No matter the time, cultivation resources are always controlled by a select few at the top.
For cultivators at the bottom, obtaining cultivation resources is extremely difficult.
Take the Foundation Pill, for example. To those disciples from prominent families within the sect, as long as they reach the ninth-level Qi Refining stage, their families or elders will prepare a Foundation Pill for them.
If they fail to establish their foundation, they will have to gather the money themselves to buy a second one.
However, for inner disciples at the ninth-level Qi Refining stage without any background, obtaining a Foundation Pill requires years of completing sect tasks to earn contribution points and spirit stones for purchase.
It could take decades to save enough spirit stones and sect points to buy a Foundation Pill.
The difference between immortal cultivators from prominent families and those without any background is like night and day.
Whose sect is it?
The sect doesn't belong to any one person or family.
The various families within the sect have divided up most of the sect's profits.
The cultivation resources that ordinary cultivators in the sect can obtain are just the leftovers after others have taken their share, barely enough to get by.
Foundation Pills are currently in short supply. When Sun Yufeng used a Foundation Pill to establish her foundation, her beautiful senior and junior sisters found out that Guo Feilong had refined the Foundation Pill for her, and it was of high quality.
They all started to have ideas.
Since they couldn't get a Foundation Pill from the sect, why not try to get one from Guo Feilong?
Without a Foundation Pill to increase their success rate, they would be lucky to have even a five percent chance of success with their spiritual root quality.
If they could get a high-quality Foundation Pill, their chances of success would be much higher.
A 500-year lifespan.
An increase in status and position.
The return of youthful looks.
This is an irresistible temptation for any female cultivator at the ninth-level Qi Refining stage.
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Among Sun Yufeng's beautiful senior and junior sisters, two were particularly proactive.
One afternoon after lunch, they pulled Sun Yufeng aside and quietly told her they wanted to marry Guo Feilong. They didn't want any other bride price, just a Foundation Pill.
Using a Foundation Pill as a bride price is an astronomical price for Qi Refining stage cultivators.
Even the disciples from prominent families in the sect would never use a Foundation Pill as a betrothal gift.
With a Foundation Pill, it would be better to let someone in their own family use it. Having an additional Foundation Establishment stage cultivator in the family is more worthwhile than marrying a Foundation Establishment stage wife.
But for Guo Feilong, Foundation Pills were not a big deal. He had previously purchased many spirit herbs and spirit medicines for refining Foundation Pills, and with the Auspicious Clouds enhancing the pill formation rate, he was not lacking in Foundation Pills.
When Sun Yufeng told him that her two senior sisters wanted to marry him and needed a Foundation Pill as a bride price, Guo Feilong agreed without hesitation.
Guo Feilong knew that a Spirit Creek Sect disciple without any background who could cultivate to the ninth-level Qi Refining stage by the age of forty or fifty was invariably of high-quality spiritual root.
Marrying a woman with a high-quality spiritual root as a wife or concubine is much more worthwhile than marrying ten with medium-quality spiritual roots.
First, the higher the cultivation stage of the wives and concubines, the more Auspicious Clouds the Family Fortune Cauldron would produce.
Second, the higher the spiritual root quality of the wives and concubines, the greater the chance of their children having spiritual roots.
Third, marrying a female cultivator at a lower Qi Refining stage would require spending decades and a lot of cultivation resources to help them reach the ninth-level Qi Refining stage.
At that point, he would still need to give these wives Foundation Pills to help them become Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.
It's better to marry a ninth-level Qi Refining female cultivator directly as a wife or concubine, requiring only one Foundation Pill.
This saves decades of time and all the cultivation resources needed to advance from a lower Qi Refining stage to the ninth level.
For Guo Feilong, this is extremely worthwhile.
Fourth, marrying ninth-level Qi Refining female cultivators as wives and concubines would allow the Guo family he established to have more Foundation Establishment stage cultivators in the shortest time.
After Guo Feilong agreed, Sun Yufeng brought her two senior sisters to him.
They had met many times before, and Guo Feilong was quite familiar with Sun Yufeng's two senior sisters.
Although they were nearly fifty years old, they looked like they were in their late twenties.
One had a petite and delicate figure, while the other was tall and slender.
Both had looks around 8.8 out of 10, and with the added 0.2 points for the immortal cultivator's aura, they were standard 9 out of 10 beauties.
Guo Feilong got straight to the point: "I can use Foundation Pills as a bride price to marry both of you, and my Foundation Pills are Ninth Grade."
"You know, I marry to have children and develop my family.
My only requirement is that after you give me a child or two, I will immediately give you the Foundation Pills."
This might sound a bit harsh, but it's the reality.
After all, if he gave them the Foundation Pills first, they could turn around, go into seclusion, break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, and then refuse to marry him, leaving him with nothing.
The Spirit Creek Sect would undoubtedly side with their own Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.
He would be left with nothing.
Guo Feilong took out two Ninth Grade Foundation Pills to show he had them and then handed them to Sun Yufeng.
He said, "You've seen the Foundation Pills. If you agree to my terms, we'll get married tomorrow. If not, that's understandable."
Upon seeing the Ninth Grade Foundation Pills, Sun Yufeng's two senior sisters' eyes lit up, and they agreed without hesitation.
Guo Feilong smiled happily, called the steward to prepare two bridal chambers, and planned the wedding for the next day.
The steward was accustomed to his frequent weddings and was very experienced in making all the arrangements.
The next day, Guo Feilong married Sun Yufeng's two senior sisters, both ninth-level Qi Refining female cultivators, and was overjoyed.
On the wedding night, he spent the first half in the room of Sun Yufeng's petite senior sister and the second half in the room of her tall senior sister.
Using Foundation Pills as a bride price to marry two ninth-level Qi Refining female cultivators as wives and concubines made Guo Feilong's ambitions and courage grow.
Sun Yufeng still had seven or eight beautiful senior and junior sisters visiting their home.
Guo Feilong staggered the time and approached Sun Yufeng's beautiful senior and junior sisters one by one, discussing marriage. As long as they were willing to marry him, he would offer a Ninth Grade Foundation Pill as a bride price.
Apart from one of Sun Yufeng's junior sisters, who hesitated for a long time and refused, the others all agreed. In the following days, Guo Feilong married one each day, and over six days, he married all six of Sun Yufeng's other beautiful senior and junior sisters.
Among these six, two were at the eighth-level Qi Refining stage, while the remaining four were at the ninth-level.
Now, all eight of Sun Yufeng's senior and junior sisters were Guo Feilong's wives and concubines.
To ensure they became pregnant soon and bore him children, Guo Feilong spent half a month diligently with all eight of them.