Chapter 706: Untitled

"Hmm! You actually went to the Chen State and attacked the Shangling Sect?"

After Su Fan returned to Liuyun Mountain and learned about the events that had occurred in the Profound Heaven Sect recently, he was very surprised. He hadn't expected that while he was out undergoing the tribulation to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, the Profound Heaven Sect had done such a major thing.

The Shangling Sect was the hegemon of the Chen State, but it had been destroyed by the Profound Heaven Sect in alliance with several major forces of the Chen State, although some cultivators had escaped.

However, the Shangling Sect had already become history.

For this, the Profound Heaven Sect had also obtained a quarter of the Shangling Sect's territory, which was even larger than the Zheng State.

Moreover, the Profound Heaven Sect had also taken down the Yu State in passing; in this way, in just a few short years, the territory occupied by the Profound Heaven Sect had expanded by more than two times.

However, at this moment, with the territory expanded, the manpower of the Profound Heaven Sect was gradually becoming somewhat stretched.

After all, with such a large territory, many cultivation markets needed manpower to sit in command, and these were all benefits.

"This was also an opportunity, so we didn't wait for your response."

"The Profound Heaven Sect is yours to begin with. There is nothing wrong with this matter, and obtaining such a large territory all at once is indeed a good thing for the Profound Heaven Sect."

Su Fan didn't have any blame; he himself had no interest in the affairs of the Profound Heaven Sect, and in this operation, the Profound Heaven Sect hadn't suffered any losses, except for one Purple Mansion cultivator and several Foundation Establishment cultivators who were injured in the great battle.

Everything else was fine; after all, their Profound Heaven Sect was merely an guest army, and they had many protective means on their bodies.

In the great battle, except for Lu Qingshan who exerted effort, most people didn't use much strength, so naturally, there was no great danger.

"However, over in the Chen State, the danger of facing the beast tide in the future will not be small."

Su Wanjun and the others were still somewhat worried.

Although the Profound Heaven Sect's territory had skyrocketed this time, when the beast tide came in a few decades, the Profound Heaven Sect would need to defend even more.

This was a problem. If there wasn't enough manpower then, it would be troublesome. Would they really have to abandon it? That would only lower the Profound Heaven Sect's reputation.

Eating when encountering benefits and escaping when encountering danger—who would believe in such a force? Once they lost the hearts of the people, it would not be a good thing for the development of the Profound Heaven Sect.

"There are still a few decades, so there's no need to worry."

"Now, grasp the cultivators tightly; in a few decades, I believe the strength of the Profound Heaven Sect will skyrocket again."

Su Fan was quite confident in the cultivators of the Profound Heaven Sect.

There were still more than eighty years until the next beast tide. For Foundation Establishment cultivators, those who cultivated quickly could improve by one level in fifteen or twenty years. With the hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Profound Heaven Sect now, there were quite a few who could reach the Purple Mansion stage.

As long as enough treasures to open the Purple Mansion were provided, at least within these few decades, the Profound Heaven Sect could have more than fifty cultivators attempting to open the Purple Mansion.

According to the success rate, at least twenty could reach the Purple Mansion stage.

This breakthrough rate reached nearly half, which was stronger than many major forces.

In the past, in the Yunyang Sect, this breakthrough rate was a delusion; it was already very good if one out of ten Foundation Establishment cultivators could open the Purple Mansion.

But it was different in the Profound Heaven Sect.

In terms of resources, the Profound Heaven Sect was far from comparable to the Yunyang Sect.

At the same time, the Profound Heaven Sect had various secret techniques and cultivation methods to improve the opening of the Purple Mansion, especially that Innate Purple Qi Secret Technique, which was a very precious secret technique even if placed in the Central Continent.

Su Fan had also discussed the first two levels of this secret technique with the high-level officials of the Profound Heaven Sect; as long as they were inner sect disciples of the Profound Heaven Sect, they could cultivate it.

