Chapter 128 Changes in One Year

During the half-year wait for Chen Songyan's wedding, the others were not idle either.

Chen Songli continued to study the space anchor stone. The Formation for a Fourth-Grade Teleportation Array belongs to the medium-grade Teleportation Array type.

space anchor stones are difficult to refine, requiring a very high degree of purity to be integrated into the array base. For the past one or two years, she and Chen Songxiao have been researching this issue of refining purity.

Moreover, Teleportation Arrays of Fourth Grade and above all require a spatial base plate to be prepared, unlike the small Teleportation Arrays below Fourth Grade, which only require setting up several sets of mutually sensing array pattern rods.

After all, Teleportation Arrays of Fourth Grade and above cover a range of a thousand miles.

Chen Songli has developed intermittently through twists and turns. This Fourth-Grade medium-sized Teleportation Array is still a bit challenging. Fourth Grade involves a lot of spatial power and requires very high Comprehension Ability.

During the past few months when Chen Songxiao had nothing to do, he would go to the Artifact Refining Residence to forge a few sabers. He has now forged his fifth calamity severing saber. All of them are Fourth Grade, but he has only used one-fifth of the Ore, and he still has a lot in reserve. He doesn't know when the next Pulse Seeking will be.

After coming out of seclusion, Chen Songxuan devoted all his time to researching the Puppetry Art, aside from some daily chores.

His goal was to refine a Puppet with the combat power equivalent to a Late Qi Refining Cultivator.

Chen Songyan was busy cultivating the Iron Fire Ant and instructing the few snakes Luo Anyue was cultivating. Although he wasn't very skilled, he could still offer a word or two of guidance.

He also needed to communicate with Xu Yunqiu, busy with the wedding arrangements.

Brother Ox raised his cultivation to the Eighth Level of Qi Refining. It was already close to that level; he had enough medicine, and his cultivation naturally reached the required stage by consuming pills.

Zhu Lingyue was researching Pill Formulas like detoxification pills and Divine Pills. She went to the market in the Beast Hunting Sect to buy quite a few Spiritual Plants to try refining them.

Chen Songmei was drawing Talismans in Concentric Heart Hall. She had drawn quite a few various Talismans for the Early Qi Refining Stage, and she had also piled up a heap of failed Talisman papers, but there were also quite a few successful ones, making it about half and half.

The Three-Flower Cat wandered around Black Magpie Mountain, occasionally eating a five-hundred-year-old mirror-breaking spirit grass, and liked to sleep on Brother Ox's back, basking in the sun every day.

...

Dongbai Mountain. Three months after the wedding, Xu Yunqiu looked at the ten acres of spiritual fields below the mountain. After three months of life and experience, she gradually came to understand the Chen Family.

She had visited Black Magpie Mountain, seen Morning Sun Hall, Immortal Learning Tower, and the Formation Comprehensive Building.

Except for the Formation Comprehensive Building, the rest gave her a feeling similar to the Xu Family. The Formation Comprehensive Building truly amazed her.

However, she attributed this to the Chen Family's proficiency in Formations and didn't find anything inappropriate.

She didn't know the Chen Family direct descendants very well, apart from Chen Songyan. She wasn't very clear about their cultivation levels. Only Chen Li and Zhu Lingyue were known externally as an Eighth Level of Qi Refining and a Seventh Level of Qi Refining, respectively; the others were unclear.

Through interacting over these few months, she felt a barrier between herself and these few people. She didn't know if it was her illusion.

But she always felt a faint wall of separation. Although they were all very enthusiastic when they saw her, she could always sense it.

She comforted herself, thinking that perhaps it was just because she had just arrived, and things would get better slowly.

She touched her belly. There had been no movement these past few days. With all these matters, she told herself to take things slowly and understand them gradually.

...

One month after Chen Li entered seclusion, Chen Songxuan and Chen Songli launched the reform to relocate the Non-Clan Cultivators from Black Magpie Mountain.

From then on, Qingfeng Mountain would be the origin point for Non-Clan Cultivators. After testing their Spiritual Roots on Black Magpie Mountain, they would be directly teleported to Qingfeng Mountain from the Formation Comprehensive Building.

