Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 157 Trivial Matters in Seclusion
After pouring an entire bottle of Heaven and Earth Dew onto the Sky-Reaching Vine, Su You could clearly sense that the spatial barrier of this secret realm had been quietly breached.

It happened silently, without even affecting the entire secret realm.

This powerful ability to invade and penetrate truly lives up to its name, the Heavenly Vine.

Unfortunately, after this Heavenly Vine broke through two layers of spatial barriers and reached the secret realm of the next level, it stopped growing.

The current height of the secret realm is ten li, which is the length of the other side. The length of the Heavenly Vine is about twelve li.

Without the help of spiritual objects, the Heavenly Vine can only slowly absorb spiritual energy to continue growing taller.

Su You thought for a moment, and his twin clones appeared beside him, tapping with their fingertips.

Drops of green liquid fell onto the roots of the vine.

The power of rain!
As the twin clones' strength increased, the power of the Rain Dew Divine Ability became even greater. Even though this talent was absorbed by the divine soul manifested by the World Tree, its power was not diminished.

really!

After each drop of sweet rain fell, the once-stopping Tongtian Vine resumed its rapid growth, climbing ever upwards.

He let out a hundred drops of sweet rain until his mental energy was completely exhausted, and then he stopped temporarily.

"It has grown for about a hundred meters, which is not bad." Su You nodded in satisfaction.

The Heavenly Dew given by the Green Yao tribe is at least a fifth-tier spiritual item, and its effects are definitely better than his own Sweet Dew.

However, Su You's sweet rain can be repeatedly condensed using supernatural powers, so he can win by quantity. When used in large quantities, the effect will not be too bad.

The only drawback is that it consumes too much magic power and mental energy.

However, inside the Wizard Tower, within his natal magic weapon, he can achieve a tenfold recovery speed, so watering the Sky-Reaching Vine every day is something he continues to do.

Fortunately, the twin clones only have one thing on their minds right now: refining their natal wizard tower. This allows them to spare some energy to use their innate abilities to cultivate the Heavenly Vine.

Moreover, Su You discovered that the two secret realms connected by the Heavenly Vine were much more stable than other secret realms, and their spatial carrying capacity was also greatly improved. Although they could not compare with the secret realms that depended on the world, they were still significantly improved.

However, the current Heavenly Vine is only in its initial stage of growth and has a huge room for improvement. It still has a lot of potential that has not yet been realized, such as branching out its tendrils to cross space and absorb the spiritual energy of other worlds.

You should know that the Heavenly Vine in the Heavenly Vine World is hundreds of millions of miles tall, and it's unknown when his Heavenly Vine will grow to that extent.

Although the upper limit of this particular Heavenly Vine is not that high, it should be more than enough to support the various spatial realms within the Wizard Tower, as long as its growth rate can keep up.

Now that this venture was a great success and the second-generation seed had been successfully obtained, Su You no longer had the energy to continue exploring the Heavenly Vine.

This time, he died many times in this secret realm. Although he made some progress in both his physical body and mental strength under the tempering of life and death.

But after a series of deaths, one can still feel a sense of mental exhaustion.

He is now preparing to take a good rest for a while to deal with the matters at hand.

Although he delegated many tasks to his subordinates, he still needed to oversee some major strategic matters.

For example, what's happening inside the Immortal Cultivation Academy right now.

The Immortal Cultivation Academy has been established for nearly a hundred years. Many cultivators within it have found their Daoist partners and have children.

If these descendants don't have spiritual roots, then they're easy to deal with; just send them to the mortal world and give them a life of wealth and honor.

However, if these descendants have spiritual roots, they will definitely join the cultivation academy.

Compared to students from the mortal realm, these students have far more resources and education. Even if their spiritual roots are not particularly outstanding, they can still demonstrate considerable talent under the guidance of their parents.

After all, the fact that their parents were able to stay in the academy indicates that they themselves had good academic knowledge, and their offspring would certainly have a head start and surpass most students.

Once these students join the academy, they will inevitably take up a large amount of resources, and ordinary students, unless they have extremely high talent, will have no chance of standing out from them.

Su You certainly didn't want to see this happen.

While we can still select top talents, we also need mid- to high-level talents, and relatively speaking, ordinary students have greater potential.

