Chapter 254: A teleportation array built on the moon? The bright moon is also the bright land!
The next afternoon.
Yan Shifan left the Jin family, and in his storage ring were more than a dozen bulging storage bags.
Afterwards, the Cabinet, the Imperial Household Department, Prince Yu, Prince Jing, Qingfeng and Chanshuang all left the world of immortal cultivation and returned to Ming Dynasty.
Daming, the sky gradually brightens, in the study of Yan's residence.
"Twenty spirit stones," Yan Song took out a handful of spirit stones from his storage bag, looked at the crystal clear spirit stones in his palm, which looked like amber under the light, and said slowly:
"The two Wangs, my Yan family, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Zhao Zhenji, Hu Zongxian, Wang Chonggu, and Yu Dayou, each family will get two shi. It depends on how much benefit each family can generate with two shi."
Hearing this, Yan Shifan looked up curiously at Yan Song and said, "Dad, do you mean that the benefits should be redistributed?"
"Heh," Hearing this, Yan Song, who was hunched over, snorted and laughed, looked at his son Yan Shifan, and said, "The more you work, the more you get. Each family only gets this much spiritual stone, and everyone wants to get more."
"The more spiritual stones we get, the more practitioners there will be in the 'Experimental Country' and the more spiritual energy factories there will be."
"In this way, the output of spiritual energy industrial products will naturally be the greatest, and the credit to the emperor will be greater."
"On the contrary, if he gets the same amount of spiritual stones but cannot benefit the court, or his output is low, then he will naturally have to reduce the resources in his hands."
"No one will complain about this." Yan Song paused and said:
"After the spirit stones are distributed this time, you will draft a performance rating standard and submit it to the Emperor."
"Yes, I understand." Yan Shifan nodded.
In fact, he wanted to say, what if the output of the families supported by the Yan family in various countries is less in the future, but he soon understood what his father meant. It was obvious that his father wanted to do well what the emperor had asked him to do.
Including the spiritual industrial products of the "experimental country" and the amount of spiritual stones allocated to it in the performance evaluation not only supervises other members of the cabinet, but also spurs oneself.
Yan Shifan thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with his father Yan Song's consideration. At any time, it is always right to put the emperor's instructions first!
Soon, each of the ten forces in the cabinet was allocated a quota of two spirit stones. Yes, it was a quota, not spirit stones.
The spiritual stone trade plan is too detrimental to the harmony of nature and benevolence. As the supreme dynasty of immortals, Ming Dynasty cannot do such dishonorable things. The task naturally falls on the factory guards.
After all, the reputation of the factory guards is not good, so they are the most suitable people to do these things.
Afterwards, these spiritual stones were distributed to various countries by the factory guards.
In fact, the various forces in the cabinet had already marked the families of various countries that they chose to support, and these families built spiritual energy factories in their respective countries with the spiritual stones they received.
Finally, the spiritual industrial products produced by the factory will be transported to Ming Dynasty and divided among various parties in the cabinet.
This has been the process of internal profit division since Yan Song proposed the "experimental country" and started the Lingshi trade.
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The world of cultivating immortals, the Daming Immortal Sect.
At this time, Jiajing was in seclusion in the small courtyard.
The last time Jiajing went into seclusion and left the world of cultivating immortals was in the 60th year of Jiajing, and now it is the 76th year of Jiajing.
During the nearly seventeen years, although Jiajing came back several times, he did not alarm others.
Most of the time, it's just a quick glance. As long as the sect is functioning normally and there are no problems, it's fine.
This time, he returned to the Daming Immortal Sect as a temporary exit from seclusion, mainly to personally sort things out and understand the sect's development status and problems encountered over the past decade.
With the Daming Immortal Sect annexing many resources from the original Huangfeng Valley and other sects, the sect's overall power has made a great breakthrough in more than ten years.
First of all, the first batch of outer disciples, now the direct disciples, have already broken through to the foundation-building stage.
Moreover, people like Dugu Donglai, who have the highest cultivation level, and Xu Shixing have even reached the middle stage of foundation building!
Then came the inner and outer disciples.
The Daming Immortal Sect is a medium-sized sect, therefore, the requirement for inner disciples has always been to break through to the middle stage of Qi training, that is, the fourth level of Qi training, before they can enter the inner gate, and this has never changed.
