Three Months' Total Harvest

Li Qiuchen said nothing.

Even if he did not intend to offend Li Yunjing,

there was no need to give him so many spirit items.

The Li Household had been having an increasingly difficult time lately.

The monthly allowances for its members had been considerably reduced.

Giving away so many spirit items when the household was already trying to increase income and cut expenses

would only add frost to the snow for the Li Household.

"What, are you still not convinced?"

Seeing the look on Li Qiuchen's face, Li Wan immediately let out a low shout.

"I'm telling you, keep those little schemes of yours in check. As long as I'm alive, you'll behave yourself!"

Li Qiuchen hurriedly stopped and bowed to Li Wan. "Please calm your anger, Grandfather."

Li Wan paid Li Qiuchen no further attention and continued forward, muttering under his breath.

"Honestly, if Mu'er hadn't died, how would it ever have fallen to trash like you to become the household head..."

As Li Wan gradually walked farther away, his voice faded.

Li Qiuchen stood where he was, a venomous look flashing in his eyes.

Li Mu was his elder brother.

He had been loved by everyone in the Li Household since childhood.

Li Wan in particular had been extraordinarily fond of Li Mu.

Li Mu had lived up to expectations, too. His talent was decent, with a Third-Rank Root Bone.

He was the most talented person in the Li Household's history.

He was also clever and alert, so Li Mu had quickly been chosen to be groomed as the next head of the Li Household.

As for Li Qiuchen, he had lived in Li Mu's shadow ever since he was born.

Originally, the position of head of the Li Household had had nothing to do with Li Qiuchen.

For one thing, Li Mu was there.

For another, Li Qiuchen was from the second branch.

Although he and Li Mu were brothers, they were cousins.

It was Li Qiuchen's father and Li Mu's father who were brothers.

Later, Li Mu had died in an accident while out gaining experience.

Li Qiuchen's father had seized the opportunity and pushed Li Qiuchen into the position of head of the Li Household.

Unfortunately, Li Qiuchen had found the position stifling.

He was wholeheartedly determined to do good for the Li Household.

But not many people in the Li Household appreciated it.

They often compared him to Li Mu.

Even the Li Household's patriarch, Li Wan, did the same.

"All I have to do is lead the Li Household to glory, isn't that right? I, Li Qiuchen, can do it. Just you wait and see.

"As long as I can plant that thing...

"And Li Yunjing, if you dare protect the Wang Household... just wait for death.

"I will get my hands on Serene Valley!"

Time never stopped, and the seasons flowed by.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye.

At the Luozhen Sect, Li Yunjing faced the morning glow and breathed in and out purple qi.

His breathing followed a steady rhythm.

At the same time, a layer of purple light covered Li Yunjing's face.

After roughly half an hour, Li Yunjing ended his cultivation.

The purple light on his face gradually faded.

He opened his eyes, and they shone brightly, like a burning flame.

"The Greater Yin and Greater Yang True Fire Scripture has reached the third level. It won't be long before I break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, either," Li Yunjing murmured.

The Greater Yin and Greater Yang True Fire Scripture had eight levels in total.

Each level not only increased cultivation speed,

but also increased Law Power capacity and the upper limit of Divine Sense.

However, advancing each level was somewhat difficult.

Cultivating to the third level was already the limit without relying on any external aid.

To cultivate to the fourth level, Li Yunjing needed to find a second-grade spirit flame called Fire in Stone.

Only by taking the Fire in Stone into his body could he cultivate to the fourth level.

The later levels were much the same.

Li Yunjing pushed open the door and stepped out of his cave abode.

It was now early in the twelfth month, and the weather had turned a little cold.

Fortunately, he was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and one who cultivated a fire technique at that.

Li Yunjing did not feel cold.

Following the stone path that had only recently been laid,

Li Yunjing arrived at Luozhen Hall.

On the training platform, Zhang Hanpeng and the other Luozhen Sect disciples were doing their daily morning practice.

This was a rule Li Yunjing had established.

Every day, the Luozhen Sect disciples had to come to the training platform to breathe in and out Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and purple qi.

However, there were only four people on the training platform; Lü Hong was absent.

Three months ago, Li Yunjing had sent Lü Hong to Seven Ingenuities Mountain to gather information.

He had been gone for three months.

However, nothing had happened to Lü Hong, and he was still alive.

He was doing well, too, and had become quite friendly with the Rogue Cultivators on Seven Ingenuities Mountain.

Lü Hong sent back messages from time to time,

telling Li Yunjing what he had learned.

Now that three months had passed, he had gathered just about all the information he could.

As for more deeply concealed information, Lü Hong had no way to obtain it unless he joined one of the seven lineages.

Thus, Lü Hong would be returning soon.

Upon entering Luozhen Hall, Li Yunjing saw a prompt appear before his eyes.

[Collect 120 units of Pure Spiritual Qi?]

Li Yunjing silently chose to collect it.

