To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

Chapter 972: Chapter 404: The Villagers of Chang’an Chapter 972: Chapter 404: The Villagers of Chang’an Baling, the Imperial Palace.

After discussing the details of the Northern Expedition with Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing and coming to an agreement, Lu Yuan entrusted them with the task, while he himself began to work overtime to hurriedly create Yellow Turban Warrior Avatars.

For Lu Yuan, this task was not particularly difficult.

Now that he had achieved the cultivation of Gathering Three Qi, after thirty years of hidden cultivation, he had long since mastered the Divine Power ‘Turn Beans into Soldiers’ he had during the time he was at the level of Gathering Two Qi.

Now, with just a thought, Lu Yuan could wave his hand and transform dozens of Yellow Turban Strongmen.

The materials needed were also readily available.

In his early years, when slaughtering Divine Blood Variants, Chu State had obtained countless materials from the bodies of hundreds of them, enough to refine hundreds of avatars.

The only minor problem was that creating fifty-six avatars at once would consume a considerable amount of Lu Yuan’s magic power, nearly depleting half of it.

This was half of the magic power of a cultivator at the level of Gathering Three Qi.

It was uncertain how much spiritual energy he would need to inhale and exhale to replenish it!

But on second thought,

If using half of his magic power could trade for fifty-six reliable avatars, equivalent to the Second Realm of Inborn level, that could be used for a long time for Chu State and in doing so could take down half of Central State,

then this trade was not too bad after all.

Especially for the current Lu Yuan, after breaking through to Gathering Three Qi, the Qi Luck provided by just occupying the territory of Yangzhou was gradually becoming insufficient to meet his cultivation needs.

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A cultivator at the level of Gathering Three Qi requires almost ten times more spiritual energy for cultivation than a cultivator at the level of Gathering Two Qi, and this need would continue to climb as his cultivation level advanced.

Moreover, the Qi Luck provided by the unification of Yangzhou could only move enough Heavenly Qi to satisfy the cultivation needs of a cultivator at the level of Gathering Two Qi.

Upon reaching the level of Gathering Three Qi, this amount of Qi Luck and spiritual energy was far from sufficient.

Although as Yangzhou’s development deepened and its population continued to grow, the Qi Luck being provided was also increasing.

However, this increment was far from keeping up with the progress of Lu Yuan’s cultivation power.

Now, the spiritual energy he absorbed every day was only about ten percent of his own cultivation limit.

Meditating for a day, the cultivation power he enhanced was even less than that of an ordinary cultivator of the same realm who did not practice the Way of Control Pneuma.

Depending on his Taiping Dao Book cultivation, which should have brought him eight or nine times the speed of an ordinary person, the lack of spiritual energy prevented him from achieving the results he should have.

Based on his current cultivation speed while severely starved of spiritual energy, Lu Yuan did some calculations and concluded that to break through to the Four Qi Condensation realm relying solely on the territory of Yangzhou would take at least a hundred and twenty or thirty years.

At that snail’s pace, he would have to wait until the cows come home.

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And considering the current state of the Nine Provinces, this fragile Yangzhou might not even last thirty years,

let alone more than a hundred years later.

Therefore, Lu Yuan’s active push for the Northern Expedition was also driven by having enough of these difficult days with little spiritual energy, and out of a need to improve his cultivation environment, he had to initiate an external expansion.

“Once we seize the lands of Liang and Wei Countries, Chu State’s territory and population will double.

With these increases, my cultivation speed should be able to reach about thirty percent of my own maximum spiritual energy absorption speed.

Although still in a state of spiritual energy hunger, it is at least about thrice that of an ordinary cultivator in the same realm.

With this progress, I should be able to complete the accumulation and break through to the realm of Four Qi Condensation within thirty years, before Yangzhou falls.”

Inside the palace, Lu Yuan thought about this to himself while waving his hand to sprinkle a shower of golden light.

The golden sparks fell upon the neatly arranged materials in front of him, and instantly the golden light turned into runes, transforming the materials into robust Yellow Turban Strongmen who then stood up.

They formed a line and headed to a corner of the great hall, where even more Yellow Turban Strongmen stood in respectful silence.

Counting carefully, there were exactly fifty-six.

“Report to the Privy Council immediately, and after receiving your official ranks, join the army early to become familiar with the troops under your command,” Lu Yuan ordered his newly created Yellow Turban Warrior Avatars.

Creating these avatars was not about giving them a mandate and letting them take full control of the army.

Leading an army and commanding troops is not something one person alone can accomplish.

To command a unit smoothly, besides a wise commander, one needs a large number of qualified officers at low, middle, and high levels to cooperate, so these people can obey your orders and manage their direct subordinates well.

Only then can the commander maneuver the army as freely as his own limbs.

So after creating the avatars, Lu Yuan still needed to send them to the grassroots to familiarize themselves with the troops and officers assigned to them, to understand their capabilities, to coordinate with each other, and to thus drill the troops properly.

As for Lu Yuan himself, he didn’t need to go through such trouble.

As previously discussed with Zhou Qing, the Northern Expedition would be divided into five major military expeditions, involving sixty troops.

And the commanders of these expeditions and troops would be avatars of Lu Yuan himself.

Controlling his own avatars, what need was there for understanding and familiarity?

Their capacity was well-known to him, the creator of all—he couldn’t be clearer, could he?

Moreover, given Lu Yuan’s current cultivation level, even if his avatars were separated by tens of thousands of miles, he could still communicate instantaneously through spiritual thoughts and even transmit the visual images they saw as if he were there in person.

Under these circumstances, commanding the five major military expeditions and sixty troops was going to be quite easy for Lu Yuan.