Chapter 3

Lu Yuantu entered the Treasure Mirror space again and, learning that a hint had appeared, hurriedly examined the mirror surface carefully.

Text appeared on it again.

"Divine ability obtained; a one-time consumption of ten thousand low-grade Spirit Stones can produce one Dao Seed."

"Ten thousand, so many!"

Lu Yuantu was stunned and couldn't help but exclaim.

He was an Outer Sect Disciple in the Ziyao Immortal Sect, receiving only two low-grade Spirit Stones as a subsidy per month; ten thousand would take more than four hundred years to save if he didn't eat, drink, or consume anything.

Yan Zhe was also helpless; he calculated it, and it was only more, not less.

Moreover, he couldn't store Spirit Qi at all, which meant he could only provide enough for one "gestation of a Dao Seed" at a time; otherwise, it would just be a waste.

But he couldn't cultivate himself; if he wanted to master certain means, he could only obtain them by devouring Dao Fruits.

Broadcasting Dao Seeds was a necessary method.

While Lu Yuantu was shocked, he saw new text appear on the mirror surface.

"Dao Seeds can be reused. If the person who possesses this Dao Seed dies, their Divine Soul power condenses the divine ability comprehension into a Dao Fruit.

The Dao Fruit returns to the mirror and can be directly bestowed upon others. The successor perfectly obtains all the Divine Soul cultivation and divine ability comprehension of that Dao Fruit."

Seeing this line of text, Lu Yuantu nodded heavily and said to himself:

"If so, then ten thousand low-grade Spirit Stones are indeed very worth it."

Just imagine, if the Dao Fruit of a Golden Core cultivator were bestowed upon a Qi Refining cultivator, it would be equivalent to that Qi Refining cultivator directly possessing Divine Soul power and divine abilities rivaling a Golden Core cultivator.

Passed down from generation to generation for ten thousand years, it would inevitably lead to a great expert!

Lu Yuantu secretly decided in his heart that if his Dao foundation could not be repaired, he would develop the Lu family into a great clan; perhaps his descendants would have a true transcendent who could resurrect their ancestor.

Mortals rely on descendants for old age, cultivators rely on descendants for resurrection.

No problem! ——

Time passed leisurely, and in the blink of an eye, twenty years passed.

Through unremitting efforts, to this day, Lu Yuantu already had thirteen children.

It is difficult for those who cultivate the Dao to have children.

Although, the higher the cultivation of the cultivator, the greater the chance that the child will have high-quality talent.

But the difficulty of gestating life is also greater.

Lu Yuantu had not yet reached the Foundation Establishment stage, only the Qi Refining stage, so it was difficult to obtain offspring.

Working hard every night without slack, it wasn't until the second year that he had a child.

Lu Yuantu's family had a genealogical record, taking sixteen characters from a heart sutra as the middle character, which were "Ambition is high and far, understanding the heart is quiet, indifference becomes intention, reaching self-attainment."

So the next generation all took "Ming" as the middle character.

To this day, the oldest child was nineteen, and the youngest was only three years old.

Among the thirteen children, five were five-element mixed spirit roots that could not cultivate at all, and four were lowest-grade four-spirit-roots without outstanding spirit roots.

The remaining four, the one with the highest talent was named Lu Mingzhang, fourteen years old, three spirit roots, with the water spirit root reaching a superior grade.

The remaining three were all four-spirit-roots, but all had outstanding single spirit roots.

Sixteen-year-old Lu Mingbin and eight-year-old Lu Mingyu were both medium-grade water spirit roots.

The last one, Lu Mingyun, was a girl, thirteen years old, with a medium-grade wood spirit root.

Lu Yuantu himself was a three-spirit-root with water spirit root as the most outstanding, so the children also mostly had the highest quality water spirit roots.

Generally speaking, children could cultivate at the age of six, but due to the obscure and difficult-to-understand cultivation methods, and the need to learn knowledge such as human meridians, the sect mostly recruited disciples between ten and sixteen years old.

Lu Yuantu couldn't wait that long; after opening their minds at six, he personally taught the children who could cultivate, which were those four people.

For a newly developed small family, resources were even scarcer, so he could only concentrate materials to cultivate the children with high talent.

