#1340 - time
The news of the Li family discovering two secret realms in quick succession not only made countless rogue cultivators envious but also made the surrounding forces extremely jealous.
However, apart from the Dongyuan Sect, with the Li family's current strength, they were not afraid of facing other forces at all, because they could not cause any harm to the Li family.
Many busybodies also looked forward to seeing the Dongyuan Sect take action, but they were probably going to be disappointed.
Although the Dongyuan Sect was very envious and had considered whether to compete for the secret realm on the border, just as they were hesitating, good news came from the south: a secret realm appearing for the first time!
And before the joy in their hearts could dissipate, two more secret realms were revealed one after another. Although the grade of these three secret realms was relatively low, only sixth and seventh grade, the quantity completely made up for this shortcoming.
The rogue cultivators of Dongyuan Prefecture were very excited because every newly-emerged secret realm was a great opportunity for them.
Previously, they were still envying the rogue cultivators of Shanhai Prefecture, but now it was completely reversed!
The surprises didn't stop there. In the following time, the secret realms in various parts of the Yuanling Realm erupted like a spring, appearing one after another, attracting one creature after another.
Among them, some gained a lot, leaving the secret realm with a large number of spiritual objects and improved cultivation; some gained little, were covered in scars, and full of disappointment and unwillingness; and some never came out after entering, not knowing whether they died in the mouths of monsters or at the hands of cultivators.
The entire Yuanling Realm was plunged into a frenzy of cultivation, with countless creatures taking the spiritual objects they obtained from the secret realms and trying every means to improve their cultivation.
It can be said that on the Yuanling Continent, the originally rare thunder tribulations can now be seen almost every day!
Moreover, as long as one's strength is not too bad and one has not been involved in too much karma or sin, one can survive the thunder tribulation.
These strange situations, which rogue cultivators who rarely leave a certain state would hardly notice on weekdays, are almost constantly reminding the various forces that a shocking event will break out next!
And most forces can think of what it is, that is, the great war between the two worlds in a few hundred years!
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"It seems that the Heavenly Dao is also desperate, and has taken out its foundation to improve the strength of countless creatures in the Yuanling Realm, hoping to win in the war between the two worlds."
Li Zhirui couldn't help but sigh after reading the news collected by the family from various sources.
"Yes, it seems that the family needs to be more aggressive." Li Xiuyuan nodded and then said his plan.
The content is actually not complicated, it is nothing more than continuing to improve the treatment of the clansmen and giving more resources. At most, the resources will be slightly inclined towards those clansmen with better qualifications or those who are about to break through.
After all, there are only three or four hundred years left, time is running out, and we must try every means to improve the strength of the family.
Li Zhirui didn't feel anything uncomfortable or bad. This was originally an extremely cruel world, and the Li family was already warm enough.
If it were other forces, especially those sects, I am afraid that those handyman disciples and outer disciples would be abandoned from the beginning.
However, this approach has a hidden danger…
"I don't object to you doing this. After the family obtained two secret realms, it already has enough resources to satisfy your ideas, but!"
After a pause, Li Zhirui looked at Li Xiuyuan with a serious look and asked, "Have you ever thought about how the family's monthly allowance should be handled after the war is over?"
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality!
The clansmen have been enjoying such abundant resources for so many years, no matter how much they reduce it in the future, they will have opinions, and even strongly object to it.
Although the family stated from the beginning that these spiritual objects were temporary rewards, people's habits are a very terrible thing!
When something has lasted for hundreds of years, everyone will think it is a matter of course.
After Li Zhirui asked this question, Li Xiuyuan did not hesitate. He seemed to have considered it long ago and had an answer, and said directly: "I will bear this responsibility and let all the clansmen's anger vent on me!"
"You…"
Li Zhirui wanted to say something, but after seeing his firm expression, he couldn't say those words, waved his hand, and said: "There is no need to be so extreme, you go back first, and think of a solution for future things later."
"Then I will take my leave first."
Li Xiuyuan bowed and left without any change in his expression.
"I really didn't expect Xiuyuan to seem stable and mature, but his heart is so澎湃, even a little偏激…"
Shaking his head, he no longer thought about this matter. There is no need to solve the problem hundreds of years later now.
