The path of immortality had no eyes. Competition for the resources needed to break through was this cruel, this merciless-either you died, or I did.
But the man who had competed against Xu Wufang had lost and died, and Xu Wufang had brought the resources back while barely clinging to life. With his own Dao path utterly ruined, he had given them to his younger sister, Xu Fugui's eighth daughter, who likewise possessed a middle-grade spiritual root.
She had now reached the Qi Refining ninth layer as well and was approaching perfection.
With these resources, at least the pressure of securing what his sister needed for Foundation Establishment would be much lighter.
But it still was not enough. Xu Fugui had now turned his grief into strength and was doing everything he could to prepare for his daughter's Foundation Establishment.
Neither of them was currently with the lineage, which was another major reason Lin Changheng had received no letters.
Such was the specific situation of the Xu Family, with whom Lin Changheng had fairly close ties. As for the other household, the Huang Household of Spirit Vault Mountain, Lin Changheng had heard a few rumors from the Foundation Establishment cultivators at yesterday's Treasure Exchange Gathering: the Huang Household's grand elder, Huang Jiuyuan, might truly be approaching the end of his lifespan.
The entire lineage had adopted a steady, defensive posture.
Although they had not withdrawn, they no longer displayed their former eagerness to expand.
Lin Changheng had already sensed this coming.
After all, in recent years, the Huang Household members who came requesting pills had no longer been familiar direct-line cultivators and key figures such as Cook Zeng, but unfamiliar faces.
Lin Changheng guessed that they might be making their connections less conspicuous to avoid attracting attention.
After all,