The Older Generation's Sacrifice: Three Foundation Establishment Successes and Three Failures

Kong Wenxuan emerged from the pass with a broad smile, but the smile quickly vanished once he was out.

In the past two years, following the eldest uncle Kong Yushuo, six more members of the Kong Household have attempted to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, with three out of three failing, resulting in a success rate of exactly 50%.

Six months after his uncle, the first person to attempt to break through to the Second Tier Foundation Establishment Stage was the Grand Elder Kong Changsen.

As a result, it ended in failure.

Fortunately, the Grand Elder's failure was that he couldn't open his Sea of Consciousness and directly failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment, so he didn't reach the point of Demonic Nature Backlash.

Therefore, although the Grand Elder failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, he only suffered severe injuries and did not degenerate into Demon Beast and get killed directly.

However, although he did not fall into Demon Beast form, he only suffered severe injuries. But given the condition of the Grand Elder, these injuries had already taken away most of his life. Now, the Grand Elder Kong Changsen is completely old and looks like he won't live for many more years.

The eldest elder, Kong Changsen, is the oldest member of the Kong Household. He is even a few years older than the patriarch, and his age is approaching one hundred.

This is also the main reason why the other party is so eager to break through to the Second Tier of Foundation Establishment Stage.

After all, the Grand Elder was too old, and his physical strength, bloodline power, and Law Power had already begun to decline. He no longer had the conditions to break through to the Second Tier Foundation Establishment Stage. If he forced a breakthrough, he would probably have difficulty even passing the "Physical Body Gate" and the "Law Power Gate," let alone opening the final "Sea of Consciousness Gate."

This can be considered a tragedy for the older generation of the Lineage. When they were young, in order to establish and take Lineage in Peacock Ridge, they fought alongside their fathers and grandfathers on the battlefields where the Du Household was expanding, exchanging their blood and lives for a place for the Lineage to stand.

By the time the Lineage had made enough contributions and stabilized the "Peacock Ridge" territory, most of their fathers, grandfathers, and even peers had already died in the Du Household's pioneering wars.

The "Peacock" Kong Household originally practiced the "Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture," which was not a martial Cultivation Method particularly suited for combat. It was to be expected that they would suffer heavy casualties on the battlefield.

Otherwise, the Lineage's older generation wouldn't have been reduced to only four members: the patriarch Kong Changgeng, the first elder Kong Changsen, the second elder Kong Changlan, and the third elder Kong Changfeng.

Of the four, the clan leader Kong Changgeng was fortunate enough to successfully break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, becoming the pillar of the Lineage.

However, the remaining three elders of the "Chang" generation—Elder Kong Changsen, Second Elder Kong Changlan, and Third Elder Kong Changfeng —even though they had already cultivated to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer in their prime and had the conditions to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, none of them dared to take the risk of rushing forward.

This isn't necessarily because they're afraid of death, afraid of falling into Demon Beast, and wasting half their lives at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.

More likely, they were afraid that failing to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage would severely damage their Lineage.

After all, when they were in their prime, there were basically only a few of the older generation left in Lineage Lineage, and the next generation of cultivators with the character "Yu" in their names were just starting out, beginning to try and study the various Spirit Plant Technique, spiritual brewing techniques, and weapon refining techniques passed down in the Lineage. They still needed the older generation to protect and safeguard them and the Lineage.

Therefore, they dared not rashly attempt to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage Foundation Establishment Stage, fearing that failure would further weaken their already fragile Lineage.

By the time the Yu generation of the Lineage grew up and were even able to form service squads to serve at the front line of "Demon-Suppressing Pass," the older generation of cultivators, the Chang generation, had basically missed the best opportunity to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

They were past their prime, and their physical strength, bloodline power, and Law Power had begun to decline, making them increasingly less confident in breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, and they could only stagnate step by step.

Even now, Kong Wenxuan has successfully Star Inlaying for the Lineage. The First Elder Kong Changsen, the Second Elder Kong Changlan, the Third Elder Kong Changfeng, and others kowtowed to the "Peacock True Spirit Star" and were cleansed by the power of the True Spirit Star, awakening their bloodline for the second time and turning to cultivate the "Five Elements True Scripture".

However, it allowed them to regain and improve their physical strength, bloodline power, and Law Power in a short period of time. Although it was not as good as in their prime, it was much better than their current continuous decline.

Therefore, Elder Kong Changsen decided to take advantage of this second baptism and awakening opportunity to attempt to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Whether he succeeds or not, this can be considered as fulfilling a long-held obsession and a regret of his.

In fact, this was true not only for the First Elder Kong Changsen, but also for the Second Elder Kong Changlan and the Third Elder Kong Changfeng.

Never having attempted to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage in their entire lives is undoubtedly a regret they can hardly erase.

When they were young, they dared not attempt to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage Foundation Establishment Stage the sake of their Lineage. Now that they are old, they no longer have the conditions to do so.

Now that they have finally managed to trigger a second awakening of their bloodline, giving them a chance to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, they naturally don't want to let this opportunity pass.

In particular, now that the Lineage has successfully achieved Star Inlaying and advanced to the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Lineage, they no longer need to worry about the Lineage's future and want to continue walking with Lineage Lineage to see an even more brilliant and glorious future.

Therefore, less than half a year after the First Elder Kong Changsen failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage and suffered severe injuries, the Second Elder Kong Changlan and the Third Elder Kong Changfeng also successively broke through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

As a result, one person succeeded and one person failed!

The Second Elder, Kong Changlan, was fortunate enough to successfully advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage, which brought great joy to the clan and dispelled the gloom of the First Elder's failure to advance.

As a result, the Third Elder Kong Changfeng not only failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, but also suffered Demonic Nature Backlash within his Peacock Bloodline, directly degenerating into Demon Beast, and was killed by the clan leader and the Second Elder Kong Changlan with tears in their eyes.

The Third Elder's failure to advance to the next realm and his fall into the form of Demon Beast was undoubtedly another heavy blow to the entire Kong Household.

The entire Kong Household was plunged into grief and gloom.

As a result, for the next six months, no one in the clan attempted to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Six months later, Kong Yuyin, the third aunt, completed the refinement of the "Azure Wood Divine Sword" and the transformation of the "Wood Element True Scripture," and chose to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

He then successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage, becoming the fifth Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Lineage, and sweeping away most of the sorrow and gloom that had plagued the family for more than half a year.

Subsequently, after the third Kong Yuyin, the second aunt Kong Yujin also completed the refining of the "Azure Wood Talisman Slip" and the "Black Water Talisman Slip", successfully switched to cultivating the water and wood elements in the "Five Elements True Scripture", and also chose to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage. She also succeeded in one fell swoop, becoming the sixth Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator in the Kong Household.

This allowed the entire Kong Household to completely emerge from the gloom and once again be filled with laughter and joy.

Then, not long ago, Fourth Uncle Kong Yuzhen also completed the refining of the "Azure Wood Talisman Slip" and the transformation of the "Wood Element True Scripture". He also chose to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, but failed and fell into Demon Beast and was killed!

This plunged the entire Kong Household into grief once again.

Therefore, when Kong Wenxuan emerged from the pass with a smile, he found the entire Lineage looking dejected and filled with sorrow.