Chapter 55 The Alchemy Hall
Therefore, while it may seem that anyone has the opportunity to acquire Heaven-rank cultivation techniques and combat skills, this is not actually the case. The requirements for acquiring Heaven-rank cultivation techniques and combat skills have long been secretly stipulated, but people are either unaware of them or unwilling to acknowledge them.
Of course, no matter what, as long as they work hard to acquire contribution points, the Xiao Clan will always be the biggest beneficiary! Xiao Feng doesn't act too absolutely. For some ordinary clansmen with low strength, one hundred contribution points are still very easy to obtain. In other words, no matter what, they will at least have Yellow-rank cultivation techniques and fighting skills, which is a minimum guarantee. As for higher levels, they will need to work hard to achieve them.
The library is not only in the inner layer, but also in the outer layer, and it is exactly the same as the one in the inner layer. The only difference is that the fifth floor of the outer library is empty.
The reason for this is that neither Xiao Hu nor Xiao Feng believed that these outer clansmen could obtain a huge amount of contribution points to learn Heavenly Rank techniques and fighting skills. Furthermore, Heavenly Rank techniques and fighting skills are extremely precious, and keeping them separate always carries some risk.
There are many powerful individuals in the inner layer, and it is not something that ordinary people can do to enter the inner layer and make a move. Therefore, only a few low-level Heaven-rank cultivation techniques and fighting skills are in the inner library. The rest are in Xiao Feng's storage ring, which he carries with him at all times.
Even if someone in the outer layer does manage to obtain a huge amount of contribution points, it doesn't matter. At worst, we can bring them into the inner layer first, let them learn slowly, and then let them return to the outer layer after the ten-day period.
Besides the library, there is another building in the Xiao Clan's small world that is essentially the same – the alchemy hall. When selecting clan members, Xiao Feng took alchemists into consideration, so he not only took several alchemists with him, but also selected some clan members with talent in alchemy.
The Alchemy Hall was built for them. These alchemists could live here and refine pills for the Xiao Clan to earn contribution points. The Alchemy Hall also sold pills, but they also required contribution points to purchase.
In addition, members of the Xiao clan can also bring their medicinal herbs to the alchemists in the alchemy hall to have them concoct pills. The contribution points required for concoction depend on the difficulty and grade of the pill. Although this requires bringing your own herbs and spending contribution points, it is far cheaper than simply buying them with contribution points.
The establishment of the alchemy hall can be considered as Xiao Feng's way of giving back to the Xiao clan. You should know that in the Dou Qi Continent, the status of alchemists is the highest among cultivators of the same realm. Even if ordinary cultivators have medicinal materials and pill formulas, it is extremely difficult to ask an alchemist to refine pills. How can it be as simple as it is for these members of the Xiao clan now?
The wealth required to purchase these pills is staggering. For members of the Xiao clan, the ability to acquire contribution points simply by contributing to the clan is beyond their wildest imagination!
When Xiao Feng took away the alchemists, there were several seventh-grade alchemists, and dozens of sixth-grade and fifth-grade alchemists. This number might be an extremely terrifying number in some forces, but it was nothing to the Xiao Clan, which was the leader of the eight ancient races. After all, the Xiao Clan had several ninth-grade alchemists, so what were a mere seventh-grade alchemists?
As for alchemists of higher rank, Xiao Feng had considered it, but such beings would attract too much attention. Each of them was well-known to others, and taking them away would inevitably leave some traces.
He secretly coveted alchemy; who wouldn't dream of being a peerless genius excelling in both alchemy and martial arts? Not only would one possess unparalleled strength, but one's alchemy skills would also be unmatched—what a glorious thing that would be! However, the battle qi within him was purely fire-attribute, lacking the wood-infused fire attribute of an alchemist, thus making it impossible for him to become an alchemist.
When he first received this information, he was still unwilling to give up and repeatedly sought advice from the ninth-grade alchemist in his clan. However, the answer he received was still the same, and he had no choice but to accept this cruel reality.
However, this sense of helplessness quickly dissipated. Upon careful consideration, he realized that his main purpose should be cultivation and improving his strength, not refining pills. After all, pills were not scarce for him, and he didn't need to obtain them through his own refining methods. Moreover, if he were to truly become a pill refiner, he would have to be distracted by pill refining, preventing him from focusing wholeheartedly on improving his strength, which wouldn't be a good thing.
Then he thought again, unlike some members of small families who lacked elixirs and whose only option was to obtain one this way. He was the patriarch of the Xiao clan, after all. While the Xiao clan under his leadership wasn't as powerful as the eight ancient races, it wasn't far behind the Shi and Ling clans, which were at the bottom of the eight. He had several seventh-grade alchemists under his command; he could simply ask for any elixir he needed. Wasn't this situation even more advantageous?
At this point, some might ask, "Now that Xiao Feng has broken through to the peak of the five-star Dou Sheng realm, which is not much different from the Shi Clan and the Ling Clan, why doesn't he reappear and recreate the glory of the Xiao Clan?"
In fact, this question had been asked of Xiao Feng by more than one person, and his answer was always firm. In his view, the Xiao clan now possessed strength comparable to the Stone Clan and the Spirit Clan, and might even be able to become one of the eight ancient races upon their rebirth. But what good would that do? It would just be an empty title. What significant benefits would becoming one of the eight ancient races bring to the current Xiao clan?
Not only would it not work, it might even plunge the Xiao Clan back into a predicament where they are caught in a dilemma. In his view, although the Stone Clan and the Spirit Clan are known as one of the eight ancient races, in reality, neither the Ancient Clan nor the Thunder Clan, Flame Clan, etc., look down on the two races, and they don't even acknowledge their status as one of the eight ancient races from the bottom of their hearts.
Those of the lowest strength, like them, would be the first to be targeted if anything happened. Just like the Void Devouring Flame in the original story, weren't they the ones who directly attacked the two races? Moreover, the current situation of the Xiao Clan is even more dire than that of the two races.
Even if they were to reappear and become one of the eight ancient races, so what? If their strength is not enough, they would still be the first to be attacked.
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