The morning light is dim and the red sun is rising.

The rich spiritual energy condenses into a spiritual mist that is rare in the world and travels among the mountains and rivers. At this moment, both flowers, plants, trees, and birds and animals benefit a lot.

Jiang Mu sat cross-legged on the flying boat, running his skills and absorbing and breathing spiritual energy. Since the speed of converting magical energy increased by 50%, his daily practice exercises attracted a large amount of spiritual mist, covering his whole body and covering several square meters.

Hundreds of feet long, when viewed from a distance, it looks like a blue dragon drawing water, which is a spectacular sight.

After a long time, Jiang Mu waved away the spiritual mist, revealing his figure. At this moment, he could no longer conceal his demeanor, and his every move had a faint Taoist charm.

Only in his eyes was a look of helplessness.

"I have been cultivating until now in the middle of the night. It lasted only three hours, but I should have practiced hard for the past three days. It's a pity that I only have ten years, fate has its way with people."

After saying that, Jiang Mu rose against the wind and arrived at Qingxi Villa in the blink of an eye. At this time, the disciples also completed their morning practice. Cheng Banjin and the other two registered disciples on duty had prepared spiritual tea and

breakfast.

Jiang Mu also needs to eat. Although ordinary people think that immortal cultivators can escape grain by eating wind and drinking dew, in fact this is a myth.

Immortal cultivators internally cultivate their magic power, nourish their souls, strengthen their meridians, and externally repair their muscles, bones, lungs, blood, and marrow. Because their bodies are exceptionally strong, they also need to supplement various foods and elixirs that contain spiritual energy.

Only in this way can you prolong your life and maintain the vitality of your physical body.

This is also the reason why every mountain gate of the Immortal Cultivation Sect has a large number of spiritual grass and spiritual rice fields, which cultivate a large number of rare birds, exotic animals and spiritual fish.

The cost of cultivating a foundation-building immortal cultivator is enough for hundreds of mortals to spend a lifetime.

But when the spiritual energy tide erupts and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth disappears, it really cuts off the root of the immortal cultivator's defiance of heaven.

To give a simple example, a person in the golden elixir realm can live for five hundred years if his spiritual energy is abundant and there are no external or internal injuries. However, after the spiritual energy dissipates and there is no spiritual energy replenishment for a long time, he can live for at most more than a hundred years.

A person in the Nascent Soul realm can normally live for a thousand years, but after the spiritual energy dissipates, if there is no spiritual energy replenishment, he can live for more than two hundred years at most.

A person in the realm of transformation into gods can normally live for three thousand years, but after the spiritual energy dissipates, if there is no spiritual energy to replenish it, he can live for more than three hundred years at most, and he can hold up to the sky for more than five hundred years.

As for the legendary Void Refining Realm, Jiang Mu has never seen it before and doesn't know much about it.

But the above is still absolutely not allowed to take action and cannot consume mana, otherwise it will be even less.

In short, cultivating immortality is already a dead end.

After breakfast, Jiang Mu explained some key points of cultivation to a group of registered disciples, and then took them to the back mountain to smelt black iron. This was also a routine task. By smelting black iron, the disciples could better master it.

Manipulate mana.

Whenever this happens, Jiang Mu will do it himself, and today is no exception.

Smelting black iron consumes a lot of mana. The young disciples who have just started here this year are just here to feel the atmosphere of collective labor. Then, under the leadership of Cheng Banjin, they can catch butterflies all over the mountains and fields, roll somersaults in the soft grass, or climb trees.

Touch birds and go fishing in the river.

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Within two or three years, this will be their happiest time.

And thinking back then, Jiang Mu also came here like this.

As for the registered disciples who have been in the sect for ten years, as well as the direct disciples, they go to work one by one.

There are no standards, it will end when the mana is exhausted, no matter how much black iron is smelted.

Therefore, in just one hour, most of the registered disciples finished the smelting, and only the disciples who had reached the foundation-building stage could still persist.

After two hours, Jiang Mu was the only one who could persevere. In his previous life, as long as he had nothing else to do, he could smelt ten pieces of middle-grade black iron every day, and one piece of high-grade black iron in almost three days.

Among them, the low-grade and medium-grade black iron are sold, while the high-grade black iron is for personal use.

Today, Jiang Mu didn't put much effort into it, he just felt that his magic control was more proficient than in his previous life. In three hours, he didn't smelt a piece of low-grade black iron, but instead smelted a piece of high-grade black iron.

