"In the twelfth year of your seclusion, my mother disappeared for no reason while going down the mountain. There is no news so far, and we don't know whether she is alive or dead."
Li Chaoge, this is Lu Ping's wife, sixteen years younger than him, and also a casual cultivator. The two have known each other since they were young, supported each other along the way, and jointly founded the Qingshan Sect.
Compared with Lu Ping, Li Chaoge's talent is much better. She is a Tianlinggen monk. When she met Lu Ping, they were both in the Qi training period. Her strength is not much inferior to Lu Ping.
Lu Ping loved Li Chaoge very much and was willing to save magic weapons and elixirs for her to use first. Li Chaoge himself was also kind-hearted and a gentle person to the core.
After giving birth to three children for Lu Ping, although her path was delayed for more than ten years, her cultivation has reached the late stage of crystallization, and there is hope for her to form pills in the future.
In terms of time, Li Chaoge still has more than three hundred years of life. If he had not disappeared, he might have formed a golden elixir in the Qingshan Sect, making the Qingshan Sect a double golden elixir.
It can be said that the reason why Qingshan Sect is prosperous and powerful is entirely supported by Lu Ping and Li Chaoge.
But now that Lu Ping has died, leaving only a weak consciousness, and Li Chaoge is missing, it is not surprising that the Qingshan Sect has declined to this point.
"She is the mother of several children, how could she disappear?"
Lu Ping didn't know what to say and was worried about Chao Ge's disappearance.
The Qingshan Sect was already in a miserable state, but Li Chaoge disappeared again, which made the Qingshan Sect's only crystallization monk no longer exist.
One can imagine how difficult the sect's situation would be.
"The kid doesn't know about this either. Ever since his mother disappeared without any warning, the kid has been sending people to search for her, but to no avail."
Speaking of this, Lu Yuanshan felt sad in his heart and couldn't help but kneel down and say.
"The child is ashamed of his father for not being able to protect his mother!"
Listening to Lu Yuanshan's cry quietly made Lu Ping feel uncomfortable.
More than ten years have passed, and Li Chaoge has not returned yet. He is afraid that something bad will happen and he will never come back, so he can only silently pray that she is safe and sound.
But no matter what, compared to his death, at least Li Chaoge still has hope of survival. He escaped the demonic chaos in Lushan County that year and did not fall into that demonic chaos.
"Get up, you're such a big man and still crying, you don't look like a leader at all."
Lu Ping couldn't bear his son crying in front of him, which made him very uncomfortable.
After asking some questions about Li Chaoge's life in the sect before he disappeared, and talking for a few words, Lu Ping changed the topic.
"Yuanshan, Dad has worked hard for you during these years of retreat."
"This is what children should do."
Lu Yuanshan calmed down and stood up slowly.
"After Chaoge disappeared, didn't the sect train any new foundation-building monks?"
"It has been cultivated, but the results are not satisfactory."
"Since you went into seclusion, the sect has been declining day by day after experiencing the demonic chaos, and the opportunities to provide foundation-building pills to disciples have become less and less..."
With the decline of the Qingshan Sect, the eleven immortal cultivating families that were originally affiliated with the Qingshan Sect have left the control of the Qingshan Sect.
This cut off one of the main sources of income for the sect, the annual offerings provided by the Xiuxian family to the sect.
Roughly calculated, this offering can bring the Qingshan Sect's annual income to more than 15,000 spirit stones.
This is a major source of income for Qingshan Sect.
As the sect's income plummeted, Lu Yuanshan gradually realized the importance of foundation-building monks to the sect. The sect also urgently needed a foundation-building monk to take charge of the sect to prevent the continued decline of its sphere of influence.
From here, Lu Yuanshan mentioned the Foundation Establishment Pill.
"Six years ago, the head of Chaotian Sect of Chu State broke through the elixir formation and called himself Master Chaotian, becoming the fourth Jindan Patriarch of Chu State."
"In the spring of the same year, Master Chaotian refined several furnaces of Foundation-Building Pills, held a small trading meeting in Qinghefang City, and took out three Foundation-Building Pills for trade, attracting casual cultivators from all walks of life and causing family competition."
