Chapter 107: Chapter 16: Steadily Moving Forward

Amidst the clinking of glasses, guests and hosts all enjoyed themselves.

At this point, the banquet was drawing to a satisfactory close.

The highlight was about to take the stage.

For cultivators, especially loose cultivators, one major advantage of building networks is the companionship among the resources.

Sect and family cultivators have masters to pass down teachings and elders to provide guidance. This kind of inherited wisdom is very confidential, as it is the hard-won experience and lessons of many generations, and cannot easily be obtained by those without vested interests.

In contrast, loose cultivators often have to explore on their own, which can easily lead them into dead ends and waste their time and energy.

Therefore, it is quite important for loose cultivators of similar levels to gather and discuss the Tao.

When Li Jizhou was at the Inverted Mountain and Spirit Pearl Mountain marketplace, he was just a small Qi Cultivation practitioner with low status. The circles he could join were also relatively low and could not benefit him at all. Moreover, with his previous life experiences, he was already knowledgeable and did not need to discuss the Tao at that stage.

After arriving at the Golden Crow Immortal City, he consciously made efforts to build good relationships, aiming to have mature methods when impacting Core Formation in this life.

Living in the Upper City District at that time was partly for this reason.

Currently, he has merged into the highest-level circle he can currently enter, and because he has ascended to Foundation Establishment, he will have a seat when discussing the Tao in this circle in the future.

A day later, the discussion ended.

During it, a practitioner at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment shared some experiences they gathered about impacting Core Formation.

Li Jizhou compared them with his own experiences from his previous life’s attempt at Core Formation and gained considerable insights.

He faintly felt that his failure at Core Formation in his past life might have been not only due to his aptitude but also because of certain discrepancies in his accumulation during the Foundation Establishment Stage.

This served as a reminder for him in this life.

After seeing all the guests off, Li Jizhou quietly sat under the pavilion, reviewing the trajectory since his awakening of Innate Wisdom in this life.

This life’s awakening of Innate Wisdom was approaching twenty-five years.

In these twenty-five years, for the first eight years, he was trapped on Inverted Mountain, but his plans were clear: to leave safely with a skill to earn a living.

For the next ten years, he settled at the Spirit Pearl Mountain marketplace, with clear plans to earn Spirit Stones through his alchemy skills and ascend to the middle class.

In the last seven years, he resided luxuriously in Golden Crow Immortal City, with plans to enter the upper echelons by building connections and elevating his status and position.

Looking at it now, not only has he completed these plans, but he has also achieved a small amount beyond that.

At the very least, the status of a Tier Two Honored Guest Elder at the Golden Sun Sect and the honorary elder status were unexpected surprises beyond his plans.

Reflecting on these twenty-five years, every step was within his plans.

Steadily achieved!

Except for one incident when leaving Inverted Mountain, where he had to put himself in crisis, the rest of the time went smoothly.

This wasn’t due to good luck but because his previously planned path had a high probability of avoiding unnecessary risks.

In Li Jizhou’s view, this is what stability means.

Stability differs from idleness; idleness is a lesser path, while stability is a greater path, on different levels.

With Li Jizhou’s current status and position, within the Golden Sun Sect region, he has already avoided the minor path that requires idleness. The more he remains upper level, the less he faces inexplicable conflicts.

Of course, Li Jizhou also recognizes his current status and position are only within the loose cultivator circle of the Golden Sun Sect’s domain.

As for the sect’s inner circles, those authentic Qi Kingdom elite circles, he is still far from reaching them.

However, he does not aspire to enter those circles, as sects are very exclusive, and one cannot truly integrate without being birthed within them.

Forcibly integrating into circles one doesn’t belong to would only result in awkwardness for both parties.

Now, as he is about to leave the Immortal City to reside in a secluded Outer Peak of the Golden Sun Sect,

the next step of his plan is already clear.

To live a quiet life in the Outer Peak, focus primarily on cultivation, and utilize abundant free time to earnestly hone his skills, accumulating experience and proficiency in various arts for his next life while swiftly filling the gaps in his back-pocket tactics.

The long-term plan is to patiently accumulate resources for Core Formation step by step.

Occasionally, visit the Immortal City to purchase supplies or discuss the Tao.

A month later, after administering the first treatment for Celestial Yang at Hua Yanshi’s manor, Li Jizhou briefly packed up his belongings and summoned Jin Mei to help complete the lease termination procedures. Then, without disturbing anyone, he walked alone and unencumbered out of the Upper City District.

After all, the Outer Peak was only a few hundred miles from the Immortal City, and with his current Foundation Establishment Stage magical power, piloting a flying ship would take merely an hour, making it easy to visit anytime.

Before leaving the Immortal City, he passed by the Desire Immortal Tower, which Lu Zhenhua had mentioned eighteen years ago as having semi-demonic servants, and couldn’t help but sigh.

He didn’t know if Lu Zhenhua had exaggerated the facts or if something else had happened afterward.

In any case, during his years in the Immortal City, Li Jizhou occasionally visited twice, and the madame of the Immortal Tower firmly denied any association with semi-demons, insisting their tower had no such ties.

This matter was a slight regret for Li Jizhou.

However, there’s no rush as one day, when he reaches the pinnacle, all the secrets of the Celestial Profound Continent will lay bare before him.

Leaving the Immortal City, Li Jizhou did not hurry to the future Outer Peak residence that would belong to him for a long time.

Instead, he turned toward a medium-sized marketplace three thousand miles south of the Golden Sun Sect.

Within the Qi Kingdom, unless a foe has meticulously targeted and prearranged against them, Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators can travel freely. Even if they encounter unexpected combat, ordinary Foundation Establishment practitioners can usually escape, with minimal safety risks to their lives.

A while ago, Li Jizhou spent a lot on Foundation Establishment. Now, to obtain the Tier Two talisman legacy from Talisman Master Shen, he needs to purchase herbs with a significant amount of Spirit Stones,

requiring him to cash in on five major medicines and Middle Grade Foundation Establishment Pills.

After a month’s worth of promotional buildup, the prices of these great medicines developed under the leadership of Elder Xu from Miaodan Peak of the Golden Sun Sect have doubled. Though there is no evident scramble for them on the market, according to Steward Chen’s statistical data, many medium and large families have quietly purchased a considerable amount, and the inventory is expected to last another three months.

It is time to make a move.

Furthermore, with this month’s buildup, Li Jizhou has also gained some fame.

Of course, this fame isn’t particularly good.

Many are indignantly thinking that if the large Spirit Stone resources Li Jizhou used habitually were theirs, they would have definitely reached Foundation Establishment without needing to consume medicines.

Such a waste of resources.

Flying over a hundred miles outside the Immortal City, Li Jizhou entered a dense forest, and soon after, an old man in a bamboo hat flew out from the other end.

After a few days, the old man in the bamboo hat entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain marketplace.

This marketplace was exclusively operated by the Rong family, the Tier Two cultivation family of this region, under the aegis of the Rong family.

The Rong family is significantly stronger than the Wen family of Spirit Pearl Mountain, almost dominating this region.

Li Jizhou did not restrain his aura, even releasing more magical power than his usual identity, causing small cultivators on the way to show him extreme respect and caution.

After wandering around, Li Jizhou directly walked into the market’s most luxurious Spring Phoenix Tower, where he was soon being flattered by a group of Qi Cultivation female practitioners, drinking and enjoying the dance.

Sure enough, within half an hour, the patriarch of the Rong family came in person.

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