BXBX NOVEL Chapter 356: 348: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Chapter 356: 348: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Having just failed her Foundation Establishment breakthrough, Su Qian naturally became He Song’s first choice for receiving information.
Su Qian is still at the Flying Cloud Immortal Mansion, serving as a steward.
Flying Cloud Immortal Mansion is located within the sphere of influence of the Eight-vein Immortal City.
Eight-vein Immortal City, in turn, is under the jurisdiction of the Cloud State Mansion.
Above the Cloud State Mansion is the Nascent Soul Upper Sect, the Sun Faction.
In other words, even though Su Qian has now failed her Foundation Establishment and has only a maximum of sixty years left to live, her position is still quite important to He Song.
Flying Cloud Immortal Mansion is in the midst of the Sun Faction, not far from the Righteous Alliance.
With this range, Su Qian, as the steward of the Flying Cloud Immortal Mansion, naturally has access to a lot of information.
Moreover, most of it should be related to the Righteous Alliance.
In this way.
He Song, who is still in the Thick Earth Sect, now has access to information from Master Qingy Yue as well as Su Qian.
In case there are any changes in the situation in the future, He Song will be able to know in advance and respond accordingly.
Only in this way can the safety of his own life be guaranteed.
Otherwise.
Even if He Song keeps hiding inside the Golden Elixir Array, he might still be at risk of being discovered and besieged.
Although the Golden Elixir Array is powerful, it can’t withstand a fight with a Golden Elixir Master or an attack from an Ancestor Yuanying.
That’s why He Song chose to write back to comfort Su Qian and then ask her to start passing messages to him.
With these sources of information, He Song naturally doesn’t need to worry too much and can focus on his seclusive cultivation, breaking through to the Golden Elixir Realm as soon as possible.
After replying to Su Qian.
He Song quickly sat down cross-legged and began to cultivate.
As strands of spirit Qi flowed into He Song’s body from all directions, his mana began to grow slowly.
As time passed bit by bit.
The news from the outside world continued to reach He Song.
The war between the Righteous Alliance and the Demonic Alliance was still going on.
However, based on the information from Su Qian and what Master Qingy Yue told He Song, they came to a somewhat strange conclusion.
The war between the Righteous Alliance and the Demonic Alliance seemed to be gradually dying down.
Both sides have stopped dispatching Foundation Establishment Masters to the frontline, and even the intensity of the battles between the two sides had significantly decreased.
Of course, the reckless men of the Golden Sword Sect were still doing things their own way, relentlessly striking at the Seven Star Sect wherever possible.
That Foundation Establishment Great Perfection who lost his disciple was always in the forefront of every battle.
Fortunately, the strength of the Golden Sword Sect is formidable, which has allowed him to survive this far.
If their strength was even a little weaker, they probably would have died hundreds of times already.
Apart from the Golden Sword Sect, the desire to attack among the other Golden Core Sects in both the Righteous Alliance and the Demonic Alliance had diminished a lot.
Now, although there were occasional skirmishes between the two sides, the overall situation was quite stable.
There were no major battles anymore.
The Golden Elixir Masters of both sides did not make a move.
The situation between the two sides had become somewhat delicate.
After arriving at this conclusion, He Song was unsure whether to be happy or worried.
The stalemate in the war meant that the surrounding environment was becoming safer.
But as He Song is now within the Golden Elixir Array, he would basically be in no danger unless he had terrible luck.
In this situation.
If the external environment is becoming safer, his current Golden Elixir Cave Mansion would almost become a decoration.
Because even without this Golden Elixir Array, He Song would not face too much danger.
However, maintaining the Golden Elixir Array would cause a large amount of spirit stones on He Song to be consumed.
Maintaining an elixir array.
It would cost tens of thousands of spirit stones each year.
Converted into middle-grade spirit stones, it would need several hundred.
In the years when He Song was in seclusive cultivation in the elixir array, the spirit stones spent on keeping it running probably totaled hundreds of thousands.
In addition, a large number of cultivation resources were being consumed by He Song, turning into his own cultivation strength.
Under these circumstances, even though He Song still has more than 20,000 middle-grade spirit stones, totaling almost the equivalent of more than two million lower-grade spirit stones, he feels his wealth shrinking rapidly.
When the spirit stones on his person began to decrease rapidly, He Song realized.
The Golden Elixir Array is powerful, but it requires an extremely terrifying amount of resources to operate.
Without defending against enemies, a Golden Elixir Array would cost tens of thousands of lower-grade spirit stones in a year.
What about when defending against enemies?
The consumption rate of the spirit stones would probably be many times more terrifying, right?
He could end up going bankrupt if the array doesn’t grind down his enemies.
He Song didn’t want to experience the days without a single spirit stone left on him.
Therefore.
Upon learning that the situation around him was gradually becoming stable and the surroundings were becoming safer, He Song’s first thought was whether or not to shut down the Golden Elixir Array.
A yearly consumption of tens of thousands of spirit stones is something he couldn’t afford with his current wealth of over two million spirit stones.
After all, He Song is now working towards achieving Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.
The amount of resources he needs to consume in his cultivation is extremely terrifying.
Adding the consumption of the Array Skills, it might cost about 100,000 spirit stones a year.
Given his current wealth of two million spirit stones, these spirit stones would probably only last him for over twenty years.
Twenty years.
He Song is not sure he can step into the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection within twenty years.
Not to mention that after reaching Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, he still needs to tread the Golden Core Path and break through to the Golden Elixir Realm.
But after careful consideration, He Song eventually gave up on the idea.
The Golden Elixir Array cannot be dismantled!
Once the Golden Elixir Array is removed, the concentration of spirit Qi within the Array will also decrease.
Even if the small Spirit-Gathering Array was subsequently laid out, could it be compared to the effect of the Golden Elixir Array?
By then, the speed of his cultivation would slow down.
Meanwhile, under the premise of losing the nourishment of the rich spirit Qi, the spirit medicine in the Medicine Garden that needed a high concentration of spirit Qi might not be able to grow.
Most importantly.
The Golden Spirit Fruit Tree planted deep within his cave mansion might also stop ripening the unripe Golden Spirit Fruit due to the decrease in spirit Qi concentration.
If such a situation occurs, it would be like picking up sesame seeds but losing a watermelon, a terrible loss.
He Song hasn’t forgotten that he still needs that unripe Golden Spirit Fruit to refine the second batch of Golden Congealing Elixir Pills.
With more Golden Congealing Elixir Pills, his breakthrough to the Golden Elixir Realm would be even more secure.