Immortal Martial Arts: Marry a Wife and Live a Long Life

Chapter 32: Looking to the Future

Formation techniques, alchemy, and artifact refining are the three major auxiliary professions in the cultivation world, and they are divided into nine grades, from ninth grade to first grade.

After absorbing thirty years of experience in formation techniques, Han Li became an eighth-grade formation master, capable of arranging some simple basic formations, such as the Gathering Spirit Formation, and so on.

If he had corresponding formation diagrams, he could also arrange eighth-grade formations to deal with Sea Opening Realm cultivators.

Han Li is not very proficient in formation techniques, alchemy, and artifact refining. He is only at the eighth grade, so they are not very useful to him. However, they are very useful for his concubines and the future generations of the Han family.

For example, with formation techniques, he can now arrange a Gathering Spirit Formation to enhance the spiritual energy of the Han Residence and accelerate the cultivation speed of the Han Residence cultivators. With the help of formation diagrams, he can arrange killing formations, teleportation formations, illusion formations, defensive formations, and so on, greatly enhancing the security of the Han Residence.

Pills and artifacts can be supplied to the Han Residence cultivators to enhance their strength. They can also be sold externally to develop the Han Residence's financial resources and continuously earn spirit stones.

Han Li also hopes that someone can share some of his responsibilities, but the Han Residence really doesn't have anyone suitable.

Although his concubines all have cultivation aptitude, Autumn Moon Yao, who has the best aptitude, has a seventh-grade aptitude. However, his concubines need to cultivate and improve their cultivation level, otherwise, their lifespan will not be long.

The Han family's future generations are divided into two types. Those with aptitude are sent to various sects to cultivate when they reach the age of eight. In the early stages, they can only focus on cultivation. After reaching a certain realm, they can start learning alchemy, artifact refining, formation techniques, and so on. Otherwise, those with poor aptitude will only end up with nothing.

The other type is those without aptitude. Those who have the ability help Han Li manage the family and earn secular wealth to support the operation of the Han family. Those without ability enjoy the benefits of the family, receiving monthly financial resources. However, this is not much. If they want to get more, they have to reproduce and expand the family.

All of this requires time to support. Hundreds of years later, or even thousands of years later, the Han family will definitely be able to share all of this on their own, without Han Li having to worry about it.

By then, the Han family's future generations will have grown up. For example, when the future generations with seventh-grade aptitude reach the Vital Spirit Realm and have no hope of reaching the Soul Refining Realm, they can turn to the study of alchemy, artifact refining, formation techniques, and so on. As long as they achieve something and make a certain contribution to the family, they can apply for the family's help to break through to the Soul Refining Realm.

By then, the Han family will have a large number of alchemists, artifact refiners, formation masters, and so on. There will also be countless powerhouses suppressing the region, and Han Li, as the old ancestor, will only need to be responsible for taking in concubines.

By then, the Han family will also have many geniuses. Geniuses with third-grade aptitude, prodigies with second-grade aptitude, and monsters with first-grade aptitude will venture out and make a name for themselves, spreading the reputation of the Han Residence.

After envisioning the future, Han Li returned to reality. In fact, there is another solution, which is to recruit alchemists, artifact refiners, and formation masters from outside.

However, there are relatively few people who specialize in these fields, and even fewer who have achieved something. With Han Li's cultivation level at the fifth level of the Sea Opening Realm, it is difficult to find eighth-grade alchemists, artifact refiners, and formation masters.

"Forget it, let's take it step by step."

Shaking his head, Han Li decided to take it slowly and not try to achieve everything at once. He would recruit some ninth-grade practitioners first. This way, he would only need to be responsible for refining eighth-grade pills and artifacts, greatly reducing his workload.

When his cultivation level displayed to the outside world reaches the Vital Spirit Realm, he should be able to recruit eighth-grade alchemists, artifact refiners, and formation masters.

Han Li spent the next two months in the Han Residence.

He first arranged a large Gathering Spirit Formation for the Han family, and then set up an enhanced version of the Gathering Spirit Formation in the backyard of the Han family. This was a formation diagram he bought with money.

Han Li had already ordered the Han family's future generations to collect some pill formulas, formation diagrams, and artifact refining blueprints. The more, the better.

