Boom!

The sword qi talisman shot out, manifesting a hundred-meter-long sword qi that slashed toward the Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

"What a massive sword qi!" The Foundation Establishment stage cultivator was shocked. His flying sword was already caught barehanded by Guo Feilong and couldn't break free or return to him.

He didn't have time to retrieve a shield-type spiritual instrument from his storage bag and could only gather a protective mystic power barrier in front of him.

Crash!

In the blink of an eye, everything happened in a flash.

The hundred-meter-long sword qi struck the mystic power barrier like a massive iron hammer smashing into a glass window.

The mystic power barrier shattered instantly, turning into specks of light that returned to the heavens and earth.

The sword qi dimmed slightly but continued its relentless assault, slicing the Foundation Establishment stage cultivator from head to groin without even a scream.

His body split in two, utterly dead, with even the divine soul in his mindscape dissipating into nothingness.

"Squeak, squeak..." A ninth-rank spiritual beast, a Treasure-Seeking Mink, darted out from the left side of the Foundation Establishment stage cultivator's corpse.

It was small, with snow-white fur.

Unable to fly, the ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink flailed its limbs and tail in panic, plummeting toward the ground.

Guo Feilong gestured at the ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink, and the little creature was pulled toward him by his mystic power, struggling fiercely.

"Stay still, don't move."

Guo Feilong threatened it, "Or I'll skin you and roast you."

Spiritual beasts generally have high intelligence, and since this one was raised by humans, it could understand simple human speech.

The Treasure-Seeking Mink was so frightened it stopped moving, trembling like a little puppy as Guo Feilong held it by the scruff of its neck.

Guo Feilong had the ninth-rank flying spiritual beast beneath him land on the ground, then took a storage bag and a spiritual beast bag from the two halves of the Foundation Establishment stage cultivator's corpse.

From the storage bag, he found the Beast Command Token that controlled the ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink, dripped a drop of blood on it, and reactivated the token with his mystic power.

In the next moment, he became the owner of this Beast Command Token, and the ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink became his spiritual beast.

Spiritual beasts grow larger with higher ranks, but this ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink was only the size of a puppy.

This was because Treasure-Seeking Minks have a natural ability to shrink their bodies, capable of reducing to about one foot in size.

Guo Feilong released the grip of his hand, which was comparable to a low-quality sacred treasure, and said to the ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink, "Transform to your largest state."

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In an instant, its snow-white fur glowed, and its body expanded like a balloon being inflated, growing larger and larger.

Finally, it became three times the size of a normal adult stallion before stopping, revealing the true size of a ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink.

Spiritual beasts with treasure-seeking abilities are relatively rare.

Their price is about three times that of flying spiritual beasts of the same rank, making them hard to purchase even with money.

Treasure-seeking spiritual beasts can help their owners find spirit herbs and spirit medicines in the wild and sense if there are treasures in someone's storage bag.

Some cultivators like to keep treasure-seeking spiritual beasts, not for finding spirit herbs and spirit medicines in the wild, but to know if someone's storage bag contains treasures.

Generally, if a cultivator finds treasures in someone's storage bag and that person is at a lower cultivation stage, they might engage in the dark act of killing and looting.

Guo Feilong had always wanted to buy a treasure-seeking spiritual beast, but such beasts were too rare, and no cultivator would easily sell them. He had searched several large cultivation markets in the Northern Borders Continent but found none.

Unexpectedly, he obtained one by killing a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator today.

Someone who owned a ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink couldn't be an ordinary Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

Guo Feilong deduced that this Foundation Establishment stage cultivator was likely from the Divine Wind Sect.

Indeed.

He guessed correctly.

In the storage bag of the Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, he found a Divine Wind Sect Elder's token.

Throwing the Divine Wind Sect identity token beside the corpse, Guo Feilong took out the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, a semi-finished spiritual instrument, from the storage bag and infused it with mystic power, giving it a slight shake.

In an instant, countless fierce ghosts flew out, filling the air with a chilling aura, causing the surrounding temperature to drop several degrees.

