Chapter 109: Modern Immortal Cultivation 200 Years After the End of the World 14
After Zhang Xiaojia packed up everything, he and Zhang Yangzhou boarded the spaceship together.
She asked doubtfully, "Dad, shouldn't we say hello to Uncle Xiao and Uncle Zheng before we leave?"
Zhang Yangzhou smiled and replied, "No need. They are busy packing their belongings and preparing to move the whole family to Frost City. They don't have time to receive you."
Zhang Xiaojia was in a very happy mood. Zhang Yangzhou continued, "The area west of Frost City is vast. It was originally inhabited by mortals, but they found Frost City too cold and moved away. Jiajia, I'll leave that land to you. You can recruit some mortals to come here."
Zhang Xiaojia looked at his father and asked curiously, "Dad, how many people are left in Frost City now?"
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Yangzhou explained, "There are only 5,000 cultivators. Our Frost City is next to Bishui City and Shenmu City, two large cities where cultivators and mortals live together.
Only a city populated by both monks and mortals could have a continuous supply of spiritual energy. If a city were entirely populated by monks, spiritual energy might initially be abundant, but over time, it would gradually dissipate between heaven and earth and become difficult to retain.
In order to break through to the Golden Core Realm, the previous lord of Frost City expelled all mortals from the city. Although spiritual energy is still abundant, it is still a potential problem.
Zhang Xiaojia immediately said, "Dad, I'll handle the whole process. You can't ask any questions."
Zhang Yangzhou smiled and said, "I don't care, but I won't pay either. You can do whatever you want. We in Frost City have only one purpose, and that is for mortals and cultivators to live in peace. After reaching the Golden Core stage, I sensed the heaven and earth and gained a sense of enlightenment. In this world, perhaps the highest level of cultivation is the Golden Core stage."
Zhang Xiaojia is eager to try and build a city from scratch. She has the final say on what it should look like, and it’s exciting just thinking about it.
Zhang Yangzhou added, "But you can only do it after you have established your foundation. Have you refined the herbs I gave you last time?"
Zhang Xiaojia blinked, looking guilty.
Zhang Yangzhou knew everything and laughed and scolded, "Don't rely on your good spiritual roots. You are just a funnel now. After the spiritual energy is absorbed into your body, 90% of it is dispersed."
Zhang Xiaojia nodded immediately, otherwise his father would be like Tang Monk chattering incessantly.
Zhang Yangzhou threw another storage bag to Zhang Xiaojia and said, "First, I'll give you 500,000 spirit stones. With your cultivation level, the spaceship will take three days to reach Frost City, so you should stabilize it."
Zhang Xiaojia looked at the top-grade alchemy furnace in front of her. She carefully took out all the herbs for the Bu Tian Dan and counted them carefully. There were three in total.
She skillfully used her alchemy skills to remove all impurities from the herbs, and then with a light toss, she threw them accurately into the alchemy furnace.
Zhang Xiaojia closed her eyes, concentrated her mind, mobilized the wood spirit roots in her body, and carefully felt the situation inside the furnace. She knew that the key to alchemy was the control of the fire. Only with the right fire could the perfect pill be refined.
Zhang Xiaojia constantly monitored the temperature within the furnace and the state of the herbs, adjusting the heat as needed. Sometimes, she needed a blazing fire to quickly melt the herbs; other times, she needed a simmer to allow the herbs to gradually blend. Thus, she immersed herself completely in the alchemy process, not daring to slack off even for a moment.
As time went by, the herbs in the furnace gradually blended together, emitting a rich medicinal fragrance. Zhang Xiaojia was secretly happy in her heart, she knew that this meant that the elixir was about to be refined.
After a whole day of hard work, she heard a crisp sound, which was the signal that the pill was taking shape.
She excitedly opened the furnace and saw three batches of twenty-one Bu Tian Pills lying quietly inside, each emitting an attractive luster.
Zhang Xiaojia picked up a Bu Tian Dan, put it in her mouth, and savored the taste of it carefully. She felt a strong spiritual energy spread throughout her body instantly, making her feel extremely comfortable.
