Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 952 Divine General Chessboard
After completing the Azure Wood Purple Lightning Sword, Yang Zhengshan immediately went into seclusion to nurture its power.

In the quiet room, he sat cross-legged on a cushion, with the Azure Wood Purple Lightning Sword lying across his knees, a faint spiritual energy flowing between him and the sword.

As the spiritual energy circulated, the lightning on the sword gradually disappeared, replaced by pure green wood magic.

The aura of the magic sword gradually became exactly the same as Yang Zhengshan's aura, and the two seemed to merge into one.

I don't know how much time passed, but the magic sword that was originally lying across my knees suddenly disappeared.

A magical sword appeared in Yang Zhengshan's dantian, seemingly real yet ethereal, hovering within his dantian.

At the same time, strands of pure Yi Wood magic power seeped out from Yang Zhengshan's liver, flowing along the meridians and acupoints, converging into his dantian and connecting with the magic sword.

The magical power he cultivated was the Azure Wood Magic Power, which came from the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture. The Azure Flower Thunder Technique transformed the Azure Wood Magic Power into the Wood Magic Power, and then condensed the Azure Flower Thunder Pearl in his liver.

The so-called nurturing of the Azure Thunder Pearl can be simply understood as the process of transforming Azure Wood magic power into Wood magic power. Of course, this process is much more complicated, as it requires condensing into the Azure Thunder Pearl and then using the characteristics of the Azure Thunder Pearl to transform into Wood divine thunder.

In the past, Yang Zhengshan's cultivation of the Qinghua Thunder Pearl was very slow; it would take several years to cultivate a Thunder Pearl with any power.

But things are different now. With the Azure Wood Purple Lightning Sword as a medium, his speed in nurturing the Azure Thunder Pearl has increased several times.

Although this requires more magical power, it can save Yang Zhengshan a lot of time and energy in nurturing the Thunder Pearl.

In just a few days, the thunder pearl, which had been completely depleted in the liver, reformed.

As Yang Zhengshan carefully sensed the strands of pure Yi Wood magic power, a smile involuntarily appeared on his lips.

He slowly opened his eyes and murmured, "Everything is ready, except for the final push!"

At this moment, he was a step away from the Golden Elixir Path by an east wind.

My cultivation level is not high enough yet, but I no longer need to worry about accumulating it. I just need to accumulate it slowly. This is no longer a problem.

The 'east wind' he's missing is a Core Formation spiritual object.

To form a Golden Core, one must pass four trials, the first three of which are physical constitution, magical power, and spiritual soul.

Physically, Yang Zhengshan possesses the Devouring Spirit Body, so even without the corresponding Core Formation Spiritual Object, he is confident that he can overcome this challenge.

In terms of magical power, Yang Zhengshan needs at least one top-grade demon essence pill, and of course, it would be even better if he could prepare two or three.

In terms of the soul, theoretically he shouldn't need to worry too much, but matters of the soul must be handled with utmost care. It would be better to prepare a spiritual object to ensure that no problems arise during the core formation process.

After passing these three trials, the Golden Core will begin to take shape, and the remaining challenge will be the tribulation of lightning.

The Core Formation Tribulation is a gift from Heaven, but to receive this gift, one must be fully prepared; otherwise, the gift will turn into a calamity.

Yang Zhengshan calculated carefully that if he wanted to form his core, he would need to prepare at least five kinds of spiritual items for core formation.

He shouldn't need any Core Formation artifacts for the first three stages of the tribulation, because he has the Divine Wood Cauldron and the Wood Transformation Body Nourishing Method, which give him super strong physical recovery ability.

The three stages of the lightning tribulation require a spiritual object that can quickly convert spiritual energy.

The last three stages of the tribulation are the most important, because they involve your understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth during the tribulation.

The Enlightenment Pill is an essential spiritual item for Core Formation. In addition, spiritual items that enhance comprehension are also needed, such as the Nine-Patterned Bodhi Seed.

In addition to the top-grade demon essence pills and spiritual items that protect the soul, there are at least five kinds of spiritual items for forming a core.

"The Fountain of Life is the last spiritual item I need. Once I've mastered it, I can exchange it for other spiritual items!"

"The most important things are still the Clarity Pill and spiritual items that enhance comprehension!"

Yang Zhengshan pondered for a moment. The Daoist Lotus Seeds could enhance comprehension, but the effect was too weak. If there were no other options, he could make up for it with quantity.

The most troublesome one is actually the Tongming Pill, which is a third-tier pill and extremely difficult to refine.

Of course, forming a golden core doesn't necessarily require a spiritual object. It's possible to form a golden core and survive the tribulation without the assistance of a spiritual object, but the chances are extremely low.

Many cultivators collect various spiritual items for Core Formation, hoping only to increase their success rate by one or two percent.

Yang Zhengshan naturally hoped to have as many spiritual objects as possible to form a core, but this depended on fate. All he could do now was refine the Fountain of Life and the Supreme Demon Essence Pill.

Fortunately, he is not in a hurry. He is only a little over 150 years old and has at least a hundred years to spend collecting spiritual items for Core Formation.

