Chapter 172 Foundation Establishment Level 3
As time goes by, ten years pass in the blink of an eye.
November, the 15th year of Wang Yu's deacon career. Weather: Heavy snow!
In the quiet room of Guiling City Lord's Mansion.
"call---"
A long, narrow wisp of white smoke, like a sharp sword, was exhaled from his throat, leaving a dent in the hard wall. The naked young man, sitting cross-legged, had a hint of red gradually appearing on the black dragon tattoo on his back.
After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes and murmured softly.
"Even without cultivation techniques, the Dragon Blood Elixir made from 'Blood Dragon Essence' has allowed me to reach a higher level, peaking at the early stage of the second level of Body Refinement, equivalent to the strength of the third level of Foundation Establishment."
He clenched his fists and put his dark blue silk crane cloak back on.
"But that's all there is to it. Without the corresponding cultivation method, it's absolutely impossible for my body refinement cultivation to break through from the early stage to the middle stage. However, the Dragon Force still needs 14 years to be placed."
Thinking of this, a bitter smile appeared on Wang Yu's lips.
There aren't enough slots!
As a gem formed from the essence and blood of an ancient dragon, the Blood Dragon Essence was something Wang Yu had spent ten years developing, so it was impossible for him to have only obtained this much.
The improvement in body refinement cultivation is only a side effect.
Upon closer inspection, the [Netherworld Demon Dragon Spine] formed from blood and qi on his back reveals that its appearance has changed considerably, now resembling a pure-blooded dragon!
Along with this, the extraordinary power of "Dragon Force" in Wang Yu's physical body also increased significantly. This is the effect of enhancing one's foundation, even if someone else cultivates the same technique as him.
Without the opportunity of the Blood Dragon Essence, one's physique would definitely not be as good as his.
Among body cultivators of the same level, his physical body is among the best, having enhanced the product of the mutated combination of the Flood Dragon Spine, Heavenly Yin Blood, and Corpse Demon Bone to its current extreme.
Even so, he still had half of the Blood Dragon Essence unused, and the Dragon Blood Secret Medicine accumulating in his body had reached its limit. He needed to find an opportunity to fight with his physical body.
We need to stimulate it to absorb all the precipitated medicinal power, but that can wait. We need to deduce the second-tier technique of the Flood Dragon Force first.
Ten years have passed, and we have reaped a great harvest!
The superior escape technique, Frost Moon Wings, is now at its peak; the dual-path Soul Sound Techniques, Mind Control Demonic Sound and Ghost Crow Soul Devouring Sound, are both now at their peak.
Having achieved minor success in the Ancient Soul Technique, his divine sense further increased, and he drained all the ferocious souls on the Black Fiend Armor, causing them to fall into a deep sleep.
Other techniques have also improved, but they are not as good as these three.
For example, techniques such as Ice Wheel Technique, Searching Mountains for Demons, Heavenly Soul Qi, and Heart-Severing Blade of Lamentation are generally at the level of Minor Completion +2, still some distance from Major Completion.
After those spells were perfected, only one empty slot remained.
He arranged for him to master the [Heavenly Soul Qi] technique, a secret method of divine sense. The sooner he perfected it, the better the effect of "Fierce Soul Devouring the Body" would be, which would help enhance his divine sense realm.
As for alchemy, he had already put it aside when he perfected the Xuan Yin Hand technique, but there was a time difference while waiting for Situ Hong's Yin Marrow Liquid to be supplied.
Now, we are just a few months away from succeeding and advancing to the second stage of perfection.
The completion of the Corpse Demon Secret Technique took place in the last two years. Because he encountered bottlenecks in comprehending other techniques, he replaced them with this secret technique, spending a month here and a month there.
Little by little, he was still almost two years short. The closer it got, the calmer his mind became. According to the description of the "Yin Blood Pill" in the Corpse Demon Secret Technique, once he completed the second stage, he could try to reshape it.
Of course, it's best to use a three-tier system to ensure absolute safety.
However, the enhancement and mutation of his physical body caused by the "Heavenly Yin Blood" and "Corpse Demon Bone" merged and mutated with the body-refining techniques, resulting in an increase in his essential vitality, which actually helped him.
