Chapter 138: Building the Foundation (Congratulations to Alliance Leader zzyzzx123)
Building the Foundation!
It is the first major hurdle for those who practice Taoism.
It is said that in ancient times when spiritual energy was flourishing, only those who had established their foundation were considered to have truly entered the stage of cultivating immortals, and were known as true foundation builders.
Generally speaking, the process of foundation building is often related to the cultivator's spiritual roots and techniques, and it usually takes no longer than a hundred days, hence the saying of "a hundred days of foundation building".
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Ten days later.
Outside the second-level cave complex, a stream of light flew over.
The stream of light fell to the ground, revealing a foundation-building cultivator.
One of them was wearing a purple robe, had a heroic appearance, and carried a purple jade sword on his back.
He looked at the rental caves in silence, and suddenly sent out a sound transmission note.
Not long after, Steward Wang came running over and bowed respectfully: "Greetings, Elder Min!"
This Elder Min Yixing is in the middle stage of foundation building. He is directly under the City Lord's Mansion and is in charge of the law enforcement of Ziyuan City. He is a sword cultivator with amazing combat power.
Of course, there is no need to say much about its status in Ziyuan City.
Anyway, he, a small cave manager, is not someone he can offend.
"Have you ever seen this person?!"
Min Yihang casually threw over a jade slip, in which there was a young man in silver clothes, who looked like the immortal cultivator's incarnation.
"Reporting to the elder, I met this guy ten days ago. He said his surname was Fang and he was a casual cultivator. He rented a second-level upper-grade cave house and prepared to build his foundation..."
Manager Wang felt that there must be something wrong with this person, so he did not dare to be negligent and explained everything one by one.
"Building a foundation? And bringing someone with you?"
Min Yixing nodded: "It seems that the Zhou family tragedy was caused by this person..."
"What?"
Manager Wang was shocked. A few days ago, the Zhou family was discovered and the entire family was wiped out. Everyone in the mansion was killed, even the ancestor of the Zhou family who had reached the foundation-building stage.
He always thought that it was done by some evil cultivator, but he never expected that it was such a handsome young man.
"You can't judge a person by his appearance, but you can judge his heart by his appearance. Fortunately, I didn't deliberately make things difficult for you, otherwise I would have died..."
Steward Wang secretly rejoiced in his heart and quickly said, "That person rented Cave A No. 7... Elder, do you want it?"
"Lead the way!"
Min and his entourage let Manager Wang go first and arrived at the cave where Fang Xing was in seclusion. His eyes were deep, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Elder, are you sure it was this person who did it? He was just a Qi practitioner with a warrior servant... It's impossible that he killed the entire Zhou family, right?"
Manager Wang looked a little embarrassed: "Although this cave has a secret door, if we force our way in, our reputation will be ruined..."
"Humph, before the Zhou family was wiped out, only this person visited the Zhou Mansion. Later, someone saw this person leading people out of the Zhou Mansion... He is so fearless. It seems that the warrior servant is his protector. He is at least a foundation-building cultivator. If he restrains his aura a little, you will naturally not be able to see anything..."
Min Yixing snorted coldly and looked at the cave, but did not rush in.
When Manager Wang saw this, he immediately had an idea in his mind.
It seems that although Elder Min is a sword cultivator, he is also quite cautious and does not want to completely confront the villain who massacred the Zhou family.
Otherwise, if you break into someone's cave directly, the fight will end until you die.
He thought about it and then stood here, waiting with Elder Min.
A few days later, the sky above the cave suddenly shook, and then a vortex of spiritual energy emerged, madly swallowing the spiritual mist around it.
"Is this... a spiritual energy vortex? That's right... someone is trying to establish their foundation?!"
Many cultivators were attracted by the vortex of spiritual energy. When they saw Elder Min and Steward Wang, they were frightened and quickly stood aside, guessing the identity of the cultivators in the cave.
"You can attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth so quickly?"
When Manager Wang saw this scene, he felt both sad and bitter.
Although he failed in building his foundation that year, he understood the foundation-building process very well.
I didn't expect that the young man, who seemed to have not yet completed his Qi training, could reach this level in just one go?
"The spiritual energy vortex is quite stable, it should be possible."
Elder Min spoke at this time, his face a little surprised: "This kind of sharp aura, could it be that he is also a sword cultivator?"
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A few days ago.
Inside the cave.
Fang Xing opened the Wanhua Ding and took out two foundation-building pills.
I saw that the faint black line attached to the inferior foundation-building pill had long disappeared.
The other genuine foundation-building pill had shrunk even smaller at this time, emitting a crystal-like luster.
“Superb foundation-building pill.”
He nodded, sat cross-legged, and silently practiced the foundation-building method in the "Gold Transformation Technique".
Almost in an instant, he entered a state of clarity and the spiritual energy inside the cave was madly attracted and injected into his limbs and bones.
"Foundation building... has begun."
Fang Xing muttered, and directly swallowed the top-grade foundation-building pill.
Crash!
