The birth of his first child filled Guo Feilong with immense joy. He planned to host a grand feast on the street outside his home for three days, where anyone who offered a few words of blessing could join in the celebration.

Holding his son in his arms, Guo Feilong felt a twinge of regret.

The child had no spiritual root and would not be able to pursue immortal cultivation in the future.

Ordinary people who toiled in the fields could consider themselves fortunate to live to sixty, with most only reaching their forties or fifties.

Even wealthy ordinary people, who did not endure physical labor, typically did not live much longer, perhaps reaching their sixties or seventies.

However, if an immortal cultivator regularly used mystic power to cleanse an ordinary person's body and reduce illness, it was common for them to live to eighty or ninety.

"Husband, what shall we name our child?" Su Xue, still weak from childbirth, asked.

Guo Feilong thought for a moment, unable to come up with a good name, then suddenly remembered the name of a TV show protagonist and said, "Let's name him Guo Jing."

"Guo Jing..." Su Xue pondered for a moment and said, "That's a good name."

The Family Fortune Cauldron produced more auspicious clouds as the family grew.

Marrying and having children were different matters.

Wives and concubines became family members through marriage.

Descendants were part of the family through bloodline.

Although the first son was an ordinary person without a spiritual root, his birth caused the Family Fortune Cauldron to produce thirty auspicious clouds, which delighted Guo Feilong for a long time.

He now had over eighty wives and concubines. If each bore a child every year, that would mean over eighty children annually, yielding 2,400 auspicious clouds.

With so many auspicious clouds, if used for alchemy, the spirit stones earned would be more than enough.

Wang Yuyan and the twin sisters Zhao Xinran and Zhao Xintong were pregnant around the same time.

Seven or eight days after Su Xue gave birth, Wang Yuyan and the twins also delivered their children one after another.

Wang Yuyan gave birth to a daughter, whom Guo Feilong named Guo Xiang. She had a low-quality superior spiritual root, generating 1,000 auspicious clouds for the Family Fortune Cauldron.

The twin sisters Zhao Xinran and Zhao Xintong, both ordinary people without spiritual roots, gave birth to children who also lacked spiritual roots, each generating thirty auspicious clouds.

Zhao Xinran had a daughter named Guo Yue.

Zhao Xintong had a son named Guo Yang.

In the following days, other pregnant wives and concubines reached their due dates, with some even sharing the same day.

On one particular day, Guo Feilong's wives and concubines collectively gave him thirteen children.

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Unfortunately, none of the children born to women without spiritual roots had spiritual roots themselves.

As time passed, all the wives and concubines gave birth, and with Guo Feilong's efforts, Su Xue and Wang Yuyan became pregnant again.

The children born to wives with spiritual roots had a low chance of possessing spiritual roots themselves.

On average, only two out of every ten children had spiritual roots, the rest being ordinary people.

Currently, five children had spiritual roots: three boys and two girls.

The children were still young, unable to even call for their parents, let alone begin cultivation.

Guo Feilong adored each of his eighty-plus children, but with so many, he couldn't spend time playing with each one.

To ensure all his children had healthy bodies, Guo Feilong prepared a medicinal bath to enhance their health.

Each child soaked in the medicinal bath for an hour daily, ensuring they would live healthy lives without major illnesses.

One day, in the basement, after refining over a hundred third-grade cultivation elixirs, Guo Feilong used auspicious clouds to enhance his spiritual root to a high-quality medium level.

Such a spiritual root, while not comparable to an earth-grade root, was considered an exceptional talent within the Spirit Creek Sect.

With the enhancement to a high-quality superior root, his cultivation speed and the progress of the Golden Body Technique increased significantly.

In the blink of an eye, two years passed.

Guo Feilong's cultivation reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.

The Golden Body Technique advanced to the second level, making his physical form comparable to a medium-quality spiritual instrument.

During these two years, he did not marry or take concubines.

One reason was his reluctance to marry ordinary women without spiritual roots.

Another was that all eligible female cultivators in Qingyang County had already been brought back by him.

To marry a young and beautiful female cultivator with a spiritual root, he would have to venture to other counties.

Cultivators, like rural communities of the past, tended to socialize within their own circles, rarely mingling with outsiders.

