Chapter 528

When Su Fan returned to Liuyun Mountain again, Liuyun Mountain gradually quieted down, but at this moment, Liuyun Mountain had also begun to develop. There were nearly five thousand cultivators, and although ninety percent were of Qi Refining cultivation, it still brought great prosperity to Liuyun Mountain.

In addition, many cultivation families or loose cultivators brought their own mortal relatives over, and now there are small mortal towns in every plain area of the Liuyun Mountain Range.

Especially after seeing the Su family cultivators personally build towns for mortals, those loose cultivators also learned to do the same.

After all, many of them know that if they want to strengthen their own power, besides increasing their own cultivation, there is naturally also their own family power, being able to have more cultivators.

And the foundation of all this is mortals.

So watching the number of mortals in the Su family change every year, they all know that twenty years later, the number of spiritual roots born in the Su family every year will probably be quite large.

Furthermore, in these few years, the Su family has had quite a few three-spiritual-root and two-spiritual-root individuals born; they don't know the reason.

But they know that with more mortals, more spiritual roots are born, so wouldn't the chances of two-spiritual-root and variant-spiritual-root individuals being born also increase?

There are no fools in the cultivation world. In these years, the Su family's cultivators have increased extremely fast, and the number of cultivators has reached three hundred, not including those children with spiritual roots who have not yet practiced.

If these are added together, I'm afraid it's nearly four hundred.

Of course, of the three hundred cultivators, one-third are absorbed from outside, including those from the Bai family and a portion of loose cultivators.

The current Su family is the number one family of Liuyun Mountain in name and reality. Although the Su family's clan leader has not been promoted to the Purple Mansion for long, he has already broken through and reached the second layer of the Purple Mansion.

In addition, the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators has reached sixteen.

In these few years, there have always been Qi Refining cultivators breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

And this speed is very fast, which also makes many forces constantly probe and inquire whether the Su family still has many Foundation Establishment Pills.

Otherwise, how could there be Qi Refining cultivators breaking through every year?

Regarding this, the Su family did not hide it; there are no Foundation Establishment Pills, but there are a few family Vein-Protecting Pills.

Some cultivators have not heard of Vein-Protecting Pills, but those large cultivation families or sects naturally know that they are third-tier high-grade spirit pills.

A very ancient kind of spirit pill, which can be said to be the first-generation Foundation Establishment Pill.

It's just that the effect is not as good as the Foundation Establishment Pill.

But the cost is no worse than the Foundation Establishment Pill; the only advantage is that the spirit herbs needed to refine it are not as precious as those for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

After knowing that the Su family could refine Vein-Protecting Pills, forces like the Taihe Mountain Range and the Yunyang Sect lost interest.

This is entirely Foundation Establishment cultivators piled up by spirit stones.

You must know that the cost required to break through to Foundation Establishment by relying on Vein-Protecting Pills is higher than taking Foundation Establishment Pills.

First of all, the cost of Vein-Protecting Pills is not lower than that of Foundation Establishment Pills; it's just that the main herbs are easier to collect.

Secondly, the success rate of taking Vein-Protecting Pills for Foundation Establishment is far lower than that of Foundation Establishment Pills. If it is a three-spiritual-root cultivator, taking a Foundation Establishment Pill can have a sixty or seventy percent chance of breaking through.

Then the success rate of taking Vein-Protecting Pills is less than thirty percent; after failure, one needs ten years of recuperation, and of course, taking healing spirit pills to speed up repair.

Then taking Vein-Protecting Pills again, the success rate will increase to sixty or seventy percent, which means that using Vein-Protecting Pills to break through to Foundation Establishment cultivators costs almost more than twice the cost of taking Foundation Establishment Pills.

This cost is truly piled up with spirit stones.

Ordinary forces really cannot afford it.

And more importantly, Vein-Protecting Pills are even more difficult than Foundation Establishment Pills.

In addition, there is another point, which is that Su family disciples can have nearly a thirty percent chance of breaking through to Foundation Establishment by taking Vein-Protecting Pills, because most Su family disciples have practiced Su Fan's Purple Qi Secret Technique.

While outsiders generally only have ten percent, and even if they fail, taking it again is at most forty or fifty percent.

Compared to the Su family, it is still inferior.

In this way, it is estimated that it will take three times to be sure of breaking through, which not only consumes time but also consumes more spirit stones.

Especially time, which is even more precious.

It is precisely because of this that Vein-Protecting Pills cannot be promoted at all. Although Vein-Protecting Pills can allow cultivators to be confident in Foundation Establishment, and after Foundation Establishment, they are better than those who took Foundation Establishment Pills.

But after all, they still took pills, which is still worse than those who took nothing and were confident in Foundation Establishment.

Therefore, even if the Yunyang Sect knew, they only requested to trade for the pill formula of this spirit pill, but they did not refine it on a large scale; at most, some powerful and influential elders would equip a few pills for their own disciples or relatives.

Large-scale refining is simply impossible, and even the Yunyang Sect cannot afford it; this is also the reason why Vein-Protecting Pills were abandoned.

It is really too expensive in terms of financial and material resources.

However, the reason it can be popular in the Su family is that there are not many Su family disciples now, and the Su family also follows an elite route.

It is not that every disciple has the opportunity to take Vein-Protecting Pills; they still need to use family contribution points to exchange for them.

Secondly, it is Su Fan's financial resources that support him in doing so; of course, this is only in the early stages. After his generation and the next two or three generations, he will not refine them personally.

Later, it will depend on the Su family itself.

He can only help this much; with the rise of his one or two generations, the Su family will not need him to look after them much in the future.

For example, he has left Liuyun Mountain for a few years now, and the Su family has not had any trouble; instead, under the leadership of the clan leader and a group of elders, it has become more and more prosperous.

The Su family's development to this day indeed cannot be separated from his help.

But the Su family is not unable to succeed without him; under the leadership of the clan leader, the Su family has broken through thorns and thistles to take down Yuntai Mountain, and the elders of the Shao generation are also outstanding in ability.

Of course, his appearance accelerated the development of the Su family, making the Su family a Purple Mansion family in the Zheng Kingdom.

One Purple Mansion and sixteen Foundation Establishment cultivators—this strength is already very powerful even among Purple Mansion families.

What's more, these Foundation Establishment cultivators also have good potential and are all very young; as they grow up in the future, half of them have the potential for the Purple Mansion.

As long as the family resources can keep up, within a hundred years, it is estimated that two or three more will be able to open the Purple Mansion.

After all, the secret techniques Su Fan brought back, especially the secret technique for refining spiritual roots, are extremely powerful.

Even if placed in a hegemon-level sect like the Yuanding Sect, they are considered supreme sect-protecting methods.

Of course, those who can practice them are the current group of elders.

The current elders of the Su family, except for the Shao generation, can only become elders once their cultivation breaks through to Foundation Establishment.

Ninth-layer Qi Refining is no longer enough; after all, there are more and more ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivators in the family, and if every one of them were an elder, wouldn't it be worthless?