Chapter 7: Expanding the Scale of Chicken Farming

Inside the study.

　　Lin Yunyi: "Dad, why are you looking for me again?"

　　Looking at Lin Yunyi's disrespectful manner, Lin Yuanqiao said helplessly, "The family wants to expand its chicken farming! We'll buy your secret recipe for raising spirit chickens."

　　Lin Yunyi: "Okay."

　　Lin Yuanqiao asked with some suspicion, "You agreed? So readily?"

　　Lin Yunyi: "Of course, if we want to make the chicken farming business bigger and stronger, how can we do it by ourselves? It's time for the family to step in. I want 20% of the profits from the spirit chickens raised by the family."

　　Lin Yuanqiao readily agreed.

　　Lin Yuanqiao thought to himself: The ancestor's intention is also to give two to three percent. Xiao San has five spiritual roots. Even if he has the Heavenly Dry Sacred Body, he will still need a lot of cultivation resources.

　　However, families have their own rules, and it's not good to be too biased.

　　Twenty percent of the profits from raising chickens went to Xiao San, so Xiao San shouldn't have to worry too much about cultivation resources in the future.

　　Lin Yuanqiao was initially worried that the mistress would ask for too much, but to his surprise, she only asked for 20%.

　　Looking at Lin Yuanqiao's expression, Lin Yunyi secretly wondered if he had given too little.

　　Thinking that it's good to take shelter under a big tree, he was able to successfully become a large-scale chicken farmer thanks to his ancestor's care, and he never changed his mind again.

　　Lin Yuanqiao smiled and said, "The ancestor said that you deserve a great credit for the establishment of the chicken farm."

　　If he were a rogue cultivator, he wouldn't be able to save even one spirit chicken, let alone more than a hundred.

　　Although he was in charge of establishing the chicken farm, his family also provided a lot of help.

　　The process of raising chickens was not smooth sailing. There were two outbreaks of chicken plague. Fortunately, the old man gave him medicine. Otherwise, his chicken-raising business would have been abandoned halfway.

　　A 20% profit is not a small amount. The old man and father should have known the whole chicken-raising process by now. The fact that they specifically asked him about this matter was probably to take care of him.

　　The ancestor left the Beast Taming Sect when he was over a hundred years old and came to Qingxi Town to establish the Lin family.

　　It has been more than forty years now, and he is now nearly 150 years old.

　　Foundation Establishment cultivators have a lifespan of two hundred years, but when our ancestor left the sect, he was injured and it's unlikely he'll live to be two hundred.

　　If things go quickly, it will take twenty years; if things go slowly, it will take thirty years. The ancestor will probably be gone by then.

　　The character in the book should have died ten years after his marriage to Jiang Tan'er, which would be more than twenty years later.

　　If he hadn't married Jiang Tan'er, the ancestor might have lived a few more years. After all, after marrying Jiang Tan'er, the ancestor realized he had made a mistake and suffered a major blow, even vomiting blood.

　　If the family cannot produce a second Foundation Establishment cultivator in the next twenty years, it will be in danger. A family without a Foundation Establishment cultivator is likely to fall apart.

　　Currently, the one with the best chance of advancing in the family is my father, who has already reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.

　　Based on his cultivation progress, he should be able to advance to the ninth level of Qi Refining within the next ten years. In that case, his father should still have more than ten years to plan for the Foundation Establishment Pill after advancing.

　　One Foundation Establishment Pill is worth about 100,000 spirit stones. The family's main income now comes from ten acres of spirit fields. Thirty percent of the spirit fields are given to the Beast Taming Sect, and fifty percent are kept for their own use. The remaining portion can be sold for about 4,000 spirit stones every year. If they rely entirely on the income from the spirit fields, it would probably take more than 20 years to save up 100,000 spirit stones.

　　Of course, the ancestor was a Foundation Establishment cultivator. When he left the sect, he had saved up some wealth. If he really wanted to buy Foundation Establishment Pills, he could probably help out.

　　However, we can't rely on our ancestors for everything.

　　We still need to find a way to increase our income! If the chicken farming business can be successful, the family will be better off.

　　After passing on his chicken-raising techniques to the family's cultivators, Lin Yunyi went into seclusion to attempt to break through to the second level of Qi Refining.

　　A month later, he successfully broke through and entered the second level of Qi Refining.

　　Lin Yunyi's breakthrough to the second level of Qi Refining caused quite a stir in the family. Even with dual spiritual roots, entering the second level of Qi Refining at the age of six could be considered genius. Lin Yunyi, on the other hand, had five spiritual roots.

