Chapter 282: Immortal Retreat
This long trip, from Zhang Fan's outing to his return, took a total of about ten months. In this high-level cultivator's life cycle, which often exceeded 120,000 years, the so-called immortal realm, ten months was only a short moment. However, the pace of change in the power pattern in reality is not necessarily much inferior to that of the mundane world. At least in a battle or fight, the time between the immortals and the mortals of the Boundless Continent who didn't know martial arts at all was almost the same. The time it takes for a gang war to take is similar.
However, when Zhang Fan really returned to the original concealed phantom array in a stealth state and suddenly appeared in the underground palace of the Heavenly Dao Gang, more than 130 members of the entire Heavenly Dao Gang cheered and stood up.
"The helper is back! the helper is back!" many people shouted excitedly.
Zhang Fan didn't care and asked bluntly, "In the days I left, did anyone violate discipline, or did he mean to go out in violation of discipline?"
Xiao Chen, like Zhang Fan, is a relatively straightforward person, so he didn't protect his shortcomings at this time, "When the helper had just left for only a month or two, a very few people began to be restless. But also, there are those puppets guarding the door, not to mention that outsiders don't want to go out, and their own people can't get out at all. If you cat's here for another ten or eight years, maybe you'll really be trapped here."
Zhang Fan suddenly remembered that before he left, just in case, he had spent a lot of energy on the puppet talisman program, and when he released his perception, he could also feel that almost everyone was not too abnormal, so he put his heart down.
To the surprise of many people, after Zhang Fan returned, he did not ask everyone about the progress of martial arts like ordinary gang elders. Obviously: for Zhang Fan at this time, the cultivation strength of the Heavenly Dao Gang itself is not important, and he only knows that his comprehensive combat effectiveness in terms of puppets can only catch up with the insignificant strength of the entire gang. It's just that when I have a certain amount of power in the future, I still need more reliable management talents.
Zhang Fan first asked what the dream film and television creation ability of each group was, and how the cultural life had changed. The result was of course similar to Zhang Fan's previous guess, even if the members of this weak gang had a negligible status in the rivers and lakes of the Immortal Realm, but in any case, they were also True Immortal Realm and above cultivators, and they still had a lot of advantages over ordinary mortals or even mortal geniuses on the plane of the Boundless Continent.
In the past 10 months, a cultural creation troupe of 32 people and a "peripheral screenwriter" of about 40 people have been able to produce an average of two hours of immersive movies and about half an hour of "dream storytelling" every day In addition, in this ten months, I used my spare time to create a late 21st century, even if a top human game company on the earth spent more than a year, it may not be able to create a game masterpiece, the Legend of Xianlu, perhaps it is precisely because of this that the whole gang can gradually live a normal life in this relatively boring dungeon life, and even more abundant than when I was a child.
Although Zhang Fan is far ahead of many people, including Xiao Chen, in terms of strength, his behavior and style have never had the common hierarchical doctrine in this immortal world. When Zhang Fan returned, he saw that no matter whether it was a golden immortal or a true immortal, whether the strength cultivation was high or low, they could talk and laugh together in relative harmony, which was very different from ten months ago, and of course he knew how much thought and effort Xiao Chen had spent in order to change the long-term disadvantages of cultivation supremacy, seniority between people, and even hierarchy according to the general meaning he left before leaving.
After living and communicating with the gang for more than ten days, Zhang Fan also announced a decision without hesitation, and said to everyone, "I may have to go into retreat for a long time." Maybe a Jiazi is about 60 years old, maybe it is more than 200 years. Maintaining the spirit and morale of such a dormant dungeon for such a long time is undoubtedly a challenge for the members of the culture team. All people should also be prepared to take on such challenges. ”
Zhang Fan's words certainly made many people in the gang a little worried. Although in this immortal realm, even ordinary people in the Mahayana realm often have a lifespan of more than 30,000 years, these decades and one or two hundred years are nothing at all. But after decades, one or two hundred years like this, the people in the Heavenly Dao Gang who are usually lazy are not used to it.
Of course, Zhang Fan also thought of this, so he added, "Of course I'm not a person who loses three or four, this time I will prepare according to three hundred years!"