Reconstructing my left arm...it's not far off!
Finally, there is the change in cultivation level.
Strictly speaking, it's a growth of ten years and five months.
The placement bar increased his cultivation by 187.5 drops of true essence, his own cultivation increased by 25 drops of true essence, and with the original 132 drops of true essence, the total upper limit of his accumulated true essence broke through to 344.5 drops.
More than two years ago.
He successfully broke through to the third level of Foundation Establishment!
In another eight to ten years, he will be able to accumulate five hundred drops of true essence and reach the threshold of the first condensation of essence. This speed is quite fast.
Once he breaks through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, his sixth machine should also be in place, which would be a real upgrade for him!
After years of operation, Guiling City's new alliance of interests is incredibly stable, with revenue growing at a rate of 4% to 5% annually, a very healthy growth curve.
Furthermore, at the Guiling branch of Jinmanlou, Wang Yu had cultivated his own network of connections, which allowed him to leverage the vast resources of this merchant guild to gather the most suitable cultivation resources for him.
After all, compared to ascetic cultivators, he has only had an abundant spiritual energy environment over the years, and has not yet reached his current maximum cultivation speed.
By now, the top-grade ice-attribute materials he had entrusted to find should have arrived. Wang Yu always liked to plan ahead, and he wasn't used to buying pills from elsewhere for his own consumption.
Even though Jin Manlou had an excellent reputation, he was still not at ease.
However, preparing third-tier treasure materials in advance was something he could do.
Normally, a cultivator would exhaust their family fortune after breaking through to the Core Formation stage.
It often takes more than ten years of hard work to gather enough materials to refine a natal magic weapon. He is extremely wealthy and has a clear path in the future. By collecting the materials in advance, he can transform into a fully formed Core Formation cultivator in one go.
Whether one possesses a natal magic weapon is a sign of whether the Core Formation stage is complete. As for the other natal supernatural power that needs to be cultivated, Wang Yu doesn't know enough about that yet.
It is still classified knowledge for him now; he can only obtain the relevant texts from the sect after breaking through to the late Foundation Establishment stage.
He already has two Yin-attribute Tier 3 treasure materials, plus the [Life Soul Blood Gold] he had previously obtained. Not to mention refining his natal magic weapon, refining a second one would be a piece of cake.
Investing spirit stones in one place isn't a loss, since they only have value when you spend them.
The underground spiritual veins of Guiling City also produce spirit stones.
However, after many years of digging, the limit has been reached. Digging further would damage the integrity of the spiritual vein, so it is only mined again every ten to twenty years.
Spiritual veins are formed by the convergence of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and are very similar to earth veins. In fact, they can be said to have originally been earth veins, only undergoing spiritual mutations.
As time goes by, the associated spirit stone mines will naturally continue to grow, and after each recovery cycle, a large number of spirit stones will be produced.
The third-tier mid-grade spiritual vein in Guiling City has a chance to produce high-grade spirit stones, which are a hard currency among advanced cultivators.
It is said that for Nascent Soul cultivators, the spiritual energy in the world is not as pure as the magical power within their bodies. Generally, it needs to be refined outside the body before being incorporated into the body for repeated refining.
If you have high-quality spirit stones to set up a [Multiple Spirit Gathering Array], you won't need to go through all this trouble. The higher you go in your cultivation, the more difficult it becomes, and eventually even the heavens and earth become obstacles that restrict your progress.
Saving more money now will only benefit you in the future.
Wang Yu checked the records from previous years.
After the recuperation period ends, the output of high-grade spirit stones should be between 500 and 1000, and he has sovereignty over Guiling City for a full three hundred years.
Even if he digs once every twenty years, he can still accumulate 7,500 to 15,000 high-grade spirit stones, which is a huge sum of money.
The mid-grade and low-grade spirit stones generated each time were actually a small part, with the total value around one million low-grade spirit stones, all of which were his own profits.
The current Guiling City.