One hundred and twenty strands of Pure Spiritual Qi appeared in the system storage space.

Together with the sixty-three strands he had stored previously,

he now had one hundred and eighty-three strands of Pure Spiritual Qi.

Leaving Luozhen Hall, Li Yunjing went to the Patriarch Hall.

He first lit a stick of incense for the patriarchs.

"Patriarch Luozhen above, please bless Junior Brother Mo and Junior Sister Shui so they reach Foundation Establishment without a hitch."

After bowing three times, Li Yunjing placed the incense in the incense burner.

Three months ago, Li Yunjing had urged Mo Xuan and Shui Yao to enter seclusion and attempt to reach Foundation Establishment.

After all, they had two Foundation Establishment Pills.

The two of them had a fairly good chance of reaching Foundation Establishment.

However, three months had passed, and neither had come out of seclusion.

Li Yunjing was not worried.

[Collect 6 units of Patriarch Incense Offering?]

When the prompt appeared, Li Yunjing silently chose to collect it.

Six strands of Patriarch Incense Offering appeared in the storage space.

He now had eleven strands of Patriarch Incense Offering,

fulfilling one of the Patriarch Hall's upgrade requirements: ten strands of Patriarch Incense Offering.

Now all he needed was to raise the sect's prosperity to ten.

He summoned the panel.

[Sect: Luozhen Sect]

[Rank: First-Rank Sect]

[Sect master: Li Yunjing (Foundation Establishment Early Stage)]

[Number of disciples: outer sect disciples * 5, elders * 2]

[Reputation: insignificant minor sect]

[Resources: Low-Grade Spirit Stones (4,002), Mid-Grade Spirit Stones (2), First-Rank Spirit Rice (130 jin)...]

[Prosperity: nine]

[Sect buildings: Sect Grand Hall (lv4), Spirit Field (lv3), Poultry Coop (lv3), sect master's cave abode (lv3), Patriarch Hall (lv2)...]

The sect's prosperity had reached nine two months ago.

Then it had remained stuck there, showing no sign of increasing.

Li Yunjing put away the panel and suppressed his irritation.

One step at a time.

He left the Patriarch Hall.

Li Yunjing then went to the Poultry Coop.

The Poultry Coop was now full of life.

Besides the original four spirit chickens and two spirit cranes,

there were thirteen more chicks.

Li Yunjing had hatched these thirteen chicks from premium spirit chicken eggs.

Every one of them had great potential.

It was only a matter of time before they became first-tier spirit chickens.

He put away the twelve spirit chicken eggs produced that day, along with one premium spirit chicken egg.

Li Yunjing glanced at his storage space.

There were six hundred and sixty-nine spirit chicken eggs.

That was already a large stockpile.

That was what remained after Li Yunjing had sold more than half and eaten some.

There were only forty premium spirit chicken eggs, however.

Li Yunjing planned to hatch all these premium spirit chicken eggs into chicks

and expand the scale of the Poultry Coop's breeding operation.

Having collected the spirit chicken eggs,

Li Yunjing went to the Spirit Field.

The Spirit Field could now produce one drop of Condensed Spring Dew every seven days.

Li Yunjing had let it accumulate for three months and could collect thirteen drops of Condensed Spring Dew.

After doing all this, Li Yunjing came to the cultivation room.

[Cultivation room (lv3)]

[lv4 spiritual effects: Spiritual Qi concentration +50%. Cultivation speed +50% when cultivating here. Risk of Qi Deviation -35%.

An empowerment can be triggered once every ten days, cultivation +8%, with an additional 2% chance of doubling the cultivation gained during empowerment.]

[Upgrade requirements: Low-Grade Spirit Stones * 120; successfully break through a cultivation realm once in the cultivation room.]

Over the course of three months,

Li Yunjing had upgraded the cultivation room once more.

The main reason was that Li Yunjing was taking into account Mo Xuan and Shui Yao's breakthroughs in the cultivation room.

Of the other buildings, Li Yunjing had only upgraded the mountain gate.

After all, the mountain gate only needed a sect-protecting grand formation to be upgraded.

[Mountain gate (lv4)]

[lv5 spiritual effects: warning range increased by sixty zhang; spiritual light strengthened, with an added soul-suppressing effect, effective against cultivators up to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Can release a soul shock to annihilate cultivators who force their way through the mountain gate, effective only against cultivators up to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Works in conjunction with the sect-protecting grand formation, drawing clouds and mist together into a barrier of obscuring mist and forming a Spiritual Qi barrier to protect the Luozhen Sect, capable of resisting cultivators up to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Draws on the Luozhen Sect's Spirit Vein and uses the sect-protecting grand formation to distribute Spiritual Qi throughout the Luozhen Sect. Spiritual Qi concentration within the Luozhen Sect's grounds +10%.]

[Upgrade requirements: construct a Spirit Vein Pavilion; raise sect prosperity to fifteen.]