Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 135: Battle against Lin Qianxue, teaching and learning from each other
"The Fengling Secret Realm has limited space, and the total amount of spiritual power it can accommodate is limited."

"I understand! You mean that too many monks will compete with industry for spiritual energy. The more monks there are, the more restricted the industry will be. Conversely, the more developed the industry is, the more restricted the monks' cultivation will be."

"That's exactly why. The Fengling Secret Realm is too small. If we fully develop it, it won't reach its development limit in just a few years. If we make good use of mortals, once the industry matures, we'll only need a few hundred Qi Refining cultivators and a large number of mortals to revitalize it."

The theoretical upper limit of the Fengling Secret Realm's capacity is several foundation-building cultivators plus a thousand Qi-refining cultivators.

But if it is really filled in like this, then we can only develop handicrafts, and everyone can only specialize in the study of alchemy arrays, weapons and talismans and other arts of cultivation, and must give up the original environmental advantages of the secret realm.

"If you want to unleash the potential of mortals, you need to enlighten them. The reason you are prejudiced against mortals is because mortals, as a whole, are not well educated, so they appear ignorant."

"When relocating the mortals later, we can arrange for more people who can read and write, and then teach them some relevant immortal cultivation knowledge based on actual needs. They can then enlighten the other mortals, which will free up a lot of labor."

In fact, Lin Qianfan has a better plan, which is to use puppets to replace low-end monks.

A second-level puppeteer can mass-produce excellent first-level labor puppets for use in relatively simple industries, and can directly eliminate a large number of monks who lack core competitiveness.

But if we eliminate them, what will they do?
Is it a waste of time?

No force will support idlers. Even if there are idlers objectively, there are people who carry the burden for them. No force can support real idlers.

Get out?
Forces based on blood ties cannot do such inhumane things, which will lose people's hearts, so it is okay to arrange these people who have no core competitiveness to do simple farming and fish farming.

However, Lin Qianfan knew that if the Lin family wanted to move up another level, a major internal reform would be needed, and the entire mechanism for cultivating spiritual root cultivators needed to be changed.

As a Jindan force, the family should not have so many uncompetitive people. They should be trained from a young age to become people with certain abilities and able to adapt to various environments.

However, Lin Qianfan is currently a low-ranking official and is far from being able to lead the reform. He must at least wait until he has established his foundation, become a golden elixir seed, and has a high prestige among the family's foundation-building group.

With the end of the series of disturbances caused by the elimination of the remnants of the Ji family, the Yulong Islands have returned to a prosperous state, and the Fengling Secret Realm is also gradually being transformed under Lin Qianfan's plan, changing day by day.

At the beginning of the Mao hour,
Lin Qianfan woke up according to his biological clock and began to practice Qi training.

After reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining, Lin Qianfan no longer used any elixirs. His daily practice was a simple and boring repetition:

Continuously compress the existing Dantian Qi Sea to continuously increase the total amount of spiritual power in the body;

Continuously polish and refine every strand of spiritual energy, remove the tiny impurities, and ensure a solid foundation;
Constantly explore the tiny meridians that have not been discovered or ignored in the past, so that they are fully filled without any blind spots.

"Huh~ Collect!"

Although the process is boring, Lin Qianfan enjoys it. Practicing is also a way to cultivate the mind. As long as the mind is calm, time will pass quickly.

"Morning."

"morning."

The four of them did not live separately, but built a hut by a small lake in the secret realm where the spiritual energy was the richest, where they could keep their daily practice time to a minimum.

Lin Qianfan is hardworking enough but the others are not bad either. When Lin Qianfan finishes his training and leaves, the others are about the same. People who can become foundation-building seeds may have different temperaments, but they are all equally diligent.

Even Lin Qianxue was the first one to finish her practice and go out every day. Lin Qianfan could only envy her. Her ice spiritual roots required less practice time every day, but she could refine and absorb a greater amount of spiritual energy. She was ten years younger than Lin Qianfan, but she had reached the same level as Lin Qianfan.

If Lin Qianfan had not refined six Dragon Essence Fruits to replenish his strength, he would have been overtaken by others now. This is a true genius.

"Brother Qianfan, can you practice with me?"

"Come!"

At this moment, Lin Qianxue had completed today's spell warm-up exercises with the extra time saved, and planned to take advantage of the warm-up to challenge Lin Qianfan, the strongest among the four.

By Lin Qianfan's current stage, he has already mastered simple sword techniques and first-level spells, and there is no need to practice them every day.

But there are still some gains from fighting with the strong, and the other three are the best of this generation, and each of them has his own strengths.

"Ice Wolf Spirit!"

Lin Qianxue raised her hand and summoned an ice wolf with late-stage first-level spell power to assist in combat.

Lin Qianxue follows the pure magic cultivation route, and all her means of attack are spell attacks or spell-like abilities.

This is an innate advantage of all spiritual roots. Although spiritual roots come from the five elements, they are not easily restrained by the five elements to a certain extent.

Moreover, most cultivators have never fought against cultivators with different spiritual roots in their entire lives and have no relevant combat experience, but Lin Qianxue has been accustomed to fighting with cultivators of various attributes since childhood and is very experienced.

Therefore, once the two sides engage in battle, the innate ice spirit root will have a slight advantage, while the pure magic cultivator pursues the ultimate output. She is like a high-speed mobile artillery, bombarding madly.

