Data cultivation, I observe immortality in the five elements

What appears to be a win-win collaboration is actually difficult to implement when it comes to the Three Saints of Yanxing.

Even if they obtained this Spirit Gathering Secret Technique through some means and at a great cost, and promoted it through the families behind the disciples of the Star Picking Hall, Star Hidden Pavilion, and Star Yi Tower, they would never achieve the same effect as Luo Yan.

Greed is the core of human nature!

Once the families behind those people discover that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can be transformed and absorbed, it can be turned into a regular, universal currency—the essence of the five elements.

And if this method is proven, everyone will go crazy for it.

At that time, the families under the command of the Three Saints of Yanxing would certainly not be thinking about providing the essence of the five elements to aid the sea tribes on the battlefield.

Instead, they'll keep stuffing the essence of heaven and earth into their pockets.

Even if they're struggling to stay afloat, they won't leak out a single bit of profit.

After all, once money is in your pocket, it's not so easy to take it out again.

"Are you so certain that your plan will succeed?" the second spirit asked.

With a formidable enemy at hand and the imminent invasion of the sea creatures, would anyone really be so short-sighted as to disregard the consequences?

There's no reason to fight to the death on the front lines; instead, they've provided a miraculous secret technique that allows them to seize resources at an extremely fast pace.

Those in the rear, even those who reap the benefits without contributing, are unwilling to share any of the spoils to support the sea creatures on the front lines.
Is it really possible for such an absurd thing to happen?

"To hire powerful outsiders to fight against the sea race by sacrificing the essence of the five elements requires an enormous amount of resources. This problem cannot be solved by just a few people or a few hundred people."

"Because although the improved Spirit Gathering Array can transform the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the essence of the five elements, its transformation efficiency is not fast and it takes a long time to accumulate."

"Therefore, a wide-open space and abundant spiritual energy are the most essential foundations."

"Furthermore, the materials for setting up those spirit-gathering arrays also represent a considerable expense."

"Only by doing all of the above can this business, which requires initial investment and a stable environment in the later stages, be sustained in the long run."

"Since it's a business, for those powerful families, their primary concern is how to recoup their costs as quickly as possible."

"As for the sect crisis and the sea race invasion, since they don't need to go to the battlefield and the enemy isn't right under their noses, it's naturally not something they need to worry about."

Luo Yan explained softly that he didn't know many people in the sect and rarely got together with his fellow sect members.

Although they didn't communicate much, he knew the structure and power of the Five Elements Sect very well.

Family power, master-disciple lineage, elders' council, and the four categories of disciples at the bottom who are not affiliated with any sect or faction, together constitute the Five Elements Sect, a massive sect.

Among them, the family line is the most powerful. They control all the resources by passing down their power from generation to generation, with the older generation leading the middle-aged and the middle-aged leading the younger.

They continuously absorbed nourishment from the Five Elements Sect to expand their family's influence.

Greed and selfishness are their defining characteristics.

One of the pretexts used by the Heavenly Mystery Hall to launch the Wanxinghai Inner Sea War decades ago stemmed from this.

The term "worms that live on the branches of the big tree of Wuzhi Mountain" refers to members of the family line.

They even dared to plunder the sect's sacred mines, spiritual herbs, and other resources.

Not to mention the highly profitable business of spirit-gathering arrays.

With the power of the Three Saints of Yanxing, it was impossible for them to suppress the greedy fellows who were reaching out for this secret technique.

Because it concerns their own interests, no one can remain unmoved!

After all, the essence of the five elements is equivalent to the common currency in the cultivation world, and can be used to purchase most treasures, spiritual objects of heaven and earth, and so on.

It belongs to the realm of money in the cultivation world!

And it's the kind that can be printed by yourself.
Any cultivator who sees it will feel their greed rise uncontrollably.

This is also the true core of Luo Yan's plan: using the Spirit Gathering Array as bait to lure the families behind the disciples of the Star Gazing Hall into taking the bait, thus prompting both sides to reach an agreement.

Once the news of the Crimson Sea spreads, the Three Saints of the Starry Sky will surely learn of it immediately and follow suit.

