[Unscrupulous Merchant Experience Summary: After learning about the Lineage's industries, you reasonably planned them out and launched sweeping reforms. Your pioneering business acumen and mindset earned your grandfather's strong support. Although the Lineage earned a great number of Spirit Stones under your business model, you were not satisfied. You used marketing methods from your previous life to promote Mi San, swindling the Spirit Stones of Jinzhou County's Rogue Cultivators, and then launched Half Mi San. Your Unscrupulous Merchant Experience rapidly improved. You concluded that the core of an unscrupulous merchant was: profit above all else.]
"First of all, I don't want this Unscrupulous Merchant Experience Summary!"
Was he an unscrupulous merchant? Even if he was going to do business, he would be an honest merchant, all right? A very, very honest merchant.
"The Thunder Pearl is a good thing. Even a Golden Core Stage Fire Cloud Evil God would be seriously injured by one blast. If he took two head-on, he'd practically ascend. If it were someone in the Foundation Establishment Realm, wouldn't it be one blast per kill?"
To be honest, he was a little tempted.
"Still, a cultivation level only one step away from the Foundation Establishment Realm isn't bad either." Mu Xingqi was somewhat indecisive.
This was a good choice too. He was only missing the final ten percent before Spirit Platform Condensation. If he chose it, he could successfully break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm within a year at most!
One had to know, this was the Foundation Establishment Realm!
In Jinzhou County, it was an existence that could swagger about unhindered.
Just because his grandfather at the Foundation Establishment Realm had not had much chance to show off in his recent simulations, and had been heavily injured in just a few moves by the old Fire Cloud Evil God, did not mean otherwise.
That was not because the Foundation Establishment Realm was too weak. It was simply because that old Fire Cloud Evil God, a Golden Core True Person, was too strong, all right?
One had to know that Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators in Jinzhou County were undeniably local powerhouses. Their Mu Family had only become one of Jinzhou County's three great families because his grandfather held the fort as a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
Moreover, among the three local tyrants of Jinzhou County—the three great families—which one did not have a Foundation Establishment Realm expert?
Therefore, the Foundation Establishment Realm was powerful, and important.
"It's you, then!"
Mu Xingqi finally made his choice. In the end, he chose the cultivation of the ninth level of Qi Cultivation.
A surge of spiritual power roiled within him. Immediately afterward, the spiritual power in his body began circulating at high speed beyond his control, as though an invisible giant hand were stirring the liquid spiritual power within him.
Moments later, the liquid spiritual power abruptly gathered together, and a square Spirit Platform began to condense.
Ten percent, twenty percent... ninety percent!
Just as the Spirit Platform was about to condense into a true platform, the spiritual power in his body began to settle, as though nothing had happened.
The floating Spirit Platform inside him ultimately remained at ninety percent condensed, still just a little short of truly taking shape.
Looking at the Spirit Platform that was only a little short, Mu Xingqi felt uncomfortable. It was like a flawless rectangular solid missing just one corner, making his heart itch unbearably.
Therefore, he decided: secluded cultivation! He would not leave seclusion until he broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm!
Two months flew by, and November arrived.
That day, two disciples from the Punishment Hall came to Mu Xingqi's courtyard.
One of them curiously looked around, elbowed the disciple beside him, and asked, "Whose courtyard is this? It's so luxurious!"
The other disciple rolled his eyes at him, looking at him as though he were an idiot, and explained,
"This is the family head's courtyard. Of course it's different!"
"The family head's courtyard! Then the person we've come to take this time can't be..."
"That's right! It's the family head's son!"
"Wouldn't it be improper for us not to inform the family head in advance?"
"Are you stupid? Is that our business? We're only responsible for delivering the message!"
"Oh. But I still don't think it's proper!"
"Fuck! You—"
Just as that disciple was about to fly into a rage, a powerful surge of spiritual power burst forth and sent both of them flying.
Before the two could react, powerful spiritual power converged from all directions, forming a vortex of spiritual power.
This disturbance in spiritual power naturally drew the attention of every cultivator on Muye Mountain.
Inside one secluded cave abode, an old man with silver-gray hair at his temples and a scar running from the corner of his left eye to the corner of his mouth suddenly opened his eyes.
"Who is establishing their foundation!"
He immediately rose to his feet. With one step, he moved like a gust of clear wind, rushing straight toward the heart of the spiritual power disturbance.
The moment he arrived in the courtyard, he spotted the two people who had been sent flying. He raised a hand, gathered spiritual power, and shot it forth, instantly pulling the pair before him.
The two Punishment Hall disciples had never seen such a method before. Yet no matter how foolish they were, they knew that the old man before them was extraordinary, perhaps even stronger than the Lineage's elders.
The sharper-witted disciple thought of someone stronger than an elder and with the appearance of an old man. That could only be the Lineage's elusive ancestor, whose head was seen but whose tail was never found!
He immediately bowed and said, "Junior greets the Ancestor!"
The other disciple was a little slow-witted, but he understood now as well and copied him. "Junior greets the Ancestor!"
Mu Changde used spiritual power to help the two up and asked kindly, "Who is in this side room?"
One disciple immediately answered, "This junior was ordered by the Second Elder to invite Young Master Xingqi to the Punishment Hall. The person in this side room should be Young Master Xingqi."
"Mu Xingqi?" Mu Changde cried out in disbelief.
The eldest disciple of the Star Generation was not even forty years old, and if he remembered correctly, Mu Xingqi ranked near the bottom among the Star Generation disciples.
In other words, Mu Xingqi had established his foundation before the age of twenty!?
While he stood there in shock, the other elders also arrived one after another.
The most astonished among them were Mu Shengtian and Lin Qinghua. Looking at the vortex of spiritual power condensing in their son's room, the husband and wife remained silent for a long while.
When Mu Shengtian and Lin Qinghua saw Mu Changde standing in the middle of the courtyard, they immediately stepped forward.
Seeing the two arrive, Mu Changde finally recovered his composure, though his voice still trembled as he pointed at Mu Xingqi's room. "This is the room of my good grandson, Mu Xingqi?"
When the couple nodded, the shock in Mu Changde's eyes lingered for a long time.
He murmured, "The two of you gave birth to a monster!?"
The other elders stepped forward as well, but they were somewhat confused. They did not know who was in the room, yet all the Lineage's elders were already here. Who else had the chance to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm?
There was one exception: the Third Elder in charge of the Scripture Pavilion. At this moment, his pitch-black panda eyes were filled with shock.
A few months ago, after sensing that Mu Xingqi had already reached Late-stage Qi Cultivation at such a young age in the Scripture Pavilion, he had deliberately observed Mu Xingqi for a month. How had only a few months passed before he had already broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm!?
Was he even human?
Boom!
A thunderous sound interrupted everyone's thoughts. Having just successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, Mu Xingqi could not control the violent spiritual power in his body for the moment, causing it to shatter the wooden door and windows of his room.
A powerful spiritual pressure suddenly descended, making every elder present, aside from Mu Changde of the Foundation Establishment Realm, feel as though a mountain were pressing down on them.
At that moment, the figure of a youth slowly appeared before them...
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