Chapter 144 Skyrocketing

The news that Li Zhirui successfully refined the Foundation Establishment Pill attracted the attention of everyone in the family.

Li Shiqing put down the moving island, and Li Shiren and Li Shilian also returned to the family.

Even Li Shiting, who had a cold temperament, rushed back to her family from Sequoia Island just to see the Foundation Establishment Pill refined by Li Zhirui!

In fact, these four Foundation-Building Pills are not too much for the Li family. After all, there will be no elixir to refine the Foundation-Building Pills for the next seventy or eighty years.

During this period, the Li family's strength exploded.

During this period, there are definitely more than four clansmen who are likely to break through the foundation building!

But these four Foundation-Building Pills are of great significance, because they mark that the Li family can refine the Foundation-Building Pills on their own from now on.

"Zhirui, you are really a great contributor to the family!" Li Zhizhun praised without hesitation.

Other elders and tribesmen also kept praising Li Zhirui, making him blush and shy, but they still felt it was not enough.

"Just tell me what you want, and the family will try its best to satisfy you." Li Shiqing promised.

No one stood up to object because they knew what it meant to be able to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill alone.

Li Zhirui shook his head. He couldn't think of anything else he needed for a moment.

He still has tens of thousands of spiritual stones on hand, which are enough for him; he can refine the spiritual elixir himself, and the quality is better than what is on the market.

The magic weapon in his hand is a second-level high-grade weapon, which is enough for him to use until the later stage of foundation building. Even for the spiritual beasts, he has contracted two third-grade spiritual beasts.

"Can I save it first? I'll wait until I think about it." Li Zhirui said hesitantly.

Li Shiqing nodded, agreeing to his request, and turned to Li Zhizhun and said: "Leave one foundation-building pill for Zhiyue, and put the other three in the warehouse, set a reasonable contribution value, and let the clan People redeem.”

Although this approach is unfair to other tribesmen, how can there be any fairness in the world? It's better to state your attitude directly, which will make it easier for people to accept.

In fact, no one had any complaints about this. After all, Li Zhiyue's top-notch dual spiritual root qualifications would be vigorously cultivated even if he was placed in the Yuanying Sect. A little preferential treatment in the Li family would not be considered a big deal. event.

The news that the Li family had refined the Foundation Establishment Pill quickly spread throughout Yunping Prefecture. A large number of monks expected them to auction the Foundation Establishment Pill, thus lowering the price of the Foundation Establishment Pill on the market.

But it's impossible to sell it now. After all, the Li family doesn't even have enough for themselves.

But after this incident, Li Zhirui's reputation as a genius alchemist spread throughout the surrounding areas.

Especially the two Jindan forces who know the inside story of Danfang are very envious of the Li family.

You know, back then, in order to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, they helped Shen Lei Mountain complete several missions and paid a lot of price.

But because of Li Zhirui, the Li family succeeded in making it the first time.

When Li Zhirui knew that his reputation was far-reaching, instead of feeling happy, he quietly left Darong Island and replaced Li Shilian in Jiuquan Island.

One is to keep a low profile to avoid being jealous and harmed, and the other is that Li Shilian is preparing to attack the later stage of foundation building. The spiritual energy on Darong Island is richer, which is more suitable for him to break through in seclusion, so he needs to send another foundation builder to take charge.

As a member of the family, Li Zhirui also needs to do family tasks.

Although the spiritual energy of Jiuquan Island is not as good as that of Darong Island, it is enough to keep him practicing at a faster speed, and being far away from his family, he can freely refine the spiritual pills and go to Yunqingfang City to sell them to earn spiritual stones.

Time passed like this bit by bit, and it came to the last day of this year.

"What's going on today?" Today is the day when Li Zhirui returns to his family to submit the Yuan Ning Dan.

But on the way to the warehouse, he found that all the clansmen were going to the same place, and asked the new house elder with a puzzled look.

"Today is Spirit Detection Day. If you are free, you can go to Spirit Detection Valley to have a look."

The elder said with a smile: "The largest number of children will take part in the test this year, maybe a few good seeds will be born."

Li Zhirui suddenly realized that he had been refining elixirs recently and was not very sensitive to time. He had forgotten this very important day for the family.

But considering that so many people had gone, he was unwilling to join in the fun. He could just ask a clan member afterward.

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But before the spirit testing formation, Li Zhizhun and Li Shiren had a clear division of labor. The former arranged the testing team, and the latter started the spirit testing formation.

"A total of 70,000 to 80,000 children have been tested this year, which is the most in recent years. The testing alone will take several days!" an elder said excitedly.

You must know that Li Shiren spent a lot of materials to set up three spirit detection arrays. If there was only one array like before, the test alone would probably take more than half a month!

Such a huge number is due to the migration of hundreds of thousands of young men and women from Yunping Prefecture when Li Zhirui was the acting chief of the tribe, as well as the policy of encouraging tribesmen to have more children.

