Chapter 141: Difficulty in making choices, the spirit space, the spirit of Daotianmu...
In the monster space, Dao Tianmu's spiritual consciousness was the first to react and came over to comfort her.
The branch curled up and tried to wrap around her wrist. Xu Hui reflexively pinched her fingers and sent it into the planting space.
As soon as Dao Tianmu's spiritual consciousness came into contact with the main body, it was like a long drought finally meeting a downpour, and they began to merge directly.
The whole process went extremely smoothly. A faint wood-type spiritual energy permeated the air and spread out, as if the concentration of spiritual energy in the entire space had increased.
This is not an illusion!
Xu Hui felt it carefully and found that the spiritual energy had indeed increased.
During the cultivation process, plant spirits will emit wood spiritual power to nourish the nearby flowers, plants and trees.
Therefore, with the presence of monsters, the plants nearby grow exceptionally well.
Perhaps it was for this reason that the ancient god imprisoned the consciousness of these monsters in this space.
She has discovered that this spirit space is a cage that imprisons these plant spirits and prevents them from returning to their original bodies.
The main body will absorb spiritual power unconsciously, but without the control of the soul, most of the absorbed spiritual power will be dissipated.
In this way, it is like a large spirit gathering array and energy conversion array.
What they absorb is spiritual power, and after converting it themselves, what overflows is spiritual power that is more suitable for the survival of their own kind and carries the power of wood.
There is a huge wood spirit crystal in the body of the Daotian Wood Monster, and the energy overflowing from it is more refined, which is suitable for the growth of plants.
She planted plant spirits in space, which was actually similar to what the ancient gods did.
However, in order to control them to serve him for a long time, the great god directly separated their bodies and consciousness, making it impossible for them to further cultivate into spirits and finally become immortals.
However, Xu Hui did not intend to do so. She wanted to release them after she ascended to heaven or went to a world where plant spirits could survive.
This is not because she is selfless, but because this planting space is her private territory and she doesn't want outsiders to wait for a long time.
Even though the plant spirits now only have simple consciousness, like a newborn baby, they will grow up sooner or later.
As for being like the ancient gods, directly imprisoning their consciousness and restricting their development?
Not to mention that she couldn't do such an act of deliberately enslaving lives and destroying other people's future, even if she really did it, wouldn't she be punished by God?
She had reason to suspect that the ancient god fell because he had done too many immoral things.
Otherwise, with his great power, this would not have happened!
Just the things she came into contact with, the plant spirits, the wood stones, the talisman formations, the spaces that imprisoned the spirits' souls... every one of these, which one of them could not be achieved without incredible power?
She had always had a question before: Is the emergence of a new secret realm really so important?
It was so important that the entire cultivation world was in an uproar. For this reason, people wanted the Wei family's pills even at double the price. This was because the Wei family deliberately lowered the price to prevent alchemists from other families from raising the price to an outrageous level.
That auction was even more astonishing. Under normal circumstances, who would bid so wildly?
The spiritual stones that were distributed in those few days alone are definitely the majority of most people's wealth.
And now she understood that this new secret realm was really extraordinary. The things inside were not only natural treasures, but also things that had never been heard of or seen before!
If you're lucky enough to get some good stuff, you can go out and start a new family.
If you have the protagonist's luck, the resources you get from here can reshuffle the entire cultivation world.
However, as far as she knows, most of the protagonists are from aristocratic families and do not come from grassroots backgrounds.
Other families may not have such incredible luck, but with so many masters from the Jindan stage to the Mahayana stage, it is impossible for them to gain nothing.
A reshuffle is impossible, but breaking the existing pattern is inevitable.
The family inheritance headed by the ten major families may change as a result, and it is possible that more large families or even sects will emerge.
But the biggest possibility is that the ten major families are reduced to a few super families. It is not that the strength of the remaining families has weakened, but that these families have become stronger and crushed the other families!
Yes, the formation of the top ten families was caused by the emergence of a new secret realm.
That was more than 7,000 years ago. Before that, the current ten great families were certainly prosperous, but they were definitely not as dominant as they are now.
In the secret realm, these ten families occupied absolute advantages and cultivated countless high-level cultivators, so that they always occupied the lion's share in the exploration of new territories in the outside world.
This world of cultivation is very large. Just from what has been explored so far, the territory that can be controlled by human cultivators is more than a thousand times the size of the Earth in the past.
I can’t even imagine how much there is that has yet to be explored!
