Chapter 214: Gathering Qi Sea, Condensing Golden Pill, the Sixtieth Year of Jiajing
In the world of cultivating immortals, on the top floor of the inheritance pavilion, in the inner room.
The hot spiritual energy formed a thick fog that lingered around Jiajing's body, and from the storage bag beside him, sticky spiritual energy flowed out and entered his body.
Jiajing got a lot of treasures from Li Changqing, but for the sake of caution, he would not use them in the world of immortal cultivation, not even the storage ring, even though he knew it would not be discovered here.
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst.
In another world, even if Li Changqing has treasures, resources, any backup plans, or can report a message, he doesn't have to worry about it. If he has the ability, let Li Changqing cross over to Ming Dynasty.
But in the world of cultivating immortals, and the Daming Immortal Sect is in the Great Wilderness, which is not far from the wild market. If any backup plan is discovered, Li Changqing will not let him go easily.
Especially that mysterious mortal spine, which could be so carefully contained by Li Changqing using a spiritual weapon, was obviously not simple.
As the cultivation level of immortal cultivators deepens, they often go into seclusion for tens, dozens, or even hundreds of years.
There is no time for cultivation. On the foggy plateau, Jiajing didn't know how long he had been running following the jumping golden Bodhi seeds. Boredom, tedium, confusion and doubt filled his heart.
Fortunately, he had a firm mind. He would stop to rest when he was tired. After recovering, he would start running wildly after the golden Bodhi seed again. Finally, maybe it was a few hours, or maybe it was several years.
"Boom!" The thick fog became clearer and clearer. The golden Bodhi seed that was rushing forward suddenly hit a mysterious transparent wall, and golden ripples spread out from the wall.
And behind the transparent wall, Jiajing was shocked to find that it was a vast ocean. At this moment, he was standing under this huge transparent wall that seemed to be connected to the sky. He felt as small as an ant looking up at the sky.
"Swish, swish, swish..." The golden Bodhi seeds came down from the transparent wall and jumped in front of Jiajing.
"Do you want me to break down this wall?" Jiajing suddenly understood what Bodhizi meant. At the same time, he also knew that the wall in front of him was the invisible barrier of realm.
Of course, the so-called realm barrier before him was only because of the Bodhi seed of enlightenment, which allowed him to feel it more intuitively.
This is the magic of the Bodhi seed of enlightenment!
For ordinary people who practice cultivation, the realm barriers are purely ideological and will never materialize.
But if one has the Bodhi seed of enlightenment, its magic will pull the practitioner's consciousness into a materialized space, and then materialize the realm barriers, allowing the practitioner to break through them.
The moment the realm barrier is broken, the cultivation realm of the external body will naturally break through as well.
Looking at the "realm barrier" in front of him, Jiajing understood and knew that he had reached the key to a breakthrough.
He knew that he only needed to break through this wall and go to the sea behind the wall to break through the late stage of foundation building and reach the Golden Core stage!
"Swish!" The moment Jiajing made up his mind, the golden Bodhi seed turned into a beam of light and sank into his forehead.
"Hah!" Jiajing let out a low shout, and then mobilized all his cultivation strength and blasted towards the "realm barrier".
"Clang, clang, clang!"
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
Jiajing was tirelessly smashing the "realm barrier" in front of him. At this moment, his face was pale, with beads of sweat the size of beans falling from his forehead, his lips were pale and trembling, and his body and arms were cracked.
Blood flowed down his fist, dyeing the transparent wall in front of him red. With each strike of Jiajing's fist, ripples appeared on the transparent wall.
In the inheritance pavilion, spiritual energy was already raging at this time.
Jiajing was completely engulfed in the fiery spiritual energy storm, and a spiritual energy light cocoon formed with him as the center.
However, Jiajing's physical condition was not much better at this time. His face was pale, and his gorgeous moon-white Taoist robe was now stained red with blood, and blood was constantly oozing from the surface of his skin.
The natal light in the sea of consciousness is now creating layer upon layer of golden ripples, which are seeping in all directions and feeding back to its master.
With the feedback from his natal star, his cultivation speed increased. The immortal cultivation technique in Jiajing's body, the second level of the Emperor's Sutra, which corresponds to the foundation-building period, has reached its peak.
The Emperor's Scripture that Jiajing practiced had a total of twelve levels. The first nine levels corresponded to the nine realms on the road to becoming an immortal, and the last three levels corresponded to the Nine Tribulations Loose Immortals. It was truly extremely powerful.
