[Even though you prepared early on, your father and grandfather still died right before your eyes. Relying on the chance your grandfather fought desperately to secure, you used the Thunder Pearl to strike the Fire Cloud Evil God elder once again!]
[The Fire Cloud Evil God elder was blasted into a critically wounded, near-death state.]
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[Just when you thought you could finish him off, you never expected that he had long since prepared to detonate his Golden Core!]
[You were blown to death by the explosion of his Golden Core. Even now you can still feel the scorching heat like the burning sun, melting you away in a mere instant! Even your body right now still aches faintly, as though this were not a dream, but something you had experienced firsthand.]
[You felt this dream was very strange.]
[Yet you did not choose to delve deeper into it.]
[In January of the second year, you had already become the Young Clan Leader in the lineage, so wherever you went, disciples respectfully greeted you, and naturally you responded with a smile.]
[You came to the Pill Hall, found your mother, and stated that you wanted to learn the art of alchemy.]
[Your mother initially hesitated somewhat because she knew your cultivation talent was exceptional and better suited for the path of cultivation, while alchemy might drag you down.]
[Yet she saw those resolute eyes of yours, and what mother did not know her own son's personality?]
[Therefore your mother agreed to your request.]
[Mu Xinger was also happy for you, though she was even happier that you would be her junior martial brother from then on. She even said that hereafter in the Pill Hall you should call her senior martial sister, and outside she would call you Brother Xingqi, letting each of you use whatever address suited the occasion.]
[You certainly did not hold back against the provocative Mu Xinger, using the Itchy Hand Technique directly to make Mu Xinger submit.]
[You understood that Mu Xinger sometimes just liked to provoke and act mischievously with people she was familiar with, and perhaps this was her way of acknowledging you.]
[In the same month, Mu Xinger successfully refined a Yellow Grade Low Rank pill, advancing to a Yellow Grade Low Rank Alchemist, and both you and your mother were happy for her.]
[Because Mu Xinger successfully advanced, you had her refine some Yellow Grade Low Rank Qi Gathering Pills every month to supply to Yipin Pavilion for sale. This both improved Mu Xinger's alchemy experience and provided a source of goods for the lineage industries, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone to the utmost.]
[You began following your mother in the Pill Hall to learn alchemy.]
[Your mother first had you learn common knowledge of pharmacology, because the very foundation of alchemy was to understand the medicinal properties of various spirit herbs so that no mistakes would occur during the subsequent processing and proportioning processes.]
[Three months later, you mastered the detailed pharmacology of two hundred spirit herbs and successfully became an Alchemist Apprentice.]
[A so-called Alchemist Apprentice was a disciple who had mastered basic pharmacology. They were quite adept at handling simple medicinal formulas that required no refining but only proportioning, such as the Healing Powder that your lineage primarily promoted right now.]
[However, for ordinary people to master two hundred basic foundation pharmacies and become an Alchemist Apprentice would still take half a year to a full year, yet you only spent three months, which utterly shocked both your mother and Mu Xinger.]
[In April of the second year, drawing upon the experience from the dream, you did not scheme against rogue cultivators, but instead continued to maintain the promotion of Healing Powder.]
[Because the selling price of the Healing Powder promoted by your Mu Family was lower than all those on the market, your Mu Family successfully eliminated all competitors and completely monopolized the entire Jinzhou County.]
[You proposed steady expansion, prioritizing the safeguarding of the service quality of the lineage industries. You also provided training for the clan members responsible for the lineage industries, and you specially established Industry Service Training Skill within the lineage, with the Elder Hall responsible for execution.]
[The Elder Hall was primarily responsible for training the disciples within the lineage, which in the past mainly consisted of teaching cultivation techniques and spirit skills and the like.]
[With your business intuition, wanting to make the lineage's industries flourish enduringly required paying attention to details.]
[You even personally conducted on-site inspections of the shops belonging to the lineage industries, putting forward many favorable improvement measures.]
[Under your further improvements, not only did your Mu Family's industries make a killing, but even the evaluations of your Mu Family's industries and commodities were rising.]
[Your Mu Family's industries became a unique brand in Jinzhou County, and at least their status within Jinzhou County was unshakable.]
[You further increased the resources for the disciples and elders within the lineage, and your initiatives won unanimous praise throughout the entire lineage.]
[Yet some drawbacks were also gradually exposed. Because the resources you provided were truly too good, it caused some disciples to begin slacking off and lying flat.]
[You originally thought of having the Elder Hall give chicken-soup encouragement to the disciples, attempting to rouse those disciples from a consciousness perspective.]
[Yet the effect produced the exact opposite result, instead causing even more lineage disciples to choose to slack off and lie flat. They refused to accept missions, nor did they improve their cultivation, merely idling away their days relying on the spirit stones issued by the lineage every month, and furthermore living quite comfortably.]
[This caused this trend of lying flat to spread like a plague among the group of lineage disciples.]
[The production of Healing Powder within the lineage was also affected as a result.]
[You had no choice but to reform the lineage system, changing the previous welfare system into a labor system—meaning more work for more pay, less work for less pay, and no work for no pay.]
[In the first month, there were still disciples who chose not to work in order to resist.]
[Yet their resistance was obviously meaningless. The moment a single disciple among them chose to accept a mission, the once rock-solid resistance instantly collapsed.]
[The lineage industries returned to the right track once more, yet unfortunately there were still many undercurrents surging.]
[For instance, adopting labor as the standard led to many disciples within the lineage becoming overly competitive, while a portion of disciples still chose to lie flat. Furthermore, the proactive willingness of the disciples diminished, making them each look more like robots working for spirit stones, and the vitality among disciples decreased. On top of that, some disciples hurled abuse at you, and your prestige within the lineage diminished.]
[In truth, you had anticipated these problems long ago, or else you would not have ultimately chosen this method.]
[In June of the second year, your father successfully condensed his Spirit Platform and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm! This was a full year and more ahead of schedule compared to your dream.]
[Presumably, after the lineage industries made a fortune, the resources your father obtained were greater, especially spirit pills and medicines beneficial for briefly enhancing Spiritual Sense Power.]
[In July of the second year, a Foundation Establishment Ceremony was held for your father.]
[The magnificent feat of having three Foundation Establishment experts in your single household spread across Jinzhou County, and now everyone clearly knew that the heavens of Jinzhou County were none other than your Mu Family!]
[In August of the second year, in order to observe the cultivation conditions of the disciples within the lineage, you advanced the third-year Clan Competition.]
[For this Clan Competition, you specifically made time to go watch the battle. Although the result was still your Fourth Brother Mu Xinghan seizing the crown, you distinctly sensed that the cultivation bases of the lineage disciples, especially the Branch Lineage disciples, were much more superficial.]
[You understood that this was caused by your new clan rules. Because under your clan rules of more work for more pay, although the more competitive disciples obtained more spirit stones, the time they spent on cultivation was shortened, which resulted in them having to rely on massive amounts of resources to elevate their cultivation, and the inevitable consequence thereof was superficial cultivation.]
[You knew that continuing this way would have a bad impact on the Branch Lineage disciples within the lineage, so you made a decision...]
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