It was then promoted in Zhaixing Hall, Cangxing Pavilion, and Yixing Tower.

Once they follow Luo Yan's method, the subsequent developments will exceed the imagination of the Three Saints of Yanxing.

Disciples of the Heavenly Mystery Hall with powerful family backgrounds can use the strength of their families to escape safely at great cost.

Disciples without such powerful backing can only watch helplessly as they are forced to undertake endless killing missions.
When that time comes, the forces under the command of the Three Saints of Yanxing will inevitably descend into chaos.

At this point, the game is over!

After all, the greed in human nature is boundless, and no one can stop it from happening!
Those who learn from me live, those who resemble me die.

"Is this why you often say that human nature is unpredictable and fickle?"

The second spirit body sighed, realizing that although it was his proposed solution, the original body's modification had instantly made it seem unfathomable.

He had only moved a few pieces, but the ripples it caused were like a raging storm, making him feel ashamed.

"But will things really unfold the way we expect?"

"Didn't you say that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down?"

"What if those three realize that you haven't achieved your goal, but you've preserved a huge amount of strength in this war of the sea creatures? Wouldn't that make them even more hostile?"

"After all, we are not worried about scarcity, but about inequality."

The second spirit frowned, realizing that the plan had another side, far more complex than the original body had described.

It's true that human nature is greedy, but it's also prone to jealousy.

Especially for the Three Saints of the Starry Sky, having powerful competitors is tantamount to weakening their own strength.

Given this shift in power dynamics, what if those three guys, cornered as dogs, preemptively attack the main body?
'Om! '

With a soft tremor, a burst of rosy light appeared, and a palm-sized doll flew out from between Luo Yan's eyebrows.

He was walking barefoot, his face flushed with drunkenness, clearly having gone to the Leidi Temple to drink.

The appearance of the Tower Ancestor caused the second spirit body to pause. How could he have forgotten that his main body was protected by these two semi-immortal artifacts?
With them there, not to mention the Three Saints of Yanxing, even if Daoist Lilong himself came, he would not be able to cause any substantial damage to the main body.

"What kind of schemes are you plotting this time? Who are you planning to trick this time?" The moment the exquisite pagoda appeared, it asked curiously.

Since following this young man in blue robes, he has discovered that the saying that human cultivators are cunning and shrewd is not unfounded.

They're always scheming against this person today, or that person tomorrow.
The intricacies and complexities involved are enough to make even a being like Him dizzy.

Upon hearing this, Luo Yan shook his head with a smile on his face and did not continue to explain.

He gave his second spirit body a look, signaling him to place the chess piece, thus completing the task.

Inside the Identity Token Space, in the Illusion Square.

The consciousness of the second spiritual body manifested, and after scanning the area, he noticed many empty spaces, roughly a quarter of the space, and then spoke:

"How is the battle going outside?"

A figure dressed in a black robe stood up and responded:

"Reporting to the young master, the sea creatures currently appearing in the Crimson Sea are the Seahorse Clan. Their innate ability is water control, which allows them to significantly reduce the damage they suffer through seawater."

"Even if our disciples were to take action, it would be difficult to kill them with a single blow. We could only wear down the Seahorse Clan's experts through continuous attrition."

As time went on, the sea creatures also found a way to deal with the elite disciples of the human race, and it worked very well.

That is to use delaying tactics and stalemates to counter the attacks and assassinations by the elite human disciples.

As a result, the pressure on the disciples of the Star Gazing Hall and the Chi tribe is growing.

Before the superior true spirit race of the sea race even personally intervened, nearly a third of their own Dao bodies had already been lost.

If the stalemate continues, and the spiritual bodies of the disciples of the Heavenly Mystery Hall are completely depleted, then only two paths will remain before them.

One option was to continue fighting regardless of their own lives, and the other was to retreat to the Red Sea Islands to rest and recuperate.

The former involves gambling with one's own life, while the latter would subject the Red Sea lineage to immense pressure.

No one will restrain those powerful sea creatures anymore!
Once it reaches that point, the number of casualties among the Red Sea lineage will increase exponentially.

