Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 153 Advancement in Wealth
A torrent of witchcraft!

The twelve level-two sorcery spells were instantly activated within his body, and the use of the miniature artificial sorcery network was demonstrated for the first time.

The magic power within the witch net was instantly extracted and gathered on the witchcraft imprint on the witch net, instantly condensing into streams of witchcraft that poured outwards.

boom! boom! boom!
Several fourth-tier alien races that were just about to approach were instantly overwhelmed by the torrent of wizards. They didn't even have time to make a sound before they were turned to ashes by the wizarding attack.

escape!
The last two alien races on the outer perimeter felt a chill in their hearts, with only one thought in their minds.

They hadn't expected Su You to have such a powerful trump card, one that he hadn't even used once while hunting the demonic insects.

Soul Storm!

A powerful surge of spiritual energy erupted forth.

The two alien races let out a muffled groan, their spirits severely damaged, and their movements immediately slowed down.

Sealing Ring! Spirit Restriction Technique!

Using several sealing witchcraft and spells simultaneously, Su You quickly sealed the two fourth-tier alien races.

He did not intend to kill either of them.

Firstly, he was interested in the ability wielded by one of the alien races—the ability to control the physical body—and he wanted to interrogate him thoroughly.

Another point is that the two alien races are quite strong, and after being enslaved, they are not bad either as henchmen or cannon fodder.

He didn't hold back at the beginning, mainly because he was afraid of unexpected events. With his physical body sealed, he was still powerless to deal with so many fourth-tier experts.

After collecting the spoils, Su You immediately ordered a retreat.

Although my innate abilities no longer detect any danger, I still need to be careful.

Talent is not everything. If the opponent is much stronger than him, or has special talents and magical treasures, or appears unexpectedly, he will have a hard time defending against them.

When he hunted the Mysterious Spirit Turtle, he relied on surprise and magic weapons to successfully evade its talent and kill it.

Fortunately, the rest of the journey went smoothly, and Su You successfully returned to the Great Wilderness Secret Realm.

Once back in the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, safety is no longer a concern.

After all, the secret realm has its own special rules, which suppress the strength of life forms entering it to the Golden Core realm. The reason he can still exert the strength of the Nascent Soul in the Great Wilderness Secret Realm is because he has stayed there long enough and adapted to the rules inside.

His trip to the Heavenly Vine World yielded results far exceeding his expectations. He not only brought back Heavenly Vine seeds but also exchanged them for a large amount of scarce resources.

Most importantly, they saw hope of obtaining the seeds of the second-generation Tongtian Vine.

The second-generation seeds are what he wants most; they have high potential and are of very high quality.

The seeds he has exchanged are just ordinary second-tier seeds. The Heavenly Vine that grows from them will probably only reach the second tier at most, with little potential for evolution.

Unless he finds a way to improve and evolve the seed, he cannot increase its potential.

Of course, the biggest gain this time was leading the Bloodline Warlock Legion through trials.

The surviving cultivators who obtain a third-tier bloodline potion have the potential to advance to a third-tier bloodline sorcerer.

Although the casualty rate in this battle reached a quarter, it was still worthwhile overall.

Only when all of these soldiers advance to the third rank will they become a force that Su You can truly take seriously.

"No wonder those wizards didn't cultivate many bloodline followers at the beginning; it's really not something ordinary people can afford to support." Su You looked at the wealth that was being consumed like water every day and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

He now has two money-devouring behemoths in his hands. The first is the academy, which consumes the most of his wealth. From the initial training of students to the investment in various laboratories, the costs are enormous.

Fortunately, although the academy itself cannot generate wealth, it can help him earn wealth.

Having a large number of second-tier secondary cultivators has already helped him accumulate a certain amount of wealth.

Large quantities of elixirs, magical artifacts, talismans, and other items were refined and then transported to the East Sea.

In the East Sea, due to the immense power of the Dream Butterfly Sect, its celestial city has become the strongest and most prosperous celestial city in the surrounding area.

Because Su You occasionally releases batches of rare resources such as Golden Core Pills and Nascent Soul Pills for auction, the commerce here has become very prosperous.

