Chapter 464: Third-tier Artifact Refiner

"Clan Leader, you need not worry. Rest assured, within ten years, I will certainly bring back another Foundation Establishment Pill formula for the family."

Su Fan had this confidence; the Taihe Lineage possessed a formula for refining Foundation Establishment Pills using a Third-tier Monster Core. At worst, he would pay some price to trade for the Foundation Establishment Pill formula.

In ten years' time, he believed his alchemy would be sufficient to reach the Third-tier Upper Grade level.

After all, his current Divine Soul strength was comparable to the Nascent Soul Stage, which was an immense help in improving his alchemy.

"Therefore, Clan Leader, the most urgent thing for you now is to quickly refine the Fire Origin Apricot, raise your cultivation to Foundation Establishment Peak, and then refine this Xuanyang Warm Jade to open your Purple Mansion."

"If you can open your Purple Mansion and become a Purple Mansion cultivator, that will be the time for our Su Family to attack the Liuyun Mountain Range."

Su Fan was already at Foundation Establishment Peak; opening his Purple Mansion could be achieved within these next few years.

The next step was to consider conquering the Liuyun Mountain Range and then developing Liuyun Mountain.

And the Foundation Establishment Pill would be a signboard for their Su Family to recruit and attract other cultivators.

The Taihe Lineage of the past had also utilized this method; the fact that the Taihe Mountain Range could develop to its current state had everything to do with being able to sell Foundation Establishment Pills.

After all, those close to the water get the moon first. If you are stationed at the Taihe Lineage and guarding the Taihe Mountain Range, even if you have no merit, you have at least put in the hard work, so the possibility of obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill is higher.

In reality, it was indeed so. The Taihe Lineage would refine a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills every twenty or thirty years, usually yielding five or six pills. Half of these were used for the Taihe Lineage itself, and of the remaining half, one pill would be sold to cultivators in other counties, while the rest would be sold to cultivators of the Taihe Mountain Range.

The price remained unchanged, but for those cultivators, the attraction was still very great. After all, in Zheng Guo, Foundation Establishment Pills were still priceless and hard to find; sometimes even if you had Spirit Stones, you might not be able to buy one.

While Foundation Establishment Pills were somewhat cheaper in other places, they were hard to reach. The several countries surrounding Zheng Guo were all small countries similar to Zheng Guo, and while it was not difficult to buy Foundation Establishment Pills in large countries like Nanli Guo, ordinary families simply lacked the ability to reach them.

A journey of several hundred thousand li was nothing, but the wilderness was fraught with danger. Even Purple Mansion cultivators dared not guarantee their safety with absolute certainty, let alone Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Therefore, the Taihe Lineage bringing out Foundation Establishment Pills indeed attracted many cultivators. Qi Refining families and Foundation Establishment families would one after another send out some of their disciples, and some even moved their entire families over directly.

And Su Fan also prepared to borrow the methods of the Taihe Lineage.

Currently, the Foundation Establishment Pill was still quite precious to the Su Family, but once Su Fan became a Third-tier Upper Grade or even a Fourth-Rank Alchemist, the Foundation Establishment Pill would no longer be scarce.

As long as there were sufficient alchemy materials, it would be very easy for him to refine pills.

The Millennium Golden Jade Ganoderma might be difficult, but honestly, Third-tier demon beasts were not a very difficult problem for him.

His strength would be no worse than that of an average Golden Core Early Stage cultivator by then.

To a Golden Core cultivator, the Foundation Establishment Pill was just an ordinary Third-tier pill.

By that time, they could take out half to attract cultivators from all over Zheng Guo to settle in Liuyun Mountain, jointly develop the Liuyun Mountain Range, and continuously expand.

As for the demon race in the Ten Thousand Mountains, they were indeed terrifying, but the entire Human Race of Nanhuang Zhou combined was definitely no match for the demon race of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

However, in reality, the demon race faced by the human cultivators of the ten countries of Nanhuang Zhou was merely on the edge of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

And the Ten Thousand Mountains bordering Zheng Guo were even fewer.

For ten thousand years, the demon race that attacked Zheng Guo had never included any Fifth-tier existences.

So Su Fan was not afraid of anything; even if a few Fourth-tier demon beasts came over, they posed no threat to him.

As long as they developed in the Liuyun Mountain Range, the Su Family would have a true place to rise. As for the Liuyun Mountain Range bordering the demon race, that was not a major problem.

On the contrary, Su Fan felt this was even better; constant comfort would only make the family slack off.

The Son of Heaven guards the national gate; the monarch dies for the state.

Bordering the demon race and being able to fight them would instead allow the family to grow faster. As for the deaths in battle, that was inherently unavoidable.

Could one avoid death by hiding in the rear?

As long as they could persist, the future of the Su Family would definitely be bright. It was not impossible to replace the Yunyang Sect in the future.

With his strength, Su Fan had the confidence to cultivate some Golden Core realm family disciples.

After all, by the time the family produced a Purple Mansion Peak cultivator, he estimated he would already be at the Nascent Soul Stage; even the Primordial Spirit Stage was not impossible.

Creating a few Golden Core realm cultivators would definitely be easy; if the family had those with high Spirit Root talent, even the Nascent Soul Stage was not without opportunity.

By that time, he would be able to let go completely.

After discussing many future matters with Su Wanjun and the others, Su Fan settled down in this cave dwelling.

He did not want to go into seclusion to cultivate; the Purple Mansion held no difficulty for him.

The Clan Leader, however, went into seclusion to refine the Fire Origin Apricot. This Third-tier Fire Origin Apricot contained extremely vast Spirit Energy; although the Clan Leader did not primarily cultivate fire-attribute techniques, the Spirit Energy contained in this Fire Origin Apricot was solid and real.

Even for a Purple Mansion Initial Stage cultivator, it would take about three months to refine this Fire Origin Apricot.

As a Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer cultivator, it would likely take the Clan Leader a year or two to refine it. By then, his cultivation would certainly rise to a higher level, reaching Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer. Once he fully absorbed the Spirit Energy of the Fire Origin Apricot, it would likely take three to five years, by which time his cultivation would likely reach Foundation Establishment Peak.

Then, after settling for two years, he could use the Xuanyang Warm Jade to open his Purple Mansion.

Su Fan remained in this cave dwelling, refining pills and making talismans to improve his alchemy and talisman-making cultivation, while also occasionally giving pointers and guidance to the Elder on his cultivation.

After all, with his current realm, giving pointers to Su Shi'an on his cultivation was too easy; the gap between the two was like a chasm.

Secondly, they also frequently discussed the art of artifact refining.

The Elder Su Shi'an was indeed a genius. His artifact refining cultivation had originally been delayed because of the Su Family, and his progress was not obvious, but in recent years, because the family was not lacking in resources,

he had also put more effort into artifact refining.

Even before communicating with Su Fan, he had already advanced to a Second-tier Upper Grade Artifact Refiner. After these few years of exchange, he was the first to advance to a Third-tier Lower Grade Artifact Refiner.

With the help of some Third-tier materials left behind by those Foundation Establishment cultivators Su Fan and the others had killed, he refined a Third-tier Lower Grade flying sword.

Although the quality of that flying sword was not too good, it was still a Third-tier Lower Grade flying sword, and its value in the Zheng Guo cultivation world was worth about two thousand five or six hundred Spirit Stones.

And he also became the second Third-tier craftsman of the Su Family; the first was naturally the Clan Leader Su Wanjun, who was a Third-tier Lower Grade Formation Master.

As for Su Fan, he naturally did not count.