From the family treasure tree to build an eternal family

Chapter 169 Grand Master

In the same year that Xu Lijing was born, Xu Zhonglei's second son, Xu Lijian, was born.

Zhongyi's wife is pregnant with her third child, Zhonger's wife is pregnant with her second child, and Zhongchuan's wife is also pregnant with her second child.

The following year, shortly after their marriage, Chung-san's wife became pregnant.

The number of offspring of the Xu family with the character "Li" in their name has seen a surge.

Four years have passed in the blink of an eye...

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Baihe Mountain.

Xu Fugui is practicing cultivation and immortality within his inner space.

Although Baihe Mountain has spiritual veins, it was only through the effect of the Spirit Gathering Array that a first-class spiritual land of a hundred acres was formed.

The spiritual energy within the sacred land is limited. Nowadays, there are quite a few people in the Xu family who cultivate immortality. Therefore, Xu Fugui continues to cultivate in the internal space where the family's treasure tree is located, without "competing" with his descendants for spiritual energy.

He sat cross-legged beside the trunk of the family's precious tree, its canopy above him lush and verdant.

He is 78 years old this year, and the precious tree has grown to 7.8 meters tall.

The internal space expanded to a circular area with a radius of 7.8 meters centered on the treasure tree, covering nearly two hundred square meters.

The ground was covered with all kinds of spiritual plants, some of which were hundreds of years old, and others were newly grown seedlings.

At this moment, he held a spiritual pill in his hand, called the "Soul Qi Pill".

Soul Qi Pills can help Qi Refining cultivators break through minor bottlenecks in the later stages of Qi Refining, such as breaking through from the sixth level of Qi Refining to the seventh level, or from the seventh level of Qi Refining to the eighth level...

One Soul Qi Pill is worth 68 spirit stones.

Xu Fugui bought Soul Qi Pills from Kunxu Market to help him break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

He had reached the sixth level of Qi Refining five years ago, but he was reluctant to use spirit stones, so he only reached the sixth level of Qi Refining now and could try to break through the bottleneck of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

The sixth level of Qi Refining is the middle stage of Qi Refining, and the seventh level of Qi Refining is the late stage of Qi Refining.

Overcoming this bottleneck will significantly enhance your capabilities.

With his five pseudo-spiritual roots and his advanced age, it won't be easy for him to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining smoothly.

Besides the "Soul Qi Pill," he also had several spirit stones on hand, which he could use to assist him in critical moments.

He took the Soul Qi Pill, closed his eyes, concentrated, and began to circulate the "Spirit Farmer's Qi Refining Technique".

The medicinal power of the Soul Qi Pill is divided into two parts: one part flows into the Niwan Palace to enhance the power of the soul, and the other part enters the Dantian Qi Sea to enhance spiritual energy.

The biggest difference between the late stage and the middle stage of Qi Refining lies in the "power of the soul".

Having reached the sixth level of Qi Refining, the spiritual energy in the dantian and meridians is now fully contained.

The spiritual energy circulates repeatedly throughout the body.

Suddenly, spiritual energy broke through the limits and flowed through all the acupoints in his body.

Xu Fugui felt that his control over spiritual energy had improved a lot.

He broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining much more easily than he had imagined, because he had been practicing the "Meditation Soul Refining Technique," and his spiritual power had already reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

This bottleneck might be difficult for other cultivators with the five elemental roots, but it's not difficult for him.

"Is this the late stage of Qi Refining? With my current control over spiritual energy, can I fly using Qi?"

He decided to practice flying with his qi deep in the Baihe Mountains at night.

Reaching the late stage of Qi Refining, he was considered a strong individual among ordinary rogue cultivators.

"Once I absorb the bloodline essence of Li Bing and Li Zi, the Enlightenment Spirit Fruit should be ripe."

He looked up at the two spiritual fruits on the precious tree.

The spiritual fruit at the top of the tree canopy is a new spiritual fruit that grew five years ago after absorbing Xu Liyi's aura.

In just five years, it absorbed the bloodline essence of six Xu family descendants, and with two more, it will be able to transform into a Qi Refining level spiritual fruit.

There's also the [Longevity Fruit] growing on Xu Xiaoan's tree branch; with the aura of another offspring, it can be upgraded to a "Twenty-Year Fruit".