She couldn't help but eat another one, and the same feeling came over her again. She ate them one by one like candy beans, savoring the wonderful feeling. When she ate the fifteenth one, she suddenly felt that the spiritual energy in her body was about to explode, as if it was about to burst through her meridians. She realized that this was the critical moment for a breakthrough in her cultivation.
Zhang Xiaojia did not dare to delay and immediately decided to start building the foundation.
But she was worried that she didn't have enough spiritual energy to successfully break through, so she poured out all the spiritual stones her father had given her without hesitation, piled them into a small hill, then sat cross-legged on it, picked up a top-grade fasting pill and a top-grade foundation-building pill and ate them.
There are two steps to building the foundation: one is to build the physical body, and the other is to build the dantian.
The Qi training stage breaks through the foundation-building stage to gather Qi, lead Qi into the body, and temper the flesh. These are the three steps of the body refining stage. Zhang Xiaojia repeated them over and over again, and soon fell into deep practice.
As the Qi training stage breaks through the foundation-building stage, with the circulation of spiritual energy, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth continuously flows into the body. Not only any spiritual energy and energy between heaven and earth, but all of it can be absorbed and refined by it, thereby enhancing Zhang Xiaojia's physical strength.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was refined into Zhang Xiaojia's body bit by bit, nourishing Zhang Xiaojia's internal organs, limbs, flesh, blood, and bones, making Zhang Xiaojia's physical strength increase little by little. With the improvement of his qualifications, his own spiritual energy was no longer a loophole, and the speed was many times faster than before.
Zhang Xiaojia transformed the spiritual power in his body into true Qi, strengthening his body and increasing the strength of his flesh. It was like a blazing fire burning in his body, scorching his body. Then he slowly calmed down, cleansed his body with Qi, and gradually strengthened his flesh, completing the foundation of his flesh.
The second is to drive all the spiritual energy into the Dantian, squeeze the spiritual energy in the Dantian bit by bit, and build the foundation successfully. As long as the spiritual energy in the Dantian is converted into liquid, the foundation is built successfully.
Zhang Xiaojia felt that this was not difficult, but rather boring, as he had to squeeze the spiritual energy into liquid over and over again. In the end, he didn't want to squeeze anymore, and only stopped when he saw that his dantian was full and about to overflow.
Zhang Xiaojia is as calm as water!
Calm and peaceful!
Zhang Xiaojia's spiritual consciousness had already formed. He could control his own mana and external spiritual energy with meticulous precision. There was no risk of spiritual energy rioting or the threat of mana backlash, greatly reducing the danger of mana backlash.
Zhang Xiaojia was in a vortex of spiritual energy, which was extremely vast and still gathering in an endless stream without stopping.
Zhang Xiaojia successfully established his foundation.
Zhang Xiaojia opened her eyes and looked at the spirit stones, she started crying. She had built a foundation, and all the 500,000 spirit stones were gone. Her whole body was sour and smelly, and she touched it with her hand. Wow - it was so dirty, she was just about to take off her clothes.
"Cough~cough~" Zhang Yangzhou coughed twice and cast a cleansing spell to clear the air.
Zhang Xiaojia looked up, startled, and then he complained, "Dad, you scared me to death."
Zhang Yangzhou's forehead was bulging with veins. He suppressed his temper and said coldly, "Why didn't you set up a formation when you were building your foundation? It's fine when I'm here, but how many times are you going to die if I'm not here? Do you have a pig's brain? Has your common sense been eaten by a dog? Didn't the teacher in your childhood tribe teach you?"
Zhang Xiaojia laughed and retorted, "What is common sense in cultivating immortals? How would I know? When we were little, you took me everywhere and said that the teachers in the clan were useless. Have you forgotten!!!"
It seemed like he was still to blame. Zhang Yangzhou changed the subject, "Jiabao, is the water in your dantian like a stream, a river, or a big river?"
Zhang Xiaojia asked, "Dad, what about yours?"
Zhang Yangzhou said proudly, "My Dantian is almost full."
Zhang Xiaojia said arrogantly, "My dantian is about to overflow, so I won't squeeze it anymore."