This top-grade foundation-building pill turned into a warm current as soon as it entered the stomach, and seemed to completely ignite the spiritual energy.
Countless spiritual energy rushed through his limbs and bones, performing the "Yi Jin Xi Sui" again and again! Only a little bit of sticky sweat appeared on Fang Xing's body.
"Well... this is because of my extraordinary talent. All my meridians are open. When I was practicing, I only took top-grade elixirs, which did not cause any elixir poison... Therefore, Yi Jin Xi Sui could not wash out any impurities."
"I passed the physical body test out of the three stages of foundation building. It didn't seem to be very painful at all."
"Even the medicinal power of the top-grade foundation-building pill has not been consumed much..."
He nodded, feeling that most of the medicinal power of the foundation-building pill was gathered in the Dantian Qi Sea, causing his magic power at the ninth level of Qi training to surge again, and he would soon reach perfection in Qi training!
Then, a sticky feeling appeared in the magic power, which condensed into a vortex.
Tick!
In the center of the vortex, a drop of light golden liquid mana emerged.
It was extremely viscous, like a golden pearl, floating in Fang Xing's Dantian Qi Sea.
"The liquid mana of a foundation-building cultivator... one drop is enough to match the entire mana of an ordinary Qi-refining cultivator. With this mana, it can be transformed into a true essence shield that ordinary first-level means cannot break through."
Fang Xing nodded, watching drop after drop of light golden magic power emerge.
One, two, three...
Six, seven, eight...
Finally, a total of nine light golden "pearls" floated in the Dantian Qi Sea, each of them was crystal clear and full, and even had a slight sense of solidity.
"Generally speaking, how much liquid mana can be refined during the first foundation building is related to the cultivator's foundation and cultivation method..."
"For the worst foundation-building cultivators, the mana barrier may only have one or two drops of liquid mana..."
"I have a natural spiritual root, even a little bit better. Although the Gold Transformation Technique is average in my opinion, it is at least a technique that can be cultivated to the stage of forming a pill. Ordinary casual cultivators can't even see it..."
"To sum it up, it's nine drops of liquid mana? If I cultivate to perfection before building my foundation, it might be ten drops of liquid mana."
"However, this upper limit of mana can be increased through practice after building the foundation..."
Fang Xing manipulated nine drops of liquid magic power and barely followed the foundation-building route of the Gold Transformation Technique.
Every time he practiced the technique, he felt that his body was strengthened and his magic power became more powerful.
The most important thing is that something mysterious is about to sprout between his eyebrows.
This is a sign that spiritual consciousness is about to transform into divine consciousness!
"Now!"
Fang Xing poured all the remaining medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill into the Niwan Palace and felt his head explode.
Then, it seemed as if a third eye opened between the eyebrows, slowly looking around the body and also involving the outside world.
Five feet, ten feet...
Twenty feet!
Thirty feet!
With experience in spiritual power, Fang Xing was able to get familiar with spiritual consciousness very easily.
Soon, he controlled his own consciousness and saw the entire cave, and saw the "original body" sitting cross-legged in the outside world! He even tried to go deeper into the original body, but was stopped by a spiritual force.
"The divine sense observes the outside world, and its details are far more subtle than those of spiritual power. It even has a bit of perspective. Ordinary objects cannot block it at all. No wonder it can see through my puppet..."
Fang Xing opened his eyes: "But I remember that when Su Ye just broke through, her spiritual awareness could only cover an area of ten feet... So the 'spirit' of her three treasures of spirit, energy and soul is so weak? Or am I too strong?"
After building the foundation, there is indeed an all-round increase.
He thought for a moment, then raised his hand.
A Gengjin sword energy several feet long emerged, its golden color was bright and dazzling, and there seemed to be runes wandering inside.
I believe that it only takes one sword to destroy the defense of a top-grade magic weapon.
"Sure enough, the Foundation Establishment cultivators are simply overwhelming the Qi Condensation cultivators..."
Fang Xing sighed, then looked at himself and shook his head: "After building the foundation, magic weapons are basically useless. It's best to replace them all with spiritual weapons. The cattail leaf fan spiritual weapon is not suitable for me at all. I should sell it and exchange it for a second-level flying sword, a defensive spiritual weapon, and preferably a flying spiritual weapon..."
Although the foundation-building cultivators can fly in their physical bodies.
But if you are traveling long distances, you definitely cannot waste your mana like this.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his body was already suspended in the air as if by instinct.
"Is this what physical flight is? Wrapped in the power of the domain and combined with the flying steps, it really is a different feeling."
Fang Xing played for a while before landing, walking out of the training room, and standing side by side with the original body.
"When we were in seclusion, it was quite lively outside."
He took out the cave token and slightly relaxed the restriction.
Sound transmission notes flew in like butterflies.
Most of them were Qi-cultivating cultivators, and they congratulated this senior on his successful foundation-building.
There was only one that emitted the magical fluctuations of the foundation-building level.
