Chapter 36 Cat Foundation Building
It has been more than a year since Lin Feng entered Lingxiao Sect. He has reached the peak of the late foundation building stage, and Su Yue has also reached the early stage of the late foundation building stage.
And he was still stuck at the peak of Qi Refining, the barrier leading to Foundation Establishment. He tried countless times, but always ended in failure.
Every failure was like a blunt knife, repeatedly cutting his exhausted nerves.
He could clearly feel that he was only a hair's breadth away from the threshold, but this hair's breadth was like an insurmountable chasm.
Anxiety, self-doubt, and even a faint resentment towards his own body with five spiritual roots grow and spread in the quiet night of every failure.
After one year of becoming an initiate, one no longer needs to go to the Asking Dao Peak every month. Zhou Yan hadn't seen Bai Qingchen for several months, so he sent him a message.
"Junior Brother Bai, I haven't heard from you in a while. Are you all right at Hanyuan Peak?"
"If you feel bored with your cultivation, why not take on a sect mission and go out for a walk? The sea of clouds and pine trees in the back mountain of Yantian Sect are the best for cleansing your mind. If you're willing, you can come to Yantian Sect and stay for a while anytime."
Go out for a walk? Maybe a change of scenery can really break this damn deadlock, even if it's just a temporary escape.
Bai Qingchen went to the Deacon Hall. The deacon in charge of issuing tasks was a round-faced monk. When he saw him coming to receive the task, he flipped through the jade slips casually.
"He's from Hanyuan Peak, at the peak of Qi Refining. Here, he's just been released from Dan Peak. Gather ten plants each of Sanyang Grass and Bingpo Flower. The location is in Luoxia Valley in the northwest." The deacon gave him the task jade token.
Bai Qingchen silently took the jade token and returned to Hanyuan Peak to pack his bags.
A furry thing rubbed against his legs. Yoyo tilted its round head and stared at him with its big black eyes without blinking.
A coquettish whining sound came from its throat, and its two tails, one long and one short, were wagging slowly, and its meaning was obvious.
Meow meow meow, Aqing, please don’t leave him, okay?
Bai Qingchen had no resistance to Youyou's coquettish look of blinking her eyes and was immediately defeated.
Bai Qingchen sighed, bent down and rubbed its furry head: "Okay, I'll take you with me."
When the little fellow left the range of Hanyuan Peak, he seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden. He growled happily, and his body grew taller in the wind. In the blink of an eye, he turned into a majestic and snow-white spirit beast.
It bent down and motioned Bai Qingchen to come up.
Sitting on Yoyo's broad and warm back, I felt the wind whistling past my ears and the lush mountains, forests and rivers below were rapidly receding.
Bai Qingchen took a deep breath of the fresh and moist air in the mountains and forests, and the depression in his chest seemed to really ease a little.
Yoyo ran very fast, with his four paws moving like the wind. In less than three days, he arrived at the Luoxia Valley marked on the map.
The valley is as its name suggests. When the sun sets, the glow of the sunset dyes a large area of the mountain walls red, and the scenery is quite magnificent.
But Bai Qingchen had no intention of appreciating it. He compared the patterns in the task jade slip and soon found the Sanyang Grass and Bingpo Flower he needed on the sunny hillside and beside the shady stream.
The process went smoothly without any trouble. Yoyo followed him, patrolling the surroundings vigilantly, and occasionally rolling around in the woods, startling a flock of birds.
Just as he picked the last Ice Soul Flower and was about to leave, his eyes accidentally swept across an extremely hidden crevice at the bottom of the valley.
The cracks in the rocks are covered by dense vines and are extremely difficult to find unless the angle is right.
A trace of extremely pure spiritual energy full of vitality is faintly emanating from the gap.
Bai Qingchen's heart moved, and his instinct told him to push aside the vines and look carefully.
Deep in the crevice of the rock, a strange plant was growing quietly.
Its entire body is as emerald as jade, and its leaves are like carved pieces of the finest jadeite, with a light golden halo flowing through its veins.
There is a translucent fruit on the top, and there seems to be a nebula flowing inside the fruit, emitting rich life energy.
"Emerald Gold Jade Spirit Fruit!" Bai Qingchen's heart was shocked.
This is an extremely rare spiritual fruit from heaven and earth, containing enormous spiritual energy, and has incredible miraculous effects on breaking through bottlenecks. It is simply unattainable even after searching everywhere for it!
However, before they could be happy for too long, a creepy and ferocious aura suddenly came from deep in the crevice. With a roar, a huge black shadow rushed out like lightning.
It is a guardian beast, and its strength has definitely reached the late stage of foundation building, even close to the golden elixir.
It was a ferocious beast called the Earth-Splitting Turtle, which looked like a pangolin but was several times larger. It was covered with thick, ochre-colored scales, and its claws and fangs gleamed with a cold metallic light.
It obviously regarded Bai Qingchen as an invader who coveted the treasure. It stared at him with its scarlet eyes, and kicked the ground with its thick hind legs, crashing towards him like a battering ram. The strong wind it brought up was so strong that it hurt people's faces.
Bai Qingchen's face changed. His cultivation at the peak of Qi Refining was not enough in front of this ferocious beast. He subconsciously wanted to set up a formation, but it was too late in such a hurry.
At this moment, a white shadow reacted faster than him.
"roar--!"
Yoyo let out a deafening roar, no longer as soft as usual, but full of majesty and rage.
Its small body suddenly burst out with amazing momentum. Although its size did not change, its speed was as fast as lightning. It arrived first and suddenly blocked Bai Qingchen in front of it.
Facing the powerful impact of the Earth-Splitting Turtle, Yoyo did not dodge or evade. Instead, he raised a claw and slapped it forward seemingly casually.
