"A sect stronger than yours will want you to pay tribute, and a sect on par with you will want to seize your territory. The world is so chaotic and cruel. One mistake and the entire sect will die!"
Having said that, Ren Yanyu paused.
Big fish eat small fish, and the strong prey on the weak in the world of immortal cultivation is too normal. Unless one day a virtual cultivator appears in the "Pojun Gate", then they will have some confidence.
"And the second-rate sects and families like the 'Chun Yang Hall' are just like us and the 'Qin Long Sect'. They are always competing for cultivation resources and thinking about how to kill each other.
Some of these fights can be carried out openly, with direct killing and looting, while others are due to the constraints and balance of first-class sects, so other means of looting will be used.
Second-rate sects like the Chun Yang Tang have a wider sphere of influence. For a Nascent Soul cultivator like me to fly from one side of their sphere to the other, even if we work non-stop, it may take several years…”
When Li Yan heard this, he was already shocked in his heart. Although he already knew how vast the fairy world was, the scope of a second-rate sect's jurisdiction was so wide that even the top sects in the lower world could not compare to it.
However, these second-rate sects, which are already huge, are just a drop in the ocean in the fairy world.
There are some reasons that Li Yan does not know. The larger the sect, the wider the scope of their jurisdiction, but it does not necessarily mean that they will have more immortal sects or families under their jurisdiction.
Usually they would only allocate a part of the area to the subordinates for use, and keep more areas for themselves, because many places, even dangerous places that they have not explored, need to be slowly explored.
This is why Li Yan saw many places with rich spiritual energy when he went out, but there were no sects established there.
For example, after the 'Blood Lantern Sect', a subordinate of the 'Chun Yang Hall', got its own jurisdiction, it would only give a part of it to the 'Po Jun Sect' and others, leaving most of the area for itself, as those areas had richer cultivation resources.
There are even some areas where, when Chun Yang Tang took them out, their resources had not yet been explored, and they were directly allocated to them.
After taking control of a third-rate sect like the Blood Lamp Sect, they knew that their superiors were using them as pawns and wanted them to uncover the secrets.
They will still keep it in their own hands and explore it at the risk of life and death. Once they succeed, even if they are not sure whether "Chun Yang Tang" will take it back, at least they can get the best treasure in the first place.
“… ‘Chun Yang Tang’ itself still has more areas to inspect, and it is impossible for ‘Chun Yang Tang’ to not give any benefits to its subordinate sects.
Therefore, in addition to arranging some better resource locations for each sect's jurisdiction, some particularly dangerous and unexplored areas are generally also designated.
Often, if such an area is allocated to any one sect, it may not be able to explore the secrets. So it is left to the following sects to explore together.
And what I am talking about is related to the previously unexplored area here!
This secret area is explored jointly by its subordinate four sects and families: 'Blood Lantern Sect', 'Seven Tigers Alliance', 'Fuling Villa' and 'Tianshan Garden'.
In order to find out the situation inside, many people died in the early stage.
But at that time, as long as the disciples of the sect were at the foundation building stage or above, including those of us from the subordinate sects, could go and investigate.
Under such circumstances, countless low-level disciples died, and even their seven gods-transforming monks perished in it.
The cost of excavation and exploration was extremely high. Of course, I have only read records of this in ancient books, because that happened a long time ago.
Here, except for third-rate sects like the Blood Lamp Sect, which still exists because of the balance and protection of the superior sect, small sects like ours have been replaced one after another.
Over the years, they explored some areas of that secret realm and gained a lot of benefits from it.
Although some of the top treasures were taken away by the 'Chun Yang Hall', the treasures and cultivation resources such as herbs that were left behind were still extremely precious, enough to make these four third-rate sects and families ecstatic.
After opening up these unknown areas, the superior sect did not take back the secret realm except for stipulating a certain level of treasures and herbs that must be handed in.
This allowed the four major forces to rely on the benefits they gained from this secret realm to create one god after another, or even a powerful person in the realm of refining emptiness! "
When Ren Yanyu said this, some desire appeared in her eyes.
"In that secret realm, there grows a 'Big Fruitless' tree. The 'Big Fruitless' growing on it is the main ingredient for a drug called 'Shenxu Pill' that is refined by the Divine Transformation cultivators when they advance to the Void Refining Realm..."
