Strange mountains and rivers

Bao Qi is not yet forty years old. In terms of spiritual cultivation, this age is still very early.

If a female cultivator is in the Qi training stage, her Tao body and spiritual body will only be equivalent to a mortal's eighteen years old when she is around forty-five years old. This means that even if she reaches sixty, her fertility will not be affected much.

As for male cultivators, needless to say, there are countless more than one hundred years old who take concubines, accompany servants, or even become Taoist couples and have children, just like the crucian carp crossing the river.

After Baoqi advanced to the advanced level of Qi Refining, Chen Huaisheng felt that this idea became less urgent.

If Bao Qi can break through and ascend in the next five to ten years and successfully establish a foundation, then it will be completely late to have children after the foundation is established, and it can even be said to be the most appropriate.

The chance of a child born to a foundation-building woman being born is very high, several times higher than that of a Qi-training monk. However, 99% of female cultivators are unlikely to advance to the foundation-building stage before they are sixty-five.

When Chen Huaisheng asked, Fang Baoqi rolled his eyes at Chen Huaisheng: "It's a letter for you, how can I read it? You can read it yourself."

Chen Huaisheng smiled and didn't say much. He just sipped the Guishan white intestine tea and activated the taste buds on his lips and tongue.

"Qingyu, help me take it apart and take a look."

Min Qingyu hesitated for a moment, then hesitantly said: "Isn't this bad?"

"What's wrong?" Chen Huaisheng shook his head pretendingly, "Then take it over and I'll see for myself."

The words in Tong Tong's letter were brief. She only said that Daogong held a Shangyuan Taoist meeting. She had also heard about it during her travels in Jiangling. She would return to Bianjing during the Shangyuan period and meet again then.

The letter did not mention whether she would return to the Chonghua Sect, but Chen Huaisheng estimated that she should have solved this knot.

But it’s hard to say whether the solution to the knot will definitely lead to a return to the Chonghua sect.

He was afraid that when she saw Baoqi and Qingyu, she would get upset again. This was what Chen Huaisheng was most worried about.

Min Qingyu is under a lot of pressure now, especially after seeing Fang Baoqi break through and advance to the next level in just twenty days.

But the more anxious he was, the harder it was to break through. Until Chen Huaisheng came back and saw her condition, he decisively let her out of the confinement. Stop getting into trouble for the time being and relax.

The third level of Qi refining to the fourth level of Qi refining is not only a leap in practice, from the first stage to the middle stage, it is also a leap in the state of mind.

Min Qingyu was immersed in chasing under pressure, but fell behind. That's why Chen Huaisheng asked her to put it down first before talking about anything else.

"What did Tong Tong say?" Fang Baoqi asked softly, not reading the letter didn't mean he didn't care.

"I only said that she would return to Bianjing during the Shangyuan Taoist Association. She is still traveling in Southern Chu, so she made an appointment to meet in Bianjing during the Shangyuan Taoist Association." Chen Huaisheng put down the letter and said thoughtfully, "It looks like This Yuandao meeting will once again be a grand event where dragons and tigers fight for the capital. It feels like everyone in the sect is gearing up and vying for the lead. "

Fang Baoqi laughed, "Only you can deal with it so calmly. Even Zhao Sitian is eager to try."

Chen Huaisheng's eyes lit up, "Senior Brother Zhao is out of seclusion? Has he reached the peak of Qi refining?"

"Well, he just came out of seclusion the day before yesterday, so he should be building his foundation. But I heard that you reached your peak before him, which made him a little bit shocked. He probably thought that the title of the number one genius of the Chonghua Sect would be given to you. "

Fang Baoqi smiled happily.

No matter what, her little man's performance was worthy of being the number one genius in Chonghua, which made her proud.

It has only been five years since he started, from enlightenment to the peak of Qi refining. Although he is not sure how long it will take him to build the foundation, Fang Baoqi is sure that he will be able to successfully build the foundation in less than two years.

Maybe he really is the number one genius in Zhao.

Fang Baoqi didn't know if any of the super sects like Tianyun Sect, Huaxi Sword Sect and Taihua Tao had established a foundation in their twenties, but even if they had, were there any who had established a foundation after seven years of enlightenment?

Absolutely nothing.

At this point, this little man himself has absolutely surpassed everyone, unprecedented in history.

"Senior Brother Zhao is not so narrow-minded." Chen Huaisheng shook his head, "To say that he and I are still on the same front, look at Senior Brother Zeng, Senior Brother Teng, Senior Brother Yang, and Senior Brother Chu. The performance of these disciples from Lingyun Sect is no better. We, the old Chonghua sect, have few disciples, and the disciples recruited from Hebei in recent years are also full of talented people. Delu, Liangkui, and De Ling all feel the pressure, so how can I be exempted?"

Fang Baoqi was silent for a moment and then said softly: "Huaisheng, let me tell you the truth. Don't you hate to hear it? The talents of Delu, Liangkui and De Ling are not very good. Compared with Qingyu, Wu Gu and even Yun Lei are far behind. Cultivation is extremely demanding of talent. I think maybe De Lu and the others will be less and less able to keep up in the future..."

Fang Baoqi's words made Min Qingyu a little uneasy, "Senior Sister Baoqi, my younger sister's talent is actually average. This time in seclusion, I was not able to fulfill Brother Sheng's wish. It's better that Senior Sister Baoqi achieved it overnight..."

