Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 128 Subjugation, Large-Scale Construction
After thinking for a moment, Su You called Chen Yuanzong over and said, "Find an excuse to invite a few familiar Golden Core cultivators over."

That's right. With the Book of Souls, he can take a wider path. He can directly subdue a group of Golden Core cultivators and then control their families.

The purpose of the Book of Souls is precisely this: when wizards are conquering other dimensions, they use it to subjugate large numbers of local natives as slaves, thus providing themselves with a large number of cannon fodder.

Su You crafted a level-two magical artifact, which was powerful enough to control cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage.

Of course, the premise is that he can suppress the other party's soul in order to control them. He has only just stepped into the second level of wizard, and his soul is only equivalent to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. He cannot suppress the other party yet, so controlling a Golden Core cultivator is the best choice.

Su You originally wanted to invite all the Golden Core cultivators from the Mingkong Islands, but then he thought that such a commotion would be too great, and he might not be able to subdue everyone in a short time, so he decided to take it slow and invite them one by one.

These Golden Core cultivators have various social networks. With the Golden Core cultivators invited by Chen Yuanzong as a breakthrough point, it is entirely possible to capture all the Golden Core cultivators in the Mingkong Islands in one fell swoop.

In the following days, one by one, Golden Core cultivators were tricked by their old acquaintances into going to familiar places, where Su You directly suppressed them and then forcibly formed contracts with them using the Book of Souls.

The only downside is that the contract of the Book of Souls, unlike soul slavery, cannot completely control the other party's mind and make them loyal to Su You.

The Book of Souls can control the life of others, but it cannot change their thoughts.

Being forcibly controlled by Su You, these people must be filled with anger, but they just can't vent it.

Su You was fully aware of these matters, but he didn't care. He wanted to resolve the issue after he had subdued all the Golden Core cultivators.

……

Sunset Island, Dream Butterfly Sect.

Now, apart from having few disciples, the Dream Butterfly Sect is well-developed and has begun to take shape as a sect.

Su You stood on the high platform, while below him stood a group of cultivators with cold expressions.

If other cultivators were present, they would be able to recognize at a glance that all the cultivators standing below were renowned Golden Core cultivators from the Mingkong Islands.

"From now on, you are elders of the Dream Butterfly Sect. I wonder if you have any objections?" Su You said with a smile.

After the words were spoken, no one raised any objection.

Most of these people have already tasted the pain of punishment; their lives are now in the hands of the other side, and no amount of opposition will change their minds.

However, when they saw familiar Golden Core cultivators all around them, their mood improved considerably.

"My Zhao family is willing to join the Dream Butterfly Sect!"

"My Qi family is willing too!"

……

Seeing these peak Golden Core cultivators speak up, others below followed suit and began to speak up one after another.

After all, even the most powerful Golden Core family in the Mingkong Islands had fallen, let alone them.

Moreover, the ability to subdue so many Golden Core cultivators is something that no ordinary force could accomplish, so they were actually quite looking forward to it.

It's unclear what the owner wants them to do.

Looking at the sounds rising and falling below, Su You nodded in satisfaction. Luckily, he had arranged for a few people to be planted inside.

Among these Golden Core cultivators, the strongest ones were not controlled by the Book of Souls, but were directly enslaved by him, which made it easier for him to control the entire force.

Moreover, he didn't have much time to manage it, so he simply handed it over to a few of the strongest people and let them do things according to his ideas. That was the simplest way.

There were over five hundred Golden Core cultivators in the square, which was a very large force. Even if it couldn't compare to a sect with a deep foundation like the Void Heaven Sect, it still had more Golden Core cultivators than most Nascent Soul sects.

Moreover, these Golden Core cultivators are not independent practitioners; they are all supported by a family. If they are integrated, apart from lacking some high-end power, they are already comparable to any sect at other levels.

After all, even among the disciples of the Void Heaven Sect, there are only a few tens of thousands of disciples at the Foundation Establishment level and only a few hundred thousand disciples at the Qi Refining level.

Among the families of these Golden Core cultivators, there are tens of thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators, and even more disciples at the Qi Refining stage.

If Su You were to cultivate such a massive force on his own, even if he could mass-produce bloodline sorcerers, it would take an unknown amount of time to cultivate such a force.

