Infinite Professions-Chapter 168 - 81: Development

Shen Hex walked out of the Dharma Hall and entered the Alchemy Room.

He left Red Maple Valley and returned to this Dongting Lake, it has been over eighty years now.

Eighty years, nearly a century, many things have happened during this long passage of time.

First is the prosperity and development of Fish Dragon Island.

With the effects of the Fish Dragon Seal, Spirit Gathering Array, and the Longevity Immortal Blessed Land, the Spiritual Qi on this Fish Dragon Island has continuously improved, now reaching the level of a Tier Five Spiritual Land.

Tier Five Spiritual Land is enough to support Core Formation Cultivators to cultivate to the Nascent Soul Realm. In the entire Inland Cultivation Realm, only the former leader of the Orthodox Dao, Xuanxiao Sect’s Xuanxiao Mountain can compare.

This is the enhancement of the blessed land’s Spiritual Qi.

There’s also the population growth of Fish Dragon Island.

Shen Hex let Long Yu utilize the Fish Dragon Seal and Fish Dragon Nine Transformations to enlighten a large number of water race spirit monsters.

He had already conducted experiments; the water race spirit monsters enlightened by the Fish Dragon Seal would lose the potential of their original beast form. For example, Long Yu, if transformed into a spirit monster, it would affect the purity of the dragon race’s true blood, not suitable for exotic beasts with unique talent.

But it only applies to those exotic beasts with unique talent, for spiritual beasts with ordinary bloodlines, transforming into spirit monsters is beneficial without harm.

Because their bloodlines are too ordinary, their potential is very average, the difficulty of bloodline evolution is really too high, far less efficient than transforming into spirit monsters, unlocking spiritual wisdom, and cultivating with human cultivation techniques.

So, Shen Hex used the Fish Dragon Seal to enlighten a large number of water race spirit monsters, expanding Fish Dragon Island’s population and labor force.

Shen Hex had them open wasteland to grow food, create ponds for fish farming, and those with good qualifications and high spiritual cultivation can even practice high-level techniques, refining pills, refining artifacts, making talismans, and setting arrays for him.

This greatly enhanced Fish Dragon Island’s productivity, nurturing a large number of spiritual objects and Pill Talisman Array items for him.

Although their rank is not high, when the quantity reaches a certain level, it’s a very terrifying thing.

This is the population provided by the water race, besides there is also the population provided by the human race.

This Longevity Immortal Blessed Land talent, besides Hidden Qi Gathering Spirit, has one extraordinary effect: it can attract "Immortal Fate" to flow in.

This Immortal Fate covers a broad range.

Objects can be Immortal Fate, beasts can be Immortal Fate, people can be Immortal Fate.

Throughout these years, all sorts of messy things have flowed to his Fish Dragon Island via various messy pathways, some are Immortal Fate exotic treasures, some are exotic beasts, some are various kinds of people.

Exotic treasures and exotic beasts need not be mentioned, they can be directly taken for personal use.

People, however, require some consideration, they first need to be selected, those who are scheming, treacherous, evil-doers are all rejected.

This is not only Shen Hex’s personal moral fastidiousness, but also a fundamental matter of interest.

Do you wish to associate with righteous people, or band together with demons and evil cultivators?

Any normal person would choose the righteous people.

Although righteous people might not truly be upright, those demons and evil cultivators who don’t even bother to pretend are surely not good people.

Not to mention others, even the evil cultivators themselves do not want to associate with evil cultivators, they just have no choice.

Shen Hex cultivates his forces, nurtures his followers, although for the purpose of benefiting himself, yet it is also for mutual assistance and progressing together.

Therefore, he would have gone mad to find a bunch of evil cultivators for raising Gu.

Managing two worlds, the reality and the dream already keep him busy, where would he have the mind to plot and scheme with those bastards?

Hence, character is very important, extremely important, those enthusiasts of evil cultivators are either kicked off the island by him or made into fertilizer.

Only people of good and kind nature may be allowed entry, receive his cultivation technique heritage, and be entrusted with important tasks.

These people form the human race group of Fish Dragon Island, filling in the gaps in Fish Dragon Island’s high tier development.

Because of the inherent limitations of spirit monsters, they can only handle basic and low-tier tasks, while high-tier techniques like Pill Talisman Array must be filled in by high-tier human cultivators.

These Immortal Fate people entering Fish Dragon Island fit well with this role because they flow into Fish Dragon Island as "Immortal Fate".

Immortal Fate, far from the ordinary, is what Immortal Fate truly means.

These Immortal Fate people either possess exotic treasures or have exceptional talents.

Just like the young woman in white who just bade him farewell, she is his youngest direct disciple.

Her name is Zhong Yuxiu, she is from the Xing Country Royal Family, a daughter of nobility, but because of palace struggles, her mother was killed, her sister went missing in a disaster, leaving only her to escape, and by chance she drifted to Fish Dragon Island.

After Shen Hex’s examination, he found she holds an exotic treasure of Immortal Fate, appearing as a mortal without cultivation potential, but actually harbors a Five Elements Spiritual Root of Earth Tier Upper Grade.

