Chapter 334 Upgrading and Development

It has been less than three days.

The news that Li Qianqing of the Li family succeeded in forming a Dan and that the Li family has become a Dan-forming Immortal Cultivating Family has spread throughout the Xiangshui County.

The Li family was originally the overlord of Xiangshui County. Now that the Li family has made a further leap in strength, the next step is to completely control Xiangshui County.

Just like there cannot be an independent foundation-building force within the Qingfeng Valley’s sphere of influence, there cannot be any independent force in the entire Xiangshui County in the future.

The Dan-forming Sect is also a subordinate force at the Qi-refining level, but there are not many of them, and these forces are all within a thousand miles of the sect’s territory. There are only foundation-building subordinate forces outside a thousand miles.

In the case of a Dan-forming Immortal Cultivating Family, if this Dan-forming Immortal Cultivating Family is in a small county, then this small county is completely controlled by this Dan-forming Immortal Cultivating Family. A Dan-forming Immortal Cultivating Family in a medium-sized county also has the opportunity to control it, but it is very difficult. To completely control a large county, currently in Zhao State, only the Zhao State Royal Family has such ability.

Huangmin County is one of the seven counties of Zhao State and the location of the Zhao State Imperial City. It is completely controlled by the Zhao State Royal Family. The four major sects have no power here. As for other counties, the influence of the Zhao State Royal Family varies, depending on the actual situation of the county.

In Xiangshui County where the Li family is now, after the Li family became a Jindan Xiuxian family, the influence of the Zhao State Royal Family on this place has been further weakened and has become negligible, and the influence of the Shangzong Qingfeng Valley is actually not great. The actual changes can be seen from the fact that the manager of the Tongyang County Xiushi Market has been replaced.

When the news that the Li family became a Jindan Xiuxian family spread, all the cultivators in the Xiangshui County Xiushi Market were discussing this topic.

"The Li family has completely risen! I knew from the beginning that the current patriarch of the Li family is extraordinary."

"Originally, there were not many robbery cultivators in our Xiangshui County under the governance of the Li family, and these should be even fewer."

"No matter where you are, there are robbery cultivators. Even if it is safe here now, you still have to be careful when you go out. However, as long as you are in the cultivator market, let alone robbery cultivators, even some tempered cultivators must control their temper..."

"As the Li family has become a Jindan cultivation family, more forces from other counties should come to do business here, and it will be easier to buy what you want at that time."

"What can't be bought with spirit stones?"

"That's right, but I want to buy it more safely, otherwise the things will go into other people's pockets before they are even warm in my hands."

When most cultivators heard this news, they thought it was good news.

Under the control of the Li family, Xiangshui County has become more prosperous and safer, and they are all direct or indirect beneficiaries.

There are also a small number of cultivators who are not good for the strength of the Li family, so they naturally don't want to see the strength of the Li family.

There are also some independent cultivators among these cultivators, but most of them are independent Qi-refining and immortal cultivation families that have not become affiliated forces of the Li family.

Many independent Qi-refining and immortal cultivation families have been holding family meetings these days.

Mainly to discuss what to do next.

"I said at the beginning that becoming an affiliated force of the Li family, although the family will develop slowly, it will be safer. Now it's good. The head of the Li family has successfully formed a pill, and now our family doesn't need to develop."

These cultivators from independent Qi-refining and immortal cultivation families know very well what the Li family will do next.

The Jindan cultivation families want more spiritual veins. Although the Li family now has a lot of spiritual veins, it is still a lot worse than that of normal Jindan cultivation families. At present, there are not many independent Qi-refining forces in Xiangshui County. Even if the Li family's spiritual veins are far away from them, they will definitely be selected.

If they were affiliated forces of the Li family before, given the distance between them and the Li family's spiritual veins, even if the Li family wanted to have a spiritual vein as an affiliated force, it would be difficult for them to be selected. To put it another way, even if they were really selected, the Li family would give them a good arrangement based on their way of doing things.

Now they are not a subsidiary of the Li family. Even if the Li family has a good reputation, they will only give them a relatively fair price to buy the spirit vein.

"It seems useless to say anything now. We should be thankful that it is the Li family. At least they will give us a lot of spirit stones. The foundation-building forces in the neighboring counties are a little behind the Li family. Now the Li family is already a Jindan force, which is not at the same level as the foundation-building forces."

"I think it's the Li family that caused us to be like this now. If it weren't for the way the Li family handled things, we wouldn't bet that they wouldn't become a Jindan cultivation family... Yes! That's it. Maybe this is a strategy of the Li family..."

