From Family Fisherman to Water Virtue True Immortal

The Nascent Soul Ceremony, as a rare grand event in the Cultivation World, often lasts for several months, with utmost extravagance.

Though Li Quanqing is the protagonist, he doesn't need to be present at all times.

Mostly it's the many Nascent Soul True Monarchs gathering in the hall, discussing cultivation, drinking and making merry, and watching the performances of their many disciples and descendants.

For example, sect sword trials, competing in Daoist skills and divine powers, or the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, everyone takes turns performing to showcase their sect's successors, striving for supremacy.

Or simply arranging for immortals to dance, with music melodious, and dozens of Immortals dancing in the hall, with an aura of immortality and unparalleled grace.

After all, Nascent Soul Cultivators are already the heaven of the East Sea Immortal World.

Living for a thousand years without dying, with hardly any room for progress, they lack the motivation to advance and have lost that sense of urgency.

Such decadence and extravagance have long been the norm.

Finally becoming a Nascent Soul, a patriarch of a sect, so why not enjoy it?

Li Quanqing wouldn't criticize this, for after all, lying flat is better than becoming hysterical after seeing the end of one's Dao path.

This also affords him the leisure to have private meetings with some particularly agreeable Nascent Souls and make friends.

"Grandfather Fang, I've long heard of your great name, and today I finally get to meet you in person. Indeed, you are extraordinary."

In the quiet hall, Li Quanqing smiled slightly, gestured with his cup, and looked at the Nascent Soul True Monarch opposite, with a hint of friendliness.

This was an unassuming old man in a green robe, slightly hunchbacked, with grayed hair and beard, yet spirited.

The elder appeared to have lived a long life, with an aura like decayed wood and rock, full of the marks of time, yet still very spirited.

Just a glance would inevitably remind one of the saying "a thousand-year-old king and a ten-thousand-year-old turtle," which was very apt.

This was the ancestor of the Fang Family of Tiangui. No one knew how long he had lived, having raised a Fourth Rank Longevity Turtle and personally created the prosperity of the Nascent Soul Clan.

Li Quanqing, backed by the Four Seas Sect, had some detailed information.

It was heard that this Fang ancestor possessed a unique spiritual body, allowing him to form contracts with Demon Beasts and acquire one of their talents.

Some speculated that he had contracted with the Longevity Turtle, gaining its longevity like a turtle spirit, enabling him to live so long.

"Young Friend Quanqing, you really overpraise me. An old thing like me is just a wave stranded on the shore, disappearing without a trace in no time at all!"

The Grandfather of Tiangui squinted and laughed, with a rather genial demeanor, looking like someone who wouldn't get into conflicts with anyone.

The two chatted, mutually expressing a desire to get closer, like old friends meeting for the first time.

After all, in the Cultivation World, sects are still the mainstream. Nascent Soul Clans like them are truly rare and should support each other.

The Fang Family was quite generous. When Li Quanqing achieved his Nascent Soul, they sent a Five Elements Golden Core Pill as a congratulatory gift.

Despite this great ceremony, there were many Nascent Soul True Monarchs present.

But they were truly stingy, most of the gifts being things like Third Rank magical treasures, talismans, and elixirs.

After all, Nascent Soul Cultivators have large families and often have an entire sect to support, which isn't easy.

Something like a Five Elements Golden Core Pill, capable of creating a Golden Core Cultivator, is undoubtedly the most valuable gift.

If a sect wants to grow and strengthen, Nascent Soul Cultivators are essential, but the number of Golden Core Cultivators under them is equally crucial.

You can't possibly have a dignified Nascent Soul Patriarch refine pills, refine artifacts, draw talismans, oversee workshops, guard Spirit Islands, and supervise cultivators digging Spirit Stones.

Moreover, the more Golden Core Cultivators there are, the greater the chance of producing a Nascent Soul.

