Immortality and cultivation begin at age forty, starting with Foundation Establishment.

To borrow a Foundation Establishment Pill, one must definitely ask Chen Ying, a Golden Core cultivator.

Her strength in the battle against a third-tier demon beast was enough to prove her value in cooperation.

Owe money can also be the beginning of a partnership.

Otherwise, Chen An and Yu Peiyao really wouldn't have been able to find any other way to cooperate with Chen Ying.

Once you have an idea, just do it. As for whether you will succeed, you will only know after you find Chen Ying. Failure will not have any impact.

Yu Peiyao's wisdom regained its superiority; her early talent for acquiring resources lay in her ability to befriend people, especially her elders.

The friendly exchanges between Chen Ying and the warship earlier became the bond between the two sides before their cooperation.

Furthermore, since Chen Ying was just rescued by Chen An's men, if she has a Foundation Establishment Pill, she will definitely consider cooperation.

Chen An and Yu Peiyao's achievements are enough to prove that they have the ability to repay the Foundation Establishment Pill, and that they will receive even greater rewards in the future.

Chen Ying agreed readily. She did have quite a few Foundation Establishment Pills. In the Song family, she didn't have many juniors to promote, but the Chen family needed to cultivate new Golden Core cultivators and wouldn't allow too many people to reach the Foundation Establishment stage and share the resources. So, the extra Foundation Establishment Pills stayed with her.

For a prodigy like Chen Ying, there was no difference between Qi Refining cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators in her eyes, so she never thought of promoting a rogue Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Once a rogue cultivator arrives on the battlefield, there is only one path: death. If he survives a hundred battles, he will fight a thousand; if he survives a thousand, he will fight ten thousand. If the war doesn't end, he will die one day.

As for the resources and points distributed by the sect, no one would accumulate them, because they themselves were not sure if they could survive the next battle.

Whenever I could exchange items, I would try to get healing or life-saving medicines or armor.

Or some people might exchange them for magical artifacts, talismans, or other resources that can enhance their combat power.

If one truly survives and accumulates considerable battle merits, rewarding the other party with a Foundation Establishment Pill after the war would not be a problem.

The death of the rogue cultivators is for the sake of the lives of others.

Chen Ying and the direct descendants of the Song family still maintain their full fighting strength, enabling them to quickly harvest resources and control a region.

These are things that independent cultivators cannot do.

After obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill, Yu Peiyao immediately went into seclusion without rest.

The Demon Wolf Squad is no longer under Yu Peiyao's management.

Chen An then delegated authority to Deputy Captain Yan Gang, allowing him to arrange the subsequent battles.

Equipped with two suitable high-grade magic weapons, Wang Rulong and Wu Feng became the elite combat force of the Demon Wolf Squad.

Yan Gang's strategist, Wang Kui, began to distinguish himself, offering numerous strategies that reduced war casualties and made the troops more flexible and mobile in combat.

Even without Chen An and Ye Hongyi taking action, the team still achieved considerable results.

Yan Gang and Wang Kui, one a cultivator from a sect and the other a clever rogue cultivator, were both cultivators who had spent many years at the bottom of the cultivation world.

With Wang Kui's assistance and leveraging Yan Gang's position as deputy captain, they were able to establish more effective and friendly communication with lower-level cultivators.

The newly promoted squad leaders began to favor the control of independent cultivators, even directly appointing them as squad leaders to enhance their cohesion within the team.

Under the management of Yan Gang and Wang Kui, Chen An could clearly sense that the squad leaders promoted by the sect factions, having lived in the sect for many years, had a bureaucratic style in their conduct. In the process of managing the squad, they were prone to becoming detached from the masses and reality, and even deliberately sending rogue cultivators to their deaths.

The newly promoted squad leaders of the independent cultivators will focus more attention on the independent cultivators. They attach greater importance to their squad leader status, often taking the lead and boosting morale, so that the team can achieve greater results while reducing casualties.

Thus began a series of disputes between the sect's squad leader and the independent cultivator's squad leader.

Chen An remained an observer of everything concerning the Demon Wolf Legion and did not interfere further. After Yu Peiyao went into seclusion, he also entered seclusion, only appearing once every two weeks.

