The Chongming Tripod

Lin Xiao gave him another one, then took the remaining few to the adjacent field and handed them to his uncle and cousin.

He then asked his father, uncle, and the others to rest on the side, saying, You guys take a break, I'll do it!

The three of them watched as Lin Xiao rolled up his sleeves and walked into the field.

Then, they saw Lin Xiao form a hand seal towards the field. In the next instant, all the weeds in the ground completely vanished.

The three people sitting by the field fell utterly silent.

Lin Dashan turned to look at his son and said quietly, Why don't you go cultivate with Brother Xiao for a bit?

Lin Lei, who had always insisted on not cultivating so he could stay home and help with the chores, hesitated. He looked at his father, his eyes wavering.

Then... I'll go give it a try?

Seeing him finally yield, Lin Dashan was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly. Go try it, go try it! Your mother and I are here at home. Once you learn magic and come back to help, won't it be much easier than it is now? We'll go tell Brother Xiao in a bit!

Thus, on this trip down the mountain, not only did Lin Xiao confirm that his family was safe, but he also brought back another disciple for the sect—his cousin, Lin Lei.

With this, the current number of people in the Lingxian Sect had reached twelve.

After completely clearing all the weeds from his own family's fields and the old estate's fields, Lin Xiao took Lin Lei back to the sect.

Actually, he really wanted to stay with his father a little longer, but Lin Dayou chased him back up the mountain with a look of utter disdain, telling him to hurry back and cultivate.

After bringing Lin Lei up the mountain and going through the formalities, Lin Xiao handed him over to Sun Yigao.

After all, Lin Lei was illiterate, so his cultivation journey had to begin with learning how to read.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao slipped into the Sect Main Hall by himself once again.

This was absolutely not him slacking off on his cultivation again.

It was just that the number of people in the sect was growing, and as the Sect Master, he had to consider future issues.

Sigh, being the Sect Master meant he had little control over his own free time.

First, Lin Xiao opened his private vault to check the hidden reward the system had issued when Liao Pantu joined the sect.

Please don't let it be something completely useless at the moment, like that Myriad Swords as One formation from before...

His gaze fell on the newest item added to the private vault.

Chongming Cauldron.

Lin Xiao's eyes lit up!

Could this be a cauldron used for alchemy?

He decisively used the appraisal function.

[Chongming Cauldron: Heaven-tier low-grade alchemy cauldron. High pill yield rate, with a chance to refine supreme-grade pills.]

Just as I thought!

Lin Xiao suddenly felt that even though he hadn't completed the talisman room quest, he could go ahead and build the alchemy room first.

[Sect Construction - Sect Facility (3): An outstanding sect naturally needs a place to refine pills, providing disciples with a good environment to learn and practice alchemy. Host, please construct an Alchemy Room as soon as possible for the disciples to use.]

The system's quests were never late.

However, he wasn't in a rush to do it right now. He had another matter that needed to be put on the agenda.

That was the sect dormitories!

The number of disciples was increasing. Although most of them had homes in the village at the foot of the mountain, there were already people like Little Luan and Liao Pantu who were not villagers of Xiushui Village.

And with the sect's development, Lin Xiao thought, such situations would only become more common. He couldn't keep recruiting only villagers as disciples forever.

Therefore, sect dormitories were extremely necessary!

He had to plan this out carefully.

But the area on this mountainside was too small... If he built dormitories here, along with sect facilities like the alchemy room, it wouldn't be long before there was no empty space left on the mountainside.

[Sect Construction - Sect Facility (4): An outstanding sect naturally needs to guarantee the basic living needs of its disciples, creating a warm and comfortable residential area for them. Host, please construct disciple dormitories as soon as possible.]

The system's quests were always on call.

Lin Xiao walked out of the Sect Main Hall, took a stroll nearby, and looked around.

Finally, he stared at a small hill closest to the Sect Main Hall and stroked his chin.

This hill wasn't very large, and because it was quite close to the Sect Main Hall, a large portion of it was covered by the sect's defensive perimeter.

Lin Xiao suddenly thought, didn't those cultivators usually live in cave dwellings?

Should he also make some caves for everyone to live in?

But after thinking about it for a long time, he abandoned the idea. Caves and such were simply too primitive.

It was better to live in houses.

So, Lin Xiao decided to build houses on this small hill.

Of course, he wouldn't build them himself; the Building Synthesizer would.

Nowadays, getting dirt didn't require as much effort from Lin Xiao as it did twenty or so days ago.

Now, he only needed to cast a few dirt-digging spells he had created himself (on the hundred wonderful uses of the Earth Escape Art), and he could obtain piles of dirt.

With another spiritual energy flying blade, he could get a row of neatly cut trees.

Materials that previously required many people working for several days to gather enough of could now be completely sorted out by him alone in just a little while.

He had to admit, cultivating immortality improved labor efficiency and enhanced the quality of life.

With the basic building materials gathered, Lin Xiao opened the Building Synthesizer.

First, he planned to synthesize the Alchemy Room.

Because apart from the basic materials, he had already figured out what else needed to be put inside.

So, Lin Xiao quickly placed the bricks and beams into the first two slots respectively.

Then, he decisively tapped the plus sign twice, directly opening two more slots.

Next, he took out the newly acquired Chongming Cauldron from his private vault and placed it inside.

As for the fourth slot, he poured in the Red Lotus Molten Rock that he had previously stored in the Myriad Worlds Iron Bucket.

It was an Alchemy Room, after all; it naturally couldn't lack a fire source.

And for the fire used in alchemy, this Red Lotus Molten Rock was undoubtedly much better than an ordinary fire source.

With the materials deposited, Lin Xiao began to wait quietly for the synthesizer to do its work.

It wasn't long before Lin Xiao heard a ding sound.

[Alchemy Room successfully synthesized. Host, please select a placement location.]

He saw a rather quaint-looking building appear before him.

The building had an area of about forty square meters.

As for the placement location, Lin Xiao had already thought of a general area beforehand.

He walked near the Cultivation Room, found a spot that was neither too close nor too far from the large stone at the entrance of the Green Wilderness Mystic Realm, and stopped. Looking around, he thought for a moment and moved a bit further away from the Cultivation Room.

This was to prevent someone from blowing up a cauldron while refining pills in the future, which would affect everyone cultivating in the Cultivation Room.

Seeing that the distance was about right and the location was suitable, he placed the Alchemy Room down.

[Ding—Alchemy Room placement complete. Sect Construction Quest [Sect Facility (3)] completed. Quest rewards have been issued to the private vault. Host, please check your inventory.]

Lin Xiao wasn't in a hurry to check the rewards. He rubbed his hands together, ready to continue synthesizing the disciple dormitories.