As he spoke, a wine dragon flew out of Zhang Fan's storage space, and the wine dragon flew in front of everyone's eyes continuously, flying in the direction of the underground palace warehouse.
"According to the amount of ten catties per person per day, about two cubic meters a year, what is a cubic meter and so on, I should also tell you. A total of 100,000 cubic meters of seventh-grade immortal wine. This is what I bought from out of town at a high price of 800 medium-grade immortal spirit essences. It should be able to fully meet your needs for the next three hundred years, right? Actually, I was going to buy more, but the cellar of our underground palace was originally planned to be too small, and the total was only 150,000 cubic meters, so I have to make some margin, right? Even if it is not sealed, this seventh-level immortal wine will not deteriorate even if it is left for a thousand years."
Although many people in the Heavenly Dao Gang were True Immortal Cultivators, they didn't have much knowledge. However, a small number of Golden Immortal Gang members had still heard of this immortal wine and so on. The seventh-grade immortal wine is only qualified to be quoted by monks at the level of Taiyi Jade Immortal, and the spiritual energy is abundant and huge without harming the body, and the vast number of monks below the level of Taiyi realm and even Mahayana are also applicable, but it will waste its effect-to-cost ratio in some aspects. At this moment, the Heavenly Dao Gang knew how important it was to follow a strong person to the entire collective
Subsequently, Zhang Fan once again took out the medium-grade immortal spirit crystals that he had made on the way with a total of more than 12,000 pieces, and said, "According to the rough distribution of strength, one piece per person for each True Immortal Realm monk, one hundred yuan for each Golden Immortal Realm monk, one thousand for each of the four people in the early stage of Taiyi, and the remaining less than five thousand will go to Xiao Chen brothers." I'll tell you some of the methods of the Spirit Gathering Circle in a moment. I've roughly calculated, this is the upper limit that some of your cultivators who are relatively low in the realm level can bear in the short term, maybe some people will not be used to it in the early stage, just take care of some more. And I think Xiao Chen will be able to help you if you can't bear it. Some superficial adjustments of the Spirit Gathering Array have been discovered, and I have already told Brother Xiao Chen."
Zhang Fan's words made the entire Heavenly Dao Gang disciples cheer, "Gang Master Zhao Sui!" There is no doubt that Zhang Fan's lowest standard is at least a hundred times the net worth of all the monks of the corresponding level. Using a huge amount of medium-grade immortal spirit crystals to make a spirit gathering array for cultivation, legend has it that this is the treatment that only some outstanding disciples in the Heavenly Court Realm Gate Sect will have.
Zhang Fan didn't care about this. In the past few months, that is, in the storage space for a few years, about 100,000 of the 500,000 medium-grade fairy spirit essences mined before have been processed by Zhang Fan, and the processing of all these concentrates is only more than ten years in the storage space, or more than a year outside. It's just that with the unprecedented improvement of Zhang Fan's strength, and even the self-confidence he has established in many previous confrontations, his goals and vision have become different from before.
The two trips to the secret realm made Zhang Fan realize that the strength of the early stage realm of Da Luo might be enough to dominate the Jianghu realm in a certain area. However, the general pattern of this immortal realm is that the forces of the Heavenly Court are extremely strong, while the forces of the rivers and lakes are very weak. Under this kind of big pattern, having the strength of the early stage of the Great Luo Realm will add a lot of risks compared to before. He must improve his strength as soon as possible to a position that can match the powerhouses in the middle of the Great Luo Realm. In that case, there might still not be much security in the Heavenly Court's sphere of influence, but there might be a necessary foothold in many parts of the Barbarian Realm.
