Chapter 337 Twenty Years

October.

Three months have passed since Li Qiuben entered the foundation-building period.

Shortly after Li Qiuben succeeded in building his foundation, his family held a foundation-building banquet for him. The Li family has become a family of Jindan cultivators. Even if a foundation-building cultivator appears every now and then, no power will be surprised.

After all, a Jindan cultivator family and a foundation-building cultivator family are of different natures.

Few casual cultivators in Xiangshui County now think that it is amazing that the Li family has another foundation-building cultivator. They think this is a very normal thing, because Li Qiuben's success in building his foundation did not cause too much discussion in the Xiangshui County cultivation world like the previous family foundation-building cultivators.

The neighboring county's cultivation world did not react much to this news.

At the third-level lower-grade spiritual field of Changqing Mountain, there stood two figures, Li Qianqing and Li Qiuben.

After entering the foundation-building period and practicing the technique "Sucao Lingjue", Li Qiuben can now ripen spiritual medicine.

There are still some cultivators in the five countries who can ripen spiritual medicines by practicing corresponding skills in the foundation-building stage, but there are not many in the Jindan stage, because this kind of skills will seriously affect the cultivation speed of cultivators after ripening spiritual medicines. Those cultivators who can ripen spiritual medicines in the Jindan stage all started to practice corresponding skills in the Jindan stage. There are no such cultivators in the three small countries, and all of them are in the forces of the Yuanying level of the two major countries.

"Qiuben, how long does it take for you to ripen a Jiuquzhi alone now?" Li Qianqing asked. Jiuquzhi, a third-level inferior spiritual medicine, is the main spiritual medicine for refining the pill Jiuqu Lingdan.

Jiuqu Lingdan is a third-level inferior pill. Its function is to increase the cultivation of cultivators in the early stage of Jindan. It also has a good effect on cultivators in the middle stage of Jindan, but the effect is much weaker for cultivators in the late stage of Jindan.

"It takes about thirteen years to ripen a Jiuquzhi with all my strength." Li Qiuben calculated it a little based on his current situation.

It takes 385 years for the third-level inferior Jiuquzhi to grow normally until it can be harvested and used.

If Li Qianqing cannot break through to the Nascent Soul stage, then his life span will come to an end between the time when Jiuquzhi is planted and the time when Jiuqulingdan is used to refine Jiuqulingdan.

"But this is a waste. With my current ability, it only takes about 30 years to ripen 10 Jiuquzhi plants, and they can be harvested." Li Qiuben does not recommend ripening a third-level low-grade spiritual medicine alone.

"We need five Jiuquzhi plants in 30 years, and you should reasonably allocate the ripening of second-level spiritual medicines." Li Qianqing instructed.

Li Qiuben now knows all the second-level pill formulas refined by the family.

He knows that the pill formula is not to refine pills, but to reasonably plant and ripen spiritual medicines, which should be considered in combination with the situation of the family's clan library.

If there are fewer second-level low-grade pills in the family's clan library, the priority of ripening the main spiritual medicine for refining such pills will be higher.

As for the ripening arrangement of third-level spiritual medicines, Li Qianqing still mainly asks him to do it.

"Okay, thirteenth great-grandfather." Li Qiuben nodded, he will allocate it well.

Compared with normal growing spiritual medicine, accelerated ripening spiritual medicine has a disadvantage. The medicinal power of this kind of spiritual medicine is not as good as that of normal growing spiritual medicine, but Li Qiuben, who has the body of plants, can make the medicinal power of accelerated ripening spiritual medicine almost the same as that of normal growing spiritual medicine.

Whether it is that accelerated ripening spiritual medicine has basically no side effects on one's own cultivation, or that accelerated ripening spiritual medicine has few defects, these are all the advantages of the special physique of the body of plants, which has become part of the advantage of spiritual plant masters.

After chatting with Li Qiuben for two hours, when Li Qiuben began to take care of the spiritual field and spiritual medicine, Li Qianqing also returned to the cave.

Half a month later.

Li Qianqing in the cave began to retreat. This time he retreated to refine the third-level lower-grade Jiuqu Lingdan.

When the Dan-forming Banquet was held, Yan Xuewei gave him a gift of Jiuqu Zhi, and in the past few months, the family collected three Yuling grasses, and all the spiritual medicines for refining Jiuqu Lingdan were available.

Yuling grass is a second-level upper-grade spiritual medicine, and it is also the highest-grade spiritual medicine among the twenty-one auxiliary spiritual medicines for refining Jiuqu Lingdan.

One furnace is used to refine the Nine-Bend Spiritual Pill. For Li Qianqing, it is very easy to refine it. If conditions permit, he can refine two furnaces, but now he only needs one.

