Chapter 2 Lingyu Town (Please Recommend and Collect)
According to the rules of the Sun family, a cultivator in the early stage of Qi training can get five catties of first-grade lower-grade spiritual grain, one spiritual stone, and one first-grade lower-grade Qi-moving pill every month.
A cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training can get five catties of first-grade middle-grade spiritual grain, three spiritual stones, and one first-grade middle-grade Qi-gathering pill every month.
A cultivator in the late stage of Qi training can get five catties of first-grade upper-grade spiritual grain, five spiritual stones, and one first-grade upper-grade Qi-condensing pill every month, but this supply is not unlimited.
If one cannot break through the cultivation level within a certain time limit according to the family's rules, all resources will be stopped, and one can only rely on completing various tasks and hunting monsters to earn spiritual stones to maintain cultivation.
From the official promotion to the early stage of Qi training, one can be promoted to the middle stage of Qi training within ten years, and then to the late stage of Qi training in twenty years. These time limits are all based on a lot of experience.
Although there is a certain pressure on the cultivators of the Sun family, it is not an unattainable goal. After all, the purpose of the family is just to motivate the members to practice.
Sun Mingsheng was promoted to the first level of Qi training at the age of eight and officially became a cultivator. He was promoted to the fourth level of Qi training at the age of sixteen. He fully met the family's requirements and could naturally continue to enjoy the monthly ration.
He is currently practicing the fire attribute technique "Fire Art", which is not very profound and can even be called the most widely inherited fire attribute basic technique in the cultivation world.
But it is better in focusing on the foundation, and it is relatively easy to practice. There will not be various strange phenomena in the practice process for no reason. This is especially important for the explosive fire attribute technique.
He only needs to strictly follow the requirements of "Fire Art" and practice step by step. It is only a matter of time before he is promoted to the late stage of Qi training in the future.
It is obviously not enough for a cultivator to practice only relying on the resources allocated by the family every month. He must complete the family tasks to the best of his ability to earn spirit stones to meet his own practice needs.
According to the family regulations, the strength of family members in the early stage of Qi training (first to third levels of Qi training) is limited, and they can only be responsible for some simple tasks within the family, such as taking care of spiritual seedlings and spiritual medicines.
After being promoted to the middle stage of Qi training (the fourth to sixth level of Qi training), one can leave the family under the guidance of some experienced family elders to complete some difficult and relatively well-paid tasks.
Sun Mingsheng is currently in charge of a small town called "Lingyu" under the Sun family with his uncle Sun Xunli, who is at the eighth level of Qi training.
This town is basically developed little by little around a huge underground jade cave. The mortals here do not engage in ordinary work such as planting and grazing. Their only task every day is to dig out pieces of jade from the bottomless jade cave.
Among these jades, there is a low-level spiritual material, the first-level inferior green jade. In addition to protecting the safety of the people, the main task of Sun Mingsheng and his uncle Sun Xunli is to ensure the safety of the mine.
This underground jade cave is actually a green jade spiritual mine, but the content is quite poor, and it is a serious poor mine.
It is precisely because of its pitiful content that the Sun family can occupy it alone.
First-grade lower grade green jade is a common spiritual material with a wide range of uses. Almost every magic weapon needs to add a part of it to act as a lubricant for various materials.
Green jade can also serve as the main spiritual material for refining magic weapons, because it has a certain additive effect on the conduction of mana, and is very popular in some markets.
Every year, the Sun family can exchange more than 2,000 spiritual stones through the green jade veins. The income is not rich, but it is stable and continuous.
Of course, the jade mined from here needs to be purified through a series of complex means before the first-grade lower grade green jade can appear. One catty of green jade can be refined for every 10,000 catties of jade.
One catty of green jade is sold for 20 spiritual stones in the market. The Sun family uses these seemingly barren veins to exchange spiritual stones in the market to maintain the operation of the family, and leaves a part of them into the family treasury to enhance the family's heritage for emergency use.
Sun Mingsheng was stationed in Lingyu Town, and he could get an extra three spiritual stones per month, which was equivalent to one first-grade medium-grade Qi-gathering pill.
"Three acres of first-grade low-grade pearl spiritual rice can be exchanged for thirty spiritual stones in the market after maturity. Fifteen will be paid to the family, ten will be given to the uncle, and I can also get five spiritual stones." Looking at the lush and green first-grade low-grade pearl spiritual rice that has already sprouted, Sun Mingsheng's eyes are full of hope.
Pearl spiritual rice is the most common cultivation resource in the cultivation world. It is in great demand and does not require a high growth environment. It only needs to provide sufficient spiritual power and spiritual rain for irrigation to grow. It matures once a year and is the first choice for many small and medium-sized cultivation families and even individual cultivators.
As for some higher-grade spiritual rice or spiritual medicine, because of the strict requirements for the growth environment, they can only be planted in a special spiritual medicine garden in the Shenquan Mountain, the base camp of the Sun family.
Lingyu Town was developed on the jade vein. The spiritual power is thin, and it can only barely develop the three acres of first-level low-grade spiritual fields in front of it. Only with careful care can these pearl spiritual rice grow and mature.
For Sun Mingsheng, five spiritual stones are already a considerable income. He can exchange them for some talisman paper and talisman ink from the market and continue to hone his skills in making talismans.
Although he has a family to rely on, the cultivation resources provided by the family are not much, and can only maintain the most basic needs. If he wants to quickly improve his cultivation, he must find ways to increase income and reduce expenditure.
Saving money with a limited total amount is always a side path, and only increasing income is the right way. After repeated consideration, Sun Mingsheng chose the simplest entry-level talisman making.
Talisman making is one of the many auxiliary skills in the cultivation world. Because of its wide range of applications, it is also the first choice for many casual cultivators or cultivators from small families to earn spiritual stones.
His qualifications are not too outstanding in the Sun family. As a mortal, there is no direct elder who can provide some spiritual stones. Everything can only rely on himself.
He has been immersed in the art of talisman making for more than three years. Since he was promoted to the fourth level of Qi training at the age of sixteen, he began to study the art of talisman making. Now the success rate of first-level low-grade talismans is nearly 40%, and the success rate of first-level medium-grade talismans is also about 15%.
"This low-grade fireball spell can earn a little spiritual stone, but the grade is too low, there are too many cultivators refining it, and the market is not very good. The first-grade middle-grade firebird spell can only succeed once or twice in ten times. This talisman making technique is really easy to learn but difficult to master." Looking at the large amount of discarded talisman paper on the ground, Sun Mingsheng couldn't help but show a look of heartache.
He was stationed in Lingyu Town. The family could provide six spiritual stones, five catties of first-grade middle-grade spiritual rice, and one first-grade middle-grade Qi-gathering pill every month. The amount was not much. In recent months, most of the supply has been used to buy some materials for talisman making, and very little has been used for cultivation.
If the talisman making technique cannot make progress, it may affect his cultivation speed. Now he is basically in a dilemma.