Chapter 57: 【Embezzling Private Funds, Working Hard】 (Second update, please follow)

According to Lu Chengtong's plan, in order to prevent the Lu family from being targeted again, to the point where the whole clan is hunted down and finally exterminated, at least two dark lines need to be inserted.

That is to say, the inheritance of the two families cannot use 'Lu' as the surname. One of the lineages is this Cheng Tongru lineage, which is nominally the Cheng family, but if the descendants obtain the Treasure Mirror inheritance, they will naturally know everything and understand that they are Lu family members, enjoying resources provided by the Lu family.

Another lineage, according to Lu Chengtong's plan, is the demon-hunting alchemist Guan Yu lineage.

In this way, the Lu, Guan, and Cheng lineages develop together. As the three lineages grow, the bloodline can be continued. As long as a portion of people is designated to inherit, it can be guaranteed that the Treasure Mirror will not be passed on to outsiders.

It's just that these three families all need to blossom and bear fruit; Lu Chengtong will have to work hard.

The first is to find a Dao companion in the identity of Cheng Tongru.

He is now an inner sect disciple of Longfu Peak and also bears the responsibility of the spirit stone mine supervisor. With real power in his hands, many people are willing to find a few suitable Dao companions to match him.

Among them, the women of the Pei family were the first to be delivered to his door.

Back when he was in the herb garden, Pei Zhang took good care of him, and even after he left to obtain spirit fruit resources, there were many discounts. This friendship must be remembered.

Although the Pei family has no Golden Core Masters, it is a large Foundation Establishment clan, with more than twenty Foundation Establishment True Persons in the clan, over a hundred Qi Refining realm cultivators, and more than ten thousand clansmen.

They were originally distributed within the seven prefectures of the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect, but after this great war, two branches moved to the territory of the Golden Wind Immortal Sect, and one of the branches came to this Yuyang Prefecture, which possesses a mid-grade spirit stone mine.

A spirit stone mine means the gathering of wealth. With this mine, the spirit Qi concentration in the surrounding area will be higher than in other territories.

Of course, the place above the spirit stone mine is not the place where the spirit Qi is most concentrated. According to the trend of the spirit vein, there will be a 'Spirit-Gathering Place'. The stations of the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect and the Golden Wind Immortal Sect are both Spirit-Gathering Places, which can also be called Spirit Eyes.

If the location of the Spirit Eye is not occupied by cultivators or demonic creatures, and the time is long enough, a new spirit vein can be formed.

One cannot establish a sect above a spirit vein.

This is equivalent to establishing a sect on a powder keg. Once the spirit Qi riots, even small-scale fluctuations are enough to make those Qi Refining realm disciples uncomfortable, and they might even be directly backlashed to death.

Digging spirit stone mines has a lot of profit, but it is also very dangerous.

When a spirit Qi tide erupts, the marginal areas can obtain spirit Qi nourishment, but the central area cannot withstand it, and the Dao foundation might be shattered.

Drinking too much water can choke a person to death; a sudden eruption of spirit Qi, if one cannot dodge in time, can easily wipe out a large area of cultivators.

Lu Chengtong's position as supervisor was actually obtained after some operation using supernatural powers.

He had previously used the 【Submerged Abyss Earth Escaping】 supernatural power to go to a low-grade spirit stone mine of the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect, hoping to obtain spirit Qi directly through the mine to let the Treasure Mirror produce Dao seeds.

But he failed.

Low-grade spirit stones are natural regular octahedrons the size of a walnut. The grade of a spirit stone is naturally formed. Mid-grade spirit stones are larger, the size of two walnuts, regular dodecahedrons, and high-grade ones are larger, regular icosahedrons.

Top-grade spirit stones are round beads, that is, spheres.

These spirit stones are tightly wrapped by the surrounding rock, which is very difficult to take out.

The rock formed around the spirit stone is called 'Solid-Spirit Rock'. Its function in the early stage can be to nurture spirit stones, and after the spirit stone is formed, its properties change, which can isolate and preserve spirit Qi.

