"Who is it?"

The beautiful concubine exclaimed in surprise.

"It's me, little darling."

Guo Feilong, a man over a hundred and twenty years old, chuckled.

"Oh, it's my husband."

The beautiful concubine breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she pinched him, "You nearly scared me to death just now."

At the same time, she was secretly pleased. Her husband had just returned and came straight to her room, showing she was favored.

What followed was a scene omitted by ten thousand words of action description.

This time, on the trip to the Xiaoye Village market, whether it was refining elixirs or battling demons on the way back, a total of over two hundred auspicious clouds were consumed.

After returning to Yellow Rock Town, besides visiting the recuperating Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, Guo Feilong spent day and night working on a life gene continuation project with his thirty-something beautiful wives and concubines.

Through their diligent efforts, his young wives and concubines gradually became pregnant.

To Guo Feilong's surprise, while practicing the Golden Body Technique, he mixed the auspicious clouds into the medicinal bath that matched the technique, significantly accelerating his cultivation speed.

This discovery allowed him to cultivate the Golden Body Technique to the level of a high-quality spiritual instrument in the shortest time possible.

Among his thirty-plus wives and concubines, the only one with a spiritual root, Wang Yuyan, also practiced the Golden Body Technique with him, and her cultivation speed was several times faster than his, which made Guo Feilong envious for quite some time.

The reason Wang Yuyan's cultivation speed was several times faster was due to her earth-grade medium spiritual root.

It allowed her to refine the medicinal bath's essence more efficiently, transforming it into energy to nourish her flesh and bones.

Moreover, it must be said that Wang Yuyan, with her earth-grade medium spiritual root, advanced rapidly in cultivation.

In just three months, she had already reached the third level of Qi Refining.

Guo Feilong remembered that it took him ninety-seven years to reach the third level of Qi Refining.

Guo Feilong placed great importance on marrying and taking concubines, once again increasing the bride price.

As long as a young and beautiful woman met his criteria and was willing to marry him, he was willing to offer a bride price of 3,000 taels of silver.

He also rewarded matchmakers with 50 taels of silver for every successful match.

Many who were not originally matchmakers joined the profession due to the temptation of 50 taels of silver, specifically seeking young and beautiful women to match with him.

Every so often, one or two young and beautiful girls from the towns surrounding Yellow Rock Town would marry over and become his beautiful wives and concubines.

However, it was unfortunate that among the twenty-plus beautiful wives and concubines he married after returning, not one had a spiritual root.

But fortunately, the number of auspicious clouds increased by over two hundred due to these new wives and concubines.

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Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue stayed at his home for half a month to recover from their injuries before returning to the Heavenly Abode of the Spirit Creek Sect.

In the blink of an eye, they had been back at the Spirit Creek Sect for over half a month.

...

In the basement.

Guo Feilong was placing medicinal herbs into the alchemy furnace, intending to refine Qi Refining Breakthrough Pills. He didn't need them, but his descendants might in the future.

After more than half an hour, ten Ninth Grade Qi Refining Breakthrough Pills appeared in his hand, which he placed into a small porcelain bottle and stored in his storage bag.

Among all elixirs, only the Qi Refining Breakthrough Pill is graded from First to Ninth Grade to better distinguish its value.

Otherwise, Ninth Grade elixirs are high-grade elixirs for Golden Elixir stage cultivators.

A Ninth Grade Qi Refining Breakthrough Pill can sell for fifty to sixty thousand low-quality spirit stones, even more expensive than Beauty Retaining Pills.

Because, besides female cultivators, most male cultivators don't care much about their appearance, whether they look like their youthful selves or not.

As long as their cultivation stage is high, they can marry young and beautiful female cultivators as wives and concubines, and power and wealth are easily within reach.

Two days later, Guo Feilong arrived at Zhou Family Manor, a medium-sized immortal cultivation family in Green Sun County.

The Zhou Family had a history of over four hundred years in Green Sun County, and at its peak, had over twenty cultivators, once the largest family in Yellow Rock Town.

Zhou Family Manor was built like a small city, with walls six to seven meters high, housing over five thousand people, most of whom were ordinary Zhou family members without spiritual roots.

Nowadays, the Zhou family was in decline, with fewer and fewer members possessing spiritual roots, showing a lack of successors. In recent decades, the Zhou family had only four cultivators.

The head of the Zhou family appeared to be in his sixties, with a vigorous appearance and a head full of white hair.

In reality, the Zhou family head was over ninety years old, stuck at the sixth level of Qi Refining for over thirty years, unable to break through to the seventh level.

Guo Feilong was the lord of the fiefdom of Yellow Rock Town, and himself a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator. Moreover, he arrived at the Zhou family on a Ninth Rank spiritual beast, the Ice Flame Hound.

The four immortal cultivators of the Zhou family warmly welcomed him from the gate to the Zhou family reception hall.

