Planning Ahead

Azure Cauldron Mountain.

Li Jiantong was drinking tea.

Several decades had passed. Relying on piles of resources, he had forcibly pushed past his own limits and cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. He looked even older now, yet carried a faintly sharp aura.

Knowing his aptitude was limited and that he was unlikely to reach the Foundation Establishment Late Stage in this lifetime, he devoted most of his daily energy to managing family affairs, bringing the Li Family to ever greater prosperity.

By now, they had five Foundation Establishment cultivators from the main family and had recruited six outside Foundation Establishment guest elders, barely putting together the framework of a Core Formation family.

Yet there had always been a worry in his heart.

The ancestor was growing older by the day. It seemed he might even depart before Li Jiantong did.

Once the ancestor was gone, the great number of enemies lurking within the Forest Kingdom would no longer be suppressible...

When that time came, the Li Family's fate might be even worse than the Azure Cauldron Sect's!

Just then, a transmission talisman flew in.

Li Jiantong merely scanned it a few times before his expression changed drastically. "Impossible... How many years has it been since he broke through to the late stage? How has he already formed a core?"

The Li Family had always kept secret watch over cultivators in the Forest Kingdom who had the potential to form a core, sabotaging them in the shadows.

Old Monster Fang of Myriad Merchants Market had ranked rather low among them.

After all, he had only broken through to the late stage not long ago...

Yet unexpectedly, this man had been the first to form a core!

Li Jiantong felt the world spin around him. Clutching the transmission talisman, he