novelraw Chapter 40 – Marry Sun Yufeng
Chapter 40 – Marry Sun Yufeng
Sun Yufeng's words left Guo Feilong momentarily stunned. He said, "Little Phoenix, stop teasing Uncle Guo. If I give you a ninth-rank flying spiritual beast, would you really marry me?"
Sun Yufeng replied, "Why not? I've been saving spirit stones for years, and I'm still short of about 140,000 to 150,000 to buy a Foundation Pill. If you give me a ninth-rank flying spiritual beast, marrying you wouldn't be a loss. I could sell it and buy a Foundation Pill to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage."
Sun Yufeng had the demeanor of an elegant lady. Although Guo Feilong was a good friend of her father, times had changed. So, Guo Feilong decided to play along, half-jokingly and half-seriously saying, "In that case, I'll not only give you a ninth-rank flying spiritual beast as a bride price but also 200,000 spirit stones."
This statement left Sun Yufeng at a loss. She had been joking, but now it seemed serious. A ninth-rank flying spiritual beast, plus 200,000 spirit stones, was a temptation no female cultivator in the Qi Refining stage could resist.
An inner disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect could only earn about thirty to forty spirit stones a month. As a disciple with a Foundation Establishment stage master and at the ninth level of Qi Refining, working as a steward outside the sect's Heavenly Abode, she could earn about a hundred to eighty spirit stones a month. In a year, that was nearly a thousand spirit stones, ten thousand in ten years, and it would take three hundred years to gather thirty thousand spirit stones.
Of course, being a steward was more about sect contribution points. The Spirit Creek Sect's Pill Hall produced some Foundation Pills each year, but there were many ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators in the sect, and the pills were scarce. Everyone wanted them, so they could only be purchased at a discounted price using sect points and spirit stones by completing sect missions.
Sun Yufeng had calculated that, at most, in forty years, she could use sect points and spirit stones to buy a Foundation Pill from the sect. Guo Feilong's offer would save her over thirty years, and with the spirit stones she already had, she could buy a high-quality Foundation Pill.
It's important to know that Foundation Pills come in different grades. A first-grade Foundation Pill has the least effect. A second-grade Foundation Pill has a slightly higher success rate than a first-grade one. The ninth-grade Foundation Pill has the best effect, increasing the success rate by fifty percent. With her high-medium quality spiritual root, taking a ninth-grade Foundation Pill would give her at least an eighty percent chance of success in reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.
The allure of the Foundation Establishment stage was immense. It not only extended one's life span to about five hundred years but also restored youthful appearance. With a fervent gaze, Sun Yufeng said, "Uncle Guo, if you can really give me such a bride price, I'll marry you. After all, my parents have been gone for years, and I can marry whoever I want."
In her heart, Uncle Guo was someone she had secretly admired since childhood. Although Uncle Guo was now old, marrying someone she had once secretly admired fulfilled a long-standing wish. Moreover, Uncle Guo was now a mid-level alchemist, making money easily. Whether from a financial or personal standpoint, marrying Uncle Guo, who had no blood relation, was not a loss.
Sun Yufeng's master was also an alchemist, but unfortunately, her master had a cultivation family with descendants who had spiritual roots. The spirit stones her master earned from alchemy were used to support her master's family, leaving little for her. Her master had over ten disciples, and she was just one of them, unable to receive much financial support.
Her own talent in alchemy was not very high, and she could currently only produce second-grade elixirs with a low success rate, sometimes even losing money. Sun Yufeng had made her intentions clear, and for Guo Feilong, who needed to marry a female cultivator with spiritual roots, there were no more concerns. His old friend was long gone, and marrying his friend's daughter to take good care of her seemed appropriate.
Perhaps his old friend would even be grateful from the afterlife for taking care of his daughter, giving her a home and support. With this thought, Guo Feilong's smile grew wider as he gave Sun Yufeng a ninth-rank flying spiritual beast and 200,000 spirit stones as a bride price. He advised her not to rush into the Foundation Establishment stage and to gather some spiritual materials and stones from the Dark Forest to create a high-quality Foundation Establishment platform.
Three days later, Guo Feilong brought Sun Yufeng and Wang Xiaomei back to his home from Xiaoye Village. Sun Yufeng's master, a Foundation Establishment stage elder of the Spirit Creek Sect, attended their wedding as her maternal elder, along with many of Sun Yufeng's close senior and junior sisters.
It must be said that several of Sun Yufeng's senior and junior sisters were truly beautiful and unmarried. Unfortunately, they couldn't understand why their Senior Sister Sun would marry an old man nearing the end of his life span. Of course, Sun Yufeng didn't tell them about the high bride price she received. After all, revealing such things would make her seem too materialistic. As the saying goes, opportunities favor the prepared. Although Guo Feilong was old, he still held the status of a mid-level alchemist, which was quite prestigious.
During the wedding banquet, he exchanged voice transmission jade slip imprints with Sun Yufeng's beautiful, unmarried senior and junior sisters, planning to meet up for drinks and meals in the future to get to know each other better.
That night, under the full moon, in the bridal chamber, Guo Feilong lifted Sun Yufeng's red veil. It was his first time marrying such an elegant lady, and the fact that Sun Yufeng was someone he had watched grow up, and the daughter of a close friend, made him even more excited than when he married quadruplets.
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Sun Yufeng had a high-medium quality spiritual root. After consummating the marriage with her, the Family Fortune Cauldron produced 2,400 auspicious clouds. Near midnight, Guo Feilong left Sun Yufeng's room and entered the room of his other new wife, Wang Xiaomei.
Wang Xiaomei's spiritual root was of the lower high quality, producing 600 auspicious clouds in the Family Fortune Cauldron. With Guo Feilong's support and provision of cultivation resources, Wang Xiaomei had left the Spirit Creek Sect and was no longer a servant disciple, no longer needing to work at the sect's pharmacy in Xiaoye Village.
Sun Yufeng, however, couldn't leave. As an elite inner disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect, she was bound to the sect for life. On the tenth day after the wedding, after Guo Feilong successfully impregnated her, Sun Yufeng returned to the cultivation market in Xiaoye Village to continue her duties at the Spirit Creek Sect's pharmacy.
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In the days that followed, Guo Feilong either continued searching for unmarried, beautiful female cultivators in nearby counties or stayed home to study the art of analyzing elixir formulas and creating talismans.
Two years later, he had a total of 178 wives and concubines, 108 of whom had spiritual roots, and a total of 976 children. Among them, 82 children had spiritual roots. In Yellow Rock Town, people no longer needed to farm; every household's women became maids and nannies in his household, serving his wives, concubines, and children.
One noon, while cultivating, Guo Feilong suddenly opened his eyes. He had broken through to the tenth level of Qi Refining, becoming one of the rare cultivators among millions of ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators to reach the Great Perfection of the tenth level, paving the way for crafting a supreme Foundation Establishment platform.
In the next instant, his divine soul consciousness entered his energy core space to observe his spiritual root.