Immortal Cultivation.
It's not just about arduous training, ignoring the world outside.
One must also understand human relationships and make friends.
The older one gets, the more they value social connections.
Wei Ting, an Inner Disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect at the ninth level of Qi Refining, was so warmly entertaining Guo Feilong, who was only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, for two reasons.
First: Everyone has a few friends. Guo Feilong had been an Outer Disciple in the Spirit Creek Sect for a hundred years; surely he had some connections.
Otherwise, how could a fiefdom like Yellow Rock Town, with a population of thirteen to fourteen thousand, be casually given to an Outer Disciple with no connections?
With no personal grudges between them, who would they put on a cold face for? It's better to smile and be friendly, making everyone happy.
Between people, you never know who might need whom in the future. Why make an enemy when you can make a friend?
Second: A table of inexpensive food and drink could strengthen their relationship, so why not?
Of course, if Guo Feilong were a Wandering Cultivator, Wei Ting wouldn't have been so hospitable.
In the eyes of disciples from a large sect like Spirit Creek Sect, Wandering Cultivators were nothing, and they could look down on them from above.
The banquet ended with both host and guest in high spirits.
Guo Feilong and Wei Ting exchanged their Voice Transmission Tool imprints, allowing them to send voice messages to each other within five thousand miles.
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Guo Feilong left the Guard Tower, stepping on a White Cloud, and flew down to the government office in Green Sun County to handle mundane affairs.
The county magistrate in the office was not an Immortal Cultivator with mystic power.
He was an ordinary person directly appointed by the Spirit Creek Sect's stationed stewards, considered half a member of the sect.
Upon learning of Guo Feilong's intentions, the Green Sun County magistrate immediately arranged for two officers to accompany him to Yellow Rock Town to announce the fiefdom.
Guo Feilong executed the Soaring Cloud technique, and a White Cloud rose beneath his feet, carrying him and the two officers to Yellow Rock Town.
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Two hours later, Guo Feilong flew from Green Sun County to Yellow Rock Town, two hundred miles away.
If not for the two extra people on the White Cloud slowing it down, he could have reached Yellow Rock Town in less than an hour and a half.
It was around three-thirty in the afternoon, and the streets were bustling with people.
Seeing Guo Feilong arriving on a cloud, their eyes were filled with envy and awe.
Although the Spirit Creek Sect had laws prohibiting Immortal Cultivators from casually killing ordinary people, it was still very easy for them to kill an ordinary person without anyone knowing.
Bang!
Bang bang bang!
The two officers struck the gongs they carried.
Shouting loudly.
"Attention, important announcement.
From today, Yellow Rock Town will be the private fiefdom of Immortal Master Guo.
All residents of Yellow Rock Town are now subjects of Immortal Master Guo.
Your lives and deaths are in the hands of Mr. Guo."
Bang!
Bang bang bang!
"Attention, important announcement."\
From today, Yellow Rock Town will be the private fiefdom of Immortal Master Guo.
All residents of Yellow Rock Town are now subjects of Immortal Master Guo..."
The two officers split up, banging gongs along the main streets of the town, loudly announcing to the people of Yellow Rock Town that this place had become the fiefdom of Immortal Master Guo.
Guo Feilong stood on a White Cloud, floating fifty meters above Yellow Rock Town. Anyone who looked up could see his flowing white hair, resembling a True Immortal.
Guo Feilong had stayed in Yellow Rock Town for a few days before, and his snow-white hair left a deep impression on those who had seen him.
"It's that old man."
The vendor selling sugar-coated haws recognized him, feeling the ten silver bills in his pocket burning like hot iron, knowing he must deliver them to Immortal Master Guo later.
At this moment, Guo Feilong's Divine Soul was in shock in his Mindscape, staring at a tripod cauldron with two handles.
Just as the two officers struck the gong and announced Yellow Rock Town as his fiefdom, his Divine Soul involuntarily entered his Mindscape, where he saw the tripod cauldron with two handles that had suddenly appeared.
The cauldron had an ancient design, with mysterious rune scripts etched on it, glowing with golden light.
Buzz!
A beam of light suddenly shot out from the cauldron, shining on Guo Feilong's Divine Soul.
Information about the cauldron appeared in Guo Feilong's mind.
Moments later.
Guo Feilong absorbed the information.
He learned that this tripod cauldron with two handles was called the Family Fortune Cauldron!
Its function was that the more family members he had, the more Auspicious Clouds the cauldron would produce.
Auspicious Clouds were consumables with incredible effects, not only helping him break through cultivation stage bottlenecks with 100% success.
They could also enhance the spiritual root aptitude of him and his descendants, increase the success rate of alchemy, improve the quality of crafted items, boost formation power, and more...
They could even temporarily enhance various divine powers, spells, and the power of sacred treasures and spiritual instruments.
With enough Auspicious Clouds, even at the sixth level of Qi Refining, he could defeat Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, or even Golden Elixir cultivators, across cultivation stages.
This ability was truly extraordinary!
It was too defiant of the natural order.
There were only stories of ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators escaping from early Foundation Establishment cultivators by fighting and fleeing.
But there were no stories of anyone defeating a cultivator one major stage higher, let alone two stages higher.
There were two ways to increase the number of family members and obtain Auspicious Clouds.
The first method: The more descendants he had, the more family members there would be.
For each additional descendant, a certain amount of Auspicious Clouds would appear in the cauldron.
If his descendants had spiritual roots for Immortal Cultivation, the cauldron would produce significantly more Auspicious Clouds than for those without spiritual roots.
Moreover, the higher the spiritual root aptitude of his descendants, the more Auspicious Clouds the cauldron would produce.
The second method: Marry and take concubines.
For each wife or concubine he took, the cauldron would produce a certain amount of Auspicious Clouds.
If the wife or concubine was also an Immortal Cultivator, the cauldron would produce significantly more Auspicious Clouds than if he married an ordinary woman.
The higher the cultivation stage of the wife or concubine, the more Auspicious Clouds the cauldron would produce.
The most extraordinary part was that when wives or concubines with spiritual roots and descendants broke through their cultivation stages, the cauldron would produce Auspicious Clouds.
The Family Fortune Cauldron also had an Artifact Spirit, which had just recognized him as its master through the beam of light.
However, the Artifact Spirit was very weak and had entered a state of recovery, expected to awaken in about ten years.
Guo Feilong's Divine Soul consciousness returned to his body, trembling with excitement, feeling like shouting to the heavens.
Over a hundred years.
Every day and night, he had hoped for an Elder of the Ring.
For an unparalleled sacred treasure golden finger.
Or to bind and activate a system.
Today, his wish finally came true.
He had been recognized as the master by the Family Fortune Cauldron.
Wives and concubines!
He must take many.
Children.
He must have many.