Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 161 Departure from the Dimensional War
However, Su You's current strength is only enough to develop such small worlds.

The Lesser Thousand Worlds are of a lower level, and the upper limit of the strong within them is also very low. Even if there are strong individuals at the Nascent Soul stage, their numbers are pitifully small.

With his current strength, Su You could barely conquer such a world.

Furthermore, after conquering the world, they only need to win over some groups and suppress others to effectively manage the entire world.

At that time, resources will be able to be transported out of this world continuously.

If we were to choose a middle-thousand world, there would be quite a few forces at the Nascent Soul level. In a slightly more powerful world, like the Yun'an World, there would be a great many Nascent Soul experts, and there might even be experts at the Void Refinement level.

The highest level of the middle-thousand worlds is like the world of the Heavenly Vine.

Regarding the world of the Heavenly Vine, Su You was now certain that it was not a Great Thousand World.

After all, the number of great worlds within a realm is very small, usually only a few.

Within this realm, there are two well-known worlds: the Spirit Realm and the Demon Realm.

Although the Tongtian Vine World is not a Great Thousand World, it has reached the pinnacle of the Middle Thousand Worlds, and the strongest being capable of accommodating a powerhouse at the Integration Realm has appeared there.

Furthermore, the Tongtian Vine World is not an ordinary middle-thousand world; it possesses unique characteristics not found in ordinary worlds, namely, a powerful evolutionary ability.

With the Heavenly Vine continuously absorbing the essence of various worlds, this world has a very high chance of being promoted to a Great Thousand World if there is no external interference.

Of course, this could be hundreds of millions or even billions of years from now.

The difference between the Middle Thousand Worlds and the Great Thousand Worlds is significant, and it is not easy to break through them. The advantage of the Heavenly Vine World lies in this powerful Heavenly Vine.

Su You roughly judged that this Heavenly Vine might have reached the ninth level, which was why it possessed such powerful strength.

As for why it's not a celestial-level spiritual root?

If it truly is a celestial-level spiritual root, then it would be difficult to deal with that mysterious bone finger, which is also suspected to be a power at the level of a demonic immortal.

Furthermore, a single immortal-grade spiritual root is enough to support an entire great world.

This war yielded many gains, but it also exposed many problems.

Dimensional warfare is not about face-to-face battles. If you really have an overwhelming advantage in strength, then head-on combat is fine.

However, in reality, Su You's side only had a slight advantage. If it weren't for his abundant troops, he might not have been able to take down that minor world.

After this battle, Su You realized that there was still a lack of generals.

Fortunately, war is the best catalyst, enabling everyone to grow, and the most capable individuals will emerge from it.

Although these talents were relatively inexperienced, they still possessed some abilities, giving Su You his first batch of combat command talents.

And having gained experience from their first conquest of the world, they should be less likely to make the same common-sense mistakes again.

Regarding the choice of the second world, a specific goal has been set: to select worlds below the mid-thousand level.

The second world chosen is a microcosm, a lower-level existence than a minor world. The strongest beings in it are at the Nascent Soul stage, and their numbers are extremely small.

Su You did not send a large army into this world.

This world could have been easily conquered. Even though the highest level of power in this world was only at the Nascent Soul stage, Su You had enough mid-level power under his command, and they could form battle formations. This mere microcosm world could not possibly stop him.

However, Su You decided to proceed peacefully, as it would be a good opportunity to test those cultivators with leadership talent.

Rather than continuing to conquer the world and acquire resources, he preferred to prioritize training troops so as to reduce casualties in war.

Although the cultivation academy can provide Su You with a continuous supply of soldiers.

However, training each soldier requires a lot of resources. Putting everything else aside, the use of bloodline potions alone is a huge cost.

After all, a cultivator in the Bloodline Legion must have a cultivation level of at least the second rank to be considered an ordinary soldier.

