Chapter 70: Foundation Building
The Chaos Sect possesses a third-grade mid-quality spiritual vein, but that does not mean that every disciple can enjoy it.
In principle, the closer you are to the core of the spirit vein, the closer the concentration of spiritual energy is to the third-grade intermediate quality. However, after all, the entire vein of this spirit vein is constantly dispersed, and the spiritual energy becomes thinner as you go further into the branches.
Therefore, looking at the entire Chaos Sect, there are only a few caves that truly possess the concentration of third-grade medium-quality spiritual veins, and they are basically occupied by the sect master, inner sect elders, and true disciples.
Generally speaking, the caves that ordinary disciples apply for foundation building are basically second-grade middle-grade caves or second-grade upper-grade caves, and third-grade caves are not open. Therefore, Jiang Yu's special pardon of a third-grade middle-grade cave for foundation building can be regarded as an extra care for Ning Daoran.
"Thank you, Senior Sister!"
He was full of gratitude. This matter made him very excited. If he could have a third-grade cave with medium-grade spiritual energy level to build his foundation, his success rate would naturally be higher, and he could even save the medium-grade spiritual stone in the storage bag.
"Junior Brother Ning, build your foundation well."
Jiang Yu left after leaving a few words.
…
Ning Daoran entered the cave and formally prepared to build his foundation.
The big stupid deer was reluctant to leave, so he built a simple shack outside and lay in the shack every day waiting for Ning Daoran to come out.
The cave has everything you need.
Ning Daoran's mentality was very stable. He sat on the ground in the cave and meditated for a whole day. After his qi, blood, magic power, and soul had all reached a full state, he took out the jade bottle from the storage bag, took out the remaining fine foundation-building pill and swallowed it.
"boom--"
The huge essence contained in the Foundation Establishment Pill exploded in the abdomen in an instant, burning like a ball of fire, and continued to spread to all parts of the body. At this moment, a ray of spiritual light rushed out from the top of the head, penetrated the cave, and turned into a wisp of spiritual mist between heaven and earth.
"Someone tried to build a foundation."
On the mountain, a group of inner disciples looked over.
Just as everyone was looking envious, two more streams of spiritual mist suddenly rose into the sky from the cave on the mountain, overlapping and intertwining with each other.
"Huh?"
Inside the pavilion, an outer sect elder frowned and said, "Senior Brother Li, how many cave dwellings has the sect approved recently? There are actually three disciples trying to build their foundation at the same time. Who are they?"
The green-robed elder groaned and said, “One of them is Meng Xiao, the direct disciple of the great elder and the chief disciple of the younger generation of the sect.
After that, it was Elder Xu Ning's disciple Ge Sheng. As for the third person, it seemed to be Ning Daoran, the spiritual farmer disciple from the outer sect Qiongbi Peak."
"Oh? That... Ning Daoran, who is quite talented in spiritual plants, has also established his foundation?"
"Exactly!"
"What a coincidence! Three disciples are trying to build their foundation together. This is destined to make our Primal Chaos Sect prosperous!"
…
In the air, three spiritual mists continued to expand.
One of the spiritual mists only extended to a radius of about one mile before stopping growing, while the other spiritual mist extended to a radius of about five miles!
Of course, the most exaggerated one is the third spiritual mist. Its height exceeds the previous two, and its radius extends to nearly twenty miles. It covers the whole sky and earth, enveloping most of the Chaos Sect.
The larger the spiritual mist, the deeper the Qi Refining foundation of the person trying to build the foundation.
There is no doubt that the huge spiritual mist with a radius of twenty miles came from Ning Daoran.
However, others do not understand the truth.
On the mountain, a group of elders were stunned.
"The foundation-building spiritual fog has a radius of twenty miles. I have never seen such a scene before..."
A foundation building elder said respectfully: "This spiritual mist must have come from Meng Xiao's child. A true disciple with a second-grade fire spiritual root is indeed extraordinary. Great Elder, you have accepted a good disciple!"
