Establishing a Clan in the Eastern Wilderness: A Daily Divination, Cultivating Longevity in a Grotto

hum!

The ancient, celestial script slowly unfurled, and amidst the surging yellow light, new deduced characters emerged:

In Qian Fugui's mobile department store, there is a tattered notebook titled "Liu Yang's Travelogue." One page contains a hidden secret: the first four levels of the Qi Refining stage of the Earth-rank cultivation technique "Chaos Origin Scripture," which can only be unlocked through a special method.

"Earth-rank cultivation technique!"

Li Changsheng was shocked.

Cultivation techniques are ranked into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow. Each level is further divided into three grades: upper, middle, and lower. In the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, Yellow-rank cultivation techniques are common, Profound-rank techniques are the treasures of small and medium-sized families, and Earth-rank techniques... are the core inheritances possessed only by high-ranking families and sects!

Although there are only the first four levels, with the Heavenly Book, I believe we will be able to complete them in the future.

only……

"I don't know anything about money and wealth." Li Changsheng frowned, suppressing the excitement in his heart. "I'll make a note of it for now and keep it in mind in the future."

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Back at the ship's mooring place, hundreds of simple tents had been set up on the open ground by the river.

Father Li was directing the clansmen to build stoves and start fires. Large iron pots were placed on the makeshift stone stoves, and wisps of smoke rose from them. When the clansmen saw Li Changsheng and Chen Wenyuan returning with their bounty—one carrying a snow-white foal and the other carrying a huge elephant—they were first stunned, then burst into cheers.

"The clan leader is back!"

"This...this is a demonic beast?!"

"A winged pony! So beautiful!"

Looking at his son, who had clearly matured a lot, Li's father felt a sense of relief, like a prodigal son returning home and making a comeback.

The others, who were initially worried that Li Changsheng was a spoiled brat, have now seen him bring back two demonic beasts with a single move, and their impression of him has subtly changed.

Li Changsheng handed the flying horse cub to his younger sister, who was watching eagerly beside him, and said, "Hold it carefully; it has an injury on its leg, so don't touch it."

The little girl was overjoyed and carefully took it. The other children gathered around, chattering, but dared not reach out and touch it.

"Brother-in-law, could you please deal with these cloud formations?" Li Changsheng said to Chen Wenyuan. "Use the meat and bones to make soup so everyone can have a good hot meal. Also... cut a large piece of the best meat and send it to the Du family."

Chen Wenyuan nodded in agreement, drew his hunting knife, and began to skillfully dissect the cloud elephant. His technique was adept; skinning, deboning, and dissecting were all done with fluid ease, clearly demonstrating that his years of hunting experience were not unfounded.

Soon, large chunks of elephant meat were simmering in several large pots, with bones used to make broth. The spiritual energy contained in the flesh and blood of a first-tier demon beast was gradually released during the simmering process, and a rich aroma of meat mixed with a special spiritual fragrance wafted through the air.

In the camps of the other families along the river, many people couldn't help but sniff and look towards the Li family's camp, their eyes full of envy.

Especially the Cheng family camp.

Cheng Laosan was whispering something to an old man with a sinister face and a goatee, occasionally casting resentful glances in the direction of the Li family. The old man was the patriarch of the Cheng family, a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining.

Li Changsheng glanced at it from afar, his heart sinking slightly.

Within the Cheng family camp, there were as many as sixteen people whose spiritual energy was faintly fluctuating! Although most of them had only recently begun to absorb Qi and had not even stabilized at the first level of Qi Refining, their numbers were considerable. No wonder Cheng Laosan, a mere second-level Qi Refining cultivator, only possessed a female cultivator's magic weapon that was unsuitable for him—the Cheng family's resources had to be distributed among so many people.

Chen Wenyuan noticed this as well and leaned closer to whisper, "Clan leader, the Cheng family has quite a few cultivators; I'm afraid that in the future..."

