Chapter 120: The Aristocratic Family Considers the Thank-You Gifts from the Wan and Lei Families
The thank-you gifts from the Wan and Lei families were so astonishing, and as one of the top ten families, the Yuchi family’s apology would be even more impressive.
What they sent was the Ice Spring, which was taken from the ice marrow of extremely cold lands and refined with special magical instruments. It can continuously produce clear ice springs from afar. The water temperature is extremely low and is rich in pure spiritual energy and ice power.
This water is used to wash elixirs during the alchemy process. It can remove impurities, improve the purity and stability of the medicinal properties, and effectively improve the quality and effectiveness of the elixir.
The spring water used for alchemy is very particular. The Wei family has collected more than a dozen kinds of spring water, large and small. This ice spring is the only one that can be used to refine spiritual medicines. It may not be so precious to other families, because this level of quality improvement cannot guarantee that the alchemist can refine an extra pill.
But the Wei family can. The Wei family has countless alchemists, and coupled with the Wei family's inheritance in elixirs, many people are often stuck at the spiritual level of alchemy. A little help is enough to help them break through to a higher level.
What's more, with this ice spring, most spiritual medicines can be refined and the overall quality can be upgraded to a higher level. It is really a good thing.
In addition, some disciples with water or ice spiritual roots will be able to practice much faster if they practice near the ice spring.
In addition to this precious ice spring, many precious medicinal herbs were also sent. Although they are not as rare as the Heavenly Soul Fruit, it is still a huge expense.
After receiving the compensation, the Wei family no longer pursued the matter. In addition, during this incident, they generously gave the Soul Replenishing Pill to help Lei Xiao and Yi Qingxue, which increased the favorability of the cultivators in the entire cultivation world towards the Wei family.
In the past, the Wei family followed the tradition of keeping one-third of the reward when someone came to refine medicine. There were also some complaints, thinking that they had risked their lives to obtain precious elixirs, and now it was too much for them to take one-third of the reward just by asking them to refine the medicine.
They don't consider how much it costs to train an alchemist, nor do they think that besides the low success rate of alchemy, it is more likely to fail.
In fact, it is common for an alchemist, faced with a new recipe, to produce useless pills after refining dozens of batches.
These wasted costs have to be paid by the alchemists themselves, as they are the necessary costs for them to practice alchemy.
The Wei family can provide these materials for them to work together. The only requirement is that after the process is completed, they must replace the number of furnaces that were wasted to offset the cost.
Of course, if the disciples use their points to redeem the medicinal plants, then the alchemist is responsible for his own profits and losses, and no matter how many he makes, they are his own.
It costs the Wei family a huge amount to train a qualified alchemist. Even for those disciples who exchange their points, the medicinal plants are picked or purchased from outside by the Wei family disciples.
The points exchange price is only the cost price. Moreover, before the third level, alchemists cannot actually use many points to exchange for spiritual plants, most of which are raised by the Wei family.
In this case, for those who come to the Wei family to ask for medicine, the Wei family will arrange for a cultivator who has successfully refined this type of medicine to refine it according to the different recipes, to ensure the success rate of the medicine, and take one third of it as a reward, which is already very frugal.
The alchemists outside were even more greedy, some of them asked for half or even two-thirds.
That would be fine, but some extremely precious elixirs would be kept secret by alchemists, who would claim they were useless even though they had clearly made the elixir.
It would be fine if you are strong, people will at least be wary of you. But those who are not strong enough and need elixirs can only suffer in silence.
The Wei family is the best guarantee for them to successfully obtain the elixir.
Therefore, although some people grumbled privately about their dissatisfaction, more people still had faith in the Wei family.
This time, when Lei Xiao and an ordinary female cultivator got into trouble, the Wei family took out their only two soul-replenishing pills without hesitation, and did not sit idly by just because the female cultivator was an ordinary cultivator. This allowed everyone to see the Wei family's benevolence and attitude towards ordinary cultivators, and their good impression of them doubled.
This incident brought good reputation to the Wan family, the Lei family, and the Wei family. Combined with the gifts from the other three families, the Wei family did not suffer any loss.
As for the soul-replenishing pill, in fact, after obtaining the "Yuan Shen Jue", the soul will be trained and will not only become stronger and stronger, but injuries can also be slowly healed after practice.
Lei Xiao also has this skill, and he was not afraid at first. The new secret realm will be opened in just a few days. As the young master of this generation of the Lei family, he has the obligation to lead the Lei family cultivators to explore and seize the opportunity.
Originally, after Lei Hong grew up, he could also take over as the leader like Wei Mubai. Unfortunately, although Lei Hong grew fast, he had already formed a golden elixir.
But the problem was that he was an outsider and did not grow up in the Lei family. After returning to the Lei family, he was not liked by the Lei family disciples at first because he was the son of a concubine.
Everyone looked at him with scrutiny and sizing. If Lei Xiao hadn't made it clear that he accepted this younger brother and would protect him under his wings, some people would have been dissatisfied with the resources he had obtained and stepped forward to provoke him.
Lei Hong is a sensitive and thoughtful person by nature. He is more wary of everyone than close to them. Although his attitude towards people will improve after he is clear of the other party's good intentions, he has been practicing hard since he came back and has less contact with the disciples of the Lei family.
In this situation, he actually did not integrate into the Lei family, and only came into contact with and knew a few people.
In this way, he cannot be trusted as the team leader.
If those people did not obey his command and could not unite in times of danger, it would be almost fatal.
