Preparation, Early Exploration!

[You were beaten heavily with several punches by a bearded man in the Golden Core Middle Stage, almost beating you to death.]

[Knowing you could not escape, and that they would not let you go easily, you decisively chose to bite your tongue. The bearded man ordered you to take a Blood Stopping Pill, and borrowing the pill's medicinal power to recover a thread of Golden Core strength, you decisively chose to self-detonate!]

[Cold sweat streamed down uncontrollably because everything felt far too real, as if you had experienced it firsthand.]

[Afterwards, your gaze turned grim, for you would not let that group of people off easily, especially that bearded man!]

[You stood up, beginning your daily sword practice, and spent a while playing with Li Ruilin during the interval.]

[Soon after, you came to the Pill Hall to refine several furnaces of spirit-tier pills for the lineage, personally instructing the alchemists of the Pill Hall.]

[Both your mother and Mu Xinger's alchemy skill improved significantly after receiving your guidance.]

[A month later, under the high-quality pills you provided, the cultivation speed of your Mu Family's cultivators increased noticeably, especially the elders who were about to break through or had already broken through the Foundation Establishment Realm.]

[In December, the Fourth Elder, Fifth Elder, and Sixth Elder broke through the Foundation Establishment Realm one after another!]

[Your Mu Family gained three more Foundation Establishment cultivators! To mark this, your Mu Family hosted a grand Foundation Establishment Ceremony, cordially inviting major powers from the sixteen county governments of Lin Prefecture. The purpose was self-evident: to let the major powers know the strength of your Mu Family and pave the way for your lineage's family businesses.]

[The effect was obvious. Before the middle of the month, your Mu Family's businesses across the