Now five or six years have passed, and the babies they gave birth to have grown up, and now there are tens of thousands of children being tested.

It's just that half of these children are mortals without the blood of the Li family.

However, these children have lived on Darong Island since childhood and have been protected by the Li family. They already sincerely believe that they are members of the Li family!

Some mortals even changed their surname to Li in order to get closer to the Li family, or because they felt that this would make it more likely that their descendants would have spiritual roots.

"Let's begin!" Li Zhizhun declared while holding back his excitement.

The first ones to be tested are children whose parents are monks. This group has the smallest number, only more than a thousand people, but they have the highest chance of birthing spiritual roots, and they have attracted everyone's attention.

The first batch of three hundred test children entered the formation. After a while, the formation was activated, and various spiritual lights flew around, looking for children with spiritual roots.

"One, two...twelve!" An elder whispered as he counted the children with spiritual roots.

The parents of these twelve children were ecstatic, in complete contrast to the frustration of other parents.

The reaction of these children is even greater because they live in the clan area and have been exposed to monks since they were young. They understand the monks better and yearn for them more.

And if you don't have spiritual roots, you will have to move out of the clan and separate from your parents after you turn twelve.

Li Zhizhun was very happy. After testing only 300 children, 12 had spiritual roots.

If the proportion of the remaining descendants of the monks is the same, there will be at least dozens of children with spiritual roots!

But there are also some regrets, because the one with the best qualifications among them is Sanlinggen.

"Come out first, it's the others' turn." Li Zhizhun reminded.

The formations are constantly activated, and more and more children have been tested.

By the end of the first day, there were more than seventy people with spiritual roots, and most of them were of the Li family's blood.

After the three days of testing, a total of 237 children with spiritual roots appeared, more than half of whom were mortals.

It is worth mentioning that one of them has both gold and fire spiritual roots. His mother is the fourth sister of Li Zhirui's generation, and his father is a Qi practitioner who married into the Li family and received a large reward from the family.

Other tribesmen who gave birth to offspring with spiritual roots also received the spiritual stone rewards set by Li Zhirui. Although it was not much, it inspired all the tribesmen to become more and more enthusiastic about creating humans.

"In ten years, the family will no longer have to worry about insufficient manpower." Li Zhirui learned about the spirit detection conference from a certain clan member and was very satisfied with it.

After all, there are so many children with spiritual roots now, all thanks to his measures back then.

However, Li Zhirui did not pay too much attention to this matter. There are so many elders in the family who will teach them to become talents.

His most important task now is to improve his strength as soon as possible, and to cultivate Xiao Qing so that he can break through the foundation building as soon as possible, and then he can help him in battle.

In order to achieve this goal, Li Zhirui began a new round of retreat.

But before that, he told the tribesmen stationed on Jiuquan Island that this was just a regular retreat for practice. If something really happened, they could go and call him out.

"Daqing, please help me keep an eye on Xiaoqing during this retreat. I can't let him run around anymore."

Please tell Daqing, Li Zhirui turned around and said to Xiaoqing seriously: "You'd better practice hard during this period, otherwise I will put you in the spirit beast bag!"

For Xiaoqing, who yearns for the sky and freedom, the narrow space of the spirit beast bag is the biggest punishment for him!

Chirp chirp!

Xiaoqing promised repeatedly.

He actually didn't understand what Li Zhirui said, but when he saw Li Zhirui patting the spirit beast bag, his reaction was a little fierce.

Li Zhirui nodded with satisfaction, then took out the spiritual elixirs and spiritual fruits needed for the cultivation of his two pets, and handed them all to Daqing for safekeeping and distribution.

After everything was arranged, Li Zhirui went to retreat to practice with peace of mind.

In the quiet room, Li Zhirui concentrated on running his skills, and the Dantian in his body breathed in and out, breathing in the spiritual energy from the outside world.

When the spiritual energy gathered to a certain concentration, Li Zhirui's body began to emit two kinds of spiritual light, blue and green, intertwined with each other and lingered around him.

Then it enters the body from the mouth and nose, enters the Dantian along the meridians, turns into a fine drizzle, and blends into the ocean of Dharma.

Every once in a while, Li Zhirui would wake up from his practice. In addition to taking spiritual pills to speed up his practice, he also wanted to check whether Xiaoqing was practicing seriously and to receive news from the outside world.

"The He family was destroyed inexplicably?" On this day, Li Zhirui went out to take the news left by his clan members, his face full of surprise.

Then he frowned and said to himself: "Could it be that someone deliberately framed the family?"

The conflict between the two families has long been known to everyone. If the Li family really wants to take action, it is impossible to choose this time.

Because there were rumors before that Yuan Mingzong already had a veteran in the late stage of foundation building, who had swallowed the Jie Jindan and was in retreat to make a breakthrough.

If it succeeds, then Yuan Mingzong will have three golden elixirs. At this critical moment, how can the Li family dare to provoke Yuan Mingzong?

