Chapter 81: Foundation Building
Perhaps it was because of Su Qingwu's encouragement that she was able to succeed, and Xuntui became very close to her.
In the past, he was only restricted by the contract, but now he truly regards her as his master.
Su Qingwu looked at the circling butterfly and slightly stretched out his right hand. The butterfly immediately landed on his fingertips, still flapping its wings.
Unlike Xuan Qing, Xunzhaodie's current intelligence is not very high, and he cannot actively communicate with her through the spirit beast contract.
However, basic commands can be understood, so there is no need to worry about going wrong when fighting the enemy in the future.
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After staying in the space for a while, Su Qingwu brought the tracking butterfly and came to the outside world with Su Wen.
Seeing that the lease of the courtyard was about to expire, she returned the corresponding wooden sign to the landlord.
During the initial battle against the foundation, the Dijia formation was damaged, and she planned to buy a new one before leaving the city.
In Guluo City, there are four industries related to formations.
In order to have more choices, Su Qingwu came to the largest array pavilion in the west of the city.
The nine-story attic sells formation plates and flags from the first to third levels. In addition, there are countless materials used to set up formations.
Entering the pavilion, she explained her purpose to the servant who was coming towards her.
"Does anyone have any recommendations for a secondary array for primary defense?"
Upon hearing this, the attendant immediately responded respectfully: "This type of array is on the fifth floor. Please follow me."
"Okay, Lao will lead the way."
Soon, Su Qingwu arrived at the corresponding floor.
Inside there are elliptical buildings shaped like honeycombs, with arrays placed in empty spaces and a layer of restrictions set on the surface.
The attendants explained everything one by one.
"This is a Sealing Stone Formation. It requires ten spirit stones to activate. The coverage area is fixed at twenty feet in radius. After the formation is completed, it will directly form a closed space that is isolated from the outside world. It can withstand ten attacks from a cultivator at the Perfect Foundation Establishment Stage. The price is fifty thousand spirit stones."
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"This is a golden shield formation. The coverage area is not fixed, ranging from 50 to 40 meters in radius. It requires 3 to 20 spirit stones to activate. After the formation is formed, it will be invisible when there is no enemy attack. It can withstand at least eight attacks from a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm. The price is 47,000 spirit stones."
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The attendant introduced thirty-nine formations in succession. Su Qingwu listened attentively. After careful comparison, he chose a formation called the Mysterious Water Formation.
When this formation is activated, one to fifty spirit stones can be embedded, and the formation covers an area ranging from two meters in radius to one hundred meters in radius.
After the formation is formed, it is invisible on weekdays, but once attacked by the enemy, a thick water curtain will immediately form around it.
Any attack that comes close to the water curtain will have its power reduced by half.
The remaining attacks are blocked by the formation and have a certain chance of rebounding.
Therefore, in theory, as long as there is a steady supply of spirit stones to keep the Mysterious Water Formation running, it is basically impossible for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to break this formation unless the Golden Core takes action.
With such power, the corresponding array price is naturally very expensive.
According to the attendant, the formation master originally wanted to refine the Mysterious Water Formation Plate to the third level, but something went wrong during the refining process, so it ended up being a second-level formation plate, which was sold to the outside world for 160,000 spirit stones.
Su Qingwu bought it smoothly, walked out of the military parade pavilion, went straight to the city gate, and left Guluo City.
Traveling south, we encountered several waves of monks fighting on the way.
Whenever she heard any noise, she would take a detour to avoid it.
There were a few short-sighted people who tried to drag her into the battlefield, but they were all killed swiftly.
As a result, some new spoils were obtained.
On the third day after leaving Gu Luo City, Su Qingwei came to a stretch of undulating mountains.
Monsters occasionally appear here, but they do not gather in large numbers.
Following Su Wen's suggestion, she chose a relatively high mountain and built a simple cave at the top of the mountain.
Afterwards, he took out the Mysterious Water Formation Plate, placed it in the center of the cave, embedded fifty spirit stones, and activated the formation.
She's going to try to build a foundation here!
To ensure that everything went smoothly, Su Qingwu took out some spirit stones and gave them to Su Wen.
In this way, the spirit stones required to maintain the operation of the formation can be replenished in time after being consumed.
After everything was ready, she took out a piece of vine branch given by Xuanqing and tried to take a bite.
It is crispy and tender in the mouth, with a hint of sweetness, accompanied by an aura that is so rich that it is almost liquid.
Su Qingwu quickly ate the rest, then concentrated on practicing Buddhism, calming his mind and spirit.
A large amount of spiritual energy quickly gathered towards the dantian.
As time went on, the ten cyclones in Dantian showed signs of merging into one.
This process is progressing quite slowly.
Outside, the morning glow rose, the sun set, and finally the night fell, repeating over and over again. Half a month had passed in the blink of an eye.
Inside the cave, Su Qingwu remained sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed.
When trying to break through the foundation, the body will default to the fasting state, so she did not feel hungry.
In the past half month, the ten cyclones in Dantian have been completely integrated.
If someone were to look down from a high altitude, they could clearly see the vortex of spiritual energy gathering from all directions and pouring down towards the cave.
The next step is the most important step, which is to condense the cyclone in Dantian and compress it into liquid true essence...
Su Wen was paying attention to Su Qingwu's condition from time to time.
That night, a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building passed by this mountain range and saw the vortex of spiritual energy that was condensed and not dissipated. He guessed that someone was building the foundation.
The man immediately became malicious and flew towards the location of the cave, intending to kill people and steal the treasure.
Su Wen quickly noticed this situation. The visitor had obvious murderous intent. She made preparations in advance and secretly condensed a killing move with her soul power.
Wait for the person to get close, launch an attack, and the moment the formation is activated, catch him off guard and kill him with one blow.
The body was thrown off the cliff, and the storage bag it carried was taken into the battle group as a trophy.
Su Qingwu had a vague sense of what was happening in the outside world, but her breakthrough had reached a critical moment. If she was interrupted, all her efforts would be wasted, so she could only deliberately ignore the matter for the time being.
On the seventeenth day, sweat began to ooze from her forehead and her face turned slightly pale.
Sensing this situation, Su Wen acted decisively and used one thousand spirit stones to set up a small spirit gathering array.
The rich spiritual energy generated by the formation was quickly absorbed, and accompanied by a series of slight crackling sounds, the spiritual stones used to set up the formation were completely turned into powder.
Su Qingwu's condition has improved slightly, but has not fully recovered.
Su Wen took out another thousand spirit stones, and in a short moment, another small spirit gathering formation was set up.
This time, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy slowed down significantly.
About half a cup of tea later, the familiar clicking sound was heard again.
Su Wen immediately waved his sleeves and arranged the third spirit gathering array...
At this moment, 90% of the cyclone in Su Qingwu's dantian had been transformed into true energy. As the spiritual energy was continuously absorbed, refined and compressed, it lasted for nearly five incense sticks, and the last 10% of the cyclone was finally completely transformed.
The pressure around him suddenly increased, and his cultivation successfully broke through to the foundation-building stage!