Demonic Demoness Training Project

"Master Lu, I am getting old and really don't want to continue working here. I want to go home and visit my family. I hope Master Lu will grant me permission."

As he spoke, the old man covered his face and wept, tears streaming down his face, as if he had suffered some great injustice.

Chapter 210 Lu Li is truly a kind and compassionate saint to her subordinates!

Lu Li was surprised and took out a jade slip from the table. The jade slip was handed over by a disciple the day before yesterday. It recorded various matters of Wuliang Hall, including information and positions of each steward.

Long before Lu Li took office after the fall of the previous hall master, most of the people in Wuliang Hall had already fled, leaving only about ten people. This steward surnamed Xu was one of them, and he was mainly responsible for the refining of Guixu uranium.

Unlike Lu Li, the source of the Guixu uranium produced by Baiyue Palace is not mutated monsters, but a Guixu uranium ore vein under its command.

By refining the raw uranium ore, uranium can eventually be obtained. The process is extremely complicated and the yield is ridiculously low, but the advantage is that it is quite stable.

Mutant demonic beasts are rare. Apart from the Azure Nether Fox that Lu Li had accidentally obtained from the Mo family's treasury, all the uranium pills in Lu Li's possession came from mutated demonic beasts in the Boundless Realm.

Looking at the old man's pitiful appearance and the terrible state of his body, Lu Li immediately understood the reason.

This was produced by uranium refining.

During the process of refining uranium pills, the White Moon Palace has special protective armor. This armor is very expensive, far superior in quality to the armor worn by the disciples. Moreover, the refiners are all at the Open Source Realm, and the refiners can only truly come into contact with the Immeasurable Tribulation.

Unfortunately, these refiners, having been in contact with the raw ore for many years, inevitably become tainted by countless calamities. Over time, they suffer from various illnesses, with baldness being the least of their problems. Organ failure and damage to their artifacts are common occurrences.

Generally, only deacons who have made mistakes or offended a certain elder will be exiled to Wuliang Hall to take on this arduous task.

Lu Li glanced at Deacon Xu's personal information, and his eyebrows immediately rose when he saw the age and length of service section.

This man is only fifty years old this year. For cultivators in the Open Source Realm, fifty years old is still youth. He is a rare poor man who has risen through the ranks on his own. Since he advanced to the Open Source Realm, he has been assigned to mine refining. He has been refining for ten years and has become this old and decrepit.

This person applied for a different position more than ten times, but was rejected by the previous leader every time.

Seeing this, Lu Li sighed. Not only were the disciples divided into Hongjun and Qingzhou, but there were also differences between stewards. Even though they were all in the Open Source Realm, some Open Source Realm cultivators were more noble than others.

Why is there such a huge difference between people in this world?

Seeing that Lu Li did not answer, the man knelt down with a thud.

“I really can’t take it anymore, Your Majesty. If I continue to refine it, I won’t live for many more years. If Hall Master Lu can approve it, I will definitely visit you again another day to express my gratitude and present you with three more [Hundred-Year Jade Pears - 100].

Out of the corner of her eye, Lu Li suddenly noticed that the jade pear the old man was giving her this time was different from the one she had received a while ago.

This century-old jade pear is even more rounded and plump, and its skin is even more lustrous.

He usually eats the [Hundred-Year Jade Pear - Thirty], but this one is the [Hundred-Year Jade Pear - One Hundred]. Both are premium fairy fruit series launched by Hecheng Chamber of Commerce, and both are Hundred-Year Jade Pears. The former is worth thirty spirit stones, while the latter is worth one hundred spirit stones.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. The latter, once consumed, not only accelerates the circulation of spiritual energy, aiding in cultivation, but also has a certain life-extending effect.

Realizing this, Lu Li couldn't help but sigh inwardly, but she wasn't the kind of person who would lose her mind at the sight of pears.

Lu Li carefully considered the pros and cons. Refining Guixu uranium would be a difficult task for ordinary people, but for her Guixu Dao Body, it was an extremely lucrative task.

She was so eager to take on such a lucrative position that she wouldn't even give it to someone else. If the other party hadn't come today, she would have almost missed this opportunity.

While Lu Li was pondering, Steward Xu thought Lu Li was in a dilemma, so he rushed to the steps inside the cave entrance and made a gesture as if to kowtow.

"If the hall master doesn't agree, I'd rather smash my head against these steps and die!"

"Fine, I've approved it, but my word doesn't count. I'm just a mere hall master. Where you're transferred in the future depends on the sect's decision."

Deacon Xu suddenly raised his head, his eyes wide open.

"As long as you approve it, Master, there won't be any problems, but..."

"Just what?"

Deacon Xu looked hesitant, seemingly considering whether or not to speak. Seeing the other party's dawdling, Lu Li put on what he considered to be the fiercest expression of his life and urged him sternly.

