276: Chapter 276 Recruitment

One was a branch of a third-rate family, the other was a second-rate family with a Meridian Opening Realm expert sitting in charge.

Generally speaking, a Family like the Wuyang Pei Clan, even if it developed for another hundred years, could not even touch the hem of the main Family; it would be considered good enough if it did not decline.

This was the chasm between Great Families.

Only a very few geniuses could lead a Family across this chasm.

If not for Pei Qingyun, if the Pei Clan wanted to become a second-rate family, they could only pin their hopes on Pei Siyao, that Xiantian Seed.

Pei Clan Estate.

Inside the Pill Refining Room, Pei Qingyun was skillfully controlling the flames. The purple flames in his hands were like a flexible dragon, circling the bottom of the Pill Furnace.

Suddenly.

A strange sound came from within the Pill Furnace, accompanied by a rich, clear fragrance. The blue smoke hovering above the top of the Pill Furnace began to swirl, moving faster and faster.

In no time, the vortex formed by the swirling blue smoke solidified. After about a quarter of an hour like this, a majestic aura of life rose from within the Pill Furnace.

Just at this moment, Pei Qingyun suddenly opened his eyes. The purple flames in his hands were instantly extinguished, and beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down from his forehead to his jawline.

Pei Qingyun gently wiped the sweat from his face and opened the Pill Furnace before him.

A semi-purple Medicinal Pill came into view.

Seeing the Medicinal Pill, Pei Qingyun's eyes brightened, and his body relaxed.

He held the Medicinal Pill in one hand and said excitedly, "This Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill is truly difficult to refine. But fortunately, at this final moment, I managed to refine it. Otherwise, if I had to gather another set of Materials, I would have to wait several more months."

The Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill, one of the Tier 4 Medicinal Pills, was refined from nine types of Spirit Medicine and could temper the internal organs and increase the cultivation of a Grandmaster Martial Artist.

As one of the Tier 4 Medicinal Pills, the difficulty of refining the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill could only be considered moderate among pills of the same level. But this did not mean that the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill was very ordinary.

One had to know that the highest level Alchemist in the entire Jinhuai Prefecture was only Tier 3. If a Tier 3 Alchemist could refine a Tier 4 Medicinal Pill, it would be considered stepping half a foot into the threshold of a Tier 4 Alchemist Grandmaster.

But this step was not easy to take.

Generally speaking, Tier 3 Alchemists who wanted to advance to Tier 4 Alchemist Grandmasters would choose to refine the simplest Tier 4 Medicinal Pills.

Like the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill, it was usually not chosen as a promotion option for Tier 3 Alchemists.

Yet even so, there had been no newly promoted Tier 4 Alchemist Grandmasters in Jinhuai Prefecture for decades.

The last time a Tier 4 Alchemist Grandmaster was born was fifty years ago.

One could imagine that its difficulty was comparable to breaking through to the Meridian Opening Realm.

This also led to the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill being extremely rare, almost never circulating in the Jinhuai Prefecture market.

Every time one appeared, it basically fell into the hands of the four major second-rate families.

It was precisely because of this that the Grandmasters of the top third-rate families in Jinhuai were basically stuck at the Early Stage of the Six Bowels Realm.

For one thing, they were already quite old when they broke through to the Six Bowels Realm. Although a Six Bowels Realm Grandmaster could lock in their Qi and blood, this did not mean their physical potential was the same as when they were young.

Compared to a thirty-year-old Grandmaster, a forty-year-old Grandmaster's physical potential was not even half that of the former.

Daily cultivation was one thing; as long as the Bloodline Power between the two belonged to the same level, the accumulation of cultivation would not differ too much.

But in terms of breaking through Bottlenecks, the two were far apart.

The accumulation of cultivation in the Six Bowels Realm was calculated in decades; it would be good just to see the threshold of the next Realm in ten years.

Like Third Elder Chen Zexi, a Grandmaster born into a second-rate family like the Chen Clan who had taken Tier 4 Medicinal Pills, he had only caught a glimpse of the threshold of the Middle Stage of the Six Bowels Realm after ten years.