First-tier soldiers are not even cannon fodder on large battlefields; even if they provide magic power to the battle formation, they don't contribute much strength.

Second-tier bloodline cultivators are different; whether in legion battles or small-team battles, they can demonstrate strong combat power.

Su You is earning spirit stones quickly now, but he spends them even faster.

Training a legion of pure bloodline sorcerers is a huge expense, not to mention the training of academy students.

The students who stayed on as faculty members are the ones who spend the most money. They are now teachers at the school, and the amount of spirit stones they spend on their research in various fields is astronomical.

Of course, the cost of investing is high, but the rewards are also enormous.

Putting everything else aside, the cultivation academy alone produces a large number of talents every year, and this number increases with each graduating class.

In addition, these teachers not only spend money, but also have their own tasks, which, although not many, provide Su You with high-end products.

Items like fourth-tier pills, talismans, magic weapons, and puppets were all crafted by these teachers and then sold in Dream Butterfly Immortal City and various parts of the Heavenly Vine World.

Su You no longer personally refines the Golden Core Pill and the Nascent Soul Pill.

Or rather, the students of the cultivation academy have surpassed Su You in the level of these skills, and are constantly innovating.

In order for these teachers to conduct experiments more effectively, he specially crafted dozens of tower spirits to serve as props for their deductions.

The Dream Butterfly Space, combined with the Tower Spirit's computing power, can be said to continuously cultivate outstanding talents.

Fortunately, Su You has a strong ability to control the entire academy and even all the teachers and students. For example, the teachers who were temporarily transferred before have been replaced by the current students.

These students, having been tempered in the Trial Tower, remained loyal to him, which is why Su You spared no effort in cultivating them.

Otherwise, if he cultivates a group of people to rebel against him, that would be truly troublesome.

Su You still hopes that some of these people will be able to break through to the fifth level in terms of skill.

However, this is extremely difficult. Although skill mainly depends on talent, it is also related to one's own ability.

If one's own strength is too weak, it is impossible to refine high-grade items.

Most of these students took shortcuts, relying entirely on bloodline potions to enhance their cultivation. After all, among these students with exceptional talent in their crafts, very few possessed equally outstanding spiritual roots.

In addition, they spend more time honing their skills and even less time on cultivation, so the best solution is to use bloodline potions.

Bloodline potions now have a very mature system.

After using bloodline potions, there are also various pills that can promote the growth of bloodline power and accelerate the improvement of one's cultivation.

Currently, the highest grade of bloodline potions is the fourth-grade bloodline potion, which has the potential to be upgraded to the fourth grade after use.

Furthermore, its cultivation speed far surpasses that of normal spiritual energy refining.

After using the fourth-tier bloodline potion, even without cultivation, it only takes one hundred years to grow normally to the third-tier level.

Using various growth-enhancing pills will accelerate the rate of improvement.

However, the quantity of fourth-tier bloodline potions is extremely limited, and Su You will only select the most outstanding talents in each major within the academy to use them.

Furthermore, there are quotas available each year, which increases the competitiveness of these teachers.

Currently, there are only a dozen or so people in the academy who have reached the fourth level in cultivation, but this does not prevent others from breaking through to the fourth level in their professions.

After all, with the strength of a third-tier cultivator and the aid of external magical artifacts, it is still possible to refine ordinary fourth-tier items.

However, the research on bloodline potions also needs to be put on the agenda. Although these cultivators are still far from reaching the fifth level of cultivation, it would be beneficial for him to develop a sample and produce it successfully as soon as possible.

What Su You lacks most right now is high-end combat power. If he can mass-produce fifth-tier bloodline potions, then training fifth-tier subordinates will be a piece of cake for him, and the speed and efficiency of cultivation will be much higher.

However, this kind of thing cannot be accomplished overnight.

Compared to fourth-tier bloodline potions, the refining of fifth-tier bloodline potions is not only about the formula, but also about the extremely rare materials, which require the essence blood of fifth-tier demonic beasts.

