Bao Qi is not yet forty years old. In terms of spiritual cultivation, this age is still very early.

If a female cultivator is in the qi training stage, her Tao body and spiritual body will only be equivalent to a mortal's around 18 years old when she is around forty-five years old. This means that even if she reaches sixty, her fertility will not be affected much.

As for male cultivators, needless to say, there are countless men who are over a hundred years old and take concubines, accompany servants, or even become Taoist couples and have children, just like the crucian carp crossing the river.

After Baoqi advanced to the advanced level of Qi Refining, Chen Huaisheng felt that this idea was even less urgent.

If Bao Qi can break through and ascend in the next five to ten years and successfully establish a foundation, then it will be completely late to have children after the foundation is established, and it can even be said to be the most appropriate.

The chance of a child born to a foundation-building woman being a Taoist priest is very high, several times higher than the chance of a Qi-training monk. However, 99% of female cultivators are unlikely to advance to the foundation-building stage before they are sixty-five.

When Chen Huaisheng asked, Fang Baoqi rolled his eyes at Chen Huaisheng: "It's a letter for you, how can I read it? You can read it yourself."

Chen Huaisheng smiled and didn't say much. He just sipped the Guishan white intestine tea and activated the taste buds on his lips and tongue.

"Qingyu, help me take it apart and take a look."

Min Qingyu hesitated for a moment, then hesitantly said: "Isn't this bad?"

"What's wrong?" Chen Huaisheng shook his head pretendingly, "Then take it over and I'll see for myself."

The words in Tong Tong's letter were brief. She only said that Daogong held a Shangyuan Taoist meeting. She had heard about it during her travels in Jiangling, and she would return to Bianjing during the Shangyuan period and meet again then.

The letter did not mention whether she would return to the Chonghua Sect, but Chen Huaisheng estimated that she should have solved this knot.

But it’s hard to say whether resolving the knot will definitely lead to a return to the Chonghua sect.

He was afraid that when she saw Baoqi and Qingyu, she would get upset again. This was what Chen Huaisheng was most worried about.

Min Qingyu is under great pressure now, especially after seeing Fang Baoqi break through and advance to the next level in just twenty days.

But the more anxious he was, the harder it was to break through. Until Chen Huaisheng came back and saw her condition, he decisively let her out of the confinement. Stop getting into trouble for the time being and relax.

The third level of Qi refining to the fourth level of Qi refining is not only a leap in practice, from the first stage to the middle stage, it is also a leap in the state of mind.

Min Qingyu was immersed in chasing under pressure, but fell behind, so Chen Huaisheng asked her to put it down first before talking about anything else.

"What did Tong Tong say?" Fang Baoqi asked softly, not reading the letter didn't mean he didn't care.

"I only said that she would return to Bianjing during the Shangyuan Taoist Association. She is still traveling in Southern Chu, so she made an appointment to meet in Bianjing during the Shangyuan Taoist Association." Chen Huaisheng put down the letter and said thoughtfully, "It looks like

This Yuandao meeting will once again be a grand event where dragons and tigers fight for the capital. It feels like everyone in the sect is gearing up and striving to be the first."

Fang Baoqi laughed, "Only you can deal with it so calmly. Even Zhao Sitian is eager to try it."

Chen Huaisheng's eyes lit up, "Senior Brother Zhao is out of seclusion? Has he reached the peak of Qi refining?"

"Well, he just came out of seclusion the day before yesterday, so he should be building his foundation. But I heard that you reached your peak before him, which made him a little bit shocked. He probably thought that the title of the number one genius of the Chonghua Sect would be given to you.

"

Fang Baoqi smiled happily.

No matter what, the performance of this little man of hers was worthy of being the number one genius in Chonghua, which made her feel proud.

It has only been five years since he started, from enlightenment to the peak of Qi refining. Although he is not sure how long it will take him to build the foundation, Fang Baoqi is sure that he will be able to successfully build the foundation in less than two years.

Maybe he really is the number one genius in Zhao.

Fang Baoqi didn't know if any of the super sects such as Tianyun Sect, Huaxi Sword Sect and Taihua Tao had established foundations in their twenties, but even if they had, were there any who had established foundations within seven years of enlightenment?

Absolutely not.

At this point, this little man like himself has definitely surpassed everyone, unprecedented in history.

"Senior Brother Zhao is not so narrow-minded." Chen Huaisheng shook his head, "To say that he and I are still on the same front, look at Senior Brother Zeng, Senior Brother Teng, Senior Brother Yang, Senior Brother Chu, these disciples from Lingyun Sect are no better in performance.

Our old Chonghua sect has a poor discipleship, and the disciples recruited from Hebei in recent years are also full of talented people. Delu, Liangkui and Deling all feel the pressure, so how can I be immune?"

Fang Baoqi was silent for a moment and then said softly: "Huaisheng, let me tell you the truth, don't you don't want to hear it? The talents of Delu, Liangkui and Deling are not very good. Compared with Qingyu,

Wu Gu and even Yun Lei are far behind. Cultivation is extremely demanding of talent. I think maybe De Lu and the others will be less and less able to keep up in the future..."

Fang Baoqi's words made Min Qingyu a little uneasy, "Senior Sister Baoqi, my younger sister's talent is actually average. This time in retreat, I was not able to fulfill Brother Sheng's wish. It's better for Senior Sister Baoqi to achieve it overnight..."