"this……"

Jiang Mu felt that he still had 30% of his mana left, and was quite surprised.

After thinking for a long time, he felt that it should have a lot to do with his current character. Although he had some experience in the mountains in his previous life, before encountering the catastrophe, he really seemed to have become an immortal and a fool.

And after going through a lot of hardships and starting over again, if he still can't do twice the result with half the effort, then he is really hopeless.

"If that's the case..."

Looking at the piece of black iron in his hand, which was even slightly superior to the high-grade black iron in terms of quality, Jiang Mu sighed in his heart. With this kind of quality, one piece could be sold for hundreds of spiritual stones when auctioned in the market, while the low-grade black iron, normal The selling price is only three to five spiritual stones.

"But this matter needs to be kept secret from Senior Brother."

Putting this piece of black iron into the reserve jade talisman, Jiang Mu stepped out of the smelting hall. Many disciples outside had already left on their own. This was a rare free time in the day. Qi-training realm disciples could meditate to restore their mana, and foundation-building realm disciples You can make yourself some magic tools, magic talismans, or do nothing at all, it’s up to you.

After dinner, there will be evening classes. After the evening classes, everyone, except those who are on duty, can go to rest. The cycle starts over and over again. It's that simple.

According to Jiang Mu's past habits, he spent three days refining black iron, two days mining jade, and three days going down the mountain for short training. He would basically lead the whole process.

Therefore, the relationship between him and his disciples is very good.

But now, he has established the Dharma Protector Hall, Deacon Hall, and Training Hall, but he doesn't have to do everything himself.

So--

Jiang Mu turned his head and glanced at a grass reed a few miles to the south, which was the training ground of senior brother Yao Cheng.

After thinking for a moment, he turned around and entered the smelting hall again. In the past few months, he could not carry out any important plans, but this could not affect the eldest brother's determination to attack the Nascent Soul Realm.

Therefore, after handing over the affairs of the sect, he should seize the time to smelt more black iron. This kind of material is extremely important even in the Age of Ending Dharma.

In the smelting hall, Jiang Mu sat down cross-legged, pinching magic formulas with his hands, running his mind, and attracting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to restore his magic power. In a moment, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in his meridians was like a dragon galloping, pouring into the golden elixir. In the blink of an eye, it turned into pure mana. In just one stick of incense, all the mana that had been lost was restored.

This speed is at least twice as fast as in the previous life.

Standing up, he looked at the teleportation circle in the smelting hall. Below the smelting hall was the black iron vein, but the cultivators did not need to enter the veins to mine the ore, nor did they need mortal coolies, nor did they need to be secretly imprisoned or captured. Other cultivators came to work as mine slaves because they were too backward.

What they use are mechanical mountain-opening beasts, which are activated by spiritual stones. A mechanical mountain-opening beast can mine day and night, and can mine tens of thousands of kilograms of ore every day. A piece of spiritual stone can be used for a month, and it can be replenished once.

Ignore it for a few years.

The mined ore can be transported from the mines hundreds of miles underground through the short-distance teleportation array back to the Qiankun Furnace in the smelting hall.

The Qiankun Furnace operates automatically and can perform preliminary quenching and decomposition of the ore. The residue will be sent back underground to fill the abandoned mines. The essence will be condensed into a black iron ingot. This ingot will then be led by Jiang Mu and his disciples, using magic power.

Tempering until it forms low-grade, medium-grade, and even high-grade black iron.

This process has been going on for more than three thousand years. Yes, the short-distance teleportation circle, the Qiankun Furnace, and the mechanism of the Mountain Creation Beast below were all purchased by the founder of the Fuyun Sect more than three thousand years ago. They are outdated items.

In the previous life, except for Jiang Mu, a strange leader who liked to temper black iron when he had nothing to do, all previous leaders and sect elders did not like to do this kind of thing, so no one thought of replacing it, as long as it worked.

Only Jiang Mu will study it and try to update it.

In his last life, it seemed that two years later, without his senior brother Yao Cheng, the gold-swallowing beast, Jiang Mu finally replaced all the Qiankun Furnace of the Black Iron Ore Vein, the Mechanical Mountain Opening Beast, and the Teleportation Array. The result was that the output doubled.

times, the quality of the smelted black iron has also been greatly improved, and it can even be smelted into near-top quality black iron.
Chapter completed!