Transform into ancestral tablets and create a supreme immortal clan.

Beipan Mountain, Chuyun Valley.

Shen Xiao threw Shen Muge to the ground before taking off his mask.

At this moment, Shen Muge's red clothes were stained with blood, her aura was chaotic, her meridians were damaged, and she looked like she was half dead.

"You've really gotten bold! With your meager cultivation level, you actually dare to snatch food from a tiger's mouth?"

Shen Xiao was genuinely annoyed!

His ancestor has worked so hard to support the family, yet this kid doesn't value his life.

Now is the time for the Shen family to bide their time, focus on cultivation, and improve their abilities.

But this kid went and went to Motianling, which is full of Golden Core cultivators, as if he didn't want to die soon enough.

Even with Shen Xiao's cultivation level, after killing Gu Zhenting, who was in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, with a single palm strike, he was severely depleted of spiritual energy and had to quickly retreat before everyone could react.

Otherwise, if he were surrounded and attacked by more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators, he, the ancestor of the Shen family, would probably perish there.

After all, he only has a little over 300 offerings left, which is not enough to exchange for any powerful attack methods.

Shen Muge realized that she had acted somewhat impulsively this time.

"This disciple knows his mistake and begs for punishment, Ancestor!"

"What punishment? Get back to your camp and focus on healing your injuries."

Upon hearing this, Shen Muge was slightly taken aback and somewhat surprised.

Surprisingly, the ancestor did not intend to punish him.

Little did they know, Shen Xiao was an assassin in his previous life, and he had seen plenty of this kind of life of living on the edge.

I didn't blame him for it; I was just angry that he didn't value his life.

"Ancestor, this is the cub of the Flipped Feather Spirit Fox!" Shen Muge carefully presented the spirit beast pouch.

Shen Xiao did not answer!

"This is something you risked your life to obtain, so it naturally belongs to you."

There is no need to give it to me, nor is there a need to hand it over to the family.

Keep it for yourself.

I have a Heart-to-Heart Spell from the "Netherworld Spellbook," which is similar in principle to the Soul Pact for taming spirit pets, and I bestow it upon you.

From now on, this spirit fox will definitely become a great help to you!

Shen Muge was overjoyed: "Thank you for your ancestral blessing!"

"Hurry back. The potential of the Sunflower Manual is only just beginning to be unleashed."

With diligent practice, your cultivation level will surely increase rapidly.

Don't go out and take any more risks!

"Mu Ge will obey the decree!"

After Shen Muge left, Shen Xiao took out Gu Zhenting's spirit beast pouch.

Then, he took out the fox cub from it, thought for a moment, and casually threw it into the Floating Firefly Secret Realm.

He doesn't have the time or inclination to raise a child; this little one is better raised naturally.

Within the Floating Firefly Secret Realm, the concentration of spiritual energy far exceeds that of the outside world.

During this period, he also sowed many high-level rare spiritual medicine seeds obtained from the system, including several kinds of scarce spiritual seeds.

This caused the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the secret realm to develop a strange and inexplicable charm, which was transformed into a garden of spiritual herbs.

However, this young fox cub should indeed serve as a guardian spirit beast for the clan.

Shen Xiao clearly didn't think much of a fifth-tier spirit pet at the Golden Core stage.

He believed in himself and that with the system's help, he would soon become a Nascent Soul cultivator.

At that time, the help a Golden Core stage spirit pet can provide him will not be so great.

However, the Shen family needs it very much right now, so it would be better to bestow it upon the younger generation of the clan.

After thinking for a moment, he sent a message to the head of the family, Shen Shichu.

"I still have a young Flying Fox cub here, which can be used as a reward within the family."

As long as you are a member of the Shen family, you can be the first to reach the intermediate level in any of the various cultivation arts.

You will then receive this reward!

Intermediate level is equivalent to being able to refine talismans, pills, or spiritual artifacts needed by Foundation Establishment cultivators.