If one wants to absorb the spirit Qi within the spirit stone, one must clean the Solid-Spirit Rock around the spirit stone, which is not an easy thing.

Years of inheritance naturally developed corresponding spells. There is a spell called 'Spirit Extraction Art' that can perfectly obtain spirit stones, but it requires at least a fourth-layer Qi Refining realm cultivator to perform, and one cannot perform it many times a day.

Therefore, mining spirit stones is not an easy task.

The Treasure Mirror can absorb spirit Qi within a certain range centered on the Treasure Mirror. This range is limited by the divine soul level of the Treasure Mirror.

At the very beginning, that is, when Lu Yuantu first obtained the Treasure Mirror, he needed to place the spirit stone on the mirror surface to absorb the spirit Qi within it. When the Treasure Mirror's divine soul level was promoted to the Foundation Establishment realm, the absorption range expanded to a range of one zhang, and when promoted to the first layer of the Golden Core realm, it reached a range of ten zhang.

Although the spirit Qi within the spirit stone cannot be absorbed while it is inside the rock layer, when a spirit Qi tide erupts, he can take the opportunity to let the Treasure Mirror have its fill.

Even if he only absorbs it once, it is a free gain of ten thousand spirit stones, which is why he fought for the position here.

Besides this, of course, there is the reason of being able to secretly mine and embezzle private funds.

In short, he, who possesses many supernatural powers, is like a mouse entering a rice granary; he can absolutely gather a large amount of wealth in a short period of time.

Lu Chengtong dares to say that no previous manager of this spirit vein could compare to his greed!

He just has this confidence.

In the year 350 of the Supernatural Power Era, Lu Chengtong, in the identity of Cheng Tongru, married a female cultivator from the Pei family and two female cultivators from two local immortal cultivation families, the Yang family and the Ma family.

All were in the Qi Refining realm.

Foundation Establishment realm female cultivators are considered high-end combat power and would not be his Dao companions.

Moreover, Lu Chengtong is also very picky, only liking young, beautiful ones with spirit roots.

Among the three women, the Yang family's female cultivator Yang Qing had a superior fire-attribute three-spirit root quality, the best talent, and the other two were only four-spirit roots.

For the next period of time, he worked hard on the three of them.

Besides this, it was to refine the treasures obtained from this battle.

In the great war between the two factions, he looted a total of five Golden Core Elder storage bags, two hundred and forty-two Foundation Establishment cultivator storage bags, and more than thirteen hundred Qi Refining cultivator storage bags.

From this number of captures, one can see that he also put in a lot of hard work in that war.

Not to mention anything else, just these storage bags are a not-small wealth.

Plus the things obtained from the Golden Wind Immortal Sect treasury, a Nascent Soul Ancestor is estimated to not be as rich as him!

To count all these things clearly also requires a not-short amount of time.

After all, this matter can only be done by him alone.

He is quite happy.

Opening a storage bag is equivalent to opening a blind box; one doesn't know what treasures are inside.

Even if it is a storage bag of a Qi Refining realm cultivator, he is full of expectations; after all, who can be sure that the other party doesn't have a powerful opportunity?

If someone is a descendant of a certain immortal sect, it is not impossible for a top-grade spirit tool to be stored in a plain-looking storage bag.

This happiness can only be enjoyed by him alone.

It took a full half a year for Lu Chengtong to preliminarily digest the spoils of war.

Half a year of effort, not a single child, refined several spirit tools.

No spirit treasures were found, which made him a bit disappointed.

Next, he spent almost all his energy on his three Dao companions, paying all his efforts for the Lu family inheritance.

He even gave up continuing to improve his cultivation, because if his cultivation were improved again, the probability of conceiving children would be even lower.

Three months later, the hard work finally received a return.

Two Dao companions became pregnant one after another in the same month, and another Dao companion also successfully conceived a month later.

Taking advantage of the time they were conceiving children, Lu Chengtong changed his identity and continued to look for beautiful female cultivators of appropriate age with spirit roots to combine with and have children.

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