Foundation Establishment is an incredibly important milestone for all cultivators at the Qi Refining stage.

Once successfully established, not only does one's status elevate by a whole rank, but their lifespan can also extend to over three times, reaching up to five hundred years.

For Guo Feilong, Foundation Establishment only has success, not failure.

First, there are the auspicious clouds that can help him break through the bottleneck of his cultivation stage with absolute certainty.

Then there's his spiritual root grade, which is now an upper Earth Grade, giving him a 90% success rate for Foundation Establishment.

Lastly, he has a Ninth Grade Foundation Pill that increases his success rate by 50%.

With these three factors combined, failure is impossible.

The time it takes to break through from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment stage can range from a year to just ten days to half a month.

The higher the quality of the Foundation Establishment platform, the longer the time required. Guo Feilong aims to forge a top-quality Foundation Establishment platform, so naturally, it will take longer.

However, this time Guo Feilong is not truly aiming for Foundation Establishment but rather simulating the process because he still covets the spirit stones and original spirit beads within the bodies of the fairies in the Dark Forest, which are comparable to Foundation Establishment.

If he succeeds in Foundation Establishment now, he won't be able to enter the small world of the Dark Forest's Heavenly Abode in the future. For long-term planning, it's best to delay true Foundation Establishment for another ten years or so.

He informed all his wives and children about this Foundation Establishment attempt.

It won't be long before news of his seclusion for Foundation Establishment spreads throughout the cultivation world of Green Sun County, especially since some members of the cultivation families in Green Sun County are from the maternal families of his wives.

The effect Guo Feilong desires is for everyone to know he is attempting Foundation Establishment, and then, after more than half a month, he will emerge and announce his failure.

In seven or eight years, when he truly attempts Foundation Establishment, that will be the best time.

After all, a 120-year-old cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Refining, having left the sect only twelve or thirteen years ago, suddenly succeeding in Foundation Establishment would arouse suspicion among some ill-intentioned cultivators, curious about why he suddenly became so formidable, which is not a good thing.

Looking at the bigger picture, failing once at Foundation Establishment is the best course.

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As they say, the highest level of deception is to make a false act appear real. At this moment, as Guo Feilong begins Foundation Establishment, the mystic power within his spiritual root undergoes a significant transformation, changing from a seed-like form toward the direction of a Foundation Establishment platform.

Half a month later, Guo Feilong voluntarily ended the Foundation Establishment process, resulting in failure, causing a minor injury to his spiritual root.

But it's not a big problem; he had long prepared top-quality elixirs for healing spiritual root injuries, which would restore it to its original state in three to four months at most.

Emerging from the basement, his face was somewhat pale, and his aura slightly weak, the aftereffects of Foundation Establishment failure.

His wives and concubines were saddened by his failure, as Guo Feilong was their husband, the pillar of their family.

Failure in Foundation Establishment meant that this pillar of the family would, at most, have only a decade or so left before returning to dust, plunging the entire Guo family into great turmoil.

It's important to know that all of the Guo family's cultivation resources are supported by Guo Feilong, a mid-level alchemist. If he were to die, the family's cultivation resources would be cut off.

Although Guo Feilong had been training his wives and children with spiritual roots in alchemy and refinement, none showed much talent, unable to support the expenses of over a hundred cultivators in the family.

For a cultivation family, if cultivation resources cannot support the entire family of cultivators, it will eventually split into many smaller families.

If he were to die, the family would inevitably fall into chaos and collapse.

His wives would each take their children, either returning to their maternal families or forming branches of the Guo family with their children.

However, his wives did not know he intentionally failed Foundation Establishment; they all believed he would exhaust his lifespan in less than a decade and die of old age.

Because of his failure, his wives treated him even better, obeying his every wish, trying to please him and make him happy.

Their purpose was simple: to keep him happy and then persuade him to give them more cultivation resources for their children.

If they didn't seize the opportunity to gather more resources while he was alive, obtaining cultivation resources after his death would be incredibly difficult.

After all, when it comes to dividing the family, the stronger one is, the more assets they will receive.

These thoughts from his wives were mainly because the cultivation family he established had too shallow a foundation, and the family members developed too rapidly.

It's important to know that he had over a hundred wives and concubines and eight or nine hundred children.

The family's main source of cultivation resources relied entirely on his alchemy and selling elixirs, unlike those families that had developed slowly over hundreds or thousands of years, with a complete system of cultivation resource income to maintain family unity.

Although each of his wives had their own thoughts and plans, this was beneficial for Guo Feilong, as he enjoyed warmth and affection he hadn't experienced before.

After the failure of Foundation Establishment, Guo Feilong often visited various cultivation families in Green Sun County and nearby counties.

Firstly, to let everyone know he failed Foundation Establishment.

Secondly, to search for unmarried women who were beautiful and of good character, offering a generous bride price to marry them and continue his research on the life gene continuation project.

Unfortunately, in the nearby counties, all the female cultivators who met his criteria for marriage and concubinage had already been taken by him.

Only a few cultivation families had suitable female cultivators, but those women did not agree, nor did their parents or elders, as not everyone is swayed by a high bride price.

This is quite normal, considering Guo Feilong's reputation for having over a hundred wives and concubines and thousands of children in the nearby counties.

Even if they married their daughters to Guo Feilong, once he died, their daughters wouldn't receive much in terms of cultivation resources during the family division.

After the failure of Foundation Establishment, Guo Feilong not only frequently visited various cultivation families in nearby counties but also often went to the entrance of the Spirit Creek Sect's Heavenly Abode.

There, he met his children who had joined the Spirit Creek Sect, as well as Liu Feiyu, Shangguan Mingyue, and Sun Yufeng's beautiful senior and junior sisters who had no partners.

Guo Feilong was very generous, always giving them gifts when meeting and having tea with these beauties, under the pretense of asking them to take care of his other children when they grew up.

He also asked them to look after his wives and concubines after his death, should they encounter any difficulties.

In truth, he had only two real objectives.

First, to inform the Spirit Creek Sect that he had failed Foundation Establishment and would die of old age in less than a decade, with no secrets on him.

Second, to leave an impression on Liu Feiyu, Shangguan Mingyue, and Sun Yufeng's beautiful senior and junior sisters that he was a generous and worthy friend.

Everything was to lay the groundwork for the future, to make everyone believe he was just an ordinary cultivator who had suddenly become skilled in alchemy, with no secrets, and that all his current wealth was solely from alchemy.

As for why he advanced from the sixth level of Qi Refining to the ninth level in just over a decade, it was due to the rapid accumulation of a large amount of cultivation resources.