So this time Lei Xiao had to go, and Lei Hong wanted to go himself.
According to the aristocratic family's rules, if the young master Lei Xiao left, then Lei Hong, who was the only one with the second thunder spirit root, was the Lei family's trump card and should have stayed behind.
But firstly, he was not completely loyal to the Lei family and was only focused on pursuing his own strength.
Secondly, if he wants to take over as the young master of the Lei family after Lei Xiao gets into trouble, his current character and methods are completely inadequate.
He needs to receive education from an aristocratic family, at least to keep the interests of the Lei family in mind, and at the same time have a sense of the overall situation. When he has both, he can then cultivate his own means.
What Yi Qingxue did this time sounded the alarm for the aristocratic families.
She is a typical example of a person who, although she became the young master, did not care about the family and only cared about her own interests.
She couldn't have failed to realize that even if she succeeded in scheming against the three great families, the Yuchi family would have to sacrifice a lot of interests to repay her, even twice or three times what she had gained.
But she doesn't care!
In other words, she felt that since her cultivation level was only at the great perfection of foundation building and her soul was still in trouble, the Yuchi family would not protect her but would only abandon her as the young master and choose someone else.
In a sense, she was right.
The Yuchi family is a competitive family. If there is a big problem with her cultivation, then other people who are qualified to compete for the position of young master will not be polite.
She did not tell the truth to her family, but calculated things in her own way, which is in line with human nature.
Now that she has returned to the top, the Yuchi family will never give up on her again. Moreover, they have sacrificed so much for her, which will only make them hold on to her more tightly.
From Yi Qingxue's perspective, this idea is not wrong at all!
But the young master raised by a noble family cannot and must not think like this. If he only considers himself, the family will become a mess.
Just like Lei Xiao in the original novel, with his skills and hidden treasures, how could his cultivation be wasted so easily?
He was trying to cover the retreat of the Lei family disciples, and he fought to the end and protected everyone, which led to the accident.
Only someone who would stand before him and protect his young master and family is worthy of following. It's a pity that he died young.
But because of this, the cohesion of the Lei family disciples was stronger. From then on, they followed Lei Hong, which meant that they initially doubted whether he was capable of replacing Lei Xiao, rather than really having any opinions about him.
Once he demonstrates his strength, they will follow him wholeheartedly.
Therefore, the position of the young master of a noble family is not only authority but also responsibility. At critical moments, they need to take responsibility with their lives.
When aristocratic families train heirs, they also require them to put responsibility and family first.
Wei Muheng was selfish and differentiated his brothers and sisters from other family members, but openly, he never showed favoritism.
Everything he did for Wei Mubai and Wei Muyan was a personal act, not relying on the power of the young master of the Wei family.
At the critical moment, he can sacrifice for his family.
It’s just that it hasn’t reached that point yet. For a new secret realm, Wei Mubai is enough.
What's more, the head of the Wei family and his wife will also take Wei Muyan with them quietly. What crisis can't be dealt with?
However, Yi Qingxue had no such concept at all. Perhaps after she became the young master of the Yuchi family, she also received training from an aristocratic family, but her time was still short and the marks left by her humiliating childhood days had not yet been erased.
She worked hard to become the young master in order to gain more power and climb up the social ladder. The Yuchi family was a tool, not the one she had to protect.
This is the essential difference!
All the noble families are smart and they can see through her thoughts at a glance, but they used to think that there is still a lot of time and Yi Qingxue can still be taught.
But before they made up their minds to teach her well, she had already offended other families.
Now it is no longer a question of whether the Yuchi family wants to or not, but the aristocratic families will no longer allow Yi Qingxue to take the throne.
If she really became the head of the Yuchi family, wouldn't it cause trouble for other families? They have finally achieved a relatively stable and peaceful environment for cultivation, and they must not let a single bad apple ruin the current good situation.
It's not that small world with poor mountains and bad waters where people are fighting for the only chance to ascend. If everyone works hard, there will be a chance to ascend peacefully. Why are they shouting for war and killing, getting themselves entangled in blood debts, and being struck to death by lightning when they are undergoing the tribulation?
No matter how outstanding Yi Qingxue was or how great her luck was, the Yuchi family had to give up on her.
Lei Hong actually has a similar experience to Yi Qingxue. His not-so-happy childhood has filled his heart with resentment and deep insecurity.
Only by becoming stronger can he feel at ease!
Since he cannot trust his family wholeheartedly, naturally they will not protect it wholeheartedly.
Therefore, the Lei family deliberately let him stay with Lei Xiao for a long time, using Lei Xiao's personal charm to soften and influence him little by little.
Time is a wonderful thing. It changes many things without us noticing.
Lei Hong himself is also a person with excellent talent. When he practices Taoism, he cultivates his original mind.
Unless he is born bad, he will always be changed by the surrounding environment, and will be influenced by a particularly outstanding, charming and charismatic person.
Lei Xiao is such a person, so as long as time is enough, Lei Hong will become better little by little under Lei Xiao's influence, and at the same time correct those shortcomings in his character and become rounded and transparent.
After having this idea, Lei Xiao always took Lei Hong with him no matter what he did.
Even Wan Moxiao complained to Xu Hui in a letter, "They're together all day, so I can't be alone with Xiao."
Xu Hui didn't think much of it at first, but when she saw Lei Hong again, she couldn't help but be shocked.
This effect is too good to be true, isn't it? Is this still the same extreme, self-centered male protagonist from the book?
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