Based on a five-year cycle, after deducting the costs of maintaining the city and personnel, and the donation of one million spirit stones, his net profit would be around six hundred thousand.
I've made two waves of income in ten years, plus the regular extra income from the spirit stone mine this time, which is more than I made after getting rich ten years ago. This also includes my consumption in recent years.
In addition, the Hall of Offerings has gained three more cultivators in the early stages of Foundation Establishment.
Wang Yu assigned them to the city guards and patrols as temporary commanders. Once the people he trained reached the Foundation Establishment stage, they would return to the city lord's mansion.
Following his orders, each Foundation Establishment cultivator receives a considerable amount of spirit stones every five years, and the expenditure increases year by year.
"It's time to generate revenue, Xueyu!"
The three-tailed snow fox changed slightly. Although Wang Yu's alchemy skills were still some time away from being fully developed, he had already been able to refine second-tier pills.
He simply couldn't refine top-grade pills. Even with the second-tier spirit pill [Snow Fox Pill] that he personally refined, he had only just broken through to the second level of Foundation Establishment after ten years.
His cultivation speed was much slower than his. Snow Fox Pill was an advanced version of Beast Taming Pill, and Wang Yu could often refine high-grade ones.
The prescriptions and medicinal herbs were purchased from Jinmanlou, and it is said that they were passed down to the outside world from the most mysterious force in this world, the Zhenbei Tower.
It was specially developed for the snow beast race of the far north ice plains.
After his modifications, it became a Snow Fox Pill tailor-made for Snow Jade, with even better effects and the ability to continuously activate the potential within its bloodline.
Accumulated over time builds a foundation. If one can obtain a rare and wondrous place like the 'Spiritual Spring Cold Pool' in the future as an opportunity for bloodline purification, there is a small chance that one can continue to evolve.
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He hasn't left the country in a long time.
Heavy snow was falling from the sky, and the temperature was only a few degrees Celsius.
Standing at the entrance of the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Wang Yu could naturally overlook the entire Guiling City. In recent days, he had encountered many minor troubles, but he had been able to resolve them all.
Occasionally, you might encounter Core Formation cultivators, who would be jointly rejected by the three sects outside the city. Unless they were independent cultivators, they would be treated with courtesy and even exhibited.
Core Formation cultivators who belong to a faction generally wouldn't welcome them.
Who knows what they're up to?
Over the years, Wang Yu had only encountered this sect once, which was said to be from the north, near the Chaotic Ancient Sea, and was called the [Overturning Sea Sect]!
This trip only involved passing through Guiling City to buy some supplies; the real goal was to reach the Yama Ghost Market, south of the Three Thousand Mile Reed Lake.
At present, the cooperation has entered a period of ambiguity.
Wang Yu would occasionally leave the city, but he would never go too far. For him, the Guiling City Lord's Mansion was the safest place, and very few people could breach it.
While he was thinking about how to make a big cake.
Two fragrant breezes blew in from the side, carrying the sisters Guan Yingdong and Guan Yingxue, who had grown into beautiful young women. They were beauties from childhood and remained stunningly beautiful as they grew up.
When Wang Yu is pleased, he will bestow upon a top-grade first-level cultivation elixir.
This resulted in them and the two members of the Jiang family all reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining, a speed several times faster than their three spiritual roots talent.
Around sixty to seventy years old, one might be able to touch the threshold of Foundation Establishment, and have two opportunities to attempt Foundation Establishment, with a relatively high success rate.
They came over with something to report. The elder sister, Guan Yingdong, said calmly, "Master, a senior from the Shuimo Sect whom we have never met before has come to visit. We have already escorted him to the reception room."
"Ink Painting Sect? I see."
Wang Yu nodded and said nothing more.
Seeing this, Guan Yingxue cautiously mentioned it.
“Master, the other party should be here for the ancient ruins. There has been a lot of news from there recently. It is said that another ancient ruins have been discovered.”
"Other forces will likely arrive in the next few days."
"Hmm, let's go take a look."
He patted Yingxue's head. This girl was more clever than her older sister and had a stronger sense of initiative. She often received rewards from Wang Yu.
(End of this chapter)
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