Fang Baoqi interrupted Min Qingyu: "What does it mean that you have only been practicing for twenty days this time? It has nothing to do with your talent. As for me, didn't you hear that your biological brother said that I was too lazy? I should have advanced to the advanced level of Qi Refining last year. You just need to adjust your mentality a little and stop staring at me so much. I believe you can advance to the fourth level of Qi Refining soon."

Being teased by Fang Baoqi's words made her blush a little, and Min Qingyu actually knew that she was a bit obsessed.

It has been two or three years since Fang Baoqi advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining, and he was once the leading genius disciple in the Chonghua Sect. Now it is a matter of course for him to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

How long has it been since I was promoted from the second level of Qi Refining to the third level of Qi Refining? If you keep comparing yourself to the other person, it feels a bit too arrogant.

Chen Huaisheng also knew that the talents of Hu Delu and the others were not as good as those of Min Qingyu, Ren Wugou and Yun Lei, nor were they comparable to Fang Baoqi.

The manifestation of this in practice may not be too obvious in the early stages of practice, but the gap will become more and more prominent as time goes by. Only after a certain stage will this situation slowly stabilize.

"Baoqi, Delu and the others may have some gaps, but they work very hard. I also hope that they can catch up in their practice. Some gaps can be made up with spiritual materials, elixirs and exercises. It depends on their own practice process. Can Zhongneng encounter an opportunity and inspire enlightenment?" Chen Huaisheng sighed, "Since they trust me, I will naturally do my best to help them keep up."

Fang Baoqi also knew that Chen Huaisheng could not abandon Hu Delu and the others now.

Especially after the Chonghua Sect defended its existence in Hebei after the battle between Wei Huaidao and Yuelu Sect, its influence has become increasingly stable, and its status in Fuyang Road, Zhaigu Road, and Wei Huaidao is as stable as Mount Tai.

The Taoists in these places regard the Chonghua Sect as their first choice, and talented disciples flock to Wolong Ridge one after another. This also makes old disciples with average qualifications like Hu Delu and others encounter great challenges.

Now every year, the number of new disciples admitted to Wolong Ridge through the Six Paths of Yanzhou alone has reached fifty or sixty. This does not include the disciples brought in by the Chonghua Sect every year from Yiyang, Langling, and Yinan Prefecture in Huozhou. There were also twenty or thirty people.

Calculated, the Chonghua Sect recruits close to a hundred new disciples every year, and among these hundred, one or twenty outstanding ones can almost advance to the third level of Qi Refining within three to five years.

As for old disciples like Hu Delu and others, if there are no other paths and countermeasures to change, they may be overtaken by others in less than ten years.

This feeling was too uncomfortable for Hu Delu and the others.

Of course Chen Huaisheng knew that this situation was a good sign for a thriving sect. Natural selection means survival of the fittest. This is also the case in the world of cultivation.

If you can't keep up and are surpassed by others, the sect's resources will only gradually be tilted towards the outstanding ones and the leaders. Naturally, they and the laggards will slowly become ordinary disciples.

Just like what Chen Huaisheng saw when he first started, such as Qiao Zhun, Cai Jinyang, and even Yun He and Luo Xiuyue, they ended up at the high level of Qi refining, which is considered a good ending.

But people are all about emotions. Chen Huaisheng saw that Hu Delu and the others had followed him for so many years, and they were still pursuing hard to get a glimpse of the way of heaven. The principle that diligence can make up for weakness may not be effective in the spiritual world, but he still wanted to give it a try, not to mention It would be a fateful change, but at least it would give them a few chances.

With the body of three spirits and the cauldron in his body, he already has the confidence to transcend the constraints of the sect. He no longer needs the resources of the sect. On the contrary, he can give his abundant resources to the people he wants.

While Teng Dingyuan, Zeng Guolin, Yang Husheng and Chu Yingqi still need to carefully plan what they will get from this trip to prepare for the next step of foundation building, and Zhao Sitian also needs to consider how to balance the allocation of resources between himself and Ren Wuchen, Chen Huai Students no longer need to consider these issues.

The loot from the Hanzhou Taoist Temple gave him quite a lot of spiritual stones to make other plans with ease.

There were also gains from the battle at Kip Shek Bay, and even a lot of gains from hunting golden-eyed green otters and Yunteng golden cats in the past, but now it seems that they are nothing.

Even though the consumption of the Winged Fire Snake is quite large, it is only considering that it can be raised more generously without going out of business, and it does not really mean that it cannot support it.

The meat combs of the tiger-headed goose, as well as the fish meat of the golden-bearded croaker and the koi carp caught on this trip are rare things for Teng Dingyuan, Zeng Guolin and others to nourish the Taoist body and spiritual body. It is impossible to give it to others.

But for Chen Huaisheng, although it is a good thing, it is not indispensable. It may be beneficial to him, but for Hu Delu and the others, it is even more beneficial.

Like Zhuo Yixing and Zhao Wuyou, as well as Miao Miao who was recently accepted as a disciple by Ding Zongshou, Du Qingyuan, who was an unusual disciple before Li Yu left the mountain to travel, and Huo Yuanzong and Cui Tuofu, who came from the Lingyun Sect and were known as the two prides of the Lingyun Sect, And Ding Xizhen, who has become his junior sister, is it really because of his excellent qualifications?

Without the abundant resource supply of people like Zhu Fengbi, You Shaoyou, Qi Hongkui, Ding Zongshou, and Li Yu, would they really be able to enter the country several times faster than others?