The standard for outer disciples is to enter the Qi training stage.
Of course, the outer disciples also include some servants and registered disciples, and these are just differences in status.
The specific standard is from the stage of mortals to the stage of drawing qi into the body.
The current Daming Immortal Sect has a total of more than 6,000 disciples.
Among them, the majority are outer disciples, with a total of about 5,000 people. As for the disciples who have reached the fourth level of Qi training and met the standards for entering the inner sect, there are less than 1,000 people, about 800 to 900 people.
However, because the Ming Dynasty has no shortage of resources, the overall cultivation level of these eight or nine hundred people is not low, with an average of the sixth level of Qi training.
The main reason for the sudden increase in people is that the Dugu family annexed the Huangfeng Valley, Qingyuan Immortal Sect, Xiaoshushan Immortal Sect, Beast Taming Sect, Wuqing Mountain and other family territories, expanded the family territory, and frantically recruited immortal seedlings.
Naturally, many talented young immortals with outstanding talents were recruited among them. In addition, with the Ming Dynasty's resources tilted towards the talents, the cultivation of these young immortals naturally made rapid progress.
In just over a decade, the size of the Daming Immortal Sect has grown several times, and the Cabinet and the Sect Council are also constantly discussing and waiting for the direct disciples to make a breakthrough to the next level.
After this batch of inner disciples have all entered the late stage of Qi training, the threshold for promotion to the inner gate will be raised. They must break through the late stage of Qi training before they can enter the inner gate. Of course, more resources will also flow to the outer disciples.
Then, it is about the current cultivation status of the high-level elders of the Daming Immortal Sect.
Because of his state of mind, the Great Elder Liu Quan's cultivation is still stuck at the late stage of foundation building, with no progress at all.
The second elder, Song Xinchai, originally had the cultivation level of the middle stage of foundation building, but in the past ten years or so, he broke through to the late stage of foundation building.
The reason why he was able to break through so quickly was that, apart from his own hard work, he also benefited from the resources he had plundered from several other major sects, so the breakthrough was a natural result.
For example, in the treasure house of the Beast Taming Sect, a large amount of flesh and blood of ancient beasts was discovered, and the quality was very good.
This kind of good thing that can directly improve everyone's cultivation, Jiajing, as the sect leader, naturally did not say anything about storing it as a foundation for emergency use.
Instead, he simply waved his hand and asked elders such as Song Xinchai and several direct disciples such as Dugu Donglai to share the food.
After all, in this area of the southeast of the Great Wilderness, which has now been completely stabilized, there is only one thing that the Daming Immortal Sect needs to do, and that is to improve its overall strength in the shortest possible time.
The ultimate goal of developing a sect, engaging in various trades, and earning resources is to grow and strengthen the sect while ensuring that all disciples have no worries about their path to immortality.
In this case, we should naturally use good things.
Then there is the third elder, Liu Yuan, who has the lowest cultivation level.
More than ten years have passed, and his cultivation, which was originally at the initial stage of foundation building, has now broken through to the middle stage of foundation building. And according to Jiajing's investigation, it will not take long for him to break through to the late stage.
In fact, his cultivation level was considered low. After all, his disciples like Dugu Donglai and Xu Shixing were already in the middle stage of foundation building.
However, Liu Yuan brought a lot of profits to the sect with his skills in making flying shuttles, so naturally no one dared to disrespect him.
Finally, there are the four elders.
Originally, the fourth elder of the Daming Immortal Sect was Jiajing, but now that he is the head, the fourth elder is Xu Tian, the former head of the Punishment Hall and current head of the Law Enforcement Hall.
Xu Tian also successfully broke through from the ninth level of Qi training to the initial stage of foundation building. As long as the resources are guaranteed to keep up, it is estimated that in another year or so, he will be able to break through to the middle stage of foundation building.
In addition, after the Daming Immortal Sect annexed the territories of several sects such as the Huangfeng Valley, its resource income also saw a surge.
In addition, there is also some gray income that Li Changqing allocated to the Ming Dynasty, such as spirit stones, spirit veins, life business, etc. The amount of spiritual resources received each year starts at several million or nearly tens of millions.
Now that there is no need to worry about resources, large amounts of resources can naturally be allocated to help disciples and followers polish their natal objects and improve their cultivation.
