Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Along the way, Chen Liang explored many places rich in spiritual energy. With the help of his mutated divine sense, he actually gained quite a lot.

When Chen Liang returned to Jiayuan City on his flying sword, his cultivation had reached the sixth level of Qi Refining, and a brightly colored and beautiful little peacock had appeared on his shoulder.

This was Chen Liang's first spirit pet, and it came to him on its own and wouldn't leave no matter how hard he tried to get rid of it. Chen Liang named it Xiao Wu.

After obtaining the consent of the four ladies of the Mo family and Mo Caihuan and others, Chen Liang infused some of his own cultivated Hunyuan spiritual power into Mo Caihuan, Mo Yuzhu and Mo Fengwu.

Meanwhile, Mo Caihuan and the other two women used a secret method prepared for them by Chen Liang to refine the mixed spiritual energy. This process lasted for more than a year, and Mo Caihuan, Mo Yuzhu and Mo Fengwu actually developed spiritual roots.

Moreover, Mo Caihuan was born with a wood-attribute heavenly spiritual root. Although Mo Yuzhu and Mo Fengwu were not so lucky, they were born with two excellent true spiritual roots: wood-fire and water-wood dual spiritual roots.

As Mo Caihuan and the other two women embarked on the path of cultivation, the four ladies of the Mo family also looked on with fervent admiration. However, Chen Liang's Primordial Spiritual Power would assimilate the internal energy within their bodies, causing them to lose most of their martial prowess during the process of nurturing their spiritual roots.

Therefore, they can only nurture spiritual roots one by one.

In addition, perhaps it was fate that he was destined to die. When Chen Liang was in his fourteens, just before Mo Juren planned to turn Zhang Tie into a corpse, Mo Juren returned to Jiayuan City to make final preparations and check on the current situation of the Mo family.

As soon as Mo Juren entered Chen Liang's range of divine sense, Chen Liang sensed the remnant soul of Yu Zitong within him.

Out of gratitude to the Mo family, Chen Liang, as a guest elder of the Mo family, helped Mo Juren remove the Blood Arrow Yin Soul Curse and Yu Zitong's remnant soul from his body.

Later, Mo Juren learned about the complicated relationship between Chen Liang and the Mo family from his four wives.

Even with Mo Juren's ruthless nature, he was overjoyed when he learned that Chen Liang had a way to help mortals develop spiritual roots.

After all, embarking on the path of cultivation with one's own body and embarking on the path of cultivation with someone else's body are two completely different concepts.

Moreover, Mo Juren never truly believed in Yu Zitong's method of seizing the body of a cultivator to embark on the path of cultivation.

After recuperating at the Mo residence for some time, Mo Juren's body, which had been ravaged by the Blood Arrow Yin Soul Curse over the past few years, recovered considerably.

During this period, after obtaining the consent of Mo Caihuan and her two daughters, Mo Juren betrothed them all to Chen Liang, but the marriage could only take place after Chen Liang and the three daughters had come of age and reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

Chen Liang accepted the marriage agreement and added a new clause to it.

Before the wedding, Chen Liang hoped that neither party would publicize the engagement, lest it cause him trouble after Mo Caihuan and the other two women joined the sect.

Afterwards, Mo Juren returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect and brought Han Li and Zhang Tie to Jiayuan City, officially accepting them as his disciples.

To cover up his previous ill intentions, Mo Juren, that old scoundrel, even went so far as to deceive Han Li and Zhang Tie.

Mo Juren: "Han Li, Zhang Tie, I was in dire straits before and lost all my cultivation. I took you two in to heal my wounds. Fortunately, Han Li has a wood-attribute spiritual root, which allows him to cultivate the 'Evergreen Technique' that I passed on to you before, giving me hope of restoring my cultivation."

However, your master's wife later recruited Chen Liang, a guest retainer of the Mo family, so now I don't need you, Han Li, to heal my injuries anymore.

