"Void-Soul Exchanging Dao Technique."
Li Wei looked at the jade slip in his hand, which recorded the Void Refining method Fifth Maiden had taught him.
"Use the soul of a Void Refining expert to forge a husk and create a false Void Refining state, then separately infuse the power of Rules into that husk..."
The complexity of this Technique's conditions was something Li Wei had never seen before. But compared to the difficulty he previously faced in trying to break through to the Void Refining realm, this was undoubtedly a wide, open highway.
"With this technique, not only can I break through to Void Refining, but even clansmen who don't have the kind of talent needed to..."
Just thinking of this, Li Wei couldn't help but suck in a sharp breath of cold air.
"No wonder the cultivation speed of Earth's cultivators is so insane."
Immediately, Li Wei's eyes lit up as he returned to his room.
He had only been out of the game for two hours, but two years had already rushed by in the game world.
Just looking at the screen, Merit City was an idyllic landscape.
The family itself was not large, but a thousand servants moved about. It wasn't that the family was living extravagantly; rather, it was the widows and orphans of Merit City's meritorious families making a living in the Li family's main courtyard, making it all quite bustling.
Everywhere there were spirit mountains, spirit lakes, spirit springs... and even lush, green forests.
In addition, the common people farmed in the spirit fields. Every household, though they cultivated, still had the curling smoke of cooking fires, filled with the bustling "smoke and fire of the mortal world."
It truly looked like a small world of its own.
His eyes turned white.
As the prompt sounded on the panel before him:
[Divine Soul entering the game world. Consumes 1 point of Family Will per year.]
Li Wei appeared once again inside the Ancestor Space.
[Family Will: 13023]
Nowadays, the family could gain ten or twenty points of Family Will each year, even without doing anything, which was likely related to the clansmen's cultivation realms.
Occasionally, there would be special events like [Expert's Grave], [Northern Border War Merits], and [Great War in Shadowfell Prefecture], which also caused the Family Will to increase from time to time.
He then looked at the Family Skills panel.
Skills like [Battle, Old Ancestor] had already consumed a large amount of Family Will.
Without exception, they all required 200 Family Will points for a single use.
After thinking for a moment, Li Wei looked at the surplus Family Will, put some points into a spirit tablet skill, and glanced at a few family skills that weren't lit up, but took no further action.
"Old Ancestor!"
As Li Wei's spirit tablet lit up, bright lights flashed in the Ancestor Space.
The clansmen arrived one after another, even bringing their wives, who were recognized by the game system.
Xu Cuihua, Bai Rourou, Feng Mi, Qingyu, Liu Xiaofang, Fan Feixuan.
Among this legion of Li family daughters-in-law, only Liu Xiaofang, the girl who came from the small fishing village, had poor aptitude. Even her early-stage Golden Core realm had been forcefully piled up with medicinal pills.
However, the clansmen all took very good care of her. Never mind that she and Li Chang'an were a loving couple; this girl was truly the epitome of a virtuous and gentle woman.
Fan Feixuan also had this kind of temperament, and her aptitude was not bad.
It's just that occasionally she would... revert to her ancestry. This girl is a half-spirit. I heard that one night, a light shone from Li Xingchen's room. The clan attendants thought something had happened, but when they arrived, they just saw Li Xingchen leaping ten meters high, while Fan Feixuan lay in a clam shell, her face full of innocence.
"I have found a method to break through to the Void Refining realm, also called 'False Void Refining'."
Li Wei looked around at his clansmen, then began to explain the "Void-Soul Exchanging Dao Technique" to them in detail.
The clansmen's eyes grew brighter and brighter, especially those of Li Dalong and the others who had been steeped in the Void Refining realm for many years but could find no path forward.
They were in an even worse state than Li Wei. Even with the aid of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin, Li Dalong couldn't even touch the threshold of the Void Refining realm.
"This shortcut will allow our family's strength to leap forward. False Void Refining!
At the Divinity Transformation realm, one can possess the Rule-space unique to Void Refining cultivators and control the lowest grade of Void Refining power.
After this, even a complete idiot could break through to Void Refining on their own!"
The most joyous person present was none other than Li Yunbing.
In his status as the Prefecture Lord of the Duravia Trade Prefecture, he was undoubtedly under the most pressure from the Zhao Clan.
But with this Void Refining technique...
Immortal Zhao Clan? The Short-Lived Zhao Clan is more like it!
"The soul of a Void Refining expert is needed to trigger the heavenly tribulation, and the Old Tree is trapping Venerable Elder Baimei's spiritual soul.
As for the physical husk of a Void Refining cultivator, the corpses of Venerable Elder Baimei and Ming Daozi are still here."
When it came to refining things like spaces and formations, no one was more familiar than Li Yaotie.
The big bald head rubbed his own head; this was the time for his brilliant brain to tackle the problem.
"However, the most basic requirement is to construct a space, a physical space. It must also be sufficiently sturdy, able to withstand the scouring of the power of Rules.
That will require a large amount of materials and supreme-grade Spirit Stones."
"It also requires numerous formations—ten thousand small arrays and eighty-one large arrays, the 'nine-nines extreme number.' A rough calculation... is already a sky-high expenditure."
Hearing this, everyone looked toward Li Chang'an; the family's income and expense ledgers were all in his hands.
Li Chang'an deduced and calculated, his brow furrowed.
"The family's savings from all these years... are only enough for one such space."
"It consumes that much?!!"
At this moment, even Li Wei's expression changed. This was the Li family's savings, accumulated over five hundred years!
But after a moment's thought, he felt at ease. Exchanging five hundred years of savings for a Void Refining breakthrough was, in the end, worth it.
After some deliberation.
The expressions of all the Li family members were grave. These elders, who were perennially in secluded cultivation, also made up their minds—
It was time for these four- and five-hundred-year-old "seniors" to sell their labor, earn money, and support the family.