As the second level of the technique was running to its full potential under the influence of the innate energy, the third level, corresponding to the practice route of the Golden Core Stage, also slowly grew in the body. However, what was even more peculiar was that the 210 acupoints in the body also burst out with brilliant light.
For a moment, Jiajing's body became faintly transparent, and the 210 acupoints were connected to the third level of the Emperor's Sutra, faintly forming a strange pattern.
"Boom!" As the spiritual energy continued to flow into the body, the strange pattern suddenly burst into bright light.
At this point, the practice route for the third level of the Emperor Sutra is generated!
Almost at the moment when the practice route was formed, something seemed to appear in Jiajing's body. The 210 acupoints in his body were actually absorbing all the spiritual energy in the body into one place through the practice route.
"Break it for me!" Under the transparent wall that materialized his consciousness, Jiajing looked at the transparent wall that was already full of cracks, shouted angrily, gathered all his energy, and punched out with a loud bang.
At the same time as he threw this punch, the Bodhi seed of enlightenment in his body was sublimated to the utmost at this moment, bursting out with its final strength to help Jiajing.
"boom!"
As the punch landed, Jiajing felt his brain go blank, and the whole world seemed to have been silenced at this moment. All around him, there was chaos.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
It was unknown how long it had been before the sound of waves rang in Jiajing's ears. The chaos in front of his eyes gradually dissipated. Miraculously, the sky looked like a galaxy with hundreds of white stars hanging in the air that looked like the bright moon. Below him, he was actually standing in the air on a sea.
"...Qi Hai?" Looking at the mysterious space in front of him, Jiajing suddenly had an epiphany and understood something in his mind.
"Gulp, gurgle, gurgle." At this moment, the surface of the sea began to churn like boiling water. Jiajing was even more sensitive at this moment, his eyes fixed quietly on the center of the sea.
"Wow!" As the sea surface churned more and more violently, the next moment a golden light rose into the sky along with endless waves.
A golden pill as bright as a big star hangs in the sky.
"Buzz!"
At this time, the 210 large white stars that Jiajing had seen before appeared in the sky and were continuously supplying spiritual energy.
Sensing the fresh spiritual energy entering the Qi Sea, the golden light above the golden elixir became more and more dazzling, and the entire Qi Sea became full of vitality.
"... Gathering the Qi sea, condensing the golden elixir, the golden elixir stage!" Recalling the description of the golden elixir stage in the 'General Notes on Cultivation', Jiajing, who had long since developed the mentality of not showing his emotions on his face, couldn't help but reveal a big smile on his face.
He finally broke through to the Jindan stage!
With such cultivation level, I wouldn't say that he can run rampant in the world of immortal cultivation, but at least he can be said to have the ability to protect himself.
After all, if one reaches the Jindan stage, and the academy allows it, one can form a medium-sized sect and become the leader of a school.
As for the higher-level Nascent Soul stage, they can even be in charge of a region. After all, it is the Nascent Soul stage that is in charge of the White Horse Academy in the Great Wilderness Sifang City.
When one reaches the Nascent Soul stage, he can be called a patriarch. He seldom takes action unless it is necessary. As for the Spiritual Transformation and Refining Void stages, they are even more elusive. However, one cannot tell who they are even if they are standing in front of him. People like the Mahayana stage are even more like legends.
Looking around the Qi sea space in front of him, Jiajing's heart moved, and his consciousness turned into a rainbow light and disappeared.
On the top floor of the Inheritance Pavilion, in the inner room, Jiajing did not rush to open his eyes, but began to carefully feel everything after breaking through the golden elixir.
The first thing is the changes in the 210 acupoints in the body that are opened when the qi is guided into the body.
Cultivators absorb spiritual energy and store it into their acupoints. Whether they are practicing martial arts or absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth, it all flows through the acupoints and into the meridians throughout the body. However, things are different during the Jindan stage.
The acupoints turned into passages leading to the Qi Sea. The big star in the sky that he saw in the Qi Sea space just now was the acupoint.
Afterwards, the spiritual energy enters the qi sea from the acupoints, the golden elixir starts to circulate, and the spiritual energy enters the limbs and meridians of the body.
In other words, after breaking through the golden elixir, the spiritual energy has a larger storage space than the acupoints. The golden elixir mobilizes the spiritual power of the sea of qi and transports it to the whole body, rather than entering a single meridian through the acupoints.