As for the subsequent cultivation methods, only the core elite disciples of the Profound Heaven Sect could cultivate them, and it wasn't free; it required sufficient contribution.

Currently, among the hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators, not many could truly cultivate the subsequent cultivation methods; it was about one-fifth.

However, by cultivating this Innate Purple Qi Secret Technique to the third level, a Foundation Establishment ninth-level cultivator's divine sense could almost reach the Purple Mansion stage.

The stronger the divine sense, the more helpful it was for opening the Purple Mansion.

Plus, with the Profound Yang Warm Jade, one could almost open the Purple Mansion and become a Purple Mansion stage cultivator without any accidents.

Su Fan's divine sense covered the entire Liuyun Mountain, and naturally, he discovered that many Foundation Establishment cultivators were cultivating this secret technique very seriously, especially the Su family's own disciples.

They occupied an innate advantage.

The Su family's own Foundation Establishment disciples were not comparable to other Profound Heaven Sect disciples, but Su Fan believed that in a few decades, perhaps more Purple Mansion stage cultivators would be born from the Su family itself.

Besides the fact that the Su family's high-level officials would tilt a portion of resources, it was also this secret technique, and not just this secret technique, but also a secret technique for interacting with spirit plants.

Refining spirit plants to cultivate and breathe mana—the Su family's high-level officials ultimately chose that only the family's own disciples could cultivate this secret technique.

This could also be considered a private selfishness of the Su family; of course, it wasn't that outsiders didn't have a chance to cultivate it.

They had to pay a great price.

The reason it wasn't spread to the Profound Heaven Sect wasn't just because the Su family wanted to maintain an advantage; secondly, this secret technique required spirit plants to cooperate.

Spirit roots like heaven and earth spirit plants were not common goods; first-tier ones were fine, but second-tier and above were increasingly scarce.

Not to mention third-tier ones; so far, the Su family only had over a hundred, and there were only twenty above the third tier.

Among them, nine were the nine willow trees Su Fan brought back from the Swallowing Star World, which had reached the fourth-tier high-grade level.

If these willow trees didn't have the secret technique provided by Su Fan, they could only become materials for artifact refining, or have their willow hearts taken.

But with this secret technique, those Purple Mansion cultivators of the Su family could use it to refine them and use them to breathe mana.

The cultivation speed was greatly accelerated.

The speed at which Su Wanjun and the others were cultivating now was also thanks to this secret technique.

Especially the Great Elder Su Shi'an, who had been cultivating with the help of that fire origin apricot; it had only been eighty years since he broke through to the Purple Mansion.

Now he had already reached the peak of the Purple Mansion fifth level.

And Su Wanjun had also reached the peak of the Purple Mansion sixth level, and it wouldn't be long before he broke through to the late stage of the Purple Mansion.

If it were other cultivators, they would likely hesitate for decades due to the bottleneck of the late Purple Mansion stage, but in the Su family, with Su Fan's support behind them, they wouldn't encounter any bottlenecks at all.

Whether it was the spirit pills to break through to the late Purple Mansion stage or the insights for breaking through, Su Wanjun and the others had too many advantages.

In a few decades, perhaps Su Wanjun and Su Shi'an would both have a chance to try.

It was like this for the Su family, and the Profound Heaven Sect was actually not bad either; resources were becoming more and more abundant, especially for the cultivators of the Profound Heaven Sect above the Foundation Establishment stage, the cultivation resources they obtained were far more than before.

Many spirit pills were unimaginable before, but now they could be exchanged as long as they had sufficient contribution.

This also caused the disciples of the Profound Heaven Sect to become increasingly fierce when going out to perform sect missions.

Especially going out to hunt monsters, because this was the task that obtained the most and fastest sect contribution.

Precisely because of this, the Profound Heaven Sect was flourishing, so Su Fan didn't worry that the Profound Heaven Sect would lack manpower in the future. ===== CHAPTER 707 =====