Chapter 121: Advancing in vain
Just at the end of the Iron Wall Encirclement Plan, the Heavenly Saint Sect ushered in a happy event, Bai Xixi, who had been in retreat for almost a year, was released, and successfully broke through to the Purple Mansion Period and became the second Purple Mansion monk of the Heavenly Saint Sect.
On the day of Bai Xixi's breakthrough, the remaining five members of the Bai family were crying, the Chen Guo Bai family had been destroyed for thirty years, and they had been sleeping at night for thirty years, remembering the great hatred of the year day and night, but because of their strength, they didn't dare to have any extravagant hopes, but now hope is coming.
Ordinary disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect didn't know the past of the Bai family, and they didn't know why they were crying so much, but Lin Xiao knew it, he personally went to visit the people of the Bai family, and took out a few Kaifu Dan on the spot, telling them that Kaifu Dan has never been a problem, as long as they work hard and are willing to be loyal to the sect, there is hope to open up the Purple Mansion.
The people of the Bai family were naturally extremely excited, and they said on the spot that they would work hard and definitely smear their hearts and minds for the sect, this was not nonsense, but their words from the bottom of their hearts, and everyone's loyalty increased a little.
At this time, there were six people above the tenth layer of the Heavenly Saint Sect's condensation vein, except for Bai Chenxi and Bai Zichen, they were the four guest elders who had been naturalized before, and these were all expected to break through within ten years.
And Li Muxue has also condensed the sixth layer of veins at this time, she is now maintaining the speed of breaking through the first layer in ten months, this speed is incomparable, before Bai Xi took the marrow washing pill, the spiritual root qualification is equivalent to the best, and it will take about eighteen months to break through the first layer, and it will take two years after the tenth layer, and Li Mingyang is now also tied by Li Muxue, and it will take him a little more than two years to break through the first layer.
And the rest of the condensation vein disciples are much slower, breaking through the first layer in three or four years is a normal level, and a slower five or six years, and the three elders like Li Fengyue, who are not qualified and have no intention of cultivating, only broke through the first layer in ten years, they have broken through the condensation vein for twenty years, and now they are still at the level of the second and third layers of the condensation vein, but they are not to blame, because it is they who paid the price of time to help Lin Xiao deal with so many chores, otherwise Lin Xiao would be busy to death.
After Bai Xixi advanced, Lin Xiao let her sit in the mountain gate of the Heavenly Saint Sect, where the concentration of Xuan Qi was higher, and there was nothing to do, which was conducive to her stabilizing the realm, and at the same time, Lin Xiao also provided her with the pills that the Purple Mansion cultivators needed.
Only Danyang Sect sold pills of this level in the entire Tianyun Prefecture, but Lin Xiao would only buy a small number of pills to cover people's eyes, and those he bought were not used, he only used the system in exchange.
Bai Zichen also had to prepare for the Purple Mansion, so Lin Xiao nodded to Li Muxue's general, and made her the person in charge of Gongmingfang City, and continued to train her in life.
Lin Xiao really didn't embarrass her, in order to train Li Muxue, none of the people in Gongmingfang City Lin Xiao did not move, all of them were arranged in the original position, and Lin Xiao personally talked to them, telling them that Li Muxue would not stay in this position for a long time, and who should be in the position in the future can still be there, but in advance it is to cooperate with Li Muxue's work.
Li Muxue is doing things under her nose, Lin Xiao is much more relieved, while Li Muxue is much more nervous, she has been Lin Xiao's apprentice for some years, although Lin Xiao is very good to her, but Li Muxue still feels that Lin Xiao is very serious and feels that he is superior.
Lin Xiao naturally didn't know this, as the head of the Heavenly Saint Sect, his every move was under the attention of more than 2,000 people in the Heavenly Saint Sect, so he didn't dare to show who he was close to, otherwise it would cause a big misunderstanding.
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The end of the Iron Wall Siege incident was also the beginning of the arms race of the Three States War, after which, the various sects began to silently hoard materials again, but the action was not big, because they were afraid of causing changes in market prices as before, and spent a lot of money in vain.
Lin Xiao is also preparing silently, the first one to prepare is Ryoma, compared with mortals, the speed of the monk is much faster, if it breaks out in a short distance, it is no less than the speed of Ryoma, but it consumes Xuan power, and it takes so much Xuan power to rush to the road, how to fight when the time comes, so it is still very important to move quickly.
Originally, the best maneuverability was to use a flying boat, but the price of a flying boat was too expensive, and it was not cost-effective for Tianyun Prefecture, so Lin Xiao still chose Ryoma.
The market price of an adult first-order top-grade dragon horse is about two thousand to two thousand five Xuanjing, once it reaches the second order, the price will double, and it is impossible to buy a second-order for large-scale procurement, so Lin Xiao wants all first-order high-grade adult dragon horses, and Lin Xiao ordered a hundred through the Four Seas Firm.
Now there are about sixty or seventy Heavenly Saint Sects, and these numbers are usually okay for one use, but once a war starts, it will be completely insufficient.
The Four Seas Merchant quickly replied to Lin Xiao's message, telling Lin Xiao that they would send these hundred dragon horses in six batches, each batch would take about three months, and the goods would be paid on delivery, so the Heavenly Saint Sect, who had just had a surplus in finance, began to run out of money again, but Lin Xiao didn't care, the money was used up to make money, no, it was just a pile of stones.
In addition, Lin Xiao didn't have any more big moves, he had taken over the Heavenly Saint Sect for more than twenty years, and he had always been escorting the sect, and now that he was going on, the Heavenly Saint Sect also needed to operate freely by itself.