The second is the third chapter of the Emperor's Scripture. After breaking through the Golden Elixir, there are many supporting exercises to enhance combat power.
Of course, in addition to these, when a Jindan stage cultivator flies, if he does not have a shuttle, flying magic tool, or mount, his biggest feature besides flying a sword is flying in the air.
That’s right, flying in the air doesn’t mean flying with a sword, it just means flying directly!
If this happened in the Ming Dynasty, seeing someone flying in the sky would definitely be the legendary god descending to earth.
After temporarily suppressing the joy of breaking through the Jindan stage, Jiajing did not rush to come out, but checked his storage bag to see how many resources he had consumed in this breakthrough.
First of all, only 30% of the 10 million taels of spiritual source remained, and a total of 7 million taels of spiritual source were consumed.
Then, he consumed a lot of the flesh and blood of unknown ancient beasts. He did wake up during this period, and of course, he woke up to absorb more resources.
The flesh and blood of those unknown ancient beasts can all be collected by Li Changqing, so they are naturally not ordinary items.
In addition, he also took a lot of precious medicines and pills.
Before going into seclusion, Jiajing had made an estimate in advance, and he stored the estimated resources in separate areas in his storage bag.
One breakthrough almost consumed all the survival resources he had stored separately, but resources are meant to be consumed.
Being able to break through the Jindan stage makes everything worth it for him!
Next, after Jiajing swallowed a "Da Peiyuan Pill", he began to consolidate his cultivation in the Jindan period.
This "Big Pei Yuan Pill" has the same function as the "Pei Yuan Pill", but the materials used to refine it are very different. Some ordinary medicine shops in Sifang City don't even sell it.
Only some well-known and time-honored medicine shops throughout the world of immortal cultivation on Arcturus sell it.
The price of a "Da Peiyuan Pill" is as high as one thousand taels of spiritual source. If it is made by some famous alchemists, it will be even more expensive. At the auction, it is not impossible for it to be sold for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
The sun rises and the moon sets, day after day.
Time passed quickly, perhaps a month had passed, or perhaps several months had passed, and Jiajing's cultivation in the early stage of the Golden Elixir had completely stabilized.
"Wow!" The spiritual energy calmed down after being agitated, and Jiajing's tightly closed eyes slowly opened.
With a thought in his mind, his consciousness entered the sea of consciousness and came to the front of his natal Ming.
"I wonder how many years have passed in the outside world since I broke through to the Golden Elixir this time." Thinking of this, Jiajing began to watch and listen to the Ming Dynasty. After a moment, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes, and he thought to himself:
"Is it already July of the sixtieth year of Jiajing?"
Before this, Jiajing had thought that several years might have passed in the outside world, but when he learned the exact number of years, he couldn't help but be surprised.
He entered the world of cultivating immortals in June of the fifty-third year of the Jiajing reign, and now it is the sixtieth year of the Jiajing reign, a full seven years have passed.
This retreat was the longest one he had ever taken.
However, what made Jiajing happy was that the Ming Dynasty was developing steadily just as he had originally envisioned. It would not be an exaggeration to say that earth-shaking changes had taken place in seven years.
The first is the place with the richest spiritual energy in the Ming Dynasty, the capital.
In the past seven years, Lu Fang and Lu Bing, who were in the first echelon, were both at the fourth level of Qi training. Now, seven years have passed, and their cultivation can be said to have made great progress.
They all reached the eighth level of Qi training and entered the late stage of Qi training.
Especially Lu Fang. After Jiajing's investigation, he found that in another half a year, which was around February of the 61st year of Jiajing, he would be able to break through the ninth level of Qi training and move towards foundation building.
As for Lu Bing, he was no worse than Lu Fang the whole time, always keeping close to Lu Fang and keeping the training speed of the two within half a year.
Then came Prince Yu and Prince Jing in the second tier.
The cultivation of these two people has also broken through from the original third level of Qi training, Qi Qida has broken through to the seventh level of Qi training. However, Jiajing was not surprised at the speed of their cultivation advancement.
No matter what, these two are his own sons, and Jiajing would naturally not treat them badly.
The day before he was about to go into seclusion, he left a large amount of cultivation resources for the two of them, and even a lot of flesh and blood of ancient beasts.
Seven years is not slow to enter the late stage of Qi training.
