The ninth-rank flying spiritual beast lowered its body, its chin almost touching the ground.

Two young and beautiful girls descended from it.

They looked to be only about eighteen or nineteen years old.

"Fellow Daoist Guo, don't you recognize us?"

The girl on the left spoke with a smile, revealing two shallow dimples that added to her charm.

"Of course, I recognize you both," Guo Feilong said in surprise. "I just didn't expect that after not seeing you for over a month, you both would appear so young."

"If I'm not mistaken, Fellow Daoist Liu and Fellow Daoist Shangguan, you have reached the Foundation Establishment stage, haven't you?"

"Should I start addressing you as seniors now?"

The two girls who descended from the ninth-rank flying spiritual beast were Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, who had returned to the Spirit Creek Sect after recovering from their injuries.

Upon their return, their master, a Golden Elixir Ancestor of the Spirit Creek Sect, had obtained two high-quality Foundation Pills for them from afar.

The two then entered seclusion to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

The results were excellent; both successfully established their foundations and became Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, earning them the title of elders in the Spirit Creek Sect.

After stabilizing their cultivation for a few days, they came to fulfill their promise to Guo Feilong to build an exceptional spiritual instrument guard tower for his family.

Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue were both grateful individuals.

"You are our savior, Fellow Daoist. How could we dare let you call us seniors? Let's continue addressing each other as fellow daoists," they said with a smile. "Besides, you have some connections with our master."

Guo Feilong was taken aback and asked, "Your master is a Golden Elixir Ancestor of the Spirit Creek Sect. How could I have any connection with such a figure?"

If he had connections with a Golden Elixir Ancestor, he wouldn't have remained an outer disciple in the Spirit Creek Sect for over fifty years, stuck at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

Liu Feiyu explained, "Over a hundred years ago, you saved an elder of the Spirit Creek Sect, which is how you became an outer disciple."

After returning to the Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode, they had looked into Guo Feilong's records and gained a general understanding of his situation.

Guo Feilong nodded, "That's right, I did save a sect elder and became an outer disciple."

Liu Feiyu continued, "The elder you saved back then, Elder Chen, is my master's full-blooded brother. So, you do have some connection with my master. Unfortunately, your spiritual root aptitude was too poor. My master secretly checked on you back then but couldn't take you as a named disciple. However, my master did instruct the elder in charge of the outer disciples not to make things difficult for you. So, you haven't been bullied during your time as an outer disciple, have you?"

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"No, I haven't been bullied," Guo Feilong nodded, then smiled wryly. "I thought it was because I had a wide network of friends that no one dared to bully me. Turns out it was your master's protection."

The reason they looked into Guo Feilong's records after returning to the Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode was out of curiosity about why a former outer disciple of the sect would possess a talisman sealed by a late Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

Coincidentally, the elder Guo Feilong saved back then was a late Foundation Establishment stage cultivator with a lightning attribute spiritual root, skilled in crafting talismans.

They speculated that the lightning ball talisman Guo Feilong used that day was a gift from that elder.

Guo Feilong then led the two girls to the reserved location for the guard tower. The two girls took out several iron plates from their storage bags.

These iron plates were components for assembling the guard tower. With the help of Guo Feilong, it took them two full days to complete the assembly of the exceptional spiritual instrument guard tower.

The tower had a diameter of 100 meters and consisted of nine floors.

Except for the first-floor hall, which was over five meters high, each of the other floors was approximately three meters and six centimeters high.

Floors two to nine were empty, allowing for flexible interior design and room partitioning.

"Fellow Daoist Guo, this is the array disc for the exceptional spiritual instrument guard tower. Once you activate this disc, the guard tower will truly become an exceptional spiritual defense instrument. You need to drip your blood and infuse your mystic power to activate it," Shangguan Mingyue said, handing over an array disc from her storage bag.

Guo Feilong took the disc, dripped his blood, and infused his mystic power.

Buzz!

The disc emitted a light, and the guard tower responded.

One floor after another lit up.

Every iron plate on each floor displayed rune scripts, which then became hidden within the plates.

"Fellow Daoist Guo, the guard tower will continuously absorb the earth's energy to maintain normal operation," Shangguan Mingyue explained. "Once you activate the guard tower's defensive light screen, the energy absorbed from the earth won't be sufficient, and you'll need to add spirit stones to the control center."

Guo Feilong was aware of this; the defensive light screen was only necessary when facing Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

Even without the light screen, Qi Refining stage cultivators couldn't breach the guard tower's defenses, or it wouldn't be considered an exceptional spiritual instrument guard tower.

Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue didn't stay long. After completing the guard tower, they left on their ninth-rank flying spiritual beast.

Humans aren't adept at flying, and even Foundation Establishment stage cultivators can only fly slightly faster than ninth-rank flying spiritual beasts.

Flying themselves would consume mystic power, so it's more convenient to travel using flying spiritual beasts.

Before leaving, Guo Feilong gave each of them a Beauty Retaining Pill, which delighted them greatly.

Beauty Retaining Pills are rare and not something that can be bought at will.

After they left, Guo Feilong called Su Xue's father, his father-in-law, to find a construction team to renovate the guard tower from the ninth floor to the first.

Before transmigrating to the cultivation world, Guo Feilong had studied interior design, so he had already planned the layout and number of rooms for each floor.

He didn't handle the construction details himself; he just provided the funds.

In the following days, Guo Feilong frequently visited other cultivation families, boasting about his guard tower and his life-and-death friendship with two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators from the Spirit Creek Sect.

He made sure everyone in Green Sun County knew he had the backing of two Foundation Establishment stage elders from the Spirit Creek Sect.

In just a few days, the Guo family gained the reputation of being the top cultivation family in Green Sun County, and even Wei Ting, the Spirit Creek Sect's steward stationed in Green Sun County, came to Yellow Rock Town to visit.

Wei Ting, knowing Guo Feilong's fondness for young and beautiful girls, even gifted him a pair of young and beautiful twin sisters, both pure and untouched.

With this pair of twins from Wei Ting, Guo Feilong now had three pairs of twin sisters as wives and concubines, each more beautiful than the last.

In the following days, Guo Feilong frequently visited various cultivation families in Green Sun County, offering bride prices to marry their young and beautiful female cultivators with spiritual roots.

Guo Feilong offered generous bride prices, sometimes more spirit stones, sometimes more elixirs, and with the backing of two Foundation Establishment stage elders from the Spirit Creek Sect, the cultivation families couldn't find a reason to refuse his proposals, even though he was already over 120 years old.

In less than four months, Guo Feilong had married almost all the young and beautiful female cultivators in Green Sun County.

Now, excluding ordinary wives and concubines without spiritual roots, he had 23 wives and concubines with spiritual roots.

Supporting such a large family and so many cultivators with spiritual roots required significant resources.

Guo Feilong had twice traveled to distant cultivation markets to buy medicinal herbs, refine elixirs, and earn spirit stones.

He also auctioned four Beauty Retaining Pills and four Breakthrough Pills at the Spirit Creek Sect's auction.

Otherwise, he couldn't afford to support so many wives and concubines with spiritual roots.

After all, he provided his wives and concubines with spiritual roots a high standard of cultivation resources, giving each two low-quality spirit stones and a third-grade cultivation elixir daily.

The monthly consumption was at least over a thousand low-quality spirit stones, not to mention the bride prices he spent on marrying so many women with spiritual roots, which was astronomical for ordinary cultivators.

One day, while soaking in a medicinal bath, Guo Feilong's body suddenly emitted a burst of golden light.