Chapter 155 Preparation Before Breakthrough (1/2)

In the afternoon, when Li Yan returned to Su's house, the food had been heated twice.

When Li Yan sat at the dinner table, the second elder of the Su family who came after hearing the news quickly pulled Li Yan to ask about the situation.

Seeing this, the Su family members at other tables couldn't help but put down their chopsticks. They calmed down and looked at Li Yan, waiting for the result.

The result was naturally gratifying. When Su Zhe learned that the [Magma Red Stove] was already on the way to Su's house, he was immediately overjoyed.

As someone who was once addicted to alchemy, a good spiritual furnace is no less tempting to a sword fanatic than a good sword.

When he was happy, he personally poured Li Yan a glass of wine.

Make other people look at each other in shock.

Then, they unconsciously compared Su Zhe with the current Great Elder, and found that Su Zhe was obviously not as serious and steady as the Great Elder.

Not long after Su Zhe and Li Yan ate, the [Magma Red Stove] arrived.

Looking at the [Magma Red Fire Furnace] covered with flame tattoos, Su Zhe's eyes lit up.

Afterwards, he threw a bag of spirit beads to Li Yan, then carried the [Red Magma Stove] and ran to the Su family's alchemy area to make alchemy.

Obviously, the [Red Magma Furnace] has aroused his addiction to alchemy.

After Li Yan got the bag of spirit beads, he did not open it immediately, but put it in his arms, and then continued to eat and drink with the Su family.

Most of these Su family members are from Su Han's lineage.

There were about thirty or forty people, all brothers of Grandpa Su Han and his father, as well as their respective wives and children.

Su Han is the one with the best cultivation talent among them, which makes them all concentrate their resources on Su Han as much as possible.

Because according to the rules of the Su family, when Su Han becomes an innate warrior, he will automatically be promoted to direct lineage.

These people will also follow Su Han and become the new direct lineage of the Su family, and thus begin to enjoy the treatment of direct lineage.

This is why they are willing to save money and food to ensure Su Han's cultivation progress, just so that one person can achieve enlightenment and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

This method is conducive to maintaining intra-family competition and family unity, so many families in King Xuanfeng run their families according to this model.

Generally speaking, it is easy to distinguish those who run their families in this way. It depends on whether their direct family members have a character that represents seniority.

For example, several elders of the Su family, Su Xun, Su Zhe and others, are all direct descendants of the Su family, but they all have two-character names without a character representing seniority in the middle.

This shows that this family does not determine the direct and collateral lines of the family based on the distance of blood.

In a family that determines direct and collateral lines based on bloodline distance, even if the collateral line performs well, it must go through a series of assessments before it can be upgraded to a direct line.

Moreover, only this one person can be promoted. His parents and other three generations of close relatives are still collateral.

More importantly, after being promoted to a direct lineage, the original name must also be changed.

If it's a two-character name, that's okay. Just add the character for your seniority in the middle. If it's a three-character name, you have to delete one character.

In this world, unless your last name is a two-letter name, it is difficult for you to have a four-letter name.

While eating and drinking, Li Yan and Su Han, all close relatives within three generations, had a good relationship.

Li Yan was all listening and talking.

Li Yan's quiet listening attitude won unanimous praise from them, and they all praised Su Han for becoming much more mature.

Because Su Han was addicted to cultivation before, he never cared much about maintaining relationships with his relatives. He often couldn't exchange a few words with each other, and Su Han would find excuses to leave.

The reason why Li Yan did not follow Su Han's character design was because he wanted to subtly make everyone accept his changes.

After all, people change, let alone people who have experienced a narrow escape from death.

Although the change is a bit big, it is still very reasonable.

It wasn't until evening that the banquet was finally over.

The leftovers and the like would naturally be picked up by servants. After Li Yan greeted Su Han's parents, he returned to his room.

In the room, a maid has already made fragrant tea and lit bright candles.

Under the light of the candle, Li Yan poured out the spirit beads in the bag.

Li Yan counted fifty beads in total, all of which were less than one inch in diameter and were inferior spiritual beads.

However, quantity more than makes up for the lack of quality.

This is the first time that Li Yan has so many spirit beads.

It had been several days since he arrived in Xuanfeng King City, and Li Yan had also made a trip to Su Mansion.

He discovered that here, innate-level resources cannot be bought with ordinary silver and gold, and can only be traded with spiritual beads.

After walking around the Xiantian Market, Li Yan realized one thing: he was poor again.

From then on, he rarely left the Su Mansion.

This time he obtained 50 inferior spirit beads at once. After thinking about it, Li Yan kept them instead of consuming them in a hurry.

"We will wait until we are promoted to Xiantian."

Then, he walked into the study room and read through the books containing alchemy experiences found in the outer building of the Su family library.

