Becoming an Immortal and Ancestor, Starting from the Clan-protecting Divine Beast

37: Chapter 37 Transforming Luoyun, Changes and GainsAbove Luoyun Mountain, a five-zhang-tall Black Ape held a First-stage Spiritual Vein that glowed with emerald light throughout its body. Dense Spiritual Qi emanated from the vein, causing the Spiritual Qi in the surrounding area to rise slightly; it was quite miraculous.

”Go!”

Black yao power swept out, directly merging this Spiritual Vein into the base of Luoyun Mountain. A dazzling cyan light erupted from the entire mountain, as if a giant had turned over; the territory under the Chen Family’s jurisdiction shook as if there were an earthquake.

Yuan Feng took action in time to protect the surrounding Mortal villages. He felt somewhat awkward, not expecting the transformation of Luoyun Mountain to cause such a commotion.

After all, it was merging with a Second-stage Spiritual Vein. Luoyun Mountain, which had only been a First-stage spirit mountain, was like a Peak Qi Refining Cultivator who had just taken a Foundation Establishment Pill, undergoing the transition from the first stage to the second.

A Second-stage Spiritual Vein corresponds to the Foundation Establishment level and already possesses a faint, hazy spirituality. However, it still follows its instincts, falling into large rivers and mountain ranges to transform them into a spiritual land.

Yuan Feng nodded in satisfaction. He was already a Foundation Establishment Great Demon, and his daily cultivation breathing was enough to drain the Spiritual Qi for dozens of miles around; if he didn’t do this, the others wouldn’t be able to Cultivate at all.

Therefore, he had pulled out the Wang Family’s Second-stage Spiritual Vein to make Luoyun Mountain undergo a transformation, thereby ensuring that his daily cultivation wouldn’t leave the other Cultivators of the Chen Family without Spiritual Qi to absorb.

It is rumored that places with a Third-stage Spiritual Vein turn into blessed lands capable of supporting the cultivation of a Purple Mansion True Person, with a density of Spiritual Qi far beyond that of a Second-stage Spiritual Vein.

The advancement of Luoyun Mountain lasted for a full three days. Its appearance changed greatly, becoming more towering and majestic, growing from several hundred zhang tall to over a thousand zhang.

The Five Spirits Defensive Grand Formation was fully activated to protect the buildings on the summit, preventing them from collapsing due to the transformation of the spirit mountain.

However, with the advancement and transformation of Luoyun Mountain, the Chen Family would likely need to readjust the layout of their buildings; not only the summit but also the mountainside and the foot of the mountain could have buildings added.

In the future, the core members of the Chen Family would live on the summit, while the collateral branches and outer chambers would live on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain.

With Luoyun Mountain as the center, radiating outward, whether they were Mortals or small Qi Refining families, all would be vassals of the Chen Family.

In addition, this First-stage top-grade Formation, which had just been bought not long ago and hadn’t yet played much of a role, would likely need to be removed or moved to the mountainside.

With Yuan Feng becoming a Foundation Establishment Great Demon, the Chen Family could already be considered a Foundation Establishment great Family. Naturally, the Mountain-Protecting Formation could no longer use a First-stage Formation; at the very least, a Second-stage Low Grade Formation was needed to match the status of a Foundation Establishment power.

As for the expense of purchasing the large Formation, it would naturally be covered by the Wang Family, as the Storage Ring of the Wang Family’s Old Ancestor was already in Yuan Feng’s hands.

”Zhu Xiao thanks Uncle Yuan. Without Uncle Yuan, the Chen Family would likely have been in great danger.” At this moment, Chen Zhuxiao flew over and bowed respectfully.

Yuan Feng looked him up and down several times and actually felt a trace of sharpness from Chen Zhuxiao’s Dantian Qi Sea—a peerless sharpness that could cause him injury.

”Without me, the Chen Family probably wouldn’t have had any issues, right, Zhu Xiao?”

Chen Zhuxiao stood up and saw Yuan Feng looking at him with a half-smile, which left him somewhat at a loss: ”Uncle Yuan, I...”

”Alright, this is where your Opportunity lies, no need to say more.” Yuan Feng raised his hand to interrupt, his tone becoming serious: ”You are the person with the most outstanding Aptitude in this generation of the Chen Family and will have to shoulder the entire Chen Family in the future, but there are too many entanglements on you, which might not be a good thing for the Chen Family.”

