Although the Foundation Building Immortal Sect has more resources, it also has more outstanding disciples.
With the means and foundation of the Foundation Establishment Immortal Sect, as long as one is willing to pay the price for cultivation, not to mention a 25-year-old in the middle stage of Qi Refining, even a 25-year-old in the late stage of Qi Refining can be cultivated.
However, based on Ye Linyuan's understanding of those foundation-building forces, for foundation-building sects like Qinghe Xianmen, the core descendants would only be the bloodline descendants of the foundation-building ancestors, or the direct disciples of the foundation-building ancestors.
Even if outsiders join the Qinghe Immortal Sect, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to expect to receive key training. Instead, they will become the target of exploitation of their surplus value.
Even if Lin Xuanhe entered the Foundation Establishment Immortal Sect, it would be basically impossible for him to become one of the core descendants. Instead, he would need to participate in various labors, hand over most of the income to the sect, and contribute to the core descendants' breakthrough to a higher level.
Of course, joining a sect also has its advantages. After all, the sect has superior cultivation techniques and ready-made sacred mountains and sacred veins for you to practice, which are quite rare in the outside world.
If you don't join a sect, it will be extremely difficult to stay in a small family. As long as you occupy the sacred mountain territory, you will have to pay taxes, and the surplus value generated by the Qi training family will be harvested by the foundation-building forces.
Of course, don't think that paying taxes is a huge expense. There are countless people out there who want to pay taxes on their knees but don't even have the chance.
If you are not convinced, you can also become a casual cultivator, but the life of a casual cultivator is even more precarious. You can only make a living by taking risks to hunt monsters, and then use the spirit stones you get from risking your life to rent other people's spiritual mountains to practice.
There are also many fearful wandering cultivators who would reclaim deserted islands to plant spiritual rice such as Lingsui rice, and then rent spiritual veins to practice after earning a meager profit.
However, no matter what kind of casual cultivator they are, the living environment is extremely harsh.
For them, most of the income accumulated through decades of hard work has to be used to rent spiritual veins for practice. They spend almost their entire lives working for landlords, and are still penniless when they grow old.
Some poor independent cultivators, even after working hard all their lives, could not afford a pound of low-grade spiritual rice when they grew old.
Therefore, for independent cultivators, the biggest dream is to own a spiritual vein of their own, even if they have to pay a considerable amount of tax for it every year.
Even though the Ye family was impoverished, at least they had a spiritual eye to guard their practice. This alone was enough to make most of the casual practitioners in the early and middle stages of Qi training envious.
Of course, there are also a very small number of independent cultivators who have extremely high talents in all arts of cultivation, or who, like Old Man Ye, have inherited the legacy of cultivators who have achieved perfect Qi training. With good luck, they may be able to cultivate to the later stages of Qi training.
When one reaches the later stages of Qi training, or has mastered a hundred arts of cultivation, one's status and position will be greatly different.
They are no longer considered the lowest level in Qi training. Whether they purchase spiritual veins to practice on their own, or join the foundation-building Qi training forces as guests, they can receive a certain degree of attention.
At least people like this will no longer lack the spiritual energy needed for practice.
Therefore, independent cultivators who are able to cultivate to the late stage of Qi training or above on their own basically have extraordinary qualities.
"Fellow Daoists, are you all here for the Spirit Stones today?"
Just as Ye Linyuan was thinking, Lin Shengwu on the opposite side suddenly spoke with a smile on his face.
Everyone present nodded, and Qian Boran said calmly: "We are here today to ask for the spiritual stone we received that day."
"so it is."
Lin Shengwu nodded, then looked at Lin Xuanhe on the side and said: "Xuanhe, bring the spirit stone."
Lin Xuanhe did not delay at all and took out three spirit stones from his sleeve.
Lin Shengwu took the spirit stones, then looked at everyone and smiled, "We have collected enough spirit stones these days, and were just about to send them to you, but I didn't expect you to come and take them in person today."
"That's great. It saves us from having to make another trip."
Having said this, Lin Shengwu handed the spirit stones to the three families, and then looked at the people around him and said, "Everyone is here today, so everyone can bear witness, and we are clear of this matter."
"This..."
Everyone present was slightly surprised when they heard this. Even Old Man Ye, Qian Boran, Zhang Daoyang and others looked at each other. They obviously didn't expect Lin to hand over the spirit stone so readily.
However, they all smiled, took the spirit stones and said, "Since Lin is like this, let's just call it quits."
When the three families were taking the spirit stones, Ye Linyuan glanced at Lin Shengwu, Lin Shengyang and Lin Xuanhe, and his brows slightly wrinkled. He also understood why the Lin family was so straightforward.
The three Lin family members who were in the middle stage of Qi refining were 25, 63, and 87 years old respectively.
Add to that the Lin family's ancestor who is in the late stage of Qi training, and it seems that the Lin family has rising stars in three generations. This is a sign of prosperity.
According to Ye Linyuan's experience, if a Qi training family has three generations who have reached the late stage of Qi training, then it can be guaranteed that there will be a Qi training master in every generation.
Under such circumstances, such families are qualified to take a further step and have the possibility of being promoted to a foundation-building immortal clan.
The Lin family is now gradually gaining momentum, and they have killed a purple-scaled snake demon in the late stage of Qi training. It seems that there is a high possibility that a second person in the late stage of Qi training will appear in a short time.
The world of immortal cultivation has always been one where the strong always get stronger. Once the Lin family has two people in the late stage of Qi training in one era, the success rate of cultivating a third person in the late stage of Qi training will increase greatly, not to mention that Lin Xuanhe is indeed a talented person.
"If a sect is in the late stage of the third Qi training stage, the Red Star Island alone may not be able to satisfy the Lin family. They may want the entire Star Lake Seven Islands in the future."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart and had a clear understanding of the future rise of the Lin family.
According to his experience, once the Lin family has a second late-stage Qi training master, they will inevitably begin to devour the resources of the Seven Islands of Star Lake and use the resources of the Seven Islands of Star Lake to cultivate a third late-stage Qi training master.
And if the Lin family produces three people in the late stage of Qi training, they will definitely annex the entire Star Lake Seven Islands. By then, there will be no place for the six major families in the entire Star Lake Seven Islands, and the Ye family will naturally not be able to remain immune.
Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but look at the people on the side, but saw that Qian Boran, Zhang Daoyang, and Ye Laohan all had gleams in their eyes, looking at the spirit stone with a solemn look.
The major families in the seven islands of Xinghu are weak, and the vast majority of cultivators are shallow-minded people, but not all of them are short-sighted.
Obviously, these three people have seen something, but after all, the Lin family is powerful, and they have no excuse or reason to attack, nor do they have enough strength to stop the rise of the Lin family.
Now that the goal had been achieved, there was no reason for everyone present to stay and they could only bow and say goodbye to the Lin family.
After leaving Chixing Island and boarding the boat, Qian Boran sighed and said, "The six of us joined forces, but this punch hit cotton. We can only watch the Lin family rise."