Tier 1 High-Grade Formation Master, Artifact Refiner

Hearing Ji Haoyuan's words, Ji Haohuan immediately shook his head.

"Absolutely not.

I already told you before—people have their allotted fate.

Seeing you achieve Foundation Establishment and lead our Ji Family to gradually grow stronger is already more than enough to satisfy me.

As for living another ten years or so, your elder brother truly does not care in the slightest."

It was not hard to hear from his words that Ji Haohuan no longer had much ambition left on the path of immortality.

Otherwise, something like allotted fate would never have come from his mouth.

One had to know that cultivators themselves walked against the heavens, striving for that sliver of possibility within impossibility.

If everything were to follow allotted fate and the tracks of destiny, there would be no need to cultivate at all.

Of course.

That was not to say Ji Haohuan's way of thinking was necessarily wrong.

Who knew how many cultivators' bones had been buried along that path of defying the heavens?

It could be seen that everything had two sides; what mattered most was one's own choice and state of mind.

Ji Haoyuan felt quite helpless about this.

He understood his elder brother's thoughts only too well.

But precisely because of that, there was nothing he could do.

Ji Haohuan himself, on the other hand, was very composed. He even smiled and comforted Ji Haoyuan in turn.

"Alright, Ahoyuan, there's no need for you to worry about me.

If you truly want to look after something in the future, then look after that child Qingfei for me."

The Qingfei Ji Haohuan mentioned was one of his direct descendants.

All these years, Ji Haoyuan had remained alone from beginning to end.

His elder brother Ji Haohuan, however, had once had a Dao companion and children.

But as the years changed, both his Dao companion and children had passed away for various reasons.

At present, only Ji Qingfei, a single great-grandson, remained.

Fortunately, the boy had some promise.

Though not yet thirty, he already possessed Qi Refining Layer 5 cultivation.

At this rate, so long as resources were sufficient, he had a very good chance of cultivating to Qi Refining Great Perfection within the next twenty years.

When the time came, attempting Foundation Establishment would not be without hope of success.

Upon hearing Ji Haohuan's words, Ji Haoyuan immediately nodded without hesitation.

"Rest assured, Brother. Qingfei is a child we both watched grow up. I will definitely nurture him well."

In fact.

He had already sent someone to deliver some cultivation resources to Ji Qingfei.

At the same time, he had someone tell Ji Qingfei that if anything came up in the future, or if there was anything he did not understand in cultivation, he could come to the Back Mountain to find him.

Moreover, he believed that with Ji Qingfei's current status, even without his instructions and care, he would still live quite well.

No one in the clan would dare mistreat him or deliberately make things difficult for him.

After that.

The two brothers continued reminiscing for a while.

Early the next morning.

Ji Haohuan did not remain any longer. After bidding farewell to Ji Haoyuan, Ji Yunfeng, and the other Yun Family cultivators, he returned to the Ji Family of Ganyang Mountain.

On this side.

After seeing Ji Haohuan off, Ji Haoyuan began studying the inheritances of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation that Ji Haohuan had brought him.

The first things he examined were those concerning formations and artifact refining.

He currently needed both of them.

The former concerned the safety of the Cloud Iron Ore Vein here.

The latter, meanwhile, was the foundation of the former.

After all, setting up a formation required refining the corresponding formation artifacts, Formation Flags, Formation Plates, and other such items.

Furthermore, if he wished to smelt the Blazing Gold Red Iron obtained from the Zhang Family into his Crimson Flame Pattern Spear, he would also need attainments in artifact refining.

And so.

The days passed one by one.

Everything seemed to settle into calm.

Ji Haoyuan buried himself in formations and artifact refining, and his gains grew with each passing day.

You comprehended the Dao of formations and artifact refining and gained greatly.

You comprehended the Dao of formations and artifact refining and gained greatly.

You comprehended the Dao of formations and artifact refining and gained greatly. Your Dao of formations and artifact refining has improved substantially.

You became a Tier 1 mid-grade Formation Master. You became a Tier 1 low-grade artifact refiner.

Before long.

A new notification appeared once more.

You comprehended the Dao of formations and artifact refining, gaining another tremendous improvement.

You became a Tier 1 high-grade Formation Master. You became a Tier 1 high-grade artifact refiner.

In merely a few months.

Ji Haoyuan had nearly traversed a road that some Formation Masters and artifact refiners could not finish in an entire lifetime.

Of course.

Throughout this process, Ji Haoyuan had consumed no small amount of resources.

After all, both formations and artifact refining were arts that truly required hands-on practice.

It was impossible to understand everything and become proficient in everything merely by reading.

But after reaching this point, it was no longer so easy for Ji Haoyuan to improve further.

At least, he did not yet have the conditions to do so in the short term.

It was not that his Max-Level Comprehension was not powerful enough, but that there simply were not enough Second Order materials for practice.

Even the cleverest housewife could not cook without rice.

And after these past few months.

Ji Yunfeng and the others had repaired the formation that had previously been damaged.

However, when Ji Haoyuan emerged from the Temporary Cave Dwelling where he had been staying and inspected the repaired formation, he gained some new insights and immediately spotted several flaws and defects in it.

Without delay, he personally got to work.

He made a round of improvements to the formation before him.

At once, every Ji Family cultivator led by Ji Yunfeng revealed astonished expressions.

Ji Yunfeng in particular.

As the Ji Family's sole cultivator who currently possessed Tier 1 high-grade formation attainments.

He could see at a glance that after Ji Haoyuan's improvements, the formation had risen to a new level in both concealment and defensive power.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that as long as there were enough Spirit Stones, it could even withstand several attacks from a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

That was an extraordinarily remarkable thing.

At the very least, Ji Yunfeng had never heard of any Tier 1 Formation possessing the power to resist a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Though that resistance was not particularly strong.

Resistance was still resistance.

Even if it could only block a few attacks, it was something he had never before seen or heard of.

But since when did his Fifth Uncle understand formations as well?

He had never heard of it before.

It could not possibly be an ability he had gained simply from studying those Jade Slips on formations and artifact refining during this period, could it?

That would be far too absurd.

He himself had delved into the Dao of formations for nearly a full sixty years before achieving what he had today.

No matter how heaven-blessed his Fifth Uncle was, he should not have been such a monstrous genius.

At least, Ji Yunfeng could never believe it.

His Fifth Uncle must have already possessed the relevant attainments before this.

Ji Haoyuan clearly had no intention of explaining.

Several more months passed.

When Ji Haoyuan successfully fused the Blazing Gold Red Iron into his Crimson Flame Pattern Spear, raising its grade from Tier 2 low-grade to Tier 2 mid-grade, a Message Talisman suddenly flew in from afar.

When Ji Haoyuan received that Message Talisman and saw its contents, his brows immediately lifted slightly.