And the role of Medicinal Pills was to shorten this process of accumulation. In this way, the faster a Martial Artist accumulated, the less potential loss caused by age would be.

Of course, if the Bloodline Power was high enough, even if the age was older, without the aid of Medicinal Pills, one could still break through the Bottleneck. But that was based on the premise that the Bloodline Power was naturally one to two major grades higher than other Martial Artists of the same Realm.

It was no exaggeration to say that their cultivation speed was several times, even ten times, faster than those of the same level.

This type of person was usually a prospective Xiantian Seed, or even a Xiantian Seed itself.

After Pei Siyao awakened her Bloodline Power, it was like this.

Other Divine Strength Martial Artists only had Tier 2 Bloodline Power, but she started directly at Tier 4, only slightly inferior to Pei Qingyun's Bloodline Power.

Once Pei Siyao entered the Five Viscera Realm, her Bloodline Power would advance again, and at that time, catching up to or even surpassing Pei Qingyun would be reasonable.

Except for the pure essence pill, Pei Qingyun had not taken any other Tier 4 Medicinal Pills. With the attribute panel, he could accurately calculate the effect brought by each Medicinal Pill.

"Just right, I can try the medicinal power of this Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill." Thinking of this, Pei Qingyun did not hesitate at all.

As soon as the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill entered his stomach, he immediately felt a surge of medicinal power. This medicinal power was extremely majestic, like a fierce dragon swimming freely in his body, constantly scouring his internal organs.

Every time it scoured, he could feel a slight stinging sensation coming from within his body. This slight stinging sensation lasted for a very short time, almost in the blink of an eye. If his perception had not been astonishing, he might not have noticed it.

In fact, this was caused by the damage inflicted when the internal organs were scoured. It was just that this damage was too small, and under the effect of the medicinal power, it was repaired in a very short time.

Just like this, after about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Pei Qingyun slowly opened his eyes.

At this moment, the medicinal power of the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill had been completely absorbed by him.

Perfect absorption of medicinal power was theoretically impossible, but for Pei Qingyun, it could only be considered a basic operation.

"The rumors outside are not false; this Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill indeed has the effect of tempering the internal organs. It's just that there is some exaggeration in it. If one does not consider the situation of pill poison, taking a few hundred of them should be enough to improve the internal organs by about ten percent. Its main function is still to increase cultivation," Pei Qingyun muttered.

They say the ancients never lied to me.

When it came to Medicinal Pills, he had truly seen it.

Sure enough.

No matter which world it was, the tropes would never be absent.

Looking at the attribute panel, he already had a count in his heart.

[Name: Pei Qingyun]

[Lifespan: 37 years 6 months]

[Cultivation: Six Bowels Realm Late Stage (11750 / 40000)]

[Cultivation Technique: Evergreen Art middle volume Perfection (Mysterious Tier Top Grade), Blazing Sun Fire Art Perfection (Mysterious Tier Top Grade), Yellow Tier Cultivation Technique hidden]

[Bloodline: Yi Wood Tier 4 Middle Stage (500 / 10000), Flaming Fire Tier 3 High Stage (1500 / 2000)...]

[family luck: 6 (1760) (Note: family luck can be restored, 88 points can be restored naturally every day.)]

[Skill: Analysis Technique]

"One Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill can increase 400 points of experience. If I had another eighty, I could directly advance to the Meridian Opening Realm," Pei Qingyun thought to himself.

Wealth, companions, Dharma, land; wealth has always been ranked first.

In this martial arts world, it was the same.

As for eighty Six Bowels Purple Blood Pills, Pei Qingyun could only think about it in his heart.

Let alone the Pei Clan, even if they emptied the four major families, they could not gather eighty Six Bowels Purple Blood Pills.

With family luck in hand, for him, Medicinal Pills could only be considered the icing on the cake.

He took the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill more for testing.