In the crowd, the elder Yang Yan stroked his beard, looking smug: "This kid Meng Xiao... is indeed lucky. He can actually attract such a huge amount of spiritual mist. It is stronger than when I first established my foundation!"
"This is called the disciple surpassing the master."
A lean foundation-building elder smiled and said, "The other smaller spiritual mist should be the foundation-building spiritual mist of Brother Xu Ning's favorite student Ge Sheng, right?"
“Although Ge Sheng’s foundation-building celestial phenomena are not as good as Meng Xiao’s, it is still quite rare among the younger generation. Congratulations, Senior Brother Xu Ning!”
Xu Ning bowed repeatedly and spoke polite words.
He narrowed his eyes and said, "Ning Daoran's spiritual mist is so small, I'm afraid the success rate of building the foundation will not be very high."
"That's right."
Someone echoed, "However, as a ninth-grade mixed spiritual root, it is not easy for Junior Brother Ning to cultivate to the perfection of Qi Refining. If he fails in building the foundation this time, it is reasonable."
"well……"
An elder sighed, "The length of our immortal journey is determined by heaven. When our spiritual roots are formed, how far we can go is already determined."
"That's right, that's right..." The elders sighed.
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Inside the cave.
Ning Daoran sat quietly with his eyes closed. At this moment, a huge amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth was condensing into spiritual mist in the air, which was constantly impacting his own blood and energy.
This is the blood and qi barrier, the first barrier in building the foundation.
Ning Daoran frowned slightly, and the body-tempering technique of returning to nature began to work in his body. Suddenly, a layer of golden spiritual energy covered his body surface, and every inch of his skin became indestructible. The strength of his entire body was increased to an extremely outrageous level.
He frantically absorbed the spiritual energy from the heaven and earth above his head. His entire body was like a huge furnace, absorbing the spiritual energy madly, and then refining it into his own spiritual energy and injecting it into the qi sea in his dantian.
“Sizzle~~”
Under the impact of the massive amount of spiritual energy, his skin turned red and his blood was boiling. As the majestic spiritual energy entered his body, the water in his body continued to evaporate and his whole body began to smoke.
This process lasted for about ten days. At this time, along with the digestion of the Foundation Establishment Pill, the huge spiritual energy turned into wisps of dense spiritual mist that appeared around Ning Daoran and filled the entire cave.
In addition, the huge spiritual mist above his head had also been completely absorbed. At this time, Ning Daoran practiced the Body Tempering Technique and the Evergreen Technique to further compress the surrounding spiritual energy.
This is a long process that tests one's own magical powers, so it is called the magical power test.
About half a month later.
Ning Daoran's whole body was covered in golden luster, and the spiritual energy around him was compressed more and more densely, and finally all of it was absorbed into his body and began to be further refined and compressed.
The third stage of foundation building, the spiritual consciousness stage, officially began! Ning Daoran looked inward with his spiritual consciousness and began to continuously compress and refine the rich spiritual energy into golden condensed liquid.
Suddenly, the body seemed to turn into a rolling furnace. Driven by the powerful spiritual consciousness, it continuously refined the spiritual energy in the body, refining and compressing it to the extreme that it could currently achieve.
Half an hour later.
The first drop of golden mana condensed liquid appeared above the dantian, and fell into the depths of the dantian with a "pop".
Ning Daoran took a deep breath. It was done. The first drop of mana condensation liquid was completed! Next, he just needed to condense more liquid mana and refine the entire body again. The foundation would be built.
The so-called foundation building is to refine the gaseous mana into liquid mana, so that the mana strength of the whole person will undergo a complete change.
In the world of cultivating immortals, building the foundation is considered the real entry to cultivating immortals. Only by building the foundation can one truly step into this immortal gate. Otherwise, no matter how strong one is in the Qi Refining Stage, one is still just a layman.
One day later.
The 24th drop of golden liquid fell into the Dantian.
