Chapter 111
111 Spending money makes me happy
After chatting for a while, Lu Qing let Chaohe go first to do what he had to do.
The next day, after Ming Chao arrived, he also made a trip to the back of the mountain. The father and daughter chatted for a while. Lu Qing asked about Ming Chao’s current cultivation state in detail.
His younger daughter’s cultivation had already reached the eighth-tier foundation building realm. He estimated that she would be able to break through to the ninth-tier foundation building realm within two years. After reaching the ninth level, with a few more years of polishing, he could prepare to break through to the initial enlightenment stage.
Lu Qing still had a shot of the power of initial enlightenment. He could give it to Lu mingchao when she was close to breaking through.
From chaoxi’s practice, it was indeed very helpful to feel the power of the initial enlightenment stage in advance when one was at the ninth-tier of the foundation building realm.
Mingchao also had double spiritual roots now. On top of that, she also had the help of the yin-essence water Jade. Even if she did not have the “rare breakthrough bottleneck” that chaoxi had experienced during his breakthrough, her chances of achieving Qiming would not be any lower than Lu chaoxi’s. In fact, she might even have a higher chance.
In that case, in a few years ‘time, after Ming Chao’s breakthrough, the Lu clan’s double Qiming would be one of the more powerful clans in the Feiyun state. Other than having a small influence in the sect, they were not much worse than the rich and powerful families in the Feiyun state.
Let’s use the Zhao family as a comparison.
The Zhao clan was known as the number one clan in anling Prefecture, and they only had one initial enlightenment cultivator. They were powerful because their sect had great influence. With Zhao Zidan, a golden core patriarch, an initial enlightenment cultivator, and about ten Foundation establishment cultivators in the sect, they could influence some of the Qingfeng sect’s decisions.
When the dawn came, the Zhao family would not be as powerful as the Lu family.
Once Zhao Zidan died, the anling Prefecture would really change.
Lu Qing was looking forward to that day.
Furthermore, the Zhao clan’s greatest support, the Golden core patriarch Zhao Zidan, was at the end of his life. He was already on his last legs.
In the past, Lu Qing had been worried that Zhao Zidan would go crazy before he died. Now that he had the [revive] option, he was even less afraid.
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After having a heart-to-heart chat with his son and daughter, Lu Qing started to think about how much the clan had gained from this war.
Fighting a war was really a high-risk activity with a high income.
Even though Lu Qing was dead, he could still cheat. He could indeed provide a lot of help in the war.
The Lu family had earned a lot from the White ghouls ‘trip to the South.
In the one and a half years of war, the Lu clan lost two Qi refining cultivators but gained an initial enlightenment cultivator.
He had earned more than 50000 merit points. More than 10000 of them had been exchanged for Lu chaoxi’s fine grade equipment. An ordinary initial enlightenment cultivator would only have Dharma Treasures and Dharma artifacts at his level after many years of accumulation. The other 40000 or so were exchanged for a five elements Spirit Tree, two foundation building pills, and a few other things.
This five elements Spirit Tree would provide an endless amount of wealth to the clan in the future. Although the spirit fruit that was born from it would not be sold, the family had already digested it. The cultivators who wanted to exchange for the spirit fruit had to pay.
Of course, the money they paid was actually from their families.
It seemed like an unnecessary move, but in fact, it was necessary to settle the accounts in such a clear way.
For example, chaoxi was now an initial enlightenment cultivator. His family would give him a salary of one thousand spirit stones a year. He wasn’t a slave to his family, so he could go out and earn some spirit stones. For example, he was a talisman master, so he could make talismans to make money. For example, during the battle at the northern border, the large amount of merit points were actually earned by him. The treasures like the foundation building pill and the five elements Spirit Tree that he exchanged for the clan’s descendants could be considered as the clan owing him money.
However, he had to pay spirit stones to get resources from the clan.
He wouldn’t really give the money, nor would he really ask the clan for the debts of the foundation building pill and the five elements Spirit Tree, but he would still have to calculate it on the books. Otherwise, if others said that the clan leader ate the clan’s resources and didn’t pay, what could he do?
Of course, only a lunatic would do such a thing.
In other words, the Lu family’s total profit from the battle of the White ghouls in the South might be more than 70000 spiritual stones.
This amount of money, if the clan were to save up, it would probably take more than a hundred years.
This was the so-called wealth from war.
As for Lu Qing himself, he had spent 500 karma and returned with more than 3300 karma.
