The twenty young members sat cross-legged across Lin Hao’s room.
The atmosphere was completely silent.
In front of each person were one hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
Their newly awakened Primordial Spiritual Roots were already circulating spiritual energy through their bodies.
Their Primordial Physiques were rapidly adapting.
Their Primordial Bloodlines were beginning to awaken.
And the cultivation techniques they had received were circulating at an astonishing speed.
Lin Hao stood quietly at the front of the room.
He had expected them to need some time.
After all, they had never cultivated before.
But within moments, Lin Hao’s expression slowly changed.
The spiritual energy inside the room began surging.
Whoosh!
The spiritual energy surrounding the twenty young members was being absorbed at an incredible rate.
The Spirit Stones beside them began dimming.
Lin Hao blinked.
“Already?”
The System immediately answered.
[Host, please remember what you gave them.]
Lin Hao looked at the twenty cultivators.
Primordial Spiritual Roots.
Primordial Physiques.
Primordial Bloodlines.
Primordial cultivation techniques.
Primordial martial and ability techniques.
High-quality cultivation pills.
One hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones each.
Lin Hao became silent.
“…Fair point.”
The System sounded pleased.
[I knew you would understand.]
Lin Hao rolled his eyes.
The cultivation speed continued increasing.
Then—
Boom!
A powerful aura erupted from Lin Chen’s body.
[Lin Chen has reached Body Refining Realm — Level 1.]
Lin Hao’s eyes narrowed.
But before he could say anything—
Boom!
Another wave of energy erupted.
[Body Refining Realm — Level 2.]
Then—
Level 3.
Level 4.
Level 5.
Lin Hao’s expression became increasingly strange.
“What?”
The System remained cheerful.
[The Host appears surprised.]
“I am surprised.”
Another breakthrough.
Level 6.
Then—
Level 7.
Level 8.
Level 9.
Lin Hao stared.
“That was fast.”
But Lin Chen wasn’t finished.
The spiritual energy around him suddenly became even stronger.
His cultivation broke through the bottleneck separating the first realm from the next.
Qi Gathering Realm — Level 1.
Lin Hao’s eyes widened slightly.
“He’s already entered Qi Gathering?”
Before he could finish speaking—
Level 2.
Level 3.
Level 4.
The other nineteen members began following.
One breakthrough after another.
Qi Gathering Realm — Level 1.
Level 2.
Level 3.
Level 4.
The room was filled with waves of spiritual energy.
Lin Hao watched in silence.
The System spoke proudly.
[Host, perhaps you should stop looking surprised.]
Lin Hao glanced at the golden screen.
“I’m allowed to be surprised.”
[Of course.]
A pause.
[But I did warn you that the resources were rather good.]
Lin Hao shook his head.
The breakthroughs continued.
Qi Gathering Realm — Level 5.
Level 6.
Level 7.
Level 8.
Within minutes, all twenty young members had crossed two entire cultivation realms.
Lin Hao looked around the room.
Every single one of them had reached the peak of the Qi Gathering Realm.
He couldn’t help but laugh.
“They really are monsters.”
The System immediately corrected him.
[Correction, Host.]
Lin Hao raised an eyebrow.
“What?”
[You created the monsters.]
Lin Hao paused.
“…Fair enough.”
Then suddenly—
BOOM!
A completely different aura erupted from the center of the room.
Lin Hao turned his head.
Lin Chen’s body was glowing with golden light.
The Primordial Battle God Physique had begun resonating with his Primordial Battle Spiritual Root and Primordial War God Bloodline.
His cultivation surged.
Foundation Establishment Realm — Level 1.
Lin Hao’s expression changed.
But another powerful aura appeared almost simultaneously.
Ice crystals began forming around another young woman.
Lin Qing’s Primordial Frost Phoenix Physique had awakened.
Her Primordial Ice Spiritual Root and Primordial Frost Phoenix Bloodline resonated together.
Her cultivation broke through as well.
Foundation Establishment Realm — Level 1.
Then—
Foundation Establishment Realm — Level 2.
Lin Chen reached it.
Lin Qing reached it.
Two terrifying auras filled the room.
Lin Hao stared at them.
“…What?”
The System went silent for a moment.
Then it spoke.
[Host…]
“Yes?”
[I believe the two of them are slightly more talented than the others.]
Lin Hao looked at Lin Chen and Lin Qing.
“Slightly?”
The System paused.
[I was trying to be humble.]
Lin Hao couldn’t help laughing.
“You?”
[Yes, Host.
I occasionally practice humility.]
“Since when?”
[Approximately three seconds ago.]
Lin Hao shook his head.
The other eighteen members remained at Qi Gathering Realm — Level 9, but none of them showed signs of stopping permanently.
Their foundations were still absorbing spiritual energy.
Their bodies were still being strengthened.
Their cultivation was still increasing.
Lin Hao understood.
They simply needed more time.
And considering the foundations he had given them, their future potential was terrifying.
