Before those monks entered the Death Sand Sea, Meng Zhang emphasized to them many times the various dangers inside.
Cultivators are not children and should be responsible for their own choices.
As the head of the Taiyi Sect, Meng Zhang felt sad about the casualties among the Taiyi Sect monks, but he would never forcefully change their choice.
Since it is an experience, you will definitely have to face various challenges and tests, and casualties are normal. Meng Zhang is not a nanny and can always protect his disciples from harm.
When establishing a foothold in the world of cultivation, there will always be times when you face various dangers alone, and no one can avoid it.
The only thing Meng Zhang could do was to warn them in advance and try to enhance their combat effectiveness.
Meng Zhang himself had mediocre talent in the art of making talismans. With the help of Yang Xueyi, he spent a lot of precious materials to refine some pseudo-third-level talismans and gave them to his valued disciples as a trump card to save their lives.
The situation in the Endless Sand Sea is currently stable, and there are no major incidents happening on the Demon Wind Gobi side. After entering the Taiyi Sect, which was developing steadily, he gradually developed various resources in the territory. In addition to slowly repaying the debts owed to the Gu Yue family, he also began to slowly replenish the treasury in the Sect.
Not only are the foundation-building monks of Taiyi Sect very wealthy, but at least their equipment is decent. Some outstanding monks even have life-saving items given by their elders, and their survivability is not bad.
Those monks from the Hanhai Dao League who entered the Death Sand Sea were also given special care by Meng Zhang. They all have the opportunity to exchange various items from Taiyi Sect to enhance their combat effectiveness and life-saving abilities.
For the current Taiyi Sect, there is no shortage of low-end resources. What is really urgently needed in the door are items that are useful to the Golden Core Master, or that can help monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage to reach the Golden Core Stage, as well as special spiritual objects such as Spirit Source Beads.
Therefore, Meng Zhang was very willing to arm these foundation-building monks who entered the sea of death sand.
This is equivalent to consuming low-level resources in exchange for high-level resources. The biggest loss is the casualties.
With the continuous investment of the entire Taiyi Sect, a continuous team of foundation-building monks entered the Death Sand Sea, and some harvests were brought back one after another.
In addition to the spiritual source beads requested by God General Houtu, there are also some other precious spiritual objects. Like some spiritual flowers and herbs that have special requirements for the growing environment.
A team led by Yang Xueyi personally went deep into the vicinity of the Black Wind Cemetery and obtained two soul-repairing grasses.
Soul-repairing grass is an elixir that can repair and strengthen the soul, and is useful in many aspects.
Before a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage can break through to the Golden Core Stage, he must have a perfect soul, a flawless body, and a seamless whole of Qi. After the soul-replenishing grass is taken by monks, it can help replenish the soul.
Monks whose souls have been injured can repair the wounds of their souls by taking soul-repairing grass.
If the soul-replenishing grass is refined into elixirs, it will be able to stimulate the medicinal power and have better effects.
There is currently no shortage of second-level alchemists in the Taiyi Sect, especially Meng Zhang's second disciple An Xiaoran. After receiving part of the inheritance from the Chongxuan Sect, not only has his cultivation improved rapidly, but his progress in alchemy has been even greater.
Skills such as alchemy, which are common among the various arts of cultivation, require monks to work hard and specialize in them, and they also need to have extremely high talents.
An Xiaoran is the kind of person who is both talented and hardworking. At such a young age, her attainments in alchemy have surpassed that of the veteran alchemist Yingying, the most powerful alchemist in the sect, and are on par with masters of alchemy such as Shi Changqing.
If An Xiaoran hadn't had no intention of fighting for power, not to mention her status as the head disciple, she would have been qualified to compete for the position of the master of the Alchemy Hall just by relying on her superb alchemy skills.
With the excellent alchemy master, the sect has already collected many alchemy recipes. Taiyi Sect's demand for various elixirs slowly began to increase.
Taiyi Sect itself has a shallow foundation. The elixir garden established by the sect was too short-lived and could only produce some mass-produced low-level elixirs.
The original channels for obtaining high-level elixirs were, firstly, to buy them in small quantities from Gale City, and secondly, to pick them in the wild.
Yaofeng Gobi has a lot of elixirs in the wild, and the quality is not bad.
However, picking in the wild still depends on luck, and the supply is not so stable.
When Meng Zhang unfolded the Baicao Pavilion obtained from Chongxuan Sect, Taiyi Sect had a relatively stable source of high-level elixirs.
However, the elixir garden in Baicao Pavilion is still mainly for maintenance, and Meng Zhang requests that the high-level elixirs in it be picked as little as possible.
The team of monks who entered the Death Sand Sea actually brought back some special elixirs, which greatly interested the alchemists in the sect.
If Meng Zhang hadn't specifically ordered that monks in the Taiyi Sect who lacked combat effectiveness, especially those who were production-oriented, were not allowed to enter the Sea of Death to practice, I'm afraid there would have been alchemists who would have gone looking for the elixir.
The Death Sand Sea, a barren land and a restricted area for living things, actually secretly grows some special high-level elixirs. This made Meng Zhang lament the magic of life while once again increasing his investment in the sand sea of death.
Whether within the Taiyi Sect or the Hanhai Dao Alliance, there are many monks who take the Small Foundation Establishment Pill to establish their foundation.
From the perspective of the sect's interests, these monks whose path to cultivation is basically cut off and who will never be able to form elixirs are expendable objects.
In order to cultivate those elite monks in the sect who are expected to make elixirs, these ordinary monks can be used as stepping stones.
As the leader of a sect with a large amount of resources, Meng Zhang does not need to take the initiative to give orders. He only needs to offer a high reward, and many monks will follow his wishes and explore the Death Sand Sea.
In particular, other members of the Hanhai Dao Alliance are extremely thirsty for elixirs that can assist in foundation building.
The Taiyi Sect does not need to take out the Foundation Establishment Pills, but only takes out a batch of small Foundation Establishment Pills as rewards. The Foundation Establishment Stage monks from various forces will willingly go to the Death Sand Sea.
Meng Zhang only strictly restricted the monks from the Taiyi Sect who were not strong enough to enter the Death Sand Sea. There was no such restriction for the monks from other members of the Hanhai Dao Alliance.
In fact, even if Meng Zhang really imposed restrictions, people might not appreciate it, and they would think that he was too stingy and unwilling to part with those rewards.
As more and more foundation-building monks enter the Death Sand Sea, they bring back more and more surprises.
The Sea of Death, a place that has been deliberately avoided by cultivators before, is really a cornucopia.
Special elixirs, rare spiritual materials in the outside world, mineral deposits hidden underground...
Jin Qiaoer got a lot of information about the Death Sand Sea from Jin Li, and generously shared it with everyone.
After a long period of exploration, the team that entered the Death Sand Sea mastered a lot of first-hand information.
After gaining sufficient experience, monks all know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and take the initiative to avoid all kinds of dangers. As a result, the casualties were greatly reduced, but the harvest was greatly increased.
