Chapter 144 Advancing Together in the Foundation Building of the Nether Spring!

The secret medicine was ready in just one day.

Convenient and fast.

In addition, the Cold Flame Pill produced by the Cold Dragon Pill is currently only at the first level, because when it was refined, rare second-level spiritual items such as second-level demon cores and Yin Marrow Liquid were used.

Once Wang Yu breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, the power of this flame will also advance to the second tier. This was one of the reasons why he chose the incomplete Cold Dragon Alchemy Technique.

It has some growth potential, but that's where it ends.

After the medicinal power is completely absorbed, if one wants to advance to the third rank again in the future, one will need to refine a new "Frosty Dragon Pill" using the demon core of a third-rank ice-attribute dragon-type demon beast as the main ingredient.

After refining, it can grow smoothly and advance to the third tier of Frost Flame.

It's impossible to go any higher, since even in its complete state, the Cold Dragon Alchemy Technique is only a third-tier alchemy technique.

The higher you go in cultivation techniques and secret arts, the rarer and more expensive they become. Often, even with spirit stones, you can't buy them. The knowledge blockade increases progressively.

The most important thing is the channel. Apart from the Taiyin Nether Eye, the Cold Flame Elixir is the most valuable thing Wang Yu possesses.

Moreover, after the breakthrough, the inheritance jade slip of Taiyin You Tong can also unlock the second layer. There is so much for him to learn and so much more to fill in!

There are even the orthodox advanced cultivation techniques of Cold Blood Peak, the art of escape, supporting spells, magical artifacts, pill formulas, and so on.

Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

The storage space that I thought I had plenty of before now seems completely insufficient.

"First, level up to unlock more placement slots, then increase combat power, and finally, add support..."

I kept planning in my mind, striving for the best utilization rate.

Finally, things settled down for Wang Yu.

While taking medicine to nourish the dragon and continuously strengthening the dragon spine's foundation and origin, laying the groundwork for the future, the cultivation of the main body cannot be stopped even while receiving feedback on the cultivation level of the placement column.

After all, the cultivation speed of dual spiritual roots is not slow. With the physical body of a second-level body cultivator, the strength of his meridians has been greatly improved, which is enough for him to maintain the circulation of the Great Circulation Technique all day long.

The only deficiency is in spiritual awareness. I need to set aside an hour each day to recover my energy in order to maintain the most efficient cultivation speed.

Both paths are progressing simultaneously and rapidly!

Two and a half months later.

In September of Wang Yu's fourth year as an inner disciple, in a small, dark space, only a wisp of blue outer flame emitted a faint, grayish-white light.

At a certain moment, the aura emanating from the figure sitting cross-legged reached a state of perfect harmony, beyond which there was no further progress.

"Perfect Qi Refining Stage Achieved!"

The thousand strands of semi-liquefied spiritual energy, far exceeding the quality of cultivators of the same realm, had already acquired the rudiments of true essence. As the aura dissipated, the underground space grew increasingly cold.

Without waiting a moment, Wang Yu took out another Foundation Establishment spiritual item, the [Nether Spring Lotus], from his storage bag. He had exchanged two high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual items with Yu Tangtang using the dragon's inner core, so it was definitely worth it.

We've been waiting for this moment.

"Everyone says that you can't build a foundation with a useless spiritual root, so let's see if my dual spiritual roots are any good!"

He tilted his head back and swallowed the lotus from the secluded spring.

As his hand seals shifted, the Cold Blood Ascension Technique reached its peak. Within Wang Yu's body, there seemed to be a surging sound like a raging river, the turbulence of a massive amount of spiritual energy transforming towards a higher level.

The effects of a superior Foundation Establishment item are comparable to those of a superior Foundation Establishment pill. Given his foundation and aptitude, there is no possibility of failure.

"The first of the three stages of Foundation Establishment: the Spiritual Power Stage!"

