Chapter 159 Foundation Establishment Level Two (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader)

Five years!

These five years have been a period of rapid growth in cultivation level! Even without the help of elixirs, his progress has been incredibly fast, placing him among the top tier even among those with dual spiritual roots.

The double placement alone increased his spiritual power by 90,000 units, which is equivalent to a full 90 drops of true essence. In addition, he also gained 12 drops through his own arduous cultivation.

This is now the fifth year and the sixth month of his deacon career.

At the second level of Foundation Establishment, the true essence has accumulated to 132 drops. Even within the second level, this is not a short distance, and it is not the initial stage. Once it reaches 300 drops, it can break through to the third level of Foundation Establishment.

Only when you cultivate to five hundred drops will you face the first hurdle of the Foundation Establishment stage, "Condensing Essence"!

The current arrangement of the placement slots is as follows.

[Placement Slot 1: Cold Weather Yin Blood Skill]

[Placement Slot 2: Cold Weather Yin Blood Skill]

"Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Technique (33/100): Practice forty-eight times a day, and it can be mastered in twenty years."

[Placement Slot 3: Taiyin You Tong (Tier 2)]

"Taiyin You Tong (100/100): There is nothing more to be derived from it"

[Placement slot 4: Frostmoon Wing]

"Frosty Moon Wings (20/100): Twelve training sessions a day, can be completed in eight years."

[Placement slot 5: Corpse Demon Arcane Arts (Under completion↑)]

"Corpse Demon Secret Technique (50/100): Practice 1,440 times a day, and it will take ten years to master."

Regarding the exercises...

After the "Cold Blood Ascension Technique" is perfected, its effect of improving aptitude is activated, but it becomes useless.

The Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Technique is a foundation-building technique, and it only requires thirty years of cultivation to reach perfection. Due to its inherent strength, its cultivation level should be able to be upgraded to the third tier.

This alone means that the benefits of the Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Technique are even greater. As for the cultivation speed, since acquiring dual spiritual root aptitude, the slight bonus brought by the perfection of the technique is not enough.

It's worth it for him to replace it.

As for the Taiyin Nether Eye of Unit 3, its cultivation of the Illusionary Moon Realm has just been completed today. Based on past experience, in order to unlock the next stage, it must break through to the Core Formation stage and obtain it from the Inheritance Jade Slip.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Yu uploaded "Searching for Demons in the Mountains". This secret technique came from the inheritance of the ancient soul, which was exactly the ability that Wang Yu lacked, and he had not practiced it much in the past few years.

[Placement Slot 3: Searching the Mountain for Demons]

"Searching for Demons in the Mountains (10/100): One hundred and forty-four training sessions a day, it can be completed in nine years."

The placement bar allows for a ten-minute training session, truly demonstrating the innate Ox-Horse Sacred Body. According to future plans, Heavenly Soul Qi, Soul-Shattering Finger, and Mind-Controlling Demonic Sound should all be added.

Wang Yu estimated that he would be dealing with these inherited methods for the rest of his Foundation Establishment career.

After reviewing the achievements of the past five years.

Wang Yu went out to buy supplies and spent all the spirit stones he had accumulated. The main items were medicinal herbs, second-tier alchemy furnaces, second-tier flying boats, second-tier array flags, etc., all of which were major drains of his resources.

And so, ten days later, the day of departure arrived!

"Are you really planning to go there so soon?"

"Yes, it doesn't make much difference whether it's a day earlier or later."

Wang Yu raised his hand, immediately stopping the Third Young Master of the Reverse Spirit from saying more: "That's enough. Thank you for your protection these past few days. I have my own path to walk."

Aside from the details of the transaction, all three of them are actually nice people, and after spending this time together, they have come to understand each other better.

However, staying within the sect presents many challenges.

Just considering the sale of pills alone, he couldn't bypass the Alchemy Hall. There were too many restrictions. Once the spirit stones were used up, he would have to risk causing trouble again to seize the sect's interests.

Doing this kind of thing too often can easily backfire; it's better to go out and be carefree.

He wanted to continue improving his spiritual root aptitude, so he had to look outside for opportunities. The disciples in the sect generally had three spiritual roots, which would no longer be of any benefit to him.

There are quite a few people with dual spiritual roots, but most of them are taken in as disciples by people from the same master-disciple lineage, and they are not easy to move.

He only needs the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect as a backer to provide him with the subsequent cultivation techniques; he will naturally earn other resources on his own.

After bowing to the three, Wang Yu released a small spirit boat-like flying artifact named [Flying Cloud Boat], which he had only recently refined.

It can carry three to five people, and one low-grade spirit stone can fly for half an hour. Its speed is similar to that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. It is ranked in the middle of the second tier and can be considered a small high-quality item.

"Fourth brother, this is for you."

As soon as they boarded the flying cloud boat, Zuo Qiuming tossed them a jade slip.

"It records the situation in Guiling City, including the families within the city, the surrounding forces, and some past revenue figures."

"It marks several troublemakers and the situation of several Core Formation cultivators. When you're out and about, the only thing you can rely on is the third-tier mid-grade formation that your sect has set up in the City Lord's Mansion. You must be careful."

Wang Yu understood. He had also collected some intelligence himself, but it was certainly not as detailed as what they had given him. He could study it carefully while traveling.

"I understand. In that case, I'll take my leave. Perhaps we'll meet again a hundred years from now."

After saying that, Wang Yu turned around, steered the boat, and quickly left into the distance.

The places he cannot see.

Situ Hong broke through to the final stage of his seclusion. Tantai Chan stood on one side of Hanxue Peak, gazing at the direction he had left in the distance. Zhuo Shouqing and the others stood there for a while before sighing and returning.

