As a key border city, Linan County is home to several mid-level spiritual veins.
One of the spiritual veins is specifically designed for a defensive array, and no one can approach it except for the cultivators guarding it.
As for the other mid-level spiritual veins, aside from the Kuncang Sect disciples using them for cultivation, visiting cultivators who wish to cultivate can also rent them.
But the price is certainly not low.
The spiritual veins are distributed throughout the city, with the one near the city lord's mansion being the best, almost reaching the level of a high-grade spiritual vein.
Secondly, there is the mansion complex located in the western district, which is another residence of the Kuncang Sect and is mostly used by the sect's cultivators.
One side was divided into several secret rooms for rent to earn spirit stones. On the other side, the mansion courtyards, apart from those used by sect cultivators themselves, were mostly available for rent.
A cultivation chamber requires nearly four thousand spirit stones a year, which is a considerable expense for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
In comparison, the rental costs for the mansions and courtyards over there aren't that high. This is simply because they only offer long-term rentals, with only the secluded rooms available for short-term cultivation. They have a knack for making money.
Basically, only high-level cultivators would rent small courtyards or mansions long-term. Therefore, most low-level cultivators in the city would only rent secret rooms when they were close to breaking through to the next level, and the price was naturally quite high.
However, there was a secret room whose seal had not been opened for five consecutive years.
This sight caught the attention of the cultivators who had passed by more than once, and they couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
This has attracted considerable attention and sparked much discussion.
"I wonder who is so rich that they can afford four thousand spirit stones a year? We're only breaking through to the next level, so renting here for two or three months at most is enough."
"This person, could it be that he rented the secret room for cultivation? For so long. That's quite a lot of money. With a little more money, he could rent that courtyard next door for ten years."
"Besides, someone with such resources can't be some nobody, right? Why would they need to rent a secret room..."
"It's not just about cultivation; it seems he's trying to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. Last time I saw him, his aura was much stronger, but it was also somewhat violent, chaotic, and disorderly, clearly indicating he was in the process of breaking through. Now, looking at him again, I guess he's failed..."
"So it was an attempt to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage? But renting it for so long is a bit strange. Now that it's failed, it seems like a huge loss. It's likely that his cultivation path will come to an end here. With Foundation Establishment Pills and such a consumption of spirit stones, it will be quite difficult to accumulate them again!"
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This day.
As fate would have it, the sky gradually darkened, and a light drizzle began to fall.
The door to the secret room, which had not been opened for five years, slowly opened at this moment.
A thin man in a blue robe walked out. His hair was disheveled, as if he hadn't groomed it for five years. His stubble was thick and overgrown like weeds, making him look messy and savage.
Feeling a cool sensation on his face, Lin Xiuyuan squinted and looked up at the sky, where raindrops were falling rapidly and hitting his face.
The rain intensified, turning into a torrential downpour.
Lin Xiuyuan reached out and caught the rain, patting it on his face. The coolness penetrated to his heart, as if it had just brought him back to his senses from the daze of his long seclusion.
At that moment, a burst of light appeared in her hands. One hand reached down to her chin, and the other reached behind her head to gather her disheveled long hair.
The light in her hand was like a sharp blade, gently brushing across and trimming her overly long black hair. She took out a white rope and casually tied it up.
His thick, messy beard was gently stroked by his palm, revealing a pale face that had been deprived of sunlight for many years.
His features vaguely resembled those of a young man, but the vicissitudes in his eyes and the resolute look on his face made him appear more like a middle-aged man. His facial features were soft, making his face somewhat ordinary and not particularly outstanding.
A hint of worry flashed in Lin Xiuyuan's eyes. He sighed and said, "There's only one chance left. I can only try my luck with a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill."
A faint blue light emanated from his body, evaporating his soaked robe and forming a protective aura. Lin Xiuyuan then stepped into the rain and walked further and further away.
At the beginning of his seclusion, Lin Xiuyuan's cultivation speed increased again after he resolved the pill poisoning issue. Although his spiritual root was too poor, making his progress relatively slow, the abundance of rare and precious herbs he possessed still made his progress quite good.
He already possessed the cultivation level of the ninth level, and after a year of seclusion, he successfully reached the perfect stage of Qi Refining.
With this, he continued his assault on the Great Perfection. Three years ago, with the aid of a large number of rare and precious materials, Lin Xiuyuan successfully reached the eleventh level of Qi Refining, and his magical power had already begun to solidify.
Within the entire dantian, the magical power is like a spring of water, with signs of condensation appearing on the surface. It then deepens continuously, penetrating to the bottom of the spring, causing the entire "spiritual spring" to solidify to a certain extent, thus enabling one to advance to the twelfth level of Qi Refining.
But at this moment, Lin Xiuyuan discovered that no matter what he did, he could not make this condensed state deepen further.
Although he can still refine rare and precious materials and absorb a large amount of spiritual energy to turn into spiritual power for his own use, he can no longer inject it into the spiritual spring and transform it into his own magical power.
Because once you reach the tenth level of Qi Refining, your dantian will be overflowing.
The three stages of Great Perfection involve using external spiritual power to help deepen the condensation of this "spiritual spring" in order to get closer to the power state of the Foundation Establishment stage, thus increasing the chances of breaking through.
Spiritual energy can still be absorbed and refined, but it can no longer be used as an aid.
Lin Xiuyuan understood that this was due to his spiritual root, which was why he could only be stuck at this level.
Because his spiritual root is unable to coordinate with the assistance of external spiritual power to control the changes in the magical attributes within the spiritual spring, allowing it to continue to condense.
Because of the Five Elements spiritual root, the spiritual spring in the dantian contains all five elements, making it difficult to control precisely. Even condensing a fraction of it with the help of a large amount of rare and precious materials is already the limit.
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