Chapter 467: Chapter 298 Stable_2
Don’t be fooled by such a humble appearance.
But if Zhao Wushuang wants to kill someone, he will inevitably explode with a fierce attack.
"One year!"
"I need to leave for a while. My family is still weak; you need to guard the Spirit Village for me for one year as punishment for those who injured my family rashly."
As required by Small Knife, Zhao Wushuang spoke.
Naturally, there was no suspense.
Of course, a contract must be signed; only in this way can both parties rest assured.
In recent days, I have learned a lot about this world.
The various industries here have reached an extreme, with very limited profits, and the protection of property rights is at an extreme.
For example, cultivation techniques; generally, those with spirit roots can hardly afford the common techniques by themselves.
Too expensive.
It’s brutal; without family backing or luck, they might not earn enough to buy a common technique for Qi Cultivation Perfection Level in a lifetime.
Because its price is a thousand spirit stones.
Only family forces can afford to purchase it.
Such a cultivation technique can only be practiced by one person.
Therefore, a technique that can be inherited by a family is the real foundation of a family.
Moreover, the spiritual qi in the air is thin, making cultivation difficult.
There is only one free cultivation technique, Spiritual Energy Formulas.
It can only be cultivated to the Early Stage of Qi Cultivation.
If one can forcibly cultivate to the Middle Stage, it proves exceptional talent, and they might be taken in by sects, but they must be under thirty.
Moreover, as long as you have enough talent, even if the spirit root is poor, reaching Great Perfection in any free skill before sixty can enter a sect, offering more prospects than those millennia-old families.
It seems to block paths for ordinary families while giving opportunities to the talented.
As long as you have money, various cultivation resources are not a problem; the prices have profits, but they’re not high.
Except for one thing, Small Knife plans to sell this item.
That is cultivation techniques, technology.
It’s absolutely super profitable.
However, this world is deep, so one cannot rush.
Other elixirs and spirit talismans have extremely limited profits because the technology in this world is highly mature, much stronger than where Small Knife is from.
But Small Knife can still make money.
No choice, this is the advantage of a technological society.
The awareness entered personal space.
A large talisman factory, mechanical control was in place, with talisman paper ready, the talisman pen connected to the control rod.
A talisman maker, a Qi Cultivator, just needed to follow the prompts, place their hand on the talisman pen, and steadily inject spiritual qi.
Under mechanical manipulation, the talisman pen moved automatically.
Soon, a seemingly perfect talisman was manufactured.
The success rate was ninety-nine percent.
Talisman makers only needed practice, following operation, on how to stabilize the input of spiritual qi.
They did not need to master talisman-making techniques themselves; not only the success rate but also the speed was several times better than traditional methods.
Although not yet satisfactory, without automated manufacturing because of unresolved technical challenges in forming talismans using spirit stone energy without deciphering cultivator’s spiritual mechanism injection, the cost was still far cheaper than in the Four Celestial Great World.
This is the profit point.
Alchemy was the same.
According to Small Knife’s understanding, although alchemy technology over there in the Four Heavens was mature, training a Fire Control Child to succeed in three years was considered a genius; six to nine years was normal.
Most of them, even after spending huge sums, couldn’t succeed even after nine years and can only give up on the path of alchemy.
In Small Knife’s view, it’s very normal, because controlling fire by feel, even cultivators, could completely master the temperature variations.
That’s simply demanding the impossible.
And on Small Knife’s side, a technological alchemy furnace lets them have whatever temperature they want, simple and convenient.
In this aspect alone, it has perfectly surpassed alchemists.
Because even seasoned alchemists cannot reach the level of control under high technology.
Moreover, with herb scanning, different quantities are required for alchemy based on their properties, exceeding the level most alchemists achieve through intuition and experience, not even on the same level anymore.
The most important thing is that Small Knife’s side utilizes high technology, saving manpower and not needing alchemy boys controlling fire temperature for forty-nine or eighty-one days.
Any mistake could be disastrous.
Just need to set the temperature, and with no deviation, naturally, naturally, the success rate will not be low.
These are all profit points.
