Eternal Immortal Clan: It All Started When I Married My Junior Sister!

17: Foundation building periodChen Xu’s mind was adrift, but the slight squirming of his daughter in his arms pulled him back to reality.

He looked down at the tiny life, understanding dawned in his heart.

It was precisely the birth of this child that brought him this immense Opportunity.

He carried his daughter back into the delivery room.

Zhao Linger leaned against the headboard, her face a little pale, but her eyes were full of gentle smiles.

”Husband, give the child a name.”

”Let’s call her... Chen Yuerong.”

Chen Xu sat by the bed and gently placed the child beside her.

Zhao Linger looked at her daughter’s tender little face, softly reciting the name, a deeper smile gracing her face.

Chen Xu did not mention the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment method, but simply stayed with his wife, chatting about everyday things.

Only after Zhao Linger fell asleep from exhaustion did he quietly leave the room.

In the courtyard, Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue were directing the servants to clean up, while Chen Qingqing sat alone in a wheelchair, quietly looking at the lanterns under the corridor, lost in thought.

Chen Xu’s gaze swept over them one by one, and he made a decision in his heart.

A few days later, Zhao Linger’s body had recovered significantly.

Chen Xu gathered his three wives and Chen Qingqing in the main hall.

”I plan to enter seclusion and attempt Foundation Establishment.”

His voice was calm, but to those present, it was no less than a clap of thunder.

”Husband, you... you found a way to Foundation Establishment?”

Bu Yifan was the first to react, her face filled with pleasant surprise.

Both she and Sun Xiaoyue had experienced failed Foundation Establishment, and they knew how difficult this step was.

”Yes, I have some confidence.”

Chen Xu nodded.

”That’s great!”

Sun Xiaoyue excitedly stood up, ”Do we need to prepare anything? Are there enough Spirit Stones? Should we ask Dao Xuan to send some Medicinal Pills back from the Sect?”

Chen Xu smiled and shook his head: ”Everything is prepared, you don’t need to worry. During my seclusion, I’ll entrust the Family’s affairs to you.”

His gaze finally fell on Chen Qingqing.

Chen Qingqing had not spoken the entire time.

Her hand, resting on the armrest of the wheelchair, unconsciously tightened.

Foundation Establishment.

This man she looked down upon was actually going to embark on this path as well.

Her heart was a mix of emotions, with jealousy and unwillingness.

But more than that, it was a complex emotion that she couldn’t quite describe.

She looked at Chen Xu’s calm face and suddenly asked, ”How confident are you?”

”Ten percent.”

Chen Xu’s answer was simple and confident.

Chen Qingqing’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Ten percent?

How could he claim ten percent?

Even she, who was hailed as a once-in-a-century genius of the Sect, only dared to say she had eighty percent confidence before Foundation Establishment.

She wanted to ask more, but looking at Chen Xu’s deep eyes, she couldn’t utter another word.

She suddenly realized that she might have never truly understood this man.

Chen Xu didn’t offer further explanation. After giving all his instructions, he walked alone into the Pill Furnace room in the backyard, which he had converted into a seclusion chamber.

As the stone door slowly closed, the atmosphere throughout the Chen Family Courtyard became solemn.

Bu Yifan immediately ordered all servants not to approach the backyard by even half a step.

Sun Xiaoyue personally guarded outside the seclusion chamber, not allowing anyone to disturb him.

Even the young children seemed to sense this unusual atmosphere.

They became exceptionally well-behaved.

Chen Qingqing had her maid push her wheelchair to a large tree in the courtyard.

From there, she could just see the tightly shut stone chamber.

She wanted to witness with her own eyes how this man would create a miracle.

Inside the stone chamber, Chen Xu sat cross-legged.

Before him, five spiritual objects, each emitting a different glow, floated.

A section of millennium lightning-struck wood, a piece of deep-sea cold iron, a blazing sun flower, an azure water pearl, and a handful of heavy breathing earth.

These were all Five Elements spiritual objects he had meticulously selected from the companion plants of that medicinal garden and his accumulated resources over the years.

