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Chapter 165: Chapter 131: Foundation Establishment (Part 3)

Within the sealed grounds.

Once another Ninth-Grade Noble Family emerges, the Court will bestow great rewards upon the Shangguan Family, and since Liuu Qingyun has already reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, the Liuu Family has the potential to be ennobled. In the future, the Shangguan Family will also tend to favor the Liuu Family.

This is why Liuu Qingyun is acting so arrogantly. If not for Shangguan Feng’s presence, he wouldn’t be here spouting threats but rather devising a way to break through the Fu Family’s Mountain Protection Array, leaving no survivors, and plundering all of the Fu Family’s resources.

”I will certainly relay every word of Elder Liuu to my husband.”

Liuu Meizhen, seeing that Liuu Qingyun had not lost his senses after achieving Foundation Establishment, breathed a sigh of relief. As for the annual tribute he mentioned, with her husband’s potential, he would achieve Foundation Establishment in just a few years.

Endure Liuu Qingyun for a few years, so be it.

Before leaving.

Liuu Qingyun suddenly sneered coldly:

”By the way, I see your Fu Family is short-handed, so I have already sent clan members to take over the Yanyang Woodland.”

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At the Qingxu Sect ruins.

After parting with Molan’s fourth sister, Fu Changsheng was about to leave Tailing Mountain, but for some reason, he felt a vague unease.

Without hesitation, he immediately said:

”Exchange for information.”

Buzz!

The panel trembled.

A flood of yellow light surged.

Then, lines of text appeared:

[1: Shangguan Hongyu coincidentally entered the Supreme Elder’s cave mansion within the Inner Sect, where on the stone walls are records of Elder Taixu’s array practices. After Shangguan Hongyu comprehended them, she immediately advanced to become a Tier Two Top-Grade Array Master, with far-reaching impacts on her array achievements, enabling her to go further on the path of Array Dao.]

[2: Your fourth sister captured a Mutated Double-Pupil Rat in the Spirit Beast Mountain, which has the ability to find spiritual objects but is inherently timid.]

[3: Molan found a batch of materials for crafting human-shaped puppets, including Fire Tin Wood, Iron-Horned Rhinoceros Spirit Horn, and Five-Colored Wood, in the ruins of the Treasure Vault.]

[4: In the Inner Sect ruins, Elder Ping Xingfei of the Ping Family clashed with Elder Liya of the Celestial Yang Tribe in the ruins of the Alchemy Tower. As they fought fiercely over the Tier Two Top-Grade Purple Cloud Alchemy Furnace, an Elder from the Cloud Soaring Tribe arrived, collaborating with Elder Liya to seriously wound Ping Xingfei, who only managed to escape by using a Secret Technique.]

[5: Shangguan Feng acquired the Sword Domain Manual of the Eternal Sword from the Qingxu Sect within the Inner Sect.]

[6: Zhang Yuanyuan, Dao Companion of Shangguan Hui, failed to secure the Foundation Establishment Pill at the Wanning Marketplace auction. She has secretly exchanged all of Shangguan Hui’s resources for Spirit Stones and left the Shangguan Family to join a pioneering Foundation Establishment Cultivator.]

[7: Liuu Qingyun succeeded in Foundation Establishment and threatened to attack your Fu Family Territory, but ultimately refrained from attacking your Clan Mountain due to his fear of Shangguan Feng. However, he demands that you annually tribute Spirit Fields, along with thirty percent of profits from your shops and inns, and has already taken over your Fu Family’s Yanyang Woodland.]

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Liuu Qingyun has achieved Foundation Establishment?!

Upon seeing the seventh piece of intelligence, Fu Changsheng immediately halted the exchange; he hadn’t expected Liuu Qingyun to be so fortunate, not only successfully bidding for a Foundation Establishment Pill but also smoothly breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

However.

Fortunately, he had given some instructions to Meizhen before his departure.

However.

Even if he leaves the Eastern Wilderness in three months, it would still take over a month to return to Anyang County. Add to that the time required to find an Alchemist who can craft Foundation Establishment Pills, which will likely be costly. As far as he knows, apart from the dynasty, only the Wanning Commerce Association has the Foundation Establishment Pill Recipe. A round trip would mean that it might be two years before he achieves Foundation Establishment.

Two years bring too many uncertainties.

Especially since Liuu Qingyun has already reached Foundation Establishment. The Quasi-Ninth-Grade Noble Family status previously mentioned by Shangguan Hongyu might very well be taken by his opponents.

Now, he had already met all the requirements for the Three Great Foundation Establishment Gates, and his success rate for Foundation Establishment was already a promising seventy to eighty percent, well worth a try.

Excitement sparked within Fu Changsheng.

After all, the circumstances pressed him.

He focused his thoughts on the panel, noting that after exchanging the intelligence earlier, his clan contribution points still stood at three hundred and thirty-two, which was just enough for a double lottery.

If he could luckily draw an auxiliary spiritual object related to Foundation Establishment, then Foundation Establishment would be almost guaranteed.

With this thought.

He immediately turned back and re-entered the Spirit Medicine Garden of Tailing Mountain, setting up the Illusionary Array. With a thought:

”Double lottery.”

Buzz!

The panel trembled.

A flood of yellow light surged, and as the clan contribution points dropped from three hundred and thirty-two to one hundred and thirty-two, a bulging box appeared in his sleeve.

Fu Changsheng’s breath became noticeably heavier, and anxiety surged within him as never before:

”I hope it’s what I want!”

Taking a deep breath.

He injected a technique into the box with the white-veined leaf pattern on the array.

With a click.

The box opened.

An aroma wafted out, somewhat familiar, and Fu Changsheng’s body jolted as he looked closely, finding a pill bottle inside.

The bottle contained a half-bottle of pale red liquid.

The liquid was extremely viscous.

Removing the cap.

An abundance of Life Essence Power filled the air:

”What is this?”

At this moment.

Several lines of information flashed across his mind; it was the system’s annotation about this Spirit Liquid. But after rereading the information to ensure its accuracy.

The smile at the corner of Fu Changsheng’s mouth was no longer concealable:

”It’s actually the Foundation Establishment Base Liquid.”

One of the auxiliary spiritual objects for Foundation Establishment!

According to the system, although its effects are not as potent as the Foundation Establishment Pill, consuming this can still increase the success rate by four percent.

Four percent!

For him, that’s entirely sufficient.

Fu Changsheng was overjoyed, never expecting this double lottery to yield something so valuable. With this at hand, his Foundation Establishment success was almost certain!

Checking his surroundings.

Within the Spirit Medicine Garden, the Spiritual Qi near the ice lake where Foundation Establishment Pills are nurtured was the most abundant, so he retrieved the array flag, placed it back in the ice lake, and set up a medium Spirit Gathering Array using Middle-Grade Spirit Stones from his storage bag.

Once everything was set up, he gave Xiaoqing and the Spirit-devouring Insect instructions to guard the place, leaving a note for them to take to the fourth sister and Molan.