Chapter 469: Shallow Foundation

The news of the Su family attacking the Liuyun Mountain Range quickly spread throughout Zheng State. Originally, the sudden appearance of a Purple Mansion cultivator in the Su family had already caused discussions in the prefectures surrounding Yu County, and now that the news of the Su family attacking the Liuyun Mountain Range had come out, it was even more incredible.

However, most cultivators believed this was an absurd false rumor, even though many cultivators didn't understand the situation of the Liuyun Mountain Range.

But a third-tier mountain range was not something that could be attacked by the Su family, which had just produced a Purple Mansion cultivator.

So most cultivators were just waiting to see the Su family make a fool of themselves.

However, the Su family ignored it entirely, because the Su family was currently very busy; the work of migration was not easy.

First, they had to make complete preparations.

"Phew!"

"Finally refined another one. This flying boat is really not ordinarily difficult to refine."

Looking at the flying boat in his hand, although it was only the size of a palm at the moment, once mana was injected, the flying boat would immediately expand to about ten meters, three meters wide, and six or seven meters high, divided into two levels.

"This flying boat is already at the peak of second-tier low-grade."

"Xiao Jiu, it seems your artifact refining level will soon catch up to mine, or even surpass me."

Su Shi'an's eyes lit up when he saw Su Fan's flying boat; as a third-tier artifact refiner, his eye for detail was very sharp.

He saw at a glance that Su Fan's artifact was extraordinary.

"Great Elder, you flatter me. I am still far behind. I can only refine second-tier mid-grade, while you have already started attempting to refine third-tier mid-grade."

Great Elder Su Shi'an had progressed very quickly over these years because the family's finances were getting better and better, and there were plenty of materials for him to practice with.

Secondly, it was because they had obtained many artifact refining insights and even techniques from the enemies Su Fan and the others had slain.

Especially those Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Nanli State; being in a major country, their artifact refining methods were much more profound than those in Zheng State.

After obtaining these artifact refining insights, the Great Elder had been contemplating them, so he progressed rapidly. Coupled with the mental secret technique Su Fan brought, their divine sense was far stronger than that of ordinary cultivators of the same level.

This was of greater help in controlling flames and condensing artifact refining techniques.

In reality, the mental secret technique Su Fan left behind was not only helpful for artifact refining; it was of great help to array formations and alchemy as well.

It even had a tremendous effect on cultivation. For instance, the Clan Head being able to open the Purple Mansion in one go this time had a great deal to do with this mental secret technique of breathing in innate purple qi.

In the future, if some Su family Qi Refining cultivators could cultivate this secret technique to a profound level, then even without a Foundation Establishment Pill, their success rate for Foundation Establishment would increase by a few percentage points.

It could be said that this was the greatest wealth Su Fan left for the Su family. After all, as there were more and more Su family cultivators in the future, if their success rate for Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion was one or two percent higher than other cultivators, how many Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion cultivators would the Su family have?

Regardless, Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion cultivators were the foundation of the cultivation world. In major sects, the more Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion cultivators there were, the more prosperous the sect was.

Golden Core and Nascent Soul were, after all, already the upper echelons of the cultivation world.

Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion could still be reached if there were sufficient resources, but once one reached Golden Core and Nascent Soul, the difficulty increased significantly.

As for the Primordial Spirit realm, that went without saying. In the cultivation world, great Nascent Soul stage cultivators were rare existences.

Each one was a child of the era's fortune.

The Su family had never thought of reaching that level. It would be enough for the Su family to become a regional power like the Yunyang Sect or the Qingyuan Sect.

As for being a super hegemon that dominated several prefectures like the Nine Cauldrons Sect, it was very difficult for the Su family to reach that, after all, sects like the Nine Cauldrons Sect had histories of hundreds of years.

Compared to them, the Su family was truly worlds apart.

"Xiao Jiu, we have now refined ten flying boats. Each flying boat can carry over 150 people. At this speed, it will take two and a half months to fly from Yuntai Mountain to the Liuyun Mountain Range. In this way, we can transport about 8,000 people a year."

"8,000 people is enough. First, let these 8,000 people open up a town there, and then slowly migrate a portion of the people over."

"Yuntai Mountain is the ancestral land and cannot be abandoned. Moreover, Yuntai Mountain is very suitable for mortals to survive and can vigorously develop the population. Once the population here reaches its limit, migrate half to the Liuyun Mountain Range."

"In this way, over time, the number of mortals will also increase rapidly."

Su Fan suggested. Developing the Liuyun Mountain Range would probably take decades, which was different from Yuntai Mountain. As an ancestral land, it had actually been developed for a long time, having been developed for over a hundred years.

If the spirit veins were sufficient, the mortals at Yuntai Mountain would probably have reached a population of one million long ago.

But because the spirit veins were insufficient and there were not enough Su family cultivators to sit in town, the Su family had been suppressing the population increase.

But now, the Su family's cultivators were also slowly increasing, and they could let go now.

"Clan Head, how is the recruitment of foreign cultivators going recently?"

The Su family currently had only 156 cultivators, including six Foundation Establishment or higher cultivators, and 36 young children under twelve who had not yet cultivated.

The remaining 114 cultivators were all at various stages of early and late Qi Refining.

Because the family's resources were becoming more and more abundant, the number of late-stage Qi Refining cultivators had increased quite a bit in the last twenty years, now reaching 37, among whom there were 19 family Elders at the ninth layer of Qi Refining.

Having only 156 family disciples was indeed very few. Compared to when Su Fan traveled here, at that time, the Su family only had 80 or 90 cultivators. In these sixty years, it had almost doubled.

It was indeed quite a lot.

But in Su Fan's view, there were still too few cultivators.

Among the five major Foundation Establishment families of Yu County, which family didn't have over two hundred cultivators? Even the Bai family now had over 280 cultivators, and the Liu and Liu families had existed the longest.

The family cultivators were even more numerous; the two families combined were almost reaching one thousand.

And those Purple Mansion families had at least eight hundred cultivators.

Compared to these families, the Su family was far behind.

And once the family took down the Liuyun Mountain Range, there would be more resources than they could use; wouldn't that be too wasteful?

"We have recruited over twenty people, and about half of them are ready to marry into the Su family."

Clan Head Su Wanjun said helplessly upon hearing this. Although rogue cultivators were easy to recruit, the Su family needed cultivators who were loyal to the Su family. Such cultivators were not easy to find and required slow screening. ===== CHAPTER 470 =====