Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Starlight is dense, the moon is like a millstone, in the dark room,

The two of them whispered private words and soon fell into a deep sleep. Until dawn the next day, Tang Ning opened her eyes and saw that the person she was holding tightly in her arms was still sleeping.

"Husband." Liu Ruhan opened her sleepy eyes, half angry and half resentful.

"The sun has already risen, and I'm still sleeping in." Tangning took out her palm and patted her butt lightly.

Liu Ruhan ignored him, closed her eyes, and continued to sleep.

After the Qingwuying Fourth Army Corps withdrew from Donglai County, they settled in Pingyuan County. After Tang Ning met Wen Tai, she went straight to look for Liu Ruhan.

A long separation between a husband and wife is better than a newlywed, so they are naturally warm and affectionate.

"Ruru, wake up and I want to tell you something!"

"What's the matter?" Liu Ruhan opened her hazy eyes again and squeezed into his arms.

Tang Ning whispered a few words in her ear, and Liu Ruhan nudged him with her head.

"Let's get down to business, Ruru, I think we have to find a way to start our own industry."

"Um?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. You see, the gourd requires demon elixir, and purchasing the demon elixir requires a large amount of spiritual stones. Our salary alone is definitely not enough. Now is the war, and I have nothing in the coalition except salary and meager funds. Income. In addition, you have left Donglai County and have no resources and no other income. We don’t know how the situation will develop in the future. If we don’t create some industry of our own, we won’t even be able to estimate elixirs. It’s a problem.”

Tang Ning's current salary is 180,000 high-grade spiritual stones. Including the funds allocated from the coalition forces, it works out to about 2.78 million high-grade spiritual stones per year. In the early stage of Void Refining, one Yuan-Building Pill costs 1,000 high-grade spiritual stones. Shi, with his current salary, it is barely enough to pay for the elixir, but he also has a small chop to enshrine, which is completely insufficient.

Fortunately, Liu Ruhan's salary is quite high, with a salary of 430,000 high-grade spiritual stones per year. Because the two have different cultivation qualifications, she has excellent spiritual qualifications and receives the salary of the highest-level disciple of Taixuan Sect.

Tangning, on the other hand, received the lowest-level salary because she had a lower-middle-level spiritual qualification. Therefore, the difference between the two was more than double.

Although he had undergone holy blood bathing and his spiritual root qualifications had undergone earth-shaking changes, only the couple knew about this matter. How could he dare to report it to Taixuan Sect? It made a big fuss and everyone knew about it.

In addition to his salary, Liu Ruhan had an additional income of about 300,000 yuan a year when he was working in Donglai County. In total, he earned more than 700,000 high-grade spiritual stones a year.

Tang Ning has been able to live such a leisurely life these years without having to worry about spiritual stones, thanks to her nourishment.

But now, the Fourth Army of Qingwu Camp has been forced to withdraw from Donglai County, and all the resource areas it controlled have been lost. Without these resource areas, there will naturally be no additional income.

Pingyuan County is also under the jurisdiction of the Third Army. All resource areas have been divided into various teams. Of course, they will not give up their profits to the Fourth Army.

Since the Fourth Legion came to Pingyuan County, the top brass of the legion have petitioned Qingwu Camp to allocate part of their jurisdiction to them, but there is still no specific information.

You must know that the main reason why Taixuanzong disciples live a prosperous life is because they control the rich resource areas. For some powerful disciples, the additional income far exceeds their own salary.

When Tang Ning served as the vice-captain in Xuantang City, her annual salary was only 12,000 high-grade spiritual stones, but the extra income from the alliance could reach as much as 30,000.

The entire financial system of Taixuanzong gradually decreased from bottom to top.

For example, when disciples are building foundations, golden elixirs, and Yuanying, the salary they receive is much higher than the daily cost of elixirs. Because low-level disciples have little extra income, high salaries are used to ensure their training expenses.

The higher the cultivation level, the lower the salary ratio increases. Because high-level monks will hold important positions in various ministries, they will have more income sharing, and they are less dependent on salary, so the salary ratio will increase lower and lower.

The reason for this situation is that the disciples' salaries are paid directly from the sect's finances, while the additional income comes from the harvest of each department.

In order to reduce the financial pressure on the sect, the higher the disciple's cultivation level, the smaller the salary will be as a proportion of the income.

Take Tang Ning as an example. When he first became a god, his salary was 8,000 high-grade spiritual stones. Now his salary is 180,000, which is a twenty-fold increase.

At first glance, it seems okay, but compared with the price, it is a bit unsatisfactory.

The fifth-level low-grade elixir was worth thirty high-grade spiritual stones. With his salary at that time, it could support the expenses for a year.

However, the sixth-level low-grade elixir has skyrocketed to a thousand high-grade spiritual stones. With his current salary, it is simply not enough.

The higher your cultivation level goes, the lower the salary ratio increases, but the higher the elixir price ratio increases.

This is because the refining of high-level elixirs is difficult. Not only are the herbs for elixirs scarce, but there are also not many alchemists, so the market is in short supply.

Sixth-level low-grade Buyuan Pills are still relatively easy to buy in large stores, while sixth-grade mid-grade or even high-grade pills rarely appear on the market. If the cultivation level is combined, seventh-grade pills will not appear at all. in the market.

The elixirs for the fusion monks are all provided by the sect according to quantity, or they can be customized by a fusion-level alchemist with whom they have a good relationship.

The couple's income could originally cover their elixir expenses and other expenses, but now that they have left Donglai County, Liu Ruhan has lost that extra income, making her financial resources somewhat stretched.

