Half a month passed in a flash.
Jiang Deng and Jiang Zhiling's cultivation speed is as rapid as riding a spirit boat!
Jiang Deng was already at the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm. If she hadn't been using the power of chaos to strengthen and expand the Soul Locking Formation within her Dantian in preparation for entering the Foundation Establishment Realm, her cultivation speed would have been even faster...
Jiang Zhiling's cultivation level is the sixth level of Qi Refining Realm!
Jiang Deng did not let Jiang Zhiling simply increase her spiritual power. Instead, he spent more time on laying a solid foundation and guiding her swordsmanship so that her innate sword bones could exert greater strength. In this way, Jiang Zhiling could completely defeat her opponents of higher levels.
Feng Qing's strength has also improved. Because she has a unique Yin spiritual root, her cultivation speed is slightly slower than the other two of them. She has only reached the third level of Qi Refining Realm so far.
In addition, during their time at Zangfeng, Jiang Deng and the others' relationship with Zhan Ji also improved.
Although Zhan Ji has a bad temper, she is smart and organized, and she manages all the big and small matters in Zang Feng in an orderly manner.
That day, Zhan Ji came to the martial arts arena and asked Jiang Deng and the other two who were resting, with a troubled look on her face, "Have you noticed that I've gained weight recently?"
Recently, she has been eating a lot of meat with Jiang Deng and others. At the beginning, her stomach was bloated by the spiritual energy, but later she digested it quickly for some reason, so she ate more meat.
"Isn't it good to gain some weight?" Jiang Deng said frankly, "You used to be as thin as a skeleton, but now you finally look like a human being."
Jiang Zhiling and Feng Qing also nodded in agreement.
"But! I have a little belly!" Zhan Ji said in horror, holding her flat belly.
Jiang Deng's eyes lit up, "Then practice, and I guarantee your little belly will disappear!"
"Can cultivation really help you lose weight?"
Jiang Deng pointed at the slender Feng Qing and the bamboo-like Jiang Zhiling, "Look at them."
A flicker of envy flashed in Zhan Ji's eyes, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Okay! I'll practice!"
Jiang Deng remembered that Zhan Ji had a single wood spirit root, so he couldn't wait to copy a copy of the "Wood Spirit Code", a top-grade heavenly skill, and put it into Zhan Ji's sea of consciousness.
As for why the names of the "Golden Spirit Code" and "Wooden Spirit Code" are so similar? Jiang Deng would never say that it was because she had found a complete set of skills from ancient ruins, including gold, wood, water, fire, and earth!
"Sister, are you about to build your foundation? Are there any precautions?" Jiang Zhiling asked curiously.
"Foundation building...is mainly about compressing the spiritual energy in the dantian into liquid to build the foundation of cultivation. This process must be assisted by foundation building pills." Jiang Deng was in a trance. After being a strong person for too long, she remembered that foundation building still required external help.
Jiang Zhiling blinked in confusion, "Foundation Building Pill? Where can I get it?"
“…”
Jiang Deng rubbed her brows. She remembered that the Taichu Sword Sect had a Dan Peak, where they must be selling Foundation Establishment Pills, but the price should not be much cheaper than the spiritual swords.
It would be great if any of them could refine pills, so they wouldn’t have to spend spirit stones to buy foundation-building pills.
Glancing at Feng Qing from the corner of his eye, Jiang Deng remembered that the Qi-restoring pills he had taken when he first came to Zang Peak were made by Feng Qing. He immediately looked at Feng Qing with shining eyes, "Feng Qing, don't you know how to make pills? Let's see if you can make a foundation-building pill!"
Even Feng Qing, who was always calm, couldn't help but twitch his lips. "Although I have the alchemy furnace and the recipe, the foundation-building pill is a top-grade yellow-grade pill. I can only refine a mid-grade yellow-grade pill at best."
"It's okay, just practice more and you'll be fine. We have several spiritual medicine gardens in Zangfeng anyway, so why not use them? There are still more than ten days before the Sword Tomb opens. All you need to do is refine a dozen Foundation Establishment Pills."