After considering this matter, Su You decided that those who joined as children or descendants of academy students would not participate in the competition among ordinary students. They would have other resources and compete within their own circles.

He couldn't stop the students from joining the academy, since their parents were all important talents under his command.

Moreover, there will be more students like this in the future, so Su You can only eliminate their competition with ordinary students and let them compete within their own circle.

In this way, outstanding talents can also be selected.

After handling the reform of the Immortal Cultivation Academy, Su You focused his attention on another important matter.

The growth rate of wealth in the East China Sea is gradually slowing down. Even if he has a lot of resources, he cannot convert them into suitable wealth if no cultivators buy them.

Especially in recent years, the number of independent cultivators coming and going has been decreasing.

According to reports from his subordinates, several powerful forces in the surrounding area have joined forces to oppose the Dream Butterfly Sect.

Although the Dream Butterfly Sect demonstrated formidable strength within its territory, that strength was solely based on the power of its formations.

Once outside the formation's range, the Dream Butterfly Sect's influence becomes very low.

Although those forces feared the power of the formation, they would not be threatened as long as they did not go over.

Moreover, as long as those cultivators are blocked from passing through the perimeter, their business will get worse and worse. Without the support of wealth, they will eventually decline.

Although Dream Butterfly Immortal City also has teleportation arrays, only cultivators with considerable wealth can afford to use them.

Currently, most of Dream Butterfly Immortal City's income still comes from those independent cultivators.

Low-grade pills, talismans, magical artifacts, spirit rice, etc., may seem inexpensive, but the daily sales volume is enormous, resulting in substantial profits.

Especially in terms of elixirs, 80% of the elixirs sold in Dream Butterfly Immortal City are produced by his subordinates.

The Qionghua Cauldron is a powerful tool for refining low-level pills, and it also contains the Pill Spirit Secret Realm, a large secret realm where a large number of spiritual herbs are cultivated.

The cost of low-grade pills is extremely low for Su You, so the profit margin is very high.

If the major Nascent Soul cultivators in the East China Sea intercept him, his previously booming business will temporarily slow down.

Su You didn't have many means of counterattack yet, since he wasn't within the formation's range. Even if he encountered a Nascent Soul Venerable on his own, he might not be able to defeat them. Fortunately, the Dream Butterfly Sect's core territory was still intact, and those other sects didn't dare to send people to blockade too deeply, since their Nascent Soul Venerables couldn't guard indefinitely.

If this were happening at Yunting Lake, such a blockade would definitely force many of his independent cultivators to leave.

After all, those independent cultivators also need resources; without resources, how can they purchase cultivation resources?

Fortunately, the East China Sea is rich in resources, especially marine life, which is sufficient to support the lives of those independent cultivators.

On Su You's side, the number of cultivators engaged in farming is relatively small, mainly because there are few spiritual veins on his island and few spiritual fields have been cultivated.

On the other hand, in the secret realm, because there are more spiritual veins, a large number of spiritual fields and medicinal fields have been established there.

However, the maintenance of the secret realm and the cultivation cultivators recruited are all carefully selected and handed over to the scions of those families, with no opportunity for outside independent cultivators.

Most of the independent cultivators outside are combat cultivators, mainly due to the popularity of bloodline potions.

The emergence of bloodline potions has indeed changed the landscape of cultivators, allowing them to be no weaker than demonic beasts of the same level even without relying on magical artifacts at the Qi Refining stage, and even have a lifespan far exceeding that of normal cultivators.

This is also why countless independent cultivators flocked to this place.

Even with the blockade imposed by major sects, many independent cultivators still managed to sneak in.

However, relying solely on the East China Sea is far from enough.

Bloodline potions are indeed very attractive, and all the major sects want to acquire them.

However, Su You maintained excellent control over the secrecy surrounding the corresponding bloodline potion.

All cultivators using bloodline potions must use them in their cultivation rooms within the Immortal City and cannot take them out.

Otherwise, with the wisdom of cultivators, if they took the bloodline potion, they might be able to unravel its secrets before long.

Although the methods are completely different, Su You will not underestimate the wisdom of these cultivators.

