Chapter 329 Too Many Earthly Immortals
The number of earthly immortals in the Jiuling Mountain Divine Dynasty is a bit terrifying, and it is increasing in number and becoming more and more terrifying.
Only two months have passed, and the number of earthly immortals has exceeded 20,000, and is still increasing by hundreds every day. This number is really a bit of a headache.
Isn’t it a good thing to have many earthly immortals? Why are there so many of them that it’s a headache?
According to common sense, the more earthly immortals there are, the better. However, if there are too many earthly immortals, we have to consider their remuneration and their income.
He is an earthly immortal after all. It is impossible that he cannot earn even one elixir in the whole month, right ?
It's not that the Jiuling Mountain Divine Dynasty doesn't give these earthly immortals the opportunity to earn elixirs. The key is that there are only so many jobs that can earn elixirs, and the more well-paid the job, the more people will rush to do it.
For example, if you refine elixirs, the rewards are quite generous. You can earn at least eight elixirs a day, and up to twelve, which is a whole bottle.
Naturally, all earth immortals want to do this kind of job. Even if this job can only be done by wood-type earth immortals and fire-type earth immortals, the terrifying number of wood-type earth immortals and fire-type earth immortals will also try their best to get in.
However, there are only so many furnaces for alchemy, and there are only so many magical herbs and elixirs every month. At most, they can allow more than 4,000 earth immortals to take turns. The Jiuling Mountain Divine Dynasty has the most wood-type earth immortals, and if you add the fire-type earth immortals, the number exceeds ten thousand.
This means that more than half of them will be eliminated and will not be able to refine pills. Moreover, the number of eliminated people will increase more and more, up to 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, or even more than 95%!
If it was a mortal from outside who became an immortal through cultivation, there would have been a huge uproar long ago.
Why can others do it but I can’t? Why don’t you eliminate others and replace me? There must be a huge conspiracy here!
Normally, if someone outside were to shout like this, something big would happen. What would happen if tens of thousands of earthly immortals were to cause trouble?
Fortunately, mortals from the kingdom of God do not have so many evil thoughts, and will not do things that would make the gods angry.
However, this matter cannot be left alone. No matter how obedient the mortals in God's kingdom are, if they feel aggrieved for too long, something bad will happen.
Around noon that day, Xu Yanran came to see Chen Jiu again.
Chen Jiu also knew that it was time to harvest the magic pills again. He happily stood up and took Xu Yanran to the city in Di Shen Kingdom where the magic pills were refined.
The god-level alchemists were already lined up neatly in the temple square and had been waiting there for a long time, but this time there were not seventy but ninety.
There are now seventy people who are able to refine a whole bottle of magic pill, and the other twenty are just newly selected newcomers.
Chen Jiu looked at the increasing number of god-level alchemists and couldn't help but smile and said, "What's the harvest this time? Show it to us."
The seventy old god-level alchemists actually took out forty-five bottles of magic pills for him, and the twenty newcomers also took out twelve.
This is equivalent to forty-six bottles, and the success rate is over 60%. This proves that the success rate of the twenty new god-level alchemists who joined last month in refining a whole bottle of magic pill has also increased.
Chen Jiu couldn't help but accept the magic pill with a look of satisfaction on his face, and asked Xu Yanran to give him a reward. Only then did he go back satisfied.
He had just come out of the Kingdom of God and was about to go to the top of Shushenfeng to continue enlightening the earth immortals, but the Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji suddenly rushed over, clasped his hands and bowed, saying: "God, I have something to discuss with you."
Chen Jiu couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's the matter? Didn't I say you can make the decision on anything?"
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji said helplessly: "God, I am afraid I cannot make the decision on this matter."
There is such a thing.
Chen Jiu immediately raised his hand and said, "Tell me what's the matter."
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji looked at the people coming and going around him and said carefully, "Sir, it's hard to talk here. How about you go to the study with me?"
Okay, let’s go to the study and talk.
Chen Jiu used his spiritual sense to wrap the two of them up in Ma Ji's study.
Ma Ji respectfully asked Chen Jiu to sit down, and then he said carefully: "God, you have enlightened more and more earthly immortals, and my troubles are getting bigger and bigger. I have no choice but to consult with you, God."
Is it a problem if there are too many earthly immortals?
Chen Jiu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said: "You mean all the earthly immortals want to make pills and weapons?"
Ma Ji nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, Lord God, the wood-type earth immortals and fire-type earth immortals all want to make pills, and the gold-type earth immortals and earth-type earth immortals all want to make weapons.
