From the successful promotion of cultivation to the stabilization of the new cultivation realm, it is also a long process. For monks, it can take at least a few months or more than a year.
Zhao Shoushou was naturally no exception. A year later, he successfully stabilized the cultivation of the fifth level of the golden elixir before officially ending the retreat. At this time, a full five years had passed since he started looking for resources to attack the fifth level of the golden elixir.
For the monk's longevity, five years is just a short journey in life, but he feels the full threat of the depletion of his longevity.
Golden elixir monks generally have a lifespan of six hundred years. With the help of some life-extending elixirs, it can be extended to seven hundred years. Zhao Shoushou has been practicing for three hundred years now.
And the improvement of cultivation level becomes more and more difficult as time goes by. Perhaps it is not so rare to see a bottleneck trapped for tens or even hundreds of years.
His goal is to achieve Nascent Soul. The remaining four hundred years, even if everything goes smoothly, will still be a big challenge.
In order to achieve the goal smoothly, how can Zhao Shoushou slack off at all? In the future, his main energy needs to be placed on improving his cultivation.
After years of development, the underground city under the lake can steadily provide him with a profit equivalent to five bottles of third-level, third-grade elixirs every year. For him, this is a place that he cannot give up easily.
What's more, there are some other benefits. For example, the source of this successful promotion to the fifth level of Jindan was obtained from the information about Shuiyao Crystal and Water Spirit Flesh in the hands of an early Jindan monk.
And the improvement of cultivation level requires long-term retreat or going out. When it is difficult to complete two things at the same time, recruiting a golden elixir stage monk to join is an urgent matter.
"It's a pity that the two cormorants are still far away from being promoted to the third level spiritual beast. Otherwise, why would Zhao have such a headache?" Zhao Shoushou murmured.
Before March, the two cormorants returned to the underground city under the lake as agreed. After years of wandering, hunting, and accumulating, their foundations had been completely solidified, and the wildness in their hearts had been rekindled.
He could feel that the two cormorants were already at the true peak of the second-level high-grade, and had successfully touched the bottleneck of the third-level, and were only one step away from promotion.
Fortunately, no matter how the two cormorants' temperaments changed, and how ferocious their wild nature was, their dependence on him did not change at all.
The last step is just around the corner. In addition to qualifications, opportunity and luck are also very important. He cannot judge when he can take the last step.
Taking a step back, the two cormorants were promoted to third-level spiritual beasts. They might be able to provide a helping hand in the battle, but after all, they could not assist him in all-round management like the monks.
What's more, recruiting a Jindan monk to join us on the mainland this time can also be regarded as solidifying the foundation of the underground city under the lake, which will also have infinite benefits for future development and growth.
According to the comparison between the number of Golden Elixir monks and dungeons, recruiting a Golden Elixir monk is not too difficult.
In fact, every city lord is very cautious when recruiting monks of the same level as assistants. Unless he can take the absolute initiative in terms of cultivation, Zhao Shoushou obviously cannot do it now.
Therefore, some careful choices must be made for franchisees. For example, the cultivation level cannot exceed the third level of Jindan. It is best to be a newly promoted monk of the first level of Jindan. They must not be a wandering cultivator who has been wandering on the subcontinent for a long time.
As a casual cultivator, Zhao Shoushou was very familiar with the thoughts and ideas of these monks. If something unexpected happened midway, he didn't want to end up with a tragic end.
Since the reason for recruiting is to reduce one's own pressure and increase the strength of the dungeon, naturally it cannot be too useless, otherwise what is the point?
If it were just one of the requirements, there would be quite a few Golden Core cultivators, but when combined, it would be enough to keep most of the Golden Core cultivators interested in joining out.
Under Zhao Shoushou's instructions, the Underground City under the Lake has recently released the news of recruiting elders from the Golden Elixir Stage to join. Thanks to the development over the years and future potential, there is always a monk coming to visit every few days.
Among them, there are powerful people who have reached the middle stage of the Golden Core, and there are also new Golden Core monks with good potential. Of course, some have given up on improving their cultivation, and the majority are monks who want to find a place to settle down in a dungeon.
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Zhao Shoushou personally received every interested Jindan cultivator who came, but he had not yet selected a suitable cultivator.
Whether a Jindan monk joins a dungeon or a dungeon chooses to join a monk, it is always a prudent two-way choice.
When he first set foot on the subcontinent, he ignorantly joined the Earth Center Dungeon because he was facing an upcoming battle for resources. Otherwise, how could a dungeon with the Nascent Soul Ancestor at its command be able to recruit a complete dungeon so easily?
Strange monk.
"Fellow Daoist Sun has come thousands of miles away. Thank you very much, Mr. Zhao, for being here." At noon that day, Zhao Shoushou stood at the door of the city lord's palace. When a monk dressed in green clothes appeared at the door, he greeted him warmly.
Sun Jichang, a first-level monk of Jindan, also comes from a dungeon that was recently attacked and damaged by monsters. He owns a third-level low-grade flying sword magic weapon. He is also the first person to join after careful consideration.
Under normal circumstances, a dungeon controlled by Golden Core monks would not have such development speed and potential, and its attraction to monks of the same level would naturally not be too strong.
The smooth development of the Underground City under the Lake today and the attraction of many monks of the same level to actively apply for recruitment are all due to the fact that he took the risk to go to Gravel City to register and successfully left traces on the Jade Slip Map. As the saying goes:
Once the plane tree is planted, the phoenix will come.
"Master Meng is waiting here, Sun Jichang is ashamed." This monk, who is mostly a scholar, also has the aura of a scholar.
"We are all colleagues in the future, why should we be polite to each other here? Friend Daoist Sun, please" Zhao Shoushou led the way, and both parties headed towards the location of the City Lord's Mansion.
Hudi Underground City is interested in recruiting, and Sun Jichang is interested in joining. It can be said that Lang Youqing and Concubine are interested, but some substantive conditions still need to be negotiated and agreed upon by both parties.
Sun Jichang is willing to join for two reasons: first, the future development potential of the underground city under the lake; second, after joining, he can obtain some fixed cultivation resources to meet his daily cultivation needs.
At present, most of the income from the dungeon under the lake has been exchanged for spiritual pills to maintain his cultivation needs. Zhao Shoushou now needs to divide a part of it, and the specific amount needs to be discussed in detail between the two.
Obviously this was not a difficult problem. An hour later, a notice was posted outside the city lord's palace. Sun Jichang, a monk in the early stage of Jindan, would serve as the guardian elder of the underground city under the lake, assisting the city lord in handling various affairs.