Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 162: Great Perfection of Thick Earth Returning Origin Mantra
Ji An's consciousness emerged from the storage bag and he bared his teeth and said:

"Is the mission so urgent?"

There are three thousand cut pieces of Qi Refining Stage Black Wind Wolf skins, one hundred Foundation Establishment Stage animal skins, and a number of matching talisman inks and talisman pens. The requirement is to submit a specified number of explosive talismans and explosive talismans within one month.

He quite liked the task of drawing top-grade explosive talismans, but drawing more than a thousand high-grade explosive fire talismans would take his life.

Ji An recalled his state when he drew the Ten Days Wind Sealing Talisman on Mingfeng Mountain, and his face looked somewhat ferocious.

His spiritual consciousness was over-consumed and recovered very slowly. It took him four or five days to fully recover after returning to Chiyan Peak.

"Brother, compared to casting spells, drawing talismans consumes much more spiritual power..."

Ye Changqing waved his hand and said:
"Junior Brother, I understand your difficulties, but recently several major sects have been desperately trying to attract cultivators to Mingfeng Mountain Immortal City. All the shops opened by the sects must have sufficient inventory to maintain consumption.

It's not just you. All high-level talisman masters have received a large number of talisman-making tasks, as have weapon refiners and alchemists."

Ye Changqing said, and took out a pale blue oblong porcelain jar with flowers and plants painted on it, and said:
“This contains the tranquilizing flower incense, which can nourish the soul and relieve the severe pain caused by excessive consumption of spiritual consciousness.

Everyone's workload was much heavier than before, but things have slowly returned to normal over the past few months."

The strategy of several sects is to attract independent cultivators to settle in Mingfeng Mountain. At the same time, they also want to make the sect shops famous, which will make it much easier to earn spirit stones and collect materials.

Ji An opened the lid of the porcelain jar, and a faint mint scent diffused, bringing a sense of freshness.

Looking at the twenty trays of incense inside, his expression relaxed a lot. He swiftly put the porcelain jar into the storage bag and said with a smile:
"Don't worry, Senior Brother. I will ensure that the task is completed and I won't make it difficult for you."

The sect has strict requirements for the Tranquilizing Incense. He is not eligible to exchange it on weekdays. Only alchemists and weapon refiners who have received a large number of tasks can exchange it.

His success rate in making explosive fire talismans is close to 80%. He can complete the task by drawing about 2,000 talismans, which can save a lot of tranquilizing incense.

Ye Changqing laughed:
"You're being cunning. Your success rate is definitely over 40%. The difficulty of the mission won't saturate your time."

Ji An showed an honest smile and changed the subject:

"What's the situation at Mingfeng Mountain now? How many cultivators are there?"

“The situation is pretty good. After opening for half a month, it has attracted a large number of families to move in.

The number of independent cultivators has reached more than 30,000, most of whom are cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining, and their number is still increasing.

The next task is to eliminate the monsters east of Mingfeng Mountain and turn this large area into the territory of the cultivators.

With just 20 to 30 years of development, the overall strength of Xizhou will surely rise to a higher level."

By eliminating the monsters and developing various small spiritual vein nodes, we can provide a place for more cultivators to practice.

Apart from anything else, if there are sufficient resources, the number of low-level monks will increase very quickly.

As the overall base number of monks increases, more foundation-building monks will be born. These monks are the backbone of the resistance against demonic disasters.

Ji An was surprised:

"Is everything going so smoothly? Doesn't the monster have any intention of counterattacking?"

"How could there be no counterattack? Several great golden elixir monsters have attacked Mingfeng Mountain before.

However, all three sects have built teleportation arrays leading to Mingfeng Mountain, and several Jindan ancestors can be teleported there at any time. They should have no problem defending the Immortal City with the help of the mountain protection array."