A Immortal Learning Tower would also be established on Qingfeng Mountain, following the specifications and layout of Black Magpie Mountain. In the future, the teaching of the Qi Guiding Art would be managed by Li Chun, supervised by Chen Songxuan.

The monthly allotment would not change. Chen Songyan, as the master of White Stone Mountain, also had jurisdiction over Qingfeng Mountain. Xu Yunqiu could allocate the Non-Clan Cultivators of Qingfeng Mountain for work.

...

Three months after Chen Li entered seclusion, Family Head Fang of the Fang Family in Liang'an County finished his mission and returned. He traveled back on a spirit boat belonging to the Beast Hunting Sect, paying three thousand Spirit Stones.

Upon returning, he heard about the Chen Family's marriage Alliance and was somewhat regretful that his own Family had not succeeded in forming one.

He had intended to visit the Chen Family in Liangxi County, but upon learning that Chen Li was in seclusion, he abandoned the idea.

It was also on this day that the Beast Hunting Sect released another Alliance mission.

[Widely recruiting Cultivators skilled in water-element Cultivation Techniques. Cultivation starting from Mid-stage Qi Refining is acceptable for registration.]

Specifically, it was said that an ancient water-element great Formation had been discovered on the front lines.

Once activated, it could manipulate the waters within a radius of several hundred miles for their own use, serving as a great Formation to attack Demonic Path Cultivators, guarded by a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

However, it required quite a few water-element Cultivators to maintain the Formation, thus necessitating a large number of Cultivators for rotation.

Just signing up for one rotation, depending on the specific duties, would yield a reward ranging from thirty thousand to two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

Many Cultivators practicing water-element Cultivation Techniques were tempted, and some immortal cultivation families in the Nanwu Kingdom were moved once again.

However, it did not cause even a ripple in the Chen Family. Chen Li had already gone on Alliance missions; the Chen Family was recuperating.

...

Six months after Chen Li entered seclusion, in a secret chamber belonging to the Luo Family in the Taihu Mountain Range, Luo Haoyun's severed limbs had now completely recovered and did not affect his Dao foundation.

After several years of recuperation, he finally raised his cultivation to the Late Foundation Establishment Stage. The Family resources were directly tilted towards him, and he possessed a Dual Spiritual Root. Cultivating diligently until now, reaching the Late Foundation Establishment Stage was already extremely efficient.

However, he still suppressed the thought of leaving seclusion: No exiting until he achieves golden core formation!

The Luo Family had its own golden core formation Legacy, so he wasn't worried about lacking a Cultivation Technique for condensing a Golden Core.

He had only one goal: condense the Golden Core, then find the person who plotted against him back then. If this revenge was not taken, his resolve would not be complete.

...

Chen Li had been in seclusion for one year. Inside the Great Sun Seed Cultivation Cave Mansion, Chen Li was enveloped by a dense Spiritual Qi.

He had successfully opened thirty-one Qi Seas and condensed the Qi of Returning to the Origin in twenty-nine of them. At this rate, it would still take another three to four years.

He had already used more than two hundred bottles of vitality replenishing pills for Foundation Establishment. Condensing the Qi of Returning to the Origin was extremely draining of spiritual power.

The remaining eight hundred-plus bottles were enough to condense the rest of the Qi of Returning to the Origin. Although it would still take three to four years, it was much faster than the fifty years required by the Turtle Pile into Core Method for the initial stage.

He was a Five Spiritual Roots Cultivator. Achieving golden core formation before the age of one hundred would likely terrify countless people if it were known.

Chen Li continued in one continuous effort, not allowing his momentum to slacken, and remained in seclusion.

In that year, on Dongbai Mountain, Xu Yunqiu became pregnant!

Another generation of Cultivators for the Chen Family was about to appear.

Chen Songyan told Zhu Lingyue the news, and Zhu Lingyue was extremely happy, so she came to visit Xu Yunqiu.

That day, Zhu Lingyue had a heart-to-heart talk with Xu Yunqiu, telling her not to overthink things. Zhu Lingyue understood all of Xu Yunqiu's doubts and advised her to set them aside first. Since she was part of the Chen Family, there would eventually be a day when she knew everything; she should let nature take its course and live well in the present.

After this heartfelt conversation with Zhu Lingyue, Xu Yunqiu slowly let go of her observation and worry, naturally beginning to integrate into the Chen Family.