He also arranged an eighth-grade trapping formation and an eighth-grade defensive formation, as well as a large number of ninth-grade formations. Even Sea Opening Realm cultivators would have a hard time breaking through for three days and three nights.

During this period, the Han Residence recruited several ninth-grade alchemists and artifact refiners who were willing to serve the Han family. Han Li let them settle in the Pill Refining Pavilion and the Artifact Refining Tower, which greatly reduced his workload. He only needed to spend half of his time each day refining eighth-grade pills and artifacts.

During the last gathering of scattered cultivators, Han Li collected a lot of pill formulas and refining diagrams, such as the Sea Opening Pill, the Return to Origin Pill, and the Tiger-Slaying Blade. He refined some of them and sold them for a large amount of spirit stones.

Especially the Sea Opening Pill, which was the most popular and in high demand. Han Li only refined a small quantity each time, mainly because the medicinal materials were hard to come by.

If it weren't for the large amount of spirit stones Han Li obtained at the gathering of scattered cultivators, Li Deshun would not have been able to repay the spirit stones he owed, nor would the Han family have had enough spirit stones to purchase materials for pill refining and artifact refining.

Stockpiling a large quantity of medicinal materials and refining materials nearly depleted all the spirit stones in the Han family. Fortunately, Han Li refined them into pills and spiritual artifacts, and after selling them, the Han family's stock of spirit stones skyrocketed, increasing six or sevenfold.

With a large amount of spirit stones, Han Li began to collect the medicinal materials for refining the Transcendence Pill. However, for now, he only took out the ones that were relatively easy to collect.

After the Han family entered a virtuous cycle, Han Li began to rectify the family's style and establish stricter family rules, trying to prevent the future generations of the Han family from causing trouble and inadvertently provoking hidden powerhouses, which would bring great trouble to the Han family.

Every ten years, he personally dealt with a group of people from the Han family, including his own descendants, who had committed major crimes. Some were punished with flogging, while others were executed. Han Li personally executed several descendants who repeatedly refused to reform.

Under Han Li's strict control, the descendants of the Han family were relatively sensible and dared not act recklessly. They restrained themselves from committing acts of bullying and causing harm to the common people.

Otherwise, if they were caught by the Han family's law enforcement team or reported by the common people, they would be imprisoned in the family's dungeon and severely punished.

In addition, Han Li once again increased the family's benefits. Those capable and competent descendants who managed family affairs well were rewarded with pills such as the Youth-Retaining Pill and the Life-Extending Pill to increase their motivation.

The resources received by the less capable descendants increased by thirty percent each month, while the rewards for reproducing descendants doubled, further encouraging them to have more children.

Apart from these tasks, Han Li spent his time with his concubines. It was natural to benefit the future generations, and he occasionally played with them in various forms.

With his cultivation reaching the peak of the Vital Spirit Realm and his strength greatly increased, his combat power soared countless times. Except for Qiu Yueyao, who had reached the Innate stage and could barely resist him alone, the other concubines couldn't.

Therefore, Han Li often played Landlord with multiple concubines, just to determine a winner.

In a certain place in the Han family, there was a small courtyard, which was the residence of Zhang Xuan, the commander of the guards.

He was Han Li's good friend Qiu Xuan's senior disciple and the only one who followed Han Li to Lingjun City, gaining many benefits.

"These days are much better than in Fenglei City," Zhang Xuan sighed.

Han Li still took good care of him, giving him a lot of cultivation resources and guiding him a few times, allowing Zhang Xuan to break through to the True Qi stage.

Of course, as the commander of the Han family guards, Zhang Xuan's strength was somewhat lacking at the True Qi stage. However, because of Han Li's relationship with Qiu Yueyao, no one said anything and only envied his good luck.

Over the years, the Han family recruited a large number of guards below the Sea Opening Realm. Only those at the Innate stage could become the commander of the guards, while those at the True Qi stage could only be team leaders.

Zhang Xuan, as the commander of the guards, was usually idle, except for escorting the Han family's descendants to various sects. He had nothing else to do.

But he didn't idle around, instead, he diligently cultivated, wanting to break through to the Innate stage as soon as possible and legitimately become the leader of the Han family.

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