Ning Daoran's magic power at this time was far beyond what it had been before, but he was not satisfied with this. He continued to temper his body and seek more magic liquid.
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On the mountain.
The two larger spiritual mists had now been retracted into the cave, but the third one suddenly collapsed.
“Not good…”
An outer sect elder's face turned pale: "Failed... Did Junior Brother Ning fail in building his foundation?"
"That's probably the case. Junior Brother Ning's cultivation foundation is not stable enough after all..."
"really."
Xu Ning smiled faintly: "For a ninth-grade mixed spiritual root, the probability of building a foundation is already very low. Building a foundation is something that goes against the will of heaven for him. It is not surprising that Junior Brother Ning failed to build a foundation."
At this moment, a sound transmission note flew down from the mountain.
Xu Ning immediately opened it, and all the elders could hear the sound of the sound transmission note clearly: "Master, Senior Brother Ge Sheng failed in building his foundation!"
"ah?!"
Xu Ning was shocked and his face turned pale.
You have to know that the pill Ge Sheng took was a fine foundation-building pill. How could he fail even with this? It was a waste of all the effort I put into him!
For a moment, Xu Ning's face turned alternately blue and white, and he felt filled with remorse and regret.
"It turns out that the smallest spiritual mist belongs to Junior Brother Ge Sheng..."
Huang Chengyan, who was building the foundation of the outer sect, laughed teasingly: "At first I thought it was Junior-Nephew Ning. From this point of view, Junior-Nephew Ning's cultivation foundation is actually much stronger than Ge Sheng's!"
"That's right, Ning Daoran is indeed the guy. He should be condensing liquid now, and his foundation is almost complete!"
"It's hard to say. After 100 days of foundation building, it cannot be considered successful before you come out of retreat. We need to continue to observe."
"Brother, what you said makes sense!"
…
The hundredth day.
A young man wearing pure white embroidered gold disciple's uniform walked out of the cave. It was Meng Xiao.
Meng Xiao also used a third-order, mid-grade spiritual vein cave, which was less than ten feet away from Ning Daoran’s foundation-building cave.
"Xiao'er!"
The elder in a grey robe, Gong Yangyan, and a group of elders were already waiting outside and asked, "How about building a foundation?"
"Master!"
Meng Xiao said in a deep voice: "More than 300 drops of condensed liquid!"
"oh?"
Gong Yangyan narrowed his eyes and revealed a satisfied smile: "Yes, Master only had more than 200 drops of foundation-building fluid back then. It has not been in vain that the sect has spent so much effort in training you."
"Master."
Meng Xiao frowned and said, "When I was building my foundation, I sensed another extremely powerful foundation-building aura. Who was it?"
"Ning Daoran, the nephew of Qiongbi Peak."
Gong Yangyan looked into the distance and said, "It's strange, your Junior Brother Ning started building his foundation on the same day as you, but you have already finished it, but he is still going on."
“That’s normal.”
An outer sect elder said: "Junior Brother Ning has ninth-grade mixed spiritual roots and his own foundation is relatively poor, so it will take longer to consolidate his foundation, but it won't take too long."
Everyone nodded and agreed with it.
After that, day after day passed, but Ning Daoran still didn't come out.
Many people are eagerly waiting, and they don’t even know whether this kid has successfully established his foundation.
The big stupid deer didn't shout or cry out. It just knelt and lay outside Ning Daoran's foundation-building cave every day, guarding there.
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Day 134.
Along with a ripple of restriction, a figure finally came out.
Ning Daoran, who looked like a young boy and was wearing a light blue outer disciple uniform, was now brimming with the aura of foundation building!
No more, no less, one thousand drops of condensate!
In the Dantian, liquid mana surged like a tide! "Old Deer!"
He laughed heartily, and in one quick step he hugged the big stupid deer's head, rubbing it hard.
“Ahhh~~~”
The big stupid deer arched Ning Daoran's shoulder and said, "Big brother is really awesome, his foundation-building aura is so terrifying!" (End of this chapter)