For this reason, Li Shiqing had to come forward and swear an oath to prove that the destruction of the He family had nothing to do with the Li family, so as to prove his innocence.

When Li Zhirui saw this, his face suddenly darkened. He somewhat suspected that Yuan Mingzong directed and staged this incident in order to force the Li family to bow their heads!

Although due to the rules set by Shenlei Mountain, the Li family cannot be a vassal of the Yuan Mingzong, they can actually make offerings every year. How is this different from a vassal?

This idea is not limited to Li Zhirui, many clan members think so, and even some casual cultivators have thought of this!

Li Zhirui can't do anything about it. He can only continue to practice hard and strive to break through the golden elixir as soon as possible so that the family will have enough strength and will no longer be bullied by Yuan Mingzong!

But what Li Zhirui didn't know was that after he continued to practice in seclusion, Yu Qing, the only golden elixir monk of the Qingjian Sect, quietly came to Darong Island late at night.

"I wonder why my friend came here late at night?" Li Shiqing asked calmly.

In fact, this was not the first time Yu Qing came to Darong Island to look for him. He had come here secretly once before after Li Shiqing's elixir formation ceremony.

Its purpose is very simple, it is to form an alliance with the Li family and join forces to resist the increasingly powerful Yuan Mingzong.

But at that time, Li Shiqing had to do the mission of Divine Thunder Mountain to earn the foundation-building elixir for his family, so he used this excuse to excuse himself.

But now Yu Qing is here again!

And in order not to attract attention, he went to Sequoia Island specifically, first found Li Shiting, and contacted Li Shiqing through her.

"Why do fellow Taoists pretend to be ignorant?" Yu Qing frowned and said in a deep voice: "Now Yuan Mingzong is pressing harder and harder, and the third golden elixir has not yet been born, and he has begun to suppress the Li family. If the third golden elixir is successfully born, , then the Li family’s life will never be easy!”

Li Shiqing sighed and said: "There is no room for a second tiger in a mountain forest."

"But I don't know if you have heard that before two tigers fight, they will first deal with the wild wolf on the side to prevent others from taking advantage of it."

Yu Qing narrowed his eyes and said: "Fellow Taoist, don't you believe me, the Green Sword Sect? Now that the Yuan Ming Sect is so powerful, our family can only survive if we stick together to keep warm! It is impossible for Taoist friends not to know the truth of death with cold lips and teeth. "

"Yes, my lips are cold and my teeth are dead!"

Li Shiqing sighed inexplicably, but Yu Qing felt a little uneasy and was about to leave immediately.

"Since fellow Taoist disciples are here, why are you leaving in such a hurry?" A soothing voice suddenly sounded in the silent night sky.

"Li Shiqing! You actually joined forces with Yuan Mingzong! Aren't you afraid that it will destroy your Li family as well?!" Yu Qing's shocked and angry voice exploded over Darong Island.

Li Shiqing glanced at him with a faint expression, but did not speak. Who doesn't know the meaning of cold lips and teeth?

But Yuan Mingzong is no longer the two golden elixirs. The monk who swallowed the golden elixir successfully broke through in another place a few months ago!

On that day, three golden elixir monks from Yuan Mingzong came to Darong Island. They used absolute force and the lives of the people on the island to force Li Shiqing to bow his head, making the Li family once again a vassal of Yuan Mingzong.

However, they also promised that as long as the Li family behaved honestly, they would not attack the Li family.

Li Shiqing had no other choice but to agree.

Then Yuan Mingzong asked Li Shiqing to accompany him in a play, a play for the Qingjian Sect!

There are two protagonists in this scene, one is the Li family and the other is Yuan Mingzong. The He family is the introduction to this scene.

In other words, the destruction of the He family was actually the result of the initiative of the Yuan Ming clan. The Li family then acted like it was being suppressed, attracting the Green Sword Sect to send people to contact the Li family.

When Yu Qing contacted Li Shiting thinking he was cautious, his whereabouts were completely exposed!

If he suddenly came to Darong Island, it would be difficult for them to set up an ambush.

"You alone want to stop me?!" Yu Qing knew that if he didn't fight hard, he would probably die today, so he made a killing move.

Thousands of sword energies were swung out in an instant, like a violent storm, tearing apart all obstacles and whizzing towards the golden elixir he had never seen before.

After all, this person is the new Jindan, the weakest, and the easiest position for Yu Qing to break through.

"Be careful!" Jiang Tianming, an old rival, hurriedly warned.

Fortunately, this Jin Dan was cautious and expected that Yu Qing would use him as a breakthrough point, so he used his defensive magic weapon as soon as he showed up.

Coupled with the layers of defensive spells he cast when he saw that the situation was not good, he was able to barely block Yu Qing's attack.

However, the defensive magic weapon he had just refined was split into cracks by Yu Qing's killing move.

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