There are also people like Lu Bing's son Lu Yi, and the girl Qingfeng, who, because of their status and the rich spiritual energy in the capital city and the abundant resources, have broken through to the late stage of Qi training.
Of course, there are also Yan Song and his son, Xu Jie and Zhao Zhenji, who have all barely broken through the seventh level of Qi training. These are considered the weaker ones in the second echelon, and they all benefited from the laying of spiritual veins.
Xu Jie is now alone in guarding the huge Yingzhou Prefecture, the first spiritual warehouse in the Ming Dynasty, and has the eighth-grade spiritual vein bestowed upon him before. With the consolidation of the reverse spirit gathering formation, the spiritual energy in Yingzhou Prefecture is extremely dense.
Xu Jie could be said to have turned a disaster into a blessing, as instead of letting his immortal path be derailed by the loss of his mansion in the capital, he now had a richer supply of spiritual energy than his previous mansion.
There are also countless spiritual resources to enjoy.
Then there is Zhao Zhenji. He is from the same batch as Yan Song and others. Now Nanjing City also has an eighth-grade spiritual vein. In addition, they have not been idle in the past seven years, and they have no shortage of spiritual resources.
His cultivation naturally also improved, and he was on par with Yan Song and his son, Xu Jie and others.
After them is the third echelon, including Hai Rui, Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, Huang Jin, Xu Fan, Chen Hong and others, all of whom are at the sixth level of Qi training.
Of course, there were also Yan Shaoting and Chan Shuang, who practiced late, and they both managed to break through the sixth level of Qi training.
Yan Shaoting was naturally attracted by the resources of the Yan family, and Chan Shuang was the imperial teacher of the Ming Dynasty, and had Chen Hong serving him. Being in the Western Garden, he naturally had no shortage of spiritual energy and spiritual resources.
Finally, in the fourth echelon, in the Daming Immortal Palace, there are a group of immortal seedlings with outstanding destiny, all of whom are at the fifth level of Qi training.
The average ones are at the fourth level of Qi training, the normal ones are at the third level, and the mediocre ones are at the second level.
Of course, what Jiajing didn't expect was that a complete loser actually appeared in the fairy palace.
In September of the 49th year of the Jiajing reign, 12,000 immortal seedlings entered the Immortal Palace to practice Taoism. It has been the 60th year of the Jiajing reign, which is a full ten years.
The most important thing is that the Daming Immortal Palace is connected to the spiritual veins, and the child’s cultivation level is still at the first level of Qi training.
After ten years of practicing Qi, he is indeed the worst one.
Jiajing was somewhat helpless about this, but he did not pay too much attention to it, as Yan Song and others in the Immortal Palace had their own people to take care of it.
The current level of cultivation of everyone is only the result of the fact that the natal fields on the natal plateau have not provided nutrients to everyone to feed back their cultivation.
When Jiajing's spiritual consciousness was auditing the world, he naturally did not forget to check on the people on the natal plateau and in the natal fields who were polishing their natal objects and feeding back their cultivation.
Except for Prince Yu and Prince Jing who did not hand in their natal objects, and Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Zhao Zhenji and others who were not given their natal objects, everyone else did not forget to polish their natal objects like crazy.
Especially Yan Song, Yan Shifan and others, they kept feeding spiritual objects to their natal creatures.
As for other people, Hu Zongxian's natal weapon was a sword, so he began to learn how to refine weapons, constantly nurturing and refining his natal weapon, but unfortunately the effect was limited.
After all, there were no materials for refining weapons in the Ming Dynasty.
As for the others, it was naturally similar. They all knew how to polish their natal objects, but they had no materials. The only way they could think of was to learn how to refine objects, just like Hu Zongxian.
Pills, formations, talismans, and instruments are the four most common professions on the road to immortal cultivation. Some basic books that can be bought in the immortal cultivation world were passed down by Jiajing as early as when the school of Daming Immortal Palace opened.
Before this, powerful officials in the court, such as Yan Song, although they cultivated immortality, still maintained their dignity as powerful officials and were unwilling to learn alchemy, formations, talismans, and refining weapons.
After all, given their status, they only need to be responsible for daily cultivation, and the elixirs are distributed freely by the immortal salary. They don't need to arrange the formations themselves, and they don't need to make talismans and other combat items themselves. In the Great Ming Immortal Dynasty, who dares to take action against them?
As for refining equipment? Isn't that just a craftsman?
Although the imperial court has undergone reforms and no longer has the so-called "everything is inferior except for education", they are still unwilling to condescend.
