Chapter 241: To Accept or Not to Accept

This round of advancement added ninety Dao Foundation cultivators to the realm, but those who had reached the Great Perfection of Body Forging had all tried to forge foundations, and the remaining were basically those with no hope of forging foundations.

The overall results of the disciples sent by the Cui family were quite acceptable, with a total of fifteen Dao Foundations, and the most important thing was that Cui Zhangfeng, this Heavenly Foundation, was produced. The green lotus was no worse than Cui Yu's immortal sword, and I don't know what great luck this kid had, jumping from the original waste to a genius.

If the green lotus had a little more divinity, it could leap into an Immortal Foundation, then this Cui Zhangfeng would definitely be the protagonist of a storybook.

But the Cui family's matter was not over yet; not a single one of those who spent money to buy immortality forged a Dao Foundation, and all the Dao Foundations were among those who went to the battlefield. The problem was that seventy people went to the battlefield, and thirty died in battle, so this casualty rate was really too scary.

And Cui Zhangfeng, who spent a lot of money, achieved a Heavenly Foundation directly, which also made the Cui family members understand that if they wanted to forge a Dao Foundation, they either had to fight for their lives or fight for their fathers; relying on themselves was useless.

Cui Zhangfeng's matter also gave Wei Yuan a headache, so he unified his caliber with Cui Yu, insisting that Cui Zhangfeng had a hidden bloodline talent that happened to be stimulated in Azure Void.

Two days later, the Cui family's flying boat arrived at Azure Void again. This time it was a medium-sized flying boat that was twenty zhang long, and there were actually two Dharma Forms on the boat. Such a flying boat was not easy to hide its tracks, so it must have alarmed the Xu family when it came over.

But the Cui family didn't care this time.

The flying boat landed, and the two elders of the Cui family ordered people to move things down; this was the extra reward from the old lady.

Wei Yuan counted them one by one, including one hundred thousand catties of rice seeds for mortals; one thousand catties of various basic medicinal herbs; three hundred pieces of medicine-making utensils; ten ordinary alchemy furnaces, five medium-grade alchemy furnaces; two thousand fire-resistant bricks, which could be used as furnace linings; five kinds of metal sand, one catty each; and finally, one seedling of the Red Jade Lantern.

Except for the last spiritual plant, the others were mortal objects, large and bulky, and the most valuable were the five kinds of metal sand and the fire-resistant bricks. These were not ordinary fire-resistant bricks, but bricks that could withstand the Sun True Fire of the Dao Foundation level, and the furnaces built with them were specifically used for smelting magic tool embryos.

As long as one grain of the five kinds of metal sand was added, a furnace of ordinary molten iron would carry special attributes, which was extremely rare, and each catty was worth a thousand taels of immortal silver.

Grain, medicine, and iron tools were exactly what Wei Yuan needed urgently; the Cui family did things really powerfully, making Wei Yuan unable to say a word of dissatisfaction.

The Red Jade Lantern belonged to a high-grade spiritual plant, and the fruit it produced had a slight effect of prolonging life. But its planting conditions were strict; it had to be wrapped around a high-grade spiritual tree to absorb the vitality of the spiritual tree to grow.

The Cui family sending this spiritual plant over clearly had deep meaning; after all, Wei Yuan had already revealed a complete immortal tree. The growth rate of this spiritual plant would increase dozens of times, but it would not have any impact on the immortal wood. The gap in grade between the two sides was too large, and the immortal tree being sucked a bit of vitality was like a mortal being bitten by a mosquito.

The Cui family disciples boarded the flying boat one by one, but seven or eight refused to leave. They decided to stay and participate in the second phase of training, including the younger brother of the young girl who forged the Earth-rank foundation.

The two Dharma Form elders didn't force them either, gave Wei Yuan a list, and said that the family's flying boat had already set off and would arrive in a few days. The next flying boat would carry two hundred disciples, and the twenty people on the list were not allowed to die, while the rest were at will.

After Wei Yuan put away the list, the Cui family elder said to Wei Yuan: "The old lady's meaning is that this time it was still somewhat tragic. In the future, when Cui family disciples go to the battlefield, it is best to take care of them slightly, so that the death rate is within one tenth."

"In that case, I'm afraid there won't be so many Dao Foundations."

The elder said meaningfully: "The Cui family doesn't lack these few Dao Foundations."

Once he said this, Wei Yuan understood; for a behemoth like the Cui family, these Dao Foundations of the human rank were insignificant. Let alone Dao Foundations, even if there were a few more or less trash Dharma Forms, it wouldn't affect the overall situation.

Wei Yuan nodded to show he understood, and the elder said again: "The old lady also wants to ask, are there any more green lotuses?"

Wei Yuan smiled bitterly: "How could there be any more? This time it should be good luck, just stimulating his hidden bloodline talent."

The elder said: "The old lady has one last sentence: if that tree is too hot to handle, you can consider our Cui family. At that time, you can choose one from the suitable Heavenly Foundation direct granddaughters of this generation to marry over, open a branch family here, and you will be the master of the branch family, and you can enter the Elder Council in the future. All treatments will be equal to Cui Yu."

Wei Yuan said: "Thank the old lady for her kindness on my behalf. It's just a mere immortal object, the Primordial Palace should be able to protect me."

