Eternal Life: I Can Harvest Demon Beast Talents

Xu Fugui was now at the Peak of Ninth Level Qi Cultivation, a bona fide core member of the family’s upper echelons. He had a preference for women, and his track record was excellent—his descendants included several with Middle Grade and Upper Grade Spirit Roots. The Xu Family had no reason to refuse him, nor could they.

So they were arranging for him to take another concubine.

With Xu Fugui’s current strength, identity, and status, quite a few female cultivators from various families were willing to marry him.

"Good! When the time comes, Brother Lin will use this pill as your congratulatory gift."

Lin Changheng thought for a moment and could only pick up his brush and write these words.

...

The third letter was from Xu Hanji.

This was also the first letter she had sent Lin Changheng in recent years.

It was mainly to share some good news.

She had successfully reached Foundation Establishment. She had used one Substandard Foundation Establishment Pill, one Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, and one Protective Vein Pill. There had been some risks during the process, but fortunately, she had overcome them.

As a result, the Xu Family had leaped to become a Double Foundation Establishment Clan.

As well as a Foundation Establishment "ally."

Their progress seemed astonishing, but without Lin Changheng’s help, their situation would not have changed much from before; they would have remained a single Foundation Establishment clan.

Furthermore, it was foreseeable that once the Qiu Family Ancestor learned of this news, he would be driven to enter the Secret Realm in a desperate, last-ditch effort.

Either he would break through to the Middle Stage Foundation Establishment himself to keep his family from collapsing and cultivate a second Foundation Establishment member...

...or he would directly acquire resources, trade them for a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, and simply brute-force a second member to Foundation Establishment.

But if he failed, the Qiu Family’s demise would be imminent.

Alternatively, they could submit to a major Foundation Establishment Race and become a vassal, living under someone else’s roof and barely surviving from then on.

But in Lin Changheng’s mind, there was no difference between these two outcomes.

The former meant the direct annihilation of their clan, while the latter meant being perpetually exploited, with no hope of reaching Foundation Establishment.

Even if they obtained resources, they would be "reasonably" stripped of them, making Foundation Establishment essentially hopeless.

Even if by some series of coincidences someone did manage to reach Foundation Establishment, they still wouldn’t be able to contend with the major clan that held the moral high ground and strategic advantage—the very clan that could "protect" them from the Xu Family.

It was, one could say, an extremely difficult predicament!

...

Reading on, Xu Hanji shared some of her inner journey and emphatically expressed her gratitude to Lin Changheng.

Without him, she couldn’t have focused on breaking through to Foundation Establishment without distractions. If a flaw had appeared in her state of mind during the breakthrough, the probability of failure and death would have been high.

She also reiterated the promise made by the previous generation’s Leader of the Xu Family: they would do everything in their power to collect what Lin Changheng needed.

Reading this, a hint of satisfaction appeared on Lin Changheng’s face.

This meant that, barring any accidents, the current state of the relationship between Lin Changheng and the Xu Family could continue for another hundred years or so.

They would continue to help him collect Essence Blood, accelerating his progress.

After all, he still had three vacant Species Positions at the Muddy Evil level.

They urgently needed to be filled and could not be left empty and wasted.

This was a consideration based on mutual benefit.

In addition, Lin Changheng could clearly read the maidenly thoughts between the lines, where she even mentioned wanting to build a good relationship with Sister Feiyue.

Lin Changheng didn’t quite know what to say to this, so he could only pretend not to have noticed and let it be.

In his reply, he expressed his congratulations and looked forward to the continuation of his relationship with the Xu Family.

...

After replying to the three letters, another three months passed, and Lin Changheng had basically found the right "blood donation" frequency for the Deep Lake Spirit Clam.

This conclusion was drawn from comparative experiments and was quite credible.

Twice a month.

One portion each time.

This was the normal blood donation frequency for this clam.

The frequency was clearly higher than his own passive Spirit Stealing.

This was thanks to the clam’s powerful regenerative abilities. If one enjoyed eating clam meat, one could also take it, and it would regrow even faster.

Of course, this was just a description; Lin Changheng wasn’t so heartless, nor could he bring himself to eat it.

Under these conditions, it wasn’t impossible to draw blood three times a month, but there was a risk of damaging its essence, which wasn’t worth the gain. Lin Changheng immediately ruled it out.

However, after giving it a Tier Two Blood Replenishing Elixir, making it "donate" blood three times a month became feasible.

Lin Changheng could naturally afford a few elixirs.

Therefore, he directly chose this method and frequency.

...

Time flowed by quietly, like sand slipping through one’s fingers.

Lin Changheng went out less, immersing himself in cultivation. Three years passed in a flash.

This year, Lin Changheng turned seventy-eight!

He still showed no signs of old age.

At this moment, sitting cross-legged in his Secluded Meditation Chamber, he had completely finished digesting the Flood Dragon Blood Fruit—his second one in total, the new one he had acquired at the last auction.

The medicinal power hidden in his flesh and blood had been fully transformed.

"The effects of the Flood Dragon Blood Fruit are truly impressive, as delightful as ever!"

He estimated inwardly, ’If I can get one more Flood Dragon Blood Fruit and finish refining it, and continue my daily baths with Body Refining Spiritual Materials, perhaps I can try breaking through to the Sixth Layer of the *Evergreen Body of the Ancient Wood* and reach the Tier Two Late Stage of Body Refining.’

Body Refining was not accomplished in a day. If not for Lin Changheng’s financial backing, coupled with his body’s extremely strong regenerative ability that allowed for daily tempering, his progress would have been at least halved, and it was very possible it would have been reduced to just twenty or thirty percent of its current speed.

The two sections of Tier Two Upper Grade Spirit Wood called East Wheel Willow Wood had long been used up. Lin Changheng didn’t know if more would appear at next year’s small-scale auction in the Immortal City. If not, he would have to find another channel.

He was also making inquiries about the East Wheel Willow Wood through the Tier Two Middle Grade Talisman Master who had previously asked for his help with alchemy and had gifted him a copy of "The Principles and Refining Methods of Three Types of Talisman Plates."