The more he spoke, the more he felt that what he said made sense.

However, he was interrupted before he finished speaking.

"Strategy? Did the Li family know that they would definitely become a Jindan cultivation family? Seventh brother, please be clear-headed and don't have such unrealistic ideas. The Li family is good to us Qi-refining forces, but they are generous."

"Are you a cultivator from our Gong family or the Li family? Do you speak for them like this?"

"I'm just stating a fact."

"You..."

"Okay, stop arguing!" After the head of the Gong family spoke, the hall suddenly became quiet.

All the late Qi-refining cultivators in the family were silent. When making the decision before, the head of the Gong family thought about facing such a problem, but he felt that the possibility of this happening was not great. He didn't think that Li Xunming, the cultivator with different spiritual roots in the Li family, could form a Dan.

As a result, Li Qianqing, the head of the Li family, has now formed a pill, and he seems to be a cultivator with three spiritual roots...

In Xiangshui County, there are still independent Qi-refining and immortal cultivation families. At the Gong family meeting, some decisions of the Li family were mentioned.

When the Li family becomes a top foundation-building immortal cultivation family, it can actually make all the Qi-refining forces in Xiangshui County become their affiliated forces. In this way, while earning more every year, it can also better control Xiangshui County.

At the Li family's core high-level meeting, many high-level members of the family still wanted to take over these Qi-refining forces first, but they were vetoed by Li Qianqing.

One of the reasons for his veto was that this was not in line with the style of the Li family, but it was actually harmless. The most important reason was that he knew that he could successfully form a pill, so when he took down these independent Qi-refining and immortal cultivation families in the future, he only needed to give them spirit stones, and there was no need to make too many arrangements.

If the family's affiliated forces want spiritual veins, they have to arrange for them, which is more troublesome for the current Li family.

Moreover, there is a big difference between these Qi-refining forces actively becoming their affiliated forces and passively becoming their affiliated forces.

You should know that among all the affiliated forces of the Li family, some of them hope that the Li family can value their family's spiritual veins, so that the Li family will arrange for their family and they will develop better in the future.

These family ideas are almost unseen in the Qi-refining families that are forced to become affiliated forces of their families.

In addition to the patriarch of a family, most of the family's senior leaders must agree with these ideas before such a possibility can occur.

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Half a month has passed since Li Qianqing's Dan formation.

Duan Rongrong has already arrived at Changqing Mountain.

In the past half month, Changqing Mountain has migrated five micro-spiritual veins.

When the first micro-spiritual vein was migrated, this micro-spiritual vein reacted with the original nine micro-spiritual veins of Changqing Mountain, and began the unique fusion of spiritual veins, turning into a small spiritual vein.

After the ten micro-spiritual veins merged into a small spiritual vein, the overall spiritual energy doubled directly. After the addition of four micro-spiritual veins, more spiritual energy was born under the influence of the small spiritual veins.

Now the actual boundary of Changqing Mountain has expanded a lot. The places that could not open spiritual fields before can now open first-level lower-grade and middle-grade spiritual fields. The outermost areas can only open first-level lower-grade spiritual fields.

"Rongrong."

When Duan Rongrong came, Li Qianqing went to receive her in person.

Other core members of the Li family were not familiar with Duan Rongrong, and the content of their conversations was more serious, so it was better for him to receive her in person.

"Qianqing, congratulations on your successful formation of the elixir!"

"Now among the three of us, only Rongrong has not formed the elixir. I hope you can also form the elixir successfully." Li Qianqing first gave a blessing.

Duan Rongrong is currently in the late stage of foundation building, and there is still a distance from the peak of foundation building.

"My talent is not as good as Sister Xuewei." Duan Rongrong also wants to form the elixir, so that she will have more time to explore the formation, but she knows that forming the elixir is difficult.

If only the spiritual root talent is counted, she is a very ordinary double spiritual root talent.

Among the five Jindan cultivators in Qingfeng Valley, one has a natural spiritual root, three have different spiritual roots, and the remaining one has a dual spiritual root. It is true that he is one of the top ones among the dual spiritual roots, which also distances him from the ordinary dual spiritual root cultivators.

"But he is better than me." Li Qianqing added.

He is considered to be the top three spiritual root talents, but even so, he is not as good as the worst dual spiritual root talents. There is still a big gap between the two.

"Hehe, that's right." Duan Rongrong nodded. She naturally knew that Li Qianqing was a three spiritual root talent, but she was very surprised to hear the news of Li Qianqing's successful Jindan from Yan Xuewei.