Xu Fugui remembered that Xu Libing was turning three years old in the last two days, and Xu Lijue would be turning three years old in a while.

into the night.

He exited his inner space and practiced flying deep within the Hundred Valleys Mountain. Strands of spiritual energy circulated beneath his feet, forming a lifting force that lifted him into the air.

At first, I wasn't very skilled, and I kept going up and down, almost falling from the sky to the ground.

As he continued to take off and land, he became more and more skilled at flying using the air.

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In the forests of Baihe Mountain.

Xu Xiaohou was practicing martial arts, but not immortal cultivation techniques; he was practicing martial arts stance training.

After breaking through the innate level, the Five Elements Stance Exercise is divided into three levels.

A martial artist with innate talent, practicing ten dynamic stances.

Martial arts master, fifteen-form dynamic stance.

And the Grandmaster, the Twenty-Form Dynamic Stance.

Xu Xiaohou reached the third level of Grandmaster five years ago, and perfected the third level of Grandmaster two years ago. His internal energy can be simultaneously channeled into 720 acupoints throughout his body, making him a veritable humanoid divine weapon, indestructible and possessing immense strength.

Five years ago, his Qi cultivation level reached the seventh level.

Even with a first-tier spiritual land, his progress at this level would be extremely slow, given his five-elemental spiritual root aptitude.

So he devoted most of his energy to martial arts, meditation to cultivate his soul, and flying sword techniques.

After achieving the third level of Grandmaster, he spent two years studying and seeking a way to break through to the "Great Grandmaster" level.

However, there were no martial artists at the Grandmaster level in the entire Tonggu County, so he had no one to guide him and could only explore on his own.

He practiced the twenty dynamic stances of the Grandmaster level of the Five Elements Stance Training countless times.

"Having reached the peak of the Grandmaster realm, my inner energy has filled my kidneys, meridians, and acupoints. How can I break through to the Great Grandmaster level?"

This problem troubled Xu Xiaohou for two years.

He felt he was just one opportunity away from breaking through, but he didn't know where that opportunity lay.

His fists and feet moved with the force of the wind, sweeping through the mountains and forests, causing withered grass and leaves to dance in the breeze.

He can be as swift as the wind, as slow as a tortoise, as passionate as fire, and as gentle as water.
Every punch and kick, every move and stance.

He used his "divine soul power" to look inward at himself and observe the subtle changes.

"Soul power"—that's his advantage. Ordinary martial artists don't cultivate their soul power at all.

Xu Xiaohou's spiritual power was stronger than his own Qi Refining Level 7 cultivation, reaching the Qi Refining Level 8.

At this moment, he "saw" a trace of his internal energy dissipate from a certain acupoint along with his fist and foot stance training.

"When things are full, they overflow?"

Recently, as he practiced stance training, his internal energy has overflowed to the point that his meridians and acupoints cannot contain it.

"and many more……"

A flash of inspiration struck him: perhaps this was the true essence of the Grandmaster realm: internal energy overflowing outwards!
Previously, he had deliberately suppressed the internal energy within his body, but this time he stopped suppressing it and continued practicing the last twenty dynamic stances of the Five Elements Stance Exercise, allowing the internal energy to "leak out" under the influence of instinct.

"puff!"

He threw a punch, and internal energy shot out from several acupoints at the tip of his fist. The internal energy actually condensed into the shape of a fist and shot out two feet.

"this?!"

Xu Xiaohou seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

He recalled the feeling of that moment just now and tried again. This time, under his deliberate control, he threw a punch into the air towards a large tree not far away.

A few feet apart, an invisible fist shadow landed on the trunk of the big tree.

"Boom~~!"

The tree, as thick as two people could hug, exploded with a roar, sending wood chips flying everywhere, leaving a huge hole in the trunk.

"Expressing internal energy outwards—that's the Grandmaster realm!"

Xu Xiaohou suddenly had an epiphany and entered the realm of Grandmaster.

He was completely absorbed in studying the "Grandmaster Realm." His understanding of projecting internal energy was still very rudimentary, and he had not yet unleashed the full power of the Grandmaster Realm.

(End of this chapter)