Zhang Yangzhou's mouth twitched, and he slapped his daughter on the forehead and said, "You're so dirty, go take a shower and change your clothes."
After saying that, he left and said he didn’t want this girl anymore.
Zhang Xiaojia hurried to the bathroom to shower. After a quick wash, she rushed out, her eyes fixed on the pile of discarded spirit stones. Suddenly, a strange idea came to her mind: since spirit stones contain spiritual energy, if she injected her own spiritual energy into these discarded spirit stones, would it mean that they could be used again? The thought excited Zhang Xiaojia and she decided to give it a try immediately.
She quickly picked up a spirit stone and began storing the spiritual energy within it. She mobilized all her spiritual energy, continuously channeling it into the spirit stone. Before long, the spirit stone was indeed filled. Overjoyed, Zhang Xiaojia immediately rushed to her father, Zhang Yangzhou, and excitedly said, "Dad, look! Thanks to my efforts, this abandoned spirit stone has been restored to its original state and can be used again!"
However, Zhang Yangzhou smiled and shook his head, explaining to his daughter, "My dear, with your current strength, you can only store a maximum of one hundred spirit stones of spiritual energy in a day. Although this sounds like a lot, in reality, if you use this spiritual energy to do other things, the number of spirit stones you earn will far exceed one hundred. Spending a lot of time and energy repairing these discarded spirit stones is really not worth it. Are you going to become a power bank?"
Zhang Xiaojia thought about it and it made sense. He could use this spiritual power to hunt, refine pills, and make talismans to increase his cultivation speed.
Zhang Xiaojia said, "Dad, why haven't we arrived at Frost City yet?"
Zhang Yangzhou asked, "Do you know how long it has been since you established your foundation?"
Zhang Xiaojia shook his head.
Zhang Yangzhou said, "It's been 50 days. Didn't I tell you not to build your foundation? You need to consolidate it."
Zhang Xiaojia had no choice but to confess that he had refined the Bu Tian Pill. After eating it, his whole body was full of spiritual energy. If he didn't build a foundation, he would explode.
When I got off the spaceship, I saw Zhang Tianyi, and she excitedly said, "Sister, I have reached the fifth level of Qi Refining."
Zhang Xiaojia nodded and said, "Not bad."
"Sister, you have established your foundation! It takes 100 days to establish your foundation, and you have only spent 50 days. Your future achievements will not be low."
"What's this hundred-day foundation-building?" "Did the teacher in the clan teach you about it? You don't know? Sister, how did you take the exam before?"
"My dad took me out to have fun, and my dad helped me cheat." Zhang Xiaojia said proudly.
...Uncle, you are such an uncle
Zhang Zhenyue almost fell down when he heard what Zhang Xiaojia said. This kid has no common sense at all and is heartless. Forget it, whose child is it and who cares about it. Yangzhou has already reached the Golden Core stage and there is no problem in taking care of this little bastard.
Zhang Tianyi whispered, "Sister, my dad took my brother to Canghai Xiuxian School and said he would take me with him. I still want to practice with you, is that okay? Also, Yang Yangyang came out of seclusion last month and reached the seventh level of Qi Refining. She is clamoring to go to Yunhai Xiuxian School. Uncle said to go to Canghai Xiuxian School, but she disagreed and insisted on going to Yunhai Xiuxian School."
Zhang Xiaojia narrowed his eyes and teased her, "Aren't you jealous? I've already established my foundation."
Zhang Tianyi mumbled, "I'm not jealous anymore. Someone like you, with your mediocre talent, has already reached the foundation stage. I can't compare to you no matter how hard I try. I've been thinking a lot lately. My spirit is fundamentally inferior. No matter how hard I try, I can't beat you. It's better to keep a calm mindset and take it slow."
Zhang Xiaojia smiled and said, "Okay, let's go hunting in a couple of days."
"good."
Zhang Xiaojia returned to his mansion. The courtyard was not very big, but it was decorated very exquisitely.
Only then did she realize that this was her ancestral home and that she had her own mansion.
When Zhang Xiaojia saw Yang Yangyang, he immediately felt a sense of disharmony. The atmosphere was not right.
But no one said anything. If there was anything, we could talk about it in the evening.
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