Chapter 223: Autumn Sun's Mirror

"Li Xia Xiao family..."

The divine ability passed through the air like ripples, from the sky over Li Xia County to Wangyue Lake, Xunlin Plain, Qingchi Peak, and even Lin-Hai County. Ordinary people looked up one after another, looking at the sky in confusion. Cultivators looked at each other, all rising into the air to ask each other:

"Senior Xiao Chuting?"

"Still dare to call the True Person's name publicly? Really not afraid of death!"

"It is that alchemy ancestor of the Xiao family... another Early Zifu immortal family..."

The cultivators all around rose into the air, bowing to Senior Xiao Chuting one after another. Senior Xiao Chuting was still standing in the air. In the distance, a green-clothed man appeared, also rising with the colored light of divine ability, bowed his hands and said:

"Congratulations to Fellow Daoist for breaking through to the Early Zifu. I am Ning Tiaoxiao of the Qingchi Sect, congratulating on behalf of the sect, and presenting the five western towns of Li Xia as a congratulatory gift, wishing Fellow Daoist great success in divine ability and the formation of the Golden Core."

Senior Xiao Chuting smiled lightly and replied:

"My family has been serving the sect wholeheartedly for more than three hundred years, and the human feelings are all there. Please take care of the Immortal Sect in the future."

Ning Tiaoxiao heard this, his face was slightly happy, and he laughed:

Then he said seriously:

"Si Yuanbai was actually harmed by a villain. Now he has been released from the tower, and the sect has compensated for his losses. The people below don't understand, and Tiaoxiao is afraid of hurting the feelings between the two families."

Senior Xiao Chuting nodded with a smile, and many figures appeared beside him, all rising with the colored light of divine ability, saying one after another:

"Tangjin Sect congratulates Fellow Daoist!"

"Zhangxiao Sect congratulates Fellow Daoist!"

A group of Early Zifu cultivators greeted him with smiles. It was impossible to see that they had once treated a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator like Senior Xiao Chuting as a consumable. Each divine ability colored light was overflowing, setting off an elegant and detached look. There was even a three-eared fox demon, lying on the clouds, looking at him with a smile.

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Li Tongya stood on the peak of Lijing Mountain, slowly looking up, his expression quite surprised, and said in a low voice:

"Chi Wei died so quickly."

The young man beside him holding a golden longbow looked up and said softly:

"Died well."

Li Tongya tightened the sword in his hand and said in a low voice:

"This matter is urgent. Three months later, I will go to the Xiao family in person. You should send Donghe to congratulate first."

Li Xuanfeng responded, carried the bow on his back, and went down on the wind. Not long after, Li Xuanxuan and Li Xuanling hurried up, their faces full of joy. Li Xuanxuan smiled:

"Chi Wei is dead. The Qingchi Sect is now in a mess, and its influence on the counties has fallen a notch."

"Exactly!"

Li Xuanling nodded, his eyes bright, and replied:

"Now the Xiao family occupies most of Li Xia County, making Wangyue Lake an isolated enclave, only connected to Xunlin Plain by a few main roads."

"Wangyue Lake is adjacent to Tangjin Sect and Dali Mountain, separated from the desert by the Jin Yu Sect. In the future, the Qingchi Sect will inevitably have a period of weakness. Wangyue Lake is a chicken rib that the Qingchi Sect finds tasteless to eat but a pity to discard, making it difficult to control."

Li Tongya nodded slightly and said in a low voice:

"In a few months, I will go to the Xiao family to observe the ceremony, and ask Xiao Yuansi about these things again."

"Yes."

The two bowed. Li Xuanxuan frowned and said worriedly:

"It's just that the True Person has achieved the Early Zifu. If we go to observe the ceremony, we cannot go empty-handed. The spiritual objects of the Qi Refining stage are too shabby, and there is no stock of treasure medicine at the Foundation Establishment level in the family. I don't know what to do."

Li Tongya pondered for a few breaths and replied:

"We must send a congratulatory gift at the Foundation Establishment level. The Xiao family is close to my family, and my family has requests from others, so we must not be perfunctory."

"You don't have to worry about the treasure medicine at the Foundation Establishment level. I will go to Dali Mountain later to ask the fox. If there is no news, I will go to the Shanyue territory."

