Assigned Affairs

In less than half a day.

The Li Clan Cultivators on Changqing Mountain basically all knew that Li Qianqing had broken through to the Late-Stage Qi Refining and become a core high-level member.

"This morning, I saw Qianqing and Qianyin come back. Both of them were at Qi Refining Seventh Layer. It's only normal that Qianqing directly became a core high-level member of the clan."

"It's normal for him to become a core high-level member, but I still feel it was a little too fast. He only just broke through. No matter how you put it, they should have waited a year, right? When Fourth Uncle became a core high-level member, it was also three years after he broke through to Late-Stage Qi Refining."

"The situations aren't the same. If you could render great merit like Qianqing and prevent losses for the clan, maybe when you break through to Late-Stage Qi Refining, you'd also have a chance to become a core high-level member of the clan..."

On the grass, two Li Clan cultivators of the Qian Generation were chatting.

Regarding Li Qianqing becoming a core high-level member of the clan, after the Li Clan cultivators heard about it, most expressed approval, while a portion said they should have waited a few more years. Deep down, they also believed there was nothing wrong with Li Qianqing becoming a core high-level member.

At present, there was no opposition.

The clan cultivators all acknowledged Li Qianqing's contributions to the clan.

In a small pavilion halfway up Changqing Mountain.

Li Qianqing sat across from Li Lilong.

They were now discussing what Li Qianqing would do afterward.

"Qianqing, from now on, you'll be in charge of coordinating the clan's spiritual root testing for clan members. The guidance and education of the children will also be handed to you. What do you think?"

There was a reason Li Lilong assigned things to Li Qianqing like this. Li Qianyin was a very good example. When Li Qianqing himself was still young, he had already influenced Li Qianyin, directly allowing Li Qianyin to enter Late-Stage Qi Refining two or three years earlier than he, her father, had estimated.

This could show Li Qianqing's ability.

Li Qianqing thought for a moment, then nodded. "I have no problem with it."

The Li Clan tested spiritual roots every September, targeting children between nine and eleven years old.

If an ordinary mortal possessed spiritual roots, they would normally manifest around the age of ten. After eleven, it was basically impossible for them to appear.

So for the Li Clan's children, there were three opportunities to test for spiritual roots. If they had none after three tests, then they had none.

Most Li Clan children who gave birth to spiritual roots were discovered during the second spiritual root test.

"As for the task allocation for refining pills, you can discuss that properly with Second Uncle later."

Both core high-level members of the Li Clan were alchemists, so he, Li Lilong, would not get involved in that area, even though he was mainly responsible for managing the allocation of affairs.

Li Qianqing nodded. He had actually already discussed this with Second Grandfather more or less.

For the refining of Rank 1 Mid-Grade Pills, the two of them would still divide the work. If it was refining Rank 1 High-Grade Pills, then from now on, it would basically be handed to him. If Li Ditu wanted to refine them, at most he would refine a few furnaces, mainly to increase his experience in refining Rank 1 High-Grade Pills.

For the refining of Rank 2 Low-Grade Pills, the Li Clan had previously always invited alchemists from Clear Wind Valley. After this, it would probably be handed directly to him.

Changle Mountain had no Rank 2 Spiritual Field. Changqing Mountain, which possessed five Micro Spirit Veins, had opened up one mu of Rank 2 Low-Grade Spiritual Field, as well as a quarter mu of Rank 2 Mid-Grade Spiritual Field, where Rank 2 Low-Grade and Rank 2 Mid-Grade spiritual herbs were planted.

These were one of the Li Clan's important resources, and also resources for nurturing Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators basically did not consume Rank 1 Pills. Rank 2 Pills were their standard.

After that, what Li Lilong chatted about with Li Qianqing was basically related to testing clan members' spiritual roots and the guidance and education of children.

Especially in areas Li Qianqing did not understand very clearly, he would explain them in detail until Li Qianqing understood.

