Dao Companions Help Me Live Forever

Chapter 130: Late Stage of Foundation Building

Since the main lineage of the Zhao family returned to their roots, there have been numerous conflicts within the family.

There are only a limited number of positions that can enjoy the benefits, and with the Zhao family in Shangyang City considering themselves the main lineage, the essence of the Zhao family lies there, even the newly promoted Foundation Building Zhao family is considered part of the main lineage.

Now that he has returned, he should rightfully take control of the Zhao family.

However, they do not recognize the true identity of the person and have been arguing with their fellow clan members for a long time without figuring out who the leader is.

In the end, Zhao Jia directly suppressed them with thunderous force, and with the stimulation of over ten thousand spirit stones, the fellow clan members were no longer a threat.

Those who did not submit were all turned to ashes.

The rest were all demoted to collateral branches and assigned to work in mines, medicinal gardens, and spiritual fields, doing labor according to their contributions.

Only a few people managed to avoid accidents, such as Zhao Jia's own relatives and the clan members close to Zhao Shiwen in the third branch.

It was not until a long time later, when Yu Xian asked casually, that he learned that the main lineage of the Zhao family had already become history.

So the days became completely peaceful.

Spring came and autumn went, and it had been five years.

Outside the house, the sky had turned dark.

In the elegant and fragrant young girl's chamber, adorned with shining pearls and engraved with the Mingguang Formation on the ceiling, which was currently set to dim light, giving the room a hint of ambiguity.

The suppressed gasping suddenly stopped.

The bright eyes of the girl named Yulan stared at the snowy white bed curtains, feeling as if the fine mesh was swallowing her soul.

After a long while.

Having regained some strength, she habitually wrapped herself in the silky silk quilt, as if it could provide her with a sense of security.

Her body was still delicate like a young girl, her voice still crisp, and her eyes still clear. It seemed that time had treated her particularly well.

Because she took medicine.

Her husband bought the Dianyan Pill, which was worth a hundred spirit stones on the market, at the exorbitant price of three hundred spirit stones.

So she would forever remain at her most beautiful moment.

She glanced sideways and saw her husband lazily lying there, forming the shape of the character "太" (tài) and occasionally showing a silly smile on his face.

She wriggled her body like a worm, leaned her head against his side, and felt that if time could always be like this, she would be willing.

Yu Xian habitually embraced Yulan, gently stroking her hair, giving her gentle comfort.

But his gaze never left the green panel below his field of vision.

[Name: Yu Xian]

[Cultivation: Late Stage of Foundation Building (2/110000)]

[Soulmate: Yulan (1/2)]

Just a moment ago, with continuous cultivation day and night, he finally broke through the late stage of Foundation Building before the age of fifty and solidly stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world in Shangyang City.

However, the cultivation points required for the late stage of Foundation Building...

A whopping 110,000 points. With the current progress of 200 points per month, he would need a full 550 months, which is exactly 45 years.

After 45 years, when he reaches the peak of Foundation Building, he will be just a few years shy of a hundred, comparable to the former top cultivator of Shangyang City, Elder Jiang of the Jiang family.

When compared like this, Yu Xian felt that he could do it.

Moreover, compared to Elder Jiang, who had to beg for a Gold Core and failed, he only needed to follow the steps and condense his Gold Core while lying on the bed.

After all, the golden finger is not such an inconvenient thing. There is no need to seek opportunities for a Gold Core or rely on Foundation Building pills.

"45 years is not too long."

Yu Xian's palm slid down and he habitually pinched it.

"What did you say, husband?"

Feeling the warmth of Yu Xian's palm, they were an old married couple, but Yulan's cheeks still turned slightly red.

Yu Xian exerted a little force with his palm and smiled.

"I was thinking about when you will reach the perfection of Qi Refining. By then, how many Foundation Building pills should I prepare for you to break through?"

Yulan couldn't help but show a bit of frustration.

"It's all because Yulan is too stupid and wasted so many spirit stones. My cultivation progress is getting slower and slower."

Even with Yu Xian's full support and various pills to enhance her cultivation for five years, she only advanced a small realm, barely breaking through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.

"You've encountered a bottleneck. Your cultivation has been too smooth before, so it's normal to encounter a bottleneck at this time. I was stuck at the third level of Qi Refining for more than three years. If it weren't for a stroke of luck, I might have been stuck for another ten or eight years. Once you break through this bottleneck, it will be much easier to cultivate all the way to the perfection of Qi Refining."

Yu Xian remembered his own struggle at the third level of Qi Refining, feeling as if it was a distant past.

Before Yulan's cultivation reached the later stage, she had the baptism of his Foundation Building cultivation, allowing her meridians to be fully connected. So even though her cultivation speed was not fast, she never encountered any bottlenecks.

It was only when she reached the later stage of Qi Refining that her talent issues became more apparent.

Not to mention anything else, the resources invested in Yulan could have cultivated two cultivators at the perfection of Qi Refining, but she was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

This made Yu Xian realize that the later the stage, the more serious Yulan's talent problem became.

For now, the Qi Refining stage was still manageable, but the Foundation Building stage would require overcoming the tribulation of the Thirty-Nine Thunderbolts. How could a cultivator like Yulan, who relied solely on pill consumption and was not good at fighting, survive?