Su You has never killed a fifth-tier demonic beast. However, he did manage to extract a dozen drops of essence blood from a fifth-tier demonic beast when he took away Lei Peng last time, along with its blood pool.

After touring the academy for a while, Su You went to another area.

These are huge factories where cultivators come and go, refining all sorts of items, including pills, talismans, magical artifacts, puppets, and so on.

This is the most important place for Su You to create wealth.

Although we don't yet have the capability to industrialize the cultivation of immortality, the production of some things can be done using assembly line processes.

Su You had high hopes for this place. Every year, he invested a lot of spirit stones in the academy for research and development, in order to achieve the level of industrialization of cultivation.

If such basic items could be produced automatically like the Qionghua Cauldron, then wealth would flow to him continuously.

Although the Qionghua Cauldron can do this, it is a high-level magic weapon and has some limitations. After each use, it needs to rest for a period of time before it can be used again.

The factories here mostly produce first- and second-tier items; very few cultivators can produce third-tier items.

After all, those sent here are people who have no talent in any skill. Even if they break through to the third rank by chance here, they have reached their limit and it will be very difficult to continue to improve.

After inspecting the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, Su You returned to the East Sea to continue his inspection.

Although he never managed the Dream Butterfly Sect, he still controlled the higher-ups, even having his twin clones enslave and control them to prevent any unrest.

Although the Book of Souls can control people, it cannot control people's hearts. Now that the Dream Butterfly Sect is becoming more and more powerful, the wealth it gains every day has reached an astonishing level, which is why he has to do this.

People are prone to change, especially when faced with enormous wealth.

The base of his business in Donghai is Su You's foundation and one of his important ways of earning spirit stones and selling goods. He certainly cannot allow something out of control to happen.

Although Su You also placed a tower spirit here to monitor everything, the tower spirit is not omnipotent and cannot monitor every cultivator. It still needs loyal subordinates to keep things under control.

Only after confirming that his business was operating smoothly did Su You feel at ease.

That way, he can leave with peace of mind.

Although he still has twin clones left here, they definitely cannot appear unless absolutely necessary.

The twins are his guarantee of safety; if one cannot be guaranteed to be absolutely safe, the other must be in an absolutely safe place.

Su You could encounter danger at any time if he left this world, so his twin clones needed to maintain absolute safety.

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Ten thousand miles above the sky.

This place is already at a high level in the world.

Despite the fierce winds outside, the spirit ship remained perfectly still as it flew through the air, its protective aura sufficient to withstand all kinds of gales.

Su You's spirit ship can be considered the pinnacle of recent creations within the cultivation academy.

Aside from the various exquisite magical artifacts from the Refining Academy, the large array outside the spirit ship was also set up by the teachers and students of the Array Academy. It was a combination of several composite fourth-order arrays, and its power was not weak either. Although it did not reach the peak of the fourth order, it was comparable to the high-grade fourth order.

Compared to the Weapon Forging Academy, the Formation Academy has a smaller number of students, and students mainly rely on their own talent.

Indeed, in the early stages of learning formations, you don't need many resources; you only need to rely on your talent. This has resulted in the number of students in the formation academy being dozens of times smaller than in other departments.

However, after gaining a certain level of expertise in array formations, one needs to learn the knowledge of weapon crafting in order to easily create array plates.

Generally speaking, those who know formations will have some basic knowledge of weapon crafting, but those who know weapon crafting may not necessarily know formations.

The spirit ship can now safely pass through the high-altitude gale layer using only the grand formation.

Not to mention that the hull of the spirit ship itself is extremely hard, enough to withstand attacks from a peak fourth-tier opponent.

The spirit ship continued to ascend, and through the Water Mirror Technique, Su You could clearly see the situation outside and the world below.

The entire continent gradually shrank, slowly becoming the size of a palm, and eventually disappeared.

(End of this chapter)