Talisman Master Advancement

Su Dajun said, "The Guanlan Mountain Huang Family has already lost one Foundation Establishment ancestor. Though the Guanlan Mountain Huang Family is quite powerful, the Chen Family and Su Family have now joined forces, and neither family is weak."

"Furthermore, the Huang Family and Bai Family do not have any close relationship. Although the Purple Gold Sand Spirit Mine has some value, it is not enough to make the Huang Family disregard all costs to deal with the Chen Family and our family."

After considering it carefully, Su Yu found that it was indeed so.

The Guanlan Mountain Huang Family was very powerful, but that did not mean it could deal with other cultivation families without restraint.

That would provoke the wariness of other cultivation families.

And if the Huang Family suffered severe losses, every resource site occupied by the Huang Family would become a juicy prize.

Once other forces began eyeing them, the Huang Family might even face the crisis of extermination.

Losing one Foundation Establishment cultivator was already enough to make the Huang Family ache to the bone.

The cultivation world never lacked struggles and conflicts, especially between cultivation families.

But when such struggles and conflicts were set against cultivators' long lifespans, one would discover that some conflicts were not truly intense and usually stopped at the proper point.

Unless they had sufficient confidence, they would absolutely never stake everything on a single throw.

Just like the Su Family and Lin Family before.

Why had the Su Family not settled accounts with the Lin Family before Fifth Elder Su Bin broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage?

Because the Lin Family's strength had been more or less evenly matched with that of the Su Family at the time.

So long as Foundation Establishment cultivators did not intervene, if the Su Family and Lin Family fought head-on, then even if the Su Family ultimately won, it would still be a loss for the Su Family, and they would definitely suffer grievous casualties!

Only after Fifth Elder Su Bin broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage did the Su Family move against the Lin Family and wipe out their entire clan.

It was not that vengeance would not be taken, only that the time had not yet come.

To gain a foothold in the cultivation world, only sufficient caution could carry one to the end.

This was true for individual cultivators, sect forces, and cultivation families alike.

Because arrogant people and forces, even if they did not die today, would die tomorrow.

Clearly.

The Guanlan Mountain Huang Family had been cautious and had not involved itself further in the affairs of the Maple City Bai Family and the Purple Gold Sand Spirit Mine.

The Chen Family and Su Family had only seized one resource site from the Maple City Bai Family and had not continued pressing the Bai Family.

After all, the Bai Family still had an ancestor at Foundation Establishment Stage Three, and that man could live for at least another thirty or forty years.

Combined with the Bai Family's foundations, the two families had basically no hope of wiping out the Bai Family.

They could only proceed gradually.

When the Bai Family's Foundation Establishment Stage Three ancestor died, when the Bai Family had no successors, that would be the time for the Chen Family and Su Family to destroy the Bai Family and take their complete revenge.

Su Dajun soon led his team away from Cloud Mountain Market and returned to Jiang City.

Su Yu continued to devote himself to studying low-grade Rank 2 pills. Aside from the materials for the Foundation Establishment Pill, which were monopolized by the major powers and thus extremely difficult to gather, collecting the materials for other low-grade Rank 2 pills was not difficult.

He would first raise his proficiency in low-grade Rank 2 alchemy. It would not be too late to attempt refining Foundation Establishment Pills after gathering enough materials in the future.

He himself had no need for Foundation Establishment Pills.

But if he could refine them and had sufficient Foundation Establishment Pill materials, then refining them to raise the Su Family's strength would be quite good as well.

Or rather, if he could refine Foundation Establishment Pills, then after going to Moon Worship Immortal City, he would be able to quickly establish a foothold there.

Foundation Establishment Pills were precious enough to let him exchange them for many resources and materials.

Another year passed.

Chen Sisi sent a letter saying that she had successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage. After remaining in seclusion for some time, she would choose to head to the Cloud Sword Sect's outpost in Moon Worship Immortal City for garrison duty.

As for a banquet to celebrate her Foundation Establishment breakthrough, she would not hold one. She would merely send letters to inform her friends and fellow Daoists.

The letter was very long, and Chen Sisi spoke of many things.

