyang's expression changed when he saw Ling Dong walk out. "Young Patriarch Ling, the Ling family deliberately lied to me. That talisman doesn't count."
Ling Dong sneered. "Then what kind of talisman does count, Patriarch Zheng? Or should I say, what exactly do you want?"
Ling Dong, who had been working tirelessly for days, lost his last bit of patience and asked bluntly when he saw Zheng Xuanyang's face.
Ecstasy flashed through Zheng Xuanyang's eyes when he heard Ling Dong's words. He thought that Ling Dong was about to give in, so he hurriedly said, "It's very simple. The Ling family will return the Dark Flame Copper Essence to the Zheng Family, and I won't bicker with you about the Dark Flame Copper Essence that you've mined these days."
"Bicker? Return? What a big appetite! "Ling Dong sneered and then cupped his hands slightly at Cheng Dongyuan." Thank you for your trouble, Cheng. "
There was no use in arguing in this kind of situation. Using fresh blood to cut the Gordian knot was the most convenient.
"Palace Master Ling is too modest." Cheng Dongyuan responded and a green pagoda suddenly appeared in front of him. "If you don't leave in ten breaths, you'll have to bear the consequences!"
Almost at the same moment that Cheng Dongyuan's green pagoda exploded with a frightening aura, two figures suddenly appeared behind the Zheng Family. "What big words! Cheng Dongyuan, since when did you have the right to bully the people of the Life and Death Tower?"
"Murong Gong, you're really the one behind this!" Ling Dong's teeth fiercely clenched together.
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