Chapter 109: Foundation Building
The three Zhao sisters stayed in the villa for three days and then returned home with the elders of Emei Sect. Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan also started to stay indoors and spent all their time compressing their magic power to make preparations before building their foundation.
There is no time in cultivation; half a year passes in the blink of an eye.
In the past six months, the world of immortal cultivation has been quite peaceful, with nothing major happening.
It was nothing more than that the Tiandao Sect had accepted a few more extremely talented disciples, destroyed a small demon sect with a notorious record, discovered a secret realm rich in resources, and sealed off all entrances, not allowing people from other sects to enter. Those who had already entered were also forced to leave...
These are routine operations of the Tiandao Sect, and people who are familiar with the situation in the world of immortal cultivation will not find them very new.
Several things happened inside Kunlun Cave, which caused a brief period of heated discussion.
First of all, there was a ancestor in the late Nascent Soul stage. During his travels, he discovered a pair of twins with extremely outstanding talents. Although their talents were not as good as Junior Sister Jiang of the Tianlingmai, they were much higher than some core disciples. It can be said that their talents were second only to the Tianlingmai. If nothing unexpected happened, their future achievements would at least be Nascent Soul stage.
The ancestor who was in the late Nascent Soul stage immediately accepted them as his personal disciples. During the past six months, he applied for a lot of resources from the sect and helped them rise from two ordinary people to the Foundation Establishment stage. They gained quite a reputation in the sect.
This naturally attracted the envy of countless disciples. These geniuses' practice not only had the sect provide them with elixirs and bottlenecks from Qi Refining to Foundation Building, but they also had the Nascent Soul stage masters spend their great mana to help them break through. In just half a year, they had achieved more than the decades of hard practice of most disciples.
The second thing is about the talented girl from Cuiwei Peak. In the last Dandao Apprentice Competition, because of the appearance of Li Yu, Sister Zheng from Cuiwei Peak only won the third place.
A year later, Junior Sister Zheng easily won the first place in the competition with a furnace of nine top-grade elixirs, and four months later, she easily won the first place again in the first-grade alchemist competition, replicating Li Yu's legend last year, which caused quite a stir in the Kunlun Alchemy Peaks.
This kind of talent is rare in history, even in Kunlun, where many great masters of alchemy have emerged.
After winning the first-grade alchemist competition, she successfully built her foundation in just half a month and passed the second-grade alchemist assessment. At the age of sixteen, she was promoted to a second-grade alchemist.
There is no doubt that the era of Kunlun Alchemy has arrived.
She and Li Yu are known as Kunlun's "Twin Stars of Alchemy".
This name has even spread to the outer sects and, like the Seven Sons of Kunlun, is widely known by all factions.
One of the twin stars of alchemy, Li Yu has been the most popular person in Kunlun in the past six months. However, half a year ago, Li Yu, who would cause heated discussions in the sect every few days, has been out of news for half a year without anyone noticing.
Only at the end and beginning of the month would his figure appear at Lingyun Peak and Tianzhu Peak. Every ten days or half a month, the disciples at Yuzhu Peak would also see him. The rest of the time, he never left his villa, nor did he do anything that attracted much attention.
However, although Li Yu is no longer seen in Kunlun, there are still legends about him.
Five months ago, several Kunlun disciples who were out on a mission encountered a powerful Snow Wolf King while hunting a group of snow wolves. They were almost wiped out by the wolf pack led by the Snow Wolf King. At the critical moment, several disciples of the Soul Refining Sect suddenly appeared.
Those Kunlun disciples originally thought that even if they were not eaten by the monsters, they would die at the hands of the Soul Refining Sect disciples, and their souls would be difficult to free and would become their ghosts.
However, those disciples of the Soul Refining Sect not only did not take advantage of them, but also lent them a hand and helped them kill the wolves. After taking away the wolf souls, they even left the snow wolf's fur and spiritual blood to them.
Kunlun and the Soul Refining Sect, one is righteous and the other is evil, and they have different sides. When disciples of the two sects meet outside, although they will not kill each other as soon as they meet, they will definitely not be so friendly.
This incident caused quite a stir in Kunlun at the time.
Later they discovered that it wasn't just the Soul Refining Sect that was friendly.
Three months ago, a Kunlun disciple met a Hehuan Sect disciple while collecting a spiritual medicine in a secret place.
According to past practice, disciples from both factions would definitely fight each other, and the outcome of the fight would determine the ownership of the elixir.
It was thought that the two would have a fierce fight over this elixir, but the Hehuan Sect disciple was very polite to the Kunlun disciple. Not only did he join forces with him to repel a monster guarding the elixir, he also generously gave him the elixir.
At the same time, several Kunlun disciples discovered a small star iron mine in a secret cave. If they reported it to the sect, they would have received a generous reward. However, the star iron mine they discovered was brutally occupied by several disciples of the Tiandao Sect, who violently drove them away...