Incredible Sect Simulator-Chapter 546 - 514: Massive Resource Exchange, Return to Cyan Mountain Sect
Once the medicinal garden expands and the production capacity of spiritual herbs and spirit grasses increases, the sect can self-sustain whether it sells spiritual herbs and spirit grasses or produces its own elixirs, and gather alchemy materials.
Lu Yuanshan’s current thought is to expand the scale of Cyan Mountain Sect’s alchemists.
Not just having Li Weixiao, She Qingqing, and Li Shishi as the only alchemists.
The sect needs to continue expanding its number of alchemists.
Therefore, the expansion of this medicinal garden is essential.
Regarding the exchange of class spiritual medicines, Lu Yuanshan decided to focus on exchanging Tier Three and Tier Four spiritual medicines, which are more valuable than Tier One and Tier Two spiritual medicines and worth planting.
For example, Celestial Star Grass, Purple Branch Jade Stem Flower, Eight-cornered Lotus Leaf, and others; numerous have been exchanged.
Then, there are the spirit trees.
Within Cyan Mountain Sect, the current types of spirit trees are few, such as the Spiritual Peach Tree, Cyan Plum Spirit Tree, Spiritual Mulberry Tree, and Celestial Spirit Fruit Tree.
For this reason, Lu Yuanshan scouted some new spirit tree varieties.
"Fellow Daoist, regarding spirit trees, I’d like to exchange for Vermilion Sun Fruit Tree, Silver Horn Tree, and Spiritual Apricot Tree."
Lu Yuanshan said, intending to primarily exchange these three types of spirit trees this time.
The Vermilion Sun Fruit Tree produces Vermilion Sun Fruits which can be consumed by Crystallization Stage Great Cultivators to enhance divine sense cultivation.
The Vermilion Sun Fruit Tree is only cultivated in Heaven-Facing Sect within the Chu Kingdom, with just three trees planted.
And the Silver Horn Tree, its horn-like leaf structure is the main material for making talisman paper, and its branches and leaves can be used to refine some Tier Two antitoxic elixirs.
In terms of Talisman Making, Chu Qin is currently the sole learner within Cyan Mountain Sect, and the sect needs to begin investing resources in this area.
Finally, the Spiritual Apricot Tree, its Spiritual Apricot Fruit is similar to the Spiritual Peach and is for increasing the cultivation of Qi Cultivators.
The Vermilion Sun Fruit Tree, Silver Horn Tree, and Spiritual Apricot Tree, each were exchanged for twenty plants.
After completing the spirit tree exchange, Lu Yuanshan turned his attention to arrays.
In terms of arrays, Cyan Mountain Sect is very lacking.
Currently, there is only Lu Changfeng as an Array Master.
This time, the main purpose of Lu Yuanshan’s array exchange is to protect the sect.
Thus, he didn’t pay attention to small arrays that cultivators can carry with them, but focused on large arrays.
For example, the Sect Protection Array, Grand Five Elements Fiery Sword Array, a Tier Five Middle-Grade Array with an exchange price of ten thousand battle merit points.
This array has two main effects.
Firstly, it can withstand attacks from Golden Core Cultivators to protect the sect.
Secondly, this array can effectively nurture the Essence of the Five Elements.
The Essence of the Five Elements is an essence extracted from the Five Elements Qi, which can be directly absorbed and refined by cultivators for cultivation, similar to consuming an elixir to increase cultivation.
The Essence of the Five Elements has always been sold by Nine Cold Mountain for the use of loose cultivators for cultivation, resolving the issue of being unable to cultivate due to the lack of Spirit Veins and Spiritual Qi, making it very popular among loose cultivators.
The exchange of this array is not because Lu Yuanshan thinks the Cyan Lotus Mountain Spiritual Vein lacks Spiritual Qi, but to add the icing on the cake, to strengthen sect defenses while producing some Essence of the Five Elements to support sect disciples in cultivation.
Also, this array can withstand attacks from Golden Core Cultivators, and from the exchange price, it is quite cost-effective.
Furthermore, Little Cold Mountain Spirit Vein also requires more powerful array protection.
So, Lu Yuanshan exchanged for a Four Symbols Qiankun Array, a Tier Four Top-Grade Array.
Moreover, some other items are also needed.
For example, Cyan Mountain Sect lacks the ability to cultivate high-tier alchemists.
The Library Pavilion does not collect alchemy books above Tier Four.
Hence, Lu Yuanshan spent three thousand battle merit points to exchange for some Tier Four and Tier Five alchemist training books, totaling over thirty volumes.
It is worth mentioning that Lu Yuanshan also exchanged for five Foundation Establishment Pills.
Among them, one was long promised to Zhang Deming, to assist this Zhang Family Clan Leader’s Foundation Establishment.
Finally, there are some refining materials and Golden Core Techniques.
In terms of refining materials, it’s Lu Zhiwei who is taking charge.
As an Artifact Refiner, she knows what kind of refining materials to exchange for to work with demon beast corpses to refine Spiritual Artifacts of superior quality.
Golden Core Techniques are naturally available in Cyan Mountain Sect, but there are not many.
Under Lu Ping’s guidance, Lu Yuanshan spent a hefty sum, nearly one hundred thousand battle merit points, to exchange for two Golden Core Techniques.
One is the Blazing Shining Gold Technique, for fire and metal attribute cultivators.
The other one is called Innate Qi Grand Capture, a divine technique.
After completing these exchanges, Lu Yuanshan was left with few battle merit points and simply exchanged for some elixirs and talismans.
Lu Zhiwei’s battle merit points were for personal use, to exchange for things she needed.
Primarily, these were talismans, elixirs, and high-tier artifact refining books.
After a massive exchange, the brother and sister used up all their battle merit points, their storage bags filled to the brim.
As for Song Minghui, Lin Han, and other disciples, their exchange targets were essentially the same, with no major differences.
First and foremost was exchanging for Foundation Establishment Pills.
Next were elixirs and magical artifacts.
Regarding spirit beasts, they did want to exchange for them.
However, the price was too high, and for them, pursuing Foundation Establishment was the priority.
After staying for a while, three days later, Cyan Mountain Sect members finished spending their battle merit points and were ready to return to the Cyan Mountain Sect.
On the day of departure, Lu Yuanshan informed Elder Jiang about their plans and boarded the flying ship with Elder Jiang, Liu Qiumei, and other key members of Nine Cold Mountain, heading to the Chu Kingdom.
This flying ship was not provided by Dubhe Institute but was instead a flying spiritual artifact owned by Elder Jiang, named Cold Cloud Ship, a Tier Four Middle-Grade Flying Spiritual Artifact.
On the flying ship, Elder Jiang frequently engaged in casual conversations with Lu Yuanshan, discussing the affairs of Cyan Mountain Sect and the future development trends of Nine Cold Mountain.
Initially, Lu Yuanshan was quite surprised by Elder Jiang’s choice of topics.
Such an eminent Golden Core Ancestor, not only was interested in the development of Cyan Mountain Sect but also openly discussed the future development trends of his own power.
However, as the casual chat deepened and he gradually got used to it, Lu Yuanshan realized that it was not surprising.
Elder Jiang talking about these topics clearly aimed at fostering a deeper cooperation between Cyan Mountain Sect and Nine Cold Mountain for mutual benefit and development.
Subsequently, Elder Jiang gave more time to Liu Qiumei and Lu Yuanshan.
As for Liu Qiumei, Lu Yuanshan found it somewhat uncomfortable to be alone with her.
In the past, they collaborated to slay demon beasts, at least with the mindset of fellow cultivators working together, without any thoughts of developing into Dao companions.
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