Chapter 1178: Chapter 649: Finally Obtaining the Longevity Technique_2 Chapter 1178: Chapter 649: Finally Obtaining the Longevity Technique_2 If it hadn’t been for firming up his foundations, he would have deliberately suppressed his progress, he might have already reached the late phase of Foundation Establishment by now.

With the constraints of the Everlife Tree Fruit gone, Yue Zutao’s mental barriers disappeared, displaying a grace and capability not inferior to that of King Zhou’s E Yun. Even due to decades of tempering, his approach to matters had become even more steady and polished.

This year, Chen Mobai and Fu Zongjue led the Divine Wood Sect’s army to besiege the large formation at Liu Jia Mountain. Yue Zutao had full control over the Sect’s Three Halls and Twelve Divisions at Giant Tree Ridge, whether it was the allocation of various resources or the distribution of profits and responsibilities, he basically managed to get all parties to accept it.

After Chen Mobai returned to the Sect, seeing that Yue Zutao had already arranged all the post-war consolations, he did not make any changes, directly signing and stamping his approval for Yue Zutao to carry it out.

He mainly took out the Sect’s finances for the next two years to first distribute all the various benefits from waging war this year.

This would lead to a tightening of the Sect’s finances for the next two years, and Chen Mobai simply instructed Yue Zutao to find ways to increase revenue and cut expenditures.

Because he had just ordered the development of the Eastern Desolation Plateau, a major project that would take years or even over a decade to see profits. Although most of the costs were borne by the local town guards, and he had Liu Wenbo mobilize the resources of Little Nan Mountain Shop to help, the Divine Wood Sect also wouldn’t be able to collect Spirit Stones from those countries, and might even need to subsidize them from the Sect.

In response to this, Yue Zutao, who had just become the Vice Hall Master of Reward Virtue Hall, in charge of the Sect’s financial power, had no choice but to wryly smile and get on with it.

Just as Chen Mobai had taken care of the Sect’s affairs and was preparing to enter seclusion to refine the Qi of Creation, his eldest disciple Liu Wenbo returned.

He presented the Qi of Dragon Vein refined by Song Huangdae this year and reported, with a pleased face, the earnings of Little Nan Mountain Shop.

This whole year, for the first time, they achieved the target of one million Spirit Stones in profit.

Of this, naturally, the talisman paper produced by the puppet factory was the main contributor, selling for six hundred thousand Spirit Stones; talisman ink for one hundred thousand; even the defective Rank-2 talisman papers and inks from Chen Mobai’s previous Flying Talismans Factory had been snatched up by the Foundation Establishment Practitioners from the major families, selling for one hundred and twenty thousand Spirit Stones.

Then there were the various types of Spirit Rice and Spirit Wine from Little Nan Mountain, which sold for nearly two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

Due to the explosive increase in numbers of new Foundation establishment Practitioners in the Divine Wood Sect, the whole Eastern Wasteland began to believe in the power of Spirit Rice to break through realms, causing the price of Spirit Rice to soar.

Among these, the most trusted by Eastern Wasteland Cultivators was naturally Chen Mobai’s Little Nan Mountain Shop.

Liu Wenbo was even suggesting whether to preferentially supply Spirit Rice to their own shop.

But Chen Mobai was not short of those Spirit Stones, and flatly refused.

The strength of the Divine Wood Sect was the foundation for his further progress.

“Next year I will provide even more talisman paper to the shop,” Chen Mobai thought about expanding the scale of his puppet factory. But because on the Immortal Gate’s side, his factory was not operating at full market capacity each year, he planned to cautiously build a new branch of the puppet factory in the Divine Tree Secret Realm.

Just in time, the batch of equipment replaced after the last upgrade was still sitting idle.

For puppets, he, possessing mature experience, could directly provide the design drawings himself for the Puppet Division of the Divine Wood Sect to produce.

However, the subsequent high-end components like core chips and Heavenly Calculation Beads, as well as connections to equipment, would still require his involvement.

But the most troublesome part, the maintenance and upkeep, could be handled by the Puppet Division of the Divine Wood Sect.

He, a Nascent Soul Ancestor, just needed to give the orders, and the cultivators of the Divine Wood Sect would certainly put in their utmost effort.

Thinking of this, he immediately summoned Li Yixian from the Puppet Division.

An Jinghui, the Division Head, was still in Rainbow Country. His task of organizing the Liu Jia Mountain classics naturally fell to him as the Puppet Division’s head.

“Yes, Sect Leader, I will arrange it right away,” Li Yixian said after looking at the puppet design drawings given by Chen Mobai. His eyes immediately lit up.

Many of the techniques and component assemblies were very different from the conventions in the Eastern Wasteland, making him feel that these drawings could enhance the level of his Puppetry Technique.

After arranging these matters, Chen Mobai began secluding himself to refine the Qi of Creation.

