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Chapter 273: Ten Years
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After completing their Alchemy tasks, the Alchemists participating in the Refinement Foundation Establishment Pill were rewarded with two Foundation Establishment Pills each and received twenty thousand contribution points.
While the profit-sharing ratio might not be as high as when practicing Alchemy outside the sect, these were Foundation Establishment Pills, and each of them could be sold for at least six hundred thousand Spirit Stones or more.
Moreover, their status within the sect had risen significantly. These Alchemists were now considered core members of the Qingxu Sect, which only had a little over a dozen of them in total.
The future third-tier Alchemists of the sect would be chosen from among these dozen or so individuals. If they ever left the sect, they would be eagerly sought after by others no matter where they went.
Wang Hong, who was now a prominent figure within the sect, would be greeted warmly and approached by people wherever he went, regardless of their previous interactions.
Furthermore, several influential families were interested in forming alliances with him to strengthen their connections.
Many families were dependent on the sect, with their descendants being disciples of the Qingxu Sect. Some of these families had joined from the outside, while others had produced their own cultivators within the sect, forming familial ties over time.
These families constituted a significant source of the Qingxu Sect's hundreds of thousands of Qi Cultivation Disciples. Those born and raised within the sect were often more loyal to the sect than outsiders.
Wang Hong politely declined all the marriage proposals from various families. He didn't want to tie himself down with a Dao Companion at the moment, as it would limit his freedom.
In the days that followed, he kept a low profile, spending most of his time in his cave mansion, cultivating and studying. He continued to refine his Spiritual Power and occasionally treated himself to some delicious food he prepared.
Every day, he set aside time to study in his personal Space, covering a wide range of subjects, including Alchemy, talisman crafting, formations, Spirit Plants, Spirit Meals, beast taming, Spirit Insects, artifact refinement, and Cultivation Techniques. Anything available in the Scripture Tower was fair game for his studies.
When he ran out of contribution points, he would take on Alchemy tasks. His current status allowed him to take on as many Alchemy commissions as he wanted, and no one questioned it.
With a vast amount of time at his disposal in his Space, he felt that not making the most of it would be a waste.
Over the course of the next ten years, Wang Hong continued to live this way.
During this decade, he recruited another twenty Foundation Building stage subordinates.
Ten came from Liu Changsheng's side, and the other ten from Luo Zhongjie's side. He now had more than forty Foundation Building stage subordinates under his command.
In this ten-year span, his Space expanded by fifty more acres.
His Space now covered two hundred and five acres, and the time ratio inside had reached two hundred and thirty-four times that of the outside world.
In the span of these ten years, while only a decade passed outside, over a thousand years had elapsed within his Space. Now, thousand-year Spiritual Herbs were abundant everywhere.
The Golden Ironwood he had planted had all turned from black to gold, becoming third-tier spirit wood, incredibly sturdy.
The small piece of Purple Cloud Mulberry he had exchanged from Tang Wan'er had been nurtured into a hundred trees, all towering giants.
After over a thousand years of maturation, the Green Spirit Peaches had finally ripened. In the three-acre peach orchard, bright red peaches hung everywhere.
He finally confirmed that the mature Green Spirit Peaches were also third-tier spirit fruits.
During this ten-year period, many events occurred in the Cultivation World.
The East Zhou Cultivation World had engaged in countless battles against the Demon Clan on both the eastern and western fronts. The battles grew increasingly intense, resulting in countless casualties on all sides.
However, the humans, who fought on both fronts, suffered the most. Many Qi Cultivators and Foundation Building cultivators from the human race were worn down and killed by some less intelligent members of the Demon Clan.
During this time, Boundary City was once again lost and occupied by the Demon Clan, but fortunately, reinforcements arrived in time and reclaimed the city from the demons.
Two CultivationCities along the East Sea were also captured, where both cultivators and mortals were devoured by Demonic Beasts.
To cope with the increasing frequency of battles, the East Zhou Cultivation Realm summoned reinforcements twice, sending them to both the eastern and western fronts.
Wang Hong, with his three shops in Azure Void City, contributed resources twice more for the frontline support.
He had always been supportive of this cause. While others were risking their lives on the front lines, he enjoyed a peaceful life in the rear and saw no problem in providing some wealth and resources.
Moreover, these resources were not a significant burden for him. When he had no power, he needed to hide and evade, but now that he had strength, he didn't mind doing what he could to help.
These external crises were not the only challenges the East Zhou Cultivation Realm faced. Due to the ongoing battles with the Demon Clan, manpower had to be conscripted from various factions and even loose cultivators, while merchants were required to contribute a portion of their supplies.
In recent years, life in the Cultivation World had become difficult for everyone. Major factions with vast resources could endure, but smaller ones struggled to keep up.
Some minor factions were already small, to begin with, and having one or two members conscripted meant they would disband.
The same applied to shops; some small shops barely earned a few hundred Spirit Stones a year after covering all expenses. Confiscating several hundred Spirit Stones worth of their supplies in one go made it nearly impossible for them to survive.
As a result, chaos and unrest spread within the East Zhou Cultivation Realm. The most immediate manifestation of this was the surge in treasure-seeking cultivators resorting to robbery.
Sometimes, within just a few hundred miles, one could encounter several instances of cultivators fighting over treasures.
This situation discouraged people from traveling freely, causing treasure-seeking cultivators to lose their livelihoods, which in turn led to infighting.
Treasure-seeking cultivators caused small trade caravans to avoid traveling, and large caravans had to hire a significant number of guards to venture forth.
Blocked trade routes naturally led to skyrocketing prices, making life even more challenging for cultivators.
Of course, these were the conditions at the bottom of the Cultivation World. Major forces like the Six Sects were not facing severe difficulties at the moment.
They simply had to send more disciples into battle, and they could sustain their efforts for a short period.
Wang Hong's life in the sect remained unaffected by these external issues. He continued to practice Alchemy every day to earn contribution points and then spent time cultivating and studying.
Recently, he had been delving into various Cultivation Techniques. His biggest ambition was to study all the Jade Scrolls in the Sect's Scripture Tower that pertained to Cultivation Techniques.
The reason for this was that a prominent issue had arisen among his group of Foundation Building stage subordinates: they lacked Cultivation Techniques for the Foundation Building stage.
The "Immortal Transformation" Cultivation Technique he had previously created based on the few techniques he possessed was something he now felt embarrassed to mention. At that time, he had a poor foundation and limited knowledge, but he had no better options and didn't consider himself inferior to ancient cultivators, so he had used it.
With his current perspective, he could see that it was crude and full of flaws. However, it had helped him get through the initial stages of cultivation.
Therefore, he planned to revise the "Immortal Transformation" Cultivation Technique. To achieve this, he had spent over five hundred years of cumulative time in his Space.
The modified "Immortal Transformation" had taken shape, with its framework established. The only thing left was to make detailed refinements and additions.
The new Cultivation Technique still primarily focused on body refinement but now also incorporated Qi Cultivation.
This revised Cultivation Technique was divided into two layers: the first layer was the Qi Cultivation stage, and the second layer was the Foundation Building stage, with each layer further divided into nine segments.
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