Matriarch of the Immortal Clan

Lianyu listened to her ancestor and felt that the things were more and more difficult.

After all, these are just the open enemies.

Who knows which of the others had a grudge on them?

At least they should know one of the enemies that harmed them, as for the other, this isn't a matter she can investigate right away.

Then she calmed down and asked a few other questions, to deepen her understanding.

These questions were rather superficial, only used to give her a wider view based on her own memories.

Just as she remembered, the two strongest inheritances of the Xu family were Spiritual Planting and Weapon Refining… at least on the open.

Secretly, they were in fact very inept in Water Alchemy and Feng Shui.

Water alchemy is easy to understand – it is the alchemy created with water abilities and not fire, one of the most famous branches is wine making, but generally the idea is to create potions.

In comparison to potions, pills are usually longer lasting but activate slower. This is why potions are usually called the 'battle medicine', or when strengthening the body, potions are preferred.

For cultivation, both kinds are used as there isn't a large difference. When it comes to breakthroughs, usually pills are preferred, simply because the medical effect is saved in your body and discharged whenever you need it.

Essentially, this can also be ignored as long as you have the help of experienced cultivators, who can tell u when to take what medicine, which is an advantage in breakthroughs.

This is why, over all, the largest advantage of pills is their storage duration. After all, many pills are made in large quantities or directly when the medicine is ready, and usually, potions take a lot longer to create.

That is to say, pills are suitable for direct consumption or storage, while potions are only used for custom orders.

The second art is feng shui, which is the art of geomancy and fortune. Based on feng shui, different kinds of environments suitable for different situations can be made.

For example, if you farm on a feng shui blessed land, your yield can increase up to 30%.

Cultivating in a feng shui land suitable to one's own spiritual roots can even double your cultivation speed.

Her ancestor explained it like this "Many cultivators think that cultivation speed is dependent on the spiritual vein and their own roots quality, but in fact, if you can regulate the elements and concentration of spirituality in the surroundings, you may be able to advance a lot faster!

Some roots are inherently upturned, this means they absorb spiritual power from higher regions.

Others are exactly the opposite. Although in the end, this is a very small difference, there are many more such points.

You might absorb better from the left than the right, maybe laying down is better than sitting, and so on.

In addition, if you have roots of three elements, such as water, fire and wood, then you will likely have a conflicting relationship when you cultivate in a normal cultivation environment.

For such roots, it's best to create a wood feng shui blessed land.

The water spiritual root will pull water spiritual power from the roots of the wood and feed it to the wood root, the wood root will simply take over the abundant wood power and feed it back to the roots, while the fire element will take over the strong wood that was fed by water and wood to burn strongly.

Such situations aren't rare!

But, spiritual roots are a very personal matter, so people generally can't trust feng shui masters that much.

Still, it's not uncommon for people to tell us their main element, or make a detailed request, and we can create a feng shui blessed land for them.

Of course that was in the past, nowadays our inheritance is hidden and we at most use it for our secret places, we don't spread this secret beyond."

Lianyu felt that she had learned a lot.

It seemed to be true – many of these things were very small and she didn't think much of it, but now that she heard about this, she could understand.

After all, the spiritual power in the environment was generally mixed up from the five elements – in some regions some elements were stronger, but the composition is always a mix.

If you can specify your environment to that extent, then of course you will be far ahead in cultivation.

The more she listened, the more she felt that a deep foundation is the reason why people say "a lean camel is larger than a horse", after all, a different force might have two or three foundation building cultivators and have a higher strength, but essentially this is just because they are lucky.

This luck is them having geniuses in the same generation – thinking about it, you need a lot of luck to rise as a clan, but most fallen clans, at least those who aren't stupid, would lean on their inheritance and slowly grow.

After all, the foundation is there.

As long as you waited patiently and used your inheritance properly, it wouldn't be too difficult to reach your former height, that is, if the optimal situation is kept.

Her ancestor talked a bit more before he added "In addition to our Xu family, there is one more family with a deep foundation in the Green Jade County.

That is the Yu family, the strongest force of our county.

They fled a few decades before us… although we didn't know each other prior, our ancestors both were new, so we helped each other.

It seemed that the Yu family had a better situation when they fled, so they managed to gain the first place, while we remained on the third.

But, throughout all the years, our relationship has remained.

Even when we declined, they often offered help to us, or rather, they opened up the market to us, so we could get the help we need.

After all, we might be in decline, but we were never poor."