Moreover, in addition to the world of cultivation and the mortal world where human cultivators live, there are also the demon world, the devil realm, the void realm, etc., which are also vast and boundless areas.
Xu Hui even suspected that this world of cultivation had been growing and expanding, just like the universe as we knew it in the last century, which was expanding at an astonishing speed.
Perhaps, the world of cultivation is not an existence similar to the earth, but a universe?
In short, the cultivators are so powerful that when they reach the Mahayana stage, they can even destroy the world, but they have never fully explored the territory of the cultivation world. There are still more unknowns waiting for them to explore.
Therefore, the upper limit of the aristocratic family is far more than this!
However, with the current number of people in the top ten families, occupying and managing the existing territories is already the limit, and they cannot even spare any extra manpower to continue external expansion.
Otherwise, there would be no need to divide those territories among the affiliated monks and let them go out to establish their own families.
The reason is very simple. We hope that after they go out, they will have more children, occupy more territory, and create greater value.
In a sense, it can be considered as waste utilization?
True high-level cultivators don’t have much time to have and raise children. Anyone who hopes to improve their cultivation will spend most of their time practicing and pursuing the path to immortality.
As long as there is a chance to form a pill, it is impossible to break the Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang before forming the pill, as that will damage the foundation.
When one reaches the Jindan stage, the ability to conceive offspring is infinitely weakened, and one can only conceive offspring by separating the spirit and soul and combining them during the Severing Spirit stage.
Although this can make the offspring have excellent qualifications, it is ultimately a helpless choice.
Originally, Venerable Cihang, who created this method, was eager to have offspring but was unable to do so, so he went through untold hardships to create this unconventional method.
Although the method has been perfected after generations of research and modification, it can still only be used by cultivators in the Spirit Severing Stage, and they can only have a maximum of three offspring in their lifetime. If they have more, it will damage their foundation and affect their path to immortality.
And in the entire world of cultivation, how many Jindan cultivators can go all the way through the Nascent Soul stage, out of the body, and reach the Spirit Sorrow stage?
Less than one in ten thousand!
For the rest, if they want to have children, they can only take their chances and hope that they will be lucky enough to conceive a child naturally.
But this probability is very, very small. How small is it?
Venerable Canglan is the only child conceived naturally by a Mahayana cultivator!
Because of this exception, the Mahayana monks who had originally given up hope also tried to find demon tribes to give birth to offspring. From the rabbit tribe to other demon tribes that were good at giving birth, without exception, they all failed.
Venerable Canglan is truly the exception!
Below the Mahayana stage, in the tens of thousands of years of history of the cultivation world, there are only more than a thousand children born naturally in the Spirit Severing stage, more than three hundred in the Out-of-Body stage, about three hundred in the Nascent Soul stage, and a little more in the Golden Core stage, about four hundred.
Yes, because of the special state of the Spirit Severing Stage, the differentiation and reorganization of the soul and the body caused the gestation value of this stage to increase. This is why the new gestation method devised by the senior must be used in the Spirit Severing Stage.
But even if there are more than a thousand of them, it is less than one hundred thousandth of the number of cultivators in the Spirit Severing Stage. It can be seen that the contrast is tragic!
Therefore, the Venerable Cihang who created the method of conceiving a child through the separation of spirits was honored as the "Ancestor of Mankind". He really gave countless cultivators an opportunity to conceive children and created infinite possibilities for the world.
The moment he successfully conceived a child with his Taoist partner, he ascended to heaven on the spot due to his merits. The three members of his family all became human immortals!
As long as nothing unexpected happens, becoming a god will be a natural thing.
This is the world's reward to him, and in the entire history of cultivation, it is an extremely special rule for becoming an immortal.
Including his newborn child, who was born with merits because he created history, and was even more special than children born in the fairyland.
Of course he deserves it!
Whenever a child conceived by a spirit is born in the world, he will accumulate a layer of merit.
But for this family of three, becoming gods through this has become unattainable. The reason is very simple. In the world of cultivation, only a few can cultivate to the stage of distraction.
And two people in the distraction stage must be together in the distraction stage to conceive a child, which means that a couple in the distraction stage can have at most three children.
Many cultivators in the Spirit Severing stage only want to leave behind one offspring to avoid regrets, as they won't have the chance to have another in the future.
But there are too many children, too many concerns, and deeper causes and effects. The monks do not want this to affect their own practice and immortal path.
Having a child is to avoid regrets and leave behind obsessions, so if you are not completely unwilling to do so, you will find someone to have a baby.
