civilwarnovels Chapter 350 - 282: Spirit Vein Essence
Chapter 350 - 282: Spirit Vein Essence
"Elder Bai, you don’t need to inquire about the specific time." Fang Yun shook his head, then continued, "But I am curious how exactly a Spirit Vein is upgraded."
The books Fang Yun read were mainly about Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and Planting. He had also read a fair number of books on Evil Demons and Crooked Paths.
Aside from those, he hadn’t read much on other subjects.
He didn’t know much about Spirit Veins, either.
Now that the topic had come up, it piqued his curiosity.
"Upgrading a Spirit Vein is certainly a complex process. I’m not sure about the specifics myself," Bai Heyan said with a smile. The variety of books he read was even more limited. "But I do know that to upgrade a Spirit Vein, you must accumulate a sufficient amount of Spirit Vein Essence."
"What is Spirit Vein Essence?"
"Spirit Vein Essence is the vital substance produced when a Spirit Vein is nurtured. This essence is normally stored within the Spirit Vein itself. It’s required for any upgrade, whether in grade or tier."
’It can be stored... If it can be stored, that means it can also be extracted.’
"That’s right. The refining of the Blast Spirit Pill, for instance, requires Spirit Vein Essence." Bai Heyan could tell just by looking at Fang Yun that he hadn’t seen the Pill Formula for the Blast Spirit Pill yet.
"The Blast Spirit Pill? Isn’t that a forbidden pill?"
"It is forbidden, but if you want the Pill Formula for the Blast Spirit Pill, you can register to receive it at the Dan Cloud Pavilion."
"Never mind." Fang Yun shook his head. He wasn’t interested for the time being.
"By the way, every ten years, the Foundation Establishment Influences affiliated with our Celestial Cloud Sect are required to hand over Spirit Vein Essence to supply our own Spirit Vein’s upgrades." Speaking of Spirit Vein Essence, Bai Heyan also happened to bring up the matter of their subordinate powers.
These subordinate powers must offer tribute to the Celestial Cloud Sect every year.
Special resources like this one, however, are typically offered up once every ten years after they’ve been accumulated.
Fang Yun understood the nature of these subordinate powers. While they received the Celestial Cloud Sect’s protection, they were also the sect’s "blood bags," so to speak.
A typical subordinate power was required to hand over more than half of its total annual resource production as tribute.
He didn’t chat with Bai Heyan for very long.
After leaving Dan Cloud Peak, Fang Yun quickly returned to his cave residence.
Less than half a month had passed
when the mission to refine Primordial Spirit Pills arrived.
Even before he had refined the Third Tier Five Qi Chao Ling Pill, he had already achieved perfect refinement with Primordial Spirit Pills.
As long as the Spirit Medicines provided for the task didn’t include any of inferior quality, he could easily refine a batch of seven Upper Grade Primordial Spirit Pills.
The Spirit Medicines provided for the two batches of Primordial Spirit Pills this time were quite good.
After he finished refining the first cauldron and produced seven Upper Grade Primordial Spirit Pills, the beginning of the sixth month was not far off.
Fang Yun spent the remaining time flipping through books, waiting for the sixth month to arrive.
The moment the sixth month arrived,
he closed his book and summoned the light screen.
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Refined Upper Grade Primordial Spirit Pill x7, Talent Points +11,340
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Sect Influence: 76%
Talent Point Bonus: 544%
Settlement: Talent Points +215,766
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Fang Yun’s influence in the sect had increased by one percentage point five years ago.
With the monthly settlement, even without the boost from his Combat Talent, he was basically earning over 200,000 Talent Points each month.
The previous year, his average monthly gain had already exceeded 230,000 Talent Points.
Fang Yun gave the light screen a quick glance before navigating to the Life Talent interface and beginning the draws.
He had sixty-three Talent Points left over from last month.
This month, he could make a total of two thousand one hundred fifty-eight draws for Life Talents.
Alchemy Talent Fragments x725
Artifact Refining Talent Fragments x722
Planting Talent Fragments x711
The Life Talent interface updated as follows:
Alchemy Talent ★★★★★★★ (271,672/362,880)
Artifact Refining Talent ★★★★★★★ (271,218/362,880)
Planting Talent ★★★★★★★ (270,952/362,880)
He still had about a quarter of the way to go before all his Life Talents reached eight stars.
That meant he still needed to accumulate around twenty-seven million more Talent Points.
’If I can earn an average of 230,000 Talent Points per month, that will take about 117 months... almost ten years.’
’I’ll aim to get all my Life Talents to eight stars in eight or nine years.’
Fang Yun thought to himself that once all his Life Talents were upgraded to eight stars, refining Third Tier pills would become even easier, and his resource conversion rate would be higher.
Also, once his Artifact Refining Talent reached eight stars, he could, with a bit of luck, refine an ordinary Magical Treasure for himself.
He had started collecting the Spiritual Materials to refine a Magical Treasure more than a decade ago.
The auxiliary Spiritual Materials were relatively easy to acquire; the difficult part was collecting the primary one.
The primary Spiritual Material for refining a Magical Treasure, even for the most basic one, had to be at least a Third Tier, Lower Grade material.
After closing the light screen, Fang Yun went back to reading his books.
「Seven days later.」
Fang Yun appeared in Yang Yingjie’s cave residence.
Yang Yingjie, who possessed Three Spirit Roots, had successfully broken through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment twelve years ago with the help of two Middle Grade Cyan Clarity Pills.
The Evil Extermination Hall currently had seven Elders, and in terms of individual power, Yang Yingjie now held the third-highest position.
Power within the Evil Extermination Hall wasn’t determined by a Cultivator’s personal strength, but rather by their ability to gather intelligence on Evil Demons and Crooked Paths.
The more useful the information one gathered, the greater the power they wielded.
Yang Yingjie had a distinct advantage in this area, so his power and status had grown rapidly.
The moment he saw Fang Yun, Yang Yingjie called out in excitement:
"Senior Brother Fang!"
Then he immediately asked,
"What brings you here today?"
"I’d like to know if the Celestial Demon Sect has made any moves recently," Fang Yun stated his purpose directly.
If possible, Fang Yun was eager to upgrade his Life Talents to eight stars sooner. That way, when faced with more refining tasks in the future, his ability to convert resources would be even greater.