dognovel Chapter 213 Monster Mountain Range
Chapter 213 Monster Mountain Range
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Wu Tao not only gave the family five Foundation Establishment Pills, but he also personally protected his parents so that each of them could take five Foundation Establishment Pills.
Even though his parents are now in their sixties, five Foundation Establishment Pills in a row are enough for them to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Only after his parents officially broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage and gradually stabilized their realm did Wu Tao wave his sleeves and choose to return to the sect.
This trip back can be considered as repaying the physical debt owed to the original owner.
This is also to prevent Wu Tao from developing inner demons when he breaks through to higher levels in the later stages.
Having repaid the debt of possessing his body in advance, his relationship with the Wu family would remain unchanged from now on. They could use Wu Tao's reputation, but he wouldn't offer them any further direct benefits.
Upon returning to his sect, Wu Tao did not immediately demonstrate his alchemy skills; instead, he resumed his previous life of obscurity.
As a Foundation Establishment Steward, he also needs to be responsible for management, leading dozens of Qi Refining stage cultivators to continue cultivating spiritual herbs.
He certainly doesn't need to do any work himself; his daily task is simply to supervise everyone's work and prevent any accidents from happening.
Aside from cultivation and managing the herb garden, he would go to the alchemy room and pretend to learn alchemy.
Then he slowly began selling the Bigu Pill and the True Qi Pill, and only after ten years did he take out the Foundation Establishment Pill, which represented that he had finally broken through and become an alchemist.
The State of Song has enjoyed a rare period of peace in recent decades, and there has been little major turmoil in the surrounding countries as well.
In Changchun Valley, everything was thriving. On Wu Tao's 80th birthday, Li Chao once again demonstrated his genius.
The other party was able to break through to the Golden Core True Person at the age of eighty. Usually, those who break through to the Golden Core stage at the Foundation Establishment stage are basically monstrous talents, aged sixty to eighty.
Breaking through to the Golden Core stage before the age of one hundred is considered a prodigy; breaking through after one hundred, or at the latest before one hundred and forty, is considered a genius.
Li Chao's potential shocked several Nascent Soul stage elders in the sect. Despite having dual spiritual roots, he performed better than those with single spiritual roots.
In no time, Li Chao's reputation spread far and wide within the sect, and even several neighboring countries knew his name.
Even a Nascent Soul stage elder from the sect personally accepted Li Chao as his disciple, deciding to personally train him to become the future ruler of Changchun Valley.
Over the decades, Wu Tao and Li Chao have met several times, but the other party now looks down on his former rival.
Wu Tao has never shown any special talent. The times when he broke through to the early, middle and late stages of Foundation Establishment were not particularly noticeable.
Many of his peers had even broken through to become Golden Core cultivators, while Wu Tao was still in the late Foundation Establishment stage.
Wu Tao broke through to the Golden Core True Person level at the age of 120, while Li Chao was already at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.
No one knew that Wu Tao had been suppressing his cultivation level, only breaking through when he could suppress it no longer.
Although Wu Tao chose to lie low, it didn't mean he was slacking off in his cultivation; on the contrary, he cultivated very diligently.
Wu Tao had long ago decided to solidify his foundation, and he had no intention of competing with others for the title of prodigy.
Over the millions of years of cultivation, countless geniuses and prodigies have emerged, but how many have truly made it to the end?
Wu Tao would rather never be famous, as long as he can reach the very top.
Wu Tao originally thought he could just lie low until he became emperor, but things didn't go as planned.
The Song Kingdom and several surrounding countries have encountered formidable enemies, and the cultivation world has never enjoyed long-term stability.
Because cultivators never have enough resources; temporary peace is only because some people haven't yet encountered resource scarcity.
War is the eternal law of the cultivation world. This war is because the monster mountain range near the Song Kingdom has begun to invade human kingdoms.
The four major sects of the Song Kingdom—Changchun Valley, Liedao Sect, Qitian Sect, and Beast King Valley—joined forces to send people to the border to kill the enemy.
Wu Tao was already in the late stage of the Golden Core realm at this point, so naturally he couldn't back down.
Wu Tao is now 320 years old, and it has been 200 years since he broke through to the Golden Core stage.
Li Chao has now become a Nascent Soul stage elder, while the other party broke through to the Nascent Soul stage at the age of 260 and became the eighth elder of Changchun Valley.
The entire Changchun Valley and even the cultivation world of the Song Kingdom believed that Li Chao was the one with the best chance of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage in the last thousand years.
Wu Tao has experienced a lot in the past two hundred years. Not only has his personal space become a fourth-order spiritual vein, but he has also cultivated countless spiritual herbs.
In particular, a considerable number of spiritual herbs needed by Nascent Soul stage and Divine Transformation stage cultivators have been cultivated.
Wu Tao's alchemy skills had long since broken through to the level of a master alchemist, but he had never revealed it. The outside world only knew that the pills he refined had excellent quality, but they did not know that Wu Tao had already refined many pills that could assist Nascent Soul cultivators and Nascent Soul stage experts.
The medicinal herbs in his personal space were never sold; Wu Tao used them all to refine pills. Many rare and valuable herbs that were hard to find elsewhere were simply wasted.
The war between the Song Kingdom and the Monster Mountain Range was extremely fierce, with Nascent Soul stage elders personally overseeing the battle and occasionally joining the fray themselves.
Golden Core cultivators are the main force on the battlefield, while Foundation Establishment cultivators are only responsible for cleaning up the battlefield and handling logistics.
Wu Tao was a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, so his enemies were definitely also at the Golden Core level. Wu Tao's own strength had long surpassed that of his peers, but he didn't perform particularly well in battle.
Each time, it takes all my strength to kill or defeat the enemy.
Wu Tao's performance was mediocre, so he naturally didn't attract the attention of the fourth-tier demonic beasts. Even the powerful third-tier demonic beasts didn't consider Wu Tao a target.
The levels of demonic beasts are different from those of cultivators. A first-level demonic beast is equivalent to the Qi Refining stage, a second-level demonic beast is equivalent to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a third-level demonic beast is equivalent to a Golden Core True Person, and a fourth-level demonic beast is equivalent to a Nascent Soul stage ancestor.
Wu Tao often got injured and only managed to escape alive thanks to the help of a Nascent Soul stage elder.
What no one noticed was that during this war that lasted for several years, nearly fifty Golden Core cultivators from the four major sects of the Song Kingdom had died, yet Wu Tao was still alive.
In addition, you can obtain the enemy's storage bag by killing them in each battle, and the corpse of a third-tier monster is also a treasure.
In addition to these spoils of war, the rewards from the sect are quite generous.
More than a decade later, a war came to an end.
By the time the main force of the Demon Beast Mountain Range withdrew, 130 Golden Core cultivators from the four major sects of the Song Kingdom had died.
Even the newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivator, Ancestor Li Chao, had his physical body damaged by the enemy, leaving only his Nascent Soul to escape back to his sect for secluded cultivation.
If a Nascent Soul stage ancestor dies physically, their only option is to possess another body for rebirth. Reaching the Nascent Soul stage allows for one possession, but requires starting cultivation anew.
Fortunately, possessing a Nascent Soul allows one to retain some of their strength, enabling them to quickly return to the Nascent Soul stage after rebuilding their cultivation.
Of course, the downside is that it will be countless times more difficult to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in the future, and this body-snatching is also the last chance.
If I lose my physical body again, I will truly turn to ashes.