They don't have to become a couple. After giving birth to a child, they can separate and take turns raising the child.
Normal couples like the Wei family head and his wife account for less than one-tenth of the high-level cultivators in the world of cultivation.
They usually separate while practicing on their own, so it is easier to cancel the Taoist companion contract.
Therefore, there are very few offspring of cultivators in the Spirit Severing stage. If you include those who are unwilling to have children, their number is less than one-fifth of the total number of cultivators in the Spirit Severing stage.
Even fewer can cultivate from the Golden Core Stage to the Spirit Severing Stage, probably only one in a thousand. There has been no exact statistics, so it may be even fewer.
In this way, the number of high-level cultivators that a noble family can possess is actually fixed.
However, only high-level cultivators can explore those unknown territories. For cultivators below the Jindan level, it is simply a matter of death.
The cultivators in the Jindan and Yuanying stages are just assistants, while the cultivators in the Chubao and Mahayana stages are the main force.
Those in the Spirit Severing Stage will stay behind to raise and educate their offspring, and those in the Mahayana Stage will also come back to transcend the tribulation and ascend to heaven when they reach a certain stage.
In addition, it is impossible to send everyone, so half of them must be left behind to avoid damaging the family foundation if something happens.
With this calculation, there are very few people who can go out and explore new areas.
As for cultivators below the Jindan stage, apart from taking on tasks, they cannot actually bring much value to the family.
But even the contribution they make by taking on tasks is only equal to the resources spent on them.
In other words, the aristocratic families actually don’t make much money by training them.
People in the outside world always think that aristocratic families will exploit low-level cultivators in order to support high-level cultivators.
In fact, Xu Hui originally thought so, but when she really understood that the resources of high-level cultivators are actually completely different from those of low-level cultivators, from materials to finished products, she figured it out.
Let me put it this way, the elixir taken by a Jindan stage cultivator often requires the use of third or fourth grade spiritual plants and is refined by at least a third grade alchemist.
The growing areas of third and fourth grade spiritual plants must be dangerous places, guarded by high-level spiritual beasts. If cultivators below the Jindan stage go there, they will die, so they must be led by Yuanying stage cultivators. Jindan stage cultivators are the main force, and foundation building stage cultivators...that's where they lead their disciples, to take you to gain knowledge and experience.
You can't do anything there, not even collect anything, because only those in the Jindan stage can retain enough medicinal properties and attributes on the corpses of spiritual plants or spiritual beasts.
Therefore, the resources of high-level cultivators are collected and refined by themselves from beginning to end, and they do not need to use the resources of low-level cultivators at all, let alone exploit them.
As for spirit stones, the family's exchange system and task system do not require low-level cultivators to hand in spirit stones. Completing tasks will also exchange them for points, and finally exchange them for resources to provide for their own cultivation and adaptation. It can be said to be an equal exchange.
Before, Xu Hui would have thought that the aristocratic families were just like the capitalists in modern society, designing a system that made the monks do the work of cattle and horses, but they only received less than one-tenth of the return, barely enough to make ends meet or have enough food and drink, and that was all.
The money obtained will be harvested under various names.
What she saw at first was that the low-level cultivators actually lived a very tight life, and the resources they got were only enough to support their own cultivation.
But later, after she actually got in touch with them, she found that with their abilities, while ensuring safety, they really didn't create much value.
The reason was simple: their cultivation was not high enough to allow them to go to dangerous places. And how many people had visited safe places? How many resources were there waiting for them to collect?
Going out on missions is really a way to hone their abilities, and the resources they obtain are only low-level and of low value, and some can even be produced by the family itself.
In addition, they have to practice most of the time, and they have to learn a cultivation skill when they have free time, so that they will have no other means of generating income in the future except going out to complete missions.
In this case, they would not spend more than one month outside on missions each year, and the missions they took on within the family would only waste one or two hours every day, and the rest of the time would be spent on cultivation.
The internal family tasks I take on are all very basic due to my cultivation level. How much value can they create?
With these, the resources obtained are naturally only enough for one's own practice!
If high-level cultivators rely on exploiting others to improve their cultivation, then one Jindan-stage cultivator will need at least tens of thousands of Qi-refining-stage cultivators and thousands of Foundation-building-stage cultivators to support him.
This is just the Golden Core Stage, the Yuanying Stage is ten times higher!
How is it possible to raise this?
Therefore, what actually happens between monks is an exchange of resources of the same level, because only monks of the same level can hunt or collect the resources they really need.
