49: The disaster of monsters returns to its peak

[Year 156.]

[Your cultivation has recovered to the third level of the Golden Core.]

[Moreover, under your guidance over these years, the Su Family has developed increasingly well, and your descendants are growing in number.]

[However, you personally still maintain a strategy of quality over quantity.]

[You still only have five children.]

[In the same year, a piece of news reached your ears.]

[The sea beasts of the Luanshen Sea have besieged the city!]

[The Great Abyss Dynasty is being attacked from both sides and has once again begun to conscript Cultivators.]

[This time, the momentum is immense.]

[Even though you paid many costs, the Dynasty Alliance only temporarily let the Su Family off.]

[Year 163.]

[Under the repeated conscription of the Dynasty Alliance, you have no choice but to take Mu Ningshuang and set off on the road to the Great Abyss Dynasty.]

[By this time, the Chaotic Star Archipelago has long since fallen.]

[The front line where the Dynasty Alliance fights the Yao Beasts of the Luanshen Sea has shifted to the coastline.]

[In order to engage in long-term warfare with the sea beasts, a city named Black Iron City has risen from the ground.]

[The destination of your trip is right here.]

[You arrive at Black Iron City.]

[You join the command of a person named Layman Qingzhu to begin resisting the Yao Beast invasion.]

[You are just slacking off here.]

[You put in no real effort throughout the days.]

[Some of the Cultivators in the same squad as you think the same way.]

[After all, their lives are their own, while these territories belong to the Great Abyss Dynasty.]

[The native Cultivators of the Great Abyss Dynasty are better off, as they understand the principle that if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.]

[However, those Cultivators transferred from other Imperial Dynasties by the Dynasty Alliance are completely hiding in the back.]

[Very quickly, your squad becomes the tail-end existence among all the squads.]

[You are sent to the very front line.]

[This is the place with the heaviest casualties on the entire battlefield; in just half a month, the number of people in your squad has been reduced by half.]

[You know that you cannot continue like this.]

[Although you and Mu Ningshuang have suffered no casualties by relying on your Body Refining Realms and spiritual bodies respectively, you will sooner or later die on the front line if this continues.]

[You discuss escaping from here with Layman Qingzhu.]

[Upon hearing this, Layman Qingzhu sighs.]

[How could he not want to escape from this place as soon as possible? But if he were to leave, what would happen to his Green Bamboo Temple behind him? And what would happen to his Disciples and Family?]

[The Dynasty Alliance would definitely use them to make an example.]

[Listening to his words, you fall silent.]

[Indeed, becoming the leader of a faction means being destined to be fettered by that faction.]

[You are the same.]

[If you were to escape on your own, what would happen to your descendants?]

[You cannot help but feel a bit nostalgic for the time when you were a Loose Cultivator.]

[But in just an instant, you dismiss this thought.]

[Because you know deeply the difficulty of walking the Dao alone.]

[Not to mention the help the Power of Leadership brings you, just look at those renowned Tribulation Transcendence cultivators; which one of them does not have the support of a massive faction behind them?]

[Year 146.]

[After a year of fighting, only four people remain in your squad.]

[You, Mu Ningshuang, Layman Qingzhu, and a young girl who looks quite young.]

[Fortunately, the sea beasts begin to retreat at this time.]

[You are able to return to the Su Family.]

[At the same time, although you were forced to the front line as a punishment, the Dynasty Alliance still gave you a considerable amount of cultivation resources.]

[A flicker of gratitude actually arises in your heart.]

[You feel that the Dynasty Alliance's governance of this Cultivation World seems not bad.]

[But soon, you dismiss this thought again.]

[With your cheat, how could you stay under others for long?]

[Year 152.]

[As your descendants successively break through to the Purple Mansion Realm and Ji Qingxuan successfully forms her Golden Core, your cultivation improves once again.]

[Your cultivation has recovered to the fifth level of the Golden Core.]

[Moreover, over these years, the Dynasty Alliance has never conscripted Cultivators again.]

[It seems that everything has returned to the right track.]

[The Su Family is developing more and more prosperously.]

[The Su Family Chamber of Commerce, with the help of the Pill King Pavilion, has ushered in comprehensive development.]

[Year 161.]

[Your cultivation has recovered to the sixth level of the Golden Core.]

[Although you can no longer rely on your own cultivation, the Power of Leadership is continuously fed back from the Family.]

[At the same time, you begin to let some descendants with talent for Body Refining engage in both Dharma and Body cultivation.]

[This is to drive the improvement of your Body Refining Realm.]

[However, you do not give them the Wild God Body Refining Art that you practice.]

[Instead, you teach them the Great Wilderness Body Refining Technique.]

[This is not because you do not trust them, but because there are many people and many eyes; every extra person who knows adds a layer of risk.]

[In the current Cultivation World, even eighth-tier or seventh-tier Cultivation Techniques can cause a storm of blood, let alone this ninth-tier technique that can lead directly to the Immortal Realm?]

[Once such a technique is exposed, what awaits the Su Family will inevitably be a catastrophe of annihilation.]

[Year 176.]

[You are now approaching two hundred years old.]

[The Su Family's faction is crazily increasing its strength.]

[Your cultivation has also recovered like a snowball.]

[You have recovered to the Peak of the Golden Core.]

[At the same time, the war in the Eastern Continent Cultivation World has ended.]

[The Boundless Immortal Dynasty could not contact their Old Ancestor far away in the Immortal Realm and was ultimately annihilated by the Dynasty Alliance.]

[The Eastern Continent Cultivation World has ushered in a major reshuffling.]

[The once arrogant Kelei Academy has faced a purge due to having chosen the wrong side.]

[However, because they had previously maintained good relations with many factions, they managed to survive after consuming a large amount of resources in compensation.]

[Among the two Palaces, one Academy, three Sects, and four Families, besides Kelei Academy, two other factions sided with the Boundless Immortal Dynasty.]

[They are the Proud Heaven Sect and the Chu Family.]

[However, they do not have the luck and strength of Kelei Academy.]

[The Proud Heaven Sect fled far overseas, while the Chu Family was directly annihilated!]

[Among the major top factions, they are replaced by the established faction Taiyi Sect and the newly risen Qin Family respectively.]

[The entire Cultivation World begins to rapidly recover its vitality.]

[You seize the opportunity to hoard a large number of Spirit Pills and medicines.]

[Subsequently, you enter a long period of seclusion.]

[Year 233.]

[You have undergone the longest seclusion of your life.]

[During this period, the Su Family has ushered in an epic improvement.]

[Among your five children, all except Su Qingyun have reached the Golden Core Realm.]

[And Su Qingyun has not failed your expectations; after his cultivation was crippled, he restarted Body Refining, and in just a few decades, he has advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching the Peak of the fourth-tier Body Refining.]

[As long as he waits for a suitable opportunity, he can reach the fifth-tier Body Refining Realm like you at any time.]

[You cannot help but marvel at this child's Genius.]