Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 57 The path to advancement within the Lin family

Therefore, if a small person wants the Foundation Establishment Pill, he has to pay a huge price or be driven like a beast by the higher-ups. Otherwise, he can forget about the Foundation Establishment Pill, which has the most immediate effect on foundation building.

They can only look for inferior alternative pills that are not as effective and carry higher risks.

In this vast Yulong Archipelago, only the Lin family can meet all the prerequisites for refining foundation-building pills and has the ability to refine foundation-building pills on a regular basis and in a fixed quantity.

The Foundation Establishment Pill is so rare and precious that it will naturally not be distributed easily, even to the Lin family’s own people.

Therefore, the best way to get the Foundation Establishment Pill is to first become a Foundation Establishment Seed of the Lin family, and then you will be eligible to exchange it at cost price.

What is the cost price?

Four thousand spirit stones/contribution value!
What is the selling price on the market?
The average transaction price is 20,000 spirit stones!

The 20,000 spirit stones are not the upper limit, but the price that the Lin family sells to the foundation-building forces under its command that are qualified to participate in the auction.

If a force does not have the qualifications to bid, and wants to get the Foundation Establishment Pill as an exception, it will not only have to bear huge risks but also have to pay a premium of several percent on top of the 20,000.

Why?

Doesn’t the Lin family want to sell more spirit stones?
For the Jindan forces, the value of low-grade spirit stones is just that, useful but limited.

The higher-ups care more about ruling power and regional stability, and having too many foundation-building cultivators and too many foundation-building forces under their command is inherently destabilizing for the Jindan forces.

Therefore, each foundation-building pill can only flow to those who are obedient, friendly to the Lin family, and trusted by the Lin family, whether internally or externally.

Forget about the righteousness of the family/human race. The third-order forces are too far away from the righteousness and are closer to the destruction of inheritance in an instant.

After all, only a very small number of people can take care of the greater good, and the long-term continuation of most forces requires more consideration of practical issues. After all, human nature is always on its own side.

To sum up, the Lin family has very strict control over the foundation-building pills, and becoming the family's foundation-building seed is a shortcut to obtaining the foundation-building pills.

Does Lin Qianfan need the Foundation Establishment Pill to establish his foundation?
Not also!

Lin Qianfan is young, full of energy and blood, has a solid foundation, and has had successful experience in foundation-building in his previous life. He fully meets the prerequisites for building a foundation on his own, and he is quite confident even without the foundation-building pill.

But you must know that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!
It is definitely not a wise move to take the risk even though you know that the consequences of failure in building the foundation are something you cannot afford at all.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, Lin Qianfan needs to and must follow the family's foundation-building path. Because only the foundation-building cultivators who come out of this path are the ones that the family trusts the most and is most willing to continue to cultivate.

Although it is commendable for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to charge forward with a passion, it is still difficult for him to receive further training from his family unless he wins the Golden Core Seed Assessment again.

how so?

Because becoming the family's foundation-building seed requires facing a series of comprehensive assessments, two of which are very important assessments: character and understanding.

Those who have enough character and understanding will have the possibility to go further after reaching the foundation-building stage, and the family will continue to support them with resources. However, those who do not have enough character and understanding will reach the end of their journey after reaching the foundation-building stage.

Successfully building the foundation by force can only prove one's courage and luck, but it cannot prove one's character and understanding, and is not enough to convince others.

Without sufficient character and understanding, what’s the point of building a foundation?

The more difficult the living environment, the more the family power must concentrate its resources to do big things and the more it must embrace certainty. The family's core resources will only be tilted towards promising talents cultivated by the family itself.

This approach is definitely biased!

But this is the optimal path summarized by countless forces and countless predecessors.

After all, the family system is small, with a small population, few resources, and is subject to various restrictions, so it is difficult to take care of everyone. Is it fair?
There is no absolute fairness, but there is relative fairness.

As long as this path still exists, as long as this upward channel is open to all members of the tribe, then it can be said to be fair!
After all, although it is rare to succeed in building the foundation through hard work, and its quality is worth learning from, they are the losers in various previous competitions. It is reasonable that it is much more difficult for losers to re-enter the training sequence than others.

Since the identity of the foundation-building seed is so important, it must play the role of screening capable people and have layers of checkpoints.

Therefore, not all foundation-building seeds are acceptable, and the family has a complete assessment system.

The first step of screening requires that one must reach the late stage of Qi Refining before the age of thirty-five.

This condition is much stricter than the sixty-year-old peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, and can be used to preliminarily screen out those who have a certain talent in cultivation.

This step seemed very simple to Lin Qianfan, because Lin Qianfan had the qualifications of three spiritual roots and his family conditions were good in the early stage. Now working as a boatman on a ship would greatly speed up his cultivation progress.

If it were other first-generation cultivators with three spiritual roots who came from the mortal world, it would be difficult for them to reach the level before the age of thirty-five. The two hurdles in the middle and late stages would hold them back for a long time.

If it is so difficult to have three spiritual roots, then having four spiritual roots will be even more difficult.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is extremely difficult for people with four spiritual roots to reach this stage, because only those with three spiritual roots or above are called true spiritual roots. Four spiritual roots no longer have much value in cultivation, but for the sake of fairness, the family still needs to make a breakthrough for them.

After all, every few years there will be an extremely motivated example of a tribesman who will force his way into this group from among the four spiritual roots and successfully build a foundation, becoming a role model for many tribesmen.

As for those born with five spiritual roots, unless their parents or elders have very high status and can subsidize a large amount of resources out of their own pockets, it will be difficult for them to break into the seventh level of Qi Refining before the age of thirty-five.

Because the absorption rate of resources by cultivators with five spiritual roots is extremely low, it is a great waste of resources.

Moreover, the realm accumulated with a large amount of resources is very superficial. The seventh level of Qi Refining is extremely difficult for them, and it is difficult to break through without years of polishing.

Even if they manage to make it into the assessment, they can still be easily eliminated again. After all, without sufficient training and mastering many abilities, it is difficult to outperform others in the assessment again and again.

Even if a cultivator with five spiritual roots manages to complete the assessment by chance and successfully becomes the family's foundation-building seed, it will still be extremely difficult for a cultivator with five spiritual roots to face the three stages of foundation-building.

Therefore, if there is no strong support from superior relatives, one can only accept his fate. After all, not everyone can get a chance to surpass the heavens by going out to fish. Most cultivators with five spiritual roots cannot even enter the middle stage of Qi Refining.

Although there have been cases of people building foundations with five spiritual roots in the history of the Lin family, he did not follow the family foundation-building path.

Instead, he relied purely on his unyielding tenacity to force his way through the foundation-building phase after exceeding the age of qi and blood, and he was lucky enough to survive.

Their success is difficult to replicate, and those who try to imitate them will die!

Toot~
Dock area.

It is late autumn again, and the Sea Hunter's last voyage of the year is always to the Fire Iguana Islands to hunt monsters.

The fire iguanas there are plentiful and filling, and their meat is highly praised by the family and is a very popular food during the winter break.

"Good morning, Qianfan... Hey, why do you feel different today? What's different about you?"

He had just broken through and had not yet been sufficiently consolidated. The Qi of the seventh level of Qi Refining could not be controlled and released absolutely freely. Any leakage would be noticed by others.

"What's different? Let me see what's going on."

"Ah? Qianfan, you've reached the seventh level of Qi Refining so quickly?"

(End of this chapter)