However, now that they have natal objects, like Yan Song and Yan Shifan, whose natal objects are animals, they only need to feed spiritual objects to make them grow, but the objects can only be upgraded in grade.
For example, if Hu Zongxian’s natal sword is a magic weapon, then he can only polish it, add materials, and reforge it to upgrade its grade.
If the grade is upgraded from a magic weapon to a spiritual weapon, the spiritual weapon will feed back to the natal sword, and then the cultivation level of the natal sword will naturally be faster and greater.
Therefore, these powerful officials in the court who usually looked down on the craftsman industry had to lower their posture and began to learn the method of refining. "My life is the most cultivated by the return of animals..." Jiajing looked at the life plateau, checked the harvested cultivation, shook his head slightly, and did not put all of it into his own pocket.
If he had not broken through to the Jindan stage before, he would naturally absorb the cultivation base that Yan Song and others had fed back to him and feed it back to himself.
But now he has reached the Jindan stage, and the effect of this little bit of cultivation that has been fed back to him can be said to be minimal.
Therefore, Jiajing decided to return the merits of everyone's cultivation through his natal field.
In this way, there will be another group of people whose cultivation will skyrocket. For example, those who are just one step away from the next realm, such as Lu Fang, Lu Bing and others, should be able to directly break through the ninth level of Qi training.
Of course, these are all people who have handed over their lives and the Daming Immortal Palace and need special attention, such as the Daming Immortal Martial Department, the group of Immortal Martial Guards, and many eunuchs under Shi San who have embarked on the path of cultivating immortals, and many of them have reached the middle stage of Qi training.
However, Jiajing was not in a hurry to reward everyone with their cultivation immediately. He planned to reward everyone after returning.
Afterwards, Jiajing began to inspect the city of Nanjing again.
Today, this first city of immortal cultivation in the Ming Dynasty can be said to have the richest immortal cultivation culture. As for the realm of immortal cultivation, any commoner can talk about it in detail.
With the support of Zhang Juzheng and others, the 10,000 registered immortal seedlings in Nanjing City began to enter various industries.
There are also several immortal seedlings who have grown into handsome young men, married, had children, established their own families, and run businesses.
In addition, many immortal seedlings have begun to dabble in the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals.
Such as civil and military affairs, military affairs, agriculture, medicine, astrology, divination, alchemy, talismans and arrays, spells and seals, rituals, archery, mathematics, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, sword-breaking skills, nightmare locks and escape, clever sex and blood-control, curses and poisons, business, food and weaving, dancing, statues and plays, searching and identifying, changing the realm of feelings and so on.
Of course, these are the necessary courses that the twelve thousand immortal seedlings learn in the Daming Immortal Palace.
As for the source, it is naturally recorded in the "General Notes on Cultivation". The sources of the techniques are all popular goods purchased by Jiajing from the Daming Immortal Sect's Inheritance Pavilion and Sifang City.
However, for the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty that had just embarked on the path to immortality, it was completely sufficient.
Under Huang Jin's instruction, the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation have been spread. Almost everyone in Nanjing City, from all the immortal cultivation families, large and small, and scattered immortal cultivation seedlings, has a means of making a living.
Therefore, of the 10,000 immortal seedlings registered by the imperial court at that time, except for those with extraordinary family backgrounds who did not need to be self-reliant, all the others began to develop to a greater or lesser extent.
They may marry fellow cultivators and start a family, or take over a cultivation business and make small-scale deals, or they may trade with the government and the court in exchange for spiritual resources.
Seven years passed, and under Jiajing's guidance, the Taoist cause in Nanjing City flourished.
In order to encourage these immortal cultivators to develop vigorously and turn Nanjing into a prosperous immortal cultivation city, Zhang Juzheng and others even submitted a petition to the court requesting the establishment of the "Immortal Law Department".
Prince Yu and Prince Jing, who were still nominally in charge of assisting the cabinet, did not think about it for long. After discussing with the cabinet, they simply agreed with a wave of their hands. Lu Fang and the Imperial Household Department also approved of this.
Jiajing delegated power before he left. As long as the development was within a controllable range, there was no need to report it specifically and special matters could be handled specially.
At first glance, today's Nanjing really does look like that. If it were placed in some remote corner of the immortal cultivation world, a cultivator entering would definitely regard it as some backward immortal cultivation town, and would not suspect that it is a mortal town. Immortality is a rare thing.
