488: Chapter 488 Enlightenment

Pill Refining Tower.

The ninefold sun yang furnace sat in the center, with runes on the surface of the Pill Furnace resembling insects and fish swimming in magma, and a golden light at the top of the furnace connecting to the Great Sun of the sky's Formation.

Now that the Peach Blossom Palace's Liu Residence has the Peach Blossom Demon Lord presiding, there is no longer a need for the secrecy of the Great Sun City days. As the core of the Liu Residence's grand Formation, the Pill Refining Tower possesses a powerful aura that is clearly anything but simple.

At the top of the tower, in the core Alchemy Room, the Incarnation 'Wang Qiao' sat cross-legged before the ninefold sun yang furnace, his Divine Soul linked to the spirituality of the Pill Furnace as he refined a batch of third-rank pills.

Liu Xuan's Incarnation Wang Qiao was performing Alchemy at every moment. Although Liu Xuan's limited energy prevented him from focusing on refining high-rank pills for long periods, the grade of the ninefold sun yang furnace was high enough that refining some third-rank pills or those below the third rank was effortless.

The ninefold sun yang furnace possessed a sliver of spirituality, and over the years, Liu Xuan had been instilling Alchemy knowledge into this sliver of spirituality.

Nowadays, for tasks such as nurturing the pills, it only required the Incarnation to provide a Divine Soul without needing to think; the furnace could complete them on its own.

Most of the time, the Incarnation 'Wang Qiao' functioned as a Divine Soul container for the ninefold sun yang furnace before its spirit had matured; Liu Xuan only needed to spare a bit of subconscious attention for a large number of Medicinal Pills to be produced every day.

The Liu Clan Alchemy Tower now has thousands of Alchemists, with a vast number of Alchemist apprentices beneath them responsible for tasks like sorting, preserving, and initial processing of medicinal herbs.

The storage conditions for slightly higher-grade Spirit Medicine are extremely demanding; the herb warehouses alone require tens of thousands of Alchemist apprentices and Alchemists to manage them personally.

If one also included the medicinal herb transport personnel, service staff, the Merchant Alliance and Vast Gathering Pavilion liaisons from various places, and the Liu Family management, the mobile personnel of the Pill Refining Tower had already exceeded a hundred thousand.

Not only that, Peach Blossom occupies half of the Star Academy's Spiritual Veins and has been continuously recruiting independent Alchemists and Artifact Refiners from the Beast Taming Sect, so the scale of the Pill Refining Tower is still expanding.

Despite the massive scale of the Liu Family's Pill Refining Tower, for the countless Cultivators on the current long battlefront in Southern Xinjiang, the small amount of Medicinal Pills produced could only create a tiny ripple.

This was mainly because few of the thousands of Alchemists were of high rank; in terms of the value of the refined pills alone, Liu Xuan's Incarnation created more value than a thousand low-level Alchemists working hard.

And this was while he wasn't even focused on Alchemy, but instead on instilling Alchemy knowledge into the furnace's spirituality.

A ripple of spatial fluctuations stirred in the Alchemy Room, and Liu Xuan's true body appeared beside 'Wang Qiao'.

'Space Evasion is becoming smoother and smoother to use; I can teleport directly inside without opening the door.'

Walking to a prayer mat on the side and sitting cross-legged, Liu Xuan's thought flickered, and a lotus-throne jade lamp appeared before him.

The insightful brightening heart lamp; this lamp was refined from the fourth-rank High Grade Heaven And Earth Treasure, the Nine-Leaf Pure World Lotus Throne. The lamp had no oil or wick; a golden lotus seed was suspended in the center, emitting a pale golden light mixed with cyan, a soft glow that did not burn.

A top-tier treasure for clearing the mind and comprehending the Dao, as well as a treasure for Divine Soul defense, Liu Xuan held it in his palm. Under the lamp's light, he felt all stray thoughts vanish, his mind become clear, his thoughts flow freely, and his Divine Soul perception become exceptionally lucid.

"It's a good item, but it doesn't seem to suit me!"

When the gold-and-cyan lamplight shone, it felt like a cool breeze blowing on his forehead; while his Divine Soul was cleared and stray thoughts vanished, his desires vanished as well!