Fang Xing picked it up lightly, scanned it with his spiritual sense, and couldn't help but smile: "Are you here to find me? It seems there is still room for negotiation, otherwise we will just start fighting..."
"What a pity. I also want to see the fighting power of the fake Dan Zhenren."
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outside world.
The cave door burst open.
Fang Xing was dressed in a silver robe, his face was as handsome as jade, his eyes were as bright as lacquer, and he exuded the aura of a foundation-building cultivator as he walked out calmly.
I was just like an ordinary warrior, following behind him.
“It’s indeed the Foundation Establishment Ancestor!”
"Looking at his face, he must have practiced some kind of anti-aging technique..."
A group of Qi training monks bowed their heads and congratulated: "Congratulations to the senior for successfully building the foundation. From now on, you will live forever..."
"Well, reward!"
Fang Xing pretended to say something, and the real body behind him immediately took out some low-grade spirit stones and threw them out casually.
"Senior is so generous!"
Those cultivators in the late stage of Qi training were fine, but the young cultivators in the early and middle stages of Qi training were all overjoyed, and kept saying good things while receiving the spirit stones.
At this time, Fang Xing's gaze was already focused on the only foundation-building cultivator present.
Judging from the fluctuations in his magic power, he may no longer be in the initial stage of foundation building.
"Fang Daoyou!"
Min and his group stepped forward, bowed first, then looked at Fang Xing himself, his eyes filled with surprise and doubt.
He originally thought that Fang Xing was a guardian-like being who just restrained his aura.
But I didn't expect that now that we meet in person, I still feel that the other party is a mortal without magical powers!
This method of restraining breath is truly incredible!
"Who is this?"
Fang Xing showed a hint of doubt.
"Senior Fang, this Senior Min Yixing is the law enforcement elder of this city, of high status... He has been protecting you in the outside world for many days."
Steward Wang quickly introduced.
"So that's how it is. Thank you, Fellow Daoist Min, for your protection." Fang Xing naturally knew that the so-called protection was just a joke, but since one should not hit a smiling person, he just accepted it.
"It's noisy here, why don't you come to my house and have a seat?" Min Yihang took the initiative to invite.
"It is better to obey than to be respectful."
Fang Xing laughed loudly, and the two of them turned into streams of light, flew up into the sky under the envious eyes of the Qigong monks, and quickly disappeared.
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There is actually third-level spiritual energy in the cave where Min Yihang lives.
It is built on a small peak and is an attic with exquisite and simple shape.
In front of the attic, there is a patch of exotic flowers and plants. Their roots are like swords, pointing straight up to the sky, and there are dots of golden light, dotted among them like fireflies.
"Is this... a pitcher plant?"
When Fang Xing saw these acres of grass, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Using this grass as the main material, we can make a sword pool, which is perfect for refining flying swords..."
"Haha, fellow Daoist is indeed a sword cultivator as well."
Min and his entourage invited Fang Xing to the second floor of the attic and personally made tea for him: "This is my treasured 'Thousand Rocks Competition', try it."
"Fellow Daoist, I'm afraid you didn't invite me here just to taste tea, right?" Fang Xing said meaningfully.
"Haha, that's right. Fellow Daoist, what does the Zhou family extermination case have to do with you?"
After Min Yixing finished speaking, his eyes were fixed on the real body behind Fang Xing.
Fang Xing smiled slightly and sat down directly: "It was me who did it!"
"Why?"
Min Yixing frowned.
"My nephew went to him to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, but Old Man Zhou actually deceived him, so I killed them all." Fang Xing shrugged.
"I see. The Zhou family deserves what they have done. In our Purple Kite Fairy City, we base our business on honesty and integrity, and we hate it most when a big store bullies its customers..."
Min Yihang nodded, as if he believed it directly: "Oh, I forgot to tell you... the Zhou family of Ziqingtan was exterminated by the robbers a few days ago. Now there is no Zhou family name in this area."
After hearing this, Fang Xing fell silent.
If he had not killed the ancestor of the Zhou family, the Zhou family would probably still be able to live in peace.
However, even if this happened a hundred times, he would definitely kill the ancestor of the Zhou family. There is no other possibility.
"I wonder if you and your nephew have any plans to open up a spiritual place for cultivation? If so... I can make the decision and let you rent Ziqingtan, how about that?"
Min Yihang suddenly spoke.
"Ziqingtan, a place for cultivation?"
Fang Xing fell into deep thought.
After the immortal clone has established the foundation, he does need a second-level spiritual land for cultivation.
But at the same time, more of them were frightened: "The cultivators in this world are really cold and indifferent... After the Zhou family's ancestor died, especially after I established my foundation, they abandoned the Zhou family... and now they want to cooperate with me..."
This made Fang Xing feel that the world is unpredictable.
"But this is a test, right?"
After thinking it through, he chuckled and replied, "I have no intention of establishing any power. I just want to have a second-level cave in Ziyuan Immortal City to practice..."
"So that's how it is. It's me, Meng Lang."
Min Yixing took a sip of the spiritual tea, with no expression on his face.
(End of this chapter)
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