In general, more than ten years have passed, and the entire Daming Immortal Sect, whether it is the size of the sect or the cultivation of its disciples, has expanded several times.
It seems to have become a medium-sized sect, but compared with the medium-sized sects in the Central Plains, it is still far behind. After all, the sect only has one golden elixir.
The goal of the Daming Immortal Sect is to grow into a large sect in the southeastern area of the Great Wilderness. In order to become a large sect, there must be a Nascent Soul stage master in the sect.
The number of Nascent Soul cultivators in those large sects with profound heritage is beyond the imagination of ordinary new sects.
"Master, the above is the development of the sect over the past seventeen years." Xu Shixing, who has become more stable and mature and has broken through to the middle stage of foundation building, bowed after reporting.
The cabinet of the Daming Immortal Sect is composed of the masters of the three halls and three pavilions of the sect, while the sect council is personally taught by the sect leader.
In other words, the Zongyi Council is actually equivalent to the Silijian, and Xu Shixing, the eldest disciple, is performing Lu Fang's duties.
"That's right." Jiajing's serious face relaxed slightly, he looked up at Xu Shixing in front of him, and suddenly said, "Before I went into seclusion last time, I promised you that I would give you superior skills after you established your foundation. I didn't expect that this seclusion would delay you for several years."
As he spoke, Jiajing raised his hand, took out a storage bag, and handed it to Xu Shixing, saying:
"Here are five superior skills that I bought from the academy through Li Changqing. They were all purchased based on the spiritual attributes of you, Feng Sheng, Liu Wei, Li Yu, and Dugu Donglai."
Hearing about the superior skills, Xu Shixing felt a surge of excitement in his heart.
Over the years, even after breaking through to the middle stage of foundation building, he still did not rashly choose the skills left by the former head of the inheritance pavilion, Dugu Ying, and the left and right protectors.
Especially the former leader Dugu Ying. The martial arts he practiced was also a superior martial arts, but it was not suitable for him.
After all, it was a fire-attributed martial art, and his spiritual energy was of wood attribute, which was incompatible.
Even for the superior techniques, most of them can automatically evolve suitable practice routes according to the properties of spiritual energy, but he always remembered that his master said he would find another technique for him.
In addition, although the skills practiced by the previous sect leader are the property of the sect, they ultimately belong to the Dugu family.
He was an outsider, and if he was used rashly, he would inevitably be involved with the Dugu family, which he did not want.
With the leadership of the clan council and the training of Jiajing, Xu Shixing's political ability has made great progress.
In his opinion, the current Master Zhu Cong is the head of the Daming Xianzong, and the Master is not from the Dugu family. Logically speaking, the Dugu family should have disbanded since the former head, Dugu Ying, passed away without leaving any offspring, and the academy let the Master succeed as the head. The reason why the Dugu family was kept was that the Master kept him under the sect because he remembered the kindness of the former head.
In the future, if Master has children, he will also have to start a family. Under the patriarchal system, the Daming Immortal Sect will belong to the Zhu family in the future.
Considering the complicated situations that may arise in the future, as his direct disciple, he naturally needs to know how to avoid suspicion.
As for Feng Sheng and Liu Wei, of course they had the same idea.
As a result, the three of them did not choose to practice the several superior skills related to the Dugu family.
As for Dugu Donglai and Li Yu, they were members of the Dugu family and had long ago chosen the martial arts of the first leader.
"Master," thinking of this, Xu Shixing frowned and said in a deep voice: "Third Junior Brother and Fourth Junior Sister have already practiced the skills of the former Sect Master and the two Dharma Protectors..."
Hearing this and looking at the doubt in Xu Shixing's eyes, how could Jiajing not know what his eldest disciple was thinking.
However, the fact that he knew how to think about his master and could think of the deeper relationships behind the interests showed that he was becoming more mature, and Jiajing was naturally pleased.
"Shixing, there is one thing you have to remember," Jiajing said, holding up a finger and said seriously, "A superior must be tolerant and do everything possible to protect all the people around him who can be used unless there is a conflict of interest."
"You are all my disciples. I will not treat you differently just because Donglai and Li Yu are related to the family of the former master. They will also be your trustworthy helpers."
"What a teacher wants is a whole that is closely related and inseparable, whether in terms of fellowship or interests!"
"Only in this way can the Zong Council be better!"
