Chapter 453

"Clan Leader, ahead is the Lingtao Workshop of the Yan State." Su Fan looked ahead at a mortal city, and a smile finally appeared on his face.

He and Clan Leader Su Wanjun had flown from the Zheng State to this Yan State, taking a full two and a half months to finally reach their destination this time.

The Yan State was the second-ranked cultivation country among the ten countries of the Southern Wilderness. Compared to small countries like the Zheng State and the Yan State, it was unknown how much stronger it was.

The number of Nascent Soul cultivators within the Yan State was not small; it was said to be no less than a handful, and its strength was second only to the Wu Guo, the hegemon of the ten countries of the Southern Wilderness.

The Wu Guo was the true hegemon of the Southern Wilderness Continent, possessing no less than three Nascent Soul sects. Of course, the strongest was the Yuanding Sect, which had a full eight Nascent Soul cultivators.

The largest force in the Yan State was the Qingyuan Sect, an alchemy sect with three Nascent Soul cultivators under its banner. It was considered the hegemon of the Yan State, controlling more than seventy percent of the cultivation workshops and sixty percent of the high-level spirit veins in the Yan State.

The Lingtao Workshop was also a third-tier workshop controlled by the Qingyuan Sect. This Lingtao Workshop was located under Lingtao Mountain. At the foot of the mountain was a third-tier mid-grade spirit vein, which had been built into the current cultivation workshop.

It was said that this Lingtao Mountain had a third-tier spirit peach spirit wood.

Spirit peaches generally had the effect of extending lifespan, and some third-tier spirit peaches could even increase lifespan by thirty years.

If this Lingtao Mountain really had third-tier spirit peaches, then the Qingyuan Sect would inevitably attach great importance to this workshop.

It was just a legend, whether it was true or not, outsiders didn't know, because outsiders had never purchased spirit peaches in this Lingtao Workshop.

Perhaps they existed, but they must be firmly controlled by the Qingyuan Sect. After all, extending lifespan, even if it was thirty years, was extremely precious to a cultivator.

The Yan State and the Zheng State were not adjacent, but the reason Su Fan and the others chose the Yan State was that the commerce of the Yan State was extremely prosperous.

Because the Yan State had no martial law for surrounding cultivators. As long as you didn't violate the rules set by the major workshops in the Yan State, they welcomed cultivators from all over to come.

It was precisely because of this that the commerce of the Yan State was extremely developed.

The more developed the commerce, the more caravans it naturally attracted, and the more cultivation items there were.

Treasures that assisted in opening the Purple Mansion were extremely precious in several other countries. For example, in the Zheng State, they would not be taken out for trade at all.

This kind of treasure for opening the Purple Mansion was only produced in places with spirit veins above the third tier, and often required extremely harsh environments, and many took a hundred years or even longer to produce one.

The Yunyang Sect of the Zheng State had a Liuhuo spirit vein, which produced Fire Yang Jade. Fire Yang Jade was also an auxiliary treasure for opening the Purple Mansion, and one piece cost about fifty or sixty thousand spirit stones.

However, compared to the Profound Yang Warm Jade and the Jade Wood Heart, the effect of Fire Yang Jade was worse, and Fire Yang Jade was only suitable for cultivators with fire-attribute spirit roots. At the same time, because Fire Yang Jade contained scorching fire spirit power, once a cultivator failed to open the Purple Mansion, the consequences would be even more serious.

Ordinary cultivators who failed to open the Purple Mansion would injure their primordial spirit and need twenty years of recuperation, while using Fire Yang Jade, failure would be even more serious, at least forty years.

This doubled it. It could be said that if it didn't succeed, for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it would be catastrophic, and there would almost be no chance for a second breakthrough to the Purple Mansion.

After all, Foundation Establishment cultivators generally could only live for two hundred years, and even with lifespan-extending means, it would only be about two hundred and forty.

And many Foundation Establishment cultivators, when they cultivated to the peak of Foundation Establishment, were already about one hundred and sixty or seventy, or even one hundred and eighty or ninety. This was still for disciples of major sects.

If they were loose cultivators, they might not be able to cultivate to the peak of Foundation Establishment in their entire lives.

It could be said that ninety percent of Foundation Establishment cultivators only had one or two chances to try to open the Purple Mansion in their lives.

If they failed the first time, there was a second time, but using Fire Yang Jade, failure might mean only one chance.

Unless you were the kind of cultivator who could try to open the Purple Mansion before the age of one hundred and fifty, such cultivators were few and far between, even in the Yunyang Sect in the Zheng State.

However, even so, this Fire Yang Jade was a rare treasure. In the Zheng State, only disciples of the Yunyang Sect had the opportunity to use it, and outsiders couldn't get it at all.

Fire Yang Jade was like this, let alone the Profound Yang Warm Jade. Several small countries near the Zheng State were the same as the Zheng State. Even if there was production, they were all firmly controlled by their respective hegemons and would not let out a single piece.

But the Yan State was different. As a major country itself, the Yan State was very powerful, and its territory was dozens of times larger than the Zheng State, and its material production was also extremely rich.

Treasures that assisted in opening the Purple Mansion were produced more, and naturally, a portion would flow out to recover spirit stones or other materials.

In addition, other caravans would sometimes bring some. Therefore, in the workshops of the Yan State, treasures like the Profound Yang Warm Jade would sometimes appear. Even if the price they sold for was often higher than its market price, countless cultivators still flocked to it.

This time, Su Fan and Su Wanjun came to the Lingtao Workshop precisely because they received news that there was an auction in the Lingtao Workshop, an auction held once every fifty years by the Lingtao Workshop.

In the auction, there would be some auxiliary treasures for opening the Purple Mansion, Profound Yang Warm Jade, etc., all would appear.

Su Fan's goal this time was the Profound Yang Warm Jade at the venue. Clan Leader Su Wanjun's spirit root was not bad; he was a dual spirit root, and his age itself was not very old, now only about fifty years old.

He was already at the peak of the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment. If he took the Fire Origin Apricot again, within ten years, it would be enough to reach the peak of Foundation Establishment.

At this age, even in the Yunyang Sect, it was rare.

According to his age, trying to open the Purple Mansion, there would be at least three chances. However, with the Profound Yang Warm Jade, perhaps he could break through in one go.

Opening the Purple Mansion was somewhat different from Foundation Establishment. Foundation Establishment was the control of magic power in the dantian, while opening the Purple Mansion was the use of divine sense, especially the opening of the upper dantian Niwan Palace Purple Mansion.

It required powerful divine soul power.

In this regard, after cultivating the mental secret technique that Su Fan brought back from the previous few worlds and fused and created, the divine soul power of the Clan Leader or some cultivators of the Su family was generally stronger than that of cultivators of the same level.

Especially that mental secret technique, which was based on the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, and after melting many martial arts and fantasy methods, could swallow the purple energy between heaven and earth to nourish the primordial spirit.

Even without the Profound Yang Warm Jade, Su family disciples cultivating this secret technique would increase their success rate in opening the Purple Mansion by ten percent.

If combined with the Profound Yang Warm Jade, it could increase it by at least forty percent, which was already a very high probability.

You must know that for ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators, if there were no auxiliary treasures, the success rate of opening the Purple Mansion was less than ten percent, and even for disciples of those major sects, it was less than twenty percent.