The continent he was on currently was called the Blue Fire continent, coming from the unique blue fire vein that goes through the whole continent. This fire is a special earth fire with a higher yet stable temperature, which is why the refining and alchemy industry is booming on this continent.
The fire veins also create a unique connection with the earth and water, nourishing relatively more mineral veins and wood veins, which is another reason for the booming refining and alchemy industry.
Such continents that have their own unique environment are more likely to advance towards the great continent level. There are many more continents that don't have unique environments and only fulfil the requirements for spiritual power, most of the time these continents were nourished by countless resources to advance, which lacks the necessary time for natural evolution.
The inheritance Lingyun read contained a lot of information about the blue earth fire, how it can be concentrated and lessened and how it can be used in many different ways. He felt like he was in physics class all over again, reminiscing the times where being annoyed at a course was a major complaint.
In the past, he checked out a few of the inheritances too, but didn't spent a lot time on them. It would be suspicious no matter how you think about it, so he just skimmed through them to see which inheritance is worth memorising, and which one isn't.
The Zhu clan Lingyun is part of only has one major selling point: their bamboo growing technique and the accompanying use of different parts. Bamboo shoots, the bamboo itself and the leaves. They hold value for spiritual food, weapon refining and tea brewing. Lastly, there is also bamboo leaf dew, which is rare, but he didn't find it in this floor.
His guess was that this part should be on the third floor, which only elders can access. He couldn't ask his grandfather for it, because one requires taking an oath when learning the inheritance of the third floor.
The weapon refining inheritance includes three ways to refine the bamboo: early first stage bamboo stick, middle first stage iron bamboo staff and late first stage flying bamboo sword.
The early first stage bamboo stick is basically just a polished version with inscriptions added that are supposed to increase the weight and change the appearance, while the other iron bamboo staff is the same, a lot of black iron was added to make it stronger and heavier. Finally, the flying sword is more refined, but essentially not very different.
Their bamboo itself was called Strong Mountain Bamboo, which is an earth-type bamboo, with a stronger structure and a good dull weapon.
Lingyun shook his head again 'It makes no sense to make this kind of bamboo into a sword, maybe a hammer or as a handle for other weapons, a flying sword requires swiftness and is mostly of the wind-element, although earth generates wind, it's through the reversal of yin and yang that wind is created, the essential difference is too large to use an earth element resource for wind element weapons.
The immortal path's obsession with swords is really deep, or at least the founders of this clan. Others still use realistic means, but for generations they refined this sword, which can probably only be sold because it can barely serve as a defense weapon.
Alas, if people were smart, a lot of things wouldn't be the way they are.
If one only has the means to have one weapon, then one should buy an escape weapon, if the situation allows, then buy an offensive and defensive. This is being obsessed with illusions and ignoring reality.'
Lingyun memorised the inheritance fully before leaving. If he wanted a copy, he would need to do more, but his soul is enough for him to memorise it after looking over it a few times. As for the need for oaths and such, there is really no need.
The inheritance of refining was placed on the second floor because it only includes the method of smelting ore into iron, the three bamboo weapons, two weapons in the early stage and one for each middle and late. These weapons were very basic too, just a black iron shield and black iron sword for early, a black iron axe in the middle stage and a black iron hammer in the late stage.
For a foundation building clan, this inheritance was very pitiful. Lingyun knew why this was the case – first of all, the key inheritance was in the second floor, such as the way to grow the Strong Mountain Bamboo, in addition, a lot of things that were obtained over time were kept by the main branch and circulated by their lineages.
Lingyun's speculation that the clan was destined not to be great depended on his overview of the whole clan. Fortunately, the branch grew this far and is nearly comparable to the main branch, if one ignores the ancestors, then the branch could evenly fight for at least one more hall elder position.
He walked down the mountain, barely bowing when he left. He didn't walk back to his peak but to a nearby peak, only around a hundred metres away. When he entered, he saw some young people taking care of the spiritual fields that grew all over the peak.
This was his parents peak, both of which were spiritual planters. They take care of one of the three large spiritual gardens, the one Lingyun was supposed to manage was a small one. Their peak was transformed into a second spiritual garden, they also planned to do the same with Lingyun's peak after he stabilised his cultivation.
Lingyun walked around and saw his mother taking care of one such field. The other people around were branch members that learned under the teachings of his parents, since only late-stage cultivators could get their own peak, they had to either accept missions or be an assistant to late-stage cultivators.
The branch used a loophole to make sure that all their young members could be spiritual farmers, using the assistant positions of all branch members who reached the late stage to make sure the young branch members had more time to grow.
Lingyun's mother was a middle-aged woman, looking younger than her actual age, which is common for most cultivators. She had crow's feet around her eyes and a few wrinkles around her mouth that came from smiling.
When she saw Lingyun, she nearly jumped, walking forward with large steps, looking Lingyun up and down. Sure, that he was fine, she smiled and pulled him into a hug "Alas, Yun'er, you grew up so fast! Now you are in the late stage too!"
Just as she was about to say something more, two little girls came from behind her, jumping towards Lingyun. He knew this would happen and opened his arms, hugging them and swirling around, making a little tornado. The two girls giggled until he let them down.
"You! Don't move them around so much, they are still weak!"
Lingyun laughed "Haha, mother, I still remember my father throwing me up and down until I vomited, father said I am more like you, now look at these two, they have the same personality as father! Grandfather told me a few stories when he was young, I am sure these two have strong and able bodies, you worry too much!"