I planted the spiritual roots for my people, and they bestowed upon me a body inscribed with incense

This effect startled Li Yuan. He was at the late stage of Qi Refining. If he were to give it to a Qi Refining cultivator in the early or middle stages who was at a bottleneck, wouldn't it have the effect of breaking through the bottleneck?

Then Li Yuan tried pangolin and bamboo shoot meat separately. After confirming that it was the effect of the bamboo shoot, Li Yuan looked at Zhang Shi who was standing to the side.

"Mother, how many of these bamboo shoots do you still have left?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang quickly said:

"Yuan'er, there are still about ten spirit bamboo shoots left. What's wrong?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan did not speak, but instead had the two elders try the spiritual bamboo shoots.

Seeing that Li Yuan was acting strangely, Li Daqiang and Zhang Shi quickly picked up a piece and took a bite. Sure enough, both Zhang Shi and Li Daqiang felt the effects brought by the spiritual bamboo shoot.

After a while, Li Daqiang came to his senses and looked at Zhang Shi beside him.

"Yun'er, I never knew these bamboo shoots had such effects?"

At this moment, Zhang was also shocked by the effect of the spiritual bamboo shoot. Didn't this mean that the Li family now possessed a spiritual object similar to the Breakthrough Pill? From now on, all cultivators in the Li family at the second or third level of Qi Refining could use this spiritual bamboo shoot to break through their barriers. This could be a foundation for the family.

Knowing that the bamboo shoot had such effects, Zhang brought Li Yuan to the bamboo shoot.

"Yuan'er, the remaining spirit bamboo shoots are here."

Li Yuan looked at the bamboo shoots and slowly spoke to Li Daqiang.

"Let's put it in the clan's treasury. Anyway, this spirit bamboo shoot grows every year, and all the younger generation in the clan can use it to break through their limits."

Upon hearing this, Li Daqiang nodded.

"Alright, let's do as Yuan'er says. I'll call Li Shouqian, Yue'er, and Zhou Tian up the mountain another day and let the three of them see if they can break through with this spiritual bamboo shoot."

Li Yuan nodded. After the little incident, Li Yuan returned to the wooden house to continue his cultivation. As for the white snake that was with Li Yuan, it lay asleep beside him.

Since returning from the Qian family, the White Snake has fallen into a deep sleep. She has already consumed seven or eight tenths of the inner core of the White Jade Pangolin. It is unknown whether the magic power in the White Jade Pangolin's inner core can allow the White Snake to break through to the peak of the first level in one fell swoop.

Looking at the sleeping white snake beside him, Li Yuan once again immersed himself in cultivation. After breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining, Li Yuan felt that to take the next step, he needed two things: first, pure mana; and second, he needed to continuously expand his dantian and nurture its strength in preparation for Foundation Establishment.

However, Li Yuan has not reached that stage yet; he is currently still in the stage of refining magical power.

Half a month later, Li Shouqian and Zhou Yuan successfully broke through to the second level of Qi Refining with the help of the spiritual bamboo shoot. Liu Yue'er even stepped into the fourth level of Qi Refining with the help of the spiritual bamboo shoot. Upon hearing this, Li Yuan specially came out of seclusion to give the two of them some guidance.

In particular, Li Yuan taught Zhou Yuan a lot about the cultivation world and also talked to him about the cultivation families in Daqing and the surrounding areas.

After all, Li Yuan had promised Zhou Boyuan that if the Zhou family produced a cultivator with spiritual roots, the Li family would support him in establishing a new cultivation family.

Although Li Yuan couldn't offer Zhou Tian many benefits, he still had to help him as much as he could. If Zhou Tian could break through to the Foundation Establishment realm with his talent in the future, then forming goodwill would be of no harm to the Li family.

Over the next few days, Li Yuan spent the rest of his time teaching the two of them, and even Li Daqiang or Zhang Shi, providing guidance based on their individual circumstances.

A few days later, the White Snake slowly awoke from its slumber. Although it had not yet broken through to the peak of the first level, its aura was much stronger than before it fell asleep.

Li Yuan planned to bring the white snake with him on his trip to the Xu family. Li Yuan had a feeling that there was something wrong with Xu Qingfeng's invitation this time. However, he had offended the Xu family members on the surface, so even though Xu Qingfeng didn't say anything, Li Yuan still had to be careful.

Before long, the day arrived for Xu Qingfeng to take over, and Li Yuan left the small fishing village with the white snake.