In addition to the city of Nanjing, many counties, towns, and villages within Yingtian Prefecture also have immortal cultivation families quietly developing.
After all, in the minds of these people, cultivating immortals is the business of the imperial court. If the immortal methods of these people are discovered, wouldn’t they be confiscated by the imperial court?
However, what they didn't know was that their every move and the development of their family were all under the observation of the Jinyiwei, the East Factory, the West Factory, and even the top level of the entire Ming Dynasty.
What the imperial court wants is the wild growth of the immortal way under this controllable state, so as to promote the development of the Immortal Dynasty.
The entire Yingtian Prefecture is very large. Seven years have passed, and the cultivation of the hundred arts of immortality is still in the exploratory stage, and not even the basics have been achieved.
It is still too early for the immortal way to grow wildly and fill the entire Yingtian Prefecture, or even be unable to contain it, and to expand to the surrounding prefectures and counties.
However, both the people in the court and Jiajing were very satisfied with the current development of Yingtian Prefecture, and everything was developing steadily.
Finally, Jiajing looked at the development of the three major camps, the Five Military Commanderies, and the various military garrisons within the Ming Dynasty.
In seven years, the Immortal Martial Arts had basically covered the entire army, and almost everyone had received a copy of the skills.
As for immortal arts, only military families with more than a thousand households can practice them, and receive a "immortal salary" from the court every month.
Civil officials of the fourth rank can receive it, and military generals of the fifth rank can receive it. The reason for this is naturally taking into account the military generals' experience of life and death. In addition, the military is now the new elite of the Ming Dynasty, and the future will also be an era of war, so no one has any objection to this arrangement.
As the immortal martial arts became popular throughout the army, the money of the Ministry of Revenue naturally flowed out like water, but the Ming Dynasty can still hold on.
Moreover, officials in the court no longer have any need for worldly money. Everyone attaches great importance to political achievements. After all, political achievements represent immortality, resources, and longevity.
Only officials of the fourth rank or above in the capital can obtain immortality, so how can one become an official in the capital? Manage your own piece of land, be a good official, and then wait for the annual assessment.
At this time, if any official dares to embezzle or accept bribes, haha, that would be good news for all other officials.
For the lower officials, they can only be promoted by pulling down their superiors. There are only so many positions above them. If others don’t step down, how can they move up? Therefore, pulling down others is everyone’s consensus.
The officials stared at their superiors with shining eyes all day long, and those being stared at were so nervous that they also stared at their superiors.
For a time, the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom was filled with peace and tranquility, and the people naturally applauded.
The previous situation of suspicion between officials and the public is long gone.
In addition, the court lifted the curfew, and officials in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, prefectures, counties, and states worked hard to develop industry, commerce, agriculture, and entertainment in order to achieve political achievements.
The Ming Dynasty's trade with neighboring countries and even maritime countries became increasingly frequent.
As for the maritime countries' concern about the Ming Dynasty's practice of cultivating immortals, they remained skeptical for seven years.
No matter how the overseas merchants who stayed in Nanjing wrote letters and how they assured everyone that the news was true, after it was passed back, the European countries were still unwilling to believe it.
But this is not surprising. After all, the Ming Dynasty's immortal path is only controlled within the scope of Yingtian Prefecture. Even outside the city of Nanjing, those immortal cultivation families that are still in their infancy are even more deeply hidden.
Naturally, these foreign merchants could not understand anything.
For example, in the city of Nanjing, the immortal cultivation families and individual cultivators who have just started to run businesses or engage in the various arts of immortal cultivation have already formed a unique circle of immortal cultivators, and it is difficult for the local people to integrate into it, let alone some overseas barbarians.
Of course, even if these merchants wanted to buy something related to cultivating immortals, they couldn't do it. After all, these immortal cultivators themselves are still in the exploratory stage, so they naturally don't have things like talismans and pills.
The elixirs and talismans that were occasionally exchanged for spiritual rice and the like from the imperial court's "Department of Immortal Law" were treated as heirlooms.
As for the spiritual rice, for these immortal cultivators, it is a rare commodity that serves as currency and a resource for cultivation. Who would let you sell it with worldly money like a foreign barbarian?
"Huh." After roughly looking at the development of the Ming Dynasty over the past seven years, Jiajing let out a sigh of relief. A gratified smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he thought to himself, "It's still not explosive enough."