Even Elder Jiang, such a powerful cultivator at the Foundation Building stage, was reduced to a mere skeleton when facing the Thunderbolt tribulation of the Gold Core stage.

Yulan didn't know why her husband suddenly thought of how to help her break through the Gold Core realm. When she heard Yuxian sounding so weak and helpless, she couldn't help but laugh and say, "I don't believe it. In my heart, my husband has always been the most powerful."

Yuxian smiled and put Yulan's worries about her Gold Core aside. After all, there were still over a hundred years left, and maybe there would be other ways by then.

"I have an even more powerful method to show you."

...

A night of debauchery.

Yuxian woke up without any excitement about a breakthrough. Instead, he lazily enjoyed the breakfast prepared by a new chef hired by the Zhao family in the dining hall.

This chef was no ordinary chef.

He was a Food Spirit Master, also known as a chef in the cultivation world.

Food Spirit Masters could use unique methods to extract or stimulate the spiritual energy in various ingredients, turning them into sumptuous meals.

The recipes of Food Spirit Masters were as precious as alchemists' pill formulas.

So, spiritual food was similar to alchemy, and well-prepared spiritual food didn't have the toxicity of pills.

Of course, if it wasn't handled properly, it could become poisonous.

In front of Yuxian was a bowl of Dragon Tooth Rice porridge and a breakfast dish called Eight-Flavored Shrimp Dumplings.

It was said that the secret feed for the Lingxi Shrimp, a small river shrimp, was made by blending eight different medicinal herbs. It took three months to raise them, and after more than ten processes, an ordinary Eight-Flavored Shrimp Dumpling could be made.

It sounded troublesome, but it was delicious.

Yuxian felt that the spirit stones spent on this were not wasted.

It should be noted that this chef's monthly salary was as high as five spirit stones, and the ingredients were provided by the Zhao family. It was a high-paying profession.

After enjoying breakfast at a leisurely pace.

Yuxian was thinking about whether to go to the training academy to teach the girls from the drama class or go to the market to have tea.

The Sect Master's wife had hinted a few days ago that her female disciple had grown up, making him curious to see what had changed.

Practice makes perfect, after all.

Suddenly.

A tiger's roar sounded.

Yuxian's expression changed slightly, he stood up, and in an instant, his figure disappeared.

...

In a dim bedroom.

The air was filled with a rotten deathly aura, mixed with a slight stench, like the smell of spoiled meat.

Clang.

The door was pushed open, and sunlight poured in, dispelling the darkness in the room.

A pair of cloudy eyes opened, and Zhao Laozu's emaciated face, almost just skin and bones, revealed a hint of a smile.

"I knew you would come."

Yuxian's expression was indifferent. "In the end, we were only acquaintances, and I always have to send you off."

After emptying Zhao Laozu's knowledge of formation techniques, he had been lying in this sunless house for three years.

He was never a generous person.

If Zhao Laozu wanted to kill him, he naturally wouldn't talk about humanitarianism.

Now, Zhao Laozu's time had finally come.

Originally, he still had at least ten or twenty good years left. If he used some longevity methods, he might have lived for thirty more years.

But a moment of carelessness turned his remaining years into those of a useless person.

"Since childhood, my parents died early, and it was the Zhao family who raised me. At that time, the family was not big, and everyone's hearts were close, all striving to build a good family.

Later, for my cultivation, several uncles voluntarily stopped their cultivation and saved resources for me.

I entered Shangyang City, became a disciple of a true person, and became a Foundation Building ancestor. The Zhao family rose because of me and flourished because of me.

The true person said I had too many distractions and that my Gold Core had hope, but I worried too much about the family and missed the path of great advancement.

But in my heart, the family is more important than my Gold Core path. I always wanted the Zhao family to become the best.

But I was always indecisive, allowing the elders in the clan to harm the public and benefit themselves, secretly persecuting the Foundation Building seeds but unwilling to take action, and in the end, I had to use you as a knife.

And because of this, I held a grudge against you.

In recent days, I have often thought that if I had died in the attack of the demonic beasts, things might not have been so bad.

Friend Yu, I'm sorry."

Zhao Laozu's eyes widened, gasping for breath. It seemed like he couldn't breathe, but he still forced out a breath and said:

"I'm going to die, but I don't blame you. It was my delusion, and this is the punishment I deserve."

He wanted to turn his head and imprint Yuxian's appearance in his mind.

But all he saw was a mass of black mist, and a tiger's roar sounded in his ears. His decaying soul was pulled into the darkness, and his consciousness sank forever.

Roar!

The Ghost Tiger swallowed the soul of a Foundation Building mid-stage cultivator, and its aura suddenly surged, and the black mist in its eyes swelled at a visible speed.

In the originally sparse mist, a tall figure suddenly appeared.

Yuxian stood in the shadow of the backlight, paused for a moment, and when he saw that Zhao Laozu's body didn't have any tricks, he waved his hand to dispel the large formation.

Not long after.

A bell in the Zhao family ancestral hall rang, spreading the news of the old ancestor's passing in all directions.

(End of this chapter)