Patriarch

Patriarch. With Changle Mountain's current conditions, it is somewhat difficult for Li Qianyin to directly start artifact refining, which will be much easier to resolve once they reach Changqing Mountain.

Compared to the duration of every alchemy session, artifact refining takes more time, and naturally consumes more spiritual power each time; therefore, having a slightly higher realm when refining artifacts will make the entry hurdle a bit easier.

Right now Li Qianyin is only at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, and it will still be in time when she eventually reaches the Qi Refining Fifth or Sixth Layer and begins artifact refining then.

"When I started alchemy, I read quite a few foundational books on alchemy. Yinyin, if you want to refine artifacts in the future, you can look for some books on artifact refining right now."

As Changle Mountain is the Li family's second-largest base, many foundational books on the Hundred Crafts of Cultivation are available here, and it is very simple for Li Qianyin to borrow them.

"Okay." Listening to Li Qianqing's advice, Li Qianyin already formed her own plan inside her little head.

There is currently only one artifact refiner in the Li family, and their artifact refining talent is only ordinary, so it is not very suitable to invest a large amount of costs into nurturing them. If Li Qianyin embarks on this path of artifact refining, the situation will be very different.

As the two of them chatted away, Li Qianyin, enveloped in joy, suddenly began comparing heights with Li Qianqing.

"Qianqing-ge, I feel like you've grown taller again, while I seem to have no changes at all." Li Qianyin gestured back and forth, even standing on her tiptoes during the comparison.

Li Qianqing thought about it slightly.

Li Qianyin's future height does not seem to have grown much taller than it is now, but she is just very cute.

If he remembers correctly, the later Li Qianyin will care very much about her height because she cannot grow tall.

Without special heavenly materials and earthly treasures, cultivators had better not go and alter their own root bones, as it will have a certain impact on their subsequent cultivation breakthroughs.

"It's fine, you and I are both still young now." Li Qianqing said this, which counted as a comfort.

Li Qianyin is obviously not very easy to fool. "No, no, Qianqing-ge, you are still growing. If current me isn't really growing, I definitely won't have any major changes in the future."

"Is that so?"

Li Qianqing looked at Li Qianyin, and she looked back at him just the same.

"As for future matters, who can really say."

"Alright then." Li Qianyin thought about it, and what Qianqing-ge said also made quite a bit of sense.

By the afternoon, Li Qianyin left.

Li Qianqing began his daily cultivation.

Tending to the spiritual fields, the lineage will not let him do it in vain, and refining pills is the same.

Second Grandfather told him that this year he will apply for more contribution points from the lineage on his behalf, which is the remuneration for him refining the Fasting Pill.

Generally speaking, the remuneration will be above five hundred contribution points. Judging by the talent he displayed, the lineage is very likely to award him one thousand contribution points in the first year.

A cultivator of the Qi Refining Fourth Layer should have the appearance befitting a cultivator of the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.

Even though a Mid-Grade Magic Tool does not provide much enhancement to his strength, he still plans to trade for an offensive Mid-Grade Magic Tool for his own use.

When September arrives and both contribution points and spiritual stones are credited, he can use the contribution points to make an exchange in the lineage's clan treasury.

Late April.

Li Ditu has already left Changle Mountain and arrived at Changqing Mountain.

As for the matter of Li Qianqing's alchemy talent, he is the only one who can return to report the news to the patriarch.

The amount of information is huge and simply cannot be made clear within a sound transmission talisman.

Today, the Fasting Pills that the Li family needs to refine have all been completely refined, and sixty percent of Changle Mountain's Fasting Pills were refined and completed by Li Qianqing.

Under his guidance as Li Ditu, the current Li Qianqing can already refine forty catties of white corn together, and out of ten cauldrons, eight yield four Fasting Pills, while the remaining two cauldrons can also yield three.

At the time when forty catties of white corn yielded four Fasting Pills, Li Qianqing wanted to refine fifty catties of white corn per cauldron of Fasting Pills, but he was stopped by Li Ditu.

