157: Chapter 157 Time Flies

As the second year passed, Chen Lingyang successfully advanced to Foundation Establishment, adding another Foundation Establishment Cultivator to the Chen Family.

Upon learning of this, Li Taixuan felt a myriad of mixed emotions in his heart.

On one hand, he congratulated the Chen Family on happily gaining a Foundation Establishment, while on the other hand, he felt somewhat powerless regarding his Family's predicament.

As for the two foundation establishment pills previously brought by Chen Yuanwen, under the purification of Chen Changqing's dao bead, an unknown toxin was successfully purged from them.

As to why the dao bead could purify them, Chen Changqing was initially unaware; he merely attempted to evolve them using the dao bead's ability to evolve items.

As a result, the effect of the foundation establishment pills remained unchanged, but the toxins inside were purged instead.

This discovery excited Chen Changqing, as long as he utilized this function well, it might possibly achieve some unexpected effect.

The third year.

Chen Changqing's Physical Body cultivated to the Tier 2 High Grade, and he refined a large number of Tier 2 Top-Grade wind-rending talismans, as well as a portion of Tier 2 Top-Grade escape talismans and Triple Heaven-Locking Talismans.

Meanwhile, Qingyang Mountain had also been developing continuously over the years; originally, quite a few Cultivators left the Family to head to Wuyue Mountain, and a portion followed Chen Changxuan, causing the number of Cultivators to drop below one hundred at one point, but nearly ten people had been added again over these past three years.

Moreover, as the Chang-generation and Ling-generation gradually grew up, they were already sufficient to prop up the entire Chen Family.

Now, almost all of the Chen Family's businesses were jointly managed by the Chang-generation and Ling-generation.

As for the Yuan-generation, they were gradually aging, and the oldest, Chen Yuanjin, was already over eighty.

She now rarely fought battles for the Family; instead, she stayed at home to assist her husband and educate her children, and among the four children she gave birth to, only two possessed Spiritual Roots.

They were Chen Changchu and Chen Chang'an respectively.

Both of them possessed Four Spiritual Roots.

Although Chen Changchu had failed in competing for the Five Heroes in the previous session, due to Chen Yuanjin running around for the Family in her early years, the Family actually showed her quite a bit of care.

Therefore, although she was only twenty-two years old now, her cultivation had already reached the Perfection of the Fifth Layer of Qi Refining, which was truly quite good within the Family.

Chen Chang'an was even younger, only seventeen years old, and his cultivation closely followed behind, having already reached the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining; if another year passed, he might perhaps be able to go and compete for a spot among the Five Heroes.

It could be said that these young people received quite a lot of nurturing in the current Chen Family; if it were before, at twenty-one years old, Chen Changxuan's cultivation would only have been at the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining.

At the Family's back mountain, Chen Changyue was still recultivating his Cultivation Technique, while Chen Yuanwen, starting from a certain day, found it even harder than before to advance even half a step during his cultivation, and even his previous understanding of some Cultivation Techniques had now become obscure and difficult to comprehend.

This was perhaps the punishment for the oath he swore back then.

Chen Changqing also noticed this, but unfortunately, he did not have any method to resolve it.

Bai Yuqing was still deep in slumber; although the two bottles of yangshen pill he had previously fed her helped her recover to a certain extent, this bit of recovery was still insufficient to wake her up, which also led to Chen Changqing being unable to seek a method from her to break the oath.

Things like oaths were what Cultivators feared the most; once violated, it was predestined in the dark, and there was almost no way to resolve it.

Seeing this, Chen Changqing grew even more resentful of his own powerlessness, urgently hoping that he could reach the Purple Mansion Stage, by which time he would also have a certain degree of say in Dayan.

Another two years passed.

Chen Changqing finally elevated his cultivation to the Eighth Layer of Foundation Establishment.

As his cultivation grew higher and higher, he felt that his combat prowess was also frighteningly strong, and though he did not know what level he had reached now, he could imagine that the himself from five years ago would only be unilaterally suppressed when facing the present himself.