Shen Hex took her as a disciple, taught her meticulously, and in just twelve years, she raised her cultivation to the Qi Refining Realm, only a step away from Foundation Establishment, showcasing natural intelligence and talent.

Although not numerous, there are several such high-quality "Immortal Fate people", all accepted as his direct disciples and given significant responsibilities, those with slightly inferior quality also have their specialities, they can excel if used properly.

Shen Hex took them under his wing, taught them carefully, along with the system of rewards for merit and penalties for wrongdoing, Fish Dragon Island quickly embarked on a path of rapid development.

Thus, after more than eighty years of accumulation, Fish Dragon Island now has thirty-five individuals across the human race, water race, and spirit beast at the Foundation Establishment of the Fourth Realm, and more than thousands of people below Foundation Establishment engaged in Qi Refining, Cultivation, and Gathering Spirit, all contributing to Fish Dragon Island.

In Fish Dragon Island’s government treasury, countless Spirit Rice, Spirit Pills, Spirit Wine, Spirit Medicine, and Talismanic Dharma Artifact have accumulated, although most are Tier One to Tier Three, and few Tier Four Pill and Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects, they are still significant.

Fish Dragon Island now being a Tier Five Spiritual Land, and the human race and water race raised on the island, each assuming roles as Spirit Plant Cultivator, Spirit Fisherman, Alchemist, Artifact Refiner, Talisman Maker, and Array Master, with their efforts and Shen Hex’s professional role, Fish Dragon Island’s production power will only get stronger, nurturing Tier Five Spiritual Objects and Tier Six Spiritual Objects is just a matter of time.

This is the result of the "farming grand endeavor".

Except for lacking Core Formation Cultivators and high-tier Spiritual Objects, Fish Dragon Island’s current heritage surpasses that of a Core Formation Sect.

However, compared to the development of Fish Dragon Island, Shen Hex’s own progression has been somewhat slow.

Zhong Chuan (Shen Hex)

Professional: Immortal.

Cultivation: Martial Dao Tier Four, Spirit Control Tier Four, Immortal Dao Tier Three.

Life: 329/1800.

Professional Rank: Tier Three Level Eight.

Professional Talent: Longevity Fisherman, Longevity Immortal Blessed Land, Longevity Life Nourishing Method.

Professional Skills: Xingyi Fist, Five Elements Technique, Spirit Control Scripture, Shennong’s Herbal Scripture, Xingyi Divine Martial Scripture, Pill Formation Introduction, Talismanic Magic Introduction, Artifact Technique Introduction, Array Formation Introduction...

Professional Items: None.

General Skills: Omitted.

...

Over eighty years have passed, Shen Hex’s cultivation remains the same as before, Martial Dao Tier Four, Spirit Control Tier Four, Immortal Dao Tier Three.

The only change is the Immortal’s level advancing from Level 1 to Level 8, with the upper limit of lifespan increasing from six hundred to one thousand eight hundred, already approaching the regular lifespan of Tier Seven of the Immortal Dao, Divinity Transformation Realm.

Aside from this, his age has grown from ninety-nine to three hundred and twenty-nine.

This is not normal growth, after all, only eighty years have passed, how could there be a reason for such a growth of over two hundred?

It’s due to cultivating several "Krypton Life" secret techniques that overdraw Life Essence causing age growth, later reversible through Longevity Life Nourishing Method.

But these Krypton Life secret techniques are mostly forbidden-killing techniques and do not significantly aid cultivation progress.

Moreover, Shen Hex must tend to both ends, busy with real-world affairs, so this dream body often remains in "Closed Door and Hang Up" mode, thus after over eighty years, Shen Hex’s cultivation did not markedly advance.

But it’s still not wholly without progress, actually, there has been some advancement, at least in practicing the Five Elements Technique, Shen Hex has gradually grasped and absorbed it, accumulating considerable experience in Immortal Dao cultivation.

Following this...

"Master!"

Shen Hex entered the Alchemy Room, seeing several disciples greet him.

"I am going to start refining pills, you all guard outside the door and make sure no one disturbs me!"

With that, Shen Hex cast a Spirit Light, opened the door to the Earth Fire Chamber.

"Yes!"

The disciples responded, guarding the door, and further sealing the Alchemy Room.

Although in these years Shen Hex has trained many disciples, including Pill Masters and Artifact Masters, their expertise is at most at Tier Three, and unqualified to use Earth Fire to refine pills and artifacts; this Earth Fire Chamber is essentially set for him alone.

But he does not misuse it, after all, the Earth Fire Furnace burns Earth Vein Spiritual Energy, excessive consumption would impact the Spiritual Land tier, so usually only when refining Tier Four items does Shen Hex use the Earth Fire Furnace.

Now he intends to refine Tier Four Pill, the highest value among Tier Four: Foundation Establishment Pill!

He intends to consume this Foundation Establishment Pill, forming the immortal Dao foundation of longevity, reaching the four-tier realm of Immortal Martial Spirit, Three Methods Cultivation.

Immortal Martial Spirit, Three Methods Cultivation!

Though just a four-tier realm, a small step in foundation’s development, it still marks a notable phase achievement for Shen Hex, worthy of recording.