Chapter 3: Persuading Shangguan Li (Please collect)
“Xiaoting, are you crazy?”

“We came all the way here, but we didn’t get the foundation-building pills and lost two good seedlings. And you actually want to take these poorly qualified female seedlings back as your wives!?”

“Will the master of the house scold us to death?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Yangde spat out a series of words like a machine gun, with saliva flying everywhere.

However, Shang Ting smiled slightly, his eyes calm, and said:

“However, since it is not easy to come here, why not take advantage of the opportunity to recruit this batch of eliminated immortal seedlings to replenish the family’s fresh blood?”

“You also know that the number of new spiritual roots produced by the family is getting smaller and smaller every year.”

Upon hearing this, Shang Yangde was stunned.

What Shang Ting said was true. In the past, merchants could produce more than a dozen fairy seedlings every year.

Three years ago, there were only eight people in Shangting’s generation.

And this year there are even fewer, only seven!

The head of the family mentions the problem of the spiritual roots and bloodline becoming increasingly thin every year.

But there are many inconveniences in marrying close relatives.

Now, these failed female immortal seedlings all have spiritual roots. If we bring in a dozen or twenty of them and have them give birth to more children, the situation will improve immediately!
“It seems like it’s really feasible?”

The more Shang Yangde thought about it, the more it made sense.

Most of these female immortals who are coming down the mountain were discovered from the mortal world.

He has a clean family background, is young and has simple thoughts.

They could not enter the Yan Yang Sect, and other sects would not accept them because of their low-grade spiritual roots.

The vast majority can only become casual cultivators.

Only by selling your labor in the market and earning spirit stones can you purchase skills and embark on the path to immortality.

At this moment, they are confused about their future.

At this time, Shangjia, as a regular immortal cultivation family with a second-level spiritual vein, extended an olive branch…

Huge attraction!
Seeing Shang Yangde’s expression change, Shang Ting knew that he was moved.

Just one last blow.

Shang Ting smiled and said:
“Now that the family is short of manpower everywhere, giving them a way out, isn’t that the best of both worlds?”

After hearing this, Shang Yangde made up his mind:

“Okay, let’s recruit female immortals. The more the better!”

Soon, on the mountainside.

Shang Yangde led several people from Shang family to stop the more than 80 failed immortal seedlings and said loudly:
“We are a family from Huangyan Mountain, a foundation-building family with a second-level spiritual vein station!”

“I have come here to recruit a group of female immortals. They need to marry young and outstanding monks from our clan. They only need to leave three offspring. It doesn’t matter if they have spiritual roots or not. It will be considered as meeting the conditions. You can stay or leave as you like after that!”

“In return, we merchants will provide you with a second-level spiritual vein dojo and immortal cultivation techniques, as well as teaching by a master. As for spiritual rice, spiritual stones, elixirs and other resources, we have everything you need!”

Shang Yangde demonstrated his cultivation in the late stage of Qi training.

Coupled with the fact that the merchants and their group all wore the same family Taoist robes, everyone was soon convinced.

Just as Shang Ting expected, many female fairy seedlings had just been eliminated and were confused about their future.

At this time, the merchants extended an olive branch to them, and they were all tempted.

It is better to cultivate immortality with a family than to be an independent cultivator!
Among the crowd, Shang Ting had already slipped to Shangguan Li’s side.

Shangguan Li reached the age of fifteen, but she had not yet fully grown up.

But she is graceful and obviously a beauty.

Appearance is not important.

The [Fortune-Seeing Technique] blossomed in Shang Ting’s eyes, and he stared at her fiery and noble [Luanfeng] destiny, and his heart felt warm.

Seeing that there was no one beside her, he immediately walked up to her and said with a faint smile:
“Girl, do you have any idea about our family’s conditions?”

Shangguan Li gave him a strange look.

I don’t understand why this merchant monk came to me alone.

But she refused without hesitation:

“No need! I still have a great revenge to take, how can I marry someone else?”

“Oh? That’s it.”

Shang Ting smiled even more and said, “Miss, now that you have failed the selection, do you have any way out?”

Shangguan Li was silent for a moment, and said in confusion:
“I didn’t enter the sect. I plan to go to Hengsha Market, go…”

She couldn’t say what she was going to do specifically.

She has no special skills, no resources or background, and her options are limited.

