Wilderness, the old stronghold of the Five Elements Sect

"Finally broke through"

Lin Jiang almost burst into tears. A hundred years ago, he was in the middle stage of foundation building. He abandoned his cultivation and rebuilt it, and finally broke through to the late stage of foundation building. At this time, Zhang Wanjing had been away for fifteen years.

"Calculate how old I am, damn, I even forgot it myself"

Lin Jiang thought about how old he was, but he forgot his age. There is no time in the mountains.

Calming down his excitement, Lin Jiang carefully recalled that he was 205 years old when he left Yunzhong City, three years in Yaocheng, a little more than ten years in Araki Village, three years in Shanxuetang, twenty years in farming, seven or eight years in Neiwutang, seven years in Waimen farming, and twenty-eight years in the wilderness. He should be around 284 now. There will be a little error, but it should not be big.

"The age announced to the public is 81 years old, which is not too old and also fits the character setting."

Lin Jiang calculated in his mind again. The late stage of foundation building at the age of 81 is still a medium level in the Five Elements Sect. Those genius disciples broke through the foundation building in their twenties, and many broke through the late stage of foundation building in their fifties and sixties. The late stage of foundation building in the eighties can only be said to be ordinary.

"There is still a long distance from the late stage of foundation building to the perfection of foundation building. It is impossible to break through the golden elixir before the age of 300. In addition, the treasures for forming the elixir must be planned in advance."

Lin Jiang planned the future and felt that cultivating immortals was too difficult. There was no time for ordinary foundation building to plan slowly. The life span of the foundation building period was only 200 years, and the blood and qi would decline at 170 or 180 years old. There was no chance at all.

After tidying up his mood, Lin Jiang went to have a drink with Zhang Shuhua. Zhang Shuhua was also very happy to learn that Lin Jiang had broken through the late stage of foundation building.

"It's not easy, junior brother. I broke through the late stage of foundation building fourteen years ago, and now I have completed the foundation building."

"How can you stop pretending? Aren't you no match for those inner sect geniuses?"

"We are also inner sect."

"I mean we entered the inner sect right

after the beginning." "How can they be the same? They don't need to worry about the problem of cultivation resources since they started practicing. They just need to concentrate on cultivation. As for us, we not only have to run around to earn resources, but also risk our lives. Even if you refine pills and draw talismans, how much time will it take you to learn? If I had the same conditions as them, I, Zhang Shuhua, would never be weaker than any of them."

Zhang Shuhua said. The world is unfair. Some people are blessed with everything, while others have a hard life. He is not as good as the best, but better than the worst, and he is already satisfied.

"Brother, you are right. Besides, there are many inner disciples who cannot compare with our brothers, right?"

"In terms of ranking, at least half of them are outdone by us."

"Haha, the so-called genius is just like this. Come on, cheers."

Lin Jiang laughed. They can be proud of this. Those inner disciples are better than them in terms of talent, identity and background, but not all of them have surpassed their achievements. Some can't even build a foundation, some have reached a bottleneck in their cultivation, and some are addicted to pleasure, and their cultivation has long been surpassed by them.

"This year is the year for the distribution of Jindan treasures. Brother, don't worry. When my father comes back, there will be a way."

"Brother, you really don't know how to comfort people. Isn't it hurtful to mention this at this time? But when will Master come back? It's been fifteen years."

Lin Jiang said. The Five Elements Sect distributes a batch of foundation pills every year. It's so arrogant to have a big family, but there are not so many treasures for Jindan.

Generally speaking, a batch is issued every fifteen to twenty years, with about ten quotas, but it is not fixed. It depends on the spiritual medicine cultivated by the sect. The Five Elements Sect has a total of three kinds of treasures that can form pills, not just one kind of Five Elements Golden Fruit Pill. Zhang Shuhua has already completed his foundation building. It stands to reason that he can apply for treasures this year, but Zhang Wanjing is not here, so he did not go, because he knew that it would be useless to apply, and he would not be approved.

"Not so fast, the Purple Source Dao Fruit cannot be eaten raw, you have to find auxiliary medicinal materials, if you are lucky, you can find them in one or two years, if you are unlucky, it is hard to say, the second is to find a reliable alchemist to refine it, and after refining it, you have to retreat and break through, which may take about twenty years."

