Longevity starts from having a daughter in old age

Chapter 529: Chapter 485: A Hundred Years Later_1

Central Region

Nascent Soul Sect · Fairy Moon Palace

Under the solitary tier ten laurel tree, a youth dressed in white stood. His strands of ink-like hair fell upon his shoulders, his eyes slightly closed, and his features were perfect and flawless, as if bestowed by the heavens.

The nearby areas were filled with spiritual roots of tier nine, eight, and seven, enhancing the spiritual energy here to its peak.

Swoosh, swoosh!

The leaves swayed with the wind, and the spiritual energy transformed into mist, fluttering around, making this place appear to be a celestial realm.

Hum!

After some time had passed, a mysterious fluctuation spread out, attracting the surrounding spiritual power. Like a surging torrent, the spiritual power converged quickly towards the youth, eventually turning into a vortex that wrapped around him.

The speed the youth absorbed the spiritual energy was extremely fast. The thick and substantial spiritual energy could barely keep up with his consumption.

At this moment, the leaves gently swayed and glimmers of light fluttered down, blending into the spiritual energy vortex, maintaining its fullness.

Roar!

A massive beastly shadow sprang out from the vortex, resembling a whale with wings. It opened its mouth to swallow, consuming all the surrounding spiritual power at once.

Due to the massive consumption of spiritual energy, the leaves of the laurel tree fell off one after another, leaving only the bare branches.

The beastly shadow made another leap, transforming into a clear mist that entered the youth’s body. Only then did the youth slowly open his eyes, a hint of a smile appearing on his face.

“Finally, a breakthrough!”

…

“It took only a century to advance from a seventh tier Nascent Soul to a ninth. If outsiders found out, they’d be shocked!”

Sensing that his cultivation had finally reached its limit, Xu Mu couldn’t help but reveal a hint of excitement as he slowly stood up from the ground.

Of course, if outsiders knew how many top-tier spiritual medicines he had consumed to reach this realm, they’d be even more surprised.

“Once my Luck Value is sufficient, I will further advance my alchemy skills to the Transcendent level. Then, I can start trying to concoct the pill to achieve the Divinity Transformation and find a place to break through to the Divinity Transformation Stage!”

With these thoughts in his mind, Xu Mu proceeded to walk outside.

As soon as he left the valley, disciples came forward to pay their respects.

“Welcome back from your retreat, Supreme Elder!”

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Xu Mu waved his hand, stopping the flattery from the crowd.

Back when he first arrived in the Central Region from the Southern Domain and joined the Fairy Moon Palace as an alchemist, he had taken two disciples for a while to evade the pursuit of Tianyang Palace. Later, when he was selling pills, he accidentally ended up in the Eastern Region, where Da Yuan resided via a random transmission array.

During the rise of the Demon Gate a few years ago, Fairy Moon Palace was very unfortunate to be caught in the crossfire and nearly faced extinction.

After Xu Mu joined the alliance, he stumbled upon his two disciples and learned about the situation of Fairy Moon Palace through them.

When he met with the new Palace Master of Fairy Moon Palace, they insisted on him rejoining. Feeling a bit of old sentiment, Xu Mu agreed.

However, the new Palace Master immediately offered him the position as the Palace Master.

Xu Mu didn’t want to accept the declining Fairy Moon Palace or carry the stigma of usurping another’s nest. But having the new Palace Master’s pleas and some old sentiment, he finally agreed to the position as the Supreme Elder.

Of course, that was also because he needed some manpower to help him with some tasks. Conveniently, the Fairy Moon Palace was more than generous.

And just like that, Fairy Moon Palace gained greatly.

Everybody knew of Xu Mu, so essentially no other sect dared to bully the Fairy Moon Palace, and they would obtain a safer position during conflicts.

The most important thing was that they had certain advantages when buying pills.

As the Demon Gate kept retreating, the territory that had been lost was regained, and Fairy Moon Palace rose again. Their strength not only restored to its peak but became even more formidable than before.

Knowing that Xu Mu needed to go into secluded cultivation, they immediately vacated the best spot for him without any hesitation. And so, he stayed.

In fact, not just the Fairy Moon Palace, many forces associated with him received his help over the years, and their strength drastically improved.

For instance, the Tianhe Sect that was close to extinction only had a few big and small cats left. Initially, Xu Mu’s clone joined them with the intention of stealing the sacred water, but ran into some mishap. He didn’t manage to get the treasure but ended up with two senior sisters instead.

Now, with his assistance, those two senior sisters had already reached the late Golden Pill stage, and it wouldn’t be long before breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

In the past, he needed others to shelter him, but now, more people need his protection.

After leaving the Fairy Moon Palace, Xu Mu didn’t head for the alliance’s stronghold.

The current alliance was powerful and invincible, almost driving the Demonic Gate completely out of the Central Region. Ordinarily, they didn’t need him, the Vice Alliance Hierarch, to lend a hand.

At this moment, everyone was seizing territories. If he showed up on the battlefield, it might lead to misunderstandings.

In recent years, his fame had grown to magnificent proportions. Every person knew of his reputation as the best alchemist in the world.

Behind the scenes, it was rumored that he was the most powerful individual below the Divinity Transformation stage.

If it weren’t for his reluctance to compete for it, he could even be the Alliance Hierarch.

However, the more you stand out, the more likely you are to be taken down.

Although he currently prospered and was deeply rooted, and others couldn’t hurt him, being too conspicuous didn’t align with his way of doing things.

If possible, he would still prefer to be low-key.

After all, the Sect Leader of the Demon Gate, Old Ancestor of Tongyou, had yet to show himself and was probably planning something big.

Being too conspicuous at this point could make one a target for the enemy.

The reason being, within the alliance, there were several Divinity Transformation stage ancestors who were keeping an eye on the Old Ancestor of Tongyou, ready to gang up on him once he appeared. But Xu Mu didn’t want to take that risk.

Only he knew how formidable the Old Ancestor of Tongyou, possessing an immortal puppet, was.

The current hiding of the Old Ancestor of Tongyou couldn’t simply be a measure to avoid conflict.

“He’s probably, like me, doing everything he can to break through to the Divinity Transformation stage! If he manages to break through to the Divinity Transformation stage and still has the Immortal Puppet by his side, he could be invincible to the world!”

Of course, this was the worst-case scenario.

After all, Old Ancestor Tongyou was merely a remnant soul. Although some change seemed to have occurred after obtaining the Immortal Puppet, enabling his strength to improve further, logically speaking, wanting to reach the Divinity Transformation stage should be even harder for him than for Xu Mu.

But better safe than sorry.

This was also why Xu Mu had to expose his alchemy skills, massively collect various treasures, and advance his cultivation level.

He also wanted to reach the Divinity Transformation stage as soon as possible.

As long as he reached the Divinity Transformation stage and refined the Sky-splitting Halberd, even if the strength of the Old Ancestor of Tongyou improved again, Xu Mu would be confident in dealing with him.

If he couldn’t win, with the Sky-splitting Halberd under his control, he would be able to escape to other smaller worlds.

Thus, Xu Mu flew on his way, quickly reaching the Eastern Region where the DaYuan Dynasty resided, heading directly to the small space where the Xu Family was located.

The current Xu Family could be described as completely transformed.