The gap between each level is very large, as big as a chasm.
When they reach the Mahayana stage, their needs become even more unique. They all explore uninhabited areas. Monks of other levels cannot help them, and the resources they can get are useless to them.
Therefore, among monks, it is often only high-level monks who help low-level monks, while low-level monks cannot help high-level monks.
Unless you are the chosen one, you can always collect high-value resources across levels.
But how many chosen ones are there in the entire world of cultivation?
Why would such a high-level monk help low-level monks?
The reason is very simple, because there is always someone among them who is more talented and will go further than oneself in the future. When he reaches a higher level, he will be able to help oneself.
The world of cultivation emphasizes cause and effect, and your efforts will always be rewarded.
Of course, if your vision is not good and the person you are optimistic about fails along the way, or turns out to be an ungrateful person, that’s another story.
The same principle applies to the large-scale recruitment and training of people by aristocratic families, in order to sift out the weak through the tough.
The lowest-priced monks are worthless, but which high-level monk didn’t come from a low-level monk?
Therefore, initial investment is necessary, and large-scale training is also necessary. With a larger base, the probability of producing talents will be higher.
As for those who cannot come out and stop at the foundation-building stage throughout their lives, they cannot be wasted. Having more offspring is also a way to create value and expand the base!
But the aristocratic families are not so kind as to help them raise offspring. The probability of producing talented people is small, and the aristocratic families cannot allow them to give birth unconditionally.
So at this stage, having built a foundation but with no future, one can either become a manager in a noble family and earn resources to train one's own descendants, or choose a piece of land and use the output from this land to train descendants.
This kind of thing actually sacrifices their own cultivation resources in exchange for producing talented people among their descendants.
In this situation, the probability of producing talents is as small as it can be. Therefore, although the total number of mortals is large, there are very few who can truly cultivate immortality, and even fewer who can skip the foundation-building stage and enter the Jindan stage.
This has been the development for tens of thousands of years. The total number of high-level cultivators in the world of cultivation has been limited to a certain range and has not increased much. Although it seems that there are many people, they are actually all within a limited scale.
The current scale and structure were brought about by the newly emerged secret realm. The resources obtained from that secret realm directly doubled the number of high-level cultivators in the world of cultivation, thus laying the foundation for the current structure of the top ten families.
For seven thousand years, no matter how the families outside the ten great families developed, no matter how many brilliant cultivators appeared, they could not surpass the ten great families because they did not have enough foundation.
When high-level cultivators reach a certain stage, they cannot obtain the resources they need and can only rely on the ten major families.
Part of these resources came from that secret realm, and the rest were obtained by high-level cultivators from the ten major families when they explored new territories. They kept a portion of the benefits for themselves and kept the rest in the family.
Therefore, the foundation of the top ten families is becoming more and more rich, and the gap between them and other families is getting bigger and bigger.
But you can't say that they have a monopoly. After all, those high-level monks also risked their lives to obtain those precious resources.
The no-man's land is right there. If you are not convinced, you can explore it by yourself, no one will stop you.
But why do high-level cultivators still have to rely on aristocratic families?
The reason is very simple. In the ten great families, when you are still in the out-of-body stage, there will be a Mahayana stage cultivator leading the team, and they will allocate to you in advance supplies that can only be obtained by the distraction stage or even the Mahayana stage cultivators, in order to ensure your safety.
Isn't this safer than exploring alone?
It takes countless resources to cultivate a monk in the out-of-body stage, and the loss rate in the uninhabited area is very high. If someone dies, wouldn’t it be a huge loss?
It would be better to send it to the top ten families, where there are people to protect it, it has higher-level treasures, it can go further, and bring more resources to the family.
Therefore, high-level cultivators from the Nascent Soul stage and above basically entered the top ten families. How could those families possibly develop?
Even if an accident like the Chosen Son happened, he was only one person, and the resources he obtained were limited, and he could bring a family to the level of a first-class family.
But how could he alone make up for the thousands or tens of thousands of years of foundation of the top ten families?
Unless he doesn't ascend and spends all his time collecting resources for the family.
But often, such chosen ones ascend very quickly, and they have the opportunity to ascend in less than a few hundred years.
In such a short time, what else can they do besides practicing?
The ten great families have no shortage of geniuses, and even more so, no shortage of children born with good fortune. Although they may not be considered children of good fortune, they are no pushovers.