"Then wait for another five or six years, we have been sitting on the bench for a long time,"

Lin Jiang said. The old stronghold of the Five Elements Sect was completely abandoned by the sect. Of course, it is not to say that it is no longer needed, but it has become an ordinary stronghold, because the casual cultivators gradually rarely come, and the sect simply abolished all institutions.

There are more people in the stronghold now than before, but they are all Qi training disciples who come here to farm. The spiritual grains and vegetables here are fully supplied to the new stronghold.

Lin Jiang has been to the new stronghold several times. It is larger than here and can accommodate more people. It is naturally more prosperous. In addition, the Five Elements Sect has discovered several minerals near the stronghold and sent people to occupy them. The materials needed are very large. It is too wasteful to dispatch low-level materials such as spiritual grains from the sect. So let the old stronghold in the wilderness plant them, and the same is true for the strongholds after them.

It is enough to send a foundation building period to guard this kind of stronghold, but the sect put their brothers here, which is completely deliberately ignoring them. More than ten years have passed, and most of the people Zhang Wanjing had gathered with great difficulty before have been scattered. It will be difficult to gather them in the future. It can be said that Zhang Wanjing's team has been destroyed.

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In the blink of an eye, another five years passed. On this day, the head of the Five Elements Sect, Qin Quan, was discussing the affairs of the wilderness with several elders in the sect hall. In the wilderness, since the death of the Heavenly Wolf King, the power of the demon race has been greatly weakened, and the three major sects have joined forces to march forward.

After more than ten years of fighting, the new bases of the three sects have been firmly established and rooted in the wilderness. The territories of several fourth-level demon beasts have been compressed a lot, and it is worth their efforts to manage them again.

"It's a great thing that no powerful demon king has emerged from the deeper parts of the wilderness. Although the Thunder Cloud Beast has advanced to become a new demon king, its strength is not enough to be compared with the Heavenly Wolf King. We should concentrate our strength to annihilate some of the fourth-order demon beasts."

"I agree with this. There are more good things in the wilderness than we imagined. The spiritual veins of the sacred mountain occupied by several fourth-order demon beasts are better than we imagined. They are not inferior to the spiritual veins of our mountain gate. Once they are occupied, they can be cultivated into a high-level spiritual medicine garden."

"We also need minerals. We have discovered seventeen veins, but only two have been developed. It's a pity that we can't get the spiritual stones for nothing."

"So we still have to increase investment. New strongholds should be expanded as much as possible. Many disciples in the sect cannot be arranged, so we will all be sent to open up new territory."

Several elders agreed with the use of troops in the wilderness, because they had gained a lot of benefits over the past decade. The sum of these benefits is no worse than a mere Purple Source Dao Fruit, or even more. The elders who tasted the sweetness agreed to send more people.

"Since everyone agrees, let's discuss the details, which fourth-level monster to attack first, and..."

"What's wrong, Master?"

Qin Quan stopped talking halfway. Everyone asked, but Qin Quan didn't answer, just staring at the door. Everyone looked back and saw two people standing outside the door.

"Hello, ancestor."

When they saw who was coming, everyone stood up and bowed to the man.

"You guys continue, don't worry about me,"

Shi Yuntang said with a smile, but the ancestor of Huashen came back, how could they have the heart to think, not to mention that he didn't come back alone.

"Wan Jing, you are back too,"

Qin Quan said to Zhang Wanjing beside Shi Yuntang.

"Hello, Master Brother, Wan Jing is back."

Zhang Wanjing nodded. When everyone heard Zhang Wanjing's address, they immediately released their spiritual consciousness. Soon, they found that Zhang Wanjing's cultivation had changed. He was already the same as them, a Yuanying ancestor.

Among them, Guo Yunfeng's face changed the most. Seeing that Zhang Wanjing had really become a Yuanying, his face was very gloomy.

"Since you are all silent, then I will tell you this. My disciple Zhang Wanjing has reached the Nascent Soul stage. According to the sect rules, he is the new elder of the Five Elements Sect. What is your ranking?"

"Sixteenth."

"I remember that the Nascent Soul Fruit should have matured a few years ago. Didn't you refine it into the Nascent Soul Pill?"

"Reporting to the ancestor, the Nascent Soul Pill has been made, but the Deputy Head of the Alchemy Hall, Fang Yu, failed at the last stage."

"Waste,"

Shi Yuntang said directly. The Nascent Soul Pill is one of the best pills for forming a Nascent Soul, and it is more suitable than the Purple Source Dao Fruit. How could it fail? If it is not waste, what is it?