"Speak quickly!"

The other person looked helpless, slapped himself, seemingly blaming himself for being so talkative, and said with a forced smile:

"After I leave, Hall Master, have you thought about who you would like to take over this matter? The sect will send a batch of raw ore every month, and there are strict requirements on the yield."

"I thought it was something else, but it's just this. You don't need to worry about this. Come on, take me to see what's going on."

"Yes."

Led by the other party, Lu Li arrived at the Wuliang Hall's ore refining room.

It was still daytime, and the ore refining room was empty. The mechanical devices inside were not in operation. There were several large vats at the entrance, filled with pitch-black substances.

Lu Li's spiritual core trembled slightly as he sensed an intense, boundless calamity emanating from these dark objects.

"Are you alone most of the time?"

"They've all left, I'm the only one left."

Lu Li nodded and reached out his hand towards the dark object.

"Be careful! Raw ore must not be touched directly. I have prepared protective armor for you. You only need to..."

"Well……"

Lu Li nodded slightly, withdrew his hand, and looked as if he was still shaken.

He had an extreme affinity for the Boundless Calamity, so he subconsciously wanted to touch it. He almost forgot that it was better not to expose the Guixu Dao Body.

So, Lu Li put on his special protective armor, picked up a handful, and found that the substance was not only sticky but also had a slightly grainy texture, somewhat like sesame paste.

The term "raw ore" doesn't necessarily mean that only solid ore can be called raw ore; viscous ore can also be raw ore.

"How much uranium can be refined from this vat of raw ore?"

Deacon Xu extended his index finger, making the number one.

"A pound? Or an ounce?"

"Oh dear, there aren't that many. At most, it's less than a penny."

"That's indeed not high."

One uranium pill is about one ounce, which means it takes more than a dozen vats of uranium ore to refine one uranium pill.

Lu Li then turned his gaze to the mechanical artifacts in front of him. These artifacts were covered in rust and were obviously old antiques that had been neglected for many years. He activated the spirit map instrument to scan them, and dozens or even hundreds of flaws and defects immediately came to his attention.

For the next half hour, Deacon Xu explained the entire process of refining raw ore to Lu Li. After listening, Lu Li ordered him to leave. Before leaving, the man couldn't help but sigh, "Lu Li is truly a kind saintess who cares about her subordinates," and then fell into deep thought.

The environment he experienced over countless eons was conducive to his spiritual practice, but he was not satisfied with it.

To refine a Five-Turn Blessing Return to the Void Seal, at least five uranium pills are required, and the more uranium pills used, the greater the power.

Thus, a bold idea arose in Lu Li's mind.

"If I can increase the production of uranium from the Void to exceed the original rate, then by handing over a portion and keeping the rest for myself, wouldn't I be able to quickly collect uranium from the Void with the help of the sect?"

"Fine, fine, people just praised you for being considerate of your subordinates, and you're already thinking about how to take advantage of them, huh!"

Chapter 211 This is a world where everyone is worse.

"How can this be called taking advantage of others? Cultivation matters... how can this be called taking advantage of others? This is called optimizing the ore refining process. What's wrong with me taking a little bit out of it?"

"Alright, alright, it's good that you can convince yourself," Duan Xuanyuan said with a hint of mockery, "but have you figured out how to refine it?"

Lu Li glanced around at the mechanical artifacts used in the ore refining room, thought for a moment, and then replied:

"This process looks complicated, but it can actually be roughly summarized into six steps: leaching, filter residue, preliminary separation, precipitation and calcination, concentration and secondary separation."

“These six steps used a total of thirteen kinds of puppets. I can try to replace the two separation processes with the Qi-Mixing Cauldron. After all, my Qi-Mixing Cauldron is now at the third level.”

"Not bad, not bad, worthy of being my disciple."

"What are you so proud of? When have you ever given me any guidance on the Guixu Seal?"

Upon hearing this, Old Duan coughed lightly, his voice sounding slightly embarrassed.

"Well, well, the way I taught and influenced you was a gradual process. Inferior teachers only give people fish, while I teach them how to fish."

"..."

Lu Li rolled his eyes. The old man was shamelessly patting himself on the back without even blushing. He was already used to it.

"Secondly, you've overlooked one point: these mechanical implements are old and dilapidated. As the saying goes, 'A skilled craftsman must first sharpen his tools,' you'll need to repair them, which will also increase productivity. Sigh..."

"You don't need to tell me that, I... I already thought of that..."

"Hehehe, without my reminder, you might have forgotten."

"How could that be? I just checked the problems with these mechanical artifacts using the Spirit Chart Instrument... Speaking of this matter, that deacon surnamed Xu mentioned it a few times earlier, but it's been dragging on and no one has come to fix it."

