To completely resolve the rift between Li Ying and Jiang Xuewei, over the next month, Guo Feilong frequently spent joyful times with the two of them.
As they became more open with each other, Li Ying and Jiang Xuewei also grew closer.
Both of them had rather petty personalities, but under Guo Feilong's efforts to bring them together, they became good sisters.
Their children, under Guo Feilong's deliberate arrangements, also played together often these days.
Children don't hold grudges or remember much, so they played happily every day, long forgetting about their uncle's issues.
In dealing with the conflicts and grudges between his brothers-in-law, everyone saw Guo Feilong's cold and ruthless side.
No one dared to violate the laws and rules within the Guo family's Heavenly Abode, and everyone behaved themselves, maintaining good relations with the families of Guo Feilong's other wives and concubines.
Some people, to improve relations, began arranging marriages between cultivators with spiritual roots and those without, ordinary people with ordinary people.
Through such intermarriages, many of the families of Guo Feilong's wives and concubines became in-laws, with relationships as intricate as a spider's web.
For Guo Feilong, these marriages were beneficial. If any conflicts arose between them in the future, they wouldn't drag his wives and children into it.
Since they were mostly in-laws, any disputes would likely be resolved within their respective families, turning big issues into small ones, and small ones into nothing.
By making Li Ying and Jiang Xuewei happy together, Guo Feilong realized he should often group his wives and concubines into different teams, letting them enjoy time with him in small groups.
This not only made him happier but also improved the relationships between some of his wives who weren't particularly close, making them more familiar and friendly with each other.
He acted on this thought, being the head of the family, and his wives and concubines had to follow his arrangements. Seven wives formed a group, with a small group leader, spending time together often.
After half a month, the groups were reshuffled, forming new groups with six different wives, and those who had been grouped together couldn't be in the same group again until five years later.
Through this method, the relationships among his 380 wives and concubines improved significantly, though unfortunately, Wu Yumeng had returned to her family.
The higher a cultivator's level, the longer it takes to reach the next minor or major stage.
Guo Feilong's spiritual root aptitude was now of heavenly middle grade, and with no shortage of cultivation resources, his cultivation speed was astonishingly fast for an ordinary Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.
Yet, even so, it would take him seven or eight years to progress from mid to late Foundation Establishment stage.
Cultivation isn't something that happens overnight; it requires time and patience. Guo Feilong spent his days either practicing alchemy, refining instruments, making talismans, or enjoying time with his many wives and concubines at home.
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Of course, he also placed great importance on instilling the right values in his children, frequently educating them on such matters.
Guo Feilong crafted a large cannon and used Spirit Explosion Beads to create small missile instruments, which not only had greater power than before but also tripled in speed, making them difficult for even Golden Elixir stage grand cultivators to evade.
"Husband, I'm back."
That morning, Wu Yumeng returned.
She came back alone; her sister Wu Xuemeng did not return.
On her way back to the family, Wu Xuemeng had a breakthrough in alchemy, becoming a grandmaster-level alchemist.
The entire Wu family was preparing a grandmaster-level alchemist banquet for Wu Xuemeng, inviting various Elemental Infant-level cultivation forces to witness the event.
Grandmaster-level alchemists are rare, their status comparable to Elemental Infant stage cultivators.
Originally, Wu Yumeng planned to return to the Guo family after her sister Wu Xuemeng's grandmaster-level alchemist banquet.
But the banquet was scheduled for a year later.
Wu Yumeng missed her children and couldn't wait a year, so she returned.
Wu Yumeng brought back many alchemy recipes from the Wu family, including the recipe for the Yang Essence Pill.
The Yang Essence Pill is extremely important to Elemental Infant-level cultivation forces.
Without enough Yang Essence Pills, a cultivation force wouldn't have many Golden Elixir stage cultivators.
Without enough Golden Elixir stage cultivators, many important places would be left unguarded.
Moreover, it would be difficult for such a force to produce Elemental Infant stage cultivators.