"Frost Imprisonment!"

"Ice Roar!"

"Infinite Ice Cones!"

This was the benefit of having a Jindan cultivator at home to guide her. Lin Qianxue, still in the Qi Refining Realm, was already employing the combat methods of the Foundation Establishment Realm. Maintaining distance combined with a high-intensity energy outpouring, attempting to directly push the opponent's limits, was completely different from the methods of most Qi Refining cultivators who still relied on magical instruments for close-range attacks.

"Invalid! Invalid! Invalid!"

However, she was facing the invincible Lin Qianfan who was practicing Qi and had already mastered the second level of swordsmanship.

Lin Qianfan stood still and only needed to swing his magic sword to respond and take on various attacks one by one. The sword energy he released from time to time could also shatter those ice and snow spells that were still accumulating power.

"shameless!"

Lin Qianxue had fought against many opponents arranged by families before. Although the battles did not reach the level of life and death, she often challenged her limits. However, her abilities seemed to be ineffective in front of Lin Qianfan. It became a spiritual power consumption competition to see who would run out of spiritual power first.

This is under the premise that Lin Qianfan does not take the initiative to attack. If Lin Qianfan takes the initiative to attack, Lin Qianxue seems to have no means of counterattack.

"You're almost there, right? Wait until your attacks are intentional, then we can have a good fight."

Compared to Lin Qianfan who needs to build his foundation as quickly as possible, the underage Lin Qianxue obviously has enough time to polish everything in the Qi Refining Realm. It is a foregone conclusion that she will go from a genius to a prodigy.

Lin Qianxue stopped and immediately sat cross-legged to digest the content of the previous battle, trying to use it as nourishment to strengthen herself.

"Are you two still coming?"

"Fight!" x2
Lin Qianfan has mastered some second-level abilities in advance and is considered a genius, Lin Qianxue is a half-step genius, and Lin Qiansuo and Lin Qianyu can only be considered strong first-tier.

What is a strong first-line?
If one has mastered most of the abilities that a Qi Refining Realm should possess and can easily defeat ordinary children from small families and kill ordinary independent cultivators, he is called a strong first-tier cultivator.

Although they are strong, they do not have the strength to challenge Lin Qianfan alone, and they need two to work together to fight Lin Qianfan.

Lin Qianfan would not use all his strength to defeat them immediately, but would appropriately control the output intensity and put pressure on them so that they could hone their coordination and improve themselves under pressure.

Although they did not expect to peek into the realm of Tianjiao, they were eager to make progress. Every bit of progress after the ninth level of Qi Refining was laying the foundation for building the foundation.

After a hundred rounds of all-out fighting, the two men gave up.

"Pervert! How did you train like that?"

"Fight! You lack the experience of fighting on the line. Of course, I'm not advising you to take risks, but I'm stating the truth that you lack the ability in this area."

Lin Qianfan's ability is not obtained solely by the fusion of memories. Memory is only an external object and auxiliary. It is more based on the foundation accumulated from various challenges and field battles he has accepted over the years.

Especially in the past few years in Lan'an Market, I went to the wild and killed many peak-level first-level beings. The mentality and instincts condensed with blood and death are difficult to achieve through simple repetitive practice.

This is also a common problem among many disciples of powerful forces. They have been protected too well since childhood. Although they have the best inheritance and equipment, they find it difficult to reach their full potential.

In addition to challenging Lin Qianfan, the strongest, they will also compete with each other.

As geniuses, every battle, every battle with different strong opponents should bring some gains. During this battle process, the four of them learned from each other and gained something.

After completing the daily communication on combat effectiveness, the four people entered the working state.

The secret realm is still in the renovation stage and requires daily guidance and supervision from four people to prevent the tribe members from going astray and wasting time and manpower.

Although these tribesmen were forced to work as punishment, most of them were still very motivated, because where there are people, there is the world, and where there is the world, there will inevitably be divisions among different classes.

In order to distinguish the different levels in this small secret space, one must perform well in front of the four managers and be promoted to a small manager.

People are like this. No matter what the environment is like, as long as they can manage a dozen people, or even three or five people, they can feel extra satisfied.

"You said Steward Lin Qianfan is your nephew? You're not bragging, are you? According to seniority, half of the people here can call him nephew."

"Hey?! How can I brag about something like that? I've watched him grow up. I'm his real uncle, a close relative and descendant of the same clan."

"Since you are his uncle, why were you thrown in here like the rest of us? I think they don't recognize you anymore."

"Isn't this just bad luck for me? The one who did it to me was that little bastard Lin Qiansuo. I didn't know Lin Qianfan was also doing the same thing. Otherwise, how could I have gotten in?"

"Then won't you be able to be rescued?"

"Um... I guess that's unlikely. Do you think you can get out again after entering here?"

Everyone was silent after hearing this.

This is obviously a secret place that the family has just conquered. A secret place means that it cannot be publicized, and these criminals are obviously people who will not be easily trusted, so it is very difficult for them to get out.

"Think positively, this place is not bad. In terms of natural environment, it's better than the fairy city. There's no worry about food and drink. It's just a little deserted."

After two hundred people were scattered across multiple industries within the secret realm, the density became sparse. Even if a large number of mortals were added in the future, it would still feel less popular. After all, it is difficult for cultivators to interact with mortals on an equal footing.

(End of this chapter)