Zhang Tie, being a simpleton, immediately believed Mo Juren upon hearing this, but Han Li, whose face was still somewhat dark from not long on the path of cultivation, looked at Mo Juren with suspicion.

Mo Juren knew that this disciple was suspicious by nature, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Ahem, Zhang Tie, although you don't have a wood-attribute spiritual root, you can ask Chen Liang to test you to see if you have any other attribute spiritual roots."

Thus, Chen Liang tested Zhang Tie and discovered his three spiritual roots, leading him to embark on the path of cultivation with a basic earth-attribute technique called "Thick Earth Technique".

However, Han Li and Zhang Tie soon returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect and continued to stay in Divine Hand Valley, as their families still needed the sect's care. They had much to do before settling their worldly affairs.

As for the little green bottle on Han Li's body, Chen Liang considered himself a top-tier cultivator capable of defying conventions, and was also very familiar with the plot, so he was fully capable of forging his own path.

Therefore, Chen Liang had no need to try to seize the Heavenly Bottle that already belonged to Han Li.

With Han Li and Zhang Tie gone, Chen Liang's life returned to normal.

Aside from occasionally infusing Mo Juren and others with primordial spiritual energy to help them nurture their spiritual roots, Chen Liang was either cultivating, refining pills, or making talismans.

Occasionally, he would go to Tainan Valley to earn spirit stones with the pills and talismans he refined, and to purchase some supplies or magical artifacts.

Until one day, Mo Juren suddenly told him that he had found a small spiritual vein.

Even the composed Chen Liang was somewhat stunned. A small spiritual vein was enough to support the establishment of a cultivator market, something that even Foundation Establishment cultivators would fight over.

Only after Mo Juren recounted the story did Chen Liang understand the whole story.

It turns out that he obtained the Warm Sun Jade from a natural stone cave in the mountains near Jiayuan City, and he also found a Cold Silver Jade there.

Relying on the Frosty Silver Jade, Mo Juren was able to create the Demon Silver Hand, a unique skill that even mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators could not remove the cold energy from, thus making him famous throughout the three continents.

After Mo Juren entered the world of cultivation with Chen Liang's help, he realized that the Warm Sun Jade and the Cold Silver Jade were both top-grade spiritual materials that could be used to refine top-level magic artifacts. He then returned to the stone cave where he had been and discovered a small spiritual vein hidden there.

As luck would have it, there was a Yin-Yang Pool on that small spiritual vein, and Mo Juren's Warm Sun Jade and Cold Silver Jade were nurtured by that Yin-Yang Pool.

The Yin-Yang Pool wonder and the small spiritual vein formed a natural array that concealed the energy of the small spiritual vein, so it remained undiscovered by cultivators until Mo Juren, a newly promoted cultivator, entered the cave.

After discussing it, Chen Liang and the Mo family decided to use the power of the Jingjiao Society to gather manpower to mine the spirit stones contained in the small spiritual vein, while publicly claiming that they were mining a jade mine.

It is worth mentioning that after Mo Juren officially became a cultivator, he personally killed his old rivals—the master of Duba Manor and the master of the Five Colors Sect—to avenge his hatred.

What Mo Juren didn't know was that his actions also helped the Mo family, who had been wiped out by the Five Colors Sect in the original story, to avenge themselves.

At the same time, Mo Juren purged some traitors from the Jingjiao Society, including his sworn brother, Ma Tiancheng, and several hall masters of the Jingjiao Society.

These individuals all displayed disloyalty after Mo Juren's disappearance, which naturally made Mo Juren intolerant of them.

After these actions, the Duba Manor and the Five Colors Sect declined, while the Jingjiao Society became the sole overlord of Lanzhou.

With the current power of the Jingjiao Society, gathering manpower to mine a small spiritual vein is naturally no problem.

As the spirit stones contained in the minor spiritual vein were continuously mined, Chen Liang and the Mo family members entered a stable cultivation mode.