Ye Changqing said with some pride that Mingfeng Mountain was the bridgehead for the cultivators to resist the demon disaster, and the area from Mingfeng Fairy City to Qingyun Fairy City was the buffer zone for the three major sects.

If a demon disaster occurs, reinforcements from the monks will be continuously transported to the front line via teleportation arrays and flying boats.

"It seems that the several sects are well prepared. If the scale of this demon disaster is similar to that of three thousand years ago, it is estimated that the defense will be relatively easy."

Ji An smiled and said that the sect was tens of thousands of miles away from Mingfeng Mountain, and the teleportation array would consume a large amount of medium-grade spirit stones for each transmission.

The construction of the teleportation array shows the determination of several sects to protect Mingfeng Mountain.

Ye Changqing nodded, with a hint of regret in his voice:

"Human cultivators have been pioneering the Western Continent for over six thousand years. If the three sects can survive this time, we can be considered to have truly taken root in the Western Continent."

He stood up and continued:
"Come on, walk around with me. I've been here so many times, but I still haven't really appreciated the scenery of Scarlet Flame Peak."

He wanted to see where the second-level red cloud pines were. Every second-level spiritual tree could slightly increase the sect's foundation.

Ji An summoned the shuttle and said with a smile:
"Please get on the shuttle. I'd like to show off to my senior brother. I already have three second-level red cloud pines."

"That is to say, in a few months, Scarlet Flame Peak will be able to harvest a lot of second-level pine nuts.

Junior brother, I will buy some for personal use."

Ye Changqing showed some joy. There were only more than thirty second-level red cloud pines in the sect. The pine nuts would be supplied first to the cultivators in the middle and late stages of the foundation building stage who practiced the fire-based exercises for them to refine. They would rarely be roasted into pine nuts for human consumption.

These second-level red cloud pines were planted privately by Junior Brother Ji. They are not included in the sect's plan for the next two to three years, so there is room for operation. Otherwise, Uncle Jia Yu would not have mentioned the idea of ​​collecting pine nuts to make wine.

"I'll give you ten kilograms as a gift, and I'll give you ten kilograms every year from now on."

Ji An said that the second-grade low-grade spiritual objects can now be handed in to the sect's secret vault in exchange for small merits. Although the second-grade low-grade red cloud pine nuts are not very precious spiritual objects, they are difficult to purchase even with spirit stones.

"I always take advantage of my junior brother. How can I feel good about it!"

A smile appeared in Ye Changqing's eyes, and he decided to pay more attention to edible spiritual wood seeds or plants in the future.

……

one year later.

Ji An was standing at the entrance of the cave, using his magic power to nourish the red cloud pine. Suddenly, he felt a strong suction force coming from the spiritual pine, madly devouring his magic power.

He saw that the trunk of the spiritual pine tree had grown visibly larger, and a rich fire spirit was rising in the trunk.

The pine needles became even crimson, emitting rays of light a foot long.

Ji An raised his eyebrows and laughed loudly:

"The sixth one!"

This is the sixth second-level red cloud pine on Chiyan Peak, and it will be able to produce more than a thousand kilograms of pine nuts every year.

After the red cloud pine reached the second-grade lower grade, the pine nut production decreased to only about 200 kilograms.

The spiritual pine no longer absorbed the magic power. Ji An took his hand away. The originally light yellow pine needles were now as crystal clear as red jade, surrounded by a spiritual light about an inch long.

Ji An was in a good mood. He let out a long roar, released the wind control technique, and leaped to the top of the mountain.

The wind whistled in my ears and my hair flew.

After spending half an hour extracting the essence, he returned to the foot of the mountain.

By the cold pond, Xia Yuhan and her sister were already waiting beside the stone house.

Every morning is Ji An's time to make talismans. The talisman shop opened by the sect in Mingfeng Mountain Fairy City is doing a booming business, so he has no choice but to follow suit to earn more contribution points.