As an alchemy family, the Su family has the most numerous books like this.

Each generation of alchemists of the Su family will record their alchemy experiences without reservation, put them in the Su family library, and pass them on to future generations.

Of course, the innate level of alchemy experience is placed in the inner building, while the outer building only has the acquired level of alchemy experience.

Even so, it was enough for Li Yan.

His alchemy has reached a bottleneck. If he can digest these vast experiences, it will be enough for Li Yan's alchemy to break through.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, more than a month has passed.

The breath of spring has faded, and the scorching sun of early summer is eager to try, ready to burn the earth.

The battle between Da Zhou and Dayue is becoming more and more intense.

As the battle between the two sides continues to escalate, the court has begun to recruit officers from the major families and forces in Xuanfeng King City.

At the same time, it is also recruiting soldiers from other roads at the same time.

For more than a month, rows of young and strong men, escorted by soldiers from various roads, set out from their own roads, carrying dry food and gathering towards Xuanfeng Road.

These young and strong men were all drawn from families who could not pay taxes.

Whenever the court recruited soldiers from various roads to fight the enemy, the Dao Lords of each road would issue Dao Lord Orders to their own Dao Domains.

The contents of Dao Lord Orders are similar, all of which are to collect war taxes.

It's not that the Taoist masters want to take advantage of this time to rob and plunder a wave of wealth.

The Taoist masters don't look down on the gold and silver they collected. Their main purpose is to complete the orders issued by the court and fill the conscription quota required by the court as soon as possible.

Being a soldier is a hard job. Not only is the mortality rate low, but the return rate is even lower.

This is not the ancient times like Blue Star, where a soldier can have a one in ten thousand chance to become a general.

In this world, martial arts is king. If you are a person who has not even set foot on the path of cultivation, unless you have a good luck or cheat, it is difficult to even get a captain position.

Many soldiers who survived by chance will gradually die within three or two years after retiring and returning to their hometowns.

Because they consumed too much vitality on the battlefield.

Once the soldiers enter the Great Zhou military camp, they will be required to practice the special exercises of the Great Zhou army. This kind of exercises is extremely fast to practice, but the cost is to consume people's original vitality and overdraw potential.

Therefore, a few civilian warriors with excellent talents successfully cultivated their innateness in the army, but eventually died before the age of fifty. This was because they consumed too much vitality in the early stage, which made it useless to replenish it in the later stage.

All these things, when heard by the people, were enough to make them avoid being a soldier like snakes and scorpions.

So how to make the people voluntarily serve in the army?

The way the Taoist masters did it was very simple, which was to impose war taxes as mentioned above.

If you can't pay the tax, then sorry, either your family will be confiscated, or you have to send a young man from your family to serve in the army.

As long as someone in your family serves in the army, then the war tax will naturally not be paid.

Of course, the dry food on the road is also provided by their own family.

According to them, I can't exempt you from taxes, but I have to bear your food, drink, defecation and urination along the way. This doesn't make sense.

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But sometimes, the court needs too many young and strong people. What should we do if there are still not enough quotas after collecting all the war taxes?

Draw young and strong people from major families?

Of course not. At this time, the Daozhu Mansions in various places need to make a temporary patch.

'The previous war tax revenue is less, and the court is in urgent need of more war taxes. '

In this way, it is natural to collect another wave of war taxes until the last conscription quota is completed.

In this process, the county lord, the county lord, and the state lord can all receive a large amount of war taxes, and the Daozhu can also complete the tasks assigned by the court.

It can be said to be a win-win situation.

As for the people, for the sake of the Great Zhou Kingdom, let's suffer a little more.

So, any family with a little money will not let their children go to the battlefield even if they sell everything they have.

Those without money can only accept their fate.

Unlike recruiting soldiers from the common people, the Great Zhou court recruited officers from the families and forces in Xuanfeng Wangcheng.

Soldiers are cannon fodder, while officers can get military merits.

Military merits can be exchanged for various treasures in the army, and there are even innate skills, innate martial arts, and even Condensation Realm skills and Condensation Magic.

So, unlike ordinary people who were forced to join the army.

Most of these family members, sect disciples, and backbones of forces who started as officers took the initiative to join the army.

Every time a war broke out between the two countries, there would be a group of such people who broke through to the innate realm under the pressure of the cruel battlefield.

Attracted by so many successful cases, some casualties would be automatically ignored by them.

So, when the court recruited officers from the major families, sects, and sects in Xuanfeng Wangcheng.

These forces scrambled for the few places.

The Su family also participated in it and won a captain and a hundred households.

The Great Zhou army was organized on the basis of soldiers, with five people forming a squad, and one of the five was selected as the squad leader.

The squad leader was not included in the officer organization, but this rank was introduced for the convenience of management.