The problem is that we only have 1,600 furnaces for refining elixirs. Even if we work in three shifts, we only need 4,800 wood-type earth immortals and fire-type earth immortals. The total number of wood-type earth immortals and fire-type earth immortals has long exceeded 10,000, and now there are more than 12,000. The city for refining elixirs can no longer accommodate them.
We have even fewer furnaces for refining artifacts right now, only 900 in total. Even if there are three shifts, we only need 2,700 gold-type earth immortals and earth-type earth immortals, and the number of gold-type earth immortals and earth-type earth immortals combined is almost 10,000. The city for refining immortal artifacts is almost full."
Chen Jiu couldn't help but frown when he heard this and said, "Why are these people crowding there? Didn't they say that those who can't do it should do other work?"
Ma Ji said helplessly, "God, you are changing too fast. It's not like you can start refining pills and tools just by becoming an immortal. They have to learn the art of refining pills and tools first, and then go up and try it out. We don't have a fixed rule now, and some of them line up to try several times. Naturally, the number of earth immortals over there is increasing."
Chen Jiu said without hesitation: "If there is no rule, then make one quickly, and don't let them keep crowding there to queue up for the test."
Ma Ji quickly explained: "God, I have already thought of this plan, but we still have to build two new cities.
I am thinking of preventing these newly enlightened earth immortals and those unwilling earth immortals from crowding into the cities for refining pills and refining equipment, and disturbing the immortal-level alchemists and immortal-level equipment refiners from refining pills and equipment.
We can build two new cities and let them learn the art of alchemy and refining there first. We can also open one hundred alchemy rooms and one hundred refining rooms, and allocate one hundred artifact furnaces to each of them. We can give each of them three chances to try, with three furnaces each time.
If a furnace cannot be successfully refined after three trials, it means that the person has no talent for alchemy or refining tools. Such a Wood-type Earth Immortal can only go to the Wood-type Divine Kingdom to pick mature immortal herbs and elixirs. A Fire-type Earth Immortal can only go to refine tools and materials. A Gold-type Earth Immortal and an Earth-type Earth Immortal can only go to mine.
If they can succeed in one to three furnaces in three trials, it proves that there is still a chance, and they can choose to stay in the trial city to continue learning the art of alchemy and refining, and continue the trial. However, we will not give them elixirs while they are studying and testing, and let them consider for themselves whether they should continue to study and test.
If one can make four to six furnaces in three trials, it proves that one has some talent in alchemy and refining. Such a person can go to a city that specializes in alchemy and refining and try to rotate between alchemy and refining.
If they can make seven to nine furnaces in three trials, it proves that they have good talent in alchemy and weapon refining. I suggest giving them more immortal pills and training them well, and strive to train them into god-level alchemists and weapon refiners."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jiu nodded without hesitation and said, "Well, this is a good idea. Order people to build two new cities immediately."
Uh, why didn’t the God hear it?
Ma Ji reminded carefully: "God, I mean that we need to train god-level weapon refiners."
Chen Jiu hesitated and said, "We can only buy 20 magic alchemy furnaces every month. They are not enough to refine divine pills, let alone train divine refiners?
There is no profit in ordinary artifacts. We might as well go to Qingmu Market to buy them. Besides, we can't do everything and leave Qingmu Patriarch with no business."
Ma Ji quickly explained: "God, I know that the more magic pills we refine, the better, but the amount of immortal herbs and spiritual medicines we can buy every month is limited. It takes more than just a few immortal herbs and spiritual medicines to refine magic pills. One furnace requires 4,000 to 5,000 plants, 10 furnaces require 40,000 to 50,000 plants, and 100 furnaces require 400,000 to 500,000 plants.
Now we can refine more than 200 furnaces a month. The amount of immortal herbs and medicinal herbs consumed in refining the divine pills alone is over a million. If we didn’t have so many wood-type divine kingdoms, and I also bought some immortal herbs and medicinal herbs from those True Lords and Heavenly Lords, we probably wouldn’t be able to hold on this month.”
This magical herb is really a headache as the quantity is always insufficient.
Chen Jiu couldn't help but frown and said, "I've asked Master Peng to pass on the message, asking Qingmufang City to buy as many magical herbs as possible. I believe that four million plants should not be a big problem next month, and there will definitely be more in the future, five million plants, six million plants, or even ten million plants a month. Isn't this enough?"
Ma Ji sighed helplessly and said, "God, although there are many True Lords and True Men in the God Realm, there is always a limit to the amount of magical herbs and elixirs in their kingdoms of God. We cannot exhaust all the resources. We still have to let Qingmu Market support us for another ten years, until the magical herbs and elixirs we planted in the kingdom of God gradually mature.