Mingfeng Mountain is like a fortress, blocking the invasion of high-level monsters from the east. To the east of the fairy city, independent cultivators have successively occupied the spiritual vein nodes and established immortal cultivation families.

The cultivators began to encroach on the territory that originally belonged to the monsters, and the monster hunting movement was in full swing. According to statistics, more than 70,000 independent cultivators had settled in Mingfeng Fairy City.

Ji An walked into the stone house and asked:
"How many talismans are planned for today?"

He had already made a plan for making talismans and did everything according to the plan every day.

"Reporting to Uncle Master, according to the plan, we need to successfully draw fifty Explosive Flame Talismans and two Explosive Talismans this morning."

"Why so many?"

Ji An frowned slightly. His daily workload was only about twenty or thirty Explosive Flame Talismans.

"Tomorrow is the time to trade with Uncle Wei. I need to provide him with a thousand Explosive Flame Talismans, but I'm still short of more than forty."

"Ok."

Ji An grinned, picked up his pen and started to make talismans.

Now, his success rate in drawing the Explosive Flame Talisman has reached 85%, and the success rate in drawing the Explosive Talisman is close to 60%.

Every month, he could earn more than 3,000 contribution points and more than 2,000 spirit stones from the talisman-making skill.

He rarely buys talisman-making materials from outside now, and the materials provided by the sect can basically sustain his consumption.

A silver light flashing from a communication sword flew into the stone house and rang clearly beside him.

Ji An finished drawing the explosive fire talisman he was drawing and raised his hand to take the talisman sword.

"I have returned to the sect and will visit you at Scarlet Flame Peak in three days."

The news came from Senior Brother Du Huaiyuan.

There is a difficulty in using the inner elixir of a demon beast to refine the foundation-building elixir. It is necessary to remove the demonic energy and impurities contained in the demon elixir as much as possible.

Although the traditional method of fire alchemy can refine demonic energy, it will also damage the medicinal power of the demon pill. More demon pills are needed to refine a furnace of foundation-building pills, which consumes a lot of raw materials.

Although Du Huaiyuan's water-based alchemy takes a long time, it can easily remove the impurities and demonic energy from the demon pill, greatly saving raw materials, and the quality of the finished pill is slightly better than that of the fire-based alchemy.

Under such circumstances, Du Huaiyuan was summoned by the sect to Mingfeng Fairy City to take charge, specializing in using demon pills as the main material to refine foundation-building pills.

Ji An grinned. They had occasionally exchanged letters over the past year.

The other party said that he spent more than six hours every day refining pills, and the number of pills he refined this year was more than what he had made in the previous twenty years combined.

He turned his head and said:
"I will host a banquet for Senior Brother Du in three days. I will prepare a table full of delicious spiritual food."

Xia Yuhan bowed slightly and said, "Yes, Senior Brother Liang just happened to experiment with pine honey barbecue yesterday, which is perfect for drinking."

After finishing the talisman drawing task in the morning, Ji An walked into the underground cave.

The spirit-seeking rat curled up into a ball and slept under the Earth Spirit Fruit Tree. When it heard the noise, it squinted at him and continued to sleep soundly.

Ji An pinched his fingers and released the Thick Earth Returning Origin Spell. As the spell took shape, a magical power that was different from usual spread out.

Beneath the warm and nourishing aura, there is a hint of deep and dark divine will.

The golden retriever jumped up and looked around vigilantly.

The Earth Spirit Fruit Tree was nourished by the spiritual power in the spell, and the yellow spots on the stone bark sparkled, brighter than the stars at night.

Ji An closed his eyes, feeling the aftereffects of the spell, and then connected his mind with the stone turtle.

[Spell: Thick Earth Returning to Origin Mantra (99% Perfect → Great Perfection)]

In the spell column, this line of words gradually faded and disappeared, the color of the Ji Tu Dao Seed in the Chongmen acupoint became brighter, and the entire acupoint flickered with spiritual light.

(End of this chapter)