Within the Immortal City, his shop was the most powerful, selling large quantities of pills, magical artifacts, and other items every day.

In addition, there are bloodline potions, which have gradually spread and attracted countless independent cultivators to buy them. It can be said to be his most profitable product.

This single type of goods has attracted many Nascent Soul stage experts to test the waters, and even some powerful forces have come to coerce and entice them.

Although they are outwardly weaker, they are protected by an eighth-order formation, so there is no need to fear them.

It can be said that the Nascent Soul Venerables killed one by one. Apart from the few who were killed at the beginning, there were also several who were suppressed under the formation.

Su You's current power in the East China Sea is lacking a true strongman, a Nascent Soul Venerable, to oversee it.

After establishing its dominant position in the surrounding area through several large-scale battles in the East Sea, the Dream Butterfly Sect ceased its operations.

But this doesn't mean he won't make a move. He's been slowly accumulating strength, waiting for the moment to make a stunning impact.

Although the sect has an eighth-order formation for protection, it is only a passive defense. If a Nascent Soul Venerable is in charge, the foundation of the power can be rapidly improved, attracting more people to come.

Unfortunately, Su You is not yet able to enslave a Nascent Soul level expert, and the twin clones' use of the Mirage Realm may not necessarily affect the opponent's mind, so he can only suppress them for the time being.

Killing them directly would be too wasteful.

Of course, if those forces are willing to offer enough treasures in exchange, he will still release these people.

Unfortunately, so far, only one person has met his requirements, while other sects are still helping him collect materials.

Besides the academy, his army is also a money-devouring behemoth. The training of bloodline sorcerers requires a large amount of resources, and basic bloodline potion resources are indispensable.

First-tier bloodline potions are not expensive, but second-tier bloodline potions are different. They are made by combining the essence blood of second-tier demonic beasts with a large number of precious spiritual herbs.

The refining cost alone is 10,000 spirit stones. Although the price is half that of Foundation Establishment Pills, it is still quite valuable if used in large quantities.

For example, he currently only has 100,000 second-tier bloodline sorcerers. It has cost him at least several billion spirit stones to cultivate so many second-tier bloodline sorcerers.

If he hadn't obtained the Qionghua Cauldron, he really wouldn't have been able to produce so many spirit stones in such a short time.

Of course, because of the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, Su You could use local materials and wild beasts as raw materials, so the cost was reduced by half, saving him a lot of spirit stones.

The bloodline potential of wild beast essence blood is no less than that of demon beasts, and it has no side effects.

Most importantly, using the essence blood of wild beasts to refine bloodline potions makes it easier to obtain higher-level bloodline potions later on.

Bloodline sorcerers must use the same life essence to refine each bloodline potion they use. Different grades of bloodline potions require different grades of life essence.

In the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, Su You has accumulated a large amount of systematic wild beast blood essence. He has stored blood essence from some wild beasts with excellent bloodlines, ranging from first to fourth tier. After mastering the technology, he can even directly refine fourth-tier bloodline potions.

This is also why Su You dared to prepare a legion of third-tier bloodline sorcerers.

He had previously killed too many Tier 3 wild beasts in the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, so he didn't have to worry about raw materials. The only problem now was to improve the technology and further reduce costs.

Otherwise, even if he only used the third-tier bloodline potion on those 30,000 second-tier bloodline sorcerers, the cost would still be astronomical.

The current refining cost is roughly the same as the cost of refining a Golden Core. It is estimated that once the cost is reduced, it will only require half the cost.

However, if it were to be used across the entire legion, it would require resources worth billions.

"It's just too expensive. From now on, we'll have to select the best from the best in the military." Su You shook his head helplessly.

Billions of spirit stones are nothing to Su You's current wealth; he could even afford hundreds of billions.

However, these bloodline sorcerers will continue to advance in the future, and the number of legions will continue to increase. The consumption may reach hundreds of billions, or even trillions of spirit stones, which is beyond his ability to bear. He cannot sell all the pills in the Pill Spirit Secret Realm.

The army will definitely not be streamlined. The number of lower-level bloodline sorcerers can be increased. Higher-level bloodline sorcerers must make great contributions or have extraordinary talents to be granted third- or even fourth-level bloodline potions.