Furthermore, over these five years, the Azure Thunder he could condense within his body had already reached two hundred and sixty bolts, and if he brought his Physical Body to the Tier 2 Top-Grade level and his cultivation reached the Perfection of the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment, he might be able to condense three hundred and sixty bolts of Azure Thunder.

Besides him, another person who progressed with astonishing speed was Chen Lingxi.

Five years had passed, and she was now eleven years old, progressing in cultivation at almost one layer per year, having now reached the Fifth Layer of Qi Refining and able to enter the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining at any time.

In a few more years, she would probably reach the Perfection of the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment at any moment, and then attempt Foundation Establishment.

Aside from this father and daughter, during this period, the Family's development also began to slow down; the large amount of resources previously obtained had already been exhausted by the Chen Family, and they had now entered an era of stable development.

Almost every clan member's cultivation was steadily improving, and among these people, Chen Lingtong's cultivation speed was second only to Chen Lingxi.

She was not only possessed of dual Metal-Fire Spiritual Roots, but also a born owner of Gold-Fire Spirit Eyes.

Initially, the Chen Family had not discovered this; it was just that Chen Changqing saw her talent was not bad, so he kept her by his side to Cultivate her.

As a result, one day, while Chen Lingtong was cultivating, she seemed to have stimulated the talent within her body, her eyes suddenly turning into one golden and one red, and two beams of light immediately bursting forth.

Perceiving the anomaly, Chen Changqing took action to suppress it, and since he was not very clear about what had happened to Chen Lingtong, he searched for information regarding this within the Secret Manuals of the Wanta Sect.

As a result, he really managed to find it out: there were all sorts of talents in the Cultivation world, such as Spiritual Bodies, like Chen Lingxi's Water Spiritual Body, which had a natural affinity for Water Spiritual Qi from birth.

Then came Spirit Eyes—the so-called Spirit Eyes referred to Chen Lingtong's eyes, the Gold-Fire Spirit Eyes.

This kind of Spirit Eyes endowed her with natural Spell Divine Abilities, and they could also grow stronger as her cultivation increased.

This discovery made Chen Changqing pay even more attention to nurturing her, and because of this, Chen Lingtong was only twenty-three years old now, yet her cultivation had already reached the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.

Besides this, everyone else's progress was also very fast; for instance, Chen Changyue not only successfully recultivated his Cultivation Technique, but his cultivation also reached the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment.

There was also Chen Changjie, who had also successfully recultivated her Cultivation Technique, except that her cultivation did not advance any further.

After all, purely in terms of talent, she still couldn't compare to Chen Changyue.

Furthermore, Chen Changyue had achieved Foundation Establishment several years earlier than her.

As for the other few Foundation Establishment Cultivators, their cultivation had not progressed by much; Chen Lingyang had a Medium Grade Dao Foundation, while Chen Changxuan had a Low Grade Dao Foundation, and the progression speed of both was ordinary.

Chen Xuanyi's cultivation still remained at the Fourth Layer of Foundation Establishment, but it seemed he had previously experienced a life-and-death crisis, so his progression speed over these past few years was considered passable.

Coupled with the fact that he possessed a High Grade Dao Foundation, his cultivation had already reached the Perfection of the Fourth Layer of Foundation Establishment, being just a step away from the Fifth Layer of Foundation Establishment.

Another three years passed.

During these three years, a major event occurred: the three Immortal Cultivation countries surrounding Yan Country—the State of Shu, the State of Wei, and the State of Han—began to denounce Yan Country.

The reason was that these Golden Core forces of Yan Country had long exercised high-pressure rule over the remaining factions, being tyrannical and arbitrary internally while waging reckless and unbridled campaigns externally.

In reality, it was still the weakest period in Yan Country's history, with out of more than twenty Golden Core Masters, only a little over ten still existing today, and among them, several were severely injured and had yet to recover.

Under such circumstances, with Biluo Palace taking the lead in occupying the vast and fertile territories of Yan Country's Nine Prefectures, it would naturally arouse dissatisfaction from other Immortal Cultivation countries.

Therefore, they would naturally take this opportunity to unite and exert pressure on Yan Country.

Moreover, with the Anti-Immortal Alliance making trouble within the borders of Yan Country, perhaps they had joined forces long ago.