Of the thirteen mechanical artifacts used to refine the Guixu uranium, nine are at the third level and four are at the second level. As long as the method is mastered, even cultivators at the Open Source Realm can easily use the third-level mechanical artifacts. However, if one wants to repair such mechanical artifacts, one must have some mastery of the mechanical arts.

As it happens, Lu Li has this skill.

With the help of Ling Tu Yi and Duan Xuan Yuan, she spent three days repairing these mechanical artifacts.

Although Lu Li didn't say it, the old man had actually played a role since Elder Duan made a vow with her.

Normally, for someone in his position, such trivial matters should be assigned to subordinates, but Lu Li not only did it herself, but she also provided the spiritual materials used for the repairs herself, which shows how diligent she was.

Looking at the newly renovated artifact, Lu Li put her hands on her hips, her nostrils flaring slightly. She became increasingly justified in her actions regarding the withholding of Guixu uranium!

During the restoration process, Lu Li figured out the operating mechanism of each artifact, which greatly benefited her subsequent refining work.

Then, Lu Li began his first attempt at ore refining.

When it came time for the separation step, she collected the dried slag, then activated the Qi-Gathering Cauldron, spewing out a burst of Qi and tossing it into the air.

Lu Li had done similar work before, and now that he was back in the business, he was quite adept at it.

That year, he was just an ordinary person.

That year, the katana was only at the first revolution stage, and it only refined a few miscellaneous ores from the first or second revolution stage.

Back then, he was just a hot-blooded young man, and his kidneys were only worth three spirit stones...

Suddenly, Lu Li felt a tremor in his lower abdomen, and a slight feeling of heaviness pulled him back to reality. Lu Li lifted the hem of his shirt and looked at his smooth, flat stomach.

Oh, so it was his spiritual pivot that reacted.

"Is this sensing the uranium of the Void? Yes, this Spirit Pivot was originally made from uranium of the Void, and the path I chose is also related to this."

Apart from the Spirit Core, all other Spirit Cores store spiritual power of the corresponding attribute, and the Spirit Pivot is no exception.

Lu Li's spiritual core initially fused three attributes, thus giving rise to three types of spiritual power: ice spiritual power, yin spiritual power, and... a special kind of spiritual power.

The first two are more common, but the third one has never been recorded in the literature. No one has ever successfully integrated Guixu uranium into Lingshu before, and Lu Li calls it Guixu spiritual power.

At this moment, Lu Li mobilized the Guixu spiritual power to operate the Heqi Cauldron, and the Gang Qi suddenly turned dark purple, spontaneously separating the Guixu uranium from the mixed ore.

"It can actually be used like this..."

Lu Li was overjoyed.

After much effort, Lu Li finally separated two qian and one fen of Guixu uranium, more than doubling the yield, and a standard-sized uranium pellet weighed about one liang.

Even without the aid of the Guixu spiritual power, Lu Li was confident that he could surpass the original puppet in terms of production rate.

The Qi-Mixing Cauldron is equipped with a Type 9 Taixu version of the Golden Spirit Core, while the smelting chamber, which is used for separation, is equipped with a Type 2 Golden Spirit Core.

Furthermore, when Lu Li disassembled and repaired it earlier, he noticed the production date on it. This Type 3 to Type 2 Golden Spirit Core was actually an antique from a hundred years ago, and the difference was self-evident.

"Sigh, it's clearly for refining fourth-grade spiritual materials, why doesn't the sect invest more spirit stones to upgrade the spiritual core configuration? Thirty or fifty thousand spirit stones is indeed not cheap, but it shouldn't be much for such a large sect."

Duan Xuanyuan had previously served as an elder in the Qingyang Palace, so she was naturally more familiar with the intricacies of the sect than Lu Li. Hearing Lu Li's words, she couldn't help but laugh.

"Hehehe, it's not that there was no investment."

"Hmm? What do you mean?"

"Yes, it was invested, but it wasn't used in the right place."

Duan Xuanyuan stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, as if to say, "You'll figure out the rest yourself." Lu Li pondered for a moment and immediately understood the reason behind it.

The funds were allocated to Wuliang Hall, but the former hall master was too lazy to even repair the puppets, so how could he possibly allocate funds to update the spirit cores? If he didn't secretly replace them with second-tier spirit cores and instead pry out the third-tier spirit cores to sell, then he would have done justice to the sect's cultivation.

At this moment, Duan Xuanyuan's meaningful words echoed in Lu Li's mind.

"This is a world where everyone is worse than the last. You're still too young, my disciple. I'll teach you slowly, so just keep learning."

Lu Li's lips twitched, and he couldn't speak for a long time. Just then, his stomach growled again.

goo~

It was the Ling Shu calling, and an indescribable feeling of hunger instantly overwhelmed me.