Chapter 544 - 379: Potential List
Chapter 544: Chapter 379: Potential List
Destroy the Celestial Demon Sect.
Annihilate all Demon forces within the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory.
These two steps were complete.
The next step was to re-educate the common people in the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory.
Especially the younger generation.
Children could be tested for a Spirit Root at age ten, so the younger generation Fang Yun was referring to were primarily those under seven.
Changing the minds of children between eight and ten was already quite difficult, and there was less time to do so. However, seven-year-olds still had three years for their re-education.
Of course, this re-education was no easy task; it would require a vast amount of manpower and resources.
Only after this re-education was complete could the Celestial Cloud Sect be said to have truly absorbed the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory.
After speaking with Mi Xiaoqi,
Fang Yun returned to his residence.
Inside the Cultivation Room, Song Qiaoqiao sensed Fang Yun’s return and stopped her cultivation.
She left the Cultivation Room and immediately appeared before Fang Yun.
"Husband."
"My dear, I have a few things I need you to do."
"What is it? Please, tell me, Husband." Song Qiaoqiao pulled Fang Yun to sit down beside her.
"I need you to make a trip to the Purple Mist Sect."
"Go to the Purple Mist Sect? What for... Are we asking them for a reward?" Song Qiaoqiao asked curiously. The first thing that came to her mind was a reward.
’We destroyed the Celestial Demon Sect without the Purple Mist Sect’s help.’
’This means our Celestial Cloud Sect has great potential now.’
’If we grow stronger in the future, we’ll be able to help the Purple Mist Sect bear some of the pressure in the Qionglin Domain.’
"That’s not a bad way to look at it," Fang Yun said with a smile, before explaining what he needed Song Qiaoqiao to do. "I need you to acquire the pill formula for the White Dew Jade Spirit Pill. If you’re lucky, the Purple Mist Sect might even gift it to you."
The White Dew Jade Spirit Pill was a medicinal pill from the Purple Mist Sect, used to aid the cultivation of Late-stage Core Formation and Peak of Core Formation Cultivators.
"When you acquire the pill formula, you’ll also need to purchase the spirit medicine seeds from the Purple Mist Sect, as they won’t be included."
Some spirit medicines have demanding growing conditions and too many variables. However, for pills like this that aid cultivation, the required spirit medicines can typically be grown in a normal Spirit Field.
Pill formulas that required spirit medicines with demanding growing conditions were often phased out, unless the pill itself was exceptionally important and irreplaceable.
"Is it urgent?" Song Qiaoqiao asked.
"There’s no rush. You can go in two months and it will still be plenty of time."
’The Sect Spiritual Vein Elder, Yu Chuanze, will take at least three months to return from the Demon Destruction Sub-Sect, and probably even longer.’
"I’ll set out in a month."
Song Qiaoqiao thought for a moment, quickly arranging her schedule.
She had quite a few things to do in the coming month, aside from her cultivation.
...
As the Celestial Cloud Sect’s strongest vassal, a Foundation Establishment Influence, the Wang Family had been living quite comfortably lately.
Thanks to Wang Lingwei’s arrangements, they had been better prepared and had earned considerable merit during the campaign to destroy the Celestial Demon Sect.
They had earned more merit than any of the Celestial Cloud Sect’s other vassal Foundation Establishment Influences.
And so, their rewards were also greater.
A territory with a Second Tier Middle-Grade Spirit Vein and another with a Tier One Upper-Grade Spirit Vein, both within the former lands of the Original Celestial Demon Sect, now belonged to the Wang Family.
To be more precise, they were leasing the territories. After all, their annual tribute of resources to the Celestial Cloud Sect had increased, with the new lands being the source of that increase.
"Patriarch, what orders has the Celestial Cloud Sect issued?"
"We are to assist the Celestial Cloud Sect in re-educating the mortals in the Celestial Demon Sect’s former territory."
"They’re all infatuated with the Demons’ cultivation system and love to perform Demon Beast bloodline transplants. Changing their way of thinking will be very difficult."
"That’s why we have to start with the children."
"That’s difficult too... Are we supposed to tie up their parents or something?"
The Wang Family was a family-based power, so the concept of family was deeply ingrained in them.
From their perspective, a child’s family—especially their parents—held the greatest influence over them.
"It’s much more trouble for a sect to occupy a territory than it is for a family," a Wang Family Foundation Establishment Cultivator remarked. "If we had the power to take the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory for ourselves, we’d only care about its Spirit Veins. The other mortals would be irrelevant."
’Those other mortals aren’t part of the Wang Family, after all.’
’For such mortals to become Wang Family Cultivators, they would have to marry into the family.’
"The Celestial Cloud Sect’s orders are just to guide them. Without the Demons’ cultivation system, it’ll be difficult for them to set their children on that path anyway... Of course," Patriarch Wang continued, "if we discover any Demons who have undergone bloodline transplantation, we must eliminate them with all possible speed."
"Understood, Patriarch. I will arrange for our family members to take action."
"The Celestial Cloud Sect has given us a large area to manage. The Celestial Cloud Sect Leader said we should involve the mortals from our own family as much as possible to increase efficiency."
"Oh! The Celestial Cloud Sect Leader is clever to think of that. This way, we won’t need to deploy so many of our Qi Refining family members."
"There’s a reason they gave us such a large area. Mobilizing mortals from our own Wang Family is a simple matter."
A family-based power was far more efficient at mobilizing mortals than a sect.
After all, these mortals were their own people, sharing the family’s bloodline.
The Celestial Cloud Sect’s orders were passed down to all its vassal Foundation Establishment Influences, as well as its indirectly affiliated Qi Refining Influences.
The ideological re-education of the mortals in the Celestial Demon Sect’s former territory was now in full swing.
...
「The third month of spring.」
More than half a year had passed since the fall of the Celestial Demon Sect.
A great deal had happened in that time.
First, Song Qiaoqiao had made her trip to the Purple Mist Sect. Along with the pill formula for the White Dew Jade Spirit Pill and the seeds of the Tier Three Top-Grade spirit medicine, the White Dew Flower, she had also brought back news from the sect.