Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye,
a year passed.
During that year,
good news had come to the Li Family one after another.
The Li Family had gained three more Innate True Persons.
The first to advance to the Innate Realm was the Li Family's Seventh Elder, Li Yuran. She had successfully broken through half a year ago.
The second was Li Yanming, an elder of Hundred Herbs Hall (formerly the Li Family's Seventh Elder, before he yielded the position to Li Yuran).
The third was Li Xinge's concubine, Yunxi, who had also reached the Innate Realm.
Not long after the war in Eastern Prefecture ended, the Li Family's Second Elder, Li Xuanzhong, emerged from seclusion and successfully advanced to the Middle Stage Innate Realm.
The Li Family's Fourth Elder, Li Xuanzong, advanced to the Late-stage Innate Realm. Combined with his extraordinarily powerful Special Physique—the Savage God Body—he was strong enough to go toe-to-toe with experts at Innately Great Perfection.
Qinghe Mountain Range.
A vast medicinal garden.
This was where the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree discovered at the beginning of the Li Family's rise had grown.
As the Li Family gradually grew stronger, they began developing this medicinal garden.
One of the Li Family's Second-tier Array Masters had set up ten Second-tier Spirit Gathering Arrays in the garden, specifically to cultivate high-grade spirit herbs.
After years of expansion,
the garden had grown to more than ten times its original size.
Now, it was one of the Li Family's most important sources of high-grade spirit herbs.
Deep in the garden,
spiritual energy hung thick as fog, almost condensing into droplets.
The ten Second-tier Spirit Gathering Arrays turned slowly, drawing spiritual energy from the earth veins to nourish the more than one hundred rare spirit herbs growing in