The elder said slowly: "The Primordial Palace has a large family and many immortal objects, so it might not be certain. You can keep this information; there are the profiles of three direct granddaughters on it, all of whom are Heavenly Foundations. If you change your mind, you can choose one from them."

Wei Yuan wanted to refuse, but still took the jade paper and put it away. The elder was very satisfied when he saw this, so he boarded the flying boat and left, leaving behind a ground of materials and eight Cui family children scheduled for the second phase.

After the flying boat left, Cui Yu said: "I thought you wouldn't accept that jade paper."

Wei Yuan was confused: "Why not accept it? Accepting it doesn't mean I have to look at it. Not accepting it to their faces would be disrespecting your Cui family, and the two True Persons might not know what to say about me when they go back."

Cui Yu patted Wei Yuan on the shoulder and said: "I don't know what they will say when they go back, but I know that: 'The Cui family sent the profiles of direct granddaughters for marriage, and Realm Lord Wei happily accepted them,' don't worry, this sentence will reach Sister Bao's ears in a few days."

Wei Yuan was unmoved: "Accepting doesn't mean I will look at it."

"If you don't want to look, why did you accept it?" Cui Yu asked back.

Wei Yuan was speechless for a time, not knowing how to refute. But he thought about it, why did he have to refute? But if he didn't refute, it would probably be even more wrong. For a moment, that jade paper became exceptionally hot.

Wei Yuan stuffed the jade paper to Cui Yu and said with a dark face: "Here, for you!"

Cui Yu put the jade paper into his bosom and said: "I'll keep it for Sister Bao."

With this, the Cui family matter came to a temporary end, and Cui Yu and Xu Waner led people to distribute the materials. The newly obtained rice seeds also had to be planted in reclaimed fields.

One hundred thousand catties of seeds were actually not much, only enough to plant five thousand mu. This quantity would not stimulate the Xu family, but the seeds sent by the Cui family had their own mysteries. This was a special variety, with a yield of three hundred catties per mu, not high, and the taste was poor, but it produced extremely fast, only needing two months to harvest, and it could grow almost anywhere without special care.

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With this batch of rice seeds, Wei Yuan wouldn't need to worry about food after half a year.

Wei Yuan returned to his residence, and a few pieces of jade paper were placed on the corner of the desk. He hesitated for a moment, and finally took the jade paper.

The paper recorded the detailed results of the previous battle. It had been counted a few days ago, but Wei Yuan just didn't want to look at it and had been dragging it until now.

In the previous battle, the Shaman tribe dispatched a total of one hundred and ten thousand troops, with eighty thousand directly participating in the battle, and forty thousand center and rear troops pressing the formation. The Shaman army successively dispatched twenty-five thousand elites to attack the six cities of Xuanwei. Wei Yuan deployed two thousand elites, five thousand ordinary Body Forging warriors, and four thousand ordinary people in the city in the six cities of Xuanwei. Finally, Yun Feifei blew up the underground city, and both sides perished together.

On the ground battlefield, the Shaman tribe dispatched sixty thousand troops, with twenty-seven thousand dead in battle; Wei Yuan deployed twenty thousand Body Forging warriors, five thousand elites, and five hundred Dao Foundation cultivators here, and finally eleven thousand died in battle.

The Shaman tribe's casualties were too heavy, and the military Qi was shaken, making Yanxin unable to borrow military Qi to strengthen himself, which also became the cause of his rapid defeat.

Now the population in the realm was less than one hundred thousand; in a short period of time, over forty thousand had died in battle.

The cultivators who came to the realm in the first batch were equivalent to having died once; now the main force in Wei Yuan's hands were mostly those who advanced after entering the realm.

Coming to Azure Void from Quliu Town and other places was not just as simple as eating a full meal. People would no longer be eroded by the Shaman Domain, and the living environment was at least dry and warm, so they wouldn't get all kinds of strange diseases again. And because of the constant nourishment of Wood-Born Profound, many people who were plagued by diseases were slowly getting better, and the Body Forging progress of people who had been stagnant was also progressing rapidly, so Wei Yuan had a large number of newly added Body Forging cultivators in his hands.

There were now less than one thousand elderly people over fifty in Azure Void, all of whom had survived the torture of the Domain of Shattering for several years, and all were Body Forging cultivators. In the Domain of Shattering, if one couldn't forge the body, one basically couldn't live past thirty, and only those who reached the Great Perfection of Body Forging could possibly live past fifty.

But this batch of elderly people was also on the verge of death when they entered Azure Void, their bodies had long been eroded beyond recognition, and their cultivation was less than one tenth.

And since the establishment of Azure Void, the Shaman tribe had lost one hundred thousand warriors on this land, more than half of whom were elites, and six or seven Great Shamans had also been lost. Such a record, not to mention being ten times more than the Ningxi Prefecture newly opened by Western Jin, was at least three or four times more.

Sometimes Wei Yuan hated it extremely, and would involuntarily think, it would be better to just pull out Azure Void and run away; his own Dao Foundation damage could always be slowly supplemented, and these Shaman troops were enough to sweep across the entire Western Region, killing all the large and small officials who came to open the prefecture and establish the commandery in Western Jin, as well as the one hundred thousand Jin troops who sat still.

It was just that if this happened, the millions of people stranded in the Domain of Shattering would all become ghosts.

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