Please show your spirit to our ancestors

Chapter 134: One Sect, Nine Foundation Buildings! Thirty Years of Death
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"Angang!"

The giant dragon whale made several deep and distant urging sounds.

"Angchi, angchi." The dragon whale cub retorted a few words, and began to play with the glowing water spirit boat on its own.

"Angang!"

The giant dragon whale seemed unhappy and began to move towards this side. Its figure as big as a hill was getting closer and closer, and an invisible terrifying pressure was overwhelming.

Damn it!

Everyone, including Chen Xuanmo, couldn't help but curse in their hearts.

This dragon whale cub is too naughty. If your mother tells you to go back and drink milk, you should go back quickly. Why are you being so stubborn?

Now that's good, your mother is here!

Yang Yuling was so angry that her cheeks puffed up and she wished she could rush out and stuff this disobedient cub back into its mother's arms.

Unfortunately.

No matter how angry they were, they could only hold their breath and remain motionless, for fear of attracting the attention of the giant dragon whale, which would swallow the Water Escape Spirit Boat in one gulp.

After all, although the Monster Encyclopedia says that the dragon whale is an intelligent sea beast with a relatively gentle temperament, under normal circumstances it will not actively attack human monks unless provoked or angered, but this dragon whale that is protecting its cubs is a different story.

Once it senses danger to its cubs, it is prone to a stress response.

So at this moment, even though the giant dragon whale was getting closer and closer, even though Yang Yuling and Su Yuanbai's hearts were about to jump out of their throats, they still didn't dare to move.

In just a few breaths.

The giant dragon whale, with a figure as big as a small mountain, swam above the water-escaping spirit boat. It arched its huge head slightly and pushed the disobedient dragon whale cub out. Then it turned around and pressed the dragon whale cub against its chest and abdomen.

The baby dragon whale immediately spread its fins skillfully, tilted its head back and attached itself to the chest and abdomen of the giant dragon whale, and began to drink the milk with a "baji, baji" sound.

"Pull!"

The giant dragon whale turned around and left with its cub, but when its huge tail stirred the water, it stirred up a current, which knocked the "big toy" water-escaping spirit boat that attracted the cub away.

Instantaneous time.

The Water-Escape Spirit Boat seemed to have been hit hard, and it rolled in the water like a ball, then crashed into the trench, rolled dozens of times, and finally got stuck in the crevice of the rocks inside the trench.

The people in the spirit boat were rolled up and down, and they were all knocked unconscious. But even so, they still gritted their teeth and held their breath. They didn't dare to scream or mobilize their protective qi for defense. They could only rely on their physical fitness to resist.

fortunately!

The side of the Water-Escape Spirit Boat was stuck in the cracks of the rocks, so it no longer had to suffer from rolling.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

That’s great! Finally they don’t have to be toys anymore. Now they just have to wait for the two dragon whales to swim away and then they can sneak away.

But they haven't completely relaxed yet.

suddenly.

Everyone discovered that under the fluorescent light of the spirit boat, there was a pair of green eyes in the cracks of the stone, staring coldly at everyone in the spirit boat through the translucent porthole on the side of the spirit boat.

The pair of eyes, as big as an adult's fist, grew on an oval snake head covered with blue-black scales. The snake head looked particularly hideous and cold under the fluorescent light. A pair of fleshy bulges could be vaguely seen on the top of the head, as if horns were about to grow.

Su Yuanbai, Yang Yuling and the others were startled and immediately felt horrified.

Judging from the color of its scales and the shape of its head, this should be a marine black water snake, and its strength should have reached the fourth level.

If the pair of horns on the forehead grow out, it will be able to complete the transformation and turn into a fifth-level marine dragon!
Fortunately, it was only level four and posed much less of a threat than the giant dragon whale. Therefore, even though the two sides were almost face to face, no one dared to move.

Similarly, the black water snake did not seem to dare to alarm the giant dragon whale. It huddled in the crevice of the rocks and continued to stare at the humans inside through the translucent porthole with cold eyes.

Both sides were wary of the giant dragon whale that was moving away. They stared at each other and maintained a tacit silence.

The stalemate lasted for an unknown amount of time.

Everyone thought that the giant dragon whale should be far away.

Chen Xuanmo and his party were just trying to find a way to escape from the gap in the slot.

Suddenly.

The demon snake moved first.

It suddenly leaped outward, and the snake head slammed into the porthole with a "bang". The water escape spirit boat trembled violently, and several cracks appeared on the porthole.