And the alchemy furnace is also limited.

If you want to refine two furnaces, it is best to use a first-grade lower-grade magic weapon-level alchemy furnace. The alchemy furnace he is using now is still a top-grade spiritual weapon level.

If it is an ordinary alchemist who has just entered the stage of forming a pill, if there is no first-grade lower-grade magic weapon-level alchemy furnace, he will not try to refine the third-grade lower-grade pill, because it is a waste.

One furnace of Nine-Bend Spiritual Pill can refine up to six pills.

The process of refining Nine-Bend Spiritual Pill is very easy, but Li Qianqing is still very careful. What he wants is six Nine-Bend Spiritual Pills, not a useless pill.

Every time a bad pill is refined, several thousand spirit stones are lost. You should know that the worst third-grade inferior pill is worth 5,000 inferior spirit stones, and a middle-quality Nine-bend Spirit Pill is about 7,000 inferior spirit stones, and the price of a good quality one is 8,000 or 9,000.

It takes much longer to refine a third-grade inferior pill than a normal second-grade superior pill. It took Li Qianqing ten days to complete the refining, and it took a month to refine three furnaces.

"Two are good, four are average."

Li Qianqing was quite satisfied with his final pill result. His idea was to refine six Nine-bend Spirit Pills at best, and on this basis, one high-quality Nine-bend Spirit Pill was one. It was already good to be able to refine it like this with a top-grade spirit tool-level alchemy furnace.

There is no need to put these Nine-Twist Spirit Pills in the clan treasury. The main reason is that there is no Jindan-stage cultivator in the Li family except him, so the third-level low-grade pills are not needed. Secondly, the main spiritual medicine for refining the Nine-Twist Spirit Pill is not planted in the family spiritual field, but a gift from Yan Xuewei for Jindan.

Even if the Nine-Twist Spirit Pill is put into the family treasury, at most two can be put, and these two will be exchanged by him, so there is no need to do this unnecessary action.

The pills are refined.

Li Qianqing came to the cave, first removed the mark of retreat, and then took the Nine-Twist Spirit Pill to improve his cultivation.

After becoming a Jindan cultivator, the cultivation affairs of the family's middle finger changed again.

Now the normal three spiritual roots cultivators in the family are cultivated by Li Lilong, and he is only responsible for the cultivators with double spiritual roots or above, as well as other cultivators with special spiritual roots.

At present, there is only one other cultivator with special spiritual roots in the Li family, Li Xunting. Li Qiuben himself has double spiritual roots, which is considered a more special cultivator.

In the past few years, the family has not produced a double spiritual root cultivator. For Li Qianqing, the most important thing now, in addition to improving the strength of cultivation, is to make an overall plan for the future development of the family.

Of course, every September, he also checks the newly born spiritual root cultivators in the family to see if there are any similar to Li Xunting, and also let the newly born cultivators of the family meet him as the patriarch of the family.

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Time flies.

Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

For a Qi refining family, twenty years is very long, and for a foundation building family, it is okay, but for a Jindan family, twenty years can barely be described as short.

Ten years of Qi refining, a hundred years of foundation building, and a thousand years of Jindan, this is not used to describe cultivators, but to describe the corresponding forces.

For the Li family, in the past twenty years, the family has not produced a foundation building cultivator, and the number of late foundation building cultivators has increased from one to two.

Six years ago, Li Xunming cultivated to the peak of the middle stage of foundation building, and then successfully broke through to the late stage of foundation building. For a cultivator with different spiritual roots, as long as he cultivates normally and does not die in the middle, he can basically cultivate to the late stage of foundation building.

Compared with Li Xunming's easy cultivation and breakthrough to the late stage of foundation building, Li Qianyin, who tried to break through to the late stage of foundation building a year ago, failed. For a cultivator at the peak of the middle stage of foundation building, Li Qianyin is still very young, and there is still a good chance to break through to the late stage of foundation building.

In the clan leader's cave, Li Qianqing finished his daily cultivation.

For him in these years, the biggest level is in cultivation, and in terms of real strength, since the first of the "Three Absolute Gods" is still a long way from the small success realm, his real strength is still about the same as before.

When the first of the "Three Absolute Gods" is cultivated to the small success realm, his real strength will be greatly improved.

As for the life magic weapon, he has been collecting materials in these years, and more than half of them have been collected. Normally, within ten years, he can start refining the life magic weapon.

This speed is already very fast. You should know that the materials needed for his life magic weapon are relatively rare. In his previous life, his life magic weapon was very ordinary, and it took more than 50 years to collect materials and refine it.