After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, his Realm was elevated, and his vision broadened accordingly, allowing him to see much more than before.

There were quite a few schemes surrounding Chen Zhuxiao. Even though he was a Foundation Establishment Great Demon who had aggressively killed the Wang Family’s Old Ancestor immediately upon breaking through, he was temporarily helpless regarding the trouble surrounding the former.

”When in Qi Refining, one thinks of Foundation Establishment, but after reaching Foundation Establishment, one finds that it still counts for nothing; in the face of Divine Ability, one is just a chess piece!” Yuan Feng sighed inwardly.

Chen Zhuxiao was silent for a long time. He raised his head, his eyes bright, and purple electricity swirled around his body, like an unsheathed divine sword, sharp and exposed: ”Uncle Yuan, Zhu Xiao’s affairs will never implicate the Chen Family. I will use the sword in my hand to cut the shackles of fate and sweep away all obstacles!”

”Good, having this heart is enough.” Yuan Feng patted Chen Zhuxiao’s shoulder, black yao power swirling, and instantly disappeared, leaving only one sentence:

”Your father is not here; now you are the tallest one in the Chen Family, so leave the aftermath to you.”

Chen Zhuxiao bowed again in the direction where Yuan Feng had left, then his eyes became sharp, and he returned to the top of Luoyun Mountain to begin arranging the subsequent matters.

His eldest brother, Chen Zhuyun, had no Aptitude for cultivation, while he, as the second son, had outstanding Aptitude and carried a great Opportunity. If there were no accidents, the future head of the Family was basically set in stone.

Back Mountain Cliff.

Yuan Feng returned to this familiar place. After Luoyun Mountain advanced, this cliff had also grown much larger, and even the old tree rooted on it had become much taller and sturdier.

In addition, Yuan Feng had broken through to Foundation Establishment on the old tree, and nourished by his Qi, this crooked old tree was now full of vitality, radiating a second spring.

The originally crooked trunk had straightened up, becoming a hundred zhang tall and several zhang wide, and the verdant crown of the tree was like a huge umbrella, covering all directions.

Yuan Feng activated the Size As Desired Divine Ability, shrinking his body from five zhang to one zhang six; this height felt very appropriate to him.

”Panel.” Landing on the old tree in a flash, Yuan Feng called out softly in his heart, and a familiar illusory Panel appeared in his mind.

【 Name: Yuan Feng

Lifespan: 53 / 500 years

Bloodline: top-grade Yao Beast (Affected by Realm, clan destiny points required for evolving Bloodline are slightly reduced)

Race: Long-Armed Demon Ape King

Realm: Early-stage Foundation Establishment

Talents: Frenzy, Illuminating Demon Eye

Spells: Through-Arm Mountain Shattering Fist, Guardian Vajra Body, Leaping Mountains and Striding Peaks, Holding Up the Heavens and Shaking the Mountains, Breath Concealment Art

Secret Technique: Myriad Transformations Sacred Method

Divine Ability: Size As Desired, Mountain and Sea Shift

clan protecting system bound: Chen Family, Current Head - Chen Fufeng

clan destiny points: 40 points

】

Breaking through to Foundation Establishment, Yuan Feng’s Lifespan became five hundred years, two hundred years more than a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator.

It is a recognized fact in the Cultivation World that the Lifespan of a Yao Beast is longer than that of a Human Race Cultivator.

Those noble species with powerful Bloodlines even have one or several times the Lifespan of a Cultivator, which can be said to be naturally gifted.

Species with extremely high Innate Foundations such as the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin species have a Lifespan exceeding a thousand years at the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Then there is the Bloodline column, which is still a top-grade Yao Beast Bloodline, but due to the influence of his Realm Breakthrough, the Bloodline has undergone some changes, getting closer to the next stage, which is manifested by the reduction in the clan destiny points required for evolution.

There is an additional Spell in the Spell column called Holding Up the Heavens and Shaking the Mountains. After casting it, one can manifest the true form of a Demon Ape holding up the heavens, manifesting a towering Ancient Mountain, shaking the heavens and earth, and suppressing all directions.

This Spell is much more powerful than the Through-Arm Mountain Shattering Fist. The more abundant the yao power and the higher the Bloodline concentration, the stronger its power.

