Chapter 2311: Chapter 1295: The Ice Crystal Palace Trial (Part 2)
Some people came from the countryside, and some of them were even illiterate, but they all got basic literacy lessons.
He kept their hands busy, making them remember how to cultivate the Cultivation Technique, and with Pills transforming their physiques, a mere ordinary person turned into a cultivator.
After their physical aptitude changed and they discovered they could cultivate, their minds, their intelligence, also started becoming sharper.
Their once murky eyes and clumsy minds became clear, and they found that although they still couldn’t achieve total eidetic memory, they were already much smarter than ordinary people, far above average intelligence.
Only then did they realize that becoming someone above others was not a dream, Becoming Immortal was not a dream, and becoming a Deity was not a dream either.
Within the entire family, Lai Jianlin had the highest capability, and there was no one who didn’t admire him. After all, he enjoyed more benefits, and those who followed him also improved their strength along with him.
He had cultivated a group of supporters; in a family like theirs, there would inevitably be competitors.
However, he had trained a batch of young Capable Beings, and these people were all quite powerful within their family.
Although the older generation of Elders were still around, they could no longer rely on age to throw their weight around.
After all, they were now at the base of the proper sect, not in the old family compound where prestige alone could grant authority.
Everywhere, strength was respected. In this base, whoever possessed the strength of a manager and was also the family’s highest authority could be the one whose word was law within the clan.
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Lai Jianlin already had two children with his wife Ding Ling, and they were very loving.
But most of the time the two of them were busy managing certain affairs, improving their own strength, or going to face divine tribulation together.
When undergoing divine tribulation, they would also bring along some Capable Beings from the family, but they only went into Jiang Tang this Deity’s Immortal Treasure to train.
The children were handed over to the elders at home to raise; among the couple, one was the Family Head, and the other was already the main wife.
They would always train the people around them, so even if they weren’t in the family compound, there would still be people to manage all matters of the clan.
After all, they were in the base, in the base of the major sect, and together with other families and some individuals, they all served one base, one department.
They would engage in planting, and in making all kinds of materials; surplus resources would be sold off and then exchanged for benefits.
Of course, their family also needed more Cultivation Resources. In the base, one reason they didn’t go out was that they didn’t need to head outside to face divine tribulation in search of better Cultivation Resources.
Nor did they need to go outside to train in actual combat to improve their fighting strength.
If they wanted to spar, they could simply do it inside the Saint Sect.
In terms of management, they would continuously take on missions, receive rewards, and obtain the qualification to enter the Scripture Pavilion to study more Cultivation Techniques and Secret Manuals.
In fact, they didn’t dare go outside alone or in a small squad, largely because some of them simply weren’t strong enough.
Lai Jianlin also knew that within the base, the strength of their family was only at a middling level, and among the people there were also members from some major clans, including people from the Top Ten Clans.
Those people were even stronger, competing with them for resources; within the base, territories could be demarcated and divided up.
But once they went outside and someone discovered that they had come out from the Saint Sect’s base and that their strength was only so-so, it would easily draw others’ greed and murderous intent.
Lai Jianlin was well aware that among the personnel stationed at the several bases of their major sect, the capabilities were uneven; after all, some ordinary people had also joined. These were all relatives and friends of certain young ladies, brought into their respective families.
Lai Jianlin still greatly admired Jiang Tang this Deity, who created many cultivation environments for them and granted them more freedom in cultivation.
He would also reward their diligence in the base with greater harvests.
Here, as long as one worked hard, one could exchange for the items one wanted.
Here, as long as you took missions you would receive rewards, and you could also obtain things that people outside couldn’t buy even with money.
In the Cultivation World, many people wanted to go into certain Secret Realms to face divine tribulation, but those places often only opened once every few years or decades.
After all, those who went inside for divine tribulation would scour the place for treasures and dig up all the valuable Spirit Grass.
In the base, under such dense Spiritual Energy, they could plant the medicines they needed and the items they could exchange.
This Spirit Grass could not be bought outside, yet they were able to plant it here, trading for seeds and planting them inside.