In this way, soon after Zhang Fan initially settled the affairs in the gang, he once again entered the state of cultivation in the open level. In the days that followed, the progress of the refinement of the fairy crystal concentrate was better than he expected, especially with the improvement of his strength, Zhang Fan once again unlocked the ability of some aspects of the super intelligence merge. It only took about seven years, that is, about eight and a half months outside the storage space, and all the fine stones he obtained from the fairy crystal mine were refined. In this case, Zhang Fan also used about 500,000 medium-grade immortal spirit crystals to set up a spirit gathering array. It is equivalent to cultivating to a hundred times the strength of a monk of the same level, and the immortal spirit crystal of the disposable wealth level formed under the effect of the spirit gathering array is with Zhang Fan's qualifications at this time, and he feels a certain degree of pressure. It seemed to be nothing in the short term, but the pressure of the spiritual power pulsating for a long time made Zhang Fan feel some pain.
In this state of cultivation, Zhang Fan did not forget about other aspects of combat preparation, and soon began to improve his strength in the Spirit Gathering Array, while carrying out large-scale purification and processing of those captured materials to create his own "legion".
Through these two expeditions, another lesson Zhang Fan learned was that if he planned to temporarily move to the barbaric realm to live in the future, even if the combined strength of the forces below was not as good as his own, it would still be useful. At least if you had an army of puppets outside the cave or followed you into the cave in the Valley of the Fallen Spirits, then a lot of risks and even unnecessary troubles should have been avoided at that time.
The first to be processed is, of course, the bodies of the seven or eight rank flying insects and demon beasts of the Taiyi Realm with the worst quality. Of course, although the total number of demon beasts in this type of flying insect is as high as 40,000, Zhang Fan relies on the processing ability that seems to have been enhanced compared to the past, even according to the requirements of excellence, it only took a Jiazi in the storage space for about sixty years in total to process the corpse materials of these low-level demon beasts into about 4,000 birds and monsters with an average cultivation level of strength at the ninth level of the Taiyi Realm. These birds and monsters are also based on physical attacks and very simple poison attacks, and after supplementing the corresponding 40,000 medium-grade fairy spirit crystals as cores, they can exert the strength comparable to the peak of the Taiyi Realm in a short-term battle, or convert the strength of a monk of the fourth layer or so of the Daluo Realm. This is also the fastest stage of improvement in Zhang Fan's strength.
Subsequently, Zhang Fan began to gradually spend his energy on the processing of the body materials of those Taiyi Nine-Rank Demon Beasts and Taiyi Peak Level Monks, and used these materials to make forty puppets whose comprehensive strength was comparable to the strength of the first layer of Da Luo, and the strength of the combined array could also be comparable to the masters of the peak level of the third layer of Da Luo, and after installing at least 40,000 immortal spirit crystals, the combat power could be matched with the strength of the monks of the fourth layer of Da Luo in the short term. Of course, this process also took a significantly longer time, and it took a total of three jiazi, equivalent to about 180 years, to get this done.
And even outside the storage space, this moment is enough time for about twenty years to pass, and the disciples of the Heavenly Dao Gang have also adapted to the cultivation and entertainment life in the palace for a long time at the beginning, and finally they have somewhat adapted, and they don't know that the strength of the entire Heavenly Dao Gang, including Zhang Fan, has gradually crossed a certain threshold from quantitative change not long ago, and has begun to reach the basic conditions for being able to stand on their own in the barbaric realm.
Of course, Zhang Fan would not be satisfied with these, and after digesting the preliminary results of the previous expedition as quickly as possible, and maximizing the ability of the entire Heavenly Dao Gang to deal with various risks, Zhang Fan began to focus on the body materials of those Daluo Realm demon beasts, including the defensive magic weapon that seemed to have failed. Of course, the body materials of a genius Taiyi Realm peak level cultivator collected by the treasure house in the He Gu cemetery seemed to have some value.
The use of these high-level materials, Zhang Fan naturally did not intend to waste it on the puppet, but planned to make a Thousand Spirit Mecha with a higher level of Daluo Realm defense power after repairing his previous somewhat damaged Thousand Spirit Mecha. In the case that one's own cultivation itself cannot change to a great extent, it seems that the most important direction is to start from these aspects.
Although these materials in the Daluo realm are scarce, the difficulty of processing seems to have increased dramatically compared to the previous materials. And Zhang Fan also has an attitude of excellence, and he does not dare to be sloppy. In this way, it took another 500 years or so in the storage space to truly absorb most of the assets obtained from the two expeditions.