Dugu Donglai and Li Yu, when Jiajing accepted them as his personal disciples, in addition to the idea of appeasing the Dugu family, he also wanted to provide protection for the Dugu family.
Of course, the reason was naturally because of the three Dugu brothers. After all, his current situation was closely related to the help of the three brothers and Liu Quan. Jiajing would not deny this.
As for whether the Dugu family would interfere with the power of the Daming Immortal Sect in the future, he had never worried about it.
When the Ming army invades the world of immortal cultivation, the Ming Immortal Sect will be incorporated, and the Dugu family will become a part of it like many other immortal cultivation families in the Ming Dynasty.
Under the protection of the Ming Dynasty, stable development is enough.
Therefore, Jiajing never thought about the closeness or distance between his two disciples, Dugu Donglai and Li Yu.
These five disciples are all my disciples, it’s that simple.
Hearing Jiajing say this, Xu Shixing was stunned at first, and then admiration appeared in his eyes.
"I am narrow-minded!" Xu Shixing bowed deeply to Jiajing, then stood up and said ashamedly: "After hearing what Master said, I realized my mistakes."
"From now on, I will unite with my fellow disciples, set an example, and fulfill my duties as a senior brother!"
He didn't expect that his master had such a broad mind. This made him feel that his previous defense, alienation, and factionalism towards Dugu Donglai and the other two were completely wrong.
"I'm glad you understand," Jiajing nodded with a slightly relaxed expression, and then asked, "Master asked you to secretly develop an intelligence network. More than ten years have passed. How is the situation?"
"Reporting to Master, I have occasionally followed the sect's caravans to various places in the Great Wilderness over the years, and have also set foot in the Central Plains."
"In order not to attract attention, the disciples have trained many orphans in the three big cities of Sifang City, Southeast City, and South Corner Region, and secretly funded them."
"And using them as the starting point, we established an intelligence network..." Xu Shixing recounted the situation of how he established his intelligence network.
Xu Shixing's idea was very simple. By training these young orphans who had trouble surviving, he could build the basic foundation of the intelligence network and then weave a big network piece by piece.
However, more than ten years have passed, and he is still in the process of assessment and screening. He has selected many people and also screened out many people.
In general, this intelligence network is still very immature. The main difficulty lies in not knowing how to cultivate and screen it effectively, and there is no independent method or approach.
As a result, the efficiency is extremely low and there is almost no success.
Sitting cross-legged with his hands naturally hanging on his knees, Jiajing thought for a moment, and then something moved in his mind. He closed his eyes, and his spiritual consciousness passed through his natal Ming Dynasty and instantly found Lu Bing.
I asked Lu Bing for the selection and training system of the Immortal Guards.
Decades passed, and Lu Bing improved the selection and screening system of the Jinyiwei and Xianwuwei over and over again.
If the complete set of training methods for the Jinyiwei and Xianwuwei were included in the hundreds of studies in the Imperial College, it would be enough to become a separate course.
The spiritual consciousness erased the words "Jinyiwei" and "Xianwuwei", and after making slight modifications, Jiajing passed them to Xu Shixing through the spiritual consciousness.
"Master, this is..." After understanding the detailed screening and training methods of Jinyiwei and Xianwuwei in his mind, Xu Shi was calm.
"These are what I accidentally found when I was visiting the wild market before." Jiajing said casually, "Next, you should follow this method to train the personnel needed to establish an intelligence network."
"Yes! I will live up to Master's expectations!" Looking at the confident Xu Shixing, Jiajing waved his hand and said, "Step down. I will continue my retreat."
"Yes." Xu Shixing bowed, turned around and strode away.
After watching Xu Shixing leave, Jiajing's spiritual consciousness swept across the entire main peak, and then the formation was activated again. He then set up several restrictions in the courtyard where he lived before returning to Daming.
"Buzz." As a space wave arose, Jiajing's figure appeared in Yuxi Palace.
"Master!" Lu Fang, who was meditating with his eyes closed in the corner of the hall, opened his eyes instantly and hurried forward to serve.
"How many 'Ethereal Stones' have you collected?" Jiajing asked Lu Fang directly without any further ado.
"My Lord, with the help of the Fire Cloud Sect and the good reputation of Mingri Tower among the independent cultivators, we were able to obtain a total of 120 pieces of Void Spirit Stones for building the teleportation array."