The candidates for the squad leader were all selected by the captain from his own team, so it was both easy and difficult to become a squad leader. The key was how to please his captain.

Therefore, the people who served as squad leaders were all civilians who joined the army.

Above the squad leader was the captain, who was in charge of two squads, or ten people.

The captain is the lowest and most basic officer in the Great Zhou officer system.

Even such a low-level officer is beyond the reach of those soldiers.

Above the captain is the centurion, under whom there are ten captains, managing 110 people.

After the centurion, there is the thousand-household, under which there are ten centurions, managing 11,110 people.

Higher than the thousand-household is the ten-thousand-household, under which there are ten thousand-household, managing 11,110 people.

Five ten-thousand-households are a legion, and the leader of the legion is the general.

The name of the legion is the name of the general.

For example, before the Great Zhou was established, the general who led the Red Blood Army was called the Red Blood General.

Above the legion is the group army, which is often composed of three to five legions, and only appears when a large-scale battle occurs.

And the leader of such a group army is the top level of the Great Zhou officer system, the marshal.

However, the position of general may be inherited by an outsider, and the position of marshal can only be held by the Ji family since the establishment of the Great Zhou.

After the Su family got two quotas, they also asked Li Yan if they needed it, but Li Yan refused.

Because he has begun to prepare for a breakthrough to the innate realm, at this time, all clones must reduce the intensity of their activities.

Linjiang City, where Li Yan's original body is located.

When the blood and qi in the body have finished tempering the last of the five internal organs.

A sense of perfection was transmitted from Li Yan's body to Li Yan's soul.

At this moment, Li Yan's already huge soul has grown again, and his mental power has increased a lot.

At this moment, Li Yan's cultivation has reached the peak of the Yunzang realm, which is also the peak of the acquired realm.

Next, he will prepare to break through the innate realm.

"I have to go out."

Li Yan moved his hands and feet and looked into the distance.

From the breakthrough insights of the innate warriors of the Su family, Li Yan has gained a lot of valuable experience.

One of them is that when breaking through the innate, it is best to break through in a safe place with abundant spiritual energy.

Li Yan did not think about places with abundant spiritual energy. After all, if there is such a place, it has been occupied by others.

However, Li Yan has no shortage of abundant spiritual energy.

At this time, one-tenth of the spiritual energy in his Dantian has occupied the Dantian.

Li Yan felt that these spiritual energies are much purer than those of the inferior spiritual beads.

It is obvious that they have been purified by the clone and then received by Li Yan.

Although the amount does not seem to be much, in terms of its purity, it is enough for Li Yan to condense a lot of five elements of true qi.

The first strand of five elements of true qi, or the five elements of true qi rune imprint, needs special attention.

Because this is the foundation of all subsequent five elements of true qi, and it is also the processing plant of all five elements of true qi.

Compared with the true qi rune imprint of a single attribute, the complexity of the rune imprint of the five elements of true qi is much greater.

Li Yan has already made plans to fail dozens of times.

This is also a very time-consuming step for people who practice [Five Elements and Five Directions Reincarnation Gong] before breaking through the innate.

As for a safe place, Li Yan does not think that Linjiang City is safe.

When breaking through the innate, there will be fluctuations in spiritual energy, because you have to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into true energy.

For some keen innate masters, this is like a beacon in the dark night.

Therefore, Li Yan plans to find a remote place outside the city to break through.

He did it as soon as he said it. After leaving a clone at home, Li Yan made up the original body and left Linjiang City.

No one would pay attention to an ordinary, low-key person like Li Yan.

It took a day for Li Yan to come to an outer peak of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

It took another day to find a cave in the ground. There was a cave in the cave. There was a large cave inside.

After solving some large creatures inside and dispelling most of the poisonous insects, snakes and ants, Li Yan released another clone next to him.

If something unexpected happens, it can block the gun at a critical moment.

It took another half a day to call back the scattered souls.

In Guiyuan Sect, Li Yan's clone retreated to make alchemy on the pretext of some enlightenment in alchemy.

In Jinfu, Li Yan's clone left Jinfu and Linjiang City on the pretext of sightseeing, found a cave in the mountains and hid.

In Linshan City, Li Yan's clone was still lying dead in a rented house.

In Shiwan Mountain, Li Yan's clone was still lying dead in the belly of the super-eyed snake.

In Linjiang City, Li Yan's clone said hello to Xiao Zhao and went into seclusion.

In Nanshan City, Li Yan's clone was lying dead in a remote house.

In Xuanfeng King City, Su Mansion, Li Yan's clone began to retreat on the pretext of some enlightenment in cultivation.

When the clones outside only left a little soul, and the rest of the souls were all concentrated on Li Yan's body, Li Yan felt an unprecedented strong feeling.

After adapting for a while, Li Yan began to break through the innate realm.