Chapter 652 Family Heritage (Please Subscribe, Please Bookmark)
In the subsequent battles with the sandworm swarm, the third-level insect killer kings were entangled with magic weapons and controlled by the Buddha's Wrath Red Lotus. They died completely before they could even use their own methods. Only the spiritual materials in their stomachs that had been purified became the accumulation in Sun Mingsheng's storage bag.
And with the increasing number of monks rescued, he earned the title of "Desert Good Man" under the publicity of those who cared.
Sun Mingsheng worked hard to improve his own practice in the Western Desert, and his family in the Song Dynasty's cultivation world has also developed rapidly in recent years, especially in the past few decades when Sun Mingzeng, a second-level Jindan cultivator, has been sitting in the family and has never gone out.
In the relatively remote and barren Song Dynasty's cultivation world, due to the shortage of various spiritual objects, except for a Yuanying cultivator in Baiyao Valley and a fourth-level inferior black water snake spirit beast in the Beast Control Gate, Jindan cultivators are already genuine top-level cultivators.
On weekdays, Sun Mingzeng certainly would not participate in the basic operation and management of the family, but some key matters require him to make the final decision. There are also a few key matters that require him, a Jindan-stage cultivator, to come forward to communicate.
For example, if there are no cultivators of the same level who come forward to establish fixed trade routes with some Jindan-stage families with a long history, it is impossible to reach an agreement.
After all, compared with the Sun family, a new Jindan-stage family with insufficient foundation, any old Jindan-stage family that has been passed down in the cultivation world for more than 500 years has its own foundation.
In this kind of transaction, the Sun family is undoubtedly at a disadvantage. Fortunately, a large number of first-level and second-level spiritual medicines planted in the space secrets deep in the Beast Control Mountains in recent years have begun to mature and can be used for transactions.
After all, these old Jindan-stage families have a large number of cultivators and various auxiliary skills are relatively mature, so the demand for low-level spiritual medicines is also quite extensive.
Although the family has been developing smoothly in recent years due to the presence of two Jindan-stage cultivators, the improvement of commonly used auxiliary skills such as alchemy, refining, talisman making, and formations is still relatively backward.
Among them, the fastest-growing one is talisman making. Under the influence of Sun Mingsheng, the family's top cultivator, there are currently five second-level talisman makers in the family's talisman making hall, the highest of which is a second-level top-grade talisman maker who can refine more than three second-level top-grade spiritual talismans.
And thanks to the inheritance of some special talisman making methods and techniques, the spiritual talismans made by the Sun family are more powerful than the spiritual talismans of the same level after being sacrificed.
A small part of these special talisman making methods and techniques were inherited by Sun Mingsheng in the past, and the rest were summarized by the talisman making hall through practice. Therefore, the spiritual talismans made by the Sun family are also very popular in various markets.
In addition, the weapon refining hall has also made some progress after years of development. Currently, there are two second-level weapon refiners in charge, who can refine spiritual weapons and magic weapons of the second-level medium grade and below.
In addition to meeting the needs of the family itself, these spiritual weapons and magic weapons will also be sold to the outside when the quantity is relatively sufficient, and the family will earn a small amount of spiritual stones to make up for the investment in the weapon refining hall.
As for the formation, due to the lack of high-level inheritance, the current progress is not ideal. So far, no second-level formation master has been cultivated. The highest is only the first-level upper grade. In addition to providing the most basic maintenance for the family's protective formation, there is no other use.
Regarding the formation, Sun Mingzeng and Sun Mingsheng could not provide much help. After all, their understanding of the formation is only superficial, and they have never done any in-depth research.
Perhaps the only thing that can be done is to buy a relatively complete formation inheritance at a high price at a certain auction in the future as a need for the family to develop the formation.
Of course, this kind of thing requires chance. After all, array masters are a noble profession in the entire cultivation world, and the scope of inheritance is quite narrow, basically within a very small range.
For arrays, both Sun Mingzeng and Sun Mingsheng, two Jindan-stage cultivators, and the entire Sun family have enough patience and are willing to make continuous investments.
A tall building rises from the ground. At present, there are only two or three kittens in the family array hall, but there will be a day when they grow into big trees in the future.
In the entire Sun family, the most obvious growth in recent years is the Alchemy Hall. As the first alchemist of the family, Sun Caiyun, with the full support of the two Jindan-stage cultivators, has now reached the eighth level of foundation building. With the support of sufficient spiritual medicine, he has been successfully promoted to the first second-level upper-grade alchemist of the family.
At present, the success rate of refining second-level upper-grade spiritual pills exceeds 40%, which is also one of the famous alchemists besides the four major sects. At least he is the leading alchemist in the entire Pingyang County.
In addition to being responsible for refining the upper-middle-grade second-level elixirs needed by the family, Sun Caiyun would also provide assistance to the best of his ability to some independent cultivators or family cultivators who came to him for help, in order to enhance the overall influence of the family.
In the alchemy hall, in addition to Sun Caiyun, the second-level top-grade alchemist, there are three second-level alchemists who produce elixirs in a steady and continuous manner to meet the needs of the family and sell them to earn spiritual stones to maintain the operation of the family.
There are more than fifteen remaining first-level alchemists, and they also provide the first-level elixirs that are consumed the most in the cultivation world.
The first-level elixirs may seem to be of low grade and low price, but they are in high demand and high sales, and the growth period of the spiritual medicines required for refining is relatively short, so the profits earned by the family every year are also not small.
However, due to the lack of third-level alchemists, the elixirs needed by the two Jindan-stage cultivators of the Sun family can only be purchased from outside, which not only costs a huge amount of spiritual stones, but also has unstable channels, and has obvious side effects on the promotion of Sun Mingzeng and Sun Mingsheng.
According to the current situation of the Sun family, it is impossible to cultivate a third-level alchemist in the short term.
"Boom"
With an explosion in the alchemy hall and the dissipation of a black breath with a fishy smell, it means another failure of alchemy.
And the elixir that is qualified to cause such a commotion must be made of a small amount of high-grade elixir that can be refined in the Alchemy Hall.
In the most central alchemy room in the Alchemy Hall, Sun Caiyun was completely black, with only a pair of eyes still flashing a dazzling black light.
"All the steps are strictly in accordance with the steps recorded in the prescription, and whether it is cultivation or alchemy skills, have they met the requirements for refining the foundation-building pill?"
Sun Caiyun showed a puzzled look on his face. It was obvious that he had not figured out the root cause of the failure of refining the foundation-building pill in a short period of time. This was more than twenty failures.