Their relationship was largely maintained by mutual interests, but it also contained a small amount of affection; neither too much nor too little, they could be considered friends.

Time flies by since then.

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Wang Yu flew eastward. The so-called Guiling City was located in the smallest of the four states in the territory of the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect, and it was also the only state with a vertical enclosed boundary.

Its name is—[Yunling Prefecture]!

With its verdant mountains and clear waters, layer upon layer of peaks, forests cover more than 80% of the area, and the number of monsters scattered throughout the region is no less than that in dangerous places.

However, there are no strong individuals among them, making them suitable for low-level cultivators to gain experience.

Moreover, the entire prefecture is shrouded in mist, with clouds that seem to rise from the ground. They are not only dense but also generally low-lying, causing Yunling Prefecture to be shrouded in mist year-round and the temperature to be rather cold.

However, some people actually love this ethereal environment, delighting in the feeling of walking up a cloud of white mist, as if living in a fairyland. This is Yunling!

Wang Yu sat at the bow of the boat, his attention focused on controlling the direction, while carefully studying the information in the jade slip.

I've finished reviewing the general situation of the state.

Now for the main event – ​​[Guiling City]!

This city is located on a plain and has five districts. It has a permanent population of 500,000 and a floating population of over one million. People from other places come to stay every day.

Judging from this point alone, Guiling City is definitely one of the top cities in Chiyuan. With such a large population, it's impossible for it to be bad.

There is one third-grade mid-level spiritual vein and three second-grade high-level spiritual veins, which have spawned dozens of first-grade spiritual lands, and the environment is also top-notch.

Outside the city, there are 80,000 hectares of spiritual fields and 290,000 hectares of ordinary fields, half of which belong to the city lord's mansion. The city is divided into five areas: east, south, west, north, and center, with the city lord's mansion located in the center.

Three of the four urban districts are controlled by cultivation families, who have established three markets and also have law enforcement powers.

Only the central and northern districts are controlled by the city lord's mansion.

"The Bai, Guan, and Jiang families... all have ancestors at the peak of Foundation Establishment. Each family typically has five to eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, and each family has over a thousand cultivators, proficient in various cultivation arts."

This number is not small. For cultivators in a family-based system, those with spiritual roots are all breeding boars. Having multiple wives and concubines is commonplace, as they add to the family's population. Once a child with spiritual roots is born, they will surely be able to step into the threshold of cultivation.

This is different from the spirit-testing days dominated by powerful forces.

Spirit slaves are a unique product of the demonic path, ranging from Qi Refining to Core Formation. However, that was a feature of wartime; normally, the highest level a spirit slave is at the Foundation Establishment stage, and they are all captured righteous people.

For those clansmen with lower aptitude, the family made a different arrangement, the simplest and most common being to become spirit farmers.

The method of pressing spiritual rice grown for the vast cultivation community is a unique feature of the Taihu Lake spiritual region.

The Red Kite people haven't mastered the art yet, and their mortality rate is much lower than that of the Spirit Slaves, but they can't exploit people without causing them harm. Taihu, on the other hand, has more experience in this regard.

They can use the housing in the training market to firmly control the lives of the spirit slaves, allowing them to pass on their skills here for generations and providing all the support for the training of their descendants.

All for the sake of standing out from the crowd and becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Wang Yu frowned more and more as he looked at it, feeling that it looked very familiar.

But...

While we can learn from Taihu's methods, we cannot apply them entirely to the Chiyuan people.

The Taihu Spiritual Domain is governed by sects that establish markets and exploit resources from countless independent cultivators and first-generation cultivators.

The Crimson Kite Demon Realm uses cities as its secondary administrative units, and its support is quite substantial. Wang Yu not only possesses the city lord's token of Guiling City, but also the key to controlling the third-tier mid-grade formation.

As for how to earn spirit stones, that was left to the city lord himself; he could do whatever he wanted as long as the population continued to reproduce normally, and the higher-ups didn't really care.

The Guiling City, which was acquired by the Zhuo family, is significantly more valuable than ordinary spiritual vein cities.

Looking back at the records, most of the previous city lords were Core Formation cultivators, and the lowest were inner sect practitioners who had advanced to the late Foundation Establishment stage. Wang Yu was the one with the lowest cultivation level in history.

In this situation, it is indeed difficult to have complete control over it.

However, with the name of the upper sect and the protective formation of the mansion as a guarantee, the situation will gradually improve as his cultivation improves. When he can truly suppress a city, resources will naturally flow in continuously.

"It's somewhat difficult, but still within the range of challenges."

And it will only get better.

The Third Young Master of Ni Ling did indeed offer him a piece of fat meat, but whether he can resist it depends on his own methods.

a long time.

Setting down the jade slip containing the information, Wang Yu pondered how to make a breakthrough. As a newcomer, he had only a few options.

1. Harmony brings wealth. Sharing profits can stabilize the situation temporarily, but the other party will become increasingly greedy, and the situation will eventually collapse.

2. Using the sect's name to intimidate others may work, but it might scare the weak and intimidate the strong, and might even lead to a fight.

3. They feign politeness and harmony, secretly seeking out weaknesses to attack and exterminate an entire clan through brutal and tyrannical suppression.

4. To intimidate you upon first meeting...

After much deliberation, he realized that if he could give him a show of force and then offer him a reward later, he could stabilize the situation temporarily. Once he broke through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, he would be confident of completely controlling Guiling City.

"Let's leave it at that for now, we'll talk about everything when we get there."

Currently, Wang Yu is mainly concerned with matters within the city; the troubles outside the city are actually far greater.

(End of this chapter)