When Li Yan heard this, his calm expression finally showed a slight movement. This "great fruitlessness" turned out to be a natural treasure that could help him advance to the realm of refining emptiness.
This was the first time he had heard of this treasure. The fairyland was indeed the fairyland, and it was easy to get clues to such rare treasures.
On the other side, Ren Yanyu continued to narrate.
"… Due to the laws of heaven and earth in the secret realm, this 'big fruitless fruit' that takes 500 years to mature in the outside world will mature in 333 years in the secret realm.
That 'big fruitless' tree can produce thirteen big fruitless fruits each time, nine of which will be taken away by 'Chun Yang Tang' first.
The remaining four were to be snatched by subordinate sects and families in order to sharpen the fighting power of the monks and motivate them to keep making progress, so as to improve the strength of the entire "Chun Yang Hall".
Since "Da Wuguo" is a treasure for advancement to the Refining Void Realm, the four major sects and families would attack it to the death as soon as they made a move on it. This is something the superior sects do not want to see, as it will cause a significant decline in their overall strength.
Therefore, the 'Chun Yang Hall' stipulates that a large number of Divine Transformation monks are not allowed to take action, but only teams of Divine Transformation monks are allowed to rob.
Therefore, every time when the "Big Fruitless" matures, it is led by a Jindan cultivator and a group of Yuanying cultivators to form a team to snatch it.
The four sects and families also have their own plans, and they don't want too many of their Nascent Soul cultivators to die, as that would shake their foundation.
So they asked the subordinate sects to send people to help snatch it. Small sects like ours must send a Nascent Soul cultivator to join the team led by the Blood Lantern Sect's Divine Transformation cultivator.
Together with the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Blood Lamp Sect itself, there are about ten people in a team. If there are many subordinate sects, some sects don't even need to send anyone to fight, and the specific participating cultivators will be arranged by the third-rate sects themselves.
The Blood Lantern Sect also has many Nascent Soul cultivators in its subordinate sects. My senior brother and I participated in it a long time ago. We haven’t participated in it for a long time, but we were assigned a task this time, which we cannot shirk at all.”
After Ren Yanyu finished speaking, she paused again. She saw a questioning look in Li Yan's eyes. Sure enough, when Li Yan saw Ren Yanyu pause, he knew that the other party was leaving a gap for him to ask questions, so he was not polite.
"There are only four of those 'Big Fruitless', so we are definitely not destined to get them. What kind of benefit can a small sect get by sending cultivators to help us?"
Li Yan didn't think that only four "Big Fruitless" missiles would fall into the hands of the subordinate small sects, but the "Blood Lamp Sect" would not let the subordinate sects' efforts in vain.
"What Elder Li said is that the 'Great Fruitless' can only fall into the hands of the four sects of the 'Blood Lantern Sect' and the immortal cultivation family. It is not certain what reward a small sect like us will get.
This depends on whether the Blood Lantern Sect can obtain the Great Fruitlessness this time, and how much effort we put into the snatch.
If the Blood Lantern Sect returns empty-handed, the rewards we get are some magic weapons and elixirs, as well as the offerings we pay in the following years, which will be reduced to varying degrees.
If you make achievements in this operation, you will generally be rewarded with three to five top-grade spirit stones, and a large amount of sect offerings will be reduced. This is a great benefit for us.
After all, the main people taking action there are the Divine Transformation cultivators, not us. All we need to do is stop others from interfering with our own Divine Transformation cultivators.
Of course, this is not absolute. Sometimes the battle between the gods of transformation cultivators from all sides cannot be determined for a while, and they are in a state of strong opposition to each other.
Then the task of picking the 'big fruitless' is up to us!"
Ren Yanyu explained to Li Yan.
Li Yan nodded. He already understood the whole story. After thinking about it, he opened his mouth to ask again.
"Ren Daoist, besides being the main material for refining the Shenxu Pill, does this 'Big Fruitless Fruit' have any other uses?"
“‘Da Wuguo’ is not only the main material for refining ‘Shenxu Pill’, but also the main material for many Yuanying and Huashen cultivators’ elixirs, and it has a better effect.