Time has passed, and today, Chen Liang has broken through to the twelfth level of Qi Refining.

Soon after, Chen Liang discovered that someone had crossed the makeshift barrier he had set up. Before Chen Liang could investigate who it was, Mo Caihuan's clear voice rang out.

"Chen Liang, that blockhead Han Li has arrived. Let's go."

Because Han Li had stayed at the Mo family mansion for a period of time, during which time Mo Caihuan discovered that Han Li had extremely poor talent for learning magic. When she personally taught Han Li, she was so angry that she jumped up and down. From then on, Han Li earned the title of "blockhead".

The departure mentioned by Mo Caihuan refers to the trip that Chen Liang, Mo Caihuan, Mo Yuzhu, Mo Fengwu, and Han Li agreed to take together to the Ascension Conference.

In the Yue Kingdom, there are three ways to join one of the seven major factions.

The first type is naturally the disciple-acceptance ceremony of the seven major sects of Yue Kingdom; the second type is the ascension order issued by the seven major sects; and the third type is the ascension conference.

The Ascension Ceremony was a centralized apprentice-acceptance ceremony held by the seven major sects of the Yue Kingdom. It consisted of two parts: a spiritual root test and a fighting arena battle.

At the Ascension Ceremony, if a cultivator is no older than thirty and has a spiritual root aptitude above that of a true spiritual root, they can choose to join one of the seven major sects after the spiritual root test.

Those cultivators with poor spiritual root aptitude or who are over thirty years old need to win a top ten spot in the arena battles belonging to the seven major sects in order to join the seven major sects.

Of course, some cultivators with good aptitude and no more than thirty years old will also choose to participate in the arena battles.

Because cultivators who win the arena battles receive a Foundation Establishment Pill upon joining one of the seven major sects. Normally initiated cultivators do not receive this benefit.

Given the qualifications and age of the three women, Mo Caihuan, Mo Yuzhu, and Mo Fengwu, they naturally do not need to participate in the arena battle.

However, Chen Liang, who possesses five spiritual roots, needs to participate in a tournament to join one of the seven major sects.

As for Han Li, unlike in the original story, he not only obtained the complete "Changchun Gong" ahead of time because of Chen Liang, but also came into contact with the cultivation world ahead of time with the Mo family under Chen Liang's protection.

Therefore, Han Li's cultivation level has reached the tenth level of Qi Refining. Moreover, he used the small green bottle to accelerate the growth of medicinal herbs and refine pills in advance. Now he is quite wealthy and has top-grade magic weapons by his side.

Han Li originally planned to risk participating in the Ascension Tournament's arena battles in order to join one of the seven major sects of Yue Kingdom.

After all, the Foundation Establishment Pills in Yue Kingdom were basically monopolized by the Seven Great Sects. With Han Li's aptitude of four spiritual roots and his lack of talent for creating his own cultivation techniques, he really wouldn't have a sliver of hope of achieving Foundation Establishment if he didn't join one of the Seven Great Sects.

However, before Han Li came to the Mo family mansion this time, he must have already obtained the Ascension Token from the treasure-giving boy, Jin Guang Shangren, so there was no need for him to take any more risks.

When the door in front of Chen Liang opened, a bright-eyed, white-toothed, and graceful young woman walked in; she was Mo Caihuan.

When Chen Liang first met her, she was a beautiful little girl. In the blink of an eye, she has grown up.

Xiao Wu was standing on Mo Caihuan's shoulder at this moment. When it first met Chen Liang, it was just a high-level first-tier demon beast.

After so many years of nurturing by Chen Liang, it is now not only a top-tier first-order demon beast, but also close to a second-order demon beast.

Mo Caihuan was overjoyed. Although she was not lax in her cultivation, she couldn't resist the constant supervision that Mo Juren had given her after returning to the Mo residence.

Now she can finally escape her father's supervision, which is a great joy for this quirky girl.