Those fourth-level alchemy masters can create pills from scratch, let alone the alchemy grandmasters with even higher alchemy skills.

If they obtain the finished potion and work together to decipher it, they have a good chance of unlocking the secrets of the Bloodline Potion.

When the Dream Butterfly Sect first gained fame in the East Sea, many people did indeed want to take away the bloodline potion.

Unfortunately, the eighth-order grand formation covering the entire island was no joke, and no one was able to escape in time.

However, now that business in the East China Sea has stabilized, it's time to expand into the world of the Heavenly Vine.

Putting aside other places, Ye Tian, ​​who went to the middle level, would definitely be able to make a breakthrough. After all, he had just helped the Green Vine Clan retrieve what they wanted, and the Green Jade City Lord should give him face.

After dealing with some rather tricky matters, Su You returned to the Danling Secret Realm to cultivate in seclusion.

No matter what world you're in, your own strength is the most important thing.

External forces are merely tools for accumulating resources and wealth.

After helping his natal wizard tower obtain the Heavenly Vine Seed, he didn't have anything particularly important to do for the time being.

After the twin clones have finished refining their natal spiritual treasures, they will return to the academy in the Great Wilderness Secret Realm for seclusion.

Su You is not lacking in cultivation resources for the time being. Based on the resources he obtained from the Qionghua Cauldron, the various pills inside are enough for him and his clone to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage.

Of course, it was only at the Nascent Soul stage.

There aren't many resources left in the Qionghua Cauldron, so he'll have to find his own way to get them later.

Moreover, Su You's own cultivation is more difficult than that of his clone, because he also needs to train his physical body. Because of his talent for the Heavenly Silkworm Life and Death Transformation, even without elixirs to enhance his physical body, he doesn't need to worry about not being able to make progress.

Furthermore, with the Qionghua Cauldron present, he no longer needs to excavate earth veins to artificially create magma fields as before, nor does he need to enter magma fields to temper his physical body.

The flames inside the Qionghua Cauldron are a better training method than the lava field, and they are also easier to control.

Back in the Qionghua Cauldron, Su You cultivated regularly every day.

During the day, he would swallow pills and practice breathing exercises to refine his magical power. At night, he would go into the alchemy furnace to undergo fire refining, burning himself half to death before returning. He would then recover using his own healing abilities. During the recovery period, he would swallow pills to enhance his soul and engage in mental meditation to strengthen his spirit.

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As the saying goes, time flies when cultivating immortality; a hundred years can pass in the blink of an eye.

This seclusion was his longest, lasting a full 126 years. Su You spent most of his time cultivating diligently in the Qionghua Cauldron.

After all, he has enough pills, so he won't be stuck in a bottleneck in his cultivation.

However, the higher one's cultivation level, the slower one's cultivation speed. Even if he has a large amount of resources at his disposal, it is impossible for him to improve rapidly in a short period of time.

Especially since Su You cultivates three methods simultaneously—wizarding, body refining, and immortal cultivation—his speed naturally won't be very fast.

His physical body is now rapidly improving under the scorching heat of the Qionghua Cauldron's fire day and night, having reached the late stage of the fourth rank. His cultivation in immortality is also progressing rapidly, and he is now at the sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage.

Of course, the highest level of cultivation lies in mental strength.

After all, Su You had always been far ahead in terms of mental strength. With the accumulation of a large amount of resources, he had now reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, which is the peak of the second level of a wizard.

His emergence from seclusion this time was also because his spiritual power had reached the edge of a breakthrough, and he needed to find a suitable bloodline item to fuse with.

Not only do they need to find a suitable bloodline creature for themselves, but they also need to find a suitable one for their twin clones.

After all, the twin clones spent decades fully refining their natal magic treasures before going into seclusion to cultivate diligently, making remarkable progress in their cultivation.

Especially in the realm of cultivation, he has begun to surpass his original self.

His natal magic weapon was simply too powerful. After it was fully refined, it began to continuously feed back power, helping him improve his cultivation.

The twin clones are now at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul realm, and at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul realm in terms of spirit. They are just one step away from breaking through.

Even his physical body, which had not yet achieved anything, has been baptized and improved, and now he can barely be considered to have a fourth-order physical body.

(End of this chapter)