After the breakthrough, Lin Xiao also retreated for a year, and completely consolidated his cultivation, this time Lin Xiao was very low-key, and he didn't hold any promotion ceremony, as if it was a breakthrough for the small class.

However, no matter how low-key Lin Xiao is, the appearance of a spiritual light monk in Tianyun Prefecture still has a huge impact, and the Pure Yang Palace is like a great enemy, secretly gathering a lot of people to prevent the expansion of Tianyun Prefecture again.

And the Tiancang faction of Cangguo is also hoarding heavy troops on the western border of Tianyun Prefecture, it is very obvious that Cangguo, the wall-head grass, is once again standing on the side of Chunyang Palace, once Tianyun Prefecture makes a move, they will have to contain Tianyun Prefecture with troops.

Also within Tianyun Prefecture, morale is also very high, and the various sects have the idea of launching another annexation war, it has been a hundred years since the last war against the Pure Yang Palace, and the interior of Tianyun Prefecture has already digested the territory in the south of the original Chen State, which has made the strength of the various sects in Tianyun Prefecture skyrocket a lot.

In the past, the development of these sects of the Danyang Sect was very conservative, and the disciples of the sect basically stagnated after receiving about 6,000 people, but they started from decades ago, and when the newly laid territory was produced, they began to expand the number of people again.

If Tianyun Prefecture has the strongest number of people in the Tiansheng Sect, there are about 13,000 people in the Ming Face, about 10,000 in the Danyang Sect, and the strength of Hongshanmen has risen sharply in recent years, and it is close to 10,000, there are more than 8,000 people in the Shanhe Sect, more than 7,000 in Tianhaimen, and the remaining five sects of the nine major sects in Tianyun Prefecture also have three or four thousand people, and there are more than 60,000 horses in these ten sects alone.

Moreover, the potential of the originally digested territory has been developed to the extreme, and if you want to continue to develop, you have to grind hard, which makes the sect that is accustomed to rapid development a little uncomfortable, so they want to expand and annex again.

This point is also related to the surrounding situation of Tianyun Prefecture, the last war Tianyun Prefecture directly disabled Tiannan Prefecture, Baiyan Prefecture was also hit hard, it can be said that these two states and counties can be defeated at will, and the surrounding forces are too unbeatable, just like the fat hanging on the mouth of Tianyun Prefecture, which is very tempting.

However, Lin Xiao quickly rejected this idea, Tianyun Prefecture is now similar to a country, once a war is launched, it will be a big war, maybe a war to destroy the country, the surrounding countries will not easily sit idly by, even the Heavenly Eclipse Country, which is far north of the Pure Yang Palace, will not necessarily ally with Tianyun Prefecture again.

The reason is very simple, this is not in the interests of the Eclipse Country, once the Pure Yang Palace is defeated, then will the Eclipse Country have the next defeated country?

Therefore, unless Tianyun Prefecture has the strength to withstand the attack of the two countries, it must not start a war, and the end will be very miserable, and Tianyun Prefecture will continue to develop.

Now it is very difficult for Cangguo and Chunyang Palace to restrict the development of Tianyun Prefecture, it is almost difficult to contain, and the Gongming City auction once every forty years can bring great benefits to Tianyun Prefecture.

"Now we have thirteen thousand people in the Heavenly Saint Sect, is there a lot of people in this point, not many at all, Zhang Shouza, you know the situation, among these thirteen thousand people, at least more than 2,000 people are retirees, and the other 4,000 are planting spirit valleys for the sect, breeding demon beasts, operating business names, etc., plus the huge territory of the Heavenly Saint Sect needs people to guard, at least 5,000 people are needed, and the mobile people we can really mobilize are actually fewer than a hundred years ago, and no matter how much they are deployed, it will not exceed 5,000 people.

Our Heavenly Saint Sect is like this, and the rest of the sects are not, excluding all kinds of people, there are only twenty or thirty thousand people who can be transferred, how to fight, so you must think clearly about this"

The call for internal conquest in the Heavenly Saint Sect was also very high, so Lin Xiao also deliberately convened a sect meeting to discuss this matter and analyze the high-level of the Heavenly Saint Sect one by one.

Lin Xiao knew what they thought, although the income of many disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect in peacetime was good, it was still very difficult to exchange those treasures that broke through the realm, and the best opportunity was to fight and establish a military industry, so that they could overtake the competitors of the same sect in a corner, but these were not in the interests of the sect.

"The head of the sect is right, you are all high-level sects, you all know how many people are needed to guard the dozens of spiritual mountains of the Heavenly Saint Sect, and Gongming City, Baiwu Mountain, and Mountain Gate alone need at least two thousand people.

What's more, if we really start a war, how much benefit can we get, mobilize the whole state together, and at least occupy three states and counties of the size of Tiannan Prefecture to be cost-effective, but will the Pure Yang Palace let us get our wish?

If we don't have such a large territory, we will take one or two spiritual mountains, so peace of mind development is the last word, we can now balance five or six hundred thousand Xuanjing every year, which is enough."

Zhang Mingtang also stood up to speak for Lin Xiao, his time as the first elder was running out, although he wanted to make a final exploit, but more importantly, he couldn't be disgusted by Lin Xiao.

"Baosheng, translation, you two should also give your opinions."