Upon arriving at the Xu family residence in Qingshan County, Li Yuan saw festive lanterns hanging everywhere, and he also saw many Qi Refining cultivators entering the residence.

After Li Yuan took out the invitation, he entered the Xu family courtyard smoothly. There were more than a dozen cultivators scattered inside. Among them, Li Yuan only recognized Luo Tong and Si Nan, whom he had not seen for a long time.

As for the others, there was one person Li Yuan recognized: Yang Guang, who had chased down that evil cultivator with him last time. However, Yang Guang's cultivation level was still only at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

To Li Yuan's surprise, the Xu family had made so many connections with independent cultivators. Including cultivators from nearby counties, there were more than thirty cultivators who came to the Xu family to attend Xu Qingfeng's succession as patriarch.

Four people from the Zhenxie Hall also arrived, and these four people were extremely respectful to Xu Qingfeng. Li Yuan was not surprised at all. Others might not know, but he knew very well Xu Qingfeng's strength.

Judging from the scale of the Zhenxie Hall, Ouyang Suiguan clearly knew Xu Qingfeng's strength. But since he knew Xu Qingfeng's strength, could it be that Ouyang Suiguan didn't have any greedy thoughts?

You have to understand that Xu Qingfeng was a cultivator who had failed to advance to the fourth level of Qi Refining before. Anyone would be suspicious of all this sudden change. Either he had obtained a treasure or a heaven-defying cultivation technique. No matter what it was, Ouyang Suiguan would be tempted.

Since Ouyang Suiguan knew Xu Qingfeng's strength but didn't secretly harm him, Li Yuan should ponder the reasons behind this.

As they pondered, Xu Qingfeng's succession ceremony began, and everyone presented him with spiritual items to express their congratulations.

Li Yuan looked at his Qiankun bag and found that there was nothing suitable. So he casually took out a spiritual bamboo shoot and gave it to the Xu family as a gift.

These bamboo shoots have the effect of breaking through barriers, which can be considered Li Yuan's way of showing goodwill to the Xu family.

However, when Li Yuan explained the effects of the spiritual bamboo shoot, everyone turned to look at him.

The Xu family member who recorded the gifts looked even more surprised.

"My lord, are you sure that the effects of this spiritual bamboo shoot you sent are similar to those of the Breakthrough Pill?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan nodded generously.

"Yes, this is a unique spiritual plant of the Li family in my small fishing village. If any of you have younger members who need this spiritual bamboo shoot, my Li family will sell a small quantity of it in the future."

Upon hearing this, everyone began to question it. Surprisingly, the loudest question came from Yang Guang. Perhaps it was because he had failed to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining for so many years that he was particularly sensitive to the word "bottleneck".

Xu Qingfeng had obviously noticed the situation below as well. He slowly walked down and looked at Li Yuan.

"Haha, it's rare to find such a refined interest among you all. In that case, I'll have someone unrelated try out this spiritual bamboo shoot that Brother Li brought. However, I wonder if either of you has any objections to this."

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan spoke first:

"Brother Xu, this is a gift for you. Try it out however you like, I have no objections."

Upon hearing this, he looked at Yang Guang again.

"Fellow Daoist Yang, if it really has such an effect, you'll probably have to apologize to Fellow Daoist Li."

Upon hearing this, Yang Guang immediately became restless. He was also afraid that the spiritual bamboo shoots really had such effects. However, he thought that this was just a handover ceremony after all. Why would the person in front of him give such a precious gift? Besides, he had never even heard of the spiritual bamboo shoots before.

"Alright, if it really works, I will certainly apologize."

Upon hearing this, Xu Qingfeng chuckled and then looked around the crowd.

"Which fellow Daoist would like to try the effects of this spiritual bamboo shoot? If it is truly effective, you can get a Breakthrough Pill for free. Most importantly, this pill is free of any poisons."

Soon, a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining stepped out from the crowd.

"Haha, Senior Xu, I'm willing to give it a try."

Xu Qingfeng was stunned for a moment before remembering the person's name. Then, Xu Qingfeng slowly spoke:

"Your name is Feng Gan, right? With so many people watching, you can't lie."

Upon hearing this, the man named Fenggan quickly spoke up:

"Don't worry, I'm just a rogue cultivator, and I don't know either of them. I just want to verify the truth of the matter."

Upon hearing this, Xu Qingfeng glanced at Li Yuan and Yang Guang. After they nodded, Xu Qingfeng handed the bamboo shoot to Feng Gan.