Wu Yumeng heard footsteps and turned around to see Guo Feilong. She was as happy as a child and said, "Husband, come quickly and look, our daughter is smiling so happily. Come, give your father a smile."
"Giggle..." Their daughter immediately let out a joyful laugh.
Guo Feilong's lips curled slightly as he thought to himself, "Tickle your armpits, and you'll surely laugh happily too."
He walked over to Wu Yumeng and their daughter, bent down, and joined in teasing their daughter with a lullaby.
The little one, though just over a year old, could speak basic words and happily shouted, "Father, don't tickle me, hahaha, I'm ticklish, hahaha..."
After playing with his daughter for a while, Guo Feilong pulled Wu Yumeng into his arms, letting her sit on his right leg, and said, "Give me your Fifth Grade Yang Essence Pill, and I'll give you a higher quality one."
"A higher quality one? Seventh Grade?" Wu Yumeng asked in surprise.
"Not Seventh Grade." Guo Feilong took out a small jade bottle from his storage bag.
Wu Yumeng opened the small jade bottle and poured out a gleaming Yang Essence Pill, counting the rune scripts on it, "One, two, three, four... five, six, seven, eight, nine... My goodness! It's a Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill!"
She was shocked, her face full of excitement and happiness, "Husband, you're so good to me."
After saying this, Wu Yumeng left a dozen strawberry marks on Guo Feilong's face.
If it were an ordinary Foundation Establishment stage cultivator without a Golden Elixir, possessing a Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill, they wouldn't even think about giving it to their wife.
If they knew their wife had a Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill, they would snatch it for themselves.
The allure of the Golden Elixir stage to someone in the Foundation Establishment stage was far greater than that of a throne.
Some late Foundation Establishment stage cultivators at Great Perfection, in order to increase their chances of breaking through to the Golden Elixir stage, would even turn to demonic cultivation, wiping out their entire family.
They would use the blood and souls of their own kin to refine elixirs similar to the Yang Essence Pill to step into the Golden Elixir stage.
Some cultivators, to break through major stages, increase their lifespan and status, would kill their own parents, children, wives, and concubines to refine demonic pills, their hearts ruthless beyond measure.
Guo Feilong giving her a Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill moved Wu Yumeng deeply, though she didn't know that Guo Feilong had many more Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pills.
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"Husband, you're the head of the family. If something happens to you, the family would fall apart. You should keep this Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill for when you attempt to break through to the Golden Elixir stage."
Wu Yumeng placed the Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill back into Guo Feilong's hand and said, "I'm already content with a Fifth Grade Yang Essence Pill. Even if I fail to break through to the Golden Elixir stage, once I become a grandmaster-level alchemist, the Wu Family will provide me with a Yang Essence Pill."
The Wu Family didn't know she was already married and had children. If they knew, they would have sent someone to deal with the Guo family long ago.
As a daughter of an Elemental Infant-level cultivation family, and a genius in alchemy like Wu Yumeng, even if she married, her husband's family must also be an Elemental Infant-level cultivation force.
A mere Foundation Establishment stage elder in a Golden Elixir-level cultivation force, marrying a genius female cultivator from the Wu Family without their consent, even if she were from a collateral line, was beyond his reach.
If Wu Yumeng became a grandmaster-level alchemist, her status would be comparable to an Elemental Infant stage cultivator, and the Wu Family wouldn't dare interfere. Whom she wished to marry would be her choice.
Every family has its rules, and every country its laws. If everyone in a family disregarded the family and broke its rules at will, no family would allow it.
Free love is simply impossible in the cultivation world unless one's cultivation level surpasses the rules.
In some large cultivation families, even men cannot decide whom to marry; it must be arranged by the family.
Even taking a concubine requires the consent of the main wife, because if her maternal family is powerful, she could kill a concubine if he dared to take one.
Only the family head can marry and take concubines without restriction, and the main wife cannot interfere.
The family head must produce more children with spiritual roots and higher spiritual root qualifications to inherit and protect the family's direct line.
If the family head's son lacks spiritual roots or has poor qualifications, the family head's position becomes unstable.
His close kin, brothers, and uncles would remove him according to family rules and elect a new direct line family head.
Of course, many family cultivators, unable to resist beauty, would keep a female cultivator concubine outside, having children with her.
If a child with good spiritual root qualifications is born, they would bring them back to the family. Since they were born in secret, they can't be considered direct line, only collateral.
If the spiritual root qualification reaches Earth Grade, they would be considered direct line, as geniuses are hard to come by.
Wu Xuemeng could push the Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill to him, making Guo Feilong happy and holding her tighter, saying, "I have dozens of Ninth Grade Foundation Pills that I refined; you can use this one."
With that, he tapped his storage bag.
Thirty-nine small bottles appeared on the table.
Wu Yumeng opened a few small jade bottles to check.
They were indeed all Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pills.
Even a grandmaster-level alchemist would rely on luck to refine a Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill, as it couldn't be done solely by skill.
Whether it's a Foundation Pill, Yang Essence Pill, Elemental Infant Pill, or Divine Transformation Pill, the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades are all refined by chance.
Only the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades are refined by skill.
Any high-level alchemist can refine First, Second, and Third Grade pills.
This is why grandmaster-level alchemists hold such high status.
For example, if a cultivation force gathers the ingredients for a Yang Essence Pill, would they seek a high-level alchemist to refine a First, Second, or Third Grade Yang Essence Pill, or a grandmaster-level alchemist to refine a Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Grade Yang Essence Pill?
Obviously, they would seek a grandmaster-level alchemist to refine a Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Grade Yang Essence Pill.
A grandmaster-level alchemist charges a hefty fee for a single alchemy session.
If they refine four Yang Essence Pills in one batch, the grandmaster-level alchemist would take one as payment.
People waiting for a grandmaster-level alchemist's services often have to book in advance.
A grandmaster-level alchemist can bring a cultivation force substantial wealth.
Moreover, alchemists are the safest cultivators, not needing to venture into dangerous places to gather spirit herbs and medicines.
Anyone who gathers spirit herbs and medicines must hand them over to alchemists to refine into elixirs.
Even if two cultivation sects go to war, resulting in one sect's annihilation, the alchemists of the defeated sect can survive, being accepted to refine elixirs for spirit stones.
"Since you have so many Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pills, I won't hold back."
Wu Yumeng was extremely happy today, spending two days and nights with Guo Feilong before going into seclusion in the Forbidden Zone to break through to the Golden Elixir stage.
On the second day of her seclusion, Guo Feilong took a Ninth Grade Yang Essence Pill to the small courtyard on the mountain where Liu Feiyu and Shangguan Mingyue were.
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