Seeing that she couldn’t answer, Shang Ting asked again:
“Girl, what is the exact origin of your enemy? Maybe I, the merchant, can avenge you.”

Hearing this, Shangguan Li’s pretty face darkened, and she slowly told about her life story.
It turns out that she was born in Daxia, a neighboring country of Daliang, and was from a family of scholars and high-ranking officials. However, her father pleaded for the victims of the disaster, and thus offended the treacherous prime minister in the court.

As a result, his family was wiped out, and Shangguan Li luckily escaped to Daliang, where he unexpectedly discovered that he possessed spiritual roots.

The treacherous prime minister in the court relied on several Qi training cultivators in his family, and thus was able to do whatever he wanted.

At the end, Shangguan Li’s brows furrowed more and more tightly:
“If I get married and have children, how can I take revenge?”

“I see.”

After listening to this, Shang Ting felt 90 percent confident.

Then he smiled and said:

“Girl, you also heard that our Shangjia is a foundation-building family. It will be easy for us to deal with your enemies.”

“I understand your concerns. I can relax the conditions for you.”

“You join my business first, you don’t need to get married and have children for the time being, and your treatment will remain the same. My business will avenge you.”

But Shangguan Li looked alert when he heard this:
“If you show me kindness without any reason, you are either a traitor or a thief! What do you like about me that is worth offering me such good conditions?”

Shang Ting smiled slightly and said bluntly:
“I fell in love with your pretty face.”

“what”

Shangguan Li blushed immediately, she never expected the boy in front of her to be so frivolous.
But he looked serious and didn’t look like he was joking.

Shang Ting continued:

“Of course, it’s not without conditions.”

“What conditions?”

Shangguan Li immediately raised his head, his eyes tense.

“Be engaged to me.”

Shang Ting said calmly: “After I avenge you, you will officially become my legal wife.”

“Can you let me think about it?”

Shangguan Li’s cheeks flushed as she thought about it with a frown on her face.

She looked down the mountain road.

After going down, you will have to venture into the dangerous world alone.

Then he looked at Shang Ting, who was standing in front of him with a handsome and unrestrained look.

And if I follow him to a business, how can I be sure that what he says is true?

But it’s just an engagement, no need to get married and have children, and the treatment is good
Seeing that she was hesitant, Shang Ting was about to speak.

Suddenly, a sneer came from the crowd.

A young man in a Taoist robe stood up and shouted:

“Don’t believe what these business people say!”

“Your business is based in Huangyan Mountain! That place is dangerous and barren, and your family’s head is nearing the end of his life. If we go there, wouldn’t that be courting death?”

“what!?”

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like ice water being poured on their faces, instantly extinguishing the enthusiasm that had just been ignited by the female fairies.

Shang Yangde’s face changed.

I didn’t expect that among this group of immortal seedlings, there were people from other immortal cultivation families.

He is well-informed and has pointed out the current crisis facing businesses in one sentence!

For a moment, the merchants had no idea how to refute, because what the other party said was all true!
I saw the crowd’s discussions getting louder and louder.

The merchant laughed, stepped forward, looked at the man, and asked loudly:

“Just now, did you see a senior from the Yanyang Sect who had established his foundation descending from the Immortal Stage?”

“good.”

Everyone witnessed how Shang Jianfeng and his companion were led into the mountain gate by the female foundation-building cultivator.

“Have you ever heard of the reputation of Senior Brother Hong of Yanyang Sect and the two great foundation-building masters [Water, Wetness, Fire, and Dryness]?”

The young man hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, “I’ve heard of it, too.”

“Humph!”

The next moment, Shang Ting sneered and shouted arrogantly:

“To be honest! That female senior who is building the foundation took a fancy to our Shangjia pair of innate geniuses who are born with mutual benefit, and came to recruit them into the Yanyang Sect! She also promised to introduce them to the two major foundation building schools of water, dampness, fire and dryness!”

“And my business has a little friendship with Senior Brother Hong. He personally gave our business two franchise quotas!”

“Besides, my business has been operating in Huangyan Mountain for two or three hundred years. We are one of the three tyrants and have always been on good terms with the Yanyang Sect. How can there be any danger? What’s more, my master is only over 150 years old! To say that the end is coming is pure nonsense!”

(End of this chapter)