Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 88 Temptation Elixir
“From now on, keep an eye out for any rogue cultivators in the market. See if there are any usable talents, such as rogue cultivators with excellent spiritual roots and clean backgrounds, or rogue cultivators who are proficient in a particular cultivation art and have clean backgrounds. You can try to contact these talents and see if you can recruit them.” Su You thought for a moment and suggested, “You can establish the Luoxia Sect in the name of a Nascent Soul Ancestor and see if you can attract some talents.”

He discovered that relying solely on the Chen family's cultivators was far from sufficient. The Chen family had a considerable number of cultivators, but most of them were low-level cultivators and lacked any particular skill. They were fine for helping maintain order in the market and Luoxia Island, but cultivating talents in various cultivation arts would be too costly. It would be better to directly find people with talent in these areas.

Therefore, building their own power is definitely an urgent matter. After all, using the name of the Chen family is certainly not as good as using the name of the Nascent Soul Ancestor, which may be able to attract more talents.

Su You possesses a considerable number of cultivation techniques and inheritances of various immortal arts. Although these might not be enough to support a Nascent Soul level force, the initial recruits were mostly Qi Refining cultivators, or at most Foundation Establishment cultivators. Therefore, the inheritances he currently possesses are more than sufficient to nurture them.

"As for the base, we'll temporarily use the third-tier cave dwellings in the market. Anyway, there aren't many cultivators renting them now. We'll wait for the ten-year grand auction in Xutian Immortal City and then purchase a third-tier low-grade spiritual vein as the sect's base." Su You hesitated for a moment before finally deciding, "As for the initial members of the sect, we'll transfer a group of cultivators from your families to set up the various departments of the sect."

There's no other way; we don't have any usable talent right now, so we have to recruit them all from the Chen family. Perhaps it will take decades for the sect to develop after we've trained our first batch of talent.

If Su You could gather a group of independent cultivators who were skilled in various cultivation arts, he could assign them tasks such as refining pills and magical artifacts through sect missions, and the sect would reward them with merit points upon completion.

This way, we can save a lot of spirit stones.

After all, merit points aren't necessarily exchanged for spirit stones; they can also be exchanged for sect inheritances or even Foundation Establishment Pills.

Su You will set a relatively favorable price, and then you can directly redeem it once you have enough merit points.

Of course, since merit points cannot be traded, another group of disciples will store them away and not use them.

Su You was being so frugal because he was short of spirit stones.

Although the market's annual revenue is good, the investment is even higher, as new spirit-raising arrays must be purchased every year to create spirit veins.

He has now invested at least ten million spirit stones in the market.

Although it would only take a little over a hundred years to recoup the costs, Su You would definitely need to continue investing to achieve even higher returns.

Su You waved his hand gently, and dozens of jade bottles appeared on the ground.

"These jade bottles contain different grades of demon-attracting elixirs. Once poured out, they will have a great attraction to the surrounding demon beasts. Send someone over to test them. Remember not to leave the area within a thousand miles of Luoxia Island during the test."

This Demon-Attracting Elixir was actually an accidental product of Su You's failed attempt to refine a bloodline potion. After discovering that it had a unique ability to attract demonic beasts, he further optimized it. The Demon-Attracting Elixir in front of him is one of the results of his research over the past few years.

However, the specific effects still need to be obtained through detailed testing, which is why Su You instructed them not to leave the area within a thousand miles of Luoxia Island, so that Xiao Bei could remotely record experimental data.

Providing this alluring elixir serves two purposes: firstly, to increase revenue, and secondly, to further promote the prosperity of the market.

Whether in a market town or a celestial city, whether they are cultivators who have mastered all the arts of immortal cultivation or spiritual farmers who cultivate the land, they are only a small part of the independent cultivators.

Most independent cultivators earn their income by venturing out into the world, either searching for spiritual objects or hunting demonic beasts. However, neither spiritual objects nor demonic beasts are easy to find in the vast Yunting Lake.

Especially in such a vast sea area, although it is much safer than in those mountainous areas teeming with monsters, finding sea monsters on the seabed is still a challenge.

With this demon-attracting elixir, one can actively lure sea beasts up. As long as one is confident in one's strength, hunting demon beasts becomes much easier.

With more spirit stones in their hands, the business in the market naturally became even more booming.

Of course, this Demon-Attracting Elixir is still a semi-finished product and needs to undergo extensive testing. Once the product is mature, it will require enough alchemists to refine it before it can be sold.

……

three days later.

"Master, the test personnel are being attacked by a large number of sea monsters. Should we provide fire support?" Xiao Bei suddenly switched to a screen.

In the scene, dozens of Chen family cultivators are surrounded by hundreds of sea beasts, including three second-tier sea beasts mixed in.

"Activate immediately! Remember to control the power of the energy beams, don't destroy the bodies of these sea beasts." Su You didn't hesitate at all.

He doesn't have many Foundation Establishment cultivators under his command, so he can't afford to perish here.

Beams of light shot out from the wizard tower, accurately hitting the three second-tier sea beasts and dozens of late-stage first-tier sea beasts.

The energy beams pierced through the sea monsters one by one, staining the entire sea surface red with blood.

After killing the strongest dozens of monsters, Xiao Bei lowered the power of the energy beam again, controlling it at the first-level. In an instant, he killed all the sea beasts.

"Not bad, another tens of thousands of spirit stones in income. Tell them to bring the sea beasts back and sell them." Su You looked at the screen with satisfaction, then pulled out their test records from the past few days.

This time, in addition to testing how effective the Demon-Attracting Liquid is on demonic beasts, we are also testing how far away it can work.

"So it was the most concentrated Demon-Attracting Elixir. No wonder it attracted so many sea beasts," Su You said in realization. He gently swiped his right hand, and the records began to appear one by one from the first one.

Of these dozens of bottles of demon-attracting elixir, the five with the lowest concentration had almost no noticeable effect. The others, however, became increasingly attractive to demons as their concentration increased, and the attraction could reach a radius of ten miles.

This is a very long distance. When testing the last bottle of the Demon-Attracting Elixir, the testers only dripped a few drops of the elixir, and it attracted so many sea beasts. If it were all poured out, it would probably attract all the sea beasts in this area.

(End of this chapter)