Alchemy, Attempting to Revise Clan Rules?

Even though you were prepared, your father and grandfather still died before your eyes. Relying on the opportunity your grandfather desperately fought for, you used the Thunder Pearl to hit the Fire Cloud Evil God Old Man again!

The Fire Cloud Evil God Old Man was severely wounded and on the verge of death from your attack.

Just as you thought you could kill him, you never expected he had already prepared to self-destruct his Golden Core!

You were killed by his Golden Core self-destruction. You can still feel a scorching heat like the sun, instantly melting you! Even now, your body still aches faintly, as if this wasn't a dream, but something you experienced firsthand.

You feel this dream is very strange.

But you didn't choose to investigate further.

In January of the second year, you have become the Young Clan Leader of the clan, so disciples respectfully greet you wherever you go. You naturally smile and respond.

You went to the Pill Hall, found your mother, and told her you wanted to learn the art of alchemy.

Your mother was hesitant at first because she knew your exceptional cultivation talent was better suited for the path of cultivation, and alchemy might hold you back.

But she saw the determination in your eyes. What mother doesn't know her son's personality?

So your mother agreed to your request.

Mu Xinger was also happy for you, but she was even happier that you would be her junior disciple from now on. She even said that in the Pill Hall, you would call her Senior Sister, and outside, she would call you Brother Xingqi, with each of you addressing the other as you pleased.

You didn't hold back against the mischievous Mu Xinger, and a single Itchy Hand Technique immediately made Mu Xinger submit.

You understand that Mu Xinger sometimes likes to act shamelessly with people she's familiar with; perhaps this is her way of acknowledging you.

In the same month, Mu Xinger successfully refined a Yellow Grade Low Rank pill and advanced to become a Yellow Grade Low Rank Alchemist Apprentice. You and your mother were both happy for her.

Because Mu Xinger successfully advanced, you had her refine some Yellow Grade Low Rank Qi Gathering Pills each month to supply Yipin Pavilion for sale. This not only improved Mu Xinger's alchemy experience but also provided a source of goods for the family's industries. It was killing two birds with one stone.

You began to learn alchemy in the Pill Hall under your mother's tutelage.

Your mother first had you learn basic medicinal knowledge, as the most fundamental aspect of alchemy is to understand the properties of various Spiritual Medicines so that you can avoid mistakes in processing and proportioning them later.

Three months later, you had mastered the detailed medicinal properties of two hundred Spiritual Medicines and successfully became an Alchemist Apprentice.

An Alchemist Apprentice is a disciple who has mastered basic medicinal knowledge. They are adept at simple prescriptions that don't require refinement, only proportioning, such as the Healing Powder your family currently promotes.

However, it usually takes ordinary people half a year to a year to master two hundred basic medicinal properties and become an Alchemist Apprentice. You only took three months, which greatly surprised both your mother and Mu Xinger.

In April of the second year, drawing on the experience from your dream, you did not harm the Rogue Cultivators but continued to promote the Healing Powder.

Because the Healing Powder promoted by your Mu Family was priced lower than the market price, your Mu Family successfully eliminated all competitors and completely monopolized the entire Jinzhou County.

You proposed steady expansion, prioritizing the quality of service for the family's industries. You also arranged for training for the clan members responsible for the family's industries, specifically establishing Industry Service Training Skills within the clan, with the Elder Hall responsible for execution.

The Elder Hall was primarily responsible for training clan disciples, mainly in Cultivation Techniques and Spirit Skills in the past.

With your business acumen, you knew that for the family's industries to prosper, attention to detail was crucial.

You personally inspected the family's industry shops and proposed many beneficial improvements.

With your further improvements, your Mu Family's industries not only made huge profits but also saw an increase in the evaluation of your Mu Family's industries and products.

Your Mu Family's industries became a unique brand in Jinzhou County, with an unshakable position at least within Jinzhou County.

You further improved the resources for the clan disciples and Elders, and your actions received unanimous praise from the entire clan.

However, some drawbacks gradually emerged. Because the resources you provided were too generous, some disciples began to slack off.

*You initially thought that having the Elder Hall encourage the disciples with motivational speeches would help them mentally. *

But the effect was the opposite. Instead, more disciples chose to slack off. They didn't take on missions or improve their cultivation, relying solely on the monthly Spirit Stones distributed by the clan to pass their time, and they lived quite comfortably.

This led to this trend of complacency spreading like a plague among the clan disciples.

The production of Healing Powder in the clan was also affected.

You had to reform the clan's system. You changed the previous welfare system to a labor system, where those who worked more received more, those who worked less received less, and those who did not work received nothing.

In the first month, some disciples still chose not to work in resistance.

But their resistance was clearly meaningless. The moment one disciple chose to take on a mission, the seemingly unshakeable resistance instantly collapsed.

The clan's industries returned to normal, but unfortunately, there were still undercurrents.

For example, with labor as the standard, many disciples in the clan became overly competitive. Some disciples still chose to slack off, and the disciples' initiative decreased, making them more like robots working for Spirit Stones, reducing the vitality among them. Also, some disciples complained about you, and your prestige within the clan diminished.

You had anticipated these problems long ago, otherwise, you wouldn't have chosen this method in the end.

In June of the second year, your father successfully condensed his Spirit Platform and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm! This was more than a full year earlier than in your dream.

It's likely that after the clan's industries became profitable, your father obtained more resources, especially Spirit Pills and Medicines that are beneficial for temporarily boosting Spiritual Sense Power.

In July of the second year, a Foundation Establishment Ceremony was held for your father.

The feat of your family having three Foundation Establishment cultivators spread throughout Jinzhou County. Now everyone knows that the Heaven of Jinzhou County belongs to your Mu Family!

In August of the second year, in order to observe the cultivation progress of the clan disciples, you moved up the Clan Competition to the third year.

You specifically took time to watch this Clan Competition. Although your fourth brother, Mu Xinghan, still won first place, you could clearly feel that the cultivation of the clan disciples, especially those from the branch lineages, was more superficial.

You understood that this was due to your new clan rules. Under your "work more, get more" rule, the more competitive disciples obtained more Spirit Stones, but they spent less time on cultivation. This led them to rely on large amounts of resources to improve their cultivation, inevitably resulting in superficial cultivation.

You knew that if this continued, it would have a negative impact on the branch lineage disciples of the clan, so you made a decision...