How could this be?!!

He didn't need to Cultivate at all, so what use was a clear Divine Soul? It was completely a negative status.

With a Divine Thought, the range of the lamplight shrank, all retracting into the jade lotus throne.

"Such a treasure shouldn't be wasted on me; the ones best suited to enjoy it are my good children!"

A descendant's cultivation is equal to Liu Xuan's cultivation, and a descendant's comprehension is equal to Liu Xuan's comprehension. Anything that helps with cultivation should be given to the children as much as possible to maximize the benefits.

"A fourth-rank High Grade Acquired Spirit Treasure would be a waste if used by only one child; it's best if it can be shared by many!"

"How can I make it shared by many?"

After some thought, Liu Xuan decided to use the insightful brightening heart lamp as the core to set up an Enlightenment Tower in the Clan School.

This tower was designed with seven floors; the higher the floor, the better the Dao comprehension effect, and the fewer the Cultivation Chambers.

A total of ninety-nine Cultivation Chambers were built in the entire tower, with the usage time of these enlightenment chambers allocated based on the descendants' cultivation and comprehensive talent.

"The insightful brightening heart lamp also has Divine Soul defense capabilities, which can be amplified by a Formation and applied to the Liu Residence's Formation barrier to block the Divine Sense probes of high-rank Cultivators."

The idea was good, but designing the Formation was very difficult; Liu Xuan's Formation level was only at the peak of the third-rank. It used to be strong, but now it seemed somewhat insufficient.

"Let's take it slow! I'll build the Enlightenment Tower first and make do with it, then slowly improve it later!"

The war situation was stable, and the Liu Family's development was on the right track. The growth of descendants requires time; stability is the first priority, as blindly pursuing speed can easily backfire.

...

Time flows like water!

Two months later.

A new seven-story building was constructed next to the Liu Clan School's jade phoenix tree, with the two large seal-script characters for 'Enlightenment' written on the plaque.

On the first day the Enlightenment Tower was completed, to encourage everyone's enthusiasm, all adult descendants in the clan were given one hour of experience time on each floor; after that, it would be allocated according to cultivation and comprehensive talent.

"Daddy, Daddy, what are big brothers and sisters doing? I want to play too!"

Under the phoenix tree, Liu Xuan held his porcelain-like young daughter, Yu Chi. Seeing her big brothers and sisters happily queuing in and out of the Enlightenment Tower, she called out to Liu Xuan in a crisp voice.

Yu Chi was only two months old, but as she was a Yao Beast, she now looked like a three or four-year-old girl.

Her little face was chubby, and her skin was as white and tender as jelly; despite her small, soft body, her strength had already reached the level of an Early Stage Qi Refining Yao Beast, equivalent to an Acquired Realm Martial Artist.

"Big brothers and sisters are cultivating, not playing games. When you grow up, you can join them!"

Liu Xuan reached out and rubbed her little head; the little girl looked like a little angel, melting his old fatherly heart.

"Really? Great! I want to grow up fast and be with big brothers and sisters!"

The little girl smiled, revealing two little tiger teeth; her big eyes were innocent, well-behaved, and endearing.

She didn't realize what cultivating meant, thinking it was something as fun as playing games.

While accompanying his adorable young daughter Yu Chi, Liu Xuan diverted some Divine Thought to check on his children's cultivation status in the Enlightenment Tower.

There were 273 children in the clan over sixteen who had started practicing, and 331 children over thirteen who had started martial arts training.

Excluding those out on business, a total of over a hundred people entered the Clan School to Cultivate; with ninety-nine Cultivation Chambers in the Enlightenment Tower, there was currently little competition.

Because everyone couldn't be cultivating all the time, at most two hours a day.

The ninety-nine Cultivation Chambers could theoretically satisfy the daily cultivation of hundreds of Cultivators.

Even those ranked at the bottom could enter the first or second floor to Cultivate.

This was considered an Early Stage benefit; currently, what everyone was competing for was not whether they could enter the Enlightenment Tower, but rather the higher-floor Cultivation Chambers with better effects.