"However, in just seven years, it is not easy to have a prototype of a real immortal cultivation city. Let's take our time..."
"However," Jiajing's expression became serious again, "For the current Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is the supply of resources..."
Through this trial of the world, Jiajing also discovered many problems, for example, the materials for refining equipment were too scarce.
So much so that even cabinet ministers like Hu Zongxian couldn't find suitable materials when they wanted to polish their own natal objects.
Another example is the refining of elixirs.
Even though what he brought back from the world of immortal cultivation were some basic alchemy methods, many spiritual herbs and medicines were not available at all.
For example, in the world of immortal cultivation, the most common and sought-after "Qi Gathering Powder" in the Qi training stage can restore spiritual energy at the fastest speed in a short period of time after taking it.
For those casual cultivators who live on the edge of death, this is something that is inexpensive, good quality, and sometimes even life-saving.
The Ming Dynasty is now in a period of vigorous development.
For example, nowadays, the two capitals and thirteen provinces have widened and improved roads, and mountains have been excavated. In addition to the "Treasure Wheel of the Earth", Xu Fan's armament institute has also created many magical items.
Many of them can only be used by practitioners in the Qi training stage.
In addition, there are immortal tools used for calcination and refining, which also require immortal cultivators who are at least at the first level of Qi Refining Stage.
However, this process will undoubtedly consume a large amount of the cultivator's spiritual energy.
When spiritual energy is consumed, it needs to be replenished. If Daming wants to restore the spiritual energy of the cultivator, he can only do so by taking spiritual objects. However, if this takes a long time, the amount of spiritual objects consumed by the entire project will be very large.
Even though the Ming Dynasty now has two "Spiritual Warehouses", the first one, Yingzhou Prefecture, needs to use the spiritual resources as the "immortal salary" of officials in the court and the "immortal pay" of the army.
Secondly, most of the spiritual fields in Nanjing City are used here and can barely meet their own needs.
In this way, we can only increase the "Spirit Warehouse".
However, this is obviously not a question of whether to increase the number of "spiritual warehouses", but whether such consumption is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty.
If we can replenish elixirs in time and reduce the spiritual energy consumed by the large project to half, the remaining spiritual objects can be used in more places. If Daming has "Qi Gathering Powder", it can just make up for it.
"The Ming Dynasty must catch up with practical things like Qi Gathering Powder," Jiajing thought, his eyes flickering, "It is obviously not enough to just plant some key medicinal ingredients from the world of immortal cultivation..."
"It would be best if we could get a medicinal field there directly!"
The cultivation of spiritual medicines is different from that of ordinary spiritual plants. It requires special medicine fields, and it takes time to cultivate a mature medicine field.
Since it could be transported directly, Jiajing naturally didn't want to work hard to cultivate medicinal fields. For the Ming Dynasty, which was in the process of barbaric development, the most precious thing was undoubtedly time!
"I decided to return to the Immortal Cultivation World this time to take over the heavy burden that is currently on Liu Quan alone."
"Next, Li Changqing will clear the southeastern area of the Great Wilderness, and the Daming Immortal Sect will need to take over the territories of other sects."
"This is a great opportunity to make a fortune!" Thinking of this, Jiajing's heart moved and he withdrew from the sea of consciousness.
The Ming Dynasty is still developing normally today, so there is no rush to go back. After being away for seven years, Jiajing plans to make it a whole year.
Ten years, a full ten years of seclusion!
That is to say, stay in the world of immortal cultivation for three years, deal with what needs to be dealt with, and then go back in the sixty-third year of Jiajing!
In early September of the 52nd year of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty was declared to have entered the Immortal Dynasty. When we went back around the 63rd year, it was exactly ten years since the Ming Dynasty entered the Immortal Dynasty.
Thinking of this, Jiajing raised his hand and cast out a cleansing talisman. After cleansing himself, he changed into a light blue robe, then waved his hand to remove the restrictions and formations on the top floor of the inheritance pavilion.
The fifth day of July marks the beginning of autumn.
On this day, the sky above the Daming Immortal Sect was gray, with drizzles floating in the air and bursts of coolness.
Jianxian Peak.
The Grand Elder of the Daming Immortal Sect, Liu Quan.
The word "Jian" is taken from his natal mirror, the Great Ming Treasure Mirror. The word "Xian" naturally refers to cultivating immortals and the way of immortality.