He did not start immediately, but first adjusted his state to its Peak.

Then, with a thought, the Inverting Five Elements Array, laid beneath the entire Chen Family Courtyard, began to operate slowly.

Outside, the residents of Ninghai Town were oblivious.

But within the Chen Family Courtyard, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a ten-mile radius was converging towards the backyard at a visible speed.

Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue’s expressions changed; they had never witnessed such a terrifying Spiritual Qi tide.

Even Chen Qingqing looked up in shock.

This momentum was more than ten times greater than when she underwent Foundation Establishment back then!

In the stone chamber, Chen Xu inhaled, like a long whale swallowing water, drawing a massive amount of Spiritual Qi into his abdomen.

His Qi Refining twelfth-level cultivation, which had long reached its limit, at this moment, roared through its Bottleneck.

Gaseous spiritual power wildly rotated and compressed in his Dantian Qi Sea.

Gradually showing signs of liquefaction.

Ordinary Cultivators, upon reaching this step, would carefully guide this liquefied true essence to build their Foundation.

But Chen Xu did not.

He formed hand seals and chanted incantations.

”Five Elements, rise!”

The five spiritual objects before him instantly burst into brilliant light, transforming into five streams of pure Origin power.

They surged into his body.

Chen Xu’s body trembled violently, and five-colored light emerged on his skin.

His entire being was like a Pill Furnace on the verge of exploding.

”Heavenly Lightning, come!”

He suddenly looked up, his eyes shooting out brilliant light.

The Inverting Five Elements Array changed again, and a profound power soared into the sky.

As if establishing a connection with some unseen existence in the ethereal realm.

The clear sky suddenly became overcast!

A silver electric snake, only as thick as a finger, pierced through the clouds, ignored the obstruction of the stone chamber, and struck Chen Xu’s head with unparalleled precision.

”Sizzle—”

Chen Xu’s entire body trembled violently, his clothes instantly turning to ash, his skin charred black, and the smell of roasted meat permeated the air.

Excruciating pain! Unimaginable excruciating pain!

But he did not scream; instead, he gritted his teeth, circulated his cultivation technique, and guided this violent lightning power to course through his limbs and bones!

Tempering every inch of his tendons and bones, every drop of his blood.

In the courtyard, Sun Xiaoyue’s face turned pale from the sudden heavenly lightning, almost crying out in alarm.

Bu Yifan quickly covered her mouth.

Her eyes were also filled with worry.

Chen Qingqing gripped the armrest of her wheelchair tightly!

Using lightning to temper the Physical Body!

This... this was not Foundation Establishment; this was something only a madman would do!

However, the anomaly within the stone chamber had not yet ended.

”Earth Fire, refine!”

Chen Xu roared, and the Inverting Five Elements Array activated the earthpulse Qi beneath Ninghai Town.

An invisible wisp of flame rose from the ground beneath him, entering his Sea of Consciousness.

It began to scorch his Divine Soul.

Under the dual torment of physical pain and Divine Soul burning.

Chen Xu’s consciousness began to blur.

But the belief in his heart grew even stronger.

For his wife and children, for this Family, to be able to support a true sky for them, he must succeed!

He didn’t know how much time had passed, perhaps an hour, perhaps a year.

When the last trace of Heavenly Lightning power merged into his bone marrow, and the last wisp of earthpulse fire transformed into nourishment for his Divine Soul.

Chen Xu’s nearly collapsed body began to radiate new vitality.

The charred skin peeled off inch by inch.

Revealing new skin beneath, as smooth as warm jade.

His originally deep eyes now became as vast as the starry sky.

His black hair moved without wind, and his entire demeanor underwent an earth-shattering change.

In his Dantian Qi Sea, a crystal clear.

Nine-story Dao platform, carved with profound Dao patterns, slowly took shape.

Above the Dao platform, liquid true essence was like a boundless lake.

Immortal Dao Foundation Establishment, accomplished!

A power far more than ten times stronger than before filled his limbs and bones.

