Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone
Chapter 47 Rejection (Extra)

Chapter 47: Chapter 47 Rejection (Extra)

The atmosphere at the banquet was somewhat heavy.

Fairy Qingxue was trying to poach talent, but she had reasonable grounds, making it hard for anyone to refuse.

Blocking someone’s path to a higher position like this didn’t seem appropriate either.

"Brother, do you think it’s good or bad for me to join the Dan Yang Sect?" Ye Feixue asked again.

"Whether you join or not doesn’t greatly affect our Lu Family."

Lu Xuanji considered his words and said, "With me supporting the Lu Family, it won’t collapse."

Ye Feixue nodded and said, "Brother, I understand."

She looked apologetically at Fairy Qingxue and said, "Aunt, I’m sorry. I won’t join the Dan Yang Sect; I will stay with the Lu Family."

"Do you know what you might miss by doing this? By joining the Dan Yang Sect, you have at least a fifty percent chance of becoming a Purple Mansion; but in the Lu Family, the probability of reaching the Purple Mansion is less than ten percent."

Fairy Qingxue spoke with some distress.

Ye Feixue nodded and said, "The best outcome of joining the Dan Yang Sect is becoming a Purple Mansion Cultivator, but so what? A Purple Mansion Cultivator is just middle-tier in the Dan Yang Sect, with veteran Purple Mansion elders above and some Golden Core Ancestors pressing down; but in the Lu Family, there are only five Foundation Establishment cultivators, making me already part of the higher echelon, holding significant power. After a few decades, when several elders pass away, I will be the Grand Elder, second to none. As they say, better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix."

Fairy Qingxue said, "The lifespan of a Foundation Establishment is only two hundred and forty years, while a Purple Mansion lives for four hundred and eighty years. Staying with the Lu Family means being the head of a chicken but losing the chance for further advancement."

Ye Feixue said calmly, "I was just a village girl back then, often eating wild veggies and cornbread, with a maximum lifespan of sixty years. But after joining the Lu Family, I eat Spirit Rice every day, extending my life to over two hundred years. Here, each day I live is a bonus."

"If Brother can step into the Purple Mansion, we could spend four hundred years together; if he fails and falls when trying, even if I become a Purple Mansion, what does it matter? Life would be meaningless without him, so better to accompany him in death, that way neither of us would feel lonely."

A touch of tenderness flashed in her eyes, full of deep affection.

In her eyes, there was only Lu Xuanji.

With him, there was the world.

Without him, what was the point of the world’s existence?

"You lack the heart of a strong person; your vision is too small. When you reach a hundred, you’ll realize that love is just the lament of mortals without better things to do. For cultivators like us, there are only Dao Companions, not spouses. The worldly love and pleasure in bed can’t hold a candle to the importance of longevity."

Fairy Qingxue smiled, disappointed in Ye Feixue, abandoning her recruitment efforts.

Because Ye Feixue lacked a strong heart.

On the path of cultivation, having a good Spirit Root Talent is important, but in later stages, a firm Dao Heart is particularly crucial.

Many with three or four Spirit Roots achieve the Purple Mansion, or even the Golden Core, due to their firm Dao Heart.

Yet some with Dual Spirit Root or Anomalous Spirit Root fall at the threshold of the Purple Mansion because their Mental Realm is not firm, lacking a strong heart.

Ye Feixue had excellent talent, being a Dual Spirit Root of fire and wood, but her obsession with being a chicken head rather than a phoenix tail, and in love, showed a lack of promise, limiting her future potential.

Once there was a cultivator with poor talent, only Four Spirit Roots, willing to become a Furnace for a female cultivator to achieve Foundation Establishment; using Evil Secret Techniques to turn himself into a living corpse for the Purple Mansion; and directly calling his enemy "dad" to achieve Golden Core.

Many cultivators despised him, considering him to lack dignity and to behave shamefully and without integrity.

But those who despised him have long turned to dust;

while that cultivator still lives freely.

...

After a brief conversation, Fairy Qingxue left.

The other guests also left one after another.

Soon, Changyuan Mountain became quiet.

In the study, the Grand Elder took out the account book, starting to explain the family assets.

