Chapter 231

Chapter 231: Ten Years in a Rush

Five years later, Zhou Luo successfully stepped into the mid-stage of Qi Refinement seventh level.

This naturally could not have been achieved without the help of The Fusion of Dragon and Phoenix Technique, as well as the support of other things such as the Spirit Gathering Technique.

Achieving one major realm of advancement in five years was not considered fast, but Zhou Luo was very satisfied.

For him, five years in front of a long life spanning hundreds of years was nothing more than a drop in the ocean.

During this period, his life was essentially confined to Zhou Garden and Cave Paradise in a two-point routine; he rejected all efforts to curry favor; apart from making pills for the Family’s Alchemy Division, he barely exercised the rights and responsibilities of an Elder.

This pleased the main family quite a bit.

They had initially opposed Zhou Luo becoming Sixth Elder, only worrying he might side with the Great Elder’s faction.

Now, he as Sixth Elder was basically a mere figurehead, completely incapable of affecting the main family’s decisions, perfectly matching their wishes.

Because of this, along with the newly promoted Seventh Elder from five years prior, the main family firmly took control of the entire family and centralized all power.

In these five years, besides suppressing the Great Elder’s faction, Lin Tian Xiong also dispatched Lin Xuanfeng to begin attacking the Lu Family.

Originally, when the Great Elder’s faction still held power, they had strongly resisted this matter.

Because when the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman benefits—other long-life families loved to see the two battle fiercely, and secretly many smaller factions eagerly awaited a chance to become new long-life families.

Now, with the Great Elder’s faction no longer providing balance, Lin Tian Xiong acted with complete autonomy.

The Lin Family and Lu Family thus reignited a long and drawn-out conflict.

When the fighting occurred, Zhou Luo was not affected.

Though he was Sixth Elder, the family had no shortage of top-level Pill Masters, and this wasn’t a life-or-death decisive battle, so he continued to cultivate peacefully.

Over the five years, Zhou Luo’s eldest son, Zhou Chang An, had turned fifteen; although born with Qi of Innate Origins, his Ninth Grade spiritual roots meant he only reached Qi Refinement level three.

He was considered somewhat fortunate, as the children with Ninth Grade spiritual roots progressed at an extremely slow pace.

After all, not everyone had a unique system like him.

Apart from these children with spiritual roots, there were descendants without talent; upon reaching ten years old, as per family rules, they could only be sent away from the family.

Zhou Luo had long expected this, so he showed no emotional fluctuation.

But his wives and concubines were deeply sorrowful.

Among them, Lin Lan, as the only ordinary person among the wives and concubines, also left Zhou Garden with the children.

Luckily, due to Zhou Luo’s elder status, though these children left the family, even in the outside world, they wouldn’t worry about a bad life.

And since they ultimately couldn’t pursue cultivation, over time, the gap between them and their siblings would widen.

Rather than keeping them at Zhou Garden to face pressure, it was better to send them into the secular world as happy, wealthy individuals.

Besides those departing children, over the five years, Zhou Luo fathered five more offspring—three sons and two daughters.

Unknown whether because of his cultivation advancement, his frequency of fathering children had notably dropped; basically, his wives and concubines could only conceive once a year.

It seemed that the higher the cultivation, the harder it became to bear offspring.

Though only five children were born, all possessed spiritual roots.

Still, no high-grade spiritual roots emerged.

With the birth of these five children, Zhou Luo also gained five lottery opportunities.

Through these five lotteries, he successfully drew the Second Level Spiritual Planting Technique and the Second Level spiritual symbols skill.

The former was not very helpful to him, but the latter made him extremely excited.

Becoming a Second Level spiritual symbol master, he became able to draw Second Level symbols, and his strength increased significantly.

Of course, he did not become arrogant and still maintained a low profile, keeping a two-point-one-line life.

Besides the two Second Level skills, the remaining three lotteries resulted in three Upper-grade Qi Refinement techniques.

Zhou Luo gave one of them, a wind-attributes Upper-grade technique, to Zhou Chang Le.

Chang Le was now ten years old. Possessing a Fourth Grade spiritual root and also a Wind Spirit Body, his cultivation had reached the fifth layer of Qi Refinement; he could even practice combat techniques.

This was mainly due to his spiritual roots and physique, as well as the Spirit Gathering Technique passed down by Zhou Luo.

Recently, the Lin Family was planning to send this little fellow to the Qinyuan Sect for cultivation.

After all, being able to go to the Immortal Sect would offer great benefits for Zhou Chang Le’s growth, and if he could establish himself there, he could also bring advantages to the Lin Family.

Zhou Luo naturally agreed.

Besides Zhou Chang Le, Zhou Shiling, as the only one with Third Grade spiritual roots, also made rapid progress.

She also had a special physique, but because she was two and a half years younger than Chang Le, her biological elder brother, her cultivation was still at the fourth layer of Qi Refinement.

But in the future, if there was an opportunity, she could also be sent to the Immortal Sect for study.

It seemed that in another decade or so, this pair of siblings could bring a different kind of surprise to the Lin Family.

Watching his children grow up and achieve success in their studies, Zhou Luo was filled with deep satisfaction.

After a brief reunion with his wives and children, Zhou Luo once again entered Closed-Door Training with Lin Xi.

Over those years, Lin Xi’s progress was also extremely quick; her cultivation had advanced from the original sixth level to the late stage of the seventh level, even surpassing Zhou Luo in depth.

It couldn’t be helped, as her spiritual roots were originally stronger than Zhou Luo’s, and with the assistance of The Fusion of Dragon and Phoenix Technique, she advanced even more rapidly.

Besides Lin Xi, her older sister Lin Xin also brought a huge surprise to the Lin Family.

After several years of study at an Immortal Sect, she successfully became a top-level Pill Master; though her cultivation was not as strong as Lin Xi’s, she still entered the Qi Refinement seventh level.

However, after all, she shared only the title of a wife with Zhou Luo without a true marital relationship, so she didn’t stay long at Zhou Garden and only occasionally returned to offer guidance to his children.

Zhou Luo and Lin Xi continued their Closed-Door Training.

Another five years passed…

One day, the Lin Family’s Second Elder Lin Guang Xuan left the clan quietly for unknown reasons and flew straight to Qinyuan Immortal City.

Accompanying him were the Third Elder and other Senior Members of the Family.

These individuals were without exception all members of the Great Elder’s faction.

This action naturally drew the attention of family head Lin Tian Xiong.

Over the years, the battles between the Lin Family and the Lu Family had never ceased, and the family was also vigorously recruiting sons-in-law to expand its combat strength.

Lin Tian Xiong took the chance to gradually replace many key positions in the family with his own people.

Now that this group owing allegiance to the Great Elder suddenly departed, it unavoidably stirred up murmurs in people’s hearts.

Because they were heading to Qinyuan Immortal City.

It was said that the Great Elder had been in Closed-Door Training aiming for Foundation Establishment in the core area of Qinyuan Immortal City.

Though for over a decade he had sent no messages, who could guarantee he hadn’t succeeded in Foundation Establishment?

Especially as so many faction members had gone this time, which clearly showed something important had occurred.

If the Great Elder truly succeeded in Foundation Establishment, all that the main family had painstakingly established would come to nothing.

For this reason, Lin Tian Xiong ordered Lin Xuanfeng to rush off and investigate the news.