39: Chapter 39 Family Changes, Another Attempt at Foundation Establishment

Another five years passed.

Chen Xuan had a growing brood of children.

The eldest, Wang Ling, established himself in the Beast Taming lineage. His fellow Disciples often came to the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce, and he and Chen Xuanji became well acquainted.

But this kid was obsessed with the Dao of Beast Taming and even fell in love with a Spirit Fox! It was like a wolf falling in love with a sheep! It was simply incomprehensible, making his mother tremble with anger.

In the end, it was only after Chen Xuan's persuasion that Zhang Keer stabilized her emotions.

However, humans and Yao Beasts walk different paths, so she still did not agree to them being together!!

Chen Xuanji did have some connections with the Dao Seed of the Feng Family lineage, but as for the children's affairs, it was better to leave it to the children.

Watching his children step into the next stage of their lives, Chen Xuan felt deeply gratified.

The most gratifying one was, of course, Wang Luyang.

He spent every day mingling with the women at the Treasure Gambling House, giving Chen Xuan several grandsons and granddaughters—he had quite the air of an emperor.

He didn't give himself a day off.

In his and Chen Qiuyu's plans, it would be good for the fourth child to live in the mortal world in the future.

Find a few women from small Qi Refining families to marry, buy a mansion, and have three big, chubby boys—wouldn't life be good then!

As it turned out, this guy, knowing that Chen Xuan had acquired the Treasure Gambling House, clamored to go and manage it.

As for the third, Wang Qingfeng, after his sword technique reached Major Achievement, he clamored to travel the world with his sword, adventuring alone near Fusheng Immortal City.

Little did he know, everything was under the surveillance of his mother, Zhang Keer.

Golden Roar successfully advanced to the second rank. Under Chen Xuan's cost-no-object investment, it refined the Yao Beast inner core that Chen Xuan had obtained during the beast tide initiated by the Cloud-Swallowing Eagle, using a secret method of the Fusheng Sect.

With its atavistic golden Bloodline, it had hopes of reaching the third rank!

The Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce was now also engaged in intelligence gathering, and it was doing an excellent job.

...

Returning to Chen Xuan, every day, without fail, he still cultivated his magic power for two hours.

Although there was no progress, his magic power had become much more condensed.

He estimated that he might still have one more chance to attempt Foundation Establishment.

Being able to try one more time could be considered fulfilling a wish.

The rest of the time, he studied the various arts of cultivation. If he didn't understand something, he would go to the Chamber of Commerce and ask the Alchemy Great Master...

So much so that Chen Xuan was now considered an expert in Alchemy, but a novice in Formations. There was no other reason—Formations were just something that if you couldn't do them, you couldn't do them.

It was like a human speaking and a cow not understanding.

Currently, Chen Xuan's Body Refining was at Perfection, his Qi Refining was at Perfection, but his Divine Sense hadn't made any progress.

Cultivation Techniques for the Divine Sense had never appeared in the Southern Region.

Only some fire control techniques could temper the Divine Sense...

Of course, in these few years, Zhang Keer, Chen Qiuyu, and Ziyan had all successively attempted Foundation Establishment.

Only then did they discover that with a Low Grade Spiritual Root, attempting Foundation Establishment was extremely difficult.

The best among them was Ziyan; she passed the first two trials of essence, energy, and spirit, but the Divine Sense trial could not be sublimated for a long time, and in the end, she fell short.

They all took it in stride.

With a Low Grade Spiritual Root, throughout history, how many have achieved Foundation Establishment?

Each one was a one-in-ten-thousand Genius.

They weren't geniuses, which was also reasonable.

After all, those geniuses all grew up in the fires of war and realized the Dao between life and death.

Even Celestial Han had fought his way out.

Unlike Chen Xuan, who sought good fortune and avoided disaster, cultivating to Qi Refining Perfection with the abundant resources of the market.

"This tree has grown up too." Chen Xuan said with some emotion.

Thanks to the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce, Chen Xuan changed his residence in Wangyue Hall. The three of them planted a spirit tree together, called Wang Xiangsi, also known as the Acacia Tree.

Legend has it that the Acacia Tree blooms once every thousand years, and when it blooms, it reflects scenes from a thousand years ago.

The world says: This object is the truest form of longing.

In the same year, Yao Zhao also came to live in Wangyue Hall.

He kept thanking Chen Xuan in every sentence!

If it weren't for him, how could he have achieved

Biyun Market had basically become the research base for the Beast Taming lineage of the Fusheng Sect.