But the Through-Arm Mountain Shattering Fist is not without its merits; the stronger Yuan Feng’s yao body, the more powerful this Spell is. It is a Spell of the strength type.

’I might be able to refer to the Blood Exchange in secular martial arts to temper my Physical Body and forge my physique.’ Yuan Feng looked at the Panel, stroked his chin, and such a thought popped up.

The Foundation of secular martial arts lies in tempering the Physical Body, strengthening Qi and blood, allowing the Physical Body to break through the limits of the human body, capable of carrying huge stones on the shoulders and tearing tigers and leopards apart with bare hands.

The four refinements of skin, flesh, tendons, and bones are also called external refining, and the subsequent Blood Exchange is internal strengthening. After completing external refining and internal strengthening, one is already at the peak of secular martial arts.

Further up is the Xiantian Realm of martial arts. After breaking through, one will undergo a marrow-cleansing process, capable of lifting tens of thousands of pounds of huge stones with the Physical Body alone, and combined with Xiantian True Qi, can contend with Cultivators of the Qi Refining Realm.

One must know that the Physical Body of a Daoist Cultivator is not weak. Before entering the Qi Refining Realm, there is the Nourishing Origin Realm, which has the same effect as tempering the physique and strengthening Qi and blood in secular martial arts.

Just like how Chen Zhuyun used spiritual objects in the Dao of Immortality for external refining and internal strengthening, completing nine Blood Exchanges at the age of fifteen or sixteen, standing before the gate of Xiantian.

Of course, this is also due to Chen Zhuyun’s outstanding martial arts Aptitude.

Like the children of those great cultivation families, in order to refine High Grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, the Foundation laid in the Nourishing Origin Realm is even more powerful than those geniuses in secular martial arts, and in terms of Physical Body alone, they can overpower martial arts geniuses.

In other words, secular martial arts are actually created by referring to the first two Realms of the Dao of Immortality.

It’s just that after so many years, martial artists still cannot find a way to cross the Xiantian Realm and reach a higher Realm to rival the Foundation Establishment Great Cultivators of the Dao of Immortality.

Yuan Feng suppressed this thought in his heart. When Chen Zhuyun returned to the mountain, he could have a good chat with him about martial arts.

His gaze fell on the last column of the Panel. Yuan Feng nodded slightly. Having been in seclusion for more than three years, his clan destiny points had increased by 20, which was quite acceptable.

Among them, Chen Zhuxiao alone contributed 10 points. With his Aptitude, he would be able to break through to Foundation Establishment before long, at which time he would be able to provide a large amount of clan destiny points.

And now, with Yuan Feng breaking through to Foundation Establishment, the Chen Family has completed the leap from a Qi Refining Family to a Foundation Establishment Family, and there will inevitably be more and more Cultivators in the future.

”Purple Mansion Realm, I hope you won’t keep me waiting too long.”

Yuan Feng put away the Panel and checked the Storage Ring of Wang Xuanzhao.

Inside were more than three thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and more than two hundred Medium-Grade Spirit Stones. His wealth was very ordinary, and he was considered quite poor among Foundation Establishment Early-stage Cultivators.

Apart from the Spirit Stones, there were only some bottles and jars used to speed up the condensation of magic power, expansion of the inner scene, and cultivation of mysterious images for Foundation Establishment Early-stage Cultivators.

After a Foundation Establishment Cultivator successfully forms their immortal foundation, the Dantian Qi Sea will take the shape of an immortal foundation, collectively referred to as the inner scene.

Cultivation at the Foundation Establishment stage revolves around the inner scene; the more perfect the inner scene, the more abundant the magic power, and the higher the Realm.

To perfect the inner scene, one needs to Cultivate mysterious images that conform to the immortal foundation, which are inner scene mysterious images.

When the mysterious images are complete and the inner scene is flawless, it is Foundation Establishment Perfection, and one can attempt to build a Purple Mansion in the inner scene, engrave Divine Ability, and step into the Realm of the Purple Mansion True Person.

This step is extremely dangerous. If the inner scene Foundation is not sufficient and one forcibly engraves Divine Ability, then there is only a dead end.

Most Purple Mansion True Persons will seek out higher-level Cultivation Techniques before promotion, allowing their own immortal foundation to sublimate by one grade, such as from the fourth grade to the fifth grade; this way, it will be easier to engrave Divine Ability, and the success rate will be higher.

