In the Spirit Creek Sect's Alchemy Peak, there was a Golden Elixir Ancestor named Sun Shangxiang. Although she had been married for over four hundred years and was the mother of several children, she hailed from the Sun family, a Golden Elixir stage family within the Spirit Creek Sect. As a genius of the direct lineage, she was the cherished princess of the Sun family.
At the age of eighteen or nineteen, she had taken Beauty Retaining Pills, and she still looked like a young girl of that age. Her youngest daughter, Yuwen Yanhong, inherited her looks and bore a nine-tenths resemblance to her. If the two stood together, they would be mistaken for twin sisters rather than mother and daughter.
Such was the nature of the cultivation world, where the existence of Beauty Retaining Pills could preserve youthful appearances indefinitely. If two young-looking cultivators stood side by side, without revealing their identities, it would be impossible to discern their relationship just by sight. What might appear to be brothers could very well be father and son, grandfather and grandson, or an ancestor with his great-great-grandson.
In the small world of the Guo family's Heavenly Abode, upon receiving a voice transmission from Sun Shangxiang, the Golden Elixir Ancestor of Alchemy Peak, Guo Feilong immediately set out to greet her. In the cultivation world, a higher cultivation stage commanded respect as a senior. Although Guo Feilong, as a high-level alchemist, held a status comparable to the Golden Elixir stage, this was only in terms of status, not strength. In front of a Golden Elixir stage cultivator, he was still a junior.
Of course, if it came to actual combat strength, he wouldn't fear even a late-stage Golden Elixir cultivator at the peak of completion. In a one-on-one situation, he had at least an eighty percent chance of killing a late-stage Golden Elixir cultivator, with the remaining twenty percent being the chance of them escaping. If he set up a grand formation in advance and lured them into it, even a late-stage Golden Elixir cultivator wouldn't be able to escape.
Sun Shangxiang, the Golden Elixir Ancestor of Alchemy Peak, had only just stepped into the early Golden Elixir stage less than a hundred years ago. If Guo Feilong wanted to kill her, it would be easier than killing a Golden Elixir stage spiritual beast. Human cultivators were much more fragile compared to spiritual beasts, and a close-range surprise attack could easily result in death.
Unless absolutely necessary, Guo Feilong wouldn't expose his true combat strength. Only when others were unaware of his true power could he catch them off guard and counterattack easily. If his strength were fully known, his enemies would undoubtedly use means beyond his capabilities to deal with him.
Moreover, Guo Feilong wouldn't attack Sun Shangxiang without reason. Not to mention that many of his children were her disciples and grand-disciples. His two wives, Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, were both her kneeling disciples, almost like half-children to her. By rights, he should call her Master, just like Liu Feiyu.
Furthermore, he had a very good friendship with Sun Shangxiang's daughter, Yuwen Yanhong, making it even less likely for him to act against Sun Shangxiang. Besides, Guo Feilong's current status in the Spirit Creek Sect was already tacitly acknowledged as being under Sun Shangxiang's influence. If any other Golden Elixir Ancestor in the Spirit Creek Sect tried to bully him, the first to protect him would undoubtedly be Sun Shangxiang.
The relationships among the various Golden Elixir Ancestors in the Spirit Creek Sect were mostly connected by blood or marriage, with some degree of kinship. Unless there were significant interests at stake, they wouldn't turn against each other.
For instance, Sun Shangxiang came from the Sun family, whose ancestor was also a Golden Elixir Ancestor in the Spirit Creek Sect. The family she married into, the Yuwen family, also had a Golden Elixir Ancestor. A cousin from the Sun family's ancestor's maternal side was another Golden Elixir Ancestor from a different family, who was also a Golden Elixir Ancestor in the Spirit Creek Sect. These Golden Elixir Ancestors in the Spirit Creek Sect had intermarried among various families, forming a unified whole long ago.
Of course, even blood brothers could become enemies over interests, let alone families with distant blood ties. For the sake of their respective family interests, whether in the Spirit Creek Sect or other sects, there was always internal power struggle, but externally, they were very united.
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Golden Elixir Ancestors were not ones to visit without reason. Guo Feilong speculated that Sun Shangxiang's visit to the Guo family's Heavenly Abode was related to the recent outbreak of the righteous and demonic war in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world. Foundation Establishment stage cultivators could go to the battlefield and form formations to fight against Golden Elixir stage cultivators. Among his wives and concubines, over a hundred were Foundation Establishment stage cultivators. Recently, the Spirit Creek Sect had sent people to the Guo family's Heavenly Abode, asking him to send a hundred Foundation Establishment stage cultivators to participate in the righteous and demonic war. The battlefield was extremely brutal; not only could Foundation Establishment stage cultivators die there, but even False Nascent Soul stage cultivators could perish in the current righteous and demonic war in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world.