Within the dantian, the already semi-liquefied spiritual energy condensed into a vortex, continuously compressing towards a single point at a steady pace.

At this moment, the Lotus of the Netherworld fell into the center of the whirlpool.

The spiritual energy storm suddenly accelerated several times, and almost instantly, the entire Qi Sea became empty, with only a drop of dark blue true essence quietly remaining in the center.

His true essence had condensed! The surrounding spiritual energy surged into his body almost uncontrollably, as if a certain pressure had been formed inside and out.

Wang Yu separated a wisp of his divine sense and emptied several storage bags, distributing nearly 100,000 spirit stones evenly around them. The spiritual energy in the spirit stones was drained at a visible speed.

Within the Qi Sea, the second drop of true essence began to condense.

Thus, the spiritual energy barrier has been overcome.

"Next is... the Qi and Blood barrier!"

The physical body, which had already been reshaped after the last breakthrough to the second stage of body refinement, is facing another transformation. The improvement may not be as great as before, but the adaptation and affinity to spiritual energy will definitely see a leap forward.

The body cracked and popped, but the strong meridians were almost unaffected. The surging blue-black blood and qi were squeezed out, providing nutrients for the transformation of the body.

The external spirit stones dimmed faster and faster, and the extracted spiritual energy even formed a thick fog, constantly washing over Wang Yu's body.

During the transformation, a deeper level of life evolution and change occurred.

It took less than half an incense stick.

Wang Yu then revealed a satisfied smile.

The Qi and Blood barrier was easily overcome, and even the Netherworld Lotus didn't have any effect, retaining two-thirds of its medicinal power, which was then used entirely on the Spiritual Consciousness barrier.

As the final hurdle in Foundation Establishment, the Divine Sense Barrier has blocked countless aspiring cultivators; it is also the most difficult barrier to overcome.

Although Wang Yu has not yet cultivated the Ancient Soul Technique, both his alchemy and the Taiyin Nether Eyes have greatly enhanced his spiritual sense.

The hazy gray mist in the Niwan Palace between the eyebrows dissipated over a large area.

The Netherworld Lotus took up residence within it, and the ethereal light it emitted solidified Wang Yu's previously unnecessary divine sense, transforming it from spiritual energy into true essence, thus bringing about a qualitative change in his divine sense.

His perception range is getting farther and farther. In the future, after learning the secret technique of searching mountains and finding demons, he will be able to control a radius of fifty miles around himself.

Once the medicinal power of the Nether Spring Lotus was exhausted, the breakthrough was also coming to an end.

The barrier of spiritual consciousness has been broken!

Having passed the three trials and established his foundation, the fluctuations of spiritual energy in heaven and earth became more pronounced, rushing into Wang Yu's body like a celestial river flowing backward, entering from his head and exiting from his legs.

Baptized by heaven and earth, transformed and reborn.

Furthermore, all the perfect techniques, secret arts, bone arts, strange arts, and even cultivation methods that Wang Yu had mastered transformed into mysterious ancient seal characters, which merged into his dantian and disappeared without a trace.

This phenomenon made him frown slightly.

He had previously had this idea that the more perfect spells one had during the Foundation Establishment stage, the better, but he never expected it to be such a baffling situation.

I had not seen it in the scriptures of the Sutra Recitation Hall before, so I can only check it when I get back.

Now is not the time to think about these things.

After completing the breakthrough, Wang Yu felt that his life essence had been enhanced again, as if he had made up for the ten years he had spent cultivating the Burning Life Demon Art.

My body has never felt so comfortable, even more so than when I advanced in body refinement last time.

Introspectively examine the Qi Sea (CV6).

Three drops of cold blood essence lay there quietly. When a Qi Refining cultivator breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they usually only condense one drop of essence to be considered successful.

A thousand streams condense into a single drop!

However, different cultivation methods have different focuses. For example, cultivation methods that emphasize spiritual power will condense two, three, four, or other drops of true essence when breaking through.

