Breakthrough, Finally Reaching Foundation Establishment!

[Experience Summary of a Scheming Merchant: After understanding the family's industries, you made reasonable plans and carried out bold reforms. Your pioneering business acumen and mindset received strong support from your Grandfather. Although the family earned a large amount of Spirit Stones under your business model, you were not satisfied. You used marketing techniques from your past life to promote Mi San, swindling Jinzhou County's Rogue Cultivators out of their Spirit Stones, and then you even launched Half Mi San. Your experience as a scheming merchant rapidly improved, and you concluded that the core of a scheming merchant is: profit above all else.]

"First of all, I don't want this 'Experience Summary of a Scheming Merchant'!"

Is he a scheming merchant? If I'm going to be one, I'll be a benevolent merchant, okay? A great, benevolent merchant.

"The Thunder Pearl is a good thing. Even the Golden Core Realm's Fire Cloud Evil God would be severely injured by one blast, and two would be enough to send him to ascension. If it's someone in the Foundation Establishment Realm, it's a guaranteed hit."

Honestly, he was a little tempted.

"But being just one step away from the Foundation Establishment Realm is also pretty good," Mu Xingqi hesitated.

Choosing this was also good. He was only one-tenth away from Spirit Platform Condensation, and with this choice, he could break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm in at most a year!

One must understand, this was the Foundation Establishment Realm!

In Jinzhou County, they could absolutely walk sideways.

Don't think that just because his Grandfather, who was in the Foundation Establishment Realm, didn't have much chance to show off in these simulations and was easily defeated by the old man who was a Golden Core True Person, the Fire Cloud Evil God, that the Foundation Establishment Realm was too weak. It was simply because the old man, the Fire Cloud Evil God, was too strong!

You have to know, in Jinzhou County, those in the Foundation Establishment Realm were definitely powerful figures. The Mu Family was one of the three great families in Jinzhou County precisely because they had a Grandfather in the Foundation Establishment Realm holding down the fort.

Furthermore, among Jinzhou County's three local powers, the three great families, which one didn't have a strong cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Realm?

Therefore, the Foundation Establishment Realm was very strong, and very important.

"This is it!"

Mu Xingqi finally made his choice. He ultimately chose the cultivation of the ninth level of Qi Cultivation.

A surge of spiritual energy erupted, followed by the spiritual energy within his body rapidly circulating uncontrollably, as if an invisible giant hand was stirring the liquid spiritual energy inside him.

Moments later, the liquid spiritual energy instantly gathered, and a square Spirit Platform began to condense.

One-tenth, two-tenths... nine-tenths!

Just as the Spirit Platform was about to condense into a true Spirit Platform, the spiritual energy within his body began to calm down, as if nothing had happened.

The Spirit Platform suspended within his body finally stopped at the level of nine-tenths condensed, still a little short of true formation.

Mu Xingqi looked at the Spirit Platform that was just a little bit short, feeling a constant sense of awkwardness, like a rectangular prism missing a corner to be perfectly complete. It made his heart itch and feel uncomfortable.

So, he decided: Seclusion! He wouldn't leave seclusion until he broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm!

Two months flew by, and November arrived.

On this day, two disciples from the Punishment Hall arrived in front of Mu Xingqi's courtyard.

One of the disciples looked around curiously, nudged the disciple beside him, and asked curiously, "Whose courtyard is this? It's so luxurious!"

The other disciple rolled his eyes at him, looking at him like an idiot, and explained, "This is the Patriarch's courtyard, of course it's different!"

"The Patriarch's courtyard! Then the person we're supposed to bring isn't...?"

"That's right! It's the Patriarch's son!"

"Then isn't it a bit bad that we didn't inform the Patriarch beforehand?"

"Are you stupid! Is this something for the two of us to manage? We're just responsible for delivering the message!"

"Oh. But I still think it's not good!"

"Damn it! You motherf***er!"

Just as this disciple was about to get angry, a powerful wave of spiritual energy was instantly released, directly knocking the two of them over.

Immediately after, before the two could react, a powerful spiritual energy gathered from all directions, forming a vortex of spiritual energy.

This spiritual energy surge naturally attracted the attention of all the cultivators on Muye Mountain.

Inside a secluded cave dwelling, an old man with silver-grey hair at his temples and a scar running from the corner of his left eye down to his mouth suddenly opened his eyes.

"Who is attempting Foundation Establishment!"

Immediately, he got up and took a step, moving like a gust of clear wind, heading straight for the core of the spiritual energy surge.

As soon as he arrived in the courtyard, he saw the two people who had been knocked over. He raised his hand, gathered spiritual energy, and flicked it out, instantly pulling the two towards him.

Those two disciples from the Punishment Hall had never seen such a method before. But even the dullest among them knew that the old man before them must have extraordinary strength, possibly even stronger than the family elders.

One of the more astute disciples, thinking of someone stronger than an elder and appearing as an old man, could only be the Old Ancestor, who was rarely seen in the family!

He immediately bowed and said, "Your junior greets the Old Ancestor!"

The other disciple, though a bit slow, understood at this moment and similarly bowed, "Your junior greets the Old Ancestor!"

Mu Changde used his spiritual energy to help them up and said kindly, "Who is the person in this room?"

One disciple quickly answered, "Your junior was ordered by the Second Elder to invite Young Master Xingqi to the Punishment Hall. The person in this room should be Young Master Xingqi."

"Mu Xingqi!?" Mu Changde exclaimed in disbelief.

The oldest among the disciples of the "Xing" generation was not yet forty. And if he remembered correctly, Mu Xingqi was at the bottom of the "Xing" generation disciples.

So, Mu Xingqi achieved Foundation Establishment before he was twenty!?

As he stood there stunned, the other elders also rushed to the scene.

The most surprised among them were the couple Mu Shengtian and Lin Qinghua, because they stared at the spiritual energy vortex condensing in their son's room, speechless for a long time.

Seeing Mu Changde standing in the center of the courtyard, Mu Shengtian and Lin Qinghua immediately stepped forward.

Upon seeing the couple arrive, Mu Changde regained his composure, but his voice still trembled slightly as he pointed to Mu Xingqi's room and asked, "This is my grandson Mu Xingqi's room?"

Seeing the couple nod, the shock in Mu Changde's eyes lingered.

He muttered, "You two gave birth to a monster!?"

The other elders stepped forward, looking bewildered. They didn't know who was in the room, but with all the elders of the family present, who else had a chance to break through to Foundation Establishment?

There was one exception: the Third Elder, who was in charge of the Scripture Pavilion. At this moment, his dark, panda-like eyes were filled with shock.

Because a few months ago, he had sensed Mu Xingqi's late Qi Cultivation realm in the Scripture Pavilion despite his young age. He had specifically observed Mu Xingqi for a month. How could he have broken through to Foundation Establishment in just a few months?

Was this still human?

BOOM!

A loud noise interrupted everyone's thoughts. Mu Xingqi had just successfully broken through to Foundation Establishment and couldn't control the violent spiritual energy within him, causing it to directly shatter the Wooden Door and windows of his room.

A powerful spiritual pressure suddenly descended, making all the elders present, except for Mu Changde who was already in the Foundation Establishment Realm, feel immense pressure.

At this moment, the figure of a young man slowly appeared before their eyes