In recent days, Small Knife understood the market and naturally purchased some basic materials from Li Wushuang, such as talismans and the like.
Very good, naturally analyzing them in personal space to use on his end.
Especially the Spirit Gathering Array here, the Spirit Separation Array, with incredible effects, although even when connected to personal space, analysis still takes time.
In Li Family Village, there are three cultivators guarding for a year.
Li Wushuang was freed, planning to complete Small Knife’s task.
He was very proactive.
No way around it, in Zhao Family Village, Foundation Establishment Pill, and other expenses, he owed a debt of a hundred and forty thousand spirit stones.
All these need to be repaid.
So he was eager for tasks.
So he quickly said goodbye to his family.
Embarked on the journey.
Sword Flight!
After a hundred miles, he entered the range of other Spirit Villages.
These villages were all poor.
Relying on the gathered spiritual qi within a hundred miles radius, they were even reluctant to use it for cultivation, focusing on farming, only able to support the cultivation of one acre of spirit fields.
Every year they earn no more than five hundred spirit stones.
A hundred years would be required to recoup the investment made in a Spirit Village.
This assumes not spending a single spirit stone.
Most loose cultivators, with low spirit roots, have no qualifications to be recruited and tamed by powerful families like Li Wushuang was.
They can only rely on several free cultivation methods to make a living.
The only chance to stand out is to cultivate one of them to Great Perfection before the age of thirty.
But in reality, ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a million fail.
But it’s just a glimmer of hope.
True ability won’t be extinguished.
Therefore, the spirit stones of loose cultivators are basically condensed by absorbing the thin spiritual qi around them, forming spirit stones by themselves.
First-Layer Qi Cultivation, after one year of hard work, can only condense one spirit stone.
Qi Cultivation Second Layer, half a year to condense one spirit stone.
Qi Cultivation Third Layer, three months to condense one spirit stone.
For them, it’s obvious.
A thousand spirit stones for a Qi Cultivation Great Perfection cultivation technique? On their own?
Don’t be ridiculous.
However, even if it’s only one spirit stone a year, giving up on the pursuit of immortality will be sufficient to make them a wealthy person in a small village, with many concubines.
It takes generations to accumulate spirit stones bit by bit.
If they have some accomplishments in the few free cultivation techniques, they can earn more.
For instance, Li Wushuang’s basic runes, solid, reached Perfection Realm, creating some low-level talismans without potential, and he can earn spirit stones.
Following almost a straight line towards a small town, but only after passing through more than a dozen villages did he arrive at the small town.
No way around it, the villages closer to the town had already been sold long ago, and those not yet sold weren’t affordable for a loose cultivator with no foundation like him.
Back in Li Family Village, Small Knife tried to create some Daoist Soldiers for himself to help.
But felt a sense of danger in the unknown, a premonition from integrating his will into personal space, like the Heavenly Dao.
If released, it would immediately bring great danger.
So Small Knife gave up on developing himself and planned to nurture Li Wushuang.
This guy has two spirit roots; with enough resources following up, reaching Golden Core isn’t a big problem.
Fortunately, non-animate items, such as talismans and elixirs, brought out were acceptable.
By the time Li Wushuang arrived at the small town, Small Knife had already improved a batch of spirit pills and talismans in his little world, making them more suitable for this world, generally indistinguishable as foreign.
This small town is called Liu Feng Town, established a thousand years ago when this Wu Feng Domain was opened, naturally owned by the Liu Family.
The uniqueness here is naming by family, like Liu Family Town, Liu Family Village, and even Liu Family City has countless names, but besides common naming, there’s also a numbering system, which is unique.
Villages have been gradually established, but small towns were almost all established a millennium ago, with few new ones built.
Liu Feng Town has been in existence for a thousand years, vast in scope, with a large population.
Li Wushuang’s original family, numbering over a hundred close relatives, did not qualify to live within the town.
Very naturally, because renting land within the town requires spirit stones, which only cultivators can afford.
So, despite many mortals in Liu Feng Town, their families must have cultivators.
Thus, every mortal has a background.