Over the years, he had seen the immense effects that karma, a system currency, could bring into play.
More than 3000 karma was an unimaginable number in the past. However, it was lying on his account now.
How to use the karma was a big matter. If used well, the clan’s overall strength would be further improved by a large margin.
1,000 of them could not be touched. He had to keep them to ensure that when the family was in danger, he could exchange for the three-star resurrection. This was the clan’s greatest trump card, and he couldn’t mess with it.
As for the remaining 2000, there was no need to hold them all in his hands.
Without a second word, he refreshed the mall ten times!
He had already exited from the conquest mode. In normal mode, the price of refreshing the exchange tab wasn’t expensive. At least, in his opinion, it was very cheap. What was 15 points of karma?
Refreshing ten times would only cost him 150 karma!
The refresh gave Lu Qing 37 new exchange options!
He now had a total of 41 options, and there were a few three-star options.
There was a dazzling array of items that filled his exchange list.
Three of them were 2-star apothecaries, so he got Ming Chao one first.
In the end, the upgrade failed.
Mingchao was a stage two mid-grade Alchemist. So there was still a chance of failure when upgrading to high-grade?
It didn’t matter. If he failed, he could try again!
The second upgrade was a success.
300 karma was gone just like that.
It was a pity that there were no 3-star alchemists in the new 3-star exchange options. Otherwise, Lu Qing would have been able to push Ming Chao’s alchemy skills to Level 3.
A stage three Alchemist would have the qualifications to refine some powerful medicinal pills.
For example, the clan had the recipe for the foundation building elixir.
Another example was the rare exchange option [ marrow cleansing and mortal shedding technique ] in Lu Qing’s exchange list. It also required the cooperation of a stage three Alchemist.
As for the [ Alchemist upgrade ], he had no place to use it for the time being, so he kept it for now.
The increase in his cultivation speed was more common. There were three one-star and two-star cultivators. It could increase a cultivator’s cultivation speed for five years and reduce the chances of a bottleneck.
Needless to say, mingchao, Chaohe, and xueting will each get one of the three two-star cards. I won’t be biased!
As for the three one-star cultivators, Lu Qing also chose Qi refining cultivators and sent them off. Lu mingling, Lu Wenen, and Lu Weiwen each had one.
This wave cost him another 300 karma.
hiss, hiss, hiss, I still can’t be reckless. Did I lose more than 700 karma in an instant? ”
Lu Qing calmed down.
He still had more than 2600 karma on hand.
After careful consideration, he chose four of the remaining items on the exchange list to exchange for.
[ one-star family style: high morale ], [ one-star family style: Family planning, one star family style: Loyal clansmen, 2-star family style: Diligent cultivation ].
Family culture could be understood as a blessing to the overall state of the family. When it was used on all the members of the family, it could generally last for ten years.
Lu Qing had exchanged for the first two items before. One of them could increase the morale of the clan, while the other could increase the fertility rate of the clan.
The latter two were new.
[ one-star family style: loyal to the family ]
during the duration of the effect, slowly and continuously increase the loyalty of all clan members to the clan. Lasts for ten years. Cost of exchange is 30 karma.
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[ 2-star family style: diligent cultivation ]
during the duration of the effect, it will increase the diligence of all clan members in their cultivation. It will last for ten years. An exchange fee of 100 karma is required.
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Lu Qing had never seen these two exchange options before, but they were quite important to him.
[ loyal clansmen ] was something that should be taken as a precaution. Moreover, Lu Qing also noticed that, according to the description of the exchange option, it would slowly increase the loyalty of the person within 10 years. It was not a temporary boost. This meant that if he didn’t encounter anything special, the increased loyalty wouldn’t decrease and would last forever.
This way, even if the increase wasn’t high, the value of this exchange option wouldn’t be low.
Moreover, it only required 30 karma to exchange for it.
The other one was [ diligent cultivation ], which could directly increase the probability of a stronger cultivator appearing in the clan.
In this world, everyone knew that the most important thing in cultivation was perseverance and diligence. However, just like in Lu Qing’s previous life, before he transmigrated, everyone knew that learning was important and that they had to work hard. But how many people lacked perseverance?
Breaking through to the foundation establishment realm depended on one’s life and resources. However, if he was only at the ninth level of the Qi refining stage, it might indeed be difficult for him to have five spiritual roots. However, for cultivators with four spiritual roots and above, as long as they worked hard enough and the external conditions were not too difficult, they could basically achieve it. However, there were many people who could not reach the ninth level of the Qi refining stage in their entire lives.