After Li Xiuyuan left, he issued two announcements.
The first item was what Li Zhirui said, to further improve the treatment of the clansmen, the reason being to deal with danger, the family needs stronger strength.
The second item was to gather a large number of clansmen, affiliated forces' cultivators, and rogue cultivators to develop the two secret realms!
The seventh-grade secret realm named Tianming Secret Realm has been undergoing large-scale development by the Li family since its birth, but the secret realm is too large, and there is still a part waiting to be developed.
Because the Li family really couldn't spare the manpower, they could only give out a portion of the benefits and let outsiders help develop it.
The other eighth-grade secret realm, named Tianchi Secret Realm, has not yet been cleaned up due to the large number of monsters inside.
Therefore, the scope of development is limited, and it is also necessary to be constantly on guard against monster attacks. It is really impossible to spare enough manpower to wipe out those monsters and develop new territories.
Of course, there are also some clansmen who want to experience it, also among them.
"Clan Leader, is something wrong? Otherwise, why would the family repeatedly increase everyone's monthly allowance?"
Among a large number of clansmen, there are still a few smart people.
Although they don't know that secret realms are frequently appearing, they can see from the family's actions that this is a sign of a major event.
"Don't think too much, you will be told when you should be told. Now you only need to practice hard and improve your cultivation as soon as possible."
Li Xiuyuan didn't tell them the truth now, not to keep it secret.
But once it is said, their thoughts will definitely be disturbed. In this way, wouldn't it be wasting precious cultivation time?!
You must know that there is not much time left now! For those clansmen who are on the verge of breakthrough, it is unnecessary and should not be distracted.
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While the clansmen were busy improving their cultivation, Li Zhirui, although his cultivation would not improve much because he had just broken through, he still did not give up his daily practice.
In addition to this, he spent more time comprehending the Earth Immortal-level pill recipe.
And after so many years, he felt he could try refining a batch of Earth Immortal Realm pills!
Li Zhirui didn't rush to refine the pills directly, but after bathing and burning incense, he sacrificed a jade cauldron engraved with complex and mysterious runes on its surface, and put in a gourd of aura-filled Earth Immortal grade spiritual water to slowly warm it with his magic power.
Afterward, he took out precious spiritual objects from his storage treasures and placed them around him one by one.
This series of procedures was all aimed at calming his mind and adjusting his state.
When Li Zhirui felt that his state was at its best, he immediately took an Earth Immortal grade spiritual herb, penetrated it with his divine sense, extracted the impurities from it, leaving only the cleanest and purest essence, and then put it into the jade cauldron to warm it with spiritual water and stimulate its medicinal properties.
After that, he quickened his movements, and dozens of spiritual herbs rose into the air, and little by little, essences of different colors were extracted, and flew into the spiritual water one by one, stimulating the medicinal properties and reducing the dissipation of spirituality.
In front of the jade cauldron, Li Zhirui sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed, his hands flying, pinching mysterious magic seals, the spiritual water in the cauldron slowly rotating, slowly merging those spiritual herb essences into one.
As time passed, countless sweats appeared on his forehead, as if he was enduring some huge pressure, just as the spiritual herb essence was about to completely merge, suddenly, a certain essence jumped.
Pfft—
Instantly, all the spiritual herb essences scattered, but they were no longer pure, but were contaminated with other essences.
Li Zhirui slowly opened his eyes, looking calmly at this failed batch of pills.
He didn't feel frustrated, because this was his first time refining Earth Immortal grade pills, failure was a very normal thing, it would be strange if he succeeded.
Calming his mood, he collected the spiritual liquid in the jade cauldron, which was a good fertilizer for irrigating spiritual fields, and could also be used to cultivate spiritual beasts, or as a medicinal bath for body cultivators to temper their bodies.
After all, these spiritual liquids were made of various precious spiritual objects essences and spiritual water, containing a strong spiritual energy.
It's just that this spiritual energy is relatively violent and domineering, and requires a strong body to withstand it.
However, as of now, the Li family doesn't have Earth Immortal grade spiritual beasts, nor an Earth Immortal Realm body cultivator, so it can only be used to irrigate spiritual fields.
