In the city of Yunzhong, in the cave of Huangzi No. 36 in the north of the city,

Lin Jiang was standing in front of five jade bottles, each containing a foundation-building pill, and a row of auxiliary pills, which were all matched with the foundation-building pills.

Seeing that Lin Jiang had reached the great perfection of Qi training, the manager of the cave guessed that he was going to break through, and kindly reminded him to set up another spirit gathering array in the cave, so that the spirit gathering array could turn more spirit stones into spirit stones, and to ensure the concentration of spiritual energy in the cave.

Because there had been a situation where a Jindan master had broken through here, sucking the surrounding spiritual energy dry, causing other cave cultivators to have problems in their practice, the management would not care about such things, and if your cultivation was not as good as others, you could not seek justice.

So after Lin Jiang moved in, he immediately set up the spirit gathering array, preventing thirty spirit stones from being refined by the spirit gathering array every hour, until he refined 1,500 spirit stones and the spiritual energy in the cave was so rich that it turned into mist, he stopped.

"Foundation building begins"

After everything was ready, Lin Jiang began to build his foundation. He swallowed the foundation building pill into his stomach, and a powerful spiritual power gushed out from the foundation building pill. Without Lin Jiang's active refining, the spiritual energy flowed into his dantian along the meridians.

At this time, Lin Jiang's dantian was full, and the spiritual energy that continued to enter was constantly compressed. Lin Jiang called on his consciousness and took the initiative to participate in it to accelerate the compression process.

Under the strong spiritual pressure, the dantian began to be damaged. The dantian is the confluence of the human meridians. If the dantian is damaged, it will also affect the meridians and cause problems with the flow of spiritual energy. The most important thing is that once the dantian is too late to make up for it, the spiritual pressure brought by the foundation building pill will leak out and it will not be able to complete liquefaction. This is the most critical point in building the foundation.

Lin Jiang's consciousness moved, and a pill that protects the meridians flew into his mouth. He began to do two things at the same time, increasing the spiritual pressure while repairing the damage to the dantian.

"Puff"

However, seven days later, Lin Jiang still spit out a mouthful of blood. The dantian was damaged and there was no time to repair it. The spiritual pressure leaked, impacting the meridians, causing the failure of building the foundation.

"I knew it."

Lin Jiang sighed. With his five spiritual roots, if he succeeded in building his foundation the first time, that would be a miracle.

Lin Jiang wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, stood up and moved around, then took out the healing pills he had prepared and began to heal his wounds. He had rented this cave for three years, and there was no shortage of foundation pills. He still had a chance.

Three months later, Lin Jiang's meridian injuries healed, and after another half a month of recuperation, Lin Jiang built his foundation again.

"Puff"

Ten days later, Lin Jiang failed to build his foundation for the second time, and this time he was more seriously injured.

But Lin Jiang's temper was also aroused, and he didn't believe that he couldn't build his foundation with five foundation pills.

After recuperating for half a year and cultivating for another month, Lin Jiang began to build his foundation for the third time.

"Puff"

"I am so convinced by this old man."

The third failure dealt a heavy blow to Lin Jiang, and he was convinced.

After recuperating for a year, Lin Jiang tried again. This time, Lin Jiang was more confident. The previous three failures were not without any gains.

No matter how much breakthrough experience one buys from the outside world, it is not as good as one that he practices by himself. After three failures, Lin Jiang learns from experience every time, and his Dantian meridians have become much stronger after many struggles.

Ordinary casual cultivators, or even disciples of sects and families, will never have another chance after failing once. Most of the reasons are that they don’t have the opportunity to obtain the second foundation-building pill, or they are over sixty years old, their qi and blood are declining, their control over the body is declining, and their success rate is reduced. The families and sects behind them are unwilling to invest resources in them.

Therefore, for some people with special identities, as long as they are willing to invest huge resources, they can also reach the foundation-building stage.

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"It's done."

After two years of seclusion, Lin Jiang spent four foundation-building pills. He looked at the small drop of liquid spiritual power in his dantian, full of relief, and satisfaction spread throughout his body.

It was not easy. Four foundation-building pills, many casual cultivators could not get one foundation-building pill, but he spent four. According to the market price, this is more than 100,000.

In addition to the spirit stones used in the spirit-gathering array, rent, healing pills, etc. in the past two years, he has spent 170,000 or 180,000 spirit stones on foundation-building. If the loss of missed work in the past two years is counted, it will be a lot.

Such a difficult process naturally made Lin Jiang sigh. This kind of satisfaction, if it is not experienced personally, you will not understand.

"Keep up the good work and reach a higher level."

After going out to buy wine and meat to celebrate, Lin Jiang once again devoted himself to cultivation. He had just broken through, and his realm was not stable, and he needed time to consolidate.

This consolidation took a year. After a year, the rent expired, and the administrator came to ask Lin Jiang if he wanted to continue renting this cave. Lin Jiang refused and packed up and left.

Two days later, Lin Jiang appeared outside the gate of Zhonghang Sect. Not long after, Cao Ying came running from the gate.

"Uncle..."

Cao Ying jumped up with joy when she saw Lin Jiang. In the past two years, she had secretly visited Lin Jiang in Yunzhong City, but she never saw him. Knowing that Lin Jiang was in seclusion, she didn't dare to disturb him.

"Xiaoying, have you established your foundation?"

When Lin Jiang saw Cao Ying, the first thing he noticed was her cultivation. Lin Jiang was surprised to find that Cao Ying had also established her foundation.

"Yes, uncle, I just broke through two months ago."

"So fast."

"Master said I was fast too. How long did it take you to establish your foundation? I finished it in half a month."

"Half a month..."

Lin Jiang was choked and speechless. The satisfaction he had just established his foundation a year ago was gone. Is it really so annoying to compare yourself with others? It took him two years, but it only took her half a month.

"Uncle, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, you've only been practicing for five years, right?" "

Five years and seven months."

"Five years and seven months."

Lin Jiang thought about what he was like when he was practicing for five years and seven months. Oh, the original owner had just gone astray and died not long ago, and he was still in Lingtao Villa. I don't want to think about it anymore, I don't dare to recall it, it's embarrassing.

"Uncle, why did you come to see me this time?"

"I'm saying goodbye to you. I told you a few years ago that the world is so big and I want to see it. Later, because of the breakthrough, I kept delaying it. Now I'm also in the foundation-building stage, and it's time to go out for a walk."

"Uncle, where are you going?"

"I don't know yet, just take a look around."

"But it's so dangerous outside."

"It doesn't matter, uncle has the ability to protect himself..."

Lin Jiang and Cao Ying were chatting like this. He had long wanted to give up his current identity. Being involved with Cao Ying was too conspicuous. Now Cao Ying has already built his foundation before he was eighteen years old, which will definitely attract more attention, which will make Lin Jiang's future actions more inconvenient.

Lin Jiang did not enter Zhongxing Sect again. He just chatted with Cao Ying outside the mountain gate for a while. After instructing Cao Ying on some things, Lin Jiang flew away.

But he did not go to other places. Instead, he flew into the middle section of the Yunzhong Mountains. The middle section of the Yunzhong Mountains, covering thousands of miles, is a paradise for independent cultivators.

I don't know what Zhongxing Sect and Yunjian Sect think. They don't occupy this land themselves, nor do they allow their vassals to occupy it. They also don't allow the powerful independent cultivators of Yunzhong City to occupy it, and just let many independent cultivators gather.