For ordinary people, sensing the Pulse and achieving Foundation Establishment are two insurmountable mountains before mortals; a wealthy family like the Bai Qingqian's can use resources to forcibly achieve it, but this is entirely impossible for smaller cultivation families.
The growth of every cultivator relies on resources in the early stages, and after achieving Foundation Establishment, they give back to their families, forming a virtuous cycle; however, the previous Foundation Establishment patriarch of the Zhang Family failed to manage this well, still harboring ambitions of reaching the Golden Core Realm, which resulted in his death and the complete loss of the Zhang Family's accumulated wealth over generations.
This is the typical path to ruin for many small cultivation families, where family cultivators focus less on nurturing descendants and more on attempting to soar to great heights, thereby dragging the entire family into the abyss.