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He looked up and asked again:

"How many spirit stones are left in the family?"

Li Xuanxuan knew Li Tongya's plan and said respectfully:

"The spiritual objects offered by Shanyue have a surplus every year. Excluding the supply to the cultivators in the family, there are now more than a hundred, and there are many spiritual objects plundered from Shanyue back then. If calculated from the treasury, it is barely two hundred."

"Mm, send them up first."

Li Tongya nodded and said gently:

"If you buy some ordinary treasure medicine, it is enough, so you can rest assured."

He waved his hand, and the two retreated. Not long after, a clan soldier came up with his head down, looking at Li Tongya with full respect, and said respectfully:

"Ancestor, Li Qiuyang requests to see you."

"Qiuyang."

Li Tongya raised his eyebrows, understood Li Qiuyang's intention, and said in a low voice:

"Let him come up."

A moment later, a figure appeared on the stone road, wearing a green robe, with grey hair on both temples, some wrinkles on his face, full of shame, and bowed long:

"Congratulations to Uncle for breaking through to Foundation Establishment!"

"Mm."

Li Tongya responded. Seeing that his cultivation was still stuck at the peak of Embryonic Breath, but his blood energy was slipping and his aura was decadent, he said gently:

"I remember you closed the door to break through to Qi Refining a few years ago. It seems it didn't work."

"Qiuyang is deeply ashamed!"

Li Qiuyang sighed with shame, lowered his head and said:

"Qiuyang took the *Cave Spring Clear Spirit Art* and Cave Spring Clear Qi from the family, closed the door for a long time, but failed to consume the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, instead breaking some lifespan... wasted the family's spirit pills... I..."

Looking at Li Qiuyang covering his tears and bowing, Li Tongya sighed gently and said in a low voice:

"Embryonic Breath and Qi Refining are both mortal bodies. After sixty years old, blood energy slips, and cultivation becomes more difficult. Only when reaching Foundation Establishment can there be some divinity, with fewer restrictions on the decline of vitality. You are over fifty, and there was little hope to begin with. Don't be too ashamed."

He patted Li Qiuyang on the shoulder and said gently:

"The current plan is to consume mixed Qi to advance to Qi Refining first. If you drag it on, I am afraid even mixed Qi will not be available!"

Refining mixed Qi is much simpler than refining normal spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Back then, Sha Moli consumed mixed Qi and broke through in only one year. Li Xuanfeng and Li Xuanling and others all took a long time of five years and a short time of three years, which can be seen.

"This junior understands, thank you Uncle!"

Li Qiuyang nodded silently. Li Tongya instructed:

"You are an elder in the family and also a precedent for older Qi Refining. You failed to break through after taking spirit pills and the family's secret pills, which shows the difficulty. With your lesson, in the future, peak Embryonic Breath cultivators over fifty will know to cultivate mixed Qi, and don't have to bump their heads and break their blood, and lose their lifespan."

Secret pills naturally refer to Lu pills. Lu Jiangxian has converted several Qi Refining Lu Qi into Lu pills over the years, resulting in sufficient inventory of Lu pills in the Li family. He didn't dare to take them out to sell carelessly. Lu pills have the effect of breaking through small realms. Li Qiuyang naturally received one when he made a Xuanjing spiritual oath when breaking through, saving several years of time.

Li Tongya's words made Li Qiuyang's face look better. Being able to provide experience for the younger generation, Li Qiuyang felt that it was worth it to lose some lifespan. He bowed to Li Tongya, and Li Qiuyang said sadly:

"I am not afraid of Uncle laughing. When I was young, I had a chance encounter with that spirit fruit. At first, my cultivation was fast, and I felt that I was a person with deep blessings. I didn't expect that it would delay my future path. The change of blessings and misfortunes is rapid, which is hard to describe."

"If the descendants hear my precedent, perhaps they will take fewer detours, which is worth it."

"Correct."

Li Tongya comforted him gently, took out a jade bottle, cast a spell, and the crystal-clear talisman water in the void surged into the jade bottle, sealed it with a spell, and handed it to Li Qiuyang. ===== CHAPTER 224 =====