Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 379 - 245: Big Shot (Long - ) Part 3

Although this item is of no use to Li An, it shows her intention, and Li An is quite pleased. He immediately handed over the map presented by the Ji Country’s royal family to her, saying, "There are still many places within, like spiritual mines and fields. With the current manpower, it might not be enough. You can recruit some trustworthy loose cultivators to work for us at Evil Spirit Lake."

"At that time, you can be in charge of the coordination, which will also give you time to cultivate." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Li Shuangshuang took the map, growing more and more excited. This meant that from now on, Evil Spirit Lake would no longer just be her and her master but would develop into a force centered around Li An!

In fact, this is inevitable. As a Nascent Soul cultivator, the resources needed for cultivation are too many, and many resources cannot possibly be handled by oneself. Subordinates will definitely be needed.

Therefore, there is a saying in the world: A Nascent Soul has no loose cultivators.

A Nascent Soul is like a big tree, and many monkeys will surely follow.

In fact, outside Evil Spirit Lake, just in the recent days, many cultivators have come wanting to pay homage and enter Evil Spirit Lake to work for Li An, but Li An hasn’t managed any of this at all.

"Here are some Spirit Awakening Pills, which should be quite useful to you. While various affairs are important, you should also plan for the Core Formation. Do not forget cultivation! This is the foundation of your standing!"

Li An gave her a bottle of pills and advised her, "The cultivation technique I gave you, you can also pass it on to others. Cultivate some trusted confidants, so you can stand firm in the future. But be sure to carefully scrutinize, do not let those with ulterior motives infiltrate. Also, for those you newly recruit, do not covet their talents, perception, abilities. Your ability to manage them is the top priority. No matter how strong others are, if they are not loyal to you, that’s empty and vain, understand?"

Li Shuangshuang felt a mix of emotions upon hearing this, with tears welling in her eyes. She certainly understood the earnest expectations in Li An’s words. Li An was not only concerned about her cultivation future but was also pointing out the principles of being a person and doing things. She felt that such guidance was given without reservation.

Once upon a time, when she was looked down on at the Li family, when could she receive such concern and care?

"Rest assured, Master, I will not fail your expectations!"

She got up and left immediately.

...

Having arranged and processed the basic affairs, Li An calmed his mind and continued to consolidate his realm for a while.

"After entering the Nascent Soul stage, the consumption of spiritual stones has also increased, requiring at least ten top-grade spiritual stones every month, and adding Xiaoqing would sum up to about thirty pieces a month."

"In a year, more than three hundred pieces will be consumed."

"Currently, the total spiritual ore I have produces about one hundred sixty top-grade spiritual stones annually, and with the influence of the spiritual realm and the world’s power on the New Continent, it will increase in the future."

"Middle-grade and low-grade spiritual stones have little use now, so leave them for Li Shuangshuang to develop forces."

"Additionally, there are three spiritual medicine production sites... I need to develop a medicinal field on Evil Spirit Lake specifically for cultivating spiritual medicines!"

Now with the innate treasure technique "Shennong Skill," he is quite looking forward to cultivating spiritual medicines.

No sooner said than done, he immediately started taking action, clearing a flat medicinal field on an island not far from the cave, setting up a Spirit Gathering Array and Rank Three protective arrays, then transplanted some spiritual medicines from the island there.

Evil Spirit Lake itself is a Rank Four spirit vein land, so some herbs will grow. After collecting all of them, he obtained four Third-Grade spiritual medicines, but none were Fourth-Grade.

The four spiritual medicines were planted separately, and Li An used the Shennong Skill, spending an hour nurturing the four spiritual herbs.

Li An’s research revealed that the Shennong Skill primarily guides the spiritual medicines to mutate abnormally through spiritual power cleansing and primordial qi impact, and once normal spiritual medicines mutate abnormally, they tend to possess special divine effects and even increase in grade!

Moreover, being naturally endowed with a Wood Spirit Root and possessing the Life Nourishing Immortal Skill, the effects of using this treasure technique are excellent, and the probability of spiritual herbs mutating abnormally is very high. Li An even thinks that as he progresses, he should be able to some extent influence the degree and direction of mutation, which is truly a Heaven-Defying Skill!

Li An then personally visited the other three pharmaceutical production sites within his range, where he laid down three Rank Three arrays, announcing his takeover. The people from the Ji Country royal family had long been waiting respectfully. Once he arrived, they immediately withdrew.

From these three pharmaceutical production sites, Li An managed to get five Third-Grade spiritual medicines in total!

Li An carefully selected a batch of core herbs he needed, amounting to over a hundred of Second and Third Grades combined. He brought them back to Evil Spirit Lake Island and planted them.

Currently, he is still familiarizing himself with the Shennong Skill, so he can only take care of those Third-Grade spiritual medicines. But once he has explored it clearly, given his strength, simultaneously catalyzing these hundred-odd spiritual herbs will naturally not be difficult.

After doing all this, ten days have passed.

"Once again becoming a Spirit Plant cultivator..."

Li An couldn’t help but laugh with sentiment, thinking about how back at Spirit Plant Mountain in the Profound Yang Sect, if he had possessed such an innate treasure technique, his path might have been much smoother...

Alas.

Having done all this, Li An began to seclude himself for alchemy!

During his last trip to buy array materials and other items, he also bought some spirit herbs for nourishing the soul, which he turned into a pill. Through careful crafting, it took half a month to complete the refinement.

"Wake up, time for some candy."

Li An awakened the slumbering Shangguan Xiaoxiao.

Shangguan Xiaoxiao stirred from his soul fire, looked at him lightly, and said, "Oh, perfect Nascent Soul, impressive Li Gou, congratulations on becoming a Nascent Soul powerhouse."