I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 92: Senior Zhou

"Congratulations, Master, on breaking through Foundation Building."

The maidservants congratulated, their faces filled with joy. As Senior Zhou made a breakthrough, they, as his maidservants, were also overjoyed.

In the midst of his excitement, Senior Zhou was about to make further moves with the maidservants when he suddenly remembered something. He quickly entered the room and changed into a different set of clothes. He adjusted his complexion in the bronze mirror to make it appear more normal, and then waited at home.

Before long, Lin Qing came to congratulate him.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, congratulations, congratulations," Lin Qing said. As his neighbor, it was only natural for Lin Qing to come.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Lin. It was truly a stroke of luck," Senior Zhou said, unable to hide his smile.

"Oh?" Lin Qing looked at Senior Zhou with surprise. Senior Zhou didn't hide anything and directly told Lin Qing about how he didn't need Foundation Building pills to break through.

Lin Qing was somewhat astonished. He didn't expect that Senior Zhou would break through without using Foundation Building pills. And since he couldn't ask where the Foundation Building pills came from, he naturally couldn't say anything.

After drinking a cup of tea at Senior Zhou's home, Lin Qing left.

As for the matter of gifts, they were both in the early stage of Foundation Building, so they didn't need such things. Their presence was enough.

In the neighboring house, Zhao Xiu looked at the direction of Senior Zhou's residence with a bitter expression on his face. He couldn't believe that he had failed to break through while Senior Zhou had succeeded.

These past few days, Zhao Xiu had been in great pain from his failed breakthrough, and Senior Zhou's success undoubtedly stabbed him in the heart.

However, as Zhao Xiu looked at Senior Zhou's residence, he quickly regained his composure. His face twitched slightly, and a hopeful expression appeared on his face.

With a congratulatory gift in hand, Zhao Xiu visited Senior Zhou.

"Senior Zhou, congratulations on your breakthrough," Zhao Xiu said.

Senior Zhou smiled slightly and nodded. Once he broke through, his status would be different.

As for the gift Zhao Xiu brought him, he didn't accept it. He even handed over the gift he had originally prepared for Zhao Xiu.

Holding the gift box given to him by Senior Zhou, Zhao Xiu felt a tinge of bitterness in his heart once again.

But as he thought about something, Zhao Xiu smiled again and started talking with Senior Zhou.

Back at home, Lin Qing, who had faced the breakthroughs of the two cultivators next door in just a few days, naturally felt some emotions. One had prepared meticulously but failed, while the other succeeded in breaking through without using Foundation Building pills. The matter of cultivation is truly unpredictable.

Opportunities, no one knows when they will come to oneself.

For Lin Qing, who was already surprised by Senior Zhou's breakthrough, he learned an even more surprising thing after two days.

Both Zhao Xiu and Senior Zhou were going to leave Chiyang Immortal City.

"You mean, Fellow Daoist Zhou has already agreed to become a guest elder in your family?" Lin Qing asked Zhao Xiu, finding it hard to believe.

Zhao Xiu Shi nodded at this moment, with a smile on his face, and said, "Yes, I had some interactions with Senior Zhou before. After his breakthrough, I invited him to join our Zhao family, and he agreed."

"That's truly congratulations, Fellow Daoist Zhao," Lin Qing nodded and said.

However, in Lin Qing's heart, he thought that Senior Zhou joining the Zhao family must have been due to very generous conditions offered by Fellow Daoist Zhao.

He had originally thought that after Senior Zhao's breakthrough failure, he would probably ask Lin Qing to support his family. But he didn't expect that he would be able to grab onto Senior Zhou's thigh. It seems that the Zhao family is indeed extraordinary.

"So, you will be staying at the Zhao family from now on?" Lin Qing asked.

"Yes, Senior Zhou and I will be living at our Zhao family. Senior Lin, thank you for your support to our Zhao family all these years," Fellow Daoist Zhao said at this moment. His mood improved a lot after obtaining Senior Zhou, a Foundation Building cultivator. Although he himself did not break through to Foundation Building, he at least brought back one for the family.

"Then I wish you a smooth journey," Lin Qing said.

Zhao Xiu Shi nodded, and after a day, he left the Chiyang Immortal City together with Senior Zhou. Lin Qing watched their receding figures and felt infinite emotions in his heart.

In the following half year, everything was calm and peaceful. By this time, the fifteen years that Lin Qing had promised to support had also passed.

It can be said that whatever happens to the Zhao family in the future has nothing to do with him. He and the Zhao family have completely severed ties.

Lin Qing was still curious and inquired about the three families of Bilin River, but no news came. It seemed that nothing had changed.

However, the calmness of Bilin River did not mean that the Zhao Kingdom was calm. In these years, there have been frequent reports of demonic cultivators and calamity cultivators appearing. Someone has even counted that there are more than twice as many as before.

It should be noted that both demonic cultivators and calamity cultivators represent unstable factors. The increase in their numbers can only indicate one thing: the Zhao Kingdom is not peaceful.

Because of this, Lin Qing increased his vigilance for himself and his family. Although there was chaos, the Chiyang Immortal City was still safe for the time being. Those demonic cultivators and calamity cultivators did not dare to make trouble on the Zifu Mountain.

And his cultivation was also constantly growing. In another two years, he would be able to reach the third level of Foundation Building. His son, Lin Xuzhe, had already reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. Not only Lin Xuzhe, but the cultivation of his other sons was also growing rapidly, not to mention his wives who had already reached the ninth level of Qi Refining.

During this time, Lin Qing's top priority was to find a way to obtain Foundation Building Pills.

However, the major forces did not show any intention of releasing Foundation Building Pills. And the progress of the materials he had been acquiring was not ideal. These materials were not easy to collect. It would take six or seven years to collect a complete set. Moreover, even if the materials were acquired, it still required spending spirit stones to invite an alchemist to refine them, and there was a failure rate. If lucky, three pills could be produced in one furnace, which would be a big profit. If unlucky, one or two pills would still be good. The worst case scenario was not producing any pills, which would be a loss. The most crucial point was that the alchemist could not be held responsible. After all, alchemy carried risks, and the materials had to be self-funded. The losses were borne by oneself, whether profit or loss. This was the true portrayal of requesting an alchemist to refine pills.

In this situation, Lin Qing was intentionally cultivating Lin Xuqing.

After reaching the first-grade superior level in pill refinement, Che Yun's progress had been slow in breaking through. But Lin Xuqing was different. He had high talent, and most importantly, he had the Wu family's inheritance. If he could break through to the second-grade, he could attempt to refine Foundation Building Pills.

That would be the most ideal situation.

However, Lin Xuqing was still young and had just touched the threshold of the first-grade superior level. It would take some time for him to break through to the second-grade.

As for Lin Qing's Purple Gold Toad, after breaking through to the mid-stage of Foundation Building, its strength seemed to have stagnated. If it wanted to break through again, Lin Qing estimated that it would have to be counted in generations. It would take a very long time, at least fifty years, and it might even take a hundred years.

However, this Purple Gold Toad had a lifespan of about four hundred and fifty years after breaking through to the mid-stage of Foundation Building, which was twice that of a Foundation Building cultivator. It had only lived for two hundred and thirty years now, so there should be no problem with it living to break through to the late-stage of Foundation Building.

Thinking of the day when the Purple Gold Toad breaks through to the late-stage of Foundation Building, Lin Qing was filled with anticipation.

(End of this chapter)