At home, all of Guo Feilong's immortal cultivation wives and concubines knew he was an alchemist and that his alchemy could earn money. Every time they shared a room with him, they would softly ask for a spiritual beast.

A spiritual beast equates to the most loyal protector and can also run fast when needed. Guo Feilong was not short of spirit stones, so during this trip to the immortal cultivation market in Xiaoye Village, he decided to buy a spiritual beast for each of his more than twenty immortal cultivation wives and concubines.

Guo Feilong preferred flying spiritual beasts. The price of a seventh-rank flying spiritual beast ranged from 5,000 to 8,000 low-grade spirit stones.

He bought 27 seventh-rank flying spiritual beasts at once, spending nearly 180,000 low-grade spirit stones. Among them were beasts with fast flying speeds and some with slower speeds.

When the time came, his 27 immortal cultivation wives and concubines would draw lots to determine which seventh-rank flying spiritual beast they would own.

This ensured fairness and impartiality.

After buying the flying spiritual beasts, Guo Feilong initially planned to leave the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect store.

But then he thought, since I've already bought seventh-rank flying spiritual beasts, why not also buy some eighth-rank and ninth-rank land-running spiritual beasts?

With more spiritual beasts at home, wouldn't it be safer?

This cultivation world is not peaceful. There are demons that eat humans and use cultivators as supplements, as well as demonic cultivators and immortal cultivation bandits.

Demonic cultivators are human cultivators who, based on the characteristics of demons, created demonic techniques that increase cultivation levels through human flesh, blood, and souls.

Although demonic cultivators are human, they are no different from demons.

Immortal cultivation bandits have no family or sect. They move in groups, sometimes as few as three to five people, sometimes dozens. They either hunt other cultivators on the road or target small families for extermination and looting.

Guard towers have a strong defensive capability against demons. As long as they come within several hundred to a thousand meters, they can be detected.

However, demonic cultivators and immortal cultivation bandits cannot be distinguished.

Safety at home is fundamental, so Guo Feilong bought nine ninth-rank land spiritual beasts at the price of one spirit stone each, spending 450,000 spirit stones.

He then bought twenty eighth-rank land spiritual beasts at the price of one spirit stone each, planning to give one to each of his immortal cultivation wives and concubines.

In this way, his home would have nearly sixty-seven eighth and ninth-rank spiritual beasts, enough to put up a fight even if a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator came.

The mystic power of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators is not infinite and can be overwhelmed by a large number of Qi Refining stage cultivators and spiritual beasts.

Spending over a million spirit stones on spiritual beasts at the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect store, even Guo Feilong felt a pang of heartache as more than half of the spirit stones in his storage bag were gone.

After leaving the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Guo Feilong ensured he wasn't being followed, then rented a room at an inn and swapped his monkey-faced mask for a black bamboo hat, and went to other immortal cultivation shops in Xiaoye Village to buy various supplies.

Spiritual beasts need to eat a large amount of food daily, so Guo Feilong bought a lot of beef and mutton. After returning to Yellow Rock Town, he started raising sheep and cattle to make the spiritual beasts' food self-sufficient.

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Upon his return, all the spiritual beasts were distributed to his 27 immortal cultivation wives and concubines by drawing lots, and everyone's face lit up with joy.

Those wives and concubines who were forced by their families to marry him now felt they had married the right person.

The seventh, eighth, and ninth-rank spiritual beasts they received were things most cultivators couldn't afford in a lifetime.

Moreover, each of them received 60 spirit stones every month, something they could only dream of before.

Time flew by.

Year after year passed.

In the blink of an eye, another three years had gone by.

The children born in the same year as Guo Jing were already five years old.

Guo Feilong planned to send his sons and daughters over five years old with spiritual roots to the Spirit Creek Sect.

The Spirit Creek Sect was the local overlord, with territories in more than ten countries and complete Earth-grade divine power spells and body refining methods.

As long as one became an elite inner disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect, they could learn Earth-grade divine power spells, which were rare and precious.

Auctions only sold incomplete Earth-grade divine power spells, never complete ones.

To become stronger, one must join a larger immortal cultivation force and become an elite among its inner disciples.

The Spirit Creek Sect had two ways of recruiting disciples.

The first: a public recruitment ceremony every ten years, requiring spiritual root aptitude ≥ medium quality and age ≥ 8 years.

The second: spiritual root aptitude ≥ medium quality, no age limit, and a Foundation Establishment stage elder willing to accept them as a disciple.

That day, Guo Feilong called his five sons and daughters with spiritual roots, who were already five years old this year, to him. When they were born, they all had low-quality spiritual roots, none had medium quality.

