150: Emerging from seclusion, a tremendous upheaval occurred within the family.

Inside the Five Elements Hall.

Shen Yuanmo glanced at the hall spirit, who was still in a daze beside him, and said with a smile, "I should go now."

"Ah? Oh! Yes, New Master!" The hall spirit shuddered, suddenly snapped back to attention, and bowed respectfully.

The look in its eyes towards Shen Yuanmo had changed from initial respect to now... awe, and even fear.

This New Master was truly a Prodigy, too terrifying.

"Thank you for protecting me during this seclusion," Shen Yuanmo nodded, then added, "Don't worry, next time I return, I'll bring you some 'delicious food'."

"Delicious food?" The hall spirit was puzzled, not understanding what he meant.

Shen Yuanmo smiled and didn't explain.

The "delicious food" he spoke of naturally referred to the Heaven And Earth Treasure containing various Law powers.

These things were definitely supreme delicacies for the hall spirit, which fed on Law power.

Having given his instructions, Shen Yuanmo no longer lingered. With a thought, he activated the five elements token, opening the spatial portal back to the Family Forbidden Ground.

Stepping out, stars shifted and time flowed.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the familiar, secluded cultivation chamber located in the deepest part of the Shen Family Forbidden Ground.

However, the moment he stepped out of the chamber and saw the scene before him, even with his current state of mind, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"This..."

He remembered very clearly that before his seclusion, although Linjiang City had been rebuilt, the Spiritual Qi was still barely sufficient.

But now?

Outside the chamber, the dense Five Elements Spiritual Qi, almost liquefying into mist, rushed towards him!

He just casually took a breath, and felt a pure energy surge along his Meridians into his Dantian.

The concentration of this Spiritual Qi was more than ten times denser than before his seclusion!

Although far from the Five Elements Hall, it could still be considered a decent blessed land.

It seems that Father Old Ancestor and the others made good use of the resources he left behind to develop Linjiang City, this small border town in Baiyue Prefecture, very well!

A thought stirred in Shen Yuanmo's mind. His vast Divine Sense, comparable to a Nascent Soul Early Stage Cultivator, instantly spread out from him like an invisible tide, covering all directions.

The next moment, the entire new Linjiang City was clearly reflected in his mind.

The new Linjiang City was three times larger than he remembered. On the tall, thick city walls, reinforcing runes he had personally arranged were inscribed, flickering with faint Spiritual Light, giving a sense of indestructibility.

Inside the city, streets were wide, markets stood in great numbers, traffic flowed like water, and voices buzzed with activity.

Countless Cultivators came and went within his Divine Sense perception, among them even many Foundation Establishment Stage existences, presenting a prosperous and flourishing scene of an immortal city!

This... is this really Linjiang City?

Shen Yuanmo's heart was filled with shock.

How long had this seclusion lasted?

He extended his Divine Sense to the core area of the Family.

Inside the deliberation hall, Father Shen Qiming had surprisingly reached the Late Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation!

In the pill room, Shen Qifa Shen Qifa was also at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage!

And Old Ancestor Shen Zongdao, who was overseeing the Family Scripture Pavilion, had an even more profound Aura, having reached the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection realm!

His entire body's magical power surged, only a single step away from the Golden Core Dao! As long as he cultivated for a few more years, he could attempt to break through to the Golden Core realm!

The cultivation of these three pillars of the Family had undergone such earth-shattering changes!

And what surprised and shocked him the most was... within his Divine Sense perception, the entire Shen Family actually had... a total of thirty-six clansmen with Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation!

Before Shen Yuanmo's seclusion, the entire Shen Family, including him, only had a mere four Foundation Establishment Cultivators!

And now, thirty-six!

On the Family's training ground, a guard team composed of twenty Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators, led by a Middle Stage Foundation Establishment instructor, was practicing a profound combined attack Formation!

Sword light gleamed, magical power surged, and the Aura was astonishing!

The children of the Family's new generation passing by all stood tall, with bright eyes and faces full of confidence and vitality, no longer showing the previous numbness and inferiority.

The entire Family's spiritual outlook, from top to bottom, had undergone a tremendous change!

"Ten years..."

Shen Yuanmo easily obtained the duration of his seclusion through his Divine Sense.

It turned out that his re-refining of his Lifebound Treasure had unknowingly taken a full ten years!

Ten years, in the blink of an eye.

But for a rapidly developing Family, ten years was enough for too many things to happen.

Shen Yuanmo's figure flickered, and the next moment, he appeared silently inside the deliberation hall.

In the hall, Shen Zongdao, Shen Qiming, and Shen Qifa Shen Qifa were gathered around a huge sand table map, discussing something intensely.

"...No! Qingzhou is too deep; our Shen Family's Medicinal Pill and Magical Artifact business cannot expand there on a large scale for now! We haven't fully grasped the Baiyue Prefecture market yet!"

Shen Qiming pointed at a spot on the map, his brows tightly furrowed.

"Big Brother, you are mistaken!" Shen Qifa Shen Qifa retorted.

"The Baiyue Prefecture market is only so big, and our Shen Family already occupies seventy percent! If we continue to develop, we will touch upon the interests of those established Families! If we don't go out, we will have to go to war with those established Families!"

"Qifa makes sense," Shen Zongdao mused, "but Qingzhou indeed poses too much risk. I suggest we can first infiltrate the neighboring Yunze Prefecture..."

Just as the three were arguing, a calm voice suddenly sounded in their ears.

"Old Ancestor, Father, Shen Qifa."

"Who's there?!"

The three were startled and looked up sharply!

They were horrified to find that, at some unknown point, a young man in a green robe was quietly standing before them.

And the three of them—one Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, two Late Foundation Establishment Stage—had not sensed him at all!

It wasn't until he spoke that they realized there was an extra person here!

This... how was this possible?!

When they clearly saw the newcomer's face, all three of them froze.

Immediately, a huge surge of ecstasy welled up in their hearts!

It was Yuan Mo!

It was Yuan Mo, who had single-handedly supported the entire Family!

He had emerged from seclusion!

However... Shen Zongdao and the other two quickly noticed something was amiss.

The Shen Yuanmo before them stood there quietly, without emitting any fluctuations of magical power, just like an ordinary Mortal.

But they were horrified to find that no matter how they urged their Divine Sense to probe, they were completely unable to discern Shen Yuanmo's cultivation!

His Aura was like a profound, boundless starry sky, or like an abyss that devoured all things—unfathomably deep, simply impossible to gauge!

This feeling was ten or even a hundred times more terrifying than when he had slain that Nascent Soul True Lord ten years ago!

"Yuan... Yuan Mo?"

Shen Zongdao's lips trembled, his voice slightly shaking, his eyes filled with excitement and awe.

"You... you've emerged from seclusion?"

Shen Yuanmo looked at the shocked expressions of his three relatives, his heart warmed, and a gentle smile appeared on his face as he nodded.

"Old Ancestor, Father, Shen Qifa."

"I'm back."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the huge sand table and the Aura on the three of them, which was far stronger than before, and said with satisfaction:

"It seems the Family has developed well during my ten years of seclusion."

"Have you encountered any trouble?"