In the past, Lai Jianlin’s family had spent all their funds and still hadn’t managed to buy more than a few Pills; these top-grade Pills for cultivation were, in their eyes, far too expensive, ridiculously expensive.
And demand still far outstripped supply.
Only then did they realize that the Pills they had eaten before not only contained too many impurities, but their effectiveness also fell short.
The more expensive, the more powerful; you get what you pay for.
Resources that couldn’t even be bought outside in the markets were, in the Saint Sect, distributed as casually as cabbages by Jiang Tang this Saint Master as benefits; there were plentiful Pills, and right from the start they were top-grade Pills.
Now, when taking on missions or competing, there were even Immortal Pills to be had.
Although with their current level of strength, they still couldn’t consume Immortal Pills.
In the planting competitions, they could receive the reward of immortal spirit.
Many times, after entering the Immortal Castle, Lai Jianlin and his brother Luo Yaxuan would pair up for sparring.
Their capabilities were about the same, only what they had learned was different.
At first, the abilities they learned were all chosen according to their Spiritual Roots.
But ever since they started learning Spells and Cultivation Techniques that didn’t require Spiritual Roots.
Over these past few years, they had both been moving toward All-Around development.
Now the couple and their team entered the Immortal Treasure together to face divine tribulation.
Once they entered that Immortal Castle, they would engage team against team; this time they went into an ice-and-snow Immortal Treasure for divine tribulation.
All of them were developing toward All-Around cultivation; they hadn’t possessed ice-and-snow Spiritual Roots before, but now, with All-Around Cultivation Techniques, they had mastered them too.
Upon entering the world of ice and snow, they all raised their body Qi, increasing their body temperature so they wouldn’t be unable to withstand the cold in this icy world.
Before entering, they also put on Vestment robes; if they had to rely solely on their physiques to resist the cold.
They really wouldn’t be able to do it; their strength was still too weak, and they were entering an Immortal Castle.
The area they were in was an Ice Crystal region, and the Ice Crystal here was even colder than Ice Crystal outside.
Once they entered this place, they could feel that the Ice Crystal here was actually a treasure as well, one could say it was a cultivation resource.
Lai Jianlin and the team entered together, and first thing after stepping inside, they gathered in a circle and didn’t rush to charge ahead. They had to first let their body Qi contend against the Qi of the Ice Crystal and then absorb the Ice Crystal Spiritual Energy here.
Fortunately, as soon as they entered they laid down a simple Formation; with this Formation prepared in advance, they could still catch their breath for a while.
Outside their simple Formation, because of their arrival in the Ice Crystal Palace, the original mechanisms were triggered the moment unfamiliar Qi intruded. The Artifact Spirit of the Ice Crystal had already activated the Puppet mechanisms within the Ice Crystal Palace.
In an instant, around the two teams that had entered, densely packed Ice Crystal Puppets appeared.
Outside their simple Formation, Ice Crystal Puppets were already attacking.
Lai Jianlin and the team formed a tight protective circle around Ding Ling, using other skills to battle these Ice Crystal Puppets.
If during the battle they could capture Ice Crystal Puppets, they would become a source of cultivation for them.
They had come to face divine tribulation this time, of course, to gain experience in sparring.
They also hoped to obtain more Cultivation Resources here to take back and distribute to others who hadn’t been able to enter for divine tribulation as benefits.
Luo Yaxuan had also brought his own team; he had become the Clan Leader of his family, and in order to increase the strength of his clan members, he devoted himself to training a batch of family elites, and to strengthening his team as well.
Previously, he had only gone in together with some other Capable Beings when they had the qualification to enter Jiang Tang this Deity’s Magical Treasure for divine tribulation.
Not everyone had the chance to enter his Magical Treasure to train.
Now that he had gained the opportunity, he could even bring his wife along.
He protected his wife and, as they entered together with the team, they tacitly laid down a simple Formation.
Then they boosted their body Qi and absorbed the Ice Crystal Spiritual Energy outside.
At the very moment the Puppets appeared, Luo Yaxuan immediately used Thunder to protect everyone together, and the one who most needed protection was his wife, whose ability was the weakest.