Lin Xiao pointed to the two young people beside Zhang Mingtang and said, before Zhang Mingtang only cultivated a successor to the first elder, which Lin Xiao did not allow, so a few more people were added.

For more than 20 years, the remaining people have been eliminated one after another, and there are still two people left at this time, one is Zhang Baosheng, a descendant of Zhang Mingtang, and the other is called Li Yiwen, he is just the son of a mortal businessman, who is influenced by the family atmosphere, has excellent business management ability, and quickly stands out among the merchants in the hundred cities.

Lin Xiao asked for a candidate to promote the first elder, and the Baicheng firm pushed this person out and promoted him exceptionally, and the Baicheng firm also wanted the first elder to be their person, so that the Baicheng firm would be able to get more resources in the future.

And Li Yiwen has also lived up to expectations, he has done a very good job in the past 20 years, defeating opponents one after another, and now only Zhang Baosheng is left.

Both of them are extremely smart people, Lin Xiao has already made his attitude clear, they naturally dare not object, and they all echoed Lin Xiao's suggestion, so that the call for conquest within the sect was suppressed.

There was no tendency to fight in Tianyun Prefecture, so there was no need for Cangguo and Chunyang Palace to gather people, so they quickly dispersed, and the dark clouds of war that hung over Tianyun Prefecture dissipated without a trace.

Soon after, Lin Xiao convened most of the Dao Gang monks of the Heavenly Saint Sect to discuss the issue, and raised the topic of accelerating development and cultivating spiritual light monks.

Now the Heavenly Saint Sect is not counting the night owls, there are twenty Daogang monks, and there are only two cases of failure with the use of Dao Ji Dan to break through, and the probability of using treasures such as Xuanhuang Baoyu and Lingying chalcedony is also about one-third.

According to the limit of forty years, the Heavenly Saint Sect can have at least four Daogang monks, and the number of Purple Mansion monks is even larger, exceeding two hundred in the past few years.

However, the development of many monks in the Daogang period is not satisfactory, except for Li Muxue who broke through to the twelfth layer of Daogang a year ago, the highest cultivation is Bai Xixi, only the eighth layer of Daogang, then the seventh layer of Bai Zichen, the fifth layer of Li Mingyang, and the rest are all hovering at the third or fourth layer.

Many people seem to have exhausted their potential after reaching the Daogang period, such as Xu Zhongsheng, the number of years he has broken through is not low, but he is only at the second level of Daogang.

Even Lin Xiao's other three apprentices are not very strong, on average, it takes more than 20 Chinese New Year's Eve years to improve one level, and it takes more than 400 years to have a chance to impact the spiritual light, which is too slow and too slow.

"Master, I think this problem should be due to the issue of pills, our sect now has three fourth-order alchemists, but the problem is that we don't have so many materials for alchemy.

In addition to Senior Sister Li Muxue's ability to refine the Dan from time to time, Bai Xixi and Yu Tianxiang can't see how many times a year they can open the Dan Furnace, and our sect has more than 20 Daogangs, which is not enough at all."

"Zhang Shouzuo, how many furnace pill materials can we make up in a year now, and how many pills can be refined?"

"Back to the master, according to the statistics of the previous ten years, our Heavenly Saint Sect can make up twelve furnaces of pill materials a year, eight furnaces are refined by Li Laozu, a total of about sixty pills, and the rest of the sects let us refine more than ten furnaces, which can cost more than a dozen, adding up to no more than eighty, on average, a Daogang ancestor only has four pills available a year."

"Four pills a year, it's really too little"

Lin Xiao nodded, he himself needs at least about twenty pills a year, so as to ensure that his cultivation can improve rapidly, and the eighty pills of the sect cannot be averaged, it is normal for an alchemist like Li Muxue to get more than a dozen pills a year, which leads to some people taking only one pill a year, and it is normal for their cultivation to be slow.

"It's mainly a matter of materials, our Heavenly Saint Sect now has five fourth-order spirit mountains in addition to Gongming City, and they have all opened up a part of the elixir garden, but the maturity period of the fourth-order elixir is often more than a hundred years, and it is too late, and our spirit planter level is too low to shorten the maturity time of the elixir on a large scale.

Now among the more than a dozen elixirs we have a year, only about one-third of the elixirs produced by our sect are self-produced, and the rest are all purchased from outside, which costs a lot."

"Now the only place where the sect can get elixir is the wilderness."

"Yes, apart from the wilderness, there is only conquest left, snatching from other people's elixir gardens"

"It's not proper, I heard that the sixth-order purple-eyed demon king closest to us has become more and more protective of the calves over the years, the fourth-order demon beasts are not allowed to kill, and a lot of fourth- and fifth-order demon beasts have been sent to inspect the territory, and now it has been more than a hundred years since the last beast tide, if you annoy the purple-eyed demon king, you have to break out the beast tide again, and this time the scale will be even larger, Chen Guonan is in our hands, and then it will be the first to bear the brunt, it's not appropriate."

"What does that mean..."

"Travel, the sect still needs seven or eight Dao Gang to be able to sit down, and the rest will all go to travel, increase your knowledge, and maybe you can get some opportunities outside."

Lin Xiao replied, don't go out to see, these people don't know the sinister outside, and their eyelids are low, so Lin Xiao has to let them go out and take a look.