As he spoke, Lu Fang waved his hand, and pieces of pure white stones, the size of a human head or a human thigh, appeared on the floor of the hall. They made metallic sounds when they fell to the ground.
Afterwards, Lu Fang took out a lot of materials needed to build the teleportation array, such as spiritual jade for storing spiritual power, as well as feathers, bones, and blood of ancient beasts with various properties.
In addition, there are some metals used for reinforcement and to bear the force of tearing space cracks during space teleportation.
There are about twenty kinds of materials, such as black iron, Geng gold, or some special gold sand.
In fact, the materials used in a teleportation array are all single. For example, if black iron is used, there is no need for Gengjin. If the feathers of ancient beasts are used, there is no need for bones.
Then there is the necessary Five Elements Essence, which needs to be purchased from major chambers of commerce. It contains the sealed souls of various ancient beasts and is used in conjunction with magic array runes.
After a teleportation array is built, it still needs constant maintenance. It does not mean that once the teleportation array is built, it can be used forever as long as there is spiritual source.
For example, during the maintenance of the teleportation array, one of the steps is to regularly replace and refill the five elements essence.
The process of producing soul essence is extremely complicated, and is often a secret technique that is mastered by major chambers of commerce or sects and families and used as a source of business.
Since it involves business, the essence will naturally have different qualities.
The better the quality of the essence, the stronger the soul of the ancient beast sealed inside it will be, the higher its endurance will be, and naturally the longer its service life will be, and of course the higher the price will be.
A small teleportation array would require about ten spirit essences, while a cross-domain teleportation array would require tens of thousands.
However, the world of immortal cultivation is too vast. For example, Sifang City and Southeast City are only two-thirds of the southeast corner of the Great Wilderness.
The distance between them is a full 280,000 miles, which would take about ten days if traveled by the Suzaku Binghuo Yimu Shuttle at a speed of 2,325 miles per hour!
Such a long distance is enough to circle the earth several times!
From this we can see how vast the regions in the world of immortal cultivation are.
For example, the small Fengling Town is as big as the entire northern Zhili, while the Beigang Town where Lu Fang is located is even larger.
Therefore, the small teleportation array in the world of immortal cultivation is sufficient for intercontinental teleportation if placed in Ming Dynasty.
However, Jiajing and Lu Fang still bought a lot. If you buy too much of this stuff, just put it aside, as it will be needed sooner or later.
"The materials you prepared are enough to build six teleportation arrays," Jiajing said, raising his hand and taking out the materials needed for the teleportation array that he had asked Xu Shixing to prepare, and said, "Including what I prepared, it is enough to build more than a dozen teleportation arrays."
"Then master, shall we start now?" Lu Fang looked at Jiajing and asked.
"Building a teleportation array requires a cultivation level above the Golden Core Stage," Jiajing said, "Let's start with the Imperial Palace."
The establishment of a space teleportation array is not as difficult as imagined. After all, the required materials can be purchased from major chambers of commerce in the world of immortal cultivation, mainly because many key parts involve confidential information.
Therefore, they are all produced in advance, and you only need to assemble them step by step according to the installation photos in the photo stone.
The reason why the Jindan stage is a hard condition is because the spatial coordinates between the two teleportation arrays need to be "opened up".
This "opening up" does not mean literal meaning, but requires the use of powerful spiritual consciousness above the Jindan stage to pull.
This is because only the spiritual power of the Jindan stage can hold up in the space channel established by the teleportation array and not be strangled by the force of space.
Next, Jiajing, together with Lu Fang, began to draw magic arrays in the capital, as well as in North and South Zhili and other areas of the Ming Dynasty, while also building the foundation of the teleportation array and assembling the magic array.
Several months passed quickly during this busy period, and time finally came to the 77th year of the Jiajing reign.
"Master?" Seeing the last teleportation array light up with blue light, Lu Fang saw his master staring at the bright moon in the sky. He walked forward curiously and asked tentatively, "Master, what are you thinking about?"
"How much material do we have left?" Jiajing asked.
"There are still quite a few. We should be able to build four or five teleportation arrays." Lu Fang said.
"What if we build one on the moon?" Jiajing suddenly murmured, "What effect would that have?"
"Everything under the bright sun and moon is a bright land. What about above the moon? Should it also be a bright land?"
"..."
(End of this chapter)