"Don't worry, joining the Dream Butterfly Sect will definitely be the luckiest thing that ever happens to you. As long as you can complete the tasks I assign, the rewards will be plentiful." Su You waved his hand, and a huge light screen appeared in the air.

The list above details the treasures that can be exchanged for sect merits.

This includes various elixirs and some high-level magic treasures, all of which he acquired from the secret realm of the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

The place he entered that day using the Heavenly Treasure Token was a secret realm attached to the Dream Butterfly Mirror Minor World. This secret realm was originally used for trials by low-level disciples and contained many top-grade third-tier magic treasures.

After Su You took control of the Dream Butterfly Mirror, he took out all of them, since they were one of the sect's treasures and were perfect for his current use.

The high-level magical treasures dazzled them, but what truly captivated them was the Nascent Soul Pill on the pill list—a pill they had long dreamed of.

There are far too many Golden Core cultivators who are stuck at the peak of the Golden Core stage.

Of course, besides the Nascent Soul Pill, there are various other pills that enhance the power of the Golden Core cultivators, which are needed by most Golden Core cultivators.

In addition, there are Foundation Establishment Pills and Golden Core Pills. Only a few families can barely refine the former themselves, while the latter are purchased from auctions.

Seeing that there were Golden Core cultivators, they were naturally very tempted, since there were quite a few Foundation Establishment peak cultivators in their family who stayed here.

Besides these, there are many high-level cultivation techniques, some even reaching the Nascent Soul stage. There are also many alchemy and weapon crafting inheritances, all reaching the fourth level. These would be incredibly valuable in any sect, and it's surprising that they would have the opportunity to exchange for them.

"Your first task is to gather the disciples of your clans, reclaim land from the sea, expand Luoxia Island, and then relocate the entire clan here. Don't worry, the spiritual veins you relocate will still be controlled by your own clans," Su You instructed. "Zhao Yuan, this is the magic artifact for relocating the spiritual veins. I'll leave the relocation of the spiritual veins to you." Indeed, Su You's goal was to harness the power of the entire Mingkong Islands and relocate all the clans' spiritual veins here, thus greatly increasing the amount of energy available for absorption and conversion in the energy pool.

He has already purchased a fourth-tier spirit-ascending array. Once the island is expanded, he can use it directly and set up a fourth-tier grand array to regulate the spiritual energy over a range of thousands of miles.

Of course, Su You wasn't entirely at ease. After all, these Golden Core cultivators weren't entirely under his control, so he planted several of his spies among them. He also had spies around the families, and he wouldn't show any mercy if any family members were to flee.

In just a few days, several families tried to escape. The Golden Core cultivators of these families were obviously nearing the end of their lifespans, so even though they were under Su You's control, they were not afraid of death.

Su You naturally displayed ruthless methods in dealing with this matter, leaving it to other Golden Core cultivators to handle.

After these events spread, the Golden Core cultivators became much more obedient and cooperated fully, sending out cultivators to reclaim land from the sea. Tens of thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators and hundreds of Golden Core cultivators worked together, and the results were earth-shattering. The rogue cultivators on the island were even too frightened to leave the island.

In less than five days, they filled in six thousand miles of land.

After that, they went back to pack up the family's belongings, waiting for Zhao Yuan to come and relocate the spiritual vein.

If Su You had continued to use the Book of Souls to control the Foundation Establishment cultivators of those families, he would have been able to perfectly control these forces.

However, the Book of Souls has a limited capacity; it can only hold a maximum of 100,000 beings at the Qi Refining stage, or 10,000 Foundation Establishment cultivators, or 1,000 Golden Core cultivators.

The Book of Souls now controls over five hundred Golden Core cultivators, and its remaining capacity is running low. Su You has no intention of leaving it for Foundation Establishment cultivators; it would be more worthwhile to use it to control Golden Core cultivators or Nascent Soul experts in the future.

After the land was filled in, Su You took a tour. It was not bad. It was six thousand miles long and six thousand miles wide. On Earth, it would be considered a continent, but here it was just a relatively large island.

Now that Luoxia Island has been expanded, Su You buried the fourth-order Spirit Ascension Array.