”《Refining Jade Silver Frost Art》, this should be the Cultivation Technique practiced by that Wang Family Old Ancestor, a fourth-grade Xin Metal Cultivation Technique, which can Cultivate the immortal foundation [Silver Frost Jade].” Yuan Feng continued to search the Storage Ring and found several Cultivation Techniques, including the life-bound Cultivation Technique practiced by the Wang Family Old Ancestor.

”Fourth-grade ji earth Cultivation Technique 《Hidden Accumulation Spring Soil Scripture》, which can Cultivate a fourth-grade ji earth immortal foundation [Hidden Spring Soil]. Unfortunately, it is incompatible with the attributes of that gen-earth Thick Origin Art, so it cannot be switched to.”

”Fourth-grade Gui Water Cultivation Technique 《Li Water Moistening Things Scripture》, which can Cultivate a fourth-grade Gui Water immortal foundation [Li River Water]. It moistens all things and benefits nature. It can actually be used as a higher-level Cultivation Technique for the 《Descending Moisture Cloud Dew Art》.”

Yuan Feng roughly read through the several Cultivation Techniques. With these, the Chen Family now had fourth-grade Cultivation Techniques in the Five Elements path.

It’s just a pity that there is quite a difference between Cultivation Techniques of the same attribute but different natures. For example, for metal-attribute Cultivation Techniques, there are three fourth-grade Cultivation Techniques for the Xin Metal path alone, while there is only one for the Geng Metal Path.

And like fire-attribute fourth-grade Cultivation Techniques, there is only one Crimson Central Separating Flame Art; there are no Ding Fire or Bing Fire Cultivation Techniques at all.

”The road is long and arduous, the responsibility is heavy and the road is far.” Yuan Feng sighed, put away the Storage Ring, and would hand it over to Chen Fufeng to deal with when he returned home.

In addition, there were a dozen First-stage Magical Artifacts in the Storage Ring, mostly of First-stage High Grade, including a few First-stage top-grade Magical Artifacts.

As for Second-stage Spiritual Artifacts, there were none.

As an ordinary Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator who had broken through for twenty years, the only Magical Artifact Wang Xuanzhao had was a small golden tower, which he had spent massive resources to cast, and he no longer had the financial resources to get other Foundation Establishment Spiritual Artifacts.

After doing all this, Yuan Feng cleared his mind, faced the east, and began to practice breathing. The surrounding Spiritual Qi surrounded him like a tide, and the phenomenon was astonishing.

The Chen Family members on the mountain were busy. Chen Wang and Chen Bao were both sent out to find people to expand and build the Chen Family.

Outside Luoyun Mountain, streaks of light fell from time to time. They did not choose to fly directly to the mountainside, but landed at the foot of the mountain and walked up to the mountain step by step.

These were all here to give gifts, and some wanted to join the Chen Family and become Guest Elders. Even the Tang Family and Zhang Family, who had Great Cultivators sitting in town, sent Cultivators over to congratulate Yuan Feng on his Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.

For those Cultivators who recommended themselves to become Chen Family retainers, Chen Zhuxiao did not agree or refuse, but prepared to wait for Chen Fufeng to return and let his father make the decision.

Meanwhile, far away in Liyang Town, Chen Fufeng and his wife walked out of the Ji Family’s gate, full of spring breeze, and left the place under the gaze of the Ji Family’s old housekeeper.

”Wanqing, let’s go to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to browse, see if there is anything to buy, and then go home.” Chen Fufeng said gently.

”Okay.” Ji Wanqing nodded.

The couple walked towards the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in Liyang Town just like that.

After arriving at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Chen Fufeng silently took out the bronze ten thousand treasures token and immediately received the highest standard of reception.

The highest level of ten thousand treasures token that the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion at the town level can issue is the bronze level. Only the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion at the county level can issue silver ten thousand treasures tokens.

Subsequently, Chen Fufeng and his wife were taken to a luxuriously decorated private room, with no need to worry about being seen or heard by other Cultivators.

It is said that wealth should not be exposed. Paying money in the lobby to purchase valuable items is easily noticed by interested people.

Half an hour later, Chen Fufeng took Ji Wanqing out of the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion. After wandering around Liyang Town for a long while, the two left Liyang Town and headed towards Liming Town.