Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 313 - 319: Harvest

The Li family now controls thousands of miles of territory and dozens of Spirit Veins, dealing with countless matters every day. People like Li Chengmo naturally couldnʼt just stay outside the Secret Realm and wait.

Only the trio of Li Zhirui, given their current status, didnʼt need to deal with these trivial matters personally and had enough spare time to stay here.

Among them, Li Shiqing was an elder and naturally shouldnʼt be troubled. Li Zhirui was the strongest, so he needed to stay in case of emergencies, leaving tasks like running about to Li Zhiyue.

However, she didnʼt mind, and walking straight out of the Cloaking Array, she transformed into a rainbow light flying towards Wanxian Island.

Soon, Li Zhiyue returned to the family and had Li Chengmo gather the people, also asking Li Shilian to come out to help select the family members who would enter the Secret Realm.

”Brother, did they say how many people we should arrange to go in this time?” Li Shilian asked.

Seeing Li Zhiyue shake her head and recalling the intelligence she carried back, she pondered for a moment and said, ”Since the Secret Realm isnʼt very dangerous, letʼs arrange for more family members to go in. While they collect Spiritual Objects, they should also plant Spirit Seeds.”

This way, by the time the Secret Realm opened next time, they would be able to obtain a large number of first and second-order Spiritual Medicines!

As for third-order Spiritual Medicines? Their growth time is too long, and that is only a second-order Secret Realm. It can barely cultivate them and lacks the Spiritual Energy from beyond third-order Spirit Veins, unable to speed up the growth of the Spiritual Medicine.

Moreover, third-order Spirit Seeds are rather precious. Itʼs not feasible to let them grow wildly in such a crude manner.

”Letʼs dispatch two hundred Qi Cultivators and fifteen Foundation Establishment cultivators,” Li Shilian added. ”Pick as many as possible with strong combat abilities.”

”All right,” Li Zhiyue nodded to show she had noted this and then began selecting family members according to these requirements.

Most family members on the plaza knew the reason for the family gathering and were all showing signs of anticipation, hoping they would be selected.

They understood that, after entering the Secret Realm apart from some precious or highly useful Spiritual Objects for the family that had to be handed over – and would be subsidized – the rest could be kept for themselves!

Whether you sell them directly to the family or deal with them otherwise is up to you.

Therefore, entering the Secret Realm was viewed by many as a great opportunity to earn Spirit Stones.

Itʼs just a pity that the spots were limited, and even with Li Shilianʼs allocation of 215 openings, for the thousands of family members, it was still insufficient, leaving seven or eight out of ten people regretfully not chosen.

After selecting the people, Li Zhiyue did not linger in the family residence and simply said, ”You have half an hour to prepare. Once the time is up, set out immediately.”

If anyone was late, it was easy to find a replacement. Itʼs not like they were irreplaceable.

Yet, even so, by the time they arrived at the Secret Realm, dusk had already fallen.

Li Zhirui glanced over the crowd and without saying much, simply said, ”Rest for now, conserve your energy. We might have to wait a few days before the Secret Realm opens.”

In the idle days to come, Li Zhirui spent some time each day offering guidance to the family members on cultivation, some on Qi Cultivation experience, others on Alchemy experience.

The crowd did not expect such a good fortune, receiving personal guidance from a Golden Core expert!

In the family, only those few with exceptional talents had such an opportunity. They never expected to have such luck themselves.

Li Zhirui wasnʼt thinking so much, firstly because he found waiting around tedious and it was inconvenient to cultivate or practice alchemy outside, and secondly, he wanted to seize this opportunity to test what he had learned and identify any gaps in his knowledge.

Seeing this, Li Shiqing and Li Zhiyue would occasionally give pointers to a few Qi Cultivators. Although there werenʼt many, it wasnʼt enough to dampen their fiery enthusiasm. In fact, some even wished that the Secret Realm would not open so they could enjoy the guidance of a Golden Core expert for a few more days.

Of course, such a thing was impossible. On the evening of their fifth day since arrival, the portal to the Secret Realm opened once again, and everyone entered in succession.

Once opened this time, the portal would not vanish again until the Secret Realm closed.

Therefore, it wouldnʼt be long before the first Qi Cultivator would emerge from the Secret Realm.

As expected, just two hours later, the portal suddenly shimmered with light, and a rather sneaky-looking Qi Cultivator walked out.

”Next, we need to check the storage bags,” said Li Zhirui. Seeing the joy on the Qi Cultivatorʼs face and his hurry to come out, it didnʼt take much thought to realize he had obtained a treasure.

In addition to checking the storage bags, they also used Divine Sense to scan each person from head to toe, ensuring that no Qi Cultivators were secretly keeping any precious Spiritual Objects.

After all, the familyʼs compensation was somewhat lower than the market price, and it was not beyond possibility that some might want to sell the Spiritual Objects at a higher price.

If that was all, it would have been tolerable, since it is only natural for people to want more Spirit Stones, isnʼt it?

If only it were that simple. If the precious Spiritual Objects being smuggled out were too numerous, it would surely attract the attention of certain interested parties, and they might guess that the Li family had discovered a Secret Realm.

If Shen Leishan learned this, the Li family would have to cede at least thirty percent of the Secret Realmʼs harvest, and the other party wouldnʼt have to do anything, not even ask for it—the Li family would have to offer it up willingly.

”Youʼre quite lucky,” Li Zhirui scanned with his Divine Sense and found a Third-order Spiritual Medicine within a Jade Box in the storage bag.

”Red Flame Fruit? Itʼs quite precious, I can grant you six thousand Contribution Value for it. Do you want to sell any other Spiritual Objects to the family?”

The manʼs face lit up with joy. He hadnʼt expected the Spiritual Medicine to be worth so much. With such a large sum of Contribution Value, and by borrowing some from the family along with his own savings, he could exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill!

”No need, thank you, Eldered Ancestor,” he said.

Li Zhirui directly took the Jade Box and then flicked a Jade Token over to him, saying, ”Exchange it at the Task Hall back at the family with this token.”

Gradually, more and more Qi Cultivators came out of the Secret Realm. Some not only had little gain but also ended up in quite a messy state, while others were quite lucky, obtaining many good things.

Among them, the most noteworthy was a Qi Cultivator of the Cheng generation, who had actually obtained a precious Seven-leaf Mystical Ginseng.

Though it was also a Third-order Spiritual Medicine, its value was incomparable to that of the Red Flame Fruit and other Spiritual Medicines, for Seven-leaf Mystical Ginseng could strengthen oneʼs foundation and vitality, and was the main ingredient in the Third-order Spirit Pill, Mystical Ginseng Pill!

The Mystical Ginseng Pill was extraordinary, arguably the most powerful among all Third-order Spirit Pills in terms of increasing Mana!

It was said that one Mystical Ginseng Pill was worth as much as two Essence-Enhancing Pills!

Of course, Li Zhirui had only read about the Mystical Ginseng Pill in an ancient scripture, and he didnʼt have the corresponding Pill Recipe on hand, but with human effort, things can be accomplished. With the key Spiritual Medicine in hand, was there still a worry about not getting the Pill Recipe?

Thus, thrilled, Li Zhirui directly awarded the Qi Cultivator fifteen thousand Contribution Value.