Unlike Yan Xuewei, she didn't think Li Qianqing could succeed in Jindan. Even if he got the opportunity, he would practice to the peak of foundation building relatively quickly, and finally he would be lucky to have a false dan realm. It was too difficult to succeed in Jindan.

For cultivators with three spiritual roots, even if they get Jindan spiritual objects, the success rate of Jindan is not very high, and the greater possibility is that Jindan will fail.

The two chatted and soon arrived at Li Qianqing's cave.

Duan Rongrong's first thought when she came to Changqing Mountain was not to adjust the spirit veins, but to upgrade the spirit gathering array in Li Qianqing's cave.

She felt that this was very necessary for a Jindan stage cultivator.

"... I will upgrade your spirit gathering array to the third-grade lower grade first." With Duan Rongrong's current level, it is not difficult to arrange a third-grade lower grade micro spirit gathering array, and it is even easier to upgrade the second-grade middle-grade spirit gathering array to the third-grade lower grade.

After all, this is just a miniature spirit array, suitable for personal use, requiring fewer patterns to be engraved, and the structure is not complicated.

"Do you need any materials?" Li Qianqing asked.

"No." Duan Rongrong shook her head, "I'm ready, just pay the spirit stones when the time comes."

Before coming to Changqing Mountain, Duan Rongrong had already prepared. In addition to adjusting the spirit veins, this time she came to Changqing Mountain to upgrade the spirit gathering array in Li Qianqing's cave. As for the Changqing Mountain's mountain protection array, this can only be discussed later.

Given the current range of Changqing Mountain, it would be best to deploy a large spiritual formation, as a medium-sized spiritual formation would be difficult to cover the entire area.

And now she was only able to deploy a second-level, high-quality large spiritual formation, and she was not very confident in deploying a third-level, low-quality large spiritual formation.

Normal Jindan forces all hope to set up a third-level spiritual formation. It is true that a second-level upper-grade large spiritual formation can hold out for a long time under the attack of Jindan cultivators with the support of a small spiritual vein and spiritual energy below, but the third-level spiritual formation has a qualitative change. At that time, it is difficult for a few more Jindan cultivators to break through the spiritual vein land with a third-level spiritual formation.

Soon Duan Rongrong began to upgrade the gathering spirit formation for him.

Li Qianqing watched quietly on the side.

At this moment, he was still thinking about when the Li family would have a clan member with a talent for formation. This was something he thought about every time he saw Duan Rongrong, especially when he saw Duan Rongrong setting up a spiritual formation, this feeling was even stronger.

This kind of thing is not something that can be achieved by thinking about it, but he still hopes that the Li family can quickly produce such a cultivator.

After he entered the Jindan stage, the birth policy of the mortal clan changed.

Even the most ordinary Jindan cultivation family, it is normal to have millions of mortal clan members.

If nothing unexpected happens, the family will have tens of thousands more mortals in a year, and the number of mortals will also increase by tens of thousands in the next few years. The growth rate will not slow down until there are millions of people in the family.

In another ten years, the Li family will have a rapid increase in cultivators.

With more cultivators, the probability of a gifted person will be greater. If possible, Li Qianqing hopes that within twenty years, the Li family will have a family member with a talent for formations.

Duan Rongrong spent more than a day to upgrade the spirit gathering array in Li Qianqing's cave to the third-level lower grade.

After the spirit veins are adjusted, when the spirit gathering array is fully activated, the concentration of spiritual energy in his practice room is enough for the daily practice of a cultivator in the early stage of the Nascent Soul. If the spirit array is not activated normally, the concentration of spiritual energy in his cave is enough for the daily practice of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Core Formation.

"The next step is to adjust the spirit vein nodes." Duan Rongrong nodded with satisfaction at the efficiency of completing the upgrade of the spirit gathering array, then looked at Li Qianqing and asked, "How many third-level spirit fields do you need to open up?"

After having a small spirit vein, you can open up third-level low-grade and medium-grade spirit fields. If you want to open up third-level high-grade spirit fields, it is better to have two small spirit veins.

"Eight fen of land for third-level low-grade spirit fields, and two fen for third-level medium-grade spirit fields." Li Qianqing answered quickly, which he had thought of long ago.

Currently, Changqing Mountain has a small spirit vein and four micro spirit veins. According to what he said, opening third-level spirit fields will increase the number of second-level spirit fields. In this way, there will be more second-level elixirs in the clan library in the future, and it will be easier to cultivate foundation-building level cultivators.