Chapter 46 (Part 2)

The Classic of Nature was good, yes, but it was precisely because it was too good that the resources he needed were even better. This resulted in Yu Yu needing an astronomical amount of resources if he wanted to cultivate to Nascent Soul, enough to equal most of the resources of a top-tier sect.

More than half of the Taizhen Immortal Sect’s resources. Saying that number aloud could scare someone to death.

One had to know that the Taizhen Immortal Sect had over a hundred thousand disciples. The spiritual energy and resources they consumed every day were enormous.

Everyone could imagine how many resources half of a sect capable of supporting so many disciples amounted to, couldn’t they?

Even a wealthy sect like the Taizhen Immortal Sect could not take out more than half of its resources for Yu Yu all at once.

There was no need to mention everyone’s personal collections. Those belonged to them, so they could give them to whomever they liked.

Although there were many resources in the sect treasury, they could not be taken out all at once. This was equivalent to the strategic resource reserves of their Huaxia nation on Blue Star. They could not be touched lightly.

Besides, Yu Yu was not someone who did not understand the importance of things. He knew how important resources were to a sect.

So even though he knew perfectly well that if he used more than half of the sect’s resources to cultivate, the time he needed to advance to Nascent Soul would be cut in half, so what?

On what grounds?

The Taizhen Immortal Sect did not belong to any one person. Even if he was the Daoist Lord’s final disciple, the little junior brother of all his senior brothers and senior sisters, and the little martial uncle of all the disciples, the Taizhen Immortal Sect could not make an exception for him.

If he dared gamble with the entire sect, believe it or not, the first person to kill him would be Qingyang.

There had to be a bottom line even when spoiling a disciple. They could give whatever belonged to themselves, and it would absolutely not affect the sect’s operations.

Rashly taking out half of the sect’s resources would be digging up the sect’s roots!

It would create a massive gap in the sect’s resources and affect the cultivation of all disciples and elders.

Even Yu Yu could not make such a brainless request at first glance.

If this were a male lead in a novel, he would definitely think: after I become a Nascent Soul Zhenren, can’t I slowly replenish these resources? I’m only borrowing them temporarily. It’s not like I won’t return them.

But on what grounds?

On what grounds should the entire sect foot the bill just because you need something?

Even someone as thick-skinned as Qingyang would not dare say such a thing. From this, one could imagine how much a selfish person would hinder the development of a sect.

Therefore, the sect master of the Taizhen Immortal Sect absolutely could not have selfish motives. Once it was discovered that he had used the sect’s resources to seek benefits for himself, the Supreme Elders would join hands and drive him down from the position of sect master.

It could be said that the sect masters of all other sects were more comfortable than the sect master of the Taizhen Immortal Sect, because their Supreme Elders almost never managed the sect master. Whether the sect developed well or badly depended entirely on the sect master’s conscience and bottom line.

Only in the Taizhen Immortal Sect did the sect master still have Supreme Elders pressing down on his head. If he made any mistake, he could just wait to be driven from office!

From this point alone, one could see how farsighted the founding ancestor of the Taizhen Immortal Sect had been. He had prepared a plan for the sect’s development in advance.

As long as the later disciples followed his plan step by step, no major problems would appear in the sect.

Returning to the matter at hand, since Yu Yu could not use the sect’s resources to seek benefits for himself, he could only rely on everyone’s support and on his own effort to accumulate resources for cultivation.

He was still in the early Foundation Establishment stage now. He was still far from perfected Foundation Establishment!

If not for the fact that his cultivation speed was several times faster than that of geniuses, he would not even have reached Foundation Establishment now and would still be struggling in Qi Refining.

At the same time, it was also because his realm was sufficient. As long as he had enough spiritual energy and resources, he could rapidly advance.

However, what Yu Yu lacked now was resources. Not only did he need to cultivate, he also needed to cultivate spiritual plants. Both of these were major consumers of spiritual energy.

The abundant resources originally in his hands now only had a thin layer left.

Fortunately, once he came out of seclusion, a batch of the spiritual plants in the little secret realm would have matured, and he could exchange them for some spirit stones and resources.

However, he still had to leave half of these spiritual plants for his master, martial uncles, senior brothers, and senior sisters. Just thinking about it made Yu Yu’s heart ache unbearably.

This was half his resources. If he took them out and exchanged them with the sect, he would be able to cultivate for another period of time.

But when he thought of how good everyone was to him, Yu Yu was willing to distribute them no matter how much his heart hurt.

A person could not be without conscience. Although they were his master, martial uncles, senior brothers, and senior sisters, they did not actually have many obligations toward him.

Everyone was good to him because they cared for juniors and cubs. They had never thought of demanding repayment.

But Yu Yu could not pretend not to see it. Feelings were consumables. If there was only input and no return, they would soon be worn away.

After finishing his cultivation, he entered the little secret realm to tend the spiritual plants.

Looking at the spirit fruits and spiritual herbs that were about to ripen, Yu Yu began casting spiritual arts.

When his spiritual power was exhausted, he continued cultivating. After repeating this ten times, he finally finished cultivating the entire secret realm with spiritual arts.

After repeatedly exhausting his spiritual power and then restoring it, his spiritual power recovered faster than everyone else’s. According to Yu Yu’s guess, he now restored all of his spiritual power one-third faster than cultivators at the same realm.

Yu Yu wiped at the sweat that did not actually exist on his forehead and quickly left the little secret realm.

He did not stay in the secret realm much, because his master had said before that unless it was necessary, he should not go in when there was nothing to do. This was a life-saving trump card.