Feng Qing's mouth twitched even more violently.
A dozen?
You have to know that there are too many uncertainties in alchemy. Sometimes, not even one pill in a furnace can be successful. She has to try to refine at least ten furnaces of more than ten pills.
One furnace a day, this is going to kill her!
But looking at Jiang Deng and Jiang Zhiling's eager expressions, Feng Qing really couldn't say no, so she could only say, "I, I'll try..."
More than ten days passed in a flash, and it was not until the night before the sword tomb was opened that Feng Qing finally managed to refine ten foundation-building pills with great difficulty, during which time she consumed countless spiritual herbs and her spiritual energy.
Due to consuming too much spiritual energy, Feng Qing's cultivation level improved even faster than normal practice, and he had actually reached the terrifying seventh level of Qi Refining Realm!
That night.
Because cultivators need to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy when building their foundation, Jiang Deng specially took Jiang Zhiling to the top of Zangfeng where the spiritual energy was the most concentrated.
Jiang Deng took out the foundation-building pills refined by Feng Qing from his storage bag and generously stuffed five of them into Jiang Zhiling's pockets. "Zhiling, you build your foundation first, and I'll protect you."
"Um."
Jiang Zhiling nodded obediently, took the foundation-building pill, and opened her eyes again after a while.
Did it fail so quickly?
Jiang Deng quickly comforted him, "It doesn't matter if you fail. As cultivators, we must be brave enough to face failure! Come, eat another one and try to build your foundation."
"No need," Jiang Zhiling returned all the pills to Jiang Deng and said sincerely, "Sister, I've succeeded. These pills are all yours."
Jiang Deng: “…”
Do you have to be so discouraging?
Zhiling succeeded in building her foundation in just one try. Should we say that she is worthy of being a natural spiritual root?
In the world of cultivation, most cultivators, after embarking on the path of cultivation, are stuck at the difficult stage of building a foundation.
With natural spiritual roots, the chance of building a foundation is 100%.
With the talent of extraordinary spiritual roots, the probability of building a foundation is 90%.
With true spiritual root qualifications, the probability of building a foundation is 50%.
With pseudo spiritual root qualifications, the probability of building a foundation is 10%.
With useless spiritual roots, the chance of building a foundation is less than one tenth of one percent.
As for Jiang Deng's waste of Dantian to build the foundation, it is an unprecedented thing!
Jiang Deng knew that his aptitude was poor due to his useless spiritual roots, and it would be difficult for him to build his foundation, so he poured all the remaining nine foundation-building pills into his mouth in one breath.
If I fail to build my foundation this time, I will have to go to Danfeng early tomorrow morning to buy a hundred foundation-building pills and try again...
As soon as he swallowed the foundation-building pill, the spiritual power in his body surged, and the rich spiritual energy on the top of the peak began to flow frantically into Jiang Deng's dantian.
Because Jiang Deng's dantian was useless and had countless holes in it, the spiritual energy flowed in faster than that of ordinary people, so fast that Jiang Deng had no time to transform the spiritual energy into chaotic power in time.
The surging spiritual power caused Jiang Deng to feel tearing pain in all her limbs. If her body had not been tempered by the Hongmeng Spring water and her physical strength was not comparable to that of a cultivator at the first level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, she would probably have been directly blown apart by this spiritual energy!
"Well!"
Jiang Deng's face was pale, and more holes were torn into his dantian by the spiritual energy, which could not be blocked at all.
Fortunately, Jiang Deng had already reinforced the Soul Locking Formation in advance. This formation could fully accommodate the spiritual power of the early Foundation Establishment Realm. As long as she could liquefy all the chaotic power in her Dantian before her body was burst by the spiritual energy, she would be able to succeed.
Two hours later.
As the spiritual energy at the top of the mountain suddenly disappeared and was all absorbed into Jiang Deng's body, she finally succeeded in building her foundation!
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