In addition to collecting demon pills, it is naturally not enough.

If she further improves her cultivation in the future, the pressure will be even greater. Therefore, Tang Ning has long been thinking about starting some business, and she had previously proposed to cooperate with merchants to prepare for this.

"Ruru, do you think we can build an alchemy hall by ourselves? I can use green spiritual power to catalyze the elixir, and the raw materials are not a problem. All we need to do is convince Wen Tai and Shao Hui. With them in charge, we can recruit a group of alchemists to help. , basically it will be done.”

"Aren't you going to catalyze the Golden Thunder Bamboo? You also have to dissolve the Gourd Demon Pill. Is there still time to catalyze the elixir?"

"I'm not saying now, wait until I resolve the Jinleizhu matter first, then I will have time later..."

The couple talked softly about the future.

…

In a blink of an eye, a few months passed by in the blink of an eye. It was the winter solstice, and heavy snow fell in Huayuan County. The whole world was covered in silver and turned white.

In the empty valley, a three-headed snow-white snake was lying on the snow field, its huge body squirming continuously, its whole body almost blending into the heavy snow. Above the valley, Tangning watched the little white snake's spiritual aura getting stronger and stronger, and felt in her heart. My thoughts are spinning.

Over the years, the little white snake followed him to fight against the Mubei monsters and ate many monsters, and it was always the one who took the initiative to get out of the spirit beast bag to fight.

According to its own words, whether the flesh and blood of monster beasts is more delicious than the beast elixir, it seems to be a great addition to it.

A few years ago, during the guard battle in Donglai County, after the little white snake swallowed an injured mid-stage divine beast, it fell into a deep sleep every so often and did not wake up until an hour ago. Looking at it, it's obviously about to advance.

It had only been over a hundred years since Little White Snake transformed into a human being. He had not expected that he would advance to the middle stage of divine transformation so quickly.

Even for a monk with excellent talent, it would take a conservative estimate of at least two hundred years to advance from the first stage of becoming a god to becoming a god, let alone a monster.

The lifespan of monster beasts is twice that of human monks, and the corresponding cultivation speed is far slower than that of human monks.

The little white snake's ability to advance so quickly is undoubtedly related to the fact that it has devoured a large number of monks and monsters over the years.

Tang Ning recalled that when she picked it up from the spirit-stimulating liquid leaked from the ancient ruins, it was just an ordinary little snake. It had not changed for several years. It was not until it swallowed a spirit-detecting rat that it was promoted to the spirit level. beast.

Judging from the circumstances of this promotion, it is certain that the little white snake can feed back several bodies by devouring monsters. The key to this ability should be its innate magical power, the gray mist.

This is because every time it devours a demonic beast, it always covers and melts it with gray mist, and finally swallows the gray mist back into its belly.

…

Under the valley, the little white snake gradually shed its snake skin, just like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. Its new body slowly emerged from its old skin until its tail was completely shed. Its whole body rolled into a ball, and its body changed. It transformed into the appearance of a harmless ten-year-old child with red lips and white teeth.

When Tang Ning saw this, she flashed and came to it.

"Brother." Xiaobai immediately came over happily.

Tang Ning touched its little head. Now it has successfully broken through the early stage of divine transformation and reached the middle stage of divine transformation. As its cultivation level increased, its appearance after transformation also changed slightly. It originally looked like a six or seven-year-old child. , now he looks ten years old, his height is obviously longer, and his speech is much more steady and fluent than before. Before, it had a milky sound, but now his voice is a little thicker.

"Xiao Bai, how do you feel every time you eat a monster? Does it help your cultivation?"

"Hmm." Xiaobai tilted his head and thought for a while with his fingers in his mouth. "Every time after eating the monster beast, I feel warm and comfortable in my body. When meditating and practicing, my spiritual power also increases much faster. "

Perhaps it was the influence of the promotion that further opened up its intelligence. This time, it answered the question very clearly.

In the past, when Tangning asked this kind of question, she would always be vague and just say it was delicious. This time, it clearly stated its effect on the growth of spiritual power.

Before the monster transforms, it only has the intelligence of a ten-year-old child at most. After transforming, its intelligence will be greatly improved, and it will be the same as that of an adult human man.

The only exception is the little white snake. After its transformation, not only does it look like a six- or seven-year-old child, but its intelligence is also at the level of a six- or seven-year-old child.

"What about the monks? You have devoured many monks before. Can they help increase your spiritual power?"

Xiaobai thought carefully for a while: "I can't remember. Anyway, it's not as good as a monster."

From this point of view, the monster beast has the greatest growth in its cultivation, perhaps because the monster beast's strong blood energy can help it transform into spiritual power.

"Brother, I'm hungry." Before Tang Ning could ask, Xiao Bai Jian said abruptly, looking at him with a pair of clear eyes.

"Here, here you go." Tangning turned her hand over and handed it a bottle of beast elixir.

Xiao Bai took the mysterious bottle, but pursed his lips, feeling a little disgusted: "Brother, I want to eat monsters."

"There are no monsters for you to eat now, so take this to fill your stomach first. Big brother promises you that I will let you eat monster beasts to your heart's content in the future."

Now that it is clear how beneficial the devouring monster is to the little white snake's cultivation, this is easy to handle.

For Tang Ning, Xiao Bai is undoubtedly more reliable than Xiao Zhan. If Xiao Bai can quickly break through the practice of refining the void and keep up with his cultivation, it will be his greatest help.

Xiaobai took out the beast pills, swallowed several pills in a row, and drank a large bottle of spiritual wine. After he was full, he patted his snow-white belly, his honest look made people laugh. (End of chapter)