"The Lu Family now has two hundred and thirty-five cultivators, with one hundred and fifty having Five Spirit Roots, eighty with Four Spirit Roots, and only five with Three Spirit Roots. Among Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators, there are one hundred and three in the early stage, ninety in the middle stage, and forty-two in the late stage."

"Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators, based on their cultivation strength, earn an annual salary of ten Spirit Stones, twenty Spirit Stones, or thirty Spirit Stones. The family dining hall, elixir subsidies, and so on, cost seven thousand Spirit Stones each year. For Foundation Establishment cultivators, their salary ranges from three hundred to seven hundred Spirit Stones, along with elixirs and Spirit Rice subsidies, costing four thousand Spirit Stones a year. Annually, the family expenses amount to eleven thousand Spirit Stones."

"The family owns a Red Iron Ore mine, which brings in an annual income of fifteen hundred Spirit Stones; it also has Spirit Fields, Spirit Medicine, Spirit Beasts, etc., amounting to around nine thousand Spirit Stones in total, plus various side businesses bringing in about three thousand Spirit Stones; resulting in an annual income of approximately thirteen thousand five hundred Spirit Stones."

"Currently, the family has a reserve of thirty thousand Spirit Stones, five thousand jins of Red Iron Ore, three thousand jins of Spirit Iron, approximately one million jins of White Sun Rice, and a hundred bottles of White Dan Yang..."

"Income minus expenses leaves a surplus of twenty-five hundred Spirit Stones per year."

When speaking of expenses, the Grand Elder said, "An annual surplus of twenty-five hundred Spirit Stones seems like a lot, but it’s actually very little. Buying a Second Grade Spiritual Artifact costs between one thousand to ten thousand Spirit Stones; purchasing a Foundation Establishment Pill outside costs fifteen thousand Spirit Stones, a Purple Sun Jade costs two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, a Purple Mansion Pill costs a bit less at one hundred fifty thousand Spirit Stones... If anything goes wrong, the expenses are even higher. This is the entirety of the Lu Family’s assets. When it’s time to spend money, it always feels insufficient."

He threw down the account book, looking very helpless.

"But the problem doesn’t stop there. The amount of Purple Sun Jade and Purple Mansion Pills sold by the Dan Yang Sect is limited, and often, even with money, it’s hard to buy them. However, when going elsewhere to purchase, money might be exposed, and before the items can be bought, one could be killed for the treasure."

"The Lu Family will get better."

Lu Xuanji comforted.

"Xiaoxue, you should join the Dan Yang Sect, where there are more resources. In the Lu Family, you are like a dragon trapped in shallow water." The Grand Elder sighed.

"Grand Elder, you have Three Spirit Roots, so why stay with the family? It seems like there would be more prospects at the Dan Yang Sect."

Ye Feixue countered.

The Grand Elder fell silent; if he had joined the Dan Yang Sect back then, he might already be half a step into the Purple Mansion, or even in the Purple Mansion Realm by now.

At that time, he might have become Dao Companions with Fairy Qingxue, loving each other and enjoying a beautiful life together.

Instead of how things were now with Fairy Qingxue being half a step to the Purple Mansion, likely to enter the realm soon, while he was only at the Eighth Layer of Foundation Establishment, still far from the Purple Mansion, their distance growing ever wider and their connection ever more impossible.

"I couldn’t leave my mother."

The Grand Elder said, seemingly recalling something, thinking of some happy memories, and could not help but smile, "My father had poor talent, only Five Spirit Roots. At sixty, he was only at the Third Layer of Qi Cultivation. Father thought his life would be like that and went to a county in the mortal world, marrying eighteen wives and concubines there, hoping to birth outstanding children who could glorify the family. Most of Father’s children had no Spirit Roots or poor Spirit Roots. Only me, at the age of six, was detected to have Three Spirit Roots."

"At that time, Father was so excited that he got drunk."

"At thirteen, I faced two choices: join the Dan Yang Sect or stay home. In the end, I stayed home because I couldn’t leave my father and mother."

Ye Feixue asked, "Do you regret it?"

"Regret, of course, I regret it. If I had joined the Dan Yang Sect back then, I might now be a Purple Mansion Cultivator and possibly married to Fairy Qingxue." The Grand Elder laughed, laughed with great ease, "Regret it I do, but if given another choice, I’d still make the same decision."

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