Once the superior true spirit races appear, the Crimson Sea will surely be lost!
"Pass down the notice: in half a day, all those who have gone out to fight need to return here for a meeting," the second spirit body instructed.

"Yes, Young Master!" the cultivators responded in unison.

Half a day later, the illusory square was filled with figures, many of whom were imbued with intense blood energy, as deep and powerful as a waterfall, which was quite overwhelming.

"I have summoned you here today because I believe that continuing to waste time with the sea creatures will be very detrimental to the future situation."

"Therefore, in order to solve the problem of too many powerful sea creatures, I would like to make a deal with you all," the second spirit body said with a smile.

The endless sea is truly vast, and the number of sea creatures living within it is countless.

They were so numerous and densely packed that they were impossible to count.

With such a large population, the number of powerful sea creatures born is naturally far beyond imagination.

The members of the Heavenly Mystery Hall are the absolute elite among the disciples of the Five Elements Sect, each possessing the formidable strength to fight ten opponents at once.

Even without the intervention of the higher-level True Spirits, the mere presence of some ordinary sea monster kings was enough to completely exhaust the energy of the Heavenly Mystery Hall disciples.

This method of exchanging pieces is truly a very poor strategy.

"I know that many of you here have family backgrounds, big or small."

"I need you to send a message to your respective families."

"I possess a secret array technique that can transform the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the essence of the five elements."

The second spirit body looked straight ahead at the thirty thousand figures sitting upright in front of it, a faint smile playing on its lips.

"May I ask, young master, is this true?" someone asked impatiently, their eyes lighting up.

The second spirit nodded and patiently explained, "This spirit-gathering secret technique was created by me unintentionally. It can be easily drawn by a master of formations."

"What price will we have to pay to obtain this method?" a disciple of the Chi tribe asked.

The smile on the second spirit's face vanished, and he said seriously, "You only need to persuade your respective families to agree to one condition, and this method will be passed on to you!"

These words immediately caused a stir among the cultivators present.

Many people's eyes shone like stars, sparkling with intense curiosity. What kind of secret technique or formation could transform ordinary spiritual energy into the purest essence of the five elements?
Such secret techniques, if not miracles, can certainly be described as creation-like methods.

It has captivated countless people.

After all, cultivators need a lot of resources to cultivate, and the way to obtain resources is by purchasing them with currency.

The most common types of currency are spirit crystals and essence of heaven and earth.

But now, the young master of the Star Gazing Hall right in front of us is saying that they can create the essence of heaven and earth themselves.
If you're short of money, do you print your own and then spend it?

What a shock this was! It caused an uproar around the world!

If the cultivators present hadn't all known that the blue-robed Taoist in front of them hadn't uttered any falsehoods or boasts, no one would have believed it to be true.

With just one small condition, one can obtain a supreme secret technique that is enough to make a family prosper for dozens of generations and enhance its foundation several times over.

When this news spread, not only were cultivators with family backgrounds excited, but even many powerful individuals took notice.

If they could obtain a secret technique to enhance their own strength by simply agreeing to one condition, they would want it too!
"Originally, I intended to save this spirit-gathering secret technique for the future, to lay the foundation for the family I would establish."

“But now, I find that the sea race is coming on strong. If we don’t change this, I’m afraid that at least a large part of you here will perish here,” the second spirit sighed.

Upon hearing the young master of the Star Gazing Hall's sentiments, the excitement in the eyes of all the cultivators present paused for a moment, then turned into a complex expression.

The war between the sea creatures has lasted for so many years, and everyone has fought against the sea creatures' powerful warriors more than once.

They went from being full of ambition and nonchalant at the beginning to feeling as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and their hearts were heavy.
The change in mindset was extremely rapid.

Because the number of sea creatures is so vast, a single sword strike from them can annihilate at least dozens of miles of sea.

But in less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, those empty areas were once again occupied by sea creatures.

The number of sea creatures is almost despair-inducing!
Opening my eyes, I see countless figures of sea monsters; closing my eyes, I hear roars like a tsunami.
It is virtually endless; the number of its powerful sea creatures is simply despair-inducing!
They can't kill them all, they simply can't kill them all! (End of Chapter)