After listening to the Hu family's discussion for a while, Zhang Ling stopped being silent and imitated Bai Yun Sanren's tone, humming with slight anger.
"Enough with the noise, I have my own plans. You only need to hold onto your current power. Hu Lin, stay, the rest of you leave."
Immediately, there was no more arguing in the hall. The others retreated one after another, leaving only Hu Lin.
"Have you collected all the materials I asked you to collect before?" Zhang Ling asked, looking at Hu Lin.
"So it was Fifth Uncle asking about this. Your orders are naturally not to be neglected. The materials you asked for have all been collected," Hu Lin stepped forward a few steps, said with a chuckle.
As he spoke, this person took off a cyan storage bag and handed it over.
Zhang Ling, disguised as Bai Yun Sanren, also smiled. With a wave of his hand, the storage bag flew in front of him. A wisp of divine sense invaded it, and he nodded in satisfaction. At the same time, with a flick of his hand, a white jade bottle flew out of his sleeve and landed in Hu Lin's hand.
"Take this bottle of pills, it will help your son's cultivation."
"Thank you, Fifth Uncle. If Fifth Uncle has nothing else, this junior will not disturb you any longer," Hu Lin was overjoyed and hurriedly accepted the jade bottle, thanked Zhang Ling, and was about to leave.
"Hehe, what's the rush? I haven't finished speaking yet," Zhang Ling glanced at this person. Although Hu Lin was the head of the Hu family, he was quite impatient for his age.
As for the pills in the bottle, it was a third-grade spiritual medicine called White Toad Pill, a rare pill made from the inner core of a high-level white jade toad, which could effectively treat several types of fire poison.
This Hu Lin had a grandson with dual spiritual roots and a Foundation Establishment cultivation base, but he accidentally entered a dangerous place more than ten years ago and was infected with Yin Fire Poison. Every once in a while, he would be eroded by the fire poison, suffering unspeakable pain, and his cultivation base almost fell.
Therefore, this person had asked Bai Yun Sanren to refine this kind of pill before. Bai Yun Sanren had refined this pill several years ago, but Bai Yun Sanren had traveled for more than ten years before thinking of returning to the family.
As for the young man who had been following Bai Yun Sanren, the Hu family did not recognize him. This was a good seedling that Bai Yun Sanren had discovered during his travels. He had wind spiritual root aptitude, so he took him as a disciple and prepared to bring him back to the Hu family for training.
According to Bai Yun Sanren's original plan, as long as he was carefully cultivated, the Hu family would have another Golden Core cultivator in a hundred years. Unexpectedly, because this young man had no regard for others, both of them died in Zhang Ling's hands.
Hu Lin looked at his ancestor suddenly stop talking, wondering what he was thinking, and couldn't help but call out. "Fifth Uncle, what else do you need me to do? I will definitely do it myself."
Zhang Ling smiled and came back to his senses, "I want to refine a treasure recently, and I need some Cloud Swallowing Stones. Use the Hu family's connections to collect some."
Hearing his instructions, Hu Lin's face became distressed.
"What? Can't you do it?" Zhang Ling's face darkened.
Hu Lin was glared at by his gaze, squeezed out a smile, and hesitated for a moment.
"Fifth Uncle, if the previous old ancestor was still here, with his late-stage Golden Core strength and relationship with the Flying Cloud Sect, we could still get some Cloud Swallowing Stones. But now that our Hu family is weak, even if we still have some connections with the Flying Cloud Sect, we can only exchange them with the Flying Cloud Sect for a large number of spirit stones. I don't know how many Cloud Swallowing Stones Fifth Uncle needs. If it's too many, the family..."
Naturally, the more the better, Zhang Ling thought to himself. But seeing Hu Lin's embarrassed look, he naturally understood this person's concerns.
Cloud Swallowing Stones were expensive. Although the Hu family had accumulated some cultivation resources, exchanging them for Cloud Swallowing Stones would consume a lot of the family's resources. This was what Hu Lin was worried about. After all, he was still the head of the Hu family and had to take care of the entire family of cultivators.
Zhang Ling sneered in his heart, this person was also very scheming. Although this kind of person's cultivation base might not be very high, they were most suitable for serving as patriarchs or similar positions.
With a flick of his hand, a storage bag landed on the table next to him. Hu Lin's eyes lit up and he asked, what is this?
"I also had some gains from this trip, so naturally I won't use too many family resources. There are a lot of spirit stones and treasures in here, so you can use these to exchange them."
"Alright, go. Oh, right, there are also a few bottles of pills that improve mana, you can take them too."
"Thank you, Fifth Uncle. I will definitely handle the things you entrusted to me properly. This junior will take his leave."
Hu Lin took the storage bag on the table and glanced at it, seeing that there were seven or eight hundred thousand spirit stones and several magic weapons inside, he couldn't help but be shocked.
But then he saw a few bottles of pills appearing on the table, his face immediately lit up with joy, he hurriedly took them and bowed to take his leave.
After leaving the hall, Hu Lin was overjoyed with the storage bag and pills in his hand. But some doubts also arose in his heart. This Fifth Uncle seemed to have changed a bit since he came back this time. Usually, this person would squander a lot of family resources, but why was he so generous this time?
Although he had some doubts, Hu Lin would naturally not ask these questions. He couldn't wait for this Fifth Uncle to use less family resources.
After Hu Lin left, Zhang Ling sat quietly in the empty hall, seemingly closing his eyes to rest, but at this moment, he released a wisp of divine sense to observe the situation in this manor. Especially Hu Lin who had just left, he released several wisps of divine sense to observe this person.
After observing for a while and seeing that this person was not acting strangely, he withdrew his divine sense.
Even if Hu Lin had some doubts, Zhang Ling didn't need to worry. After all, he was just a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so naturally he wouldn't dare to question him, the only old ancestor now.
Moreover, exchanging for a few Cloud Swallowing Stones in the name of the Hu family would be easier than exchanging them himself.
At the same time, he had also roughly checked the situation in this manor. This was a group of buildings built on the mountainside of Little Cloud Peak, covering an area of more than ten miles, divided into many independent courtyards, where the Hu family's direct descendants mostly lived.
The nearby few small mountains were also the Hu family's territory, where the Hu family's Qi Refining disciples mostly lived.
In general, no one could pose a threat to him.
In addition to the forty or so Foundation Establishment cultivators, the Hu family also had hundreds of Qi Refining disciples. It could be considered a small force. After all, the Hu family originally had two Golden Core cultivators, so it was not simple to have this kind of foundation.
Zhang Ling then left the hall. Not long after, he arrived at the summit of Little Cloud Mountain, landing in a bamboo forest. After walking for a short time on the bamboo forest path, a clearing paved with bluestone appeared ahead. Some stone pillars and stone lanterns were located around it.
Behind these buildings, a cave dwelling was built against a cliff, covered by a layer of white mist light罩.
Zhang Ling waved his hand and took out a square token from Bai Yun Sanren's storage bag. This was the restriction token for this cave dwelling. He cast a magic spell on it, and it emitted a red light, turning into a fist-sized red cloud and flying forward.
Wherever the red cloud passed, a passage would open in the restriction outside the cave dwelling.