The huge earth-splitting turtle was like it had hit an immovable mountain. Its huge body suddenly stopped and its forward momentum came to an abrupt halt.
There was a clear claw mark on its head covered with thick scales. The huge recoil force made it dizzy and its huge body staggered back several steps.
The Earth-Splitting Turtle was stunned. It shook its dizzy head, its scarlet eyes filled with disbelief. How could this little creature, which looked no bigger than its claws, have such terrifying power!
Yoyo succeeded in his attack but did not pursue.
It stood firmly in front of Bai Qingchen, letting out a threatening growl from its throat, its snow-white fur moving without wind, and a sense of pressure from deep within its blood spread out.
It just stared at the Earth-Splitting Turtle coldly, and its eyes seemed to say: Move again, and try?
The huge body of the Earth-Splitting Turtle obviously shrank. It felt a fatal threat. The little thing in front of it was definitely not something it could afford to provoke.
It let out a few low growls of fear and grievance, and its huge body slowly retreated, shrinking back to the edge of the crevice. However, it stared at the Earth Vein Chalcedony Fruit unwillingly, and a whining sound came from its throat.
Bai Qingchen looked at the aggrieved and angry face of the Earth-Splitting Turtle, then looked at the aura on its body, and understood.
This ferocious beast has obviously reached the critical moment of breakthrough, and this chalcedony fruit is also crucial to it.
However, taking the Jade Spirit Fruit directly is only half as effective, which is not cost-effective.
They were considered intruders, and this spiritual fruit was originally guarded by the Earth-Splitting Turtle. Although Youyou was eager to protect his master, they were ultimately in the wrong.
Looking at the Earth-Splitting Turtle's eyes full of desire and fear, Bai Qingchen sighed.
He fumbled in his storage bag for a moment, took out a jade bottle, and poured out a pill emitting a warm glow. This was the best quality Peiyuan Pill he had refined, and it was also very useful in assisting monsters to break through.
He placed the pill on a clean stone and pushed it towards the Earth-Splitting Turtle, saying calmly, "This pill will help you break through. That spiritual fruit is indeed very useful to me. I will take the fruit and leave the root with you. It can regenerate. How do you do it?"
The Earth-Splitting Turtle sniffed the pill warily, and the pure spiritual energy made its eyes light up with surprise.
It looked at the Jade Spirit Fruit again, then looked at Bai Qingchen and Yoyo who was emitting a terrifying aura.
Finally, he whimpered softly, picked up the pill, and quickly retreated into the depths of the crevice, tacitly accepting the deal.
Bai Qingchen breathed a sigh of relief and approached the Emerald Jade Spirit Fruit cautiously. He used a jade knife to accurately cut off the fruit with the nebula flowing on the top.
After finding a secluded and safe natural stone cave, Bai Qingchen did not take the chalcedony fruit immediately.
The energy contained in this spiritual fruit was too enormous, and swallowing it directly was too risky for his current body. He needed to refine it and absorb and utilize it to the greatest extent possible.
He took out the old alchemy furnace with a somewhat mottled surface and began to refine the elixir.
This process lasted a whole day and night.
Fine beads of sweat oozed out of Bai Qingchen's forehead. His spiritual energy was consumed greatly, but he did not dare to relax at all.
Finally, the fire in the furnace gradually died down, and a refreshing fragrance came from the furnace, and the Emerald Gold Jade Elixir was ready.
Looking at this hard-earned pill, Bai Qingchen took a deep breath.
Success or failure depends on this one move. He sat down cross-legged, adjusted his condition to the best, and then swallowed the pill without hesitation.
The pill melted in his mouth, and abundant spiritual power instantly poured into his meridians like a torrent.
"Uh..." Bai Qingchen groaned, his body trembling slightly.
This force was so powerful that the five spiritual roots were like travelers who had been trapped in the desert for a long time and suddenly jumped into a river. They absorbed this pure spiritual energy almost crazily, and the spiritual power in their bodies circulated at an unprecedented speed.
The meridians were widened by the impact of the torrent of spiritual power, causing excruciating pain, and the dantian was stretched as if it was about to explode by the violently compressed spiritual power.
Bai Qingchen gritted his teeth and used all his strength to activate the Taixu Yanxing Jue, guiding this tremendous force to attack the bottleneck of foundation building.
"Break it... for me!" Bai Qingchen let out a silent roar in his heart, concentrating all his mind on this moment.
Buzz——!
It was as if a crisp shattering sound came from the depths of the soul!
The indestructible barrier was finally shattered by the impact of this powerful torrent.
In an instant, the spiritual energy in the stone cave fluctuated violently, and Bai Qingchen's body seemed to have turned into the center of a vortex, madly absorbing the spiritual energy inside the cave and even outside the cave.
Finally established the foundation!
However, before the ecstasy of the breakthrough could fully rise, his body began to spasm violently, his face instantly turned from rosy to pale, and a mouthful of blood rushed up his throat!
"puff--!"
Blood splattered on the ground and quickly coagulated.
He was still too anxious and used his spiritual energy to forcibly break through his foundation, causing his meridians to be unable to withstand the force and begin to backfire.
I need to rest well for a while after I get back.
"Woo!" Yoyo, who had been guarding beside him, saw Bai Qingchen vomiting blood and stepped forward worriedly.
It hummed softly and pressed its warm body tightly against Bai Qingchen's cold and trembling body.
Bai Qingchen curled up in Youyou's warm embrace, feeling the spiritual power of the foundation-building period in his body.
The pain and weakness did not dispel the joy of building the foundation. Building the foundation was just the beginning, but at least he took this extremely difficult step.
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