Jianxian Peak is about a thousand feet high, like a long sword. The entire mountain reaches straight into the clouds. There are lush mountains around it, which are also hundreds of feet high and of different heights.
Going up along the winding mountain path, you can see towering ancient trees and swaying green bamboos on both sides of the stone steps, as if every breath between heaven and earth contains vitality.
As the altitude gradually increases, the air becomes fresher and the spiritual energy is so rich that it almost condenses into fog.
It gently brushes across your cheek, making you feel relaxed and happy, as if all the pores on your body are happily absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.
When we reached halfway up the mountain, a silver light suddenly appeared.
A waterfall hidden deep in the dense forest hangs down like a silk thread, with roaring sounds and splashing layers of mist.
Under the waterfall, the water converges into a deep green pool. The water is so clear that you can see the bottom, and occasionally fish swim in it.
Many roads and open areas have emerged on both sides of the mountain.
Exquisite pavilions are built against the mountain, scattered in an orderly manner, hidden in the clouds and mist, like a fairyland.
These pavilions and corridors are mostly built on bluestone, with flying eaves, carved beams and painted buildings. Every brick and tile reveals the accumulation of years and the exquisite skills of the craftsmen.
The pavilions are connected by winding paths. There are occasionally exotic flowers and plants beside the stone steps, with an intoxicating fragrance that attracts butterflies to dance.
"Chirp!"
Three cranes rushed out of the dense forest, spread their wings and flew high, some circling above the pavilions, some soaring among the sea of clouds. They were either white or purple, and there seemed to be a faint light flashing on their wings.
"Wow!"
The huge spiritual consciousness of the Jindan stage came over.
Along the way, he climbed up without any concealment and without any scruples, and stood on the top of Jianxian Peak, overlooking the rolling sea of clouds. The scenery here is excellent, and one can have a panoramic view of the entire Daming Immortal Sect.
Looking closely, it is actually far away from the main peak where the head of the sect is.
Seeing this scene, Jiajing was thoughtful, and at the same time, he couldn't help but admire Liu Quan's respect for the three Dugu brothers more and more.
"May I ask who is visiting our Daming Immortal Sect?"
Just as Jiajing was admiring Jianxian Peak, a low shout suddenly came from the attic in the distance, followed by a figure in a black robe who suddenly appeared.
After observing with his spiritual sense, he finally saw clearly what Liu Quan looked like at the moment.
This was the second time Jiajing had met Liu Quan since he had met him thirteen years ago, but Liu Quan's appearance had changed a lot.
Previously, Liu Quan had unkempt hair and untidy beard, but his expression could not hide his unrestrained and carefree spirit. However, the Liu Quan in front of him had changed a lot compared to before.
He was no longer unkempt, no longer unshaven, and no longer casually wore a pair of straw sandals on his feet.
The previous carefree and unruly look between his brows had long disappeared, replaced by steadiness and maturity.
But upon closer inspection, it is hard to hide the fatigue.
Even his neatly trimmed hair had a noticeable streak of gray.
After not seeing him for thirteen years, his cultivation had already reached the late stage of foundation building, and he seemed to be showing signs of a breakthrough.
However, the surging spiritual energy fluctuations in his body are much stronger than those of the general late stage of foundation building.
Besides, he worked with Li Changqing and had no shortage of resources, so it shouldn't have been thirteen years before he still failed to break through to the Golden Core Stage.
However, soon, a look of realization emerged in Jiajing's eyes. Combined with Liu Quan's tired expression at the moment, it was not difficult to guess that there was obviously something wrong with his mentality.
In fact, given Liu Quan's caution, it is very likely that he himself does not want to break through and is suppressing his own realm.
Jiajing's current cultivation level is the Golden Core Stage. With his huge and powerful spiritual sense, he can naturally see through everything about Liu Quan at a glance.
"It seems that Li Changqing has put a lot of pressure on him. He has reached his limit..." Thinking of this, Jiajing no longer hid himself, but directly sent a message to Liu Quan, saying: "Liu Quan, it's me."
"Sir?!" Upon hearing Jiajing's voice, Liu Quan's body was startled at first, then his breathing stagnated, and then his pupils suddenly turned red, and his whole body began to tremble at this moment.
"Sir, you are finally out!"
At this moment, Liu Quan felt as if some unbearable burden in his heart was about to be lifted, and he felt inexplicably relaxed all over.
The majestic figure of that "kind father" appeared in my mind again.
"..."
(End of this chapter)
