134: Core Disciple Status

Green mountains hide secluded sights, ancient trees stand strong in the forest. Searching vast cloud seas, blessed lands and grotto-heavens are hidden. Smoke curls from the alchemical furnace, jade liquid moistens the Dao's light. Ask not about worldly affairs, eternal life brings endless joy.

The Chen Family ranks its generations by these characters, from the founder Old Ancestor Chen Qing Yuan to the generation of Chen Jiancang, spanning five generations.

Currently, within the Chen Family, besides Old Ancestor Chen Qing Yuan who is still alive, there are very few elders of the 'Shan' generation remaining.

Most of the current power holders in the Chen Family are of the 'Yin' generation, the 'You' generation is just starting to emerge, and the 'Jian' generation consists mostly of young people like Chen Jiancang.

The Chen Immortal Clan, with the old replacing the new, still cannot escape the cycle of fate.

At this moment, Chen Jianyun couldn't help but touch her lower abdomen. Having practiced Mortal martial arts, her Internal Energy was abundant, and she could clearly sense a small life being nurtured within her belly.

"Mhm, Jiancang Ge, this time when we go to the Main Spiritual Vein, let's see if there are any spiritual treasures that can nurture and cultivate Spiritual Roots. Otherwise, with my Mortal body, if we don't make some preparations, our child's chance of Awakening a Spiritual Root later will be much smaller." Chen Jianyun's eyes showed a look of anticipation, yearning for what would happen after her child was born.

Chen Jiancang nodded. He knew very well that even if both parents possessed Spiritual Roots, there was still a certain chance that their offspring would not be able to develop Spiritual Roots, let alone when one parent was a Mortal.

Of course, there are also some spiritual treasures in the cultivation world that can increase the chance of offspring Awakening Spiritual Roots, but these kinds of treasures are extremely expensive.

Ordinary cultivators have no opportunity or sufficient funds to purchase such treasures.

But for Chen Jiancang, a treasure worth several thousand spiritual stones that could increase the chance of Awakening a Spiritual Root was not considered particularly valuable.

Currently, Chen Jiancang had tens of thousands of spiritual stones, not including the contribution points rewarded by the Chen Family. This also didn't count the Qinghe Qi Cultivation Pill and various Five Elements First Order High Grade Spirit Talismans he had been frantically refining day and night.

With Chen Jiancang's current wealth, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator who had been cultivating for a long time did not have as much financial strength as him.

"Mhm, don't worry. After this trip, everything will be properly prepared." Chen Jiancang took out his magic sword, held Chen Jianyun, stepped onto the sword body, and headed towards the Main Spiritual Vein.

In the past, when Chen Jiancang flew with his sword, he couldn't fly very far before the spiritual energy accumulated in his body would be completely depleted, forcing him to use pills like Qi Gathering Pill to replenish his spiritual energy.

But after breaking through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, the spiritual energy consumed by sword flight could no longer keep up with the spiritual energy refined by his own Cultivation Technique.

He no longer had to worry about running out of spiritual energy.

More than an hour later, Chen Jiancang slowly landed at the entrance of the Main Spiritual Vein's mountain gate with Chen Jianyun.

Flying was prohibited in the Market. Neither Chen Family members nor external rogue cultivators were allowed to fly directly above the Market. If anyone violated the prohibition, Disciples from the Law Enforcement Hall patrolling the Market would come to punish them, and this applied even to Foundation Establishment cultivators.

At this moment, Chen Jianyun curiously observed the scenery of the Main Spiritual Vein. Looking at the cultivators entering and leaving the mountain gate, the envy in her eyes was even harder to suppress.

From time to time, cultivators would arrive at the mountain gate from all directions, either flying on swords or riding on boats.

"Jiancang Ge, are all these people cultivators?" Chen Jianyun couldn't believe that the flow of people entering and leaving the Market, estimated roughly, was no less than several thousand.