[Metal 23, Wood 45, Water 35, Fire 84, Earth 38].

Glancing at the numbers slowly appearing on the screen of the Spirit-Testing Instrument, Chen Mobai couldn’t help but show a smile.

He could refine the Qi of Creation again to increase his Earth Spiritual Root to 40 points.

Furthermore, with the Vermilion Phoenix Facing the Sun Diagram boosting his consumption of nine Earth Veins Elixirs, he was guaranteed to increase by 27 points at minimum. If his luck was even better, he might not even need to cultivate the Spiritual Root improvement method to break through to 80 points.

With this thought in mind, Chen Mobai eagerly wanted to return to the Immortal Gate to continue tinkering with the refinement of the Earth Veins Elixir.

However, before returning, he didn’t forget to visit the Divine Tree Secret Realm.

This time, he finally obtained the “Longevity Technique” from the inheritance space within the Talent Tree.

Regrettably, the conditions for cultivating the Longevity Technique were very strict. Like One-Leaf Blindness and Pulling Seedlings to Promote Growth, it required cultivators of the Qing Emperor’s Longevity Scripture to practice it.

Moreover, it required drawing the essence of the Everlife Wood through one’s Destiny Spirit Plant and refining it into the body, which meant one’s own Destiny Spirit Plant had to have evolved to at least Rank-4.

Therefore, within the Longevity Sect, it was generally the Nascent Soul Cultivators who would start to cultivate this grand spell, preparing for Divinity Transformation and extending their lifespan.

This grand spell, once mastered, could also provide a permanent enhancement to the cultivator.

It could permanently increase one’s lifespan by one third of the current realm. As long as the Destiny Spirit Plant remained intact, even if the cultivator was slain outside, they could use the pre-stored essence blood and Divine Sense within the Spirit Plant to achieve rebirth.

Having read this, Chen Mobai grew even more admiring of True Lord Yuan.

He marveled at the method he devised to practice the Longevity Technique piece by piece.

If he managed to cultivate the Longevity Dao Body to its highest realm, then he could attempt to cultivate this grand Longevity Technique by using the Co-cultivation Method with Yin Qingmei’s Spiritual Power.

However, he also needed to find a way to enhance Yin Qingmei’s Biyu Wutong to Rank-4.

But at least he now had another goal to strive for.

After returning to the Immortal Gate, Chen Mobai took advantage of the Fourth Grade Superior Spirit Vein in Red Sandstone City to start refining Longevity Dew to enhance his Longevity Dao Body, then continued by cultivating Pure Yang Scroll and Pure Yang Daoist Body, etc.

Once his cultivation was complete, Chen Mobai checked his mobile phone and saw that Qing Nu had replied to him with a very long email.

The email dated back half a year.

At that time, Chen Mobai felt insufficient in his ability while refining the Earth Veins Elixir and had sought her advice.

Of course, when asking for advice, he naturally thought of a reason, claiming that he was trying to refine a Rank-2 Elixir of metal and stone and was consistently exceeding the standard in terms of alchemic poison.

After reading Qing Nu’s email, Chen Mobai learned that, due to the Elixir of metal and stone being a condensation of minerals and gases, the alchemic poison would naturally be higher than that of regular water and fire techniques in alchemy.

However, the standards of the Immortal Gate applied equally to all, so treating the alchemic poison of the Elixir of metal and stone required more advanced techniques and equipment.

At the end of the email, Qing Nu also wrote the model and specifications of the relevant equipment, and which manufacturer’s was the best.

After reading this, Chen Mobai felt enlightened and immediately placed an order for the equipment.

Unfortunately, the Elixir of metal and stone was quite a niche in the Immortal Gate, so the manufacturers recommended by Qing Nu did not have ready stock and required custom orders.

To custom order equipment capable of handling the alchemic poison from Rank-3 Elixir of metal and stone, due to high standards and demands, would take at least several years.

Chen Mobai could wait, but he wanted to complete the Earth Veins Elixir as soon as possible.

So he leveraged his connections.

In the end, he found a solution through Zhou Tiangong, the chief engineer of Tiangong Instrument Factory. With a background from the Dance Tool Dao Academy, he was a big name in the field of equipment, and he managed to locate the relevant equipment that a pharmaceutical factory had laying idle.

Chen Mobai spent a million Good Deed Points to get it in hand.

It’s worth mentioning that the reason why the alchemy of the Immortal Gate so vastly overshadows the Tianhe Realm is not just due to techniques, but also these various functional pieces of equipment.

Using the new equipment combined with Spiritual Extract to treat the alchemic poison, the latest batch of Earth Veins Elixirs refined by Chen Mobai already reduced the poison content to 1.6%.

Though by the standards of the Immortal Gate, it was still not up to par.

Yet in the Eastern Wasteland, it had already reached the level of a premium elixir.