For example, Wei Muheng can only be regarded as an insignificant character in the book, but the benefits he brings to the Wei family even exceed those of the supporting male role Wei Mubai.
Who made Wei Mubai, despite having good luck, be imprisoned in the Endless Abyss for a thousand years?
With this kind of ability, even if his luck is not as good as the male protagonist Mu Yuan, the gap is not too big.
The truth is, the entire world of cultivation is too big, and there are countless resources. It is not something that one or two sons of luck can plunder all of them, and it is not the case that you take the lion's share and the others are left with nothing.
Therefore, for nearly ten thousand years, the structure of the aristocratic families has remained basically unchanged, with the top ten aristocratic families at the forefront, and the rest, from the lower-class to the first-class aristocratic families, all depend on the top ten aristocratic families for survival.
But the emergence of a new secret realm will completely change this situation!
Whoever can take advantage of the new secret realm and increase the number of high-level monks in the family several times will have a higher chance of occupying resources in the future!
This will be a crucial opportunity to determine the fate of families and individuals for thousands or even tens of thousands of years to come. No wonder everyone is going crazy!
Before entering the secret realm, even after listening to Wei Mubai's explanation, Xu Hui could not fully understand it.
With her limited knowledge, she was already amazed and shocked by the huge resources possessed by the Wei family. She really couldn't imagine how many good things a new secret realm could have that would make them flock to it so much.
But after less than half a month, what she saw and gained was enough to make her dumbfounded.
Putting aside other things, how many wood-type cultivators could be cultivated with tens of thousands of wood spirit crystals? And how many high-level spirit plants could be grown?
Xu Hui had already agreed with Wei Mubai that she only wanted one thousand and the rest would be left to the family.
There was no other way. She still had the powerful weapon, the Heart of Wood, and the remaining one thousand were kept for collecting the Five Elements Spirit Crystals to use for enlightenment.
Her comprehension is always a little lacking, and now it is just a step away, but after she truly ascends to become an immortal, the gap will be huge.
Once you reach the fairyland, everyone is a chosen one, and those with poor comprehension cannot get in.
Xu Hui didn't want to be at the bottom, so she had to make up for this shortcoming in the world of cultivation. She would not miss anything that could increase her understanding.
I left a thousand pills just in case. They might be needed at some point, just like they were absorbed by the Guixu grass last time. It’s always a good idea to leave some more.
If the rest is given to the Wei family, she will not suffer any loss, and Brother Wei Mubai will also think of her first when it comes to supplies that she can use.
In this way, contributing the resources she doesn't use can be considered mutually beneficial.
Wei Mubai once revealed that the Wei family is actually a powerful force in the fairy world and can still protect her after she ascends to heaven.
It's just that they may not have such a huge and unsurpassable power in the world of cultivation. After all, that fairyland is connected to more than just the middle thousand worlds, so the territory occupied by the Wei family may not be too large.
Then, helping more people from the Wei family to ascend and develop and strengthen the Wei family will also be beneficial to her future.
In this way, she will not be bullied in the fairyland, and can still practice immortality safely under the protection of Wei Mubai and the Wei family as she does now.
Tsk, if you can have such a good life, why not enjoy it?
So Xu Hui looked at the plant monsters in front of her with even more eager eyes. These are all good treasures!
Those that can nurture spirits are all high-level spiritual plants without exception. They are good resources that the outside world can't even think about, and they are good things that even Mahayana cultivators are jealous of.
But she can easily collect a large number of them. Haha, this is not cannon fodder at all. Even the chosen one cannot compare to her.
So, 'God of nature, blessing from the spirit of words' is really awesome!
The only thing that saddened her was that she didn't have enough points!
She couldn't take them all, so she could only carefully select what she and the Wei family needed most. She was dazzled by the selection and was thinking so hard that her head was going bald.
What should I choose? Which are the rarest and hardest to find opportunities in the outside world?
At this moment, Xu Hui regretted very much that she did not ask Wei Mubai for his opinion. She had not thought of it before and was solely focused on Mu Zhixin. She was really blinded.
She was such a jerk. Why hadn't she thought of learning about Mahayana cultivators before? She always thought they were too far away from her level of cultivation. Even if she encountered one, it wouldn't be something a cultivator of her level could obtain. She had forgotten the power of 'Heavenly Blessings, Word Spirit Blessings'. What a mistake! Such a mistake!
Xu Hui had tears on her face, and she didn't know where to start when faced with a group of plant spirits dancing and trying to please her.
What should I choose? Or should I select the soldiers and generals?
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