Chapter 29: Useless
After walking around the territory of the Hidden Sword Valley, Lu Xuan felt that the nearby sects were quite concerned about commercial development, and there were people doing the normal way to make money.
It's normal, this world doesn't know how many years of stable development it has, any sect has a history of thousands of years, and anyone who is beneficial to the sect must have done it.
The income is still reliable for farming and mining, Lu Xuan sighed.
It's a pity that the ancestors of this sect didn't work hard enough, and the descendants couldn't sit back and enjoy their success. Now the sect has a fixed annual income of four hundred and fifty spirit stones, and two-thirds of it can be said to be the result of Lu Xuan's struggle.
Maybe for many small sects, this income is not bad, you can slowly farm and develop, and wait for hundreds of years after the disciples have cultivated to a high level, and then go out to fight.
But Lu Xuan didn't want this, he also wanted to live forever and become an immortal, but he knew very well that his talent was not enough, and he had to use a lot of resources to cultivate himself, and the position of head was the best tool for him to realize his ambitions. The average lifespan of a disciple in the Qi refining period in this world is only one hundred and twenty years old, and even if he is lucky enough to build a foundation, his lifespan is only about three hundred years old, and he can't wait for the day when he will succeed in farming.
10,000 years is too long.
Lu Xuan was desperately thinking about what way to make a windfall, and at the same time went to Lingtian to see the recent changes.
The spiritual field of the Purple Thunder Gate is located around the Fengxian Palace, with a size of more than ten acres.
At present, more than half of it is planted with spirit valleys, and a small half is enclosed into a nursery to plant some spirit grass for refining medicine.
The Spirit Valley is the best food for immortal cultivators who are not yet in the foundation building period and cannot clear the valley, not only can they fill their stomachs with a little bit, but also slightly enhance the aura of the eater. However, no one in this sect has the opportunity to eat it, and due to the lack of spirit stones, the spirit valley produced every year is taken to the market to be sold. Linggu is still a relatively popular product, and the annual income of the Purple Thunder Gate can also range from forty or fifty spirit stones.
Most of the spiritual grasses in the nursery are cultivated from the seedlings brought back by the ancestors when they went out to explore, so the number is not large, and the time required to cultivate is also long, often decades. Therefore, although the price of Spirit Grass is high, the average annual income is similar to that of Spirit Valley.
Yuan Weizheng was directing several disciples to cultivate, and when he saw the head of the sect coming, he quickly stopped to greet him.
Lu Xuan waved his hand, signaling them not to be restrained, but to come to the pavilion on the side and chat together.
Lu Xuan is very open to whether his disciples are diligent or not, originally cultivating immortals pays attention to qualifications and opportunities, planting this kind of thing, it is almost fine, and there is no need for disciples to spend all their time on it.
Talking about the recent situation in the door, several disciples were very enthusiastic to say that the head of the sect had recently issued a generous reward, and everyone was very excited and optimistic about the future.
Lu Xuan smiled, this was also expected by him, facing the standard answer of his superiors.
He casually asked the disciples how they spent the spirit stones after they got them.
As he expected, as immortal cultivators, after the disciples got the spirit stones, they basically used them to buy pills to assist in cultivation. After all, in the immortal cultivation world, cultivation is everything.
And the pill will definitely not be a high-end product like the Gathering Spirit Pill, it is all Condensation Pill, Xiu Shen Pill and the like, the price of each bottle is basically below one or two spirit stones, and the effect is only to slightly increase the cultivation speed.
However, one of the disciples' answers surprised him a little.
"I took it and bought a Black Shine Divine Stone and came back. β
The disciples on the side immediately burst into laughter.
Lu Xuan was also a little helpless, he had more or less heard of the name of this thing. This is a special product of a certain place in the northern country, and the function is to hold it in your hand every time you practice, and it is said that as long as you figure it out more, you will have the opportunity to make people understand something, so that your divine consciousness will become clear, and then greatly improve the speed of cultivation. It's just that no one has ever been able to rigorously verify this effect, and most of the stories that say it's useful are just hearsay stories from people.
And Lu Xuan has always suspected that this thing is actually a useless thing, because if it is really useful, the origin of this thing has long been covered by the big sects, how can it be allowed to flow out to the outside market.
With such a function that is suspected to be effective for cultivation, the price of this item is not cheap, and it usually costs more than twenty spirit stones.
The person who answered was just an ordinary disciple, so he had already saved more than ten spirit stones before he received the full reward this time. As a result, it was so easy to spend it all.
Lu Xuan couldn't help but want to laugh at the disciple, and said to him patiently: "Have you ever thought about it, if you don't realize the function of this thing, wouldn't it be all in vain in the previous few years?
The disciple ignored the ridicule of others and replied seriously, "Actually, I also know that this thing may not be useful. β
The person next to him laughed even harder.
"Haha. β
"Know you still buy it?"
"You might as well give me the spirit stone, I'll do all the year's work for you this year. β
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The disciple had a good temper, and waited for others to finish laughing before he continued: "But I was born with four spiritual roots, and if I follow the normal cultivation method, I will not be able to reach the level of foundation building in my lifetime. In that case, what is the use of me buying a little more herbs? I might as well gamble that if my talent matches this thing and I realize something, then I will ascend to heaven in one step. When the time comes, it will be much stronger than those of you who have been cultivating hard and have no hope. β
The disciples were speechless for a moment and pondered.
Also, his qualifications are too poor, and there is no hope for him to cultivate. No wonder he pinned his hopes on fate to change his fate.
Of course, the other disciples were still a little sensible enough to believe in the function of this thing, and the silence was only due to empathy.
Lu Xuan couldn't persuade the other party anymore.
No one could stop an immortal cultivator from taking action for the sake of immortality, even if his path was clearly wrong.
Because in the buyer's mind, he buys not a stone, but hope.
Disciples like him with ordinary qualifications who were struggling on the road of cultivating immortals accounted for the majority of the Purple Thunder Sect, and there were tens of thousands in the northern land.
He also instantly understood why this Black Shine Divine Stone had never been confirmed, but it had always been able to be popularβa huge consumer base was placed here. Even if only one person out of a hundred immortal cultivators buys it, it is an astonishing amount.
They could have invested their money in really useful resources, but that was their choice. Isn't it? Immortal cultivators who have such thoughts, if you let them work hard to cultivate a little bit, they are also unwilling. They just want to ascend to the sky in one step, even if they don't buy the Black Yao Divine Stone, they will buy other things to try their luck, and they will never honestly buy ordinary pills to assist in cultivation.
It's a pity that the spirit stones he gave to ordinary disciples seem to be destined to be part of the sect that produces this useless thing for nothing. I'm really unwilling.
Suddenly, something occurred to him.
Lu Xuan quickly stood up, bid farewell to his disciples, and dragged Yuan Wei to the alchemy pharmacy.
The disciples looked at their rushing figures in amazement, and only heard a few words from a distance.
What "harvest", "IQ tax", etc.