Composing himself, Yang Zhengshan got up and left the quiet room.

He had just come out when he ran into Xuanzhen, who had come looking for him.

"Why are you here?" Yang Zhengshan was quite surprised to see him. In recent years, Xuanzhen had been busy building the Wuzhen Dao Palace. It seemed that he had found a few good spiritual apertures, so he had become even more enthusiastic about building the Wuzhen Dao Palace in the Lingxiu Sea.

"I want to refine my own natal magic weapon!" Xuanzhen said.

Yang Zhengshan said speechlessly, "If you want to practice, then practice. Why are you coming to me? Shouldn't you be going to Jizhen?"

Yang Jizhen is now not only the chief weapon refiner of the Spirit Origin Land, but also the most powerful weapon refiner in the Spirit Beauty Sea.

Yunxiao also asked Yang Jizhen to help refine her natal magic weapon, and Yunxi and Liuyue also commissioned magic weapons from Yang Jizhen.

If Xuanzhen wanted to refine his natal magic weapon, Yang Jizhen would definitely not refuse to help.

“I need third-tier spiritual materials!” Xuanzhen said.

Yang Zhengshan's lips twitched slightly. "You're shameless!"

Xuanzhen replied matter-of-factly, "I am now your subordinate, and I have even given the Wuzhen Dao Palace to your Yang family. Shouldn't you give me some benefits?"

Yang Zhengshan thought about it and agreed, "Well, Xuanzhen's words make a lot of sense."

Although Wuzhen Dao Palace is a self-contained system and seems to be a country within a country in the land of spiritual origin, it is actually subject to the dual control of the Immortal Hall and Ziwei Tower.

Simply put, Wuzhen Dao Palace is an institution or department under the jurisdiction of Xiantang and Ziwei Tower, not an independent sect.

Xuanzhen's words made such a lot of sense that Yang Zhengshan didn't know how to refute them.

"Then I'll help you exchange it for a third-tier spiritual material at Wanbao Shop!"

"Just one type?"

"Then how much more do you want?" Yang Zhengshan looked at him speechlessly.

Xuanzhen pondered for a moment before saying, "Alright, one kind it is. I need a ore with the attribute of Yin Soul, an ore that can guarantee the Yin Soul's immortality!"

"A ghost! What are you doing?" Yang Zhengshan frowned slightly.

The attributes of Yin spirits generally involve things like Yin energy, ghosts, and spirits.

Items like the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and the Soul-Suppressing Lock both belong to the Yin Soul attribute.

For example, the Ten Thousand Ghost Banner and the Yin Soul Array are also made primarily from spiritual materials with Yin Soul attributes.

Yang Zhengshan disliked nothing more than those kinds of Yin Sha and ghost-related cultivation techniques and magical treasures, so such items were almost impossible to find in the Spirit Source Land.

"Don't worry, I'm going to refine the Divine General Chessboard!" Xuanzhen said.

"The Divine Chessboard? What's that?" Yang Zhengshan asked, puzzled.

"It's a magical artifact very similar to the Ten Thousand Ghosts Banner! However, the Ten Thousand Ghosts Banner enslaves ghosts, while the Divine General Chessboard shapes divine generals!" Xuanzhen explained.

"Do you have a recipe? Let me see it!" Yang Zhengshan was even more curious.

Xuanzhen took out a jade slip and handed it to him, and he examined it with his spiritual sense.

After reading it, his expression became very strange.

What kind of "Gods and Generals Chessboard" is this? It's just a different kind of "Ten Thousand Ghosts Banner." The so-called "Gods and Generals" are ghosts, but not ordinary ghosts.

Ghosts are born from divine souls in special environments. People who possess divine souls are either immortal cultivators or martial artists at the Martial God realm or above.

The special environment that breeds ghosts refers to a place with a high concentration of yin energy.

Therefore, ghosts all belong to the category of Yin spirits.

The essence of gods and ghosts is the same; both are transformed from divine souls.

However, the divine general is not of the Yin spirit attribute, but is formed by divine light, which is the divine light of the Golden Light Divine Mantra. Therefore, the divine general can also be called the Golden Armor Divine General.

They were like soldiers, at the monks' beck and call.

"You actually had such a good thing hidden away!" Yang Zhengshan looked at Xuanzhen with displeasure.

Xuanzhen said awkwardly, "This is all I have left!"

This chessboard of divine generals is obviously a good thing. Although divine generals are similar to ghosts, the golden-armored divine general is stronger than the ordinary ghost general. Moreover, the golden-armored divine general has great potential and high growth potential.

However, this Divine General Chessboard can only be used in conjunction with the Golden Light Divine Mantra. Yang Zhengshan's cultivation of the Golden Light Divine Mantra is really not good enough, so he can only admire it from afar and will not refine such a natal magic weapon for himself.

"Give this to Jizhen to study first, and I'll help you exchange it for spiritual materials later!" Yang Zhengshan said.

With such a natal magic weapon, Xuanzhen's strength will definitely increase significantly.