He could clearly hear his wives’ breathing in the courtyard.

He could feel an ant crawling more than ten miles away.

His lifespan, at the moment the Dao platform was forged, directly increased by five hundred years!

Chen Xu slowly opened his eyes and let out a long, turbid breath.

He stood up, and with a casual wave, a new blue robe draped over his body.

”Creak—”

The stone door, which had been closed for several days, finally opened slowly.

When Chen Xu’s figure appeared at the doorway, Bu Yifan, Sun Xiaoyue, and Chen Qingqing in the distance, who had been waiting outside, were all stunned.

It was still that familiar face, but the feeling it gave was completely different.

If the previous Chen Xu was a steady mountain!

Then the current him was an unfathomable deep abyss!

Making people feel awe with just one glance.

”Husband!”

”Brother Chen!”

Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue cried tears of joy, rushing forward from left and right.

Chen Xu smiled as he embraced them, gently comforting them: ”I’m fine, you’ve been worried.”

Chen Qingqing sat in her wheelchair, watching this scene from afar, her eyes filled with immense complexity.

She had witnessed the birth of a miracle with her own eyes.

This caused her heart, which had long been dead, to stir once again.

News of Chen Xu’s successful Foundation Establishment quickly spread throughout the Chen Family.

Chen Daoxuan and Chen Nianfan, along with the other children far away in Qingyun Sect, also received the news!

They immediately requested leave and rushed home.

For a time, the Chen Family Courtyard in Ninghai Town was decorated with lanterns and streamers, bustling with excitement.

On the seventh day after Chen Xu’s successful Foundation Establishment, the Chen Family Courtyard was hosting a Family banquet.

Just as everyone was toasting and enjoying themselves, the butler hurried in to report.

”Master, the Family Head of the Li Family from Shangya Prefecture City has come to visit, saying he wishes to congratulate Master on his successful Foundation Establishment.”

The Li Family from Shangya Prefecture City?

Chen Xu raised an eyebrow.

He knew of this Li Family.

It was an Immortal Cultivation Family in Shangya Prefecture City that had been passed down for nearly two hundred years, with a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Old Ancestor presiding over it, giving them considerable influence in the Prefecture City area.

The two families had no previous contact.

”Please invite them in.”

Soon, a middle-aged man in his fifties, dressed in brocade robes, walked in with several younger generations, his face wreathed in smiles.

”Li is here uninvited. I heard that Fellow Daoist Chen has successfully achieved Foundation Establishment, and I specially came to congratulate you! A small gift, a token of my respect!”

The Li Family Head adopted a very humble posture. With a wave of his hand, the servants behind him immediately presented several large boxes.

The boxes opened, revealing them filled with gleaming gold bars, jewels, and jade artifacts.

And on the topmost tray, there were also three Magical Artifacts shimmering with spiritual light.

A Flying Sword, a shield, and a jade pendant!

Although they were all Low Grade Magical Artifacts, for a small Family, it was quite a significant expenditure.

Chen Xu calmly observed all this, understanding in his heart.

His successful Foundation Establishment meant that a new Foundation Establishment power had emerged in Ninghai Town, and even the entire Shangya Prefecture City.

The Li Family’s visit, while ostensibly for congratulations, was in fact for probing and forging connections.

He did not refuse, politely accepted the gifts, and invited the Li Family Head to join the banquet.

During the banquet, the Li Family Head subtly probed, his words full of flattery.

Chen Xu merely responded indifferently, not revealing too much.

After seeing off the Li Family, the atmosphere of the Family banquet became somewhat different.

Chen Daoxuan and the other older children looked at their father, their eyes filled with admiration and pride.

They knew that from today onwards, the Chen Family was no longer a mundane wealthy household that needed to depend on the Qingyun Sect.

They were now a true Immortal Cultivation Family in every sense!

Chen Xu looked at the hall full of children and grandchildren, and at his gentle wife beside him.

Then he glanced at Chen Qingqing, who was silently drinking tea in the corner.

A faint smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth!