In half a month of relentless effort, Guo Feilong's dedication finally paid off.
Sun Yufeng's eight Senior Sisters all became pregnant one after another.
With them expecting, Guo Feilong began to ponder his next steps.
In the current Cultivation World of the Arctic Continent, the presence of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect had everyone on edge.
All major Immortal Cultivation forces felt the pressure.
They feared that other demon cultivator forces might emerge and wage war against their sects to replace them.
Foundation Pills were no longer sold externally; every sect's families were scrambling to secure Foundation Pills for their descendants to help them establish their Foundation.
For ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators without any background, achieving Foundation Establishment was even more challenging.
The Cultivation World was not short of ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators, nor was it short of beautiful female cultivators at the ninth-level Qi Refining stage.
"If I use Foundation Pills as a bride price to propose to those ninth-level Qi Refining women without background, most of them would likely marry me."
Guo Feilong believed that by doing so, he could quickly marry more ninth-level Qi Refining women and soon have more Foundation Establishment stage cultivators in his family.
However, he did not act immediately; he wanted to wait until he himself reached the Foundation Establishment stage before taking action.
After all, if people knew he had many Foundation Pills but was not yet a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it might attract unwanted attention from cultivation families, who might try to take advantage of him.
Low profile!
He needed to keep a low profile.
Time flew by.
Eight or nine months passed.
Sun Yufeng's eight beautiful Senior Sisters recently gave birth.
The eight women had eight children.
Three boys and five girls.
Among them, five had Spiritual Roots.
Three did not have Spiritual Roots.
Of the five children with Spiritual Roots, one had a high-quality Spiritual Root.
Guo Feilong used Auspicious Clouds to enhance this child's high-quality Spiritual Root to an Earth Grade low-quality Spiritual Root, giving them a great chance of becoming a Golden Elixir stage cultivator in the future.
Three months after giving birth, Sun Yufeng's eight Senior Sisters took Ninth Grade Foundation Pills and the medium-quality spirit stones given by Guo Feilong to go into seclusion and attempt to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
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Guo Feilong hoped all eight of them would successfully break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
If so, his family would have ten Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.
In the Spirit Creek Sect, a family with ten Foundation Establishment stage cultivators was considered a significant cultivation family.
Why not call it a great family? Because within the Spirit Creek Sect, there were quite a few families with more than ten Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.
Only when his family's number of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators exceeded twenty could it be considered a great cultivation family within the Spirit Creek Sect.
Only families with Golden Elixir stage grand cultivators could be considered top-tier great families.
Otherwise, no matter how many Foundation Establishment stage cultivators a family had, it could not become a top-tier great family.
While these eight wives and concubines were in seclusion, attempting to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, Guo Feilong once again ventured into the Heavenly Abode of the Dark Forest. To him, it was a treasure trove, with countless low and mid-level spirit herbs and spirit medicines.
Especially in the dangerous areas inside, there were many fairies comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage, which were even more valuable.
After spending three months in the Heavenly Abode of the Dark Forest, Guo Feilong returned home to Yellow Rock Town, which had been expanded into a larger city.
The Guo family had constructed a building twice the size of an earthly palace, capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people.
The county seat of Green Sun County was now Sun Yufeng's fiefdom, but Guo Feilong wasn't particularly fond of its location.
So he had Sun Yufeng issue an order to relocate half the county's population to Yellow Rock Town.
Now, Yellow Rock Town had a permanent population of 150,000, making it the most populous place in Green Sun County.
Large tracts of farmland had been cultivated outside Yellow Rock Town. In drought years without rain, Guo Feilong would have his water Spiritual Root wife use the Spring Rain Technique to water the fields.
In years of heavy rain, there was no fear, as the terrain around Yellow Rock Town was high, preventing the fields from flooding and only forming temporary lakes and rivers in low-lying areas.
This was the benefit of ordinary people in the Cultivation World; with Immortal Cultivators around, they didn't have to worry about natural disasters, only demonic calamities and human conflicts.
A few days after returning from the Heavenly Abode of the Dark Forest, Sun Yufeng's eight beautiful Senior Sisters completed their seclusion to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Although the Ninth Grade Foundation Pill could maximize the success rate, it wasn't a guaranteed success.
Eight people went into seclusion.
Five successfully established their Foundation, their appearances reverting to youthful eighteen or nineteen-year-olds, full of vitality.
Three failed, their faces pale, their breaths weak, and their Spiritual Roots damaged.
Guo Feilong had anticipated some would fail, so he had already prepared top-grade elixirs to restore their Spiritual Roots, allowing them to recover in three to five months instead of taking twenty to thirty years.
For the five wives and concubines who succeeded in establishing their Foundation, Guo Feilong gave each of them a Beauty Retaining Pill to maintain their youth forever.
Foundation Establishment stage cultivators had to hold a celebratory banquet.
Their Foundation Establishment celebration banquet was set for the same day.
On that day, two to three thousand cultivators attended, and the Spirit Creek Sect sent a Foundation Establishment stage Elder to grant them the entire Green Sun County as their fiefdom.
Before leaving, the Spirit Creek Sect Elder sent a voice transmission, stating that if Guo Feilong's family produced more Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, the Spirit Creek Sect would no longer grant any fiefdoms.
To expand the fiefdom's area and population, they would have to make significant contributions to the Spirit Creek Sect.
This was the only way for all Foundation Establishment stage families within the Spirit Creek Sect to expand their family fiefdoms, not just targeting Guo Feilong.
If someone in his family could become a Golden Elixir stage grand cultivator, it would be a huge contribution to the Spirit Creek Sect, and they would be granted a large territory as a fiefdom.
Having a county as a fiefdom, Guo Feilong was already very content. Green Sun County was vast, much larger than the capital cities on Earth.
Guo Feilong already had many wives and concubines, and he no longer wanted to marry ordinary women without Spiritual Roots or female cultivators with poor Spiritual Root aptitude and low cultivation stages.
Even with immense wealth, he couldn't provide cultivation resources for an overly large number of cultivators. As a mid-level alchemist, supporting a large family of cultivators was already quite a stretch.
Before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, Guo Feilong didn't plan to marry or take concubines anymore; over a hundred wives and concubines were enough for now.
In the following years, Guo Feilong would go to the Heavenly Abode of the Dark Forest twice a year to gather spirit herbs, spirit medicines, and spirit fruits, and to hunt fairies comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage.
On his seventeenth visit to the Heavenly Abode of the Dark Forest, he had almost wiped out the fairies at the Foundation Establishment stage, nearly exterminating them.
As for the fairies comparable to Golden Elixir stage grand cultivators, Guo Feilong once prepared thoroughly but still couldn't defeat them and almost got killed.
Since then, he hadn't provoked those fairies or entered their territories.
Unfortunately, within the Spirit Creek Sect's territory, there were over thirty small worlds similar to the Heavenly Abode of the Dark Forest.
But they were monopolized by the Spirit Creek Sect, and no one outside the sect was allowed to enter.
Otherwise, he would have loved to explore them.
Year after year passed, and ten years flew by.
Guo Feilong grew older, especially in the two or three years approaching the end of his life span, he became increasingly aged, with age spots appearing on his once slightly loose skin.
Over the years, Guo Feilong discovered something.
His wives and concubines, after giving him ten children each, became less likely to conceive.
Some, no matter how hard he tried to increase the frequency, simply wouldn't get pregnant, as if they had reached menopause.
Only those who had given him fewer than ten children were more likely to conceive. Guo Feilong decided that after successfully establishing his Foundation, he would immediately marry new wives and concubines.
That day, Guo Feilong entered the underground chamber.
He activated the defensive array and began the true seclusion for Foundation Establishment.
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