With this [ diligent cultivation ], at least some members of the clan who didn’t usually work hard would also subtly change under the effect of this exchange option.
It was pretty good.
He had spent a total of 170 karma on this wave. It was not considered a lot.
Next, he set his eyes on the few three-star exchange options that appeared.
He had to leave some karma to exchange for the few three-star exchange options that he had cleared.
For example, [ three-star talent: spiritual root enhancement ] could directly improve a clan member’s spiritual root talent from two spiritual roots to a single spiritual root!
A talent with a single spiritual root was extremely terrifying. Look at Gongsun Xia. He had a wind spiritual root and the Gongsun clan had spent a lot of effort in nurturing him. He was only twenty years old and had already reached the ninth level of the Qi refining stage! Many cultivators might only enter the Qi refining stage at the age of twenty.
Moreover, there was no pressure for a single spiritual root to break through to the foundation building realm, and the success rate of a direct breakthrough was not low.
Of course, no ordinary clan or faction would take such a risk. No force would ever complain about having too many foundation building pills, but with the Gongsun family’s power, coupled with Gongsun Xia’s status and talent, it wouldn’t be a problem for them to get one. He estimated that Gongsun Xia would become a foundation building cultivator in two or three years.
Lu Qing would not be surprised even if he received news that he had broken through to the initial enlightenment stage when he was sixty.
If the Lu family could produce such a talented Clansman, it would definitely be a great thing. Even though the Lu family was not as wealthy as the Gongsun family, with Lu Qing’s protection, they would not grow any slower than Gongsun Xia.
However, even though Lu Qing had the exchange option, no one could exchange for the Kasaya.
The one he had given mingchao was a rare exchange option, which could increase one’s spirit root regardless of age. However, the normal method of improving one’s spiritual root could only be used on children under the age of six. Furthermore, a Clansman could only use it once in their entire life. This meant that it was impossible to use a two-star spiritual root to promote a three-spiritual root to a two-spiritual root, and then a three-star spiritual root to promote a two-spiritual root to a single spiritual root.
Now, there are no children under the age of six in the clan with double spiritual roots.
“AI, how good would it be if I got it earlier? “I used it on Wenen or Weiwen to use the Kasaya,” Lu Qing thought regretfully.
He would save it for now and see when he would be lucky enough to have another person with double spiritual roots in the clan. Lu Qing would then be able to use this exchange option.
However, Lu Qing had four one-star spiritual roots and one two-star spiritual root enhancement spiritual root!
It was useless to keep it in his hands, so he had exchanged it all out. One-star ten karma for one spiritual root was very cheap. He managed to turn the four children from having four spiritual roots to having three spiritual roots.
A three-spirit root was not considered very good, but at least it was much smoother on the road of cultivation than a four-spirit root.
As for the two-star One, Lu Qing had changed it for Lu mingheng.
Ming Heng was the reincarnation of Chao Heng.
In this life, Lu mingheng’s talent was much better than in his previous life. He had three spiritual roots. After he exchanged for this two-star spiritual roots enhancement, he was very lucky to have fire wood double spiritual roots!
“Not bad!” Lu Qing beamed with joy. fire and wood double spiritual roots, the same as me. It’s just right to cultivate the infinite flame technique!
The few outstanding cultivators in the family were not practicing the infinite flame mantra. Lu Qing actually felt a little regretful about this. He had personally practiced this technique in the past and knew that it was very powerful.
However, this thing could not be forced. There were a few people in the family who were above the Foundation Stage, or had the potential to reach the Foundation Stage, but their spiritual roots were not suitable for practicing the infinite flame mantra.
If Ming Heng could practice it, then of course it would be excellent.
From the looks of it, Ming Heng’s future path of cultivation could be looked forward to. Especially with the infinite fire formula, which was the most suitable for cultivators with fire and wood double spirit roots to cultivate, Ming Heng should be the brightest person in the Ming generation in the future, even more outstanding than Ming Ling!
Now, other than the 1000 karma that could not be used for resurrection, he still had more than 1300 karma that he could use. It seemed like a lot, but considering the price of the three-star exchange option, it was actually not worth many things.
However, there were two three-star options that he really wanted to exchange for.
[Level 3 resource: spiritual heritage level up],[Level 3 talent: Earth Spirit body].
The former could directly solve the clan’s current major problem, while the latter could help his Seventh Son, Lu Chaohe, very well!
A spirit body! This was an extremely rare talent!
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