If a Nascent Soul cultivator encounters a heavenly tribulation during the transformation to the Spirit, after swallowing it directly, it can form a membrane between the internal organs in the body to help overcome the heavenly tribulation, which will increase the success rate of the transformation to the Spirit by about 20%. "
Ren Yanyu was not surprised by Li Yan's question. As a cultivator, Li Yan must be interested in natural treasures. But he was also a cultivator who ascended from the lower realm, so naturally he didn't know too many things.
Sure enough, after Li Yan heard it, even Ren Yanyu could see his surprise.
After a moment of hesitation, Li Yan asked again.
"Then the 'Big Fruitless' won't be damaged during the snatch?"
This time, after hearing what Li Yan said, Ren Yanyu's beautiful eyes froze, and then she looked at Li Yan meaningfully, while Li Yan's expression had returned to calm.
“Of course, some fruits were damaged during the snatch, but it basically happened in front of everyone, so even if there was damage, they knew how to damage it, and they also knew how many would be left in the end.
There were cases where one could not obtain it and ended up being besieged and destroying the "fruitless" item, but there was absolutely no way one could secretly take it away.
Because after coming out, every monk's storage bag will be thoroughly checked by the team leader, the Divine Transformation Monk, and finally they will check the quantity. It is very difficult to fish in troubled waters!"
Ren Yanyu was born with a chivalrous spirit and never liked to hide anything when speaking. It seemed that he could see through Li Yan's thoughts.
Li Yan touched his nose. After listening to the other party's narration, he actually had some ideas. Especially since "Da Wuguo" could actually deal with the divine tribulation and increase the chance of divine transformation by 20%, he was extremely excited.
Li Yan is now back to the same situation as when he first entered the Wuliang Sect. At that time, he had to complete the foundation building as soon as possible before he could go home.
But now, his strength in the fairy world is the same as before, just a small ant, and Li Yan still wants to "go home", so he has to work hard all the time and seize every opportunity.
Li Yan was not embarrassed after the other party saw through his thoughts.
He suddenly remembered something and asked again.
"By the way, if the 'Chun Yang Tang' gives the 'Da Wu Guo' to its subordinate sects, isn't it afraid that a Void Refining Cultivator will appear like the 'Blood Lantern Sect'?"
After hearing this, Ren Yanyu immediately understood what Li Yan meant.
The last time Li Yan came back from the Donglin family, he told her what the other party’s supreme elder wanted to say to Shangguan Tianque.
At that time, Ren Yanyu's heart was in turmoil. She didn't expect that the supreme elder of the Donglin family would encounter an accident when he was preparing to become a god.
Li Yan said this now because of that incident, and she shook her head.
"The 'Pure Yang Hall' has controlled the four sects and families for too long. They have already placed many pawns in these forces. Many important positions in the four major sects and families are held by people from the 'Pure Yang Hall'.
If a strong man in the Void Refinement Realm appears below, he will be directly pulled to become an elder of the "Chun Yang Hall". To put it bluntly, he will be a proton. Otherwise, your sect will leave here on its own.
This is completely different from us. If we have a Divine Transformation cultivator, we can go out independently at any time. The most important point here is that the domain of the Blood Lantern Sect is also very large, so large that you cannot give it up.
He just wanted to go out on his own and set up his own sect, but due to his large family and wealth, it would be difficult for him to find a suitable place to establish a sect. Wherever they went, they would cause resistance from other forces.
All this can only mean that the 'Blood Lamp Sect' is not yet very powerful, and still needs to rely on other forces to support the survival of such a huge sect.
Unless they are forced to do so, they will not go out and start their own business, otherwise they will become the fat meat coveted by others.
It's different for a group like Pojunmen, it only has a few Nascent Soul cultivators and a territory of tens of thousands of miles. In fact, it's probably the same no matter who you depend on.
Once someone in the sect reaches the state of godhood, they will probably look for a more suitable place. Unless they can one day reach a huge foundation like the Blood Lantern Sect, they will be content to attach themselves to a second-rate sect!"
Ren Yanyu stopped explaining here.
Li Yan had already understood that his side was too weak. It was like a casual cultivator. If you wanted to join a sect, the other party would have to consider your strength.