With the help of the baptism of heaven and earth, swallow as much as you can; anything extra is profit.

The reason why he, Wang, has this quantity is naturally due to the foundation laid by the Xuanjing Flower, as well as the benefits he gained from the baptism of heaven and earth through the second-order perfect cultivation technique.

To break through from the first level of Foundation Establishment to the second level, one needs to cultivate a hundred drops of true essence.

To break through from the second to the third level of Foundation Establishment, one needs to cultivate 300 drops of true essence. After accumulating 500 drops, one will encounter the first bottleneck.

This refers to the difficulties encountered in the middle stage of foundation building.

In the cultivation world, this difficult hurdle is called — [Condensing Essence]!

Condensing five hundred drops of true essence into a pool of 'Yuan Spring' is essentially the same as the three Spirit Refinement stages in the Qi Refining period; both aim to improve the quality of true essence.

One moment of condensing essence yields a spring.

The lake was formed by secondary condensation.

The sea was formed by condensing the primordial energy three times.

The next step after this is about Core Formation.

Based on the cultivation requirements of the Foundation Establishment stage, with an efficiency of "50 strands per day," it seems that breaking through to the second level of Foundation Establishment is a long way off.

Thinking like that would be underestimating the potential of having dual spiritual roots.

This is a top-grade spiritual root. Under normal resource conditions, it has a chance to break through to the Core Formation stage before its lifespan ends, so the speed cannot be this slow.

Spiritual roots are tools for cultivators to tap into the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

For example, he used to use chopsticks to pick up rice noodles, which was not only difficult to pick up one strand at a time, but also easy to slip out.

After the demonic fetus seized the soul, it used a vacuum cleaner to suck it up, but its mouth was only so big, and the amount it could eat and digest was ultimately limited.

After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, it was as if his mouth suddenly turned into a gaping maw, and he grew several mouths on his body, perfectly utilizing the "vacuum cleaner" tool to eat his fill.

The metaphor is somewhat abstract, but the principle is the same.

This is the transformative power that comes with breaking through a cultivation level!

Similarly.

The efficiency of a single placement slot has been improved again, from "50 strands/day" to "2500 strands/day", increasing the cultivation speed by fifty times.

2500 strands, which is equivalent to "25 strands per day".

If both placement slots are used simultaneously, it will be "50 shares/day". Every twenty days, one drop of true essence can be condensed, and in two thousand days, it will be one hundred drops, which can advance to the second level of Foundation Establishment.

A breakthrough can be achieved in five and a half years.

It normally takes eleven years for a dual-spiritual-root cultivator to break through to the first level. This is even with the early stages of cultivation being relatively easy, and with the aid of top-grade pills and other methods, the time can be shortened by half.

If one reaches the Foundation Establishment stage at the age of one hundred, there is a sliver of hope that one will reach the threshold of Core Formation.

Wang Yu is still young, not yet forty years old. He will definitely reach the peak of Foundation Establishment in his lifetime, and Core Formation... is not far away for him.

After completing the breakthrough, I glanced at the placement bar.

Unfortunately, Unit 6 was never built. Although I knew this would happen, I was still a little disappointed when it was finally confirmed.

I could feel the swamp trembling slightly as it approached.

Wang Yu scanned the area with his divine sense and discovered that it was the late-stage second-tier alligator dragon demon beast nearby, which must have sensed the unusual concentration of spiritual energy in this place.

He broke through in less than three incense sticks' time, which is incredibly fast. This is the benefit of having a solid foundation and the assistance of a treasure.

Unwilling to engage in a prolonged battle with this monster, he swept away a large number of empty spirit stones on the ground with a wave of his sleeve, leaving about 40,000 spirit stones unaffected.

Consumption is manageable; we haven't gone bankrupt.

Immediately afterward, Wang Yu had a thought and soared into the sky.

(End of this chapter)