In addition, the Bloodline Warlock Legion needs to be constantly operational. If it is just about cultivation and training, the consumption is too great. War is still needed to offset some of the expenses, and even make a profit.

Su You had sent out a group of elites long ago to explore the various branches of the Tongtian Vine World. Although only a few returned, they did bring back some clues.

The world of the Heavenly Vine is too complex, and he dares not rashly provoke a war. However, he can send people to investigate the world where those branch vines are located to see if they can gain anything.

Actually, the best choice is still An Yun Realm, but there are a lot of Nascent Soul cultivators there. Although he is not afraid of provoking these forces, he is also afraid that they will block other cultivators from entering his territory.

His main source of income right now is still the immortal city under his command, which continuously sells various supplies. This channel cannot be cut off for the time being. He still needs to accumulate some strength before he can continue the war here.

Su You manipulated the images in the void, which recorded information about the locations of those branching vines.

"As expected, branching vines usually don't take root directly in the world, but rather secretly take root in secret realms, and then rely on those realms to steal the world's spiritual energy," Su You analyzed in his mind.

According to the records passed down by his subordinates, all of these branching vines are inside the secret realm.

They obtained very little information within the secret realm; only one person managed to obtain information about the outside world, but even that was not very detailed.

If he wants to know about the outside world, he has to go and investigate himself.

These people are still too weak. Even in that secret realm, they cannot leave, and even if they do leave, they have no way to return and send the message back.

After casually browsing for a while, Su You turned off the light screen.

The war against the invasion of another world is still a long way off. At least the 30,000 second-tier bloodline sorcerers in the legion need to be raised to the third tier before they can be considered to have basic combat power and self-defense capabilities. Even if they encounter a Nascent Soul Venerable, they will have the ability to kill the opponent.

After spending some time in the Great Wilderness Secret Realm and arranging matters for the legion, Su You immediately returned to the East Sea Dream Butterfly Sect and went to the forbidden area behind it.

He first entered the Danling Secret Realm and planted a few seeds of the Heavenly Vine. After they grew, he would see if they had the potential to evolve and whether they could evolve.

After that, he came to his natal wizard tower. At present, the twin clones have only completed one-twentieth of the refinement of the wizard tower. It will take at least ten more years to fully refine it.

This also means that the twin clones need to stay here for another ten years, which means the Trial Tower at the academy will need to be closed for ten years.

Fortunately, each class of students spends twenty years in the academy before graduating. After completing the refining process, they can reopen the Trial Tower and undergo a spiritual cleansing.

Now, under the constant nurturing of the spiritual energy source, the entire wizard tower is becoming more cohesive and is gradually transforming and evolving.

The biggest change is the secret realm space inside the Wizard Tower.

These secret realms were very small when they were first created, but they expanded rapidly after a large amount of spiritual energy was invested in them. Now all the secret realms have reached their expansion limit.

If the secret realm wants to break through its current limits, it needs to continue absorbing spatial spiritual objects and minerals in order to continue growing.

The spatial spiritual items that Su You left behind only allowed twenty layers of the secret realm to break through their bottlenecks and continue to expand. Now, he has brought back more than a hundred of them, which has solved the immediate problem and allowed more than ten layers of the secret realm to expand.

One by one, spatial spiritual objects were thrown into the secret realm. The secret realm, which had been stagnant, rapidly absorbed the spatial power within, and the miniature secret realm advanced to a small secret realm.

The small secret realm can now withstand cultivators at the Qi Refining stage unleashing their full power.

After a secret realm advances to a small-scale level, expanding it becomes much more difficult, requiring a massive amount of spiritual energy—far exceeding the amount needed to advance from a micro-scale to a small-scale level.

Fortunately, the Dream Butterfly Mirror now requires much less spiritual energy; it only needs to meet the spiritual energy consumption during daily use.

After all, the Dream Butterfly Mirror's repair has reached its limit. The next repair will not be so simple to restore with materials alone. Unless it uses some special high-level materials, it will have to devour some of the world's origin.

Su You now sends the spiritual energy collected daily from the energy pool into the secret realm of his Natal Wizard Tower to promote their advancement.

(End of this chapter)