Under his command, the ghastly apparitions devoured the two halves of the Divine Wind Sect Foundation Establishment stage cultivator's corpse, leaving only bones behind.

Anyone who came to investigate would think it was the work of a demon cultivator.

No one would suspect him.

After dealing with the corpse, Guo Feilong looked at the snow-white ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink and gave it a new name, "From now on, you'll be called Little White, got it?"

"Squeak, squeak..." The Treasure-Seeking Mink nodded, indicating it understood.

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After putting the ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mink, Little White, into the spiritual beast bag and storing the Ten Thousand Souls Banner in the storage bag, Guo Feilong sat on the ninth-rank flying spiritual beast and continued his journey toward the Spirit Creek Sect.

Two days later, he returned to the Spirit Creek Sect's territory.

Two and a half days later, he arrived home in Yellow Rock Town.

Despite being over a hundred and thirty years old, he was the backbone and stabilizing force of his family. The news of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect had reached the Spirit Creek Sect's territory, and his wives and concubines were all worried about him, knowing he had gone to the Northern Borders Continent's cultivation world for business.

Now, seeing him return safely, his eighty to ninety beautiful wives and concubines all breathed a sigh of relief, surrounding him with joy, showering him with care and affection.

Though old, the family couldn't do without him.

Having not been with a woman for two or three months, Guo Feilong stayed home, not stepping out for half a month, enjoying the company of his beautiful wives and concubines.

After spending half a month happily with his many wives and concubines, Guo Feilong began setting up a defensive formation throughout the small town of Yellow Rock, which housed over ten thousand people.

When fully activated, this defensive formation could produce three layers of protective barriers.

The first barrier could cover the entire Yellow Rock Town.

The second barrier could cover the entire Guo family compound.

The third barrier could cover the Guo family's rear hall.

The strongest defense was the third barrier, capable of withstanding the attacks of several Foundation Establishment stage cultivators for ten to fifteen days.

To prepare for any eventuality, Guo Feilong purchased a large amount of grain from several grain-producing counties in the Spirit Creek Sect, enough to feed fifty thousand people for twenty years.

He also visited the Spirit Creek Sect's Heavenly Abode to see the children he had sent there and gave them the medicinal herbs for the upper part of the Golden Body Technique's cultivation bath.

He also caught up with Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue, rekindling old friendships and giving them some cultivation elixirs for Foundation Establishment stage cultivators as a token of gratitude for taking care of his children over the years.

Only by marrying wives and concubines with spiritual root aptitude and having more children with spiritual roots could the Family Fortune Cauldron produce more auspicious clouds.

Auspicious clouds are consumables, and the more, the better. When he had free time, Guo Feilong would leave Yellow Rock Town and Qingyang County.

He would inquire in neighboring counties about which cultivation families had young, unmarried female cultivators.

In this male-dominated cultivation world, as long as the bride price was sufficient.

Families would agree to marry off their daughters or granddaughters to a man over a hundred and thirty years old.

Even if the groom were to die the next day, those families would still consent.

The belief in sacrificing one for the good of the family was deeply ingrained in the bones of cultivators in this world.

When Guo Feilong proposed to those cultivation families, he not only offered a generous bride price but also revealed himself as an intermediate alchemist.

If they agreed to the marriage and let their daughters or granddaughters marry him, they could purchase cultivation elixirs from him at a significantly reduced price.

An intermediate alchemist's status is much higher than that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, and any cultivation force would welcome them warmly.

In the absence of enmity, all Foundation Establishment stage cultivators would show respect to an intermediate alchemist.

After all, they couldn't do without alchemists for refining elixirs in the future.

In the days that followed, every three to five days.

Guo Feilong managed to marry a young and beautiful female cultivator.

If not for learning the dual cultivation technique, Dragon and Phoenix Harmony.

The iron rod might have long been worn down to a needle.

That night.

The stars shone brightly outside the window.

Guo Feilong had just finished a life-gene continuation research project with a newlywed female cultivator wife when the Artifact Spirit of the Family Fortune Cauldron awakened.

His divine soul immediately entered his mindscape.