Fang Baoqi interrupted Min Qingyu: "What does it mean that you have only practiced for twenty days this time? It has nothing to do with your talent. As for me, didn't you hear that your biological brother said that I was too lazy? I should have advanced to the advanced level of Qi Refining last year.

What? You just need to adjust your mentality a little and stop staring at me so much. I believe you will be able to advance to the fourth level of Qi Refining soon."

Being teased by Fang Baoqi's words made her blush a little, and Min Qingyu actually knew that she was a bit obsessed.

It has been two or three years since Fang Baoqi advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining, and he was once the leading genius disciple in the Chonghua Sect. Now it is a matter of course for him to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

How long has it been since I was promoted from the second level of Qi Refining to the third level of Qi Refining? If I keep comparing myself to others, I feel a little too angry.

Chen Huaisheng also knew that the talents of Hu Delu and others were not as good as those of Min Qingyu, Ren Wugao and Yunlei, nor were they as good as Fang Baoqi.

The manifestation of this in practice may not be too obvious in the early stages of practice, but the gap will become more and more prominent as time goes by. Only after a certain stage will this situation slowly stabilize.

"Baoqi, Delu and the others may have some gaps, but they work very hard. I also hope that they can catch up in their practice. Some gaps can be made up with spiritual materials, elixirs and exercises. It depends on their own practice process.

Can Zhong Neng encounter an opportunity and inspire enlightenment?" Chen Huaisheng sighed, "Since they trust me, I will naturally do my best to help them keep up."

Fang Baoqi also knew that Chen Huaisheng could not abandon Hu Delu and the others now.

Especially after the Chonghua Sect defended its existence in Hebei after the battle between Wei Huaidao and Yuelu Sect, its influence has become increasingly stable. In Fuyang Road and Zhaigu Road, Wei Huaidao's status is as stable as Mount Tai.

Taoists in these places regard the Chonghua Sect as their first choice. Disciples with outstanding talents are pouring into Wolong Ridge one after another. This also makes old disciples with average qualifications like Hu Delu and others encounter great challenges.

Now every year, the number of new disciples selected and admitted to Wolong Ridge by the Six Paths of Yanzhou alone reaches fifty or sixty. This does not include the disciples that the Chonghua Sect still brings in every year from the three prefectures of Yiyang, Langling and Huozhou Yinan.

There were also twenty or thirty people.

Calculated, the Chonghua Sect recruits close to a hundred new disciples every year, and among these hundred, one or twenty outstanding ones can almost advance to the third level of Qi Refining within three to five years.

As for old disciples like Hu Delu and others, if there are no other paths and countermeasures to change, they may be overtaken by others in less than ten years.

This feeling was too uncomfortable for Hu Delu and the others.

Of course Chen Huaisheng knew that this situation was a good sign for a prosperous sect. Natural selection means survival of the fittest. This is also true in the world of spiritual practice.

If you fail to keep up and are overtaken by others, the sect's resources will gradually be tilted towards the outstanding ones and those who are leading the way. Naturally, they and the laggards will slowly become ordinary disciples.

Just like what Chen Huaisheng saw when he first started, Qiao Zhun, Cai Jinyang, and even Yun He and Luo Xiuyue's couple ended up at the advanced level of Qi refining, which is a good ending.

But people are all about emotions. Chen Huaisheng saw that Hu Delu and the others had followed him for so many years, and they were still pursuing hard to get a glimpse of the way of heaven. The principle that diligence can make up for weakness may not be effective in the spiritual world, but he still wanted to give it a try, not to mention

It's hard to change fate, but at least it can give them a few chances.

With the body of three spirits and the cauldron in his body, he already has the confidence to transcend the constraints of the sect. He no longer needs the resources of the sect. On the contrary, he can give his abundant resources to the people he wants.

In Teng Dingyuan, Zeng Guolin, Yang Husheng and Chu Yingqi still need to carefully plan what they will gain from this trip to prepare for the next step of foundation building. When Zhao Sitian also considers how to balance the allocation of resources between himself and Ren Wuchen, Chen Huai

Students no longer need to consider these issues.

The loot from the Hanzhou Taoist Temple gave him quite a lot of spiritual stones to plan other projects with ease.

There were also gains from the battle at Kip Shek Bay, and even a lot of gains from hunting golden-eyed green otters and cloud-teng golden cats in the past, but now it seems that they are nothing.

Even though the consumption of the Winged Fire Snake is quite large, it is only considered to be able to raise it more generously without running out of food, and it does not really mean that it cannot support it.

The meat combs of the tiger-headed goose, as well as the fish meat of the golden-bearded croaker and the koi carp caught on this trip are rare things for Teng Dingyuan, Zeng Guolin and others to nourish the Taoist body and spiritual body.

It is impossible to give it to others.

But for Chen Huaisheng, although it is a good thing, it is not indispensable. It may be beneficial to him, but for Hu Delu and the others, it is even more beneficial.

Like Zhuo Yixing and Zhao Wuyou, as well as Miao Miao who was recently accepted as a disciple by Ding Zongshou, Du Qingyuan, who was an unusual disciple before Li Yu left the mountain to travel, and Huo Yuanzong and Cui Tuofu who came from the Lingyun Sect and were known as the two prides of the Lingyun Sect.

And Ding Xizhen, who has become his junior sister, is it really because of his excellent qualifications?

Without the abundant resource supply of people like Zhu Fengbi, You Shaoyou, Qi Hongkui, Ding Zongshou, and Li Yu, would they really be able to enter the country several times faster than others?
Chapter completed!