Chapter 46: CH. 46 | Natural Spiritual Veins

An Yue and the others stepped into the sect.

They were clearly surprised because An Xiao’s cultivation level was already considered quite high, only one step away from reaching Core Formation, even higher than Wu Yue.

Lin Tian was the last to arrive in the sect. A system panel appeared once again, not showing a mission, but the number of disciples in his sect.

[Number of disciples: 32/99999999999999]

The number kept increasing. At first, there were only five people. Then it became 16 after the 11 children from the village joined.

After that, it increased by 15 from the former disciples who had been rescued, and now it increased by one more, reaching a total of 32.

For a sect, that number was not large. It was considered very small and weak, not something other sects would take seriously. However, Lin Tian did not care much about that.

The most important thing to him was the quality of his disciples. What was the point of having many disciples if they could not do anything?

Lin Tian’s attention shifted to the side. He clearly saw a total of 26 disciples training and cultivating in the sect’s front courtyard. They were already wearing their sect uniforms.

Lin Tian stopped walking and smiled, then continued forward until he fully entered the Main Hall Building of the sect.

An Yue was talking a lot with An Xiao. Ji Xue, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei took turns supervising the disciples’ training, while Luo Mei was studying under Wu Yue in the Pill Refinement Hall.

Now, the Lingxian Sect had come alive and was growing from the bottom. Spiritual qi began to flow into the sect, being used effectively by every sect disciple.

However, Lin Tian realized that the more disciples there were, the more important the need for spiritual qi became. He could not keep relying only on the spiritual qi from nature.

The man sat cross-legged on the altar podium, his eyes showing that he was thinking about something serious. However, he did not know where to begin.

While he was lost in thought alone, Lin Tian’s attention shifted forward. The door of the sect hall opened, and a woman wearing sect robes entered.

She was not a disciple, but the sect’s cook.

Su Hua.

Lin Tian raised his head and looked toward the woman.

"What is it, Su Hua?"

"Forgive me for disturbing you, Master Immortal. I came to bring important news," Su Hua answered.

"Our rice and food supplies are starting to run low. The more disciples we have, the more food portions must be prepared," the woman explained.

Lin Tian realized that. Aside from the natural spiritual veins, food supplies were also important for them.

After all, the majority of the sect disciples were still in Qi Condensation. Their bodies still needed food and rest like mortals.

"There are also a few other things," Su Hua said.

"Speak."

"Miss An Yue and I are a little overwhelmed preparing food every time mealtime comes. I ask Master Immortal Lin to consider recruiting other cooks besides me," the middle-aged woman said.

"How many do you need to help you?" Lin Tian asked.

"Around... 3 to 4 people."

"I’m not very familiar with the ability of cooks, so I can’t judge them properly."

"How about you choose those people yourself and bring them to work for my sect?"

"A-Am I allowed to choose them myself?" Su Hua asked.

Lin Tian smiled faintly and nodded. He gave Su Hua the freedom to choose the people she needed to help her with cooking.

The woman smiled and lowered her head. Su Hua admitted that she had already prepared several people who would work with her in the sect.

After receiving Lin Tian’s approval, the woman would leave in 1 to 2 days to recruit them.

"Go. As for their food needs, I can help An Yue and the others."

"Thank you, Master Immortal Lin."

"I will take my leave."

Slowly, Su Hua left the sect hall and briefly said goodbye to Li Huan. Li Huan nodded in understanding and asked his mother to be careful on her journey later.

Now, Lin Tian was once again left alone inside the sect’s main hall. He began forming hand seals and used his time to cultivate.

He needed to rest for a while and stay in the sect for the next few days. Recently, he had often gone outside the sect and left sect matters to An Yue.

Although An Yue was talented and capable of coordinating everything well, she was still a sect disciple without much experience.

While cultivating, Lin Tian realized that the flow of spiritual qi felt thin and slow. The amount of spiritual qi required for a Nascent Soul cultivator to cultivate was quite large.

However, the limited natural spiritual veins in the sect hill caused his cultivation to slow down.

The current amount of spiritual qi might be effective enough to help his disciples cultivate, but that was only a short-term plan.

The long-term plan Lin Tian had to think about was obtaining spiritual veins and planting them around the sect hill.

There had to be many of them to support the cultivation of the sect disciples.

[Sect Fifth Mission:]

[Objective: Obtain 10 Natural Spiritual Veins and plant them in Lingxian Hill]

[Reward: +15 Emotional Level || 100 Low-Grade Spirit Stones || 50 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones || 10 High-Grade Spirit Stones]

While thinking about how to increase spiritual qi production, Lin Tian was shocked by the appearance of the fifth sect mission.

From the system mission panel, Lin Tian had to obtain at least 10 natural spiritual veins for the Lingxian Sect.

Based on Lin Tian’s understanding, he knew that one Natural Spiritual Vein could supply spiritual qi to cultivators for 500 years.

There were many ways to supply spiritual qi to a sect, but the most common was through Natural Spiritual Veins.

As I remember, the Lingxian Sect had seven Natural Spiritual Veins. If the intensity of spiritual qi has been drained, then there must be a problem with the spiritual veins.

Lin Tian sent the essence of his soul consciousness underground, dozens of meters deep to reach the roots of the earth.

His physical body remained inside the sect’s main hall, while his soul explored beneath the ground.

When he arrived at the roots of the earth, Lin Tian was shocked to see that only three of the seven spiritual roots remained there.

Four natural spiritual vein roots were pulled out? But by whom?

Not only that, Lin Tian saw red light forming nails embedded in every branch of the natural spiritual vein roots.

The three spiritual roots were pierced by those nails. They were not ordinary nails, but more like magical nails.

Realizing that the Lingxian Sect was in a complicated situation, Lin Tian withdrew the essence of his soul consciousness and opened both eyes.

"I need a lot of information about the situation of the Natural Spiritual Veins being pulled out and nailed down. Maybe An Yue knows something about it."