Even the gap that was blocking the Water Escape Spirit Boat was broken open by the impact, and some rocks fell off, causing it to loosen.

The water-escaping spirit boat immediately seized the opportunity, leaped forward, and broke away from the gap. After rolling down for a few times, it was controlled by Yang Yuling and suspended in the sea.

pity.

The Black Water Snake doesn't seem to intend to let humans go.

Seeing that the Water-Escape Spirit Boat seemed to be trying to run away, it immediately nimbly drilled out from the crack in the rock wall, and then suddenly jumped up and pounced fiercely on the Water-Escape Spirit Boat.

Under the light emitted by the Water-Escape Spirit Boat, its snake body, as thick as a water tank, nearly ten feet long, and its blue-black scales emitting a cold aura, all exuded a powerful deterrent force.

In just a moment, it had rushed to the side of the Water Escape Spirit Boat, and the huge snake body wrapped around the Water Escape Spirit Boat and began to strangle and squeeze it.

"Kakaka!"

The water-escaping spirit boat made a series of strange noises as if it could not bear the heavy weight.

"Good guy!"

The sudden attack of the black water snake made Chen Xuanmo laugh so hard.

I can’t beat the giant dragon whale, but can I beat you?
"Buzz!"

Amid the sound of swords, Chen Xuanmo sounded the horn for counterattack.

Su Yuanbai rushed out of the spirit boat with the water-repellent beads. With a flip of his hand, a small mountain like a bonsai appeared in his hand.

He shook it and threw it out.

The small mountain swelled up in the wind, getting bigger and bigger. In the blink of an eye, it expanded to a size of more than ten feet and slammed heavily into the body of the Black Water Demon Snake.

"Spiritual Magnetic Peak!"

This is an extremely rare earth-based spiritual weapon that can be used for both attack and defense, and has extraordinary power.

The Black Water Demon Snake's body was suddenly twisted by the smash, and large pieces of its scales shattered and flew around.

It screamed in pain, and immediately released its water-escaping spirit boat to charge towards Su Yuanbai, but Su Yuanbai did not fight it head-on. He only commanded Lingci Peak to continuously block the black water snake.

The puppets also waved their weapons, creating rays of sword light, and fought in coordination with Su Yuanbai.

at the same time.

Yang Yuling also swam out for a distance like a mermaid, commanding the lightning eels that had been hiding in the dark to quietly escape towards the black water snake. When they got close, there was a "sizzling" sound, and violent electric light flashed in the water.

The black water snake was immediately numbed all over by the electric shock, and the whole snake became stiff and soft.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Xuan Mo Ling Sword, which had been lurking nearby, immediately shot out from its hiding place, and with a "puff", it fiercely pierced into the seven-inch vital point of its neck.

The so-called "seven inches" is of course just a nickname. Depending on the size and length of the snake, it is roughly one-quarter of the way below the neck.

The black water snake felt the pain and immediately rolled over in the water. Its huge tail slapped the surrounding rocks so hard that they cracked and shattered.

At the same time, Su Yuanbai once again drove the Lingci Peak to smash over.

Naturally, another fierce battle ensued.

After only fighting for about an incense stick of time, the black water snake became motionless. Its huge body drooped on the protrusion of the cliff, its muscles still reacting, twitching and twisting constantly.

Su Yuanbai was very excited when he saw this. He immediately took out his Earthly Spirit Knife and stepped forward to start gutting the snake.

Not long after, he took out a blue and white ball the size of a head from the snake's body.

In an instant, strange fragrance spread in the sea water.

He quickly put the sphere away, his face beaming with joy.

This spherical object is none other than the inner elixir of a monster.

After the inner elixir is processed by drying in the shade, the powder can be scraped off and used as medicine for refining elixirs. An inner elixir like this one can be considered a fourth-grade elixir. Combined with other auxiliary materials, it is enough to refine several furnaces of fourth-grade elixirs.

The price of a fourth-grade elixir is often around five hundred spirit stones. If the alchemist is skilled and can produce three or even four elixirs in one furnace, the value of the furnace will be between fifteen hundred and two thousand spirit stones.

This demon beast's inner core can be roughly divided into three to four main materials. If it is auctioned, it can be sold for at least five thousand spirit stones!
As for other materials, for example, snake meat can be eaten as spiritual meat, immature horns can be ground into powder for medicine, snake skin can be tanned to make soft armor, water jackets and other equipment, even snake fangs and venom sacs are good things, with a total value of more than three thousand spirit stones!
Therefore, the total value of this fourth-order black water demon snake is more than eight thousand spirit stones.