At that time, Guo Feilong used auspicious clouds to enhance their spiritual roots to medium quality, which pleased him greatly.

The amount of auspicious clouds he used to enhance his children's spiritual roots was about one-third of what he used for himself.

"Calling you five here, Father wants to tell you that in ten days, I will send you to the Spirit Creek Sect to learn from a master, so prepare yourselves mentally."

As soon as he said this, the five little ones started to protest, with one crying, "Father, I don't want to learn from a master, I don't want to leave you and Mother, boo hoo..."

When one cried, the other four followed suit.

No five or six-year-old child in the world wants to leave their parents.

Similarly, parents don't want to be separated from their children.

The five children cried, and their mothers all had red eyes, reluctant to part.

But becoming a disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect was a blessing for the children, and their mothers, no matter how reluctant, had to support Guo Feilong's decision.

Ten days later, Guo Feilong took his five just-turned-five-year-old children, sitting on the back of the seventh-rank flying spiritual beast Da Gui, and flew towards the Spirit Creek Sect.

The journey of over 28,000 miles took just five and a half days.

The Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode was off-limits to non-sect members, only accessible to guests invited by the sect's high-ranking members.

Guo Feilong was no longer an outer disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect, nor was he an invited guest of the sect's high-ranking members, so he was not qualified to enter the Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode.

At the entrance to the Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode, Guo Feilong took out a voice transmission jade slip and sent a voice message to Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, explaining his purpose.

Soon, Liu Feiyu arrived at the entrance of the Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode. Guo Feilong cupped his hands and said, "I entrust my five children to Fellow Daoist Liu's care in the future."

Liu Feiyu, having taken a Beauty Retaining Pill, maintained the appearance of eighteen or nineteen after her Foundation Establishment transformation. Her voice was pleasant as she said, "Fellow Daoist Guo, there's no need for formalities. You saved my life, and I will treat your children as my own nieces and nephews."

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Liu, why haven't I seen Fellow Daoist Shangguan?" Guo Feilong had also sent a voice transmission jade slip message to Shangguan Mingyue earlier.

Liu Feiyu replied, "My junior sister is not in the sect's heavenly abode. She went out with my master a few days ago."

"Oh, I see."

Guo Feilong suddenly said to Liu Feiyu, "Fellow Daoist Liu, I have another favor to ask. Let's talk over here."

He left his five children at the entrance of the Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode and flew with Liu Feiyu into the sky, saying, "Fellow Daoist Liu, I've recently had a breakthrough in alchemy, and my skills have been improving rapidly.

I wanted to ask if Fellow Daoist Liu could help me obtain alchemy recipes for fourth-grade or higher cultivation elixirs. I want to try advancing to an intermediate alchemist."

Although he had spent over a decade in the alchemy hall as an outer disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect, he only had access to first, second, and third-grade elixir recipes for Qi Refining stage cultivators.

He was not qualified to access fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade elixirs used by Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

Fourth-grade elixirs used by Foundation Establishment stage cultivators were ten times the price of third-grade cultivation elixirs used by Qi Refining stage cultivators.

Liu Feiyu shook her head and said, "The recipes for fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade cultivation elixirs used by Foundation Establishment stage cultivators are not to be shared with non-sect members."

Guo Feilong, having been an outer disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect for a hundred years, was well aware of this rule.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade elixirs used by Foundation Establishment stage cultivators were a significant source of income for the Spirit Creek Sect and were not to be disclosed to outsiders.

Guo Feilong explained, "I don't mean for Fellow Daoist Liu to give me the Spirit Creek Sect's recipes. I wanted to ask if Fellow Daoist Liu knows where I might find cultivation elixir recipes at the Foundation Establishment level."

"In that case..." Liu Feiyu pondered for a while, her eyes suddenly lighting up as she said, "In the eastern part of our Spirit Creek Sect's territory, 150,000 miles away, there's a cultivator city called Wanhua City.

I went there once with my master.

There are countless cultivators, many auction houses, and large commercial associations.

Sometimes, the auction houses and large commercial associations there have cultivation elixir recipes for Foundation Establishment stage cultivators. You might want to take a look."

It was the first time Guo Feilong had heard of Wanhua City, and he thought, "Indeed, different realms lead to different perspectives. What I haven't heard of is known to Foundation Establishment stage cultivators."

"Thank you for the information, Fellow Daoist Liu," Guo Feilong cupped his hands and descended to the ground with Liu Feiyu.

Liu Feiyu took his five daughters and entered the Spirit Creek Sect's heavenly abode.

Guo Feilong then rode Da Gui back home.