Incredible Sect Simulator
Chapter 35: Zhiwei Artifact Refining, Medicinal Garden Expansion

Chapter 35: Chapter 35: Zhiwei Artifact Refining, Medicinal Garden Expansion

Lu Zhiwei has gone into secluded cultivation for artifact refining.

In the following days, the artifact refining room occasionally emitted some noise, attracting Lu Yuanshan’s attention.

The noise wasn’t significant and was considered normal, as artifact refining tends to be like that.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Zhiwei wasn’t the only one in the artifact refining room during the process.

As a consciousness body, Lu Ping had visited the artifact refining room several times, observing Lu Zhiwei’s refining process.

Artifact refining is divided into four steps: sorting, smelting, shaping, and array inscription.

Sorting involves distinguishing and selecting quality refining materials, processing various refining materials, and preparing for the refining. After completing this step, one can start the refining process.

Smelting is the fusion and refining of various refining materials. For example, melting metal substances into flowing liquid or smelting liquid materials into solid ones. This step is crucial and requires meticulous attention.

Shaping, as the name suggests, involves molding flowing liquids and other substances into various weapon shapes like swords, shields, and spears.

The final step, array inscription, involves skills from an array master, requiring arrays to be inscribed on the shaped magical artifacts to enable magical power transformation, storage, exertion, and imbuing with divine thought for recognition.

An artifact refiner must also be well-versed in array knowledge because array inscription is a crucial part of refining.

Once the array inscription is completed, the spiritual artifact is successfully refined.

Spiritual artifacts can also be called magical artifacts; they mean the same thing.

From an outsider’s perspective, artifact refining is an extremely tedious task, consuming a lot of time.

The higher the tier of the magical artifact, the harder it is to refine, the more materials it requires, and the more stringent the conditions become. The legendary immortals, when refining artifacts, requires searching for various immortal gold and Dao stones, taking thousands of years.

Lu Ping has a basic understanding of artifact refining; his mastery is comparable to Lu Zhiwei’s, both being at the Tier One Top-Grade level, thus unable to teach Lu Zhiwei artifact refining.

Witnessing Lu Zhiwei’s refining process seemed smooth, so Lu Ping wasn’t worried.

Her artifact refining techniques seemed feasible, with no errors occurring.

The facilities in the artifact refining room were quite complete.

For instance, it housed a lot of completely charred, spirit power-infused wood.

This kind of wood isn’t ordinary; it comes from the Heaven-Facing Sect’s Fire Sun Wood in the Chu Kingdom, suitable for burning in artifact refining, and sufficient for refining Tier One Spiritual Artifacts.

The price of Fire Sun Wood is quite affordable; one spirit stone can buy a bundle, roughly a hundred pieces.

The Heaven-Facing Sect has an extensive Fire Sun Wood Forest, planting many Fire Sun Woods which they sell externally yearly, ideal for families or small sects without earth vein fire eyes or refining fire sources.

Fire Sun Wood burns hot enough to match the artifact refining true flame nurtured within a Tier One artifact refiner.

If one wishes to refine Tier Two Spiritual Artifacts, Fire Sun Wood doesn’t meet the burning standard, and higher-tier refining wood is required as a fire source.

This Fire Sun Wood was previously used by the Cyan Mountain Sect to train artifact refining apprentices.

Artifact refining apprentices, due to low mastery, cannot nurture artifact refining true flame within themselves, relying on external sources like Fire Sun Wood to create fire sources for learning refining.

Clearly, Lu Zhiwei doesn’t need the Fire Sun Wood.

These woods are kept for future training of artifact refining apprentices. Sect resources should be saved wherever possible.

Currently, Lu Ping mainly wants Lu Zhiwei to refine artifacts to get her back into the practice.

While the sect is nurturing She Qingqing as an alchemist, it is naturally resource-efficient to first cultivate Lu Zhiwei in artifact refining.

Lu Ping hopes that Lu Zhiwei can take one or two apprentices in the future to pass down the refining legacy.

For the next few days, the sect was calm.

The mantis locust incident in the spirit field made the sect pay extra attention to the spirit field.

While Li Ziqi and Zuo Luo were recovering, Lu Yuanshan dispatched three more disciples to assist in guarding the spirit field.

Simultaneously, the spirit field underwent a thorough combing and search to ensure no new pest threats emerged.

Overall, everything went smoothly.

Due to timely discovery, the mantis locusts didn’t cause significant damage to the spirit field.

Outside the spirit field, in the duck pen, the yellow-striped ducks restored their usual vigor, returning in flocks to the spirit field, fulfilling their mission.

Lu Yuanshan wasn’t idle either; he used the spirit medicine seeds Lu Changfeng brought back from Qinghe Market, including Clear Heart Grass and Purple Cloud Reishi, and started planting them in the medicinal garden.

With the spirit field stable, the sect’s next step is to expand the medicinal garden, planting more spirit medicine.

When Lu Yuanshan arrived at the medicinal garden, She Qingqing was sitting under a grass shed quietly reading the "Qingxi Records."

The past few days, taking care of the medicinal garden had been quite leisurely.

Managing the medicinal garden isn’t all that strenuous; as long as She Qingqing manages her time well, she has over half a day of free time every day.

In a month, tasks like pest removal, watering spirit medicine, and pruning don’t add up to more than ten busy days.

It’s only during the spirit medicine harvest that it gets slightly busier, but even then, She Qingqing isn’t alone.

Lu Yuanshan would send disciples to assist She Qingqing.

After all, the sect relies on this medicinal garden for profit, and the spirit medicine harvest can’t be delayed; the faster, the better.

And the spirit medicine grown by the sect isn’t abundant.

The three-acre medicine field only cultivates a few types of spirit medicine, all fast-growing Tier One Spirit Medicine like Clear Heart Grass, Orchid Vine, and Purple Cloud Reishi, basically harvesting once a year.

Other higher-tier or more expensive spirit medicine takes three to five years to mature.

With the sect’s current stagnant economy, waiting three to five years for the medicinal garden to yield isn’t feasible; an annual harvest aligns better with the sect’s development.

With Moon Grass and the Spiritual Peach Tree, the income from the medicinal garden in the coming years will significantly increase.

Just by caring for them well, the Spiritual Peach Tree alone can continuously bring significant spirit stone income to the sect.

The spiritual peaches can also serve as cultivation resources for supplying disciples in their cultivation.

It’s accurate to say that the most valuable and essential spirit plant in the medicinal garden now is the Spiritual Peach Tree.

Let’s not forget that the peach blossoms from the Spiritual Peach Tree can be refined into Peach Blossom Spirit Wine, which is also a source of income.

When Lu Yuanshan arrived, even though She Qingqing was deeply engrossed in her reading, she still heard the footsteps.

Putting down her book and looking up, she saw Lu Yuanshan.

"Sect Leader."

She quickly stood up and saluted.

"Hmm."

Lu Yuanshan nodded with a smile, glancing at the "Qingxi Records" on the table.

He had long heard that the sect intended to train a new alchemist. This matter was heard from Lu Zhiwei.

The night cultivating She Qingqing into alchemy, Lu Zhiwei met with Lu Yuanshan and informed him comprehensively about her father wanting to train She Qingqing as an alchemist.

As the Sect Master, Lu Yuanshan needed to be informed of such matters.

Lu Zhiwei informed Lu Yuanshan proactively, not instructed by Lu Ping to do so.