Chapter 273: Ten Years

Chapter 273: Ten Years

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.

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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