Suddenly—
Boom!
A massive wave of spiritual energy exploded outward.
The entire Lin residence trembled.
The wooden doors rattled.
Several objects on nearby tables shook violently.
Outside the room, people stopped what they were doing.
The elders looked toward Lin Hao’s residence.
“What was that?”
“Did you feel that?”
“I did.”
The spiritual energy continued spreading.
Lin Wei, the family head, immediately looked toward the source.
His heart pounded.
He didn’t understand cultivation.
He couldn’t identify realms.
He couldn’t tell how powerful anyone had become.
But he could feel something.
Something had changed.
Something enormous.
Without wasting another second, Lin Wei hurried toward Lin Hao’s room.
Inside, Lin Hao was still watching the younger generation.
The twenty young members remained seated.
Eighteen were surrounded by powerful spiritual energy.
Two were radiating an even more frightening presence.
Lin Hao smiled.
They had only just begun.
Suddenly—
The door opened.
Lin Wei stepped inside.
He froze.
His eyes moved across the room.
The Spirit Stones.
The pills.
The twenty young members sitting silently in cultivation.
And most importantly…
The feeling.
The feeling that these children were no longer the same people he had known only moments ago.
Lin Wei stared at Lin Hao.
“Ancestor…”
Lin Hao turned around.
“Yes?”
Lin Wei pointed toward the younger generation.
“What…”
He stopped.
He didn’t even know how to phrase the question.
Finally, he managed:
“What happened to them?”
Lin Hao smiled.
“They’ve begun cultivating.”
Lin Wei stared at him.
“Cultivating?”
“Yes.”
Lin Wei slowly looked at them again.
He couldn’t understand what he was sensing.
He only knew that something about them had completely changed.
These were the same children he had watched grow up.
The same children who had never possessed any cultivation.
The same children who had lived ordinary lives just like everyone else in the Lin Clan.
Yet now…
They felt completely different.
Lin Wei swallowed.
“But…
how?”
Lin Hao calmly pointed toward the resources surrounding them.
“I gave them a little help.”
Lin Wei looked at the Spirit Stones.
Then the pills.
Then the treasures.
Then the cultivation techniques.
His expression became increasingly complicated.
“A little?”
Lin Hao nodded.
“Yes.”
The System immediately appeared.
[Host, calling this “a little help” is perhaps the greatest understatement in the history of understatement.]
Lin Hao’s expression darkened.
“Nobody asked you.”
Lin Wei blinked.
“Who are you talking to?”
Lin Hao paused.
“…No one.”
The System immediately added:
[He is talking to the most magnificent system in existence.]
Lin Hao ignored it.
Lin Wei looked back at the twenty young members.
For generations, the Lin Clan had lived as ordinary mortals.
They farmed.
They worked.
They struggled.
They had never possessed powerful cultivation techniques.
They had never possessed powerful bloodlines.
They had never possessed extraordinary physiques.
Even Lin Hao, the greatest cultivation talent the clan had ever produced in his previous life, had only reached Body Refining Realm Level 1.
Yet now, in a matter of minutes, the younger generation had stepped onto an entirely different path.
Lin Wei’s eyes became slightly moist.
He had no idea what realms they had reached.
He didn’t even understand the true meaning behind the terrifying auras filling the room.
But he knew one thing.
The Lin Clan had changed.
And it had changed forever.
Lin Hao watched him quietly.
Then his gaze shifted toward the door.
The System noticed immediately.
[Host?]
A faint smile appeared on Lin Hao’s face.
“The younger generation is only the beginning.”
He looked at Lin Wei.
“Family Head.”
Lin Wei immediately straightened.
“Yes, Ancestor?”
Lin Hao’s voice was calm.
“Bring the elders next.”
📜 Cultivation Reference
Mortal World: Body Refining Realm, Qi Gathering Realm, Foundation Establishment Realm, Core Formation Realm, Nascent Soul Realm, Soul Transformation Realm, Void Refining Realm, Body Integration Realm, Tribulation Transcendence Realm, Mahayana Realm.
All Mortal World realms have Levels 1–9.
Lin Hao: Strongest existence in the entire world, surpassing the Mortal, Immortal, and Divine Realms.
⚜️ Grade Reference
Spiritual Roots: Mortal → Low-Grade → Middle-Grade → High-Grade → Earth-Grade → Heaven-Grade → Saint-Grade → Divine-Grade → Immortal-Grade → Primordial-Grade
Physiques: Mortal → Spirit → King → Saint → Divine → Immortal → Primordial
Bloodlines: Mortal → Spirit → King → Saint → Divine → Immortal → Primordial
Cultivation Techniques: Mortal → Spirit → Earth → Heaven → Saint → Divine → Immortal → Primordial
Martial/Ability Techniques: Mortal → Spirit → Earth → Heaven → Saint → Divine → Immortal → Primordial
Spirit Stones: Low-Grade → Middle-Grade → High-Grade → Top-Grade → Supreme-Grade