MTLNOVEL Chapter 486: Are You Trying to Kill Me?
Five days later, Elder Yan Fu sent someone to inform Fang Zhou that the Soul Fire had successfully been purified of impurities.
Fang Zhou was overjoyed and quickly ran to the Jade Bamboo Forest on Xuanjian Peak.
In Elder Yan Fu's bamboo house, Fang Zhou saw the purified Soul Fire, which had shrunk significantly in size. What was once about the size of a firefly was now only as small as a grain of rice.
"Thank you for your hard work, Elder Yan Fu."
Fang Zhou took the Soul Fire, feeling that the light it emitted was much purer.
Elder Yan Fu chuckled, "It's no trouble at all. The tricky part about refining this kind of thing is finding the method. Once you have the method, the refining process is very simple."
From Elder Yan Fu's response, she appeared to be quite honest for someone who preferred to stay indoors. Someone else might have exaggerated the difficulty tenfold to emphasize their importance and achievements.
However, Elder Yan Fu's honesty was touching, and Fang Zhou felt the same way.
"Elder Yan Fu, I have a lot more of these. Can you help me refine them as well? Don't worry, I won't let you work for nothing."
"There's no need to be so polite. Just bring out as many as you have, and I'll refine them whenever I'm free."
Elder Yan Fu thought that since Fang Zhou sent her such a generous dividend every month, she felt a bit guilty taking it, so it's good she could do something for him.
This desire to repay persisted until Fang Zhou filled an entire empty house with Soul Fire.
Elder Yan Fu: ಥ_ಥ
Fang Zhou felt quite embarrassed, "This is just a small part; I have a lot more. You can first..."
Before he could finish, Elder Yan Fu grabbed Fang Zhou by the collar and shook him vigorously, roaring in anger, "Are you trying to kill me?! Huh? Is that it? How am I supposed to refine so many? I can't finish even in a lifetime! You better take them back!!"
She initially thought Fang Zhou's "a lot" would mean hundreds or thousands, something she could handle in a month or two.
Little did she know that Fang Zhou meant several billion, an amount she couldn't possibly handle even if she spent her life refining day and night.
There was a severe miscalculation in their estimates of production capacity.
Fang Zhou had thought the Soul Fire in the gourd would take Elder Yan Fu a year and a half at most, but it turned out she could only refine a hundred in a day.
According to Aya's calculations, a hundred purified Soul Fires could provide her with enough energy to maintain her physical form for about three days, or over a month if transformed into a Heroic Spirit body.
However, if fighting, a hundred Soul Fires wouldn't last her a few minutes.
That's where Fang Zhou's disappointment lay; the more energy Aya had, the more she could return to her strength from life.
Although the power levels of the two worlds were different, according to Aya's own description, she likely was a big boss at the Golden Core Realm in her lifetime.
A big shot at the Golden Core Realm; even Qin Yunzhu is only at this level.
If the Soul Fire in the gourd could all be used by Aya, she would be able to exert strength close to what she had in life, definitely making her a "golden leg" for Fang Zhou to hold onto.
Unfortunately, Elder Yan Fu's poor production severely limited Fang Zhou's plan to latch onto this powerhouse.
Just a hundred a day, saving for years wouldn't be enough.
In the end, Fang Zhou left all the Soul Fire in the house with Elder Yan Fu, telling her to refine as fast as she could, and then returned to Moon Viewing Peak with a sense of disappointment.
After returning to Moon Viewing Peak and telling Aya about this, she in turn comforted Fang Zhou, "The current situation is already good. Normally I can maintain the Heroic Spirit body and condense a physical form when needed."
Fang Zhou, however, found it hard to accept this solution, for Aya, even when maintaining her Heroic Spirit form, was continuously consuming energy.
This was blatant waste. Watching a golden leg thin day by day, Fang Zhou felt heartbroken; he needed to find a perfect plan, at the very least to stop constant energy depletion.
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And so, Aya settled in at Moon Viewing Peak, usually maintaining her Heroic Spirit form, manifesting physically only when having tea, and still enjoying eating tea leaves.
Fang Zhou was busy with many things and didn't have time to accompany her, and the Calabash Brothers were too scared of the Fire Dragon Bloodline to approach.
Aya was often alone, but she didn't mind; instead, she proactively started learning the language, customs, and history of this world.
After observing her several times, Fang Zhou no longer disturbed her, letting her get accustomed to and adapt to this world on her own.
Yu Qing and Wu Lin visited even more frequently since last time, Yu Qing making a half-day trip to Moon Viewing Peak every three days, and Wu Lin coming every few days as well.
These two girls were quite a headache for Fang Zhou, who daily had to train the Calabash Brothers, write new works, and manage publishing and association affairs, leaving no time for cultivation by day's end.
Long-uncontacted Luo Jingsong and others finally completed the task Fang Zhou had entrusted to them.
Using their sect resources and connections, they managed to identify individuals or sects in the Cultivation World who held sympathetic or equal views towards males.
Upon receiving the list, Fang Zhou immediately instructed Lu Qiuling to send invitation letters, in the name of the Male Right Association, to these individuals or sects, inviting them to join the association.
This was mainly to bolster the association's influence, broaden its base and impact, creating a community of shared interests.
Fang Zhou wasn't afraid of being rejected; if just one person agreed, it would be considered a success. Once others saw tangible benefits, they would be tempted.
Out of 308 invitation letters, two-thirds directly agreed, half of the remainder expressed needing consideration, half politely declined, and a small portion did not reply.
The high success rate was primarily due to the highly enticing conditions Fang Zhou offered.
The condition was advertisement, specifically free advertisement.
By joining the Male Right Association, members could enjoy publicity through the Male Right Vanguard's platform, with content permissible as long as it adhered to public morality, legal justice, and gender equality.
The newspaper had been around for some time, and anyone astute in the Cultivation World could see the immense value it possessed.
With the help of the newspaper, the Heavenly Sword Sect had emerged as a leader among the Five Greats, surpassing other sects in fame and prominence, nearly rivaling the Righteous Alliance now.
The Heavenly Sword Sect shamelessly trumpeted itself in the newspaper, creating a Heavenly Sword craze — reading the Heavenly Sword Daily, chatting about Heavenly Sword news, aiming to join the Heavenly Sword Sect.
If this continued, the entire Cultivation World might only know of the Heavenly Sword Sect and not other sects, with numerous talents and excellent seeds absorbed by the Heavenly Sword Sect.
Other sects watched in frustration, enviously helpless, and even unable to imitate, for the Heavenly Sword Sect uniquely had a magical Flying Sword.