No matter what skill it is, it only becomes valuable and generates a relatively substantial income once you reach the intermediate level.

In this way, the younger generation of the clan will have a stable and lasting source of income, and will be more willing to offer him more spiritual objects.

Only then can he have more places to offer sacrifices.

Shen Xiao hopes that the Shen family can continuously generate revenue and strive to create value for him, instead of letting them live a life of idleness and complacency.

Upon hearing this, Shen Shichu immediately spread the good news.

He had thought that the Shen family had absolutely no chance of benefiting from this battle over the spirit fox.

Unexpectedly, they gained the greatest benefit.

There were three fox cubs in total, and the Shen family got two of them.

It feels like a dream.

But then again, with the ancestor personally taking action, it seemed only natural.

Mingzhou, Yaoshan.

This place is not too far from Beipanshan, but it's nearly a thousand miles away.

The Yaoshan Spirit Mine is merely a medium-grade spirit mine of considerable size.

The four major immortal sects didn't think much of it, but the various immortal cultivation families were quite interested.

More than a hundred years ago, the Shen family lost the battle for the Yaoshan Spirit Mine and thus lost their right to mine it.

This spirit mine has always been jointly controlled by the Bei family and the Cao family.

However, for the past hundred years, they have frequently been attacked by rogue cultivators.

Many independent cultivators secretly form small teams to steal spirit ore from time to time.

Previously, the Bei and Cao families had many Qi Refining cultivators, which allowed them to barely protect this spirit mine.

But in the last two years.

First, the Bei family was wiped out, and then the Shen family got a share of the spoils.

Now, for some unknown reason, the Cao family has completely evacuated overnight.

The Shen family had very few cultivators to begin with, and they simply couldn't defend such a large spirit mine. Their defensive capabilities were greatly reduced, and they couldn't cover everything.

This gave the independent cultivators an excellent opportunity to steal resources.

Yaoshan Spirit Mine is a huge open-pit mine deep in a continuous mountain range.

The mining camp that originally belonged to the Bei and Cao families is now deserted, leaving only some simple houses and abandoned mine entrances.

The air was filled with a faint earth-elemental spiritual energy, mixed with the rough scent of minerals.

After the Shen family took over, they only sent a few clansmen in the mid-to-late stage of Qi Refining to guard the area and set up a simple warning array around the mine. There was a serious shortage of manpower.

At this moment, the night was as dark as ink, and several dark figures were quietly crouching behind the pile of rocks at the edge of the mine pit.

"Boss, the Cao family has all left. There are only six or seven Shen family cultivators left in the barracks on the west side, and the guard formation is very weak," a thin cultivator with a pointed mouth and monkey-like face said in a low voice.

The man referred to as "the leader" was a burly man with a scar on his face, possessing the cultivation level of the ninth level of Qi Refining, and with a fierce look in his eyes.

He licked his lips: "The Cao family has run away, the Bei family has been wiped out, and the Shen family has just caught their breath and can't swallow this fat meat."

"Let's pull off a big one tonight. I heard they just discovered a rich vein inside. If we manage to dig up a few mid-grade spirit stones, that'll be enough for us to live a carefree life for a while."

"Damn it!" The other rogue cultivators' eyes gleamed with greed.

Just as they were about to sneak in, the scarred leader suddenly raised his hand, frowned, and looked at the other side of the hillside: "Wait, someone's coming."

Another small group of five or six independent cultivators approached from another direction, and the two sides faced each other in the shadows, creating an atmosphere of tension.

"Scarface, this mine is so big, how about we each rely on our own abilities and not interfere with each other?" The leader on the other side was a gloomy middle-aged Taoist priest.

The scarred man, "Scar Wolf," sneered: "Xuan Yinzi, you certainly know how to pick your timing."

"Sure, but let me make this clear beforehand: whoever alerts the Shen family first will bear the consequences."

The two groups of independent cultivators reached a fragile understanding and split up to sneak into the mine.