"I have also roughly estimated that according to the speed at which Qingmu Market is purchasing immortal herbs and spiritual medicines, six million plants per month is almost the limit. If there are more, we will probably not be able to purchase many more in the future. The immortal herbs and spiritual medicines that Qingmu Market can provide us will become less and less, and it will be useless for us to have so many god-level alchemists!"
This is something that really needs to be considered. After all, even the best cook cannot cook without rice. Without enough magical herbs and elixirs, no matter how many god-level alchemists there are, they will not be able to refine many magic pills.
Chen Jiu could only nod helplessly and said, "Okay, let's start training god-level weapon refiners. Do you have any plans?"
Ma Ji nodded repeatedly and said: "This subordinate has already planned it. Starting from next month, we will allocate ten magic weapon alchemy furnaces to train god-level refiners.
As for the magic alchemy furnaces for refining divine pills, one hundred should be enough for the time being. However, we still need to continuously train divine-level alchemists, and we can let the extra divine-level alchemists replace the old ones.
After all, some of those old god-level alchemists have already reached the peak of earthly immortals. As long as they ask the True Lord to teach them the way of heaven, they can become gods. After they become gods, they can come back to refine divine pills, and the success rate will definitely be higher.
As for the extra magic weapon alchemy furnaces every month, we will train god-level refiners to refine ordinary artifact furnaces.
Although this thing is not needed for refining elixirs for the time being, the more it is used for refining immortal weapons and even as refining materials, the better.
After we refine an ordinary god-level furnace, we can continuously increase the number of immortal-level weapon refiners. We don't have to sell all the immortal weapons refined by these immortal-level weapon refiners to Qingmufang City. We can use them to equip earthly immortals and the soldiers of the eight camps.
Especially the soldiers of the Eight Camps. The more immortal weapons they have, the stronger their combat power will be. Just imagine, if each of them has an immortal weapon armor, an immortal weapon sword, an immortal weapon shield, an immortal weapon longbow, and there are hundreds of thousands or even millions of immortal swords, how terrifying will their combat power be?"
That is indeed quite terrifying.
The reason why the true gods of those aristocratic families and royal descendants were able to block their immortal arrows last time was entirely because they did not take the initiative to attack.
If they take the initiative to attack, they will be able to quickly shoot and kill the Shenwu Camp, Shenji Camp and the elite guards. At that time, hundreds of thousands of people will surround a hundred or several hundred true gods and shoot at them from all directions. What good will they do with divine weapons? Can they block tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of immortal arrows shot from all directions?"
Thinking of this, Chen Jiu nodded decisively and said, "Okay, I'll go talk to Lao Ding and ask him to teach those selected refiners how to refine ordinary artifact furnaces."
At this moment, the Honghuang Divine Cauldron was rolling in the lava out of boredom, because he had refined all the rare treasures that Chen Jiu had auctioned last time. As for those snake god skins, Chen Jiu intended to keep them for now, and then refine them together into the ultimate treasure when he could find rare treasures that could be added to them.
He had no choice but to play in the lava out of boredom.
Unexpectedly, Chen Jiu, who had not been seen for a long time, suddenly appeared.
He asked excitedly, "Ah Jiu, have you refined something good?"
Chen Jiu nodded slightly and said, "Yes, we haven't refined the Resurrection Pill for a long time. I thought you'd be fine anyway, so why not refine two batches? We can sell one bottle this month, and the other bottle in a few months."
Honghuang Shending said without hesitation: "Okay, okay, I'm just worried about having nothing to do. Come on, bring the magical herbs and elixirs."
Chen Jiu smiled slightly and said, "Lao Ding, don't be so anxious. We are also preparing to train a group of god-level refiners. They will be here soon. You should teach them how to refine ordinary god-level furnaces, and then start refining the Resurrection Pill."
Honghuang Shending said in boredom: "What's so good about that thing? It's not even a magic weapon. It uses ordinary refining materials. Apart from being able to grow bigger or smaller, there's nothing else."
Chen Jiu still smiled slightly and said, "We still need that thing, Lao Ding, please take the trouble to talk to them."
Honghuang Shending said helplessly: "Okay, give me the magical herbs and herbs for refining the soul-returning pill first."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jiu immediately took out a bunch of jade boxes and neatly arranged them into two parts. He then waved his hand and said, "Okay, I have something else to do so I won't wait here. Lao Ding, thank you for your hard work."
After saying that, he disappeared in a flash.