Under the condition of perfect absorption of medicinal power, it could provide 400 points of experience. For other Grandmasters in the Six Bowels Realm, being able to absorb 60% of the medicinal power was considered qualified. Any higher would require a special Physique to achieve.

But even so, it could not be denied that the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill contained amazing medicinal power.

One Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill was enough to equal three months of practice for an ordinary Grandmaster.

The charm of Medicinal Pills lay precisely in this.

If there was a sufficient supply of Six Bowels Purple Blood Pills, a Grandmaster, provided they were not stuck by a Bottleneck, could fully break through from the Early Stage of the Six Bowels Realm to the Late Stage within a few years.

"Collecting Materials for Tier 4 Medicinal Pills is too troublesome. With the current strength of the Pei Clan, it is difficult for changes to occur in a short time. Anyway, within the clan, no one should be able to break through to the Six Bowels Realm in the short term. Next month is the third batch of blood origin grass; I hope this batch of blood origin grass can have some surprises."

Walking out of the Pill Refining Room, Pei Qingyun felt much more relaxed.

In order to refine the Six Bowels Purple Blood Pill, he had spent a lot of mental energy. For several days in a row, he had not stepped out of the Pill Refining Room, and quite a lot of Materials had been wasted, but fortunately, the final result was a success.

Returning to the ancestral house, Pei Qingyun asked Jiu about the situation in the past few days as usual.

After learning that everything was stable, he let Jiu leave.

"Today is the final deadline for pre-sales; tomorrow we can begin recruiting personnel. The upper limit for this recruitment of personnel is tentatively set at 5,000 people, which should be about right."

"Through the intelligence of the two families, my analysis should not be wrong. The reason why the Qian Clan has been slow to act is probably that they are brewing a bigger conspiracy behind the scenes; I just don't know in which aspect the Qian Clan will make a move." Thinking of this, Pei Qingyun also felt a bit helpless.

Days of silent waiting were always long and difficult to endure.

He had never been a person who liked to be passive, but the foundation of the Pei Clan was just like this.

Taking the initiative was not suitable for the current Pei Clan.

The two Longxi Pei Clan Elders were ultimately not his own people, and their duty was only to protect the members of the Pei Clan.

Of course, if the Qian Clan truly acted contrary to his deduction, he would not lose anything.

But deep down, he had a hidden expectation for the Qian Clan to make a move.

Passive counterattacks might not necessarily fail to maximize benefits.

...

The next day, early morning.

When the first ray of sunlight shone on the earth, on an open space in the Yuanhong Trading Market, a long line had already formed.

In fact, as early as half a month ago, the Pei Clan had released news about recruiting personnel.

The Pei Clan's recruitment treatment was good, and they did not delay wages. In Wuyang City, this had long been an unspoken fact.

Who knew how many people were there for this day, especially those who had participated in the construction of Yuanhong Phase I.

Although the growth of the Pei Clan had driven the economy and population of Wuyang City, there were still many at the bottom.

Moreover, even if these bottom-level commoners had some silver and had gotten rid of the days of not having enough to eat.

But as long as they were human, they would have pursuits.

The bottom-level commoners were the same.

Before solving the problem of food and clothing, they had no room for thinking; all they had was the numbness of surviving day after day.

But after solving the problem of food and clothing, they had time to think, and becoming a Martial Artist or even creating a Family became their pursuit.

But all of this could not be separated from primitive accumulation.

"Have you heard? This recruitment will last for five days, recruiting one thousand people every day. I don't know if I meet the requirements."

"Brother, looking at your appearance, you should be participating in the Pei Clan's recruitment for the first time."

"Old brother, how did you tell?"

"Don't be nervous, I won't eat you. Look around, many people are like you. Do you think that because the Pei Clan's recruitment treatment is so good, the requirements must be very high? Brother, if you think so, you are wrong. Anyone with a clean background who is honest and willing to work hard can pass the Pei Clan's recruitment assessment. At the beginning, I was the same as you, holding an attitude of trying it out, and the result was that I passed successfully in one go. I even participated in laying these stone slabs you are standing on."