Longevity begins with alchemy

Chapter 27 "Aunt" comes to visit

Su Yi left behind Shao Juan and her son, and life returned to what it was before, calm and even a little dull.

Shao Juan took over the work that Lu Guangtian was doing at that time. The workload was not large or complicated. In her spare time, she guided her son in spiritual practice.

Su Yi and her mother and son lived in the same hospital, and they interacted with each other but not very much. Apart from necessary work such as alchemy, the rest of their main energy was still focused on practice.

Due to a crisis of trust in Song Qianqian, Su Yi did not immediately refine the new elixir based on the elixir provided by him because he needed to verify the elixir before doing so.

Su Yi naturally has a way to verify it, including how to obtain slightly more advanced techniques. He has already made plans.

Originally, he thought he would have to wait for a while, but unexpectedly, the arrival of a person one day brought all plans forward slightly.

On this day, Shao Juan knocked on Su Yi's door. Because Su Yi had made an explanation before, Shao Juan usually would not take the initiative to disturb Su Yi. Something must have happened this time.

After asking, Su Yi got the answer, saying, "A person claiming to be Su Yi's aunt came to him."

As soon as Su Yi recalled it, he remembered who it was. The original person's impression of this "aunt" was quite deep, even far beyond the memory of the original person's parents.

The original person was born in a place called "Golden Wind Valley", which is the seat of the cultivation family "Su Family".

Although he was originally from a mortal family, he was lucky enough to be diagnosed with "spiritual roots" when he was six years old.

The spiritual roots in this world are slightly different from the spiritual roots in Su Yi's previous life online article. The spiritual roots here are not classified into types, nor are they high or low. As long as they can open their spirits and receive energy, they are considered to have spiritual roots.

As for "opening the spirit", it seems to be a natural reaction, just like breathing. It will occur naturally at a certain stage. However, because it has been so long ago, the feeling of the first spiritual awakening in the original body's memory has been very vague.

Because the Su family in Jinfeng Valley has a rule, any underground child with a different surname who is found to have spiritual roots must change his surname to Su and live in the Su family's main hospital.

To put it bluntly, the Su family pays a sum of money to buy out the child without any resistance. The child will no longer have any relationship with the original family in the future.

Because of this regulation, the original body was fortunately and unfortunately taken to the main hospital of the Su family and renamed "Su Yi."

Little Su Yi lives with other children who were picked up. Due to their age, these children do not have complete ability to take care of themselves, so they need one person to be responsible for their daily life.

The person who is responsible for daily life is the "aunt".

In the main courtyard of the Su family, they start with literacy and martial arts training until they are around 12 years old.

When they reach the age of 12, they begin to receive knowledge about cultivation. This process is not only about cultivation, but also about learning some knowledge about cultivation techniques based on their interests. In general, it is the Su family's training for them.

Of course, training is also time-limited.

The Su family stipulates that anyone who fails to enter the middle stage of Qi training at the age of 20, which is the fourth level of Qi training, must make a choice.

The options are as follows: One is to work as a miner in the Yanjin Mine controlled by the Su family, also called the Shajin Mine. This is better than working as a mining slave for the Luoxia Sect (after all, the mines of the Luoxia Sect are all subcontracted layer by layer. )
Working as a miner pays a salary, but it is not much, and it does not help one's spiritual practice. Generally speaking, it is enough to make a living, but without development, the path to spiritual practice is considered dead.

Another option is to leave the Su family's territory and go out to make a living on your own. To put it bluntly, it is to become a casual cultivator.

If Su Yi encountered such a choice before traveling through time, he would definitely choose the latter option. After all, he would feel that there is nothing wrong with being a casual cultivator. Can a living person be starved to death?
But after staying here for this period of time, Su Yi honestly can understand why so many people would rather be miners than casual cultivators.

In a word, being a casual cultivator is not that easy!

After seeing too many casual cultivators struggling, Su Yi deeply understood that if he had not had the assistance of "Golden Finger", he would or would not be able to live as peacefully as he does now.

As for why the Su family would rather drive away the monks of different surnames they have trained for many years rather than allow them to engage in other jobs in the territory, ensuring family power is only one of them. More importantly, the Su family wants to maintain the density of monks in the territory. .

If you are not a monk in this world, it is difficult to understand the importance of spiritual veins to this world, or to monks in this world.

The Su family only occupies the smallest first-order spiritual vein, and the spiritual energy it can provide is very limited, which also inhibits the unlimited expansion of the number of monks.

In other words, aura does not dissipate naturally. What is the difference between absorbing one more person and absorbing one less person?
But in fact, the Su family has already carried out screening. Those who are 20 years old and have not entered the middle stage of Qi training are unqualified and have no value for further training. Therefore, even if these screened out people receive a small amount of spiritual energy, they are still members of the Su family. Don't want to see it.

As for retaining some miners, there is nothing we can do about it. After all, people from a large family still have to live. We can't let them, high-ranking cultivators, have to run for their lives themselves!
The funny thing is that the Su family now mainly trains miners and makes a living by mining, but their ancestors started their business by refining alchemy.

The ancestor of the Su family was an alchemist of the Luoxia Sect. Later, after accumulating enough merits, he exchanged it for a small spiritual vein and founded the family. However, now the Su family has completely lost its main business and has become a "mining enterprise." Boss".

Of course, this has something to do with the scarcity of elixirs today. After so many years of harvesting, elixir resources are no longer abundant. Without raw materials, it is naturally impossible to make elixirs.

Of course you can make a living by refining alchemy like Su Yi, and you can afford to raise a family, but if you want to raise a family and maintain your practice, that is absolutely impossible, unless you have a third-level spiritual vein or above and can do it in large quantities Planting elixirs, but this is a paradox. The Su family simply cannot occupy such spiritual veins...

After briefly recalling in his mind, Su Yi shifted his mind to reality.

"'Auntie' is here." He muttered softly, as if he was trying to understand the meaning behind it.

In fact, how could Su Yi not understand why the "aunt" who hadn't seen him for many years suddenly came to the door.

As the saying goes, "The poor live in the busy city and no one cares about them; the rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives!"

It must be that the Su family of Jinfeng Valley learned of his current situation through some unknown channel, so they sent "relatives" to the door, thinking of recovering some interest or at least giving him a break.

But Su Yi still had to meet this person, because he was also trying to gain some benefits from the other party, so the matter about "gongfa" and "danfang" fell on Su's family.

This was part of Su Yi's plan, and now he was going to discuss the deal with the representative sent by the other party.

Of course, Su Yi can't guarantee that the deal will be concluded now, but it depends on people, and he will work hard to fight for it.

(End of this chapter)