"They say it’s a clan with five Core Formation cultivators, but if you count Master Xiyue of the Qingyun Sect, Master Bi Lake’s Dao Companion, and the Lu Family’s Clan Guardian Spirit Beast, King Jiuyou, that’s already seven Core Formation combatants."

"And I remember that Master Changsheng and Master Xiyue’s daughter, Fairy Wangshu, obtained a Coagulation Crystal Elixir back in the Hidden Abyss Secret Realm of Great Dream Immortal City."

"Wait, what, how come those Lu Family people can just break through whenever they have a Coagulation Crystal Elixir?"

"If this Lu Qingxuan breaks through to Core Formation now, and Fairy Lu Wangshu breaks through in the future, I actually find the prospect of a father and sons, four Core Formation cultivators in one line, even more horrifying."

Not only the Lu Family disciples, but also the apprentices of Bi Lake Mountain, the Guest Elders and honored offerings, all gazed toward Bi Yun Peak.

Some Family Forces, after receiving the news, were even watching from afar outside Bi Lake Mountain, peering in this direction.

Although the Bi Lake Mountain Great Formation obscured things and they couldn’t see clearly, once the Three Gates of Core Formation were passed, one could still see some of the celestial phenomena.

"Core Formation..."

On Bi Yun Peak, Lu Wangshu and Wang Yanjing both looked at the Nascent Soul Celestial Phenomenon above Lu Qingxuan.

In fact, Wang Yanjing had already cultivated the Yuan Yu Five Viscera Technique to Great Success at the Third Layer last year.

But the comfortable life she enjoyed in her early years made her, when facing Core Formation, involuntarily fret over gains and losses; her state of mind was not firm enough.

So, once she knew that Lu Qingxuan had almost finished his preparations and that his assault on Core Formation would come first, she chose to wait for him to break through ahead of her.

Now, seeing Lu Qingxuan’s Nascent Soul Celestial Phenomenon, waves of surging yearning rose in her heart as well.

She had once been the Core Formation Seed of the Five Elements Royal Family, setting Core Formation as the goal of her life, but the affairs of the world are fickle... 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"A Superior Grade Golden Core..."

Lu Wangshu knew that Lu Qingxuan had prepared for so long precisely to assault a Superior Grade Golden Core.

But what she sought was even greater.

She wanted, like her younger brother Lu Lingxiao, to condense an Immortal Golden Core!

Yet how could an Immortal Golden Core be so easily obtained.

Even though her parents had prepared for her the most top level, perfectly compatible Core Formation Spiritual Object, she still didn’t have much confidence.

After obtaining the Seed of Law, Dao Heart Clarity, she birthed a new idea: through Dao Heart Only Micro, aligning with truth, to sense the opportunity of "Heavenly Dao Core Formation."

If she could gain the aid of Heavenly Dao Core Formation, it was not as if she had no chance at all of charging toward an Immortal Golden Core.

After a brief look, seeing her eldest brother driving the Great Formation of Bi Yun Peak at full power to conceal the celestial phenomena, Lu Wangshu stopped watching, returned to her own Practice Room, entered the "Single-minded" state, and continued condensing her Life-bound Divine Talisman!

...

Two months later, a piece of news shook the Qingyun Region and quickly spread throughout the entire Jiang Country Cultivation Realm.

In the Heavenly Talisman Lu Family, the son of Master Changsheng, Lu Qingxuan, has returned from tempering himself on the front lines in Yue Country and successfully broke through to Core Formation at Bi Lake Mountain today. His Dao title: "Qing Xuan."

Half a year from now, Bi Lake Mountain will hold a Core Formation celebration for him!

"A clan with five Core Formation cultivators, this is an unprecedented grand occasion for a Family!"

"I heard that Master Changsheng and Miao Ge True Man killed three Core Formation True Men on the Liang Yue battlefield to exchange for a Coagulation Crystal Elixir. I didn’t expect someone to form a core with it so quickly."

"Sigh, in the early years I even mocked Master Changsheng for having so many children all by himself, wasting his own time and dragging his children down. Only now do I realize what grand designs Master Changsheng had."

"Just what kind of Spiritual Body does Master Changsheng possess? I remember this Lu Qingxuan only has a Fourth Grade Spiritual Root. The probability of reaching Core Formation, even with a Coagulation Crystal Elixir, should at most be fifty percent..."

"Damn it, you useless brat, back then Master Changsheng spent twenty years and had over a hundred offspring. I spent so much bride price to help you marry these two wives, and you stopped after seven kids. Keep going, keep having children!"

"You’re not willing to put in effort in cultivation; at least work hard at having children. Tell me, what else are you good for?"

As this news spread, countless people outside discussed it heatedly, shocked and full of emotion.

Many Family Forces, facing such a situation, could only seethe with envy and jealousy.

In the early years it was only the regions around Bi Lake Mountain that were influenced by Lu Changsheng, where a trend of marriage, childbearing, and sons-in-law taking wife’s surname appeared.

But as the Heavenly Talisman Lu Family kept rising, and Lu Family disciples came to prominence one after another, the entire Jiang Country Cultivation Realm’s families were affected, recognizing the importance of having more children and hoping to replicate the Heavenly Talisman Lu Family’s rise.

Disciples whose cultivation talent was only mediocre at home were urged to marry early and have children.

Yet there were only so many female cultivators with Spiritual Roots.

And female cultivators willing to bear children, to have many children, were even rarer.

This also caused the bride price for female cultivators to soar.

Many male Loose Cultivators cursed Master Changsheng every day, believing that the Heavenly Talisman Lu Family was never short of money and that plenty of female cultivators were willing to marry in, even bringing their own dowries.

But for them, as Loose Cultivators, the difficulty of marrying a female cultivator with a Spiritual Root had increased drastically.

They might work in the Marketplace for more than ten years, and the Spirit Stones they painstakingly saved still wouldn’t be enough to marry a single female cultivator.

At this very moment, on Bi Lake Mountain, Jingyou Peak.

"Mother, your child has come to see you. I wonder if, in the heavens, you can see that your child has successfully broken through to Core Formation, and what’s more, my core is Second Grade!"

Lu Qingxuan looked at his mother’s tombstone, placed down a jar of flower honey, and spoke softly.

His mother was only one of his father’s concubines.

After he grew sensible, he even learned that his mother had originally been just a maid his father bought from White Jade Tower.

So from a young age he understood that, unlike Lu Yun, Lu Qingsong, Lu Wangshu, Lu Lingxiao and the others, he had no help from any maternal clan.

Although his mother, Shao Yuyao, couldn’t help him with anything concrete, she had told him early on of the truth of this world—its cruelty.

She encouraged and supported him in all things, never restraining him, hoping he could soar freely and charge ever forward.

She had even instructed his elder brothers before she died not to summon him back, lest they delay his cultivation. Even her last words were only a few simple characters.