For twenty years, he managed ten mu of spirit fields alone.

With a divine ability in hand, he could harvest three times a year; originally one mu of land could produce 60 catties, but now he could obtain 80 catties.

Ten mu of land harvested eight hundred catties of low-grade Spirit Rice at once, and after deducting expenses for the year, he had a surplus of 210 Spirit Stones.

The Immortal Sect collected Spirit Rice per capita; no matter how much you produced, as long as you lived within the planned scope and didn't expand outside the planned area, you only handed over two hundred catties of Spirit Rice a year.

Therefore, in twenty years, he had saved up a full four thousand two hundred Spirit Stones.

Compared to ordinary Qi Refining disciples, this was naturally a huge fortune, but thinking that creating one Dao Seed required at least ten thousand Spirit Stones, Lu Yuantu felt he needed to speed up.

Before, there was no way; he didn't dare to recruit outsiders.

This year, Lu Mingzhang and Lu Mingbin both broke through to the Qi Refining stage one after another, which meant they could help guard the spirit fields; although one person could guard at most one mu now, adding two mu meant twenty percent more harvest every year, which was not bad.

Little by little, life would slowly get better.

Time flew like a shuttle; cultivation knows no years, and in the blink of an eye, another forty years passed.

On this day, Lu Yuantu put down all affairs, immersed his mind in his Sea of Consciousness, and waited with full concentration for the next divine ability of the Divine Ability Treasure Mirror to be produced.

Finally, a line of text appeared on the mirror surface.

【Submerged Abyss Escaping Earth】: Able to move freely in water and move freely underground.

Disappointment.

What Lu Yuantu craved was a divine ability that could make up for his foundation, but this divine ability was clearly not it.

During this time, he had also spent Spirit Stones to explore other methods to make up for his foundation, but he had gained nothing.

Among the information collected, if the foundation was damaged, the path of immortality was completely cut off.

Therefore, his only hope was pinned on this 【Divine Ability Treasure Mirror】.

Sixty years of waiting, sixty years of expectation.

The result was just like this.

Of course, besides the disadvantage of not being able to make up for the foundation, this divine ability could be said to be a true Dao-protecting divine ability.

With this divine ability, the world was vast, and he could go anywhere.

Climbing mountains and entering the sea, escaping earth and diving into water, it was a true life-saving technique.

It could be said that with this divine ability, the Lu family basically didn't need to worry about being exterminated, and the inheritance would not be cut off.

According to the Treasure Mirror's hint, only those who merged with the 【Divine Ability Treasure Mirror】 could obtain multiple divine ability Dao Seeds, while others could only merge with one Dao Seed.

To this day, besides Lu Yuantu himself, the Lu family only had two people who obtained the 【Spring Breeze Turns to Rain】 Dao Seed.

After sixty years of development, the Lu family had completely stabilized in Wenxi County.

Lu Yuantu now had a total of twenty-one children; although his great-grandchildren were born, he himself didn't forget to continue to extend the family line and expand the clan.

In a great cultivation clan, daughters do not marry out, only sons-in-law are recruited, and the children born still have the surname Lu.

He had forty-seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Mortals who could not cultivate were arranged to be officials and engage in commerce; for example, the current magistrate of Wenxi County was Lu Yuantu's eldest son, Lu Mingli.

Besides him, the rest of the Lu family mortals also infiltrated every aspect of Wenxi County, completely controlling this jurisdiction granted by the Immortal Sect.

The spirit fields had now expanded to forty-two mu; with Lu Yuantu's cultivation, using the 【Spring Breeze Turns to Rain】 divine ability, he could bless at most twenty-eight mu, which was also the reason why he spent a huge amount of money to teach the divine ability to two descendants back then.

With the divine ability bonus, the yield per mu could keep up; now, after deducting expenses and the entertainment expenses for large-scale Spirit Rice transactions, he could obtain a surplus of 750 Spirit Stones every year.

Developing according to this trend, in ten years, he could save another ten thousand Spirit Stones and exchange them for a Dao Seed.

Lu Yuantu tidied his clothes and walked out of the house, only to see his son Lu Mingzhang waiting outside.

"Are you ready?"

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(End of chapter)