Half a year later, Lin Xiao let Bai Xixi, whose realm had been stabilized, sit in Gongmingfang City, and equipped her with a third-order magic weapon, but it was a pity that Bai Xixi did not practice the divine exercises, and with her Xuan Qi level, she couldn't use the third-order high-grade magic weapon at all, so Lin Xiao prepared all the third-order middle-grade magic weapons, but this also made Bai Xixi very moved, because in Tianyun Prefecture, third-order magic weapons are even rarer than third-order elixirs.
Bai Xixi was actually very puzzled, why Lin Xiao had so many treasures in hand, the previous statement of the relics was definitely unreliable, but Bai Xixi didn't dare to ask more, the higher her cultivation, the more she felt Lin Xiao's horror.
After instructing Bai Xixi to protect Li Muxue, Lin Xiao returned to the Heavenly Saint Sect after three months of retreat, and his cultivation broke through to the fifth layer, and this breakthrough was almost five years since the last time, which was very slow.
After another two years, Bai Chenxi, Bai Zichen and the original Keqing elder Zhou Huaiying broke through the Purple Mansion at the same time, and Lin Xiao also had to make some cover-ups to find out the source of the channel for the Kaifu Dan, but there was already a precedent for this in Tianhaimen, and no one traced it, but it only shocked the path of the Heavenly Saint Sect.
The retreat of Bai Chenxi and the others directly stimulated the Bishui Pavilion, over the years, the Danyang Sect and the Tianhai Gate, and the Hongshan Gate have no longer increased the number of Purple Mansion monks, and their potential has been exhausted, but they didn't expect another Heavenly Saint Sect to come out, if the three of them break through again, the Purple Mansion monks in Tianyun Prefecture will be as high as thirty.
Therefore, Bishui Pavilion took the lead in launching an open arms race, hoarding all kinds of materials, causing the prices of various resources and materials to soar, Tianyun Prefecture also had to fight, and also followed the arms race, more than ten years ago, the scene of the carnival of major businesses appeared again, and countless resources flowed into the two states and counties every day.
This also made the merchants of the Four Seas make a windfall, and the list of the Heavenly Saint Sect alone could make them eat a lot of money, not to mention the rest of the sects.
In addition to the arms race, Qingshan County also made a crazy move, that is, to recruit the Purple Mansion Keqing, and recruited ten scattered Purple Mansions at one time, plus the Purple Mansions that they have worked so hard to develop over the years, the total number has reached twenty-three, plus the three existing Purple Mansions of the Ningshui Sect, the number of Purple Mansions is once again equal to that of Tianyun Prefecture.
However, their crazy behavior made the people of Tianyun Prefecture shake their heads and say nothing, it can be said that it is easy to invite the gods and send them to the gods, it is easy to recruit them, but it will be difficult to send them away when the time comes, and how many sects that have been annexed by Elder Keqing afterwards are living examples.
What's more, those scattered cultivators of the Purple Mansion are unlikely to be as loyal as the Purple Mansion cultivated by the sect, and they are willing to die for the sake of the sect, their combat effectiveness is very worth thinking about, so it can only be said that the people of Qinghe County are going crazy.
The act of ripening cannon fodder was staged again between the two sects, at this time more than ten years have passed since the last three-state war, and most of the cannon fodder disciples who beckoned after the end of the three-state war have mentioned the level of opening the pulse eight and nine layers, and the twelfth layer of the opening pulse is ripening, and the eighth and ninth layers are also urging, but the price is higher and the time is longer.
As a result, the condensation vein cultivators who were usually regarded as the backbone of the sect became worthless, and began to appear in batches, and the Danyang Sect urged out two hundred condensation vein cultivators within half a year, and it is still continuing, Lin Xiao estimated that when the war started, the condensation vein cultivators in Tianyun Prefecture and Qingshan County might break through three thousand.
Danyang Sect also passed on the secret method of ripening to Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao finally knew what the price of those monks was, it was not a problem for ordinary condensing vein monks to live for more than a hundred years, but this secret method of maturation was to invest in the vitality of the human body, and the monks of the twelfth layer of the vein opening were forcibly promoted to the first layer of the condensation vein, and their life span would be reduced by at least twenty years, and their cultivation could never be improved.
And if the eighth and ninth layers of the open vein are forcibly mentioned to the first layer of the condensation vein, maybe they will have to pay more than thirty or forty years of life, and these people may only be able to live for another seven or eight years, and they are all cannon fodder.
Lin Xiao finally refused to use this method, Lin Xiao believed that with his current prestige, he raised his arms and shouted, at least hundreds of people in the Heavenly Saint Sect were willing to make this sacrifice, but Lin Xiao couldn't be ruthless, and the system didn't allow it, this way led to the death of the disciple, then even if it was a battle damage, the points had to be deducted, and hundreds of people would be deducted together, Lin Xiao's points would immediately become negative, and maybe they would be wiped out by the system.
Therefore, Lin Xiao replied to the Danyang Sect, the Heavenly Saint Sect will take the elite route, there are too many people and there is no money to arm, anyway, the Heavenly Saint Sect will not embarrass Tianyun Prefecture at that time.
However, the hundred condensing vein cavalry that Lin Xiao wanted to build was still not successful in the end, at this time, there were only about ninety condensing vein cultivators in the Heavenly Saint Sect, and at least twenty condensation veins would be left to guard the mountain gate, and there would only be about seventy people who could really be mobilized, which made Lin Xiao very disappointed.
Two years after such a frenzied arms race, the dark clouds of war once again loomed over the Heavenly Saint Sect and Qingshan County, and the two sides began to hoard serious illnesses on the border, and war was on the verge of breaking out.