As for storage? The stable structure inside has been destroyed, and there is no way to store spiritual energy for too long.
After reviewing it and finding the reason for the failure, Li Zhirui took out the second batch of materials and continued refining.
But the result was still failure!
The third batch…
The fourth batch…
The fifth batch…
All failed!
"Huff—"
Li Zhirui spat out a mouthful of turbid air, he now only had the last three batches of materials in his hand!
If he still couldn't succeed, he would have to wait a few years, or use spirit stones to catalyze spiritual herbs.
Tempering the essence, warming and preserving, enhancing the medicinal properties…
Li Zhirui completed every step perfectly, and came to the crucial step of merging the essence very smoothly!
Various magic seals danced in his hands, and under his control, the essence slowly merged, one kind, two kinds… until the last kind of essence was successfully integrated!
But this was far from the end.
Li Zhirui still needed to perfectly merge all the medicinal properties, and finally condense them into pills.
This was a very delicate step, and there could be no slightest carelessness, the spiritual light in the jade cauldron flickered, and the spiritual power fluctuations became more and more intense, like a volcano about to erupt.
At this time, his forehead was already covered with sweat, but he was not moved by it at all, and still concentrated on merging the medicinal properties.
As time went by, a rich fragrance of pills emanated from the jade cauldron.
At the moment when the medicinal properties were completely merged, Li Zhirui's magic seal suddenly changed, and he shouted in a low voice: "Condense!"
The nearby spiritual energy and the spiritual energy in the spiritual water were all poured into that group of essence, as if injecting a soul into it.
"Divide!"
The magic seal changed again, and that large group of essence instantly dispersed, turning into round immortal pills, suspended in the spiritual water.
"Out!"
The lid of the cauldron opened instantly, and the immortal pills flew out one by one, falling into the jade bottles that Li Zhirui had prepared.
"Five pills were successfully refined, three were defective, and two were waste products."
The so-called defective products are those with insufficient medicinal properties, which can be taken, but the effect will be much worse.
As for waste products, they contain a lot of pill toxins, which can also be taken, but the effect is extremely poor, and at the same time, it is harmful to oneself.
Li Zhirui was very happy with this result, you must know that this was his first time successfully refining Earth Immortal grade pills, and he had a 50% success rate!
Moreover, among these five successful pills, there were also two middle-grade ones!
As for the other five immortal pills, he couldn't solve the defective products, after all, it was impossible for him to replenish their medicinal properties out of thin air, but the waste products could be used.
The purification law that Li Zhirui mastered could purify the pill toxins in the waste products, so that they would become consumable defective products.
If it were low-level pills, he would definitely not go to such great lengths, which would not only waste time, but also require more effort.
But these are Earth Immortal grade pills! The cost is high, even Li Zhirui, who has a mysterious space, cannot waste them at will.
He didn't take advantage of the heat to refine all the remaining two batches of materials into immortal pills in one go, but put them away and turned around and left the alchemy room.
He had been refining immortal pills all these days, although he had adjusted his breath and recovered during the period, he still felt very tired, and planned to take a good rest, and also needed to summarize the successful experience.
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Half a month later, the remaining two batches of materials were also turned into immortal pills.
In the end, Li Zhirui had a total of sixteen successful pills and fourteen defective pills.
And with these immortal pills, his magic power would soon usher in a rapid increase!
After he took and refined an immortal pill, he couldn't help but sigh: "Just this one immortal pill is worth several months of my breathing."
After refining the immortal pills that increase magic power, Li Zhirui began to refine healing immortal pills!
Even to a certain extent, the latter is more important.
After all, the war between the two worlds is coming soon, and more of these life-saving spiritual objects should be prepared.
Not only him, the Li family, or rather, the forces that know about this matter, have begun to prepare spiritual objects.
Because there are less than two hundred years left before the start of the war!
This is very long for mortals, even the lifespan of several generations, but for those great powers, it is just a moment.
Perhaps because he had already refined Earth Immortal grade immortal pills, the Earth Immortal grade healing immortal pills, after a few short failures, ushered in success!
At this time, Li Zhixuan, who had traveled in the void for hundreds of years, also returned to the Yuanling Realm. (End of this chapter)