Of course, the benefits of beating those wanted criminals on the blacklist and the Blood Soul Sect monsters are far less. After all, those guys are valuable because they carry wanted rewards, mission contributions, and the gains from sniffing corpses. Moreover, the former are hard to find, and the latter appear in groups and in an organized manner...

However, powerful fourth-order monsters like this often lurk in some spiritual veins, and killing them will bring you a different kind of gain.

After dismembering the demon snake, Su Yuanbai put the precious things into the storage bag. He could only let the puppet put the materials like snake skin, snake blood, snake meat into the water-escaping spirit boat. He himself continued to carry the water-repellent beads and drilled into the crack of the rock wall where the demon snake came out, carefully exploring into the depths.

in fact.

Su Yuanbai didn't need to be so careful, because Chen Xuanmo, in the heroic spirit state, had taken advantage of the time when Su Yuanbai was dismembering the demon snake to explore the inside of the gap. Not only was there a mid-grade water spirit vein inside, but there were also many other gains, and there was no danger.

After all, this place is the lair of the Black Water Demon Snake. Once the demon snake dies, there will be no other demon beasts.

The crack in the rock wall was only about ten feet wide. After entering and walking through about ten feet and turning a few corners upward, the internal environment suddenly became clear.

What appeared in the eyes of Su Yuanbai, and Yang Yuling and Lei Man who followed closely behind, was a cave nest that was glowing with a faint blue light.

The interior of the cave is spacious, and seemingly because of the pressure difference between the inside and outside, there is no water in the snake's lair.

In the center, a water-based spiritual vein radiates a light blue light, and rich water-based spiritual energy slowly diffuses out with it as the center.

On the ground around, there were spiritual herbs and spiritual vines growing and spreading. With the nourishment of the abundant spiritual energy from the spiritual veins, they almost covered half of the snake demon's nest. At first glance, the light and shadows were mottled, and it was like a dream.

"Is this... Sea Soul Grass?"

Su Yuanbai was extremely skilled in identification and had a wide range of knowledge. In the blink of an eye he recognized the clumps of lush green spiritual herbs with thick kelp-like leaves growing along the spiritual vein.

"This sea soul grass is a good thing~" Su Yuanbai was surprised and told Yang Yuling, "Don't underestimate it because it is only a third-grade wood-type spiritual medicine. It doesn't seem to be of high grade. It is actually very rare and hard to find."

"Moreover, many of the sea soul grasses in this patch have grown to the mature stage of the third grade, and can be used as the main ingredient for the third-grade elixir, the Soul Tempering Pill. Taking it can temper the cultivator's spiritual consciousness and has the effect of strengthening the soul and divine consciousness."

The price of a third-grade elixir is usually around one or two hundred spirit stones, but the Spirit Tempering Pill is relatively rare and the price is often as high as two or three hundred spirit stones.

One sea soul grass as the main material and some auxiliary materials can be used to refine a furnace. If one furnace can produce four pills, the value of it will be thousands of spirit stones.

And in this demon snake cave, there are actually more than a dozen mature third-grade sea soul grasses, as well as twenty or thirty immature sea soul grasses.

This wave alone has brought us a lot of gains.

Unfortunately, the Chen family had very little foundation in alchemy. After taking these elixirs back, they would either sell them directly or gather a set of auxiliary materials and entrust a powerful alchemist to refine them. Usually, when an alchemist made a furnace of pills, as long as more than two pills were successful, he would take at least one as a reward. If the number of successful pills reached five, he would take two, and so on!
From this point of view alone, alchemist seems to be a very profitable profession.

But if it is so profitable, why don't each family train their own powerful alchemists?

The situation here is naturally extremely complicated, and one of the main reasons is that the training cost is too high.

Training an alchemist takes a long time, and requires huge investments every year. In the early and even mid-term, there is no way you can expect to get your money back...

The second main reason is the issue of lifespan and talent.

Alchemy is a very complicated matter. Not only does it require learning a lot of relevant knowledge, but it also requires a lot of practical operations to accumulate experience. It can be said that there is no shortcut and you can only learn it bit by bit.