After entering the Jindan stage, he was no longer a casual cultivator in his previous life, but a guest elder of a Jindan sect in the Ming Dynasty. He needs to collect materials for refining magic weapons. The sect can give him some help, but not much. Now, if Li Qianqing wants, he can use the power of the family to help him collect the corresponding materials for refining magic weapons.

After leaving the cave, Li Qianqing needs to cultivate the family's double spiritual root cultivators.

Now the Li family's mortal clan has exceeded one million. In the past ten years, many cultivators have been born in the family. There are five double spiritual root cultivators alone, and there are even more triple spiritual root cultivators.

This is due to the increase in the mortal population of the family from the first twenty years to the first ten years. Now the family population is also growing, but it has stabilized. If the top foundation-building immortal families can give birth to a child with dual spiritual root talents in almost twenty years, the ordinary Jindan immortal families can give birth to a child with dual spiritual root talents in about ten years.

Of course, this is just a relatively average standard, and it depends on the actual situation.

With the increase in the number of foundation-building seeds in the family, it is still difficult to guarantee the foundation-building pill for a normal Jindan immortal family that has just become a force. The Li family is different. Not only does it have the alchemist of the family patriarch, but also Li Qiuben who has a plant body and has entered the foundation-building period.

The main spiritual medicine for refining the foundation-building pill planted in the second-level upper-grade spiritual field will be ripened by Li Qiuben in more than ten years. Other auxiliary spiritual medicines can be purchased or planted depending on the situation. In this way, the Li family can refine two or three furnaces of foundation-building pills every ten years.

If you focus on refining the foundation-building pill and don’t take care of the third-level spiritual medicine, there will be more furnaces.

In this regard, Li Qianqing allocated a good amount to Li Qiuben. In another twenty or thirty years, the Li family can sell the foundation-building pills if they want. But selling the foundation-building pills may be risky, causing Li Qiuben's special physique to be discovered.

When he was still a Jindan-stage cultivator, Li Qianqing would not let the family sell any foundation-building pills, so that they could develop more stably.

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March in spring.

The foot of Changqing Mountain seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of peach blossom mist. Under the shadow of the trees, a small house stood quietly on the waist of the mountain, gathering the spiritual energy from the outside world.

"I succeeded!"

Looking at the first-level inferior micro-spiritual gathering array he arranged, gathering spiritual energy, Li Changgui was very excited.

He is the fifteenth generation of the Li family's Changzi generation cultivator. Four years ago, he was tested to have dual spiritual roots of gold and earth, and he was definitely the family's foundation-building seed.

For the current Li family, if the family foundation seed fails to build the foundation, it cannot become the core of the family.

"Tell the clan leader this good news, he will be very happy." The first-level inferior micro-spirit gathering array was successfully arranged in a short time, and only one-third of the materials for the arrangement of the spirit array were consumed. Li Changgui knew that he had a very good talent in the formation.

When the clan leader Li Qianqing pointed out the training, he mentioned that the family was short of clan members who were good at formation. If there were talents in this area, they could go to the formation.

After the three-year period, clan members who were interested in the formation needed to undergo two preliminary tests. After passing the test, it was said that they had talents in the formation, but the specific amount of talent would be determined by actual operation.

After retreating to arrange the gathering spirit array, Li Changgui left his hut.

When he went out and looked into the distance, the spiritual flowers in the mountains seemed to know that the happy event was about to come, so they bloomed and celebrated enthusiastically.

The beautiful scenery that he usually didn't pay much attention to, at this moment, in Li Changgui's view, was to celebrate his good talent in the formation. At this moment, he was in a better mood.

"People feel refreshed when they are happy."

After a happy smile, Li Changgui immediately went to the clan leader's cave.

Because he was a foundation-building seed, the hut where he lived was full of spiritual energy and not very far from the clan leader's cave. Now, the clan members with mixed spiritual roots basically live at the foot of Changqing Mountain.

At the foot of Changqing Mountain today, the concentration of spiritual energy is much more abundant than that of a normal micro-spiritual vein.

At the entrance of the clan leader's cave, Li Changgui took a deep breath, adjusted his current mood, and then knocked on the stone door.

Soon the stone door of the cave opened.

"Clan leader." After seeing Li Qianqing, Li Changgui spoke and performed a basic etiquette.

"Yes, Changgui. You can call me great-grandfather in private." Li Qianqing smiled at the younger generation, and then continued, "Tell me, what happened?"

Now he is the only male cultivator of the Li family's first generation, and there are three female cultivators. In addition to Li Qianyin, the remaining two are already over 110 years old, and the other is almost 110 years old.

In ten years at most, there will be only two cultivators of the Li family's first generation left.

For the younger generation of the Li family now, the number thirteen in front of him is no longer important.