This is just an ordinary fourth-order low-grade spirit-raising array. Su You didn't buy it for the spiritual energy, since how could the spiritual energy of one fourth-order spiritual vein compare to that of hundreds of spiritual veins?

The main purpose of constructing a fourth-order spiritual vein is to use a fourth-order grand formation. Otherwise, if the quality of spiritual energy is too low, the fourth-order grand formation cannot function properly.

The fourth-order array selected this time is relatively simple. It does not have any defensive or offensive capabilities. It only has the function of regulating the spiritual energy of the spiritual veins. In addition, the range of the array must be large enough, six times that of a normal fourth-order array, and can cover a range of six thousand miles.

This was specially commissioned by Su You from a fourth-tier array master.

Because of its single function, it is very cheap, costing less than one-tenth of a typical fourth-order array.

A range of six thousand li is already large enough, which is why he wants to expand Luoxia Island to a size of six thousand li.

After completing these two crucial tasks, Su You ceased managing affairs on the island, as he still had many things to do.

The first is alchemy. Although Su You has forcibly controlled these Golden Core cultivators, he still needs to tempt them with benefits in order to bring out their greater abilities.

The sect's treasury only contains real magical treasures and various cultivation techniques; as for pills, they are just empty promises, and he still needs to refine a batch himself.

Su You has already instructed his men to use their merits to acquire the rare medicinal herbs treasured by these families.

The elixirs were useless in their hands, but he could easily refine them into pills.

Su You's current cultivation level is still at the early stage of Golden Core, but his divine sense is already equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage. Moreover, after receiving and absorbing all the pill souls, his alchemy level is already equivalent to a fourth-grade low-level alchemist.

Previously, I was unable to refine fourth-order pills due to my cultivation level, but now that I have broken through, I am able to refine fourth-order pills.

If you are refining pills in the Wizard Tower, you don't need to worry about running out of spiritual energy during the process.

The only thing he lacked was spiritual herbs. Although the Dream Butterfly Sect had a large number of spiritual herbs, they were all high-grade herbs, all of which were used to refine fifth-grade, sixth-grade, or even higher-grade pills. He wouldn't just use them recklessly.

However, the dozens of spiritual roots in the spirit herb garden were of the greatest help to Su You, including more than thirty Five Elements Fruit Trees and more than ten Spirit Infant Fruit Trees, which were third- and fourth-order spiritual roots respectively.

The spiritual fruits produced by these two spiritual roots can perfectly serve as the Golden Core Pill and the Nascent Soul Pill, and in terms of medicinal efficacy, the spiritual fruits are even better.

However, using them directly is the most wasteful thing. Most cultivators use them as the main material to refine the Golden Core Pill and the Nascent Soul Pill, so that they can refine a larger number of pills.

It was because he had seen these two spiritual roots in the Spirit Herb Garden that he added the Golden Core Pill and the Nascent Soul Pill to the list of exchangeable items.

He was deeply shocked when he first saw these spiritual roots.

The only regret is that if these spiritual roots are not harvested for a long time after they bear fruit, they will fall off. If you calculate it this way, over hundreds of thousands of years, you don't know how many spiritual fruits will be lost, which is a huge loss.

Fortunately, the latest batch of spirit fruits was still hanging on the tree. Su You roughly calculated that there were more than 1,500 Five Elements Spirit Fruits and more than 100 Spirit Infant Fruits.

If we calculate based on the most common pill-forming rate, each spiritual fruit can be used to refine two pills, which means at least three thousand Golden Core Pills and two hundred Nascent Soul Pills can be refined.

This is the immense foundation left behind by the Dream Butterfly Sect. Su You believes that even those Nascent Soul cultivators who control an entire continent could not possess such a foundation.

It's impossible for them to produce so many pills all at once.

However, even if Su You were capable of refining Golden Core Pills and Nascent Soul Pills, it would be impossible for him to refine so many pills.

He only had the main ingredients for alchemy; he still needed to find and buy the other auxiliary ingredients. Although they were not as precious as the main ingredients, it was impossible to buy them in large quantities.

This matter can only be addressed gradually.

Just as Su You was concentrating on refining pills.

Large-scale construction also began on Luoxia Island.

Each Golden Core family has already chosen its sphere of influence.

(End of this chapter)