Ye Hongyi also began her seclusion. For the past eight months, she had always followed Chen An to learn, speaking less, observing more, and listening more. She learned a lot.

The path of spiritual cultivation is not a game for reckless people; being impulsive and easily angered will only put oneself in a dangerous situation.

In the current situation, the best course of action is to steadily become stronger.

Ye Hongyi has a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and she shouldn't stay at a low level forever, because there's no point in comparing her to ordinary cultivators.

Chen An once told Ye Hongyi a story.

In an era of flourishing diversity, a hundred young supreme beings were born, and they desperately competed for resources in order to become stronger quickly.

As the young supreme beings vied for supremacy, people fell one after another, until finally a single victor emerged. However, this victor suffered severe physical damage due to the previous battles.

Unless there is a heaven-defying medicine, he will never be able to break through to the Supreme Realm.

Originally, these 100 people, as long as they lived and had the resources to develop slowly, would surely become the future supreme beings.

But they wanted to be the strongest, and were always in a life-or-death struggle. Everyone felt that they would definitely win, and their ambitions were sky-high.

So the last one to survive was also seriously injured.

If this were a story of a success, then the ending would surely be that the young supreme being found a heaven-defying elixir, successfully became a top supreme being, and then dominated the ages.

The reality is a sad story: the young supreme being was slapped to death by a high-level cultivator with very poor aptitude.

People who drown are often those who can swim.

Those who die in battle are often those who are skilled in battle.

Temporary strength doesn't mean anything; there will always be stronger beings in the cultivation world.

A cultivator with a higher cultivation level is not necessarily more talented, but a cultivator with a higher cultivation level will definitely be able to crush a cultivator with a lower cultivation level.

After hearing Chen An's story, Ye Hongyi suddenly felt that her Heavenly Spiritual Root was not much of an advantage.

Because she seemed to have never heard of any cultivator with a Heavenly Spiritual Root in the Jin Kingdom who had become a powerful figure at the Nascent Soul stage.

Just like the young supreme in the story, he did not become the supreme. All the supreme beings died on the road to struggle.

Everyone says that those with a Heavenly Spiritual Root have an easier time breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, but very few cultivators with a Heavenly Spiritual Root actually reach the Nascent Soul stage.

Perhaps, as Chen An said, those who are good at fighting often die in battle. The fighting power of cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots is very strong, and their ultimate fate is to die in a battle.

There are no main characters in this world; only those who survive are the main characters.

In the seventh month of Yu Peiyao's seclusion, Ye Hongyi broke through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. With her Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude and Chen An's continuous supply of high-grade pills, it was normal for her realm to advance even faster.

After all, Ye Hongyi had been stuck at the early Foundation Establishment stage for eight years.

Chen An did not break through. With his three spiritual roots, even with the aid of high-grade pills, it was still not easy for him to break through.

Chen An wasn't in a hurry, but Ye Hongyi was, because if she wanted to form her core, she had to rely on Chen An's intelligence and wisdom.

The two's paths complemented each other. Chen An's cultivation level was too low, so he had no say in the sect and could not obtain more precious resources.

Ye Hongyi needs a more powerful Chen An.

So she found Chen An.

He proposed his idea: to use the dual cultivation method to help Chen An increase the speed of his cultivation.

"Have you thought it through?" Chen An was somewhat surprised. He hadn't asked Ye Hongyi about dual cultivation, but she had brought it up first.

"Of course, you can find the cultivation method yourself. The result of dual cultivation cannot damage my Dao foundation. If you damage my Dao foundation, you will be the one who suffers." Ye Hongyi's attitude was very serious. She had grown a lot during her time with Chen An and no longer cared about gains and losses.

Chen An said, "Don't worry, the dual cultivation method will definitely benefit both of us."

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

During her more than seven months of seclusion, Ye Hongyi couldn't help but think of Chen An, and her favorability towards him slowly increased to seventy during this process of longing.

The temperature rose shortly after we started chatting.

Ye Hongyi still looked youthful and inexperienced, but her breaths trembled uncontrollably.

"Red dress, didn't you get used to it? Why are you shaking?"

"I have no idea."

"It's fine."

"You always bully me."

The two embraced, and each touch was like a firework igniting, blooming brilliantly in the quiet night.