Li Quanqing knew in his heart that although everyone called each other 'Fellow Daoist,' they would turn their backs faster than turning a page when core sect interests were at stake.

He had inquired with the Four Seas Sect about exchanging stable core formation spiritual items to cultivate the Green Jade Li Family.

But the result was predictable, even though the Taiyin True Monarch had a close relationship with him, he was helpless.

The Li Family could only slowly develop, occupy, and seize resources in this area, and grab a share of the pie from others.

Li Quanqing and the Grandfather of Tiangui talked for a long time, from the cultivation of the Water Dao to the insights of nurturing the Longevity Turtle, and finally, to family alliances discreetly.

Both benefited greatly, setting a big plan to help each other so that their two clans could go further in the perilous Cultivation World.

After sending off this Grandfather Fang, Li Quanqing played with a dark-green Jade Scroll, with black patterns spreading on its surface.

This contained insights on breeding the Longevity Turtle, from the First Rank to the Fourth Rank, extremely valuable knowledge.

"Teacher, the Blood River True Monarch requests an audience."

At this moment, Li Jihan, dressed in the attire of a Four Seas Sect disciple, walked gracefully over. Tall and bright-featured, she looked even more poised compared to the sharpness she exhibited in the family.

Over the years, she and Li Jinlian had been sent to the Four Seas Sect, encountering many genius disciples, competing against each other like swords sheathed, reaping significant rewards.

Li Quanqing let it be.

They were originally the most gifted of the Li Family's younger generation and caught up with the family's rise, just in time to witness the prosperity of the entire East Sea.

When they eventually formed their cores and returned to the family's upper echelon, the connections and benefit exchanges made within these Nascent Soul Sects would undoubtedly allow the Li Family to advance faster and more steadily.

"Let him in."

Li Quanqing nodded slightly. A moment later, a young man in a blood robe walked into the hall, his aura slightly unstable, likely having just broken through not long ago.

"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Hanhai."

The Blood River True Monarch saluted with clasped hands. Though he appeared neither servile nor arrogant, he was quite uneasy internally.

Since being killed last time, he relied on the Blood God Technique to seize rebirth, managing with difficulty to cultivate back to Nascent Soul, reclaiming his sect.

To ease relations with the Li Family, he had forcibly pried a Golden Core Pill from the mouths of those demon brats of the Blood River Sect and sent it to Qingyu Sea.

Today's visit was to settle the grievances completely, to avoid sleepless nights thereafter.

"Blood River Fellow Daoist..."

Li Quanqing sized him up, especially that faintly familiar aura, and couldn't help but laugh, a certain guess forming in his mind.

"Fellow Daoist Li, I've come specially this time to make peace with the Li Family and let bygones be bygones, so we can get along amicably."

The Blood River True Monarch forced a weak smile, even showing some humility.

No other choice, he had been slain by this person at the Golden Core Middle Stage, let alone now.

"You want to settle everything? If I'm not wrong, the Blood River patriarch that died previously ought to have been your master or uncle-master, shouldn't you seek revenge for him?"

Li Quanqing asked with a half-smile.

"Fellow Daoist jests. For us Demon Sects, it's a common affair to betray the master and kill the kin. How could the passing of a mere dead person affect the sincere friendship between Fellow Daoist Li and me?"

The Blood River True Monarch spoke solemnly, with the words 'righteous and upright' practically written on his face, and his eyes exuding visible sincerity.

Seeing the Blood River True Monarch speaking with fervor, prideful in treachery, even Li Quanqing couldn't help but be moved by this fellow's shamelessness.

"Very well, since Fellow Daoist insists, from now on, let us clear our grievances and wipe the slate clean."

Li Quanqing shook his head, not really caring.

Even if this person in front turned against him, he could kill him once more, his trump cards were numerous, beyond what outsiders could imagine.

Moreover, the old Blood River True Monarch was always cautious, timid as a mouse, fond of bullying the weak, and being insightful. He likely wouldn't dare to provoke him again.