"It's alright." Li Changsheng said calmly. "The fiefdom is protected by a mountain-protecting formation. As long as we don't go out, they can't do anything to us. When our strength is insufficient, we can simply lie low."

At this moment, Chen Wenyuan took out a fist-sized, dark blue gallbladder with faint cloud patterns on its surface from the Yunxiang's abdominal cavity and handed it to Li Changsheng with both hands: "Clan leader, this is the Yunxiang gallbladder, the essence of a first-tier demon beast. This can help you solidify your foundation, and even... give you a chance to break through to the second level."

Li Changsheng took it; it was warm to the touch, and he could feel the surging spiritual and medicinal power within. He found a secluded spot, sat cross-legged, tilted his head back, and swallowed the entire gallbladder.

"boom--!"

The gallbladder dissolved instantly upon entering his abdomen, unleashing a torrent of medicinal power that surged through his limbs and bones. Li Changsheng groaned, his face flushed, and he quickly circulated the "Zhou Tian Dao Yin Jue" to guide this violent force along his meridians.

The medicinal power surged like a torrent, impacting the barriers of the meridians, widening and strengthening them, and finally flowing into the dantian.

I don't know how much time passed.

"Pop—"

A soft, bubble-like sound came from within, as if some kind of constraint had been broken. The dantian qi vortex suddenly solidified several times over, the total amount of spiritual power surged, and the circulation speed also increased significantly.

Qi Refining Level Two, achieved!

[Li Family Head: (Unranked)]

[Qi Refining Level 2: (5/100)]

Lifespan: (13/120)

[Ninth-grade spiritual root: (30/100)]

[Destiny and Talents: A Daily Divination]

[Talent in Cultivation Arts: Alchemy (Rank 9)]

Li Changsheng slowly opened his eyes, a flash of blue light appearing briefly in them, and his aura noticeably strengthened.

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As dusk fell, a sound of something breaking through the air came from the horizon.

Another cloud shuttle-shaped treasure ship came from the west and slowly landed on the riverbank. The fifth conferred family disembarked, with about three thousand people. However, when Li Changsheng scanned the family with his divine sense, he found that only one person in the family had spiritual energy fluctuations, and he was only at the first level of Qi Refining.

"It seems that everyone's situation is vastly different," he thought to himself.

With all five families present, the Immortal Master of the World-Suppressing Division who had initially guided the Li family stood in mid-air, his voice resounding throughout the surrounding area: "Everyone, board the ship! We will depart in half an hour!"

The group quickly packed up their tents and lined up to board the ship.

The treasure ship has set sail again.

after awhile.

A plump, smiling immortal master in a green robe stepped off the sixth floor of the treasure ship:

"Fellow Daoists, I am Qian Fugui, and I serve as the Merchant Envoy of the Zhenshi Division. If you require anything for the rest of the journey, please find me on the sixth floor. I have a full range of goods here, from cultivation techniques and magical artifacts to elixirs and talismans, from spiritual plant seeds to daily necessities—everything you could need. If you don't have enough spirit stones, no problem; you can pay on credit with fair interest!"

Upon hearing this, the eyes of the five cultivators lit up.

Li Changsheng's heart skipped a beat: "Qian Fugui!"

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After settling her clansmen in, Du Liuniang approached Li Changsheng and said, "Clan Chief Li, would you like to go and take a look at the sixth level? I happen to need to replenish some talisman paper and spirit ink."

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Li Changsheng nodded.

When the two boarded the sixth floor of the treasure ship, they found that Cheng Laosan and another cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining from another family had also arrived. Cheng Laosan saw Li Changsheng, snorted coldly, and turned his head away.

Qian Fugui's cabin door swung open, and a hearty laugh rang out: "My dear young friends have arrived! Please come in, please come in!"

The four entered and discovered a hidden world inside the cabin—Qian Fugui waved his sleeve, and a delicate little wooden house model landed and grew, transforming in the blink of an eye into a spacious shop with a plaque that read "Fugui Department Store" hanging above the door.