Guo Feilong was absolutely against sending a hundred Foundation Establishment stage wives and concubines to such a dangerous battlefield. He cultivated to protect his wives, children, and descendants. Sending his wives and concubines to war as cannon fodder was out of the question.
Therefore, Guo Feilong steeled his heart and used formation materials worth nearly a billion spirit stones to set up a powerful defensive formation at the entrance and exit of the Guo family's Heavenly Abode. Not to mention Golden Elixir stage cultivators, even Elemental Infant stage cultivators might not be able to break through his defensive formation.
Guo Feilong had already decided that as long as the righteous and demonic war in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world continued, he and his wives, concubines, and children would not leave the Guo family's Heavenly Abode. Regardless of the chaos outside, he didn't have the power to meddle in such matters. Taking care of his own family was enough.
Before the outbreak of the righteous and demonic war, Guo Feilong had stockpiled a large amount of cultivation herbs, seeds, spiritual grains, and spiritual rice. Even if they didn't go out for three to five hundred years, the Guo family's Heavenly Abode could be self-sufficient, lacking nothing.
Guo Feilong wasn't worried about the Righteous Path Alliance winning and the Spirit Creek Sect settling scores with him later. As a high-level alchemist, he could bring significant wealth and benefits to the Spirit Creek Sect. At most, they would impose a symbolic punishment, such as doubling his elixir production for ten or twenty years, but they wouldn't kill him.
Moreover, he had over a hundred Foundation Establishment stage wives and concubines, which was a considerable force that the Spirit Creek Sect wouldn't want to destroy. If the Spirit Creek Sect dared to go too far, Guo Feilong wouldn't hesitate to use his flying spiritual instrument, an aerial fortress, to relocate his entire family to the Northern Borders Continent's cultivation world. Even if he had to seek refuge with the Wu family, where Wu Xuemeng came from, his grandmaster-level alchemist status would earn him a Heavenly Abode as a fiefdom, and the Wu family would have to treat him with respect.
Guo Feilong had already planned his retreat. If the final outcome in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world was a victory for the demon cultivators, he would immediately relocate his entire family to the Northern Borders Continent's cultivation world to seek refuge with the Wu family.
Guo Feilong flew out of the Heavenly Abode, surrounded by the white mist of the formation. Although the white mist could block the divine sense and sight of other cultivators, it didn't hinder Guo Feilong's divine sense as the master of the formation. His mid-Foundation Establishment stage divine sense spread in all directions, instantly covering a radius of thirty miles.
After confirming that only Sun Shangxiang, the Golden Elixir Ancestor of Alchemy Peak, was outside the formation and there were no other Golden Elixir stage cultivators, he performed a Daoist art. The white mist surged, and the area between him and Sun Shangxiang outside the formation cleared, allowing them to see each other.
As soon as they met, Guo Feilong immediately performed the junior's salute and, based on the relationship with his wives Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, addressed her, "Disciple greets Master."
Sun Shangxiang, the Golden Elixir Ancestor of Alchemy Peak, scrutinized him for a moment before speaking in a deep voice, "Elder Guo, you have quite the nerve to repeatedly ignore the sect's summons and refuse to let your wives and concubines participate in the righteous and demonic war.
If everyone in the sect were as cowardly as you, how could the sect endure in this world? Defending the sect is defending our own future. From the Golden Elixir Ancestor families to the various Foundation Establishment families, all Foundation Establishment stage cultivators must participate in the war. What makes your small Guo family special? Why can't you participate? Today, I must take a hundred Foundation Establishment stage cultivators with me. If not for your status as a high-level alchemist, all Foundation Establishment stage cultivators in your Guo family would have to go to the battlefield today.
Moreover, defying the sect's war order, according to sect rules, warrants death. But given the current war situation, with a severe shortage of elixirs, I'll spare your life for now. From today, you must refine five furnaces of Ninth Grade elixirs daily, with four pills per furnace. Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, as your wives and also disciples of the Spirit Creek Sect, must each refine seven furnaces of Sixth Grade elixirs daily, with four pills per furnace. Additionally, your children, who are my disciples and grand-disciples, totaling sixty-three, must each refine seven furnaces of Third Grade elixirs daily, with four pills per furnace. Every ten days, the sect will send someone to collect the elixirs and deliver them to the battlefield. Do you understand?"
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