After all, if one can't even reach the Golden Elixir stage, becoming an Elemental Infant stage cultivator is out of the question.
Not every Elemental Infant-level cultivation force has the recipe for the Yang Essence Pill.
Typically, at least three out of ten such forces have the recipe for the Yang Essence Pill.
The remaining seven forces have to purchase Yang Essence Pills from others or fight for the Human Cultivation Alliance on the outer battlefield to earn points, which can be exchanged for Yang Essence Pills.
To fight for the Human Cultivation Alliance on the outer battlefield, one must be at least at the late Golden Elixir stage.
Currently, all major Golden Elixir stage cultivation forces in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world have late Golden Elixir stage cultivators fighting for the Human Cultivation Alliance on the outer battlefield.
Unfortunately, to return from the outer battlefield, one must stay there for a hundred years.
The war on the outer battlefield is extremely brutal.
Out of ten late Golden Elixir stage cultivators who go, only three or four might return alive, with six or seven dying there.
If a Golden Elixir stage cultivator dies on the outer battlefield, their affiliated cultivation force receives compensation points and two Yang Essence Pills.
For any Golden Elixir stage cultivation force, losing a late Golden Elixir stage cultivator for two Third Grade Yang Essence Pills and some points is a significant loss.
A cultivator at the late Foundation Establishment stage at Great Perfection who takes a Third Grade Yang Essence Pill only has about a 20% higher chance of becoming a Golden Elixir stage cultivator.
Even if they become a Golden Elixir stage cultivator, they start at the early stage, and it takes at least several hundred years and a vast amount of cultivation resources to reach the late stage.
Even with the recipe for the Yang Essence Pill, obtaining the main ingredients is difficult because the Human Cultivation Alliance monopolizes them.
To get the main ingredients for the Yang Essence Pill, one must fight for the Human Cultivation Alliance on the outer battlefield to earn points, which can be exchanged for the ingredients.
Of course, the Human Cultivation Alliance only monopolizes about 80% of the main ingredients for the Yang Essence Pill.
The remaining 20% is split between various cultivation forces and newly discovered small Heavenly Abodes.
Having the recipe for the Yang Essence Pill and refining it oneself is much more cost-effective than exchanging points with the Human Cultivation Alliance.
Normally, Wu Yumeng wouldn't be able to take the Yang Essence Pill recipe out of the Wu family.
But her sister Wu Xuemeng became a grandmaster-level alchemist, and her status in the Wu family is now comparable to an Elemental Infant stage ancestor, granting her significant power, making it easy to obtain the Yang Essence Pill recipe.
After all, grandmaster-level alchemists are extremely rare, much rarer than Elemental Infant stage cultivators.
The Wu family is one of the top hundred major cultivation forces in the Northern Borders Continent's cultivation world, with over thirty Elemental Infant stage cultivators.
Before Wu Xuemeng became a grandmaster-level alchemist, the Wu family only had one.
Smaller Elemental Infant-level cultivation forces don't have grandmaster-level alchemists, and their Elemental Infant stage cultivators must purchase cultivation resources or fight on the outer battlefield to earn points for resources.
If news spread that the Guo family's Heavenly Abode had Earth Spirit Fruits, the main ingredient for the Yang Essence Pill, all Golden Elixir stage cultivation forces in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world would go crazy trying to seize the Earth Spirit Fruit Tree.
Wu Yumeng not only brought back the Yang Essence Pill recipe but also books on various spirit herbs and treasures, essentially using her maternal family's resources to support her husband's family.
Of course, all this was possible because her sister Wu Xuemeng became a grandmaster-level alchemist. If Wu Xuemeng were still a high-level alchemist, doing such a thing would be considered treason and punishable by death.
This is the double standard rule, where the same action has completely different consequences based on one's status.
After Wu Yumeng returned, Guo Feilong spent three days with her in the room before taking the jade slip containing the Yang Essence Pill recipe to the Guo family's forbidden zone.
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