Seeking a woman with a spiritual root in another county was challenging, so he temporarily halted his plans for marriage and concubinage.

However, with over eighty wives and concubines, he had enough for the time being. When not cultivating, he could spend time with about ten wives each day.

"Although an immortal cultivator's body is much stronger than an ordinary person's, spending time with ten wives daily for two or three years is still taxing, even for a cultivator with a strong constitution."

"If this continues, it won't be long before I exhaust myself to death."

"I need to buy a dual cultivation technique, or else even an iron rod will be worn down to a needle."

Guo Feilong realized the urgency of the situation.

Emerging from the basement, he instructed the ninth-rank spiritual beast, the Ice Flame Hound Erha, to guard the house. If anyone dared to cause trouble, they were to be dealt with mercilessly.

He then mounted the seventh-rank spiritual beast, the Fire-Winged Eagle Da Gui, and swiftly flew towards the market town of Xiaoye Village, 8,000 miles away.

The Spirit Creek Sect had numerous cultivation market towns, each spaced about a thousand miles apart.

During his three years as the lord of Yellow Rock Town, Guo Feilong visited eight different market towns, primarily to auction rare elixirs like Beauty Retaining Pills and Breakthrough Pills.

He had purchased nearly all the main ingredients for Beauty Retaining Pills from the eight market towns, ensuring that all eighty-plus wives and concubines in his household had consumed them, preserving their youthful beauty until death.

Traveling on a seventh-rank flying spiritual beast was swift; the 8,000-mile journey took just over a day and a half.

Guo Feilong first bought a large quantity of spirit herbs and spirit medicines from the Spirit Creek Sect's elixir shop, along with many third-grade cultivation elixirs, before heading to the Stone Cloud Merchant Guild's general store.

The Stone Cloud Merchant Guild was a cultivator force specializing in various trades, selling everything from sacred treasures, spiritual instruments, and elixirs to talismans and formations.

Upon entering the general store, a young and beautiful female cultivator clerk approached him with a professional smile.

In a gentle and steady voice, she asked, "Fellow Daoist, we at the Stone Cloud Merchant Guild sell and buy everything. How may I assist you?"

Glancing around the hall, Guo Feilong saw only a few clerks and no other customers.

Feeling a bit embarrassed, he quietly said to the young female clerk, "I'm looking to buy a dual cultivation technique. Do you have any here?"

The young clerk blushed slightly at the request, thinking it improper for someone his age to seek such a technique. She quietly replied, "Yes, we do. Are you looking for a single-sided absorption technique or a mutual enhancement technique?"

"Mutual enhancement," Guo Feilong whispered.

"Oh," the young female cultivator nodded, then asked, "We have low-quality, medium-quality, and high-quality mutual enhancement dual cultivation techniques, but no top-quality ones."

Dual cultivation techniques, unlike other techniques, were graded into four levels: low, medium, high, and top quality, with higher grades offering faster improvement.

"I'll take a high-quality one," Guo Feilong, not lacking spirit stones, chose the most expensive option without asking the price.

The clerk said, "We have three types of high-quality mutual enhancement dual cultivation techniques, priced at 10,000, 11,000, and 13,000 spirit stones respectively."

"I'll take the one for 13,000 spirit stones," Guo Feilong chose the most expensive one, knowing that in the cultivation world, higher-priced items were usually better, with no risk of overpaying for inferior goods.

Especially in a business setting, shops would not risk their reputation by deceiving customers, as the consequences could range from lost business to being killed in the night.

After paying 13,000 low-quality spirit stones, a jade slip containing the technique was handed to Guo Feilong, who immediately placed it against his forehead to examine its contents.

The dual cultivation technique recorded was called the Dragon and Phoenix Harmony Technique, which allowed both parties to benefit during the process of procreation.

Moreover, it could control the timing and quantity.

Feeling as if he had obtained a treasure, Guo Feilong stored the jade slip in his storage bag and left the Stone Cloud Merchant Guild's general store.

In the past two or three years, he had earned over two million spirit stones from selling elixirs, making him exceptionally wealthy.

After leaving the Stone Cloud Merchant Guild's general store, Guo Feilong entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, now wearing a monkey mask on his face.