All of this was, in fact, thanks to Ice Snow Valley's Third Rank Spirit Plant Garden, as well as the Third Rank spirit herbs cultivated throughout the clan's territories.
There were also the clan's Third Rank Middle Grade alchemist Ling Yunhong and Third Rank Low Grade alchemist Ling Chengxin.
It was precisely because the two of them refined the mature Third Rank spirit herbs cultivated by the clan into pills that the Ling Clan's Golden Core cultivators had no need to worry about cultivation resources and could simply focus on secluded cultivation.
After many years, the Ling Clan had also accumulated a stockpile of resources. Many Golden Core cultivators planned to build another Third Rank Spirit Plant Garden within the clan grounds to accelerate the growth of Third Rank spirit plants and thereby indirectly provide even more Third Rank pills.
After all, a Third Rank Spirit Plant Garden boosted the growth of Third Rank spirit plants far too greatly—by a full threefold.
Ling Pengyun naturally approved of this.
Afterward, Ling Pengyun learned from Ling Chengyuan about the clan's recent circumstances.
According to Grand Elder Ling Chengyuan, during the forty years Ling Pengyun had been in seclusion, three clan members had attempted to break through to the Golden Core Realm.
They were Earth Technique Cultivator Ling Wanduo, Ling Wanxu, who possessed exceptionally powerful divine sense talent and was also a sword cultivator, and Ling Wanliang, originally an alchemist but one who loved battle alone and was known as the Battle Maniac.
All three were Golden Core Seedlings of the clan. Among the male Foundation Establishment cultivators, they had joined the ranks of the Ling Clan's Worthies and were young clansmen whom the Ling Clan's upper ranks had valued since their early years.
Ling Wanduo, the spirit plant genius who had broken