Almost all Beast Taming Disciples had to go to Biyun Market to study. Wang Lingxue became an Elder of the Beast Taming lineage, the first Qi Refining Elder...

However, this lineage valued Beast Taming ability.

Over these years, Biyun Market had been successively producing second-rank Spirit Beasts with Earth-grade Bloodlines.

There was a faint trend of success.

But research on Spiritual Roots was lagging far behind.

This thing was profound and mysterious; they could never find the core. After various experiments, they only extracted a kind of spirit liquid that could slightly enhance the perception of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and speed up cultivation progress.

The effect was not as good as ordinary spirit liquid. Ordinary spirit liquid was equivalent to liquid Spirit Stones, full of Spiritual Qi, and acted quickly when absorbed.

But this kind of spirit liquid enhanced one's own ability.

However, over time, it did indeed improve Aptitude.

It was just that the cost was expensive, and the minerals for extraction were rare.

Even though they reported it internally to the Fusheng Sect, the final response was mediocre.

Spiritual Roots are determined by Heaven; how can they be changed?

In the end, only Chen Xuan could use the resources of the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce to support the research.

Chen Xuan sat under the tree, and Chen Qiuyu walked over gracefully, her appearance just as it was back then.

This was the great power of the Youth Preservation Pill.

Even for Chen Xuan, there were now slight wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

"On Mother's side, Chen Lingze is not young anymore. The Chen Family Talisman Workshop will be handed over to him in the future, but this workshop was originally meant to be passed down to you."

Chen Xuan shook his head: "Do you think I can handle it?"

The two looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh.

"Sigh, Mother has had a rough life. Father disappeared, and her son had to hide his name for revenge, just to avoid implicating us. Now, Chen Lingze is grown up, yet he still has to live hiding his identity—it's truly tragic."

Chen Qiuyu was full of emotion, her voice slightly choked.

Chen Xuan's gaze was calm: "The Liu Family being able to protect us from being coerced and harassed by the Cloud-Swallowing Eagle is already doing their utmost."

"I also didn't expect that even with heavy profits, it would be difficult to sway their hearts."

Back then, Chen Xuan promised many empty checks, just for the life of the Cloud-Swallowing Eagle!

But it just didn't go as he wished.

Nowadays, both the Chen Family and the Wang Family are major clans.

Although there are no Foundation Establishment Cultivators within the clans, there are many Foundation Establishment retainers.

Ordinary Foundation Establishment families cannot threaten them either.

The old and young of the clans are all arranged to work in the nearby markets and immortal cities.

Although there are grudges, there haven't been any major disturbances.

...

Ten more years passed. Chen Xuan felt his inner magic power was rounded and attempted Foundation Establishment again.

A crushing defeat!

Qi and blood backlash!

After all, he was no longer a youth.

After recuperating for two or three years, he finally recovered, but in this life, there would be no more chances to attempt Foundation Establishment.

Over these years, Wang Qingfeng traveled abroad and earned the reputation of a young Sword Immortal, but in the end, he was ambushed and killed by Foundation Establishment rogue Cultivators outside the Immortal City.

Zhang Keer was heartbroken for a time.

Chen Xuan spent a large sum of money, engaging the head of the Treasure Gambling House's main store to take action, offering his head as a sacrifice to the heavens.

Wang Ling and the other brothers were also saddened to hear of this calamity.

The three wives had given birth to dozens of children for Chen Xuan in total.

Now, three of them had died unexpectedly.

As long as one left the market or Fusheng Immortal City, crises would always be encountered unexpectedly.

Chen Lingze, on the other hand, had been diligent and hardworking over these years, inheriting that drive from Chen Yaran, and had quietly cultivated to the Peak of Qi Refining.

Then, with the help of a foundation establishment pill, he successfully achieved a Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.

Golden Roar also entered the ranks of second-rank Yao Beasts a few years ago, with the help of a large amount of Spirit Medicine and Bloodline spirit liquid.

Nowadays, the Wang Family can be said to have completely established a firm foothold in Biyun Market and Fusheng Immortal City.

The Talisman Workshop will certainly be handed over to Chen Lingze to manage in the future.

And the Wang Family Beast Taming Workshop has not merged with the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce, and Chen Xuan is unwilling to merge the two.

Therefore, of course, it still has to be inherited by the Wang Family.

Wang Quan, the descendant of Wang Lingxue and Feng Yajun, inherited most of Wang Lingxue's skills, but everyone still wanted Wang Ling to take on the responsibility.

But this kid didn't want to; he wanted to spend his life together with Senior Sister Liu from the Beast Taming Peak.

They just let the children be.