Guo Feilong was twenty years older than the Zhou family head and a cultivation stage higher, so he was addressed as Brother Guo by the Zhou family head.

After the two white-haired old men chatted for a while, the Zhou family head couldn't help but ask, "Brother Guo, what brings you to my Zhou family?"

Guo Feilong laughed heartily, "To be honest, Brother Zhou, I've come to propose marriage. I've taken a liking to your Zhou Zhiruo."

Zhou Zhiruo was the great-granddaughter of the Zhou family head, just sixteen years old, with a high-quality low-grade spiritual root, currently at the third level of Qi Refining.

Her appearance was exceptional, standing about 175 cm tall, with skin as white as milk and a heroic spirit between her brows.

Zhou Zhiruo was present in the reception hall and, upon hearing Guo Feilong's purpose, was so angry that she cursed, "You old man over a hundred and twenty years old, wanting to marry me, shameless! My great-grandfather would never marry me to you."

The other two immortal cultivators of the Zhou family were also furious. It's one thing for immortal cultivators to marry teenage ordinary girls, as they can offer them endless wealth and glory.

But female cultivators, who don't rely on men, can live a life of wealth and glory on their own. Why marry an old man so much older, who might be buried in the ground in a few years?

The Zhou family head's face also turned somewhat unpleasant. Zhou Zhiruo was his most cherished great-granddaughter, always treated as a precious jewel.

"Fellow Daoist Guo, although my Zhou family is in decline and not as prosperous as one or two hundred years ago, with no cultivators above the seventh level of Qi Refining, my family may lack strength, but we have backbone."

The Zhou family head emphasized, issuing a dismissal, "Fellow Daoist Guo, please leave. I won't push Zhiruo into the fire pit."

Guo Feilong's age of over 120 was no secret in Green Sun County.

At such an age, if he couldn't become a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, he could live at most another twenty or thirty years.

His great-granddaughter Zhou Zhiruo was just sixteen. If she married Guo Feilong, wouldn't she become a living widow in twenty or thirty years?

In this world of immortal cultivation, only men continuously marry wives and take concubines; no woman marries twice.

At this moment, everyone in the Zhou family was giving him unfriendly looks, but Guo Feilong remained unperturbed and didn't leave. Instead, he said, "Fellow Daoists of the Zhou family, don't be angry. First, listen to the bride price I'm offering, then decide whether to let Fellow Daoist Zhou Zhiruo marry me."

"No matter what bride price you offer, I won't marry you, and my great-grandfather won't marry me to you," Zhou Zhiruo fumed.

Guo Feilong took out a Ninth Grade Breakthrough Pill from his storage bag and said, "This is a Ninth Grade Breakthrough Pill. Its effects, I need not elaborate, as you all know it can significantly increase the chance for a Qi Refining stage cultivator to break through a small stage.

Family Head Zhou, if you possess this Ninth Grade Breakthrough Pill, you might soon break through and become a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator.

I know the Zhou family has been at odds with the Li family for over two hundred years.

Several of the Zhou family's mines have been seized and occupied by the Li family.

The Zhou family's spirit stone income has been minimal in recent years, unable to sustain normal cultivation.

If the Zhou family marries Zhou Zhiruo to me, besides this Ninth Grade Breakthrough Pill, I will also offer 2,000 low-quality spirit stones and 200 First Grade cultivation elixirs as the bride price.

As for the mines occupied by the Li family, once I marry Zhiruo, I can use the status of the Zhou family's son-in-law to help you reclaim them."

The bride price he offered was so generous that the Zhou family head's eyes lit up with greed, and he excitedly asked, "Brother Guo, is what you say true?"

The address changed from Fellow Daoist Guo to Brother Guo.

Guo Feilong replied, "Of course, it's true."

"Alright, I agree to this marriage."

The Zhou family head asked, "When does Brother Guo plan to marry my Zhiruo?"

Before Guo Feilong could respond, Zhou Zhiruo interjected, "Great-grandfather, I won't marry, I won't marry."

"Rubbish!"

The Zhou family head scolded, "You were born in the Zhou family, raised in the Zhou family, and everything you eat, wear, and use comes from the Zhou family. Marrying Brother Guo is for the benefit of the entire Zhou family, thousands of people. How can you decide whether to marry or not?

Old Ninth, Zhou Zhiruo is your granddaughter. Take her back and let her parents talk some sense into her."

A middle-aged cultivator in his forties, Zhou Zhiruo's grandfather, replied, "Yes, Father."

The middle-aged cultivator took Zhou Zhiruo away.

The Zhou family head asked again when Guo Feilong planned to marry.

Guo Feilong said, "Then tomorrow. These two thousand spirit stones as the bride price, and tomorrow when I come to marry, I'll bring the Ninth Grade Breakthrough Pill and two hundred First Grade cultivation elixirs as part of the bride price."

The Zhou family head happily agreed, "Alright, everything will be arranged according to Brother Guo's plan."