Lianyu knew of these matters and knew that a middle stage cultivator could take care of around three to five acres, while a late stage was around ten acres.
On the other hand, although family cultivators would earn the same as rogue cultivators, on top of the spiritual stones they gain, they would also get contribution points.
They would get contribution points based on half the spiritual stones they gained.
So, if you earn twenty spiritual stones yearly, you will get ten contribution points yearly.
These points are used in various ways.
Although her ancestor said every clan member got one bottle, Lianyu knew that this was a quota and not a real gift. You still had to pay for that bottle with your contribution points.
Generally, the price of everything you can buy with contribution points is the same as that of the spiritual stones required.
In truth, from the thirty-four eligible clan members, only ten can buy the bottle yearly just from farming. After all, besides the bottle, you had many other things to buy.
The rest had to take on family missions, missions that were only rewarded with contribution points.
Anyways, younger ones generally just take one or two every five years to make sure their body is healthy, while older ones take four to five. The average is that half the quota is bought, while the other half is sold.
Family economy was never a kind matter. In fact, just the opportunity of purchasing things is a privilege, and having to only pay half is the kindness of the clan.
If you're a rogue cultivator, you should be thankful if you have the opportunity to purchase higher ranked spiritual resources!
The ancestor saw Lianyu's expression and smiled "Well, every year, we sell around ten to fifty bottles.
Generally, the rogue cultivators hired by us can directly buy a third of the available bottles, one third is sold to different family forces that have a good relationship with us.
The last third is auctioned off in the yearly auction held in the cultivation market established by the several family forces of our little Green Jade County.
Every year, our family earns a minimum of 100 spiritual stones and a maximum of 150 spiritual stones, just from ten bottles.
As you can imagine, if we include all the generated spiritual water, we would have two thousand bottles, which is a yearly income of twenty thousand spiritual stones!
Even among all the resource points in our Green Jade County, our green lake is definitely among the top three!
And, because of our spiritual planting heritage, we generally double the income and sometimes even triple.
Including other industries, our clan earns at least fifty thousand spiritual stones every year, half of which is used for various clan matters, but the remaining half is pure profit.
A foundation building pill costs around thirty to fifty thousand, this means that every two years, we are basically guaranteed to buy a foundation building pill.
Based on the 20% guaranteed chance of advancing, we should have a foundation building cultivator every ten years!
Naturally matters are far from being as rosy as they sound, and our expenses for other things are more than just foundation building pills.
Still, our income and our tendency to rise in the past few years threatened a few family forces in the Green Jade County.
After all, we are only here for five generations but are already among the top five of the thirteen foundation building forces!"
Lianyu listened and nodded in understanding.
In the southeastern territory, foundation building forces were really everywhere.
After all, the higher ranked forces don't have the energy to defend themselves, how could they have the energy to take over smaller resource points?
For higher forces, fifty thousand spiritual stones yearly might sound tempting, but he work that comes with it will definitely be unappealing!
Not to mention… the Green Jade County is one of the closest counties to the border. They are the border of the border!
Rather than putting your own power so far into the front for a few spiritual stones, it'd be better to save your energy for emergencies.
"Our ancestors took over this green spirit lake from ferocious beasts in the past!" the ancestor seethed a bit when he thought of the greedy hands of others.
"Clearly when we were prosperous, we offered various favours to the families here, to appease them after we rashly entered this county, but now that we are in danger, they are sharpening their weapons and getting ready to fight us!
Our enemies are four forces that always wanted to fight us, and I suspect one of them baited the tribes, another one should have baited the beasts!
These forces are the eleventh ranked Li family, eight ranked Blue Fire Sect, fifth ranked Yi family and third ranked Bamboo Sword Sect!
Well… since fellow cultivator… your past husband has left…" as he said this, he looked over.
When he saw that Lianyu didn't show more than a frown, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued.
"After his death, our position as the fourth strongest clan fell, we are suspected to be ranked seventh.
After all, the sixth still has two cultivators in the foundation building stage, while the top three are out of our league with at least three.
As far as I know, the Green Bamboo Sect is being supressed by the second ranked Fast Sword Sect, they are both sects that have competed for as long as the Green Jade County stands.
Although they made some moves initially or when they had time, generally, they don't have the power to send these enemies to us.
Even, swordsmen are usually not so shady as to make these plans. We have no life and death grudge, it's just a normal competition because our Green Spirit Water is very suitable for their Green Spirit Bamboo.
On the other hand, I don't know which of the remaining three can be excluded.
When we just arrived here, our ancestors fought the Li family, the third strongest force of that time. Their grudge is definitely deep and can't be explained in words.
The Blue Fire Sect is incompatible with us for various reasons, mainly because our family competed with them during our rise, as our weapon refining technique is better.
Lastly, the Yi family has started competing with us ever since we declined in the last generation, showing tendencies to take us over so they can enter the top three."