Yang Zhengshan didn't mind helping Xuanzhen exchange for spiritual materials, after all, Xuanzhen was one of their own, and Xuanzhen's improvement in strength also represented the improvement of the spiritual source land's strength.

……

After sending Xuanzhen away, Yang Zhengshan found Yu Qingyi.

Yu Qingyi has not been in seclusion recently, but has been cultivating her mind and character.

She planted many vibrant spiritual herbs by the lake and tended to them diligently every day.

Whether you are a martial artist or a cultivator, you need to cultivate your mind and character because cultivation is too tedious. Everyone needs a hobby to make up for the boredom caused by the tedium.

Yu Qingyi's cultivation has reached the bottleneck of the mid-stage of the Golden Body Realm, but she has been stuck at the bottleneck for more than three years.

Three years had passed, and her cultivation had made no progress whatsoever, which made her feel somewhat irritable and depressed.

In order to calm her mind, she started planting flowers and plants, hoping to distract herself from the situation.

At this moment, Yu Qingyi was accompanied by a woman who looked to be in her forties and was wearing a simple blue narrow-sleeved vest.

This woman was none other than Yang Yunxue.

"father!"

When Yang Zhengshan arrived, Yang Yunxue showed a gentle smile.

As the youngest of the second generation of the Yang family, Yang Yunxue had a very low profile in Lingyuan Land. She rarely got involved in official matters and spent most of her time and energy taking care of her children.

Unlike Yang Zhengshan, Yang Yunxue is very attentive to her descendants, taking care of both her great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

In addition, Liang Jinyan has a somewhat laid-back personality and doesn't like to get involved in things, so the couple rarely attracts attention.

However, in terms of cultivation, the couple did not lag behind at all; both of them are now Golden Body Realm martial artists.

In contrast, Yang Yunyan and Jiang He's cultivation levels have not yet reached the Golden Body Realm.

It's highly unlikely that Yang Yunyan and Jiang He will reach the Golden Body Realm in terms of cultivation.

Both of them started late and wasted a lot of time in their early years. Although they eventually reached the Innate Realm, neither of them had particularly good aptitude, and their cultivation progressed very slowly.

To this day, neither of them has yet reached a breakthrough.

It should be noted that Yang Yunyan and Jiang He are now over 130 years old.

Yang Zhengshan was also quite helpless about this.

For the people of the Spirit Source Land, the Golden Body Realm is not a difficult threshold to cross.

As long as one cultivates step by step, most people have the opportunity to break through to the Golden Body Realm. Although they may die if they fail to break through, the probability of success is still very high.

A small number of people are unable to reach the threshold of the Golden Body Realm, and Yang Yunyan and Jiang He are two of them.

Yu Qingyi was using her true essence to accelerate the growth of a spiritual herb. The flower buds, which had not yet opened, gradually blossomed into bright flowers under her guidance.

Yang Zhengshan stepped forward and channeled a wisp of magic power into the spiritual herb, which instantly became even more lush.

"What brings you here?" he asked casually.

Yang Yunxue smiled and said, "I had nothing to do, so I came to keep my mother company!"

Yu Qingyi rolled her eyes and said, "She has a great-grandson who has been diagnosed with a spiritual aperture and wants you to personally teach him!"

"You're hiding this from your father? How can you be so shameless?"

Yu Qingyi directly exposed Yang Yunxue's sudden realization.

“Mother! I was just afraid Father wouldn’t agree,” Yang Yunxue said with a smile.

Yang Zhengshan didn't pay attention to Yang Yunxue's little thoughts, but it was actually quite normal for Yang Yunxue to have such thoughts.

Over the years, he has indeed neglected his children. He doesn't even see his own son, Yang Mingzhao, for a year, let alone the others.

Even fathers and sons or fathers and daughters can develop some distance when they don't see each other for a long time.

Fortunately, the gap wasn't too large; it just felt a little distant.

"What about the child?"

"Did you bring him here from the disciple's residence?" Yang Yunxue looked at Yang Zhengshan expectantly.

Yang Zhengshan shook his head slightly, "No need, I've already seen it!"

His spiritual sense swept across the area, and everything in the disciple's residence appeared in his mind.

He had a complete view of a seven or eight-year-old boy.

"His aptitude is quite good, but I don't have time to train him."

He has no time to raise children now; his mind is entirely focused on preparing for Core Formation.

Yang Yunxue was somewhat disappointed upon hearing this.

Yang Zhengshan laughed and said, "Let's leave it to He Xuan. He Xuan hasn't taken on any disciples yet, so let him take on one too!"

Zhang Hexuan has already reached the Foundation Establishment stage, and his alchemy skills are also quite good. Most importantly, he has never taken on any disciples.

Yang Jizhen, Ma Qiuyan, and Ning Yun have already taken on several disciples, and even Cui Yang has two disciples. Only Zhang Hexuan has not yet taken on any disciples.

"He Xuan! That works too." Yang Yunxue thought about it and decided that Zhang He Xuan was a good choice.

Although Yang Zhengshan cannot personally teach, having Zhang Hexuan teach is a good alternative.

She was fairly satisfied with the arrangement.

(End of this chapter)