Li Qianqing is only at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer right now, and no matter how good his talent is, it is not recommended to refine fifty catties of white corn per cauldron of Fasting Pills; he has to wait until the Qi Refining Fifth Layer to do so.

According to Li Qianqing's talent, his empirical guidance is that at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer he can refine fifty catties of white corn per cauldron of Fasting Pills, at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer he can refine seventy catties of white corn per cauldron, and at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, he can refine one hundred catties of white corn per cauldron of Fasting Pills! Li Ditu is currently at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, and it is best for him to do eighty catties of white corn per cauldron; this is due to the restriction of talent, so that his refining can maximize time and profits.

"Second Uncle, you came back personally—did something happen?"

After Li Ditu returned to Changqing Mountain, the first clansman he saw was Li Lilong.

"That's right, something has happened—a heaven-sent good fortune, and I am going to see the patriarch right now." Li Ditu strode straight to the front. "Lilong, you come with me too."

A heaven-sent good fortune? Li Lilong understands his second uncle; he will not deliberately exaggerate the facts.

Hearing this, he became very curious, but Second Uncle kept playing the mystery and wouldn't tell him, always responding with a smile, so he had no choice but to wait until he saw the patriarch to find out.

The current patriarch of the Li family is Li Cunliu, and his cave dwelling is located in the place where the heaven and earth spiritual qi of Changle Mountain is densest.

Generally speaking, a treasured land possessing three micro spirit veins can supply the daily cultivation of Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators. If it is a place with two micro spirit veins, then a Spirit Gathering Array needs to be set up, otherwise the concentration of heaven and earth spiritual qi will not meet the standard, and the cultivation efficiency of Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators will be low, falling far short of normal cultivation speeds.

Every Foundation Establishment immortal cultivation lineage has a treasured land where the number of micro spirit veins is higher than three.

The two of them chatted as they walked, and soon arrived at the cave dwelling where the patriarch lives.

Most of the time, Li Cunliu is in cultivation. As someone in the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, the probability of him entering the Foundation Establishment Late Stage in the future is very high, and there is even a sliver of possibility of making a breakthrough toward Core Formation.

Going from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment Realm is difficult, and going from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Core Formation stage is even harder! In the Zhao Kingdom where they are located, the strongest cultivators are precisely in this major realm of the Core Formation stage.

The Upper Sect Clear Wind Valley currently possesses a full five Core Formation stage cultivators, with the strongest one being in the late stage of Core Formation.

"Come in."

Just as the two of them reached the entrance of the cave dwelling and before they even knocked on the stone gate, they heard the patriarch's voice coming from inside.

"Grandfather."

"Second Grandfather."

After entering the patriarch's cave dwelling, the two of them called out respectively.

Li Cunliu is the oldest among the generation with the character 'Cun', and now there are only two cultivators left from the Li family's Cun-generation.

"Grandfather, our Li family's younger generation has produced a treasure." Li Ditu spoke relatively calmly; he had already been excited before, and now it is the patriarch's and the junior Li Lilong's turn.

"Tell me specifically." Seated cross-legged, Li Cunliu's gaze fell upon Li Ditu.

To be able to make Li Ditu return to Changqing Mountain specially, as the current patriarch of the Li family, he is also quite curious.

"It's Qianqing..."

After starting, Li Ditu spoke on and on in a torrential stream, during which the other two listened earnestly without interrupting him.

As he talked, Li Ditu noticed that although he could tell both the patriarch and Li Lilong were very happy, neither of them was as excited as he had been at the time.

Having lived for over a hundred years, the patriarch has seen all sorts of great storms and waves, so having this kind of reaction is also normal.

And the fact that Li Lilong can become the prime candidate for the patriarch is not without reason.

Li Ditu, whose heart was originally a little unbalanced, only balanced it out a bit after thinking of Li Qianqing's appearance.

He believes that it is definitely not that he lacks composure, but rather an issue with the news itself; the patriarch and Li Lilong are considered special exceptions.