At dusk, the two officially parted.

After returning from Changle Mountain to live on Changqing Mountain, Li Qianqing's residence had changed greatly compared with before. Now that he was already a core high-level member of the clan, the conditions of his residence naturally had to be about the same as Li Lilong's.

This place was a node of the spirit vein, and it was also arranged with a Rank 1 High-Grade Mini Spirit Gathering Array. In normal times, it had no problem supplying a Qi Refining Tenth Layer cultivator's cultivation. When the Spirit Gathering Array was activated, it was already enough to support the cultivation of a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.

The range of a Mini Spirit Array was such that a person standing at the center of the spirit array would be no more than one zhang from the edge of the spirit array. Anything exceeding one zhang was already a small spirit array.

The Mini Spirit Array in Li Qianqing's residence was arranged inside the house's cultivation room, with a radius of about six chi.

Fourth Uncle's assignment is pretty good.

After returning to his residence, Li Qianqing thought this in his heart.

Compared with managing one section, he was more willing to cultivate the clan's descendants.

Putting other things aside, in the area of cultivation experience, he could hang up and beat the strongest cultivator in the current Mortal Realm. The only restriction was that he could only talk about cultivation experience below his current realm. Anything beyond the syllabus naturally could not be discussed. Even so, there were still quite a few things he could talk about.

At the very beginning, he still had to cover things up appropriately.

Ordinary high-level members of the Li Clan at Late-Stage Qi Refining could receive eight Low-Grade Spirit Stones every year, while core high-level members received fifteen Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Core high-level members also had a guaranteed minimum of three thousand clan Contribution Points each year. For an alchemist like Li Qianqing, if he refined pills, the Contribution Points he obtained each year would be even greater.

Compared with core high-level members, the Patriarch was even more special. If the Patriarch wanted to, he could completely empty out the Clan Treasury. He did not know the situation in other clans, but in any case, in the Li Clan up to now, no Patriarch had ever done such a thing.

Even the Patriarch generally would not use his own special authority. Everything was done according to the rules the ancestors had long since established.

Arriving at the cultivation room, Li Qianqing activated the Rank 1 High-Grade Spirit Gathering Array and began cultivating.

If there were good things, naturally they had to be used.

The higher the concentration of heaven-and-earth spiritual qi, the faster a cultivator's cultivation speed became. This was a straight-line increase. In other words, as long as the concentration of heaven and earth was high enough, a Five Spiritual Roots cultivator could also catch up to the cultivation speed of a Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator.

The concentration of heaven-and-earth spiritual qi also had a certain relationship with breakthroughs, but it was not a straight-line increase like cultivation speed. Instead, once the concentration reached a certain point, the effect of further increases would become as tiny as gossamer.

A blessed land was only one of the favorable conditions for a cultivator's breakthrough, and its proportion was not very large.

Li Qianqing placed a Low-Grade Spirit Stone into the groove at the center of the Spirit Gathering Array. After activating the Spirit Gathering Array, he very quickly entered a cultivation state.

When his Mini Rank 1 High-Grade Spirit Gathering Array was opened and used normally, one Low-Grade Spirit Stone could be used for about one month. If it was opened at full power, the speed of spirit stone consumption would be even faster, and the wear on the Spirit Gathering Array would greatly accelerate.

Therefore, the normal method of using a Spirit Gathering Array was to activate it normally in ordinary times. Opening it at full power was generally done when cultivating for a breakthrough.

At present, the Li Clan still had no Formation Master. The Spirit Gathering Arrays had all been arranged previously by invited Formation Masters.

If possible, Li Qianqing very much hoped the clan could produce a Formation Master. This would depend on him digging one out.

In his previous life, the Li Clan had been destroyed too early. The situation he understood most clearly was Li Qianyin's Artifact Refining talent.

As for the situation of the other Li Clan cultivators, at present, he did not have any more useful information. What he could rely on was only some of his own experience.