Chapter 503: Family Juniors

"Shi'an? He is indeed about to open the Purple Mansion." Su Wanjun nodded upon hearing this. Although the Great Elder was not at Flowing Cloud Peak now, Su Wanjun knew that the other party's cultivation had already broken through to the eighth level of Foundation Establishment.

After taking down the Liuyun Mountain Range, Su Shi'an returned to the cave dwelling of Zixu Shangren to continue his closed-door cultivation.

After all, that place was originally a third-tier spirit vein, and there was also the Fire Origin Apricot Spirit Tree. With the help of this Fire Origin Apricot to swallow and spit out mana, Su Shi'an's cultivation speed was even faster than Su Wanjun's.

In just a few years, he had not only broken through to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment but had also reached the eighth level.

Moreover, the Su Family still retained three Fire Origin Apricots. After he finished his closed-door cultivation and settled down, he could swallow another Fire Origin Apricot, and his cultivation would increase again. It was estimated that in a few years, he would be able to break through to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

By that time, he could begin to address the matters of opening the Purple Mansion.

This time would not exceed twenty years.

Thinking of this, Su Wanjun raised his eyebrows and also became anxious. The treasures required for Su Shi'an to open the Purple Mansion naturally could not let Su Fan spend money.

His opening of the Purple Mansion had already made the other party spend a sum, and if he let him spend again, then the Su Family would owe even more.

This was not conducive to the future development of the Su Family.

The Su Family could not completely rely on one person.

However, now, it was not so easy for the Su Family to take out tens of thousands of spirit stones.

Taking down the Liuyun Mountain Range had indeed made the Su Family prosperous, but developing the Liuyun Mountain Range had made Su Fan spend even more. Now, there were not many spirit stones in the Su Family's treasury.

Especially since hiring those rogue cultivators had cost fully tens of thousands of spirit stones. It was also thanks to the fact that in these two years, the Su Family had begun to dig for those ores and earned quite a bit.

Otherwise, the Su Family would have been so poor that they couldn't even issue the family's welfare.

"Xiao Jiu, these Foundation Establishment Pills will be counted as your family contribution points. The family temporarily doesn't have many spirit stones, but the family will use Five Elements Essence to offset them. I wonder what you think?"

"Five Elements Essence, that's fine."

Su Fan nodded upon hearing this. He also knew that the Su Family indeed couldn't take out many spirit stones now and could only calculate by contribution points, but his own family contribution points were already very high.

Su Fan didn't care about those contribution points, but he knew that for the better development of the family in the future, he had to accept it.

After all, the current Su Family was no longer the Su Family of the past.

And he indeed needed Five Elements Essence, especially since the demand for Five Elements Essence gradually increased for high-level cultivators.

This Five Elements Essence had many uses. The most common was using it to refine one's own natal dharma treasure, and the advancement of the natal dharma treasure also required a large amount of Five Elements Essence.

Besides this, there was also using Five Elements Essence to cultivate other-type dharma spells and divine abilities. Some cultivators were single-spirit-root, which made them faster in cultivation speed than other cultivators, but they were much worse in learning dharma spells.

So later in the cultivation world, it was discovered that Five Elements Essence could be used to cultivate other techniques and divine abilities.

Not only that, Five Elements Essence had even more uses.

Five Elements Essence, as the name implied, was the pure five types of essence refined by Five Elements spirit root cultivators.

A Qi Refining cultivator could only refine six wisps of Five Elements Essence in a year, which was extremely precious.

High-level cultivators had a constant demand for Five Elements Essence.

The Su Family couldn't take out spirit stones, so taking Five Elements Essence was also fine. Su Fan didn't object and nodded.

Over these years, the Su Family had also saved quite a bit of Five Elements Essence, although it was not enough to repay the debt the Su Family owed him, but as time went on and there were more and more family disciples, the Five Elements Essence produced would also be more and more.

In the future, the Su Family would become his Five Elements Essence production base behind him.

Especially when he refined his natal dharma treasure, the demand for Five Elements Essence would be even greater. And it was said that after the cultivation reached Nascent Soul, if a cultivator wanted to break through to the Primordial Spirit stage, they had to complete their spirit roots and change them into Five Elements spirit roots, which would make advancing to Primordial Spirit easier.

And to complete the Five Elements spirit roots, besides some heaven-defying treasures, a large amount of Five Elements Essence was also needed.

So in the eyes of major forces, this Five Elements Essence could also be considered a strategic material.

Before, the Su Family had no demand, that was because the Su Family was a Foundation Establishment family and didn't need it at all, but now it was different.

Su Fan and Su Wanjun had both become Purple Mansion and could begin to refine natal dharma treasures.

After handing the sixteen Foundation Establishment Pills to the Clan Leader, Su Fan continued: "Clan Leader, I will leave in a few days. You should handle these Foundation Establishment Pills as soon as possible, and then I will collect treasures for opening the Purple Mansion for the Great Elder in Wu Guo."

"In addition, I will take Lin Wei with me when I leave. Does the Su Family want to send two disciples?"

Going to Wu Guo, the horizons would naturally become broader, and at the same time, obtaining resources would be easier.

Staying in Zheng State was relatively safe, but the competition for resources and the like was more intense.

Su Wanjun naturally understood this. Hearing Su Fan's words, his eyes lit up. With Su Fan looking after them, he believed that Su Family disciples would also be a bit safer over there.

"Hmm! How about letting Qidong and Qiyuan go with you? They are both at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and one is an Alchemist and one is an Artifact Refiner. With you looking after them, Foundation Establishment won't be difficult for them."

"In terms of alchemy and artifact refining, you can also give them pointers when you have time."

Su Wanjun thought for a moment and didn't let too many people go; after all, too many was also disadvantageous. As for Foundation Establishment cultivators, they couldn't be spared from the Liuyun Mountain Range for the time being.

And Su Qidong and Su Qiyuan were both those with relatively good potential in the Su Family's 'Qi' generation, and both were only around forty years old now.

They were of the same generation as Su Fan, but of course, Su Fan was decades older than them.

Over these years, the Su Family had become better and better, and more and more spirit roots had been born, and they also had the ability to start cultivating their other crafts.

Qidong and Qiyuan had some talent in these two aspects, so the Su Family naturally increased their investment in them.

Both were also very promising; one had reached a first-tier high-grade Alchemist, and one had reached a first-tier mid-grade Artifact Refiner.

Originally, the family was prepared to increase support for the two, but in Su Wanjun's view, if the two had Su Fan's guidance, their future achievements would be even higher.

He knew that Su Fan's eldest disciple's cultivation was not simple, and he was also a second-tier mid-grade Talisman Master.

"Hmm! Them."

"That's fine."

Su Fan also recalled the identities of the two in his mind, knew Su Wanjun's thoughts, and nodded.

Giving pointers to these two was quite simple for him, and he also knew that these two were key cultivation targets of the family.

Taking the two to Wu Guo to increase their horizons and knowledge was also a good thing.

At the same time, as long as the two worked hard and he gave them pointers, not to mention anything else, becoming a second-tier high-grade Alchemist or Artifact Refiner was really not too difficult for Su Fan.

Unless the two were blockheads and didn't have a single spark of enlightenment.

Clearly, this was impossible. ===== CHAPTER 504 =====