Published: March 2, 2025
CHAPTER 62: The Abyss Beyond
Two days later, Liu Yu looked at a bottle of Azure Spirit Pills in his hand, a hint of a smile appearing on his face.
In these two days, aside from cultivating, he had been refining elixirs, producing five batches of Azure Spirit Pills each day. Today, he finally succeeded in refining one batch; with a success rate barely reaching ten percent.
At Xiaomei Mountain, within the Feng Family.
At this moment, Feng Guangyou had returned to the family and found the clan leader, Feng Tianwei, in the ancestral hall, offering incense to their ancestors. He respectfully bent down to report, “Reporting to the clan leader, Guangyou has visited Cold Moon City and met with the stationed envoy of the Yuan Yang Sect. He accepted the benefits from our family without any suspicion.”
Feng Guangyou held great respect for the clan leader. The Xiaomei Mountain Feng Family had always been the weakest among the three families in this region, but under the clan leader's diligent leadership, they had gradually risen, now faintly surpassing the other two families in strength.
Cultivators have their bodies washed by spiritual energy, aging more slowly. Feng Tianwei appeared to be a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, yet his actual age was nearing sixty.
He stood in front of the ancestral tablets, lost in thought, with his back to Feng Guangyou. After a while, he slowly spoke, “Guangyou, you’ve done well. It’s a pity that your spiritual root quality is too poor, making the hope of foundation establishment dim. If Guanglin could have half of your maturity, I would be able to hand over the family to him with confidence in the future!”
Having grown up in the family, Feng Guangyou felt a deep emotional bond. Hearing this, he sincerely replied, “Guanglin is still young. With his dual spiritual roots, our family should teach him well, and he will definitely mature.”
“The opportunity for foundation establishment in the future is not small. If he succeeds, our Feng Family could leap to become a foundation establishment family!”
Upon hearing this, Feng Tianwei recalled Guanglin's innocent eyes and character, letting out a slight sigh, “I hope so!”
He then collected his emotions and said seriously, “How is the relocation of the direct descendants without spiritual roots going?”
Since they were already prepared to defect from Qingzhou, the Feng Family had to make early preparations. Feng Tianwei had arranged for a batch of direct descendants from recent generations that had produced cultivators to move to Jingzhou. These commoners, having produced cultivators in recent generations, had a higher chance of having children with spiritual roots.
The Heavenly Harmony Sect promised that as long as the Feng Family cooperated with their infiltrating disciples to destroy enough resource points of the Yuan Yang Sect, they would grant the Feng Family a spiritual mountain with a low-grade spiritual vein for their growth.
It is known that even the Xiaomei Mountain, being just a fragmented spiritual vein, has already caused envy among countless loose cultivators. If they could cultivate on a true spiritual vein, the family would surely develop and grow, which was one of the reasons for the Feng Family's decision.
In fact, if it were not for the Yuan Yang Sect's bullying, the Feng Family would not be willing to take such risks, as thousands of ordinary family members would have to be sacrificed regardless of success or failure.
Eighteen years ago, the cold iron vein was first discovered by the Feng Family. When the Feng Family wasted a lot of human and material resources preparing to mine it, the Yuan Yang Sect obtained news from somewhere and sent a foundation establishment stage cultivator to "visit" the Feng Family. With just a few casual words, they took over the mine and only offered a symbolic compensation of several hundred spiritual stones.
The Feng Family had always held a grudge over this matter. If the cold iron vein had not been seized, with the resources extracted, Feng Tianwei would have had a glimmer of hope to break through to foundation establishment, and the family would have had more resources to cultivate the next generation.