Ordinary People: Starting with the Chen Clan

He also gained the collective support of the three branches of the family through his talisman-making skills, and received some preferential treatment in terms of resources.

The main reason is that none of the three branches of the family have produced any outstanding talents in recent years, so they simply did a favor without expecting anything in return. The value of the items they received wasn't particularly high.

Chen Xuanzhou exchanged all the items, which were worth only twenty spirit stones per month, for talisman ink and talisman paper. He then used the finished talismans to exchange for pills from his family.

In return, he offered to teach the Chen family members magic and talisman-making techniques every month after his cultivation advanced to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, not just to the few branches that supported him, but to everyone.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be enough people to gather here. After all, not everyone is willing to come. The clan elders also regularly give them lectures and enlightenment, and most children are concerned about saving face.

So the reason so many people came at first was because some parents urged them to come. Later, with the change of his teaching methods, these few people were able to settle down.

The most important part is not the explanation of the way of talismans, but the practical training. Everyone uses only magic to attack him alone. As long as someone succeeds, they are considered victorious and can receive more guidance or other rewards.

This not only hones their combat skills but also stimulates their competitive spirit, enabling them to persevere in the long run.

All he had to do was occasionally cooperate with their performances to boost morale.

He did this not out of enthusiasm, but more importantly, it was an experiment to see if he could increase the family's recognition and bind the incense burner to him more deeply.

He wasn't asking for a complete binding, but at least some time should be allowed. Even among the direct descendants of Nascent Soul cultivators, there aren't many who reach Foundation Establishment at sixteen.

Old Demon Han is still in his twenties. Although he is more talented than Old Demon Han and has the Condensing Pearl, he has a very thorough understanding of the cultivation technique and his magic power is refined and pure. So far, he has not encountered any bottlenecks.

Resources are plentiful now, but this is already the limit of his cultivation speed. According to his estimate, it will take at least seven or eight years to reach the twelfth level of Qi Refining, by which time the incense burner will have long since flown away.

Unfortunately, despite all the effort, the incense burner showed no reaction.

However, he did not give up, because teaching these children did not take up too much of his time, nor would it affect his cultivation progress. He could treat it as a break between cultivation sessions, and also as a summary of his magical cultivation.

Furthermore, if he were to truly take charge of the incense burner in the future, he would inevitably have to personally manage the family, which would require him to have sufficient prestige.

Another requirement is to have enough loyal followers, and these children are the easiest little fans to fool.

Although he could use his power to intimidate others after his cultivation level improved, he knew very well what it meant to slack off after spending half his life as a beast of burden in his previous life. When a leader gives orders, subordinates have a lot of ways to delay.

Furthermore, a family is not a sect. Beyond the rules, there is a strong blood relationship that serves as both a bond and a constraint, preventing him from using overly forceful methods.

As for the other path, upgrading the ancestral land's spiritual veins, that's out of the question. He had applied for a chance to cultivate in the core spiritual land of the ancestral land under the pretext of going into seclusion.

However, after throwing over thirty orange beads into the core of the spiritual vein, Chen Xuanzhou saw no change in the ancestral spiritual vein and had no choice but to give up. He was so distressed by this that he couldn't sleep well for several days.

Obviously, the 'ancestor' wouldn't leave such an obvious loophole for him to exploit!

Besides cultivation and talisman making, he has also figured out some things about incense burners and the effects of using incense inside them in recent years.

The incense in the incense burner originates from each person, with each person generating one wisp of incense per day. However, this incense has different levels: white for the Qi Refining stage, orange for the Foundation Establishment stage, and so on.

A thousand strands of white incense can condense into a white bead, while an orange bead requires ten thousand strands of white incense, plus a strand of foundation-building orange incense.

It was from these incense offerings that Chen Xuanzhou learned that the Chen family now had eleven Foundation Establishment cultivators, two more than he had known before, which seemed to have been kept secret.

As for the Qi Refining stage, there are about eight hundred people, which is his largest base. Compared with Han Li's, his cheat system is far too limited.

At the beginning, Chen Xuanzhou even had a wicked thought: what if Han Tianzun was still young and had just obtained the Palm Heaven Bottle? If he killed him, he could take the Palm Heaven Bottle and go off in style, not caring where the incense burner would go.

Unfortunately, considering the existence of the Dao Ancestor, he decided to continue developing his family step by step.

Moreover, even after all this time, he still hasn't figured out what time it is. He doesn't even know if Han Li was born or if he obtained the Heavenly Bottle.

Based on what we've heard, it's highly likely that the story hasn't started yet, since no Ascension Tokens from Huangfeng Valley have appeared in the last one or two Ascension Conferences.

There's even less other information available for reference. Firstly, his cultivation level is low, and secondly, who knows what major events happened to Han Tianzun before he entered the world of cultivation?

They are still young, and their families don't allow them to leave their ancestral homeland alone.

In the past five years, besides cultivation, he has spent more time researching his cheat abilities to maximize their utilization and enhance his cultivation and strength to the greatest extent possible. This is the main reason why he is able to have such a high level of cultivation now.

In order to test the limits of the cheat, he started by using white incense to enhance the pills, then moved to white condensed beads, and even once used orange condensed beads.

The results are mixed; the power of incense is meant to remove the toxins from the pills, not to improve their quality out of thin air.

Therefore, the improvement is limited. The same applies to other talismans and magical artifacts. Among them, the Fire Essence Pill he is currently taking, based on the average quality within the clan, would only require about one hundred strands of white incense.

Even if he could improve further, it wouldn't be cost-effective. He could eliminate the toxins automatically during his normal cultivation, so there was no need to waste them.

The talisman brush he uses daily was originally only a mid-grade first-level magic weapon, and it is still a mid-grade first-level magic weapon now, only the spiritual energy patterns inside are smoother.

It also restored some of the spiritual energy in the wolf hair on the tip of the brush, making it smoother to use and allowing it to last longer.

This was achieved by consuming ten orange-colored crystal beads; as for upgrading it to a first-tier superior grade, it's practically impossible.

Therefore, thinking you can make a fortune by reselling spiritual items is wishful thinking. Especially with magical artifacts and mineral materials, upgrading them requires a huge amount of resources, making it simply not worth the effort.

He could earn back the money by drawing a few talismans in that time, but Chen Xuanzhou did not underestimate this function. He estimated that the effect would be even better if a more advanced condensed bead appeared.

Moreover, this function is not about making money, but about realizing its value when crafting treasures for oneself. Just thinking about crafting one's natal magic weapon with top-grade spiritual materials makes one's blood boil.

Of course, all of this depends on his successful foundation building.