　　Seeing Lin Yunyi emerge from seclusion, Lin Yunxiao said excitedly, "Third Brother, you've finally come out of seclusion!"

　　Lin Yunyi: "Yes! After a month of seclusion, I've finally achieved my goal."

　　Lin Yunxiao said with envy, "Third Brother, you've advanced to the second level of Qi Refining!"

　　Lin Yunyi glanced at Lin Yunxiao and said, "You don't need to be envious. You have better aptitude than me. It's just that you listened to your father's stupid words and went down the wrong path. Fortunately, it's never too late to mend your ways. You corrected yourself in time and will catch up with me soon."

　　Lin Yunxiao: "Really?"

　　Lin Yunyi nodded and said, "Of course, why would I lie to you? Anything interesting happening lately?"

　　Lin Yunxiao said with some melancholy, "Recently, many elders in the family have gotten involved in raising chickens, taking away our work."

　　Lin Yunyi: "It's a good thing to have someone help with the work; it's a good opportunity to do something else."

　　Lin Yunxiao: "Other? What?"

　　Lin Yunyi thought for a moment and said, "Let's make some shuttlecocks. Make a lot, as a benefit for the children in the clan."

　　Many of the chickens in the coop have grown colorful feathers, and Lin Yunyi had already collected a batch of them.

　　Lin Yunxiao asked with great interest, "A shuttlecock? What's that?"

　　Lin Yunyi glanced at Lin Yunxiao and thought to himself: My fourth brother is so old, and he doesn't even know what a shuttlecock is. How pitiful.

　　Lin Yunyi gathered the members of the chicken-raising team together to make shuttlecocks.

　　The shuttlecocks made from chicken feathers were immediately praised by everyone in the clan.

　　In no time, the mountains and fields were filled with children playing shuttlecock.

　　The spirit chicken feathers used to make shuttlecocks are considered rare treasures for many ordinary children.

　　Lin Yuanqiao looked at the children playing shuttlecock all over the mountains and fields, feeling gratified.

　　Lin Yunwen looked at Lin Yuanqiao and asked, "Is Father very happy?"

　　Lin Yuanqiao nodded and said, "Not bad!"

　　Lin Yunwen: "I heard that my third brother's shuttlecocks have brought a lot of business to the shop."

　　The shuttlecocks that were made were either given to the children in the clan for their ordinary quality, or sold in the clan's shop for their good quality.

　　The shuttlecocks made of chicken feathers are not expensive because they are made from the feathers of free-range chickens, which are brightly colored and quite popular, and they sell well.

　　The family shop was doing so-so business, but after they started giving away shuttlecocks as a bonus to customers, it unexpectedly brought in a surge in business.

　　Lin Yuanqiao: "What makes me happy is not that your third brother's shuttlecocks have brought a lot of business to the shop, but that your third brother is actually willing to make such small toys. He's finally acting like a child again."

　　Lin Yunwen felt that his father's relief was unnecessary. Although his third brother was the first to make the shuttlecock, he thought it was a child's toy and was too lazy to play with it.

　　The third brother didn't like it, but the fourth brother really liked it. Among the chicken-raising team members, the fourth brother was the best at kicking shuttlecock and could kick it the most times in one go. 　My fourth brother alone had more than twenty shuttlecocks, some solid-colored and some mixed-colored, and each one was made with great care.

　　Lin Yunxiao looked at Lin Yunyi and said, "Third Brother, aren't we making shuttlecocks today?"

　　Lin Yunyi said lazily, "There are so many shuttlecocks, we won't be able to use them all in three years, let's not make any more for now."

　　Lin Yunxiao said dismissively, "They'll definitely be used up in three years, maybe even in three months. I heard that those shuttlecocks are very popular when they're sent to the family shop."

　　Lin Yunyi: "A kid's toy! It's actually quite popular."

　　With the involvement of elders in the family, the scale of chicken farming rapidly increased.

　　In just one year, the flock of chickens expanded to more than a thousand.

　　The flock of chickens lays about 20,000 eggs per month. These spirit eggs can generate about 2,000 spirit stones in revenue each month, which adds up to about 20,000 spirit stones per year.

　　The annual income from the family's spiritual fields is no more than this.

　　However, once the flock size exceeded a thousand, the expansion rate slowed down.

　　The land in Qingxi Mountain is limited, and the area suitable for raising chickens is also limited. A little over a thousand chickens is about the limit, but even so, the elders of the family are already satisfied.