"My child knows that the Foundation Establishment Pill is hard to obtain and is a rare treasure. If we can train new Foundation Establishment monks for the sect, we can improve the sect's predicament."
"In order to buy a Foundation-Building Pill, the sect did not hesitate to sell off its property and sell some magic pills you left behind. Finally, it collected enough spiritual stones to buy a Foundation-Building Pill for eleven thousand."
Lu Yuanshan slowly told the story of the past.
Since there is only one Foundation Establishment Pill, when considering the selection process for using this Foundation Establishment Pill within the sect, everyone in the sect participated in the voting.
Generally speaking, if you want to break through the foundation building period, it is best not to exceed sixty years old.
For monks over sixty years old, the effectiveness of foundation building will be affected due to insufficient energy and blood and the decline of body functions. The chance of successful foundation building will be reduced by 20%.
A foundation-building pill can provide a 50% success rate for foundation-building. Among the sects at that time, there were only two people who met the age and cultivation requirements.
One is Lu Yuanshan, who has the qualification of dual spiritual roots. He has been stuck at the ninth level of Qi training for more than ten years and does not dare to build the foundation easily.
The other one is Lu Ping’s daughter, Lu Zhiwei.
Lu Zhiwei is younger than Lu Yuanshan, has dual spiritual roots, and is also a first-level high-grade weapon refiner. In terms of future potential, she is better than Lu Yuanshan.
After weighing and comparing the two, Lu Zhiwei finally won the Foundation Establishment Pill. Among them, Lu Yuanshan also had the intention of Kong Rong to give in, hoping that his younger sister would use the Foundation Establishment Pill.
The sect also hopes that after Lu Zhiwei successfully builds the foundation, he can lead the sect to change its predicament by virtue of his status as an weapon refiner.
After the candidate for the foundation-building elixir was chosen, Lu Zhiwei began to retreat and break through the foundation-building elixir.
"After my little sister obtained the foundation-building elixir, she spent half a year in seclusion. Everyone in the sect prayed that she could succeed in building the foundation and add a foundation-building monk to the sect."
"But the ending was unsatisfactory. My sister failed in seclusion and failed to build the foundation."
"Because the foundation building failed this time, it was a big blow to my little sister. In the past, she was a cheerful and generous person. Because after the foundation building failed this time, she became depressed, as if she was a different person, and she was confused all day long.
Numb and taciturn."
When talking about the latter part, Lu Yuanshan's face was full of sorrow.
Lu Ping looked at Lu Yuanshan's expression, and his heart sank slightly. He could feel Lu Yuanshan's sadness, and he could also imagine how big a blow the failure of foundation building would have on Lu Zhiwei.
Because the Foundation Establishment Pill was acquired by the sect after straining its muscles, spending many years of savings, and even selling off family property.
The sect tried its best, but the only Foundation Establishment Pill it could get was that one.
This failure of foundation building will be a heavy blow to the already poor sect. The sect will no longer be able to obtain foundation building pills for its disciples in the next ten years.
On the one hand, Lu Zhiwei felt guilty towards the sect for wasting a foundation-building pill. On the other hand, her Taoist heart was shaken by this, and it was difficult for her to continue moving forward on the path of cultivation.
If the path of cultivation is cut off, it is cut off. Lu Ping doesn't really care about it, as long as everything is fine.
But if Lu Zhiwei becomes depressed and world-weary because of this, this is not the result Lu Ping wants to see.
It’s no wonder that Lu Zhiwei’s status information shows [He has lost his Taoist heart and is mildly depressed].
Her character became silent, withdrawn, fragile and sensitive, all caused by the failure of foundation building.
Lu Ping felt very sorry for this little girl.
After chatting with Lu Zhiwei, the father and son were silent for a while. Finally, Lu Yuanshan organized his thoughts, summarized the current situation of the sect, and reported to Lu Ping.
Only then did Lu Ping understand how embarrassed the Qingshan Sect was now. This chapter has been completed!