Lin Changheng received two pieces of good news at once, and he was not entirely unsurprised.
The former was understandable. After all, the problems that arose were merely temporary growing pains.
The latter, however, was one of the Xu Family's core secret legacies, and they had given that to Lin Changheng as well.
Their willingness to give him even this showed, on the one hand, that Lin Changheng's value had been recognized, and on the other, that the Xu Family placed sufficient trust in him. Of course, it had taken Lin Changheng nearly thirty years to build that trust.
It had been anything but easy.
But the deeper factor was the rise in the Xu Family's standing.
Now that they had a Foundation Establishment cultivator, superior-grade first-tier Pill Dao was important, but only so important.
After all, it still bore the label "first-tier"!
And within the circles a Foundation Establishment cultivator moved in, even second-tier Pill Dao was hardly difficult to obtain.
This was the change that naturally followed a leap in stature.
The value of mere superior-grade Pill Dao had naturally diminished.
The Xu Family had now risen to become a Foundation Establishment Family, but its reserves in every other respect were still those of a Qi Refining Lineage.
They were exceedingly thin.
A single Foundation Establishment cultivator was not enough. They needed to improve on every front before they could truly deserve the name "Foundation Establishment Family" and live up to it.
Pill Dao, Talisman Dao, and other such fields were also among the Xu Family's development priorities.
Especially now that the Xu Family had a half share of the Azure Spirit Ward to support it, Spirit Stones were not in short supply for the moment. Building up its reserves had therefore become the most pressing task.
Naturally,