Yet in the end, it all became one sentence: I'll go to Moon Worship Immortal City first. Take care. If you need any help from me, you can write and let me know.

As everyone knew, Su Yu's skin was rather thick.

Naturally, he would not stand on ceremony.

He immediately wrote a letter, listing all the various Rank 2 materials he needed and asking Chen Sisi to keep an eye out for them or gather them on his behalf.

He would offer separate compensation.

After finishing it, he immediately went to the Cloud Sword Sect's outpost and sent it off.

"There are still three core materials missing for the family's Foundation Establishment Pill, while more than half the materials for refining the low-grade Rank 2 Puppet Beast Dragon Crocodile are still lacking."

"I wonder how much Su Zhi and Chen Sisi will be able to gather for me."

Su Yu slowly drew in a breath and sighed softly.

Low-grade Rank 2 pill materials were not difficult to gather or refine, but the materials for a low-grade Rank 2 Puppet Beast were truly both expensive and difficult to collect.

To refine a low-grade Rank 2 Puppet Beast, he estimated that he would have to pour in at least five or six thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

And a low-grade Rank 2 Puppet Beast already required Mid-grade Spirit Stones to operate.

So he would also need to exchange for some Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Aside from Puppet Beasts, his progress with Rank 2 talismans was currently slow as well. The difficulty of creating a Rank 2 talisman far exceeded his imagination.

However.

If that old man from the Heavenly Script Pavilion knew that Su Yu, a mere cultivator at the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining, without a talisman master inheritance, was actually thinking of creating a new low-grade Rank 2 talisman himself to advance to a low-grade Rank 2 talisman master, he would probably be left dumbfounded.

This was fucking harder than a high-grade Rank 1 Talisman Master trying to challenge the refinement of a low-grade Rank 2 talisman of perfect quality!

The days of peaceful cultivation always passed quickly.

There was not the slightest change in Su Yu's daily routine at the Alchemy Pavilion.

Every day, he cultivated the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art, Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique, and Golden Cicada Art once each. Then, borrowing the almost ethereal state granted by the Golden Cicada Art, he contemplated alchemy, talismans, and Puppet Arts.

Finally, more than two years later, using an ancient incomplete Fire Thunder Talisman as a template, Su Yu successfully created a low-grade Rank 2 talisman.

He named it the Thunder Fire Talisman.

He had never seen what a true Fire Thunder Talisman looked like.

But the Thunder Fire Talisman he successfully drew was like a whip of thunder and fire descending from the heavens.

One strike could destroy the peak of a small mountain a hundred zhang high.

It could split apart half a mountain.

Su Yu had successfully advanced to become a low-grade Rank 2 talisman master.

At the same time.

Under Su Yu's painstaking instruction, Su Gutong, an originally mid-grade Rank 1 alchemist in the Alchemy Pavilion who was already nearly seventy years old, finally advanced to become a high-grade Rank 1 alchemist.

Su Rui'an had also become a newly advanced mid-grade Rank 1 alchemist.

They had not let down Su Yu's efforts.

However, the collection of materials for the low-grade Rank 2 Puppet Beast Dragon Crocodile was comparatively slow. There was still no news of several core materials.

For the first time, this gave Su Yu the thought of leaving Cloud Mountain Market and heading to Moon Worship Immortal City.

But before Su Yu could prepare to leave, shocking news rocked the entire Cloud Sword Sect Territory.

The Black Rock Mountain Yu Family and the Guanlan Mountain Huang Family had gone to war in Eight Demon Ridge.

The reason was that a Spirit Plant fruit tree bearing Ethereal Fruit, a core material for refining Foundation Establishment Pills, had been discovered there.

To fight over that Spirit Plant, the Yu Family and Huang Family had come to blows.

When Su Yu heard the news, his heart stirred. "An Ethereal Fruit tree?"

This was one of the two most crucial materials among the six core materials for refining Foundation Establishment Pills. The other was a pure Rank 2 demonic beast core.

The Su Family had never been able to find any news of these two materials.

Who would have thought that there would be an Ethereal Fruit tree in Eight Demon Ridge!

No wonder the two great cultivation families had gone to war over it!

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