It was even more precious than a talismanic weapon. If anyone found out about it, they would definitely kill him and seize the treasure.

Yu Yu’s strength was not high, and he also knew he had many treasures on him. Whenever he entered the secret realm, he was always under Qingyang’s protection. Otherwise, even if the spiritual plants inside died, he would not take a single step in.

Spiritual plants were important, but his little life was even more important.

Aside from master and disciple, there were also quite a few menial disciples on Holy Sun Peak. Who knew whether there were spies among them?

Even if there were no spies, if they accidentally let something slip, the trouble it would bring Yu Yu could be imagined.

Therefore, Yu Yu was extremely cautious in this regard. In Linglong’s words, their little junior brother seemed very afraid of death.

His senior brother’s teasing did not make Yu Yu abandon his caution. Instead, he became even more careful. Unless Qingyang was present, he would not go to the little secret realm, even if the person sitting across from him was one of his senior brothers or senior sisters.

As for Yu Yu’s overly timid behavior, although his senior brothers and senior sisters could not really understand it, they would not interfere with him either. Their little junior brother could do whatever he wanted. They also did not ask much about the secret realm.

They simply acted as though this secret realm did not exist. In ordinary conversation, they never mentioned this aspect at all.

His senior brothers’ and senior sisters’ protection moved Yu Yu deeply, so even if he was stingy, he would never be stingy toward them.

Stinginess was for outsiders, not for one’s own family.

In this respect, Yu Yu and Qingyang behaved very similarly. It had to be said that birds of a feather flocked together.

There truly was fate between master and disciple. Although Yu Yu appeared very obedient, in truth, he and Qingyang were the same kind of person.

Stingy toward outsiders, generous toward their own people.

Half a month later.

Yu Yu continued searching for the balance point. After working hard for half a month, today, he finally found the balance point between the two.

He swiftly made the two merge, and in the end, they formed a material that was half blue and half green.

If there had been one more dot on each side, it would have been a differently colored version of taiji.

Fortunately, Yu Yu had no such idea. Half blue and half green looked fine, but if there were a lump of green in the middle of the blue and a bit of blue in the middle of the green, it would look strange no matter how one looked at it.

Had the blue cheated, or had the green two-timed?

Thankfully, his sense of aesthetics was still quite sound. He did not want some bizarre bonded spiritual weapon.

Yu Yu put down the fused material. Today, both his spiritual sense and spiritual power had been completely consumed.

His entire body was utterly exhausted. He could not continue refining.

He lay down on the cloud bed and let himself sleep for a while to relax.

For this half month, he had neither eaten nor drunk. His entire person had been pushed to the limit. Because he had been unable to find the balance point all along, he had even begun to doubt whether his idea was right.

Fortunately, heaven did not disappoint those who worked hard. Today, he had finally succeeded.

Once he succeeded, his whole body relaxed. He was too tired.

Before long, long, steady breathing sounded in the cultivation room.

Three days later, Yu Yu, fully recovered, began processing the other materials. First, he removed their impurities, then fused them into the half-blue, half-green material.

For some reason, no matter what material was fused into it, this lump of material only showed that half-blue, half-green appearance.

Yu Yu blinked, said nothing, and continued adding materials.

After all the materials had been added, he rested for another three days.

The lump of material was about the size of a table. To refine it into a bonded spiritual weapon that could be placed inside his dantian, Yu Yu could not rest at all for the next month.

He also took out supreme-grade spirit stones and piled them around himself.

When his spiritual power was almost exhausted, he would use them to recover. Supreme-grade spirit stones could release a large amount of spiritual energy in an instant, so he could replenish his spiritual energy while refining, avoiding exhaustion at the final moment and losing everything after all his effort.

In the process of refining a bonded spiritual weapon, unlike the earlier processing of materials, he was not allowed to stop.

So Yu Yu could only use this method, cultivating to replenish his spiritual power while refining the bonded spiritual weapon.

Splitting his attention across multiple tasks increased the difficulty.

It could be said that if Yu Yu lost focus even slightly at this moment, this refinement would be over.

Not only would the materials be wasted, but he would also be injured by the rebound of spiritual power.

Fortunately, he was not a reckless person. In terms of focus, even his eldest senior brother, Lingji, had to concede defeat.

This was a skill he had developed on Blue Star. At this moment, even if someone ambushed him from behind, Yu Yu would not move half a step after detecting it.

Whether it was the stellar meteorite or the broken branch of the Tree of Life, both were rare treasures that could be encountered but not sought. If the refinement failed, he would lose them as well.

It would not be a pity if the materials were ruined. What would be a pity was the elders’ sincere care for him.

These precious materials had all been gathered by the elders. A second set could no longer be found.

Compared to his life, Yu Yu’s safety was certainly more important. But Yu Yu did not want to waste everyone’s goodwill like this. One had to know that these materials had also been found by the elders while braving danger.

So, in order to finish the refinement as soon as possible, and also to set the elders at ease, Yu Yu planned to succeed as early as he could. In the future, he would only need to adjust his bonded spiritual weapon at the proper times and let it upgrade automatically.

Yes, Yu Yu’s bonded spiritual weapon had been designed as a growth-type bonded spiritual weapon. Later, it would not need to be refined again. As long as his realm reached the required level, he could release its seals and let it gradually grow into a Dao artifact.

In the end, even if he ascended to the Immortal Realm, after absorbing immortal qi, it could transform into an immortal artifact.

It could be said that if he worked a little harder now, he would save himself a great deal of trouble later.

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