She had witnessed such a grand scene of human flow in the capitals of Mortal kingdoms, but the people entering and leaving the Mortal capitals were only Mortals, while here, everyone entering and leaving were cultivators.

Her heart became increasingly determined to have the child in her womb awaken a Spiritual Root.

"The Main Spiritual Vein is where the largest Spiritual Vein in the Qingya Mountain Range is located, and its Market is also the largest Market in the entire Qingya Mountain Range. With hundreds of thousands of cultivators in the Qingya Mountain Range, rogue cultivators naturally come here in an endless stream to trade," Chen Jiancang nodded and explained.

Chen Jiancang led Chen Jianyun, not stopping to wander, but walking directly towards the Mission Hall of the Main Spiritual Vein.

The benefits and welfare of the Chen Family's Core Disciples are all distributed by the Mission Hall. Chen Jiancang was now preparing to go and claim his welfare first, and then go to the Market.

At this time, inside the Mission Hall, Chen Family Disciples were looking at the missions on the board in groups of two or three, trying to find a suitable mission.

Chen Jiancang, holding Chen Jianyun's hand, stepped through the Mission Hall's entrance and walked directly towards the counter.

"Hello, I would like to claim the welfare benefits for Chen Family Core Disciples. Here are my Core Disciple document and Chen Family identity token." Chen Jiancang untied the identity token from his waist, took out the document from his storage bag, and handed them over together.

Chen Jiancang's voice wasn't loud, but as soon as he spoke, everyone in the hall turned their gaze towards him, looking at the person in front of them with curiosity.

One should know that Chen Family Core Disciples have a noble status, and their monthly welfare benefits are personally delivered to their homes by people dispatched from the Mission Hall. They had never seen a Core Disciple personally come to claim them.

"Who is this? Is there such a person among the Core Disciples?" Several Chen Family members next to the counter who were preparing to accept missions curiously sized up Chen Jiancang and started whispering.

"I don't recognize him. I've basically seen all the Chen Family Core Disciples, and there's no such person. Could he be newly promoted?" As soon as this person finished speaking, someone remembered something and quickly said, "I remember now! A few months ago, the Chen Family updated the Core Disciple list and added a Core Disciple named Chen Jiancang. Could it be this person?"

"Are you Jiancang Zuxiong?" Someone was curious and walked forward, cupped their hands in greeting, and asked.

Chen Jiancang looked at the other party in confusion, unsure of their purpose, but seeing that they were also a Chen Family member, he returned the greeting and replied, "That is indeed me."

"Haha, I am Chen Jianlin from Baimai Mountain. I am currently an Alchemist in the Dan Hall. It's a pleasure to meet you!" Chen Jianlin introduced himself enthusiastically.

Chen Jiancang saw that this person was also an Alchemist and introduced himself so enthusiastically, so he also returned the greeting and said, "What a coincidence, I am also an Alchemist. If there's a chance in the future, we can exchange pointers."

"Oh? Zuxiong is also an Alchemist?" Chen Jianlin asked in surprise. In his opinion, for Chen Jiancang to become a Chen Family Core Disciple, his Spiritual Root talent must be absolutely extraordinary. Even if it wasn't a special Spiritual Root talent, it would be a dual Spiritual Root talent.

How could he not be surprised that such a Genius was also an Alchemist?

But he absolutely could not have imagined that Chen Jiancang was merely a Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root, completely unrelated to those geniuses. His status as a Core Disciple was entirely due to contributing the Qinghe Qi Cultivation Pill formula, a reward from the Chen Family.

"Yes."

Just at this moment, the staff member behind the counter had finished verifying Chen Jiancang's identity and the authenticity of his document.

His face was also full of enthusiastic smiles as he returned Chen Jiancang's identity token to him.

"Zuxiong, please wait a moment. I will go and invite the Deacon to come."

Chen Jiancang's identity as a Core Disciple was confirmed. The distribution of welfare benefits could only be handled by the Mission Hall Deacon.