If one lacks talent and learns slowly, and after spending a lot of money to train a third-grade alchemist who has reached the middle or late stage of foundation building, but before one starts to recoup the investment... his life span ends and he dies... wouldn't that be like crying without tears?
Therefore, only alchemy families of the upper Jindan clan like the Danyang Li family can have a very good profit situation. Senior Dan Wang is an alchemist who is said to have reached the fifth level. He can make any third- and fourth-grade elixir with ease, and can even make fifth-grade elixir such as the Foundation Establishment Pill!
The most important thing is that the Alchemy King is a Golden Elixir cultivator, whose lifespan can be up to 500 years at most, and his profit period is very long. Alchemists like him can rank among the best in the entire Great Wu Kingdom.

but.

Now that he saw these elixirs, Chen Xuanmo became interested.

Now that the family has accumulated a good foundation and the output of purple energy has begun to increase, it is time to start training our own alchemists. Even if we can train a third-grade alchemist within a hundred years, it would be great.

Su Yuanbai checked and identified it while giving Yang Yuling some knowledge about spiritual medicines. Before they knew it, they had reached the core of the water spiritual vein.

In this place with the most concentrated spiritual energy, there grows a water-walking spiritual vine. Its long vines grow wildly, almost covering the entire ground. If you turn over the vine's thick leaves, you can see that the vine is full of poisonous thorns. Occasionally, you can see a water-blue berry emitting a fluorescent spiritual light growing on the vine.

"This is a Spiritual Pearl Berry." Su Yuanbai quickly identified the species of this spiritual object, and his eyes suddenly became a little surprised. "This water-walking spiritual vine should be the Water Pearl Spiritual Vine. Judging from its growth scale and the spirituality it has shown, it has reached the third-level spiritual plant."

Afterwards, Su Yuanbai quickly turned over the roots, vines and leaves of the Water Pearl Spirit Vine and began to search for Water Pearl Berries. Every time he found one, he would pick it and put it into the ice jade box. After searching for dozens of berries, he would carefully put the jade box into the storage bag.

During this process, the third-level Water Drop Spirit Vine cooperated obediently at first, but as Su Yuanbai turned more and more excessively, it became unhappy and curled its vines around Su Yuanbai, trying to stab him with its poisonous barbs.

Unexpectedly, Su Yuanbai seemed to have anticipated this. He drew out his Earth Spirit Blade and swung it fiercely at the third-level spiritual plant, saying viciously, "Behave yourself, or I'll dig up your roots."

Ok.

The Water Drop Spirit Vine retracted its thorny vines with grievance, allowing Su Yuanbai to do whatever he wanted.

That's right, the so-called spiritual plants are plant-like life forms with some spiritual intelligence. They have more or less their own magical powers, and some wood monks can use secret methods to conclude a life contract with the spiritual plants to grow, produce or fight together.

But most of the spiritual plants in this world are productive spiritual plants, and their combat effectiveness is terrible.

Although this spiritual plant has reached the third level, comparable to the foundation-building stage of the human race, its actual combat power is probably not even able to defeat a cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage. When encountering a human foundation-building cultivator like Su Yuanbai, it can only be at his mercy.

This is why even if many wood-type cultivators have their own spiritual plants, their combat power in single combat is still at the bottom among all cultivators.

Take Chen Xinsong for example. If he had signed a life contract with this third-order Water Bead Spirit Vine when he reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, he would basically not be able to gain any magical powers. At most, he could only promote the accelerated growth of the Water Bead Spirit Vine and produce more.

Therefore, for Chen Xinsong, this spiritual plant is definitely not the first choice for the contract.

"These water spirit pearl berries are delicious. Eating them for a long time can cleanse your marrow, strengthen your body, and nourish your face. The price of a single berry is more than 20 spirit stones." Su Yuanbai explained, "If you collect more, you can add other spirit medicines to brew berry spirit wine. Drinking it for a long time can keep you young."

Of course, what he said about maintaining youth was relative. It is impossible to make an eighty-year-old mortal look like he is in his twenties or thirties.

Hearing this, Yang Yuling's eyes immediately lit up, her face full of desire.

Although she still looks very young, how many female monks can resist the temptation of beauty products?
In this world, most female monks look younger than male monks of the same age and level. It is not because they are born that way, but because most of them pay more attention to maintenance and conditioning than male monks, and spend a lot of spirit stones on this.

As for male monks, most of them don’t care. It’s okay if they look a little older, as long as it doesn’t affect the combat.

"Don't worry, we'll divide the spoils later." Su Yuanbai said with a smile, "Now we have to leave quickly, mark this place, and ask the monks of the sect to extract the spiritual veins and transplant them to our home."

Just kidding, there is a giant dragon whale swimming nearby. Who knows if it will suddenly come back with its child to look for toys after feeding its baby?
A group of people evacuated quickly.

However, the snake demon was quite large, and the water-escaping spirit boat floated up three times before it was able to load all the snake meat into the Xuanmo, and then sailed away.

Chen Xuanmo would naturally not participate in the trivial matters that followed. After consuming three golden seals and a lot of purple energy, he fell into a deep sleep.

The next time he woke up, it was ten days before the sacrifice. He was specially awakened by Chen Ningtai, who began to prepare for the promotion of Chen Daoyuan and Su Yushan. However, because a lot of purple energy was consumed when exploring the middle-grade water spirit vein, there were only 263 strands of purple energy left in the lucky bead.

Therefore, Chen Xuanmo decided to promote Chen Daoyuan first.

He also asked Chen Ningtai to hold two golden seals and guard outside. If he did not have enough purple energy and Chen Daoyuan still had potential, he could use the golden seals to replenish it at any time.

In the Red Fire Tower.

Chen Daoyuan began his road to promotion under the protection of Chen Xuanmo.

Fortunately, Chen Daoyuan is only seventy-five or seventy-six years old, and his physical condition has not completely declined. He is much stronger than Chen Daoling was at the beginning.

In addition, he was still young when his family rose to prominence, and he had been practicing very hard over the years, so his foundation was very solid. He had also been honing his skills at the peak of the ninth level of the Qi Refining Stage for half a year in advance, and had refined his spiritual power to a very pure level, so he was already fully prepared.

Under the influence of the two golden marks, Chen Daoyuan successfully broke free from the shackles and was promoted to become an ordinary cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

That's right, it is a blessing for a cultivator with five spiritual roots to be promoted to the foundation-building stage. Even if he continues to practice, his future promotion potential is very low due to his limited qualifications. Chen Xuanmo's purple energy is limited and it is impossible for him to support them. It is the best that he can practice to the middle stage of foundation-building in this life.

There were only 62 strands of Chen Xuanmo's purple energy left, not enough to make a golden seal.

Considering that the additional purple energy generated by Su Yushan after his advancement to the Foundation Establishment Stage should be greater than ten points, therefore temporarily consuming a golden seal to help him break through will not be a loss overall.

The success rate of a cultivator with four spiritual roots in building a foundation is not low to begin with. With the help of the foundation-building pill and the blessing of a golden seal, the success rate is almost 100%. It just depends on whether he can produce an epiphany and realize the true meaning.

Unfortunately.

Although Su Yushan was successfully promoted, he did not realize the true meaning.

It is very obvious that without the blessing of this golden seal, Su Yushan's promotion this time would most likely fail. This golden seal played a key role.

then.

Chen Xuanmo took another short "rest".

A few days later, he woke up again to the sound of Chen Ningtai's chattering.

It was the autumn of the 227th year of the Xuanmo calendar, the th anniversary of Chen Xuanmo's death!

As soon as he woke up this time, Chen Xuanmo felt a large amount of purple air coming towards him. Looking again, he could see that Chen Ningtai, Su Yuanbai, Chen Ningzhuo, Chen Daoling, Chen Daoyuan, Su Yushan and others in front of him all had thicker purple air flowing from them.

The purple energy emanating from Wang Qianqian and Zhuge Linglong behind them was far beyond that of ordinary Qi-refining cultivators.

Judging from the amount of purple qi, the purple qi contributed by these family foundation-building cultivators has definitely exceeded half of the country.

This is completely different from the predicament he was in when he first woke up, when the entire Chen family could not find another Foundation Establishment cultivator except Chen Ningtai!

This made Chen Xuanmo feel very proud. He felt that there were finally more than just a few Foundation Establishment cultivators in his family.

If one counts carefully, the Chen family now has eight cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage. If one counts the Foundation Establishment Puppet and the Thunder Eel, which have combat power equivalent to the Foundation Establishment Stage, the Chen family can now be said to have "ten Foundation Establishment cultivators in one family", which is not much different from many old-fashioned Foundation Establishment families in the Great Wu Kingdom.

Moreover, Chen Xuanmo is fully confident that this is just the beginning. In the future, the Chen family will develop faster and faster and become a Jindan clan!
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(End of this chapter)