After Shangguan Long left Evergreen Valley with a heart full of shock, news that Yun Long had cultivated superior-grade Qi Refining and mastered a Profound Tier Spell spread through all of Sanshui County as though it had grown wings.
This news was even more startling than Yun Long's condensation of superior-grade Qi Refining itself.
Superior-grade Qi Refining was already the stuff of legend.
Profound Tier Spells were even more so—found only among Foundation Establishment Families, commandery city great clans, and perhaps the top powers of provincial prefectures.
For a time, all the Cultivation Families in Sanshui County that had harbored one thought or another toward the Yun Clan, this dark horse, completely lowered their banners and silenced their drums.
No one dared provoke them lightly again.
Even the Liu Family, which had previously come in such an aggressive manner to test them, only to leave covered in dust and disgrace, sent over many rather precious Swordplay Manuals within two days of the news spreading.
The Liu Family head even personally wrote a letter filled with earnest words. Every line expressed a desire for friendship, as though the incident of sending clan members to forcibly barge into Evergreen Valley had never happened at all.
Yun Long accepted the Liu Family's goodwill without ceremony.
As for the other Cultivation Families of Sanshui County, they too sent people to the Yun Clan with quite a few gifts.
There were worldly things such as gold and silver, as well as spiritual materials and medicinal pills.
However, these families tacitly refrained from sending any important figures to visit in person.
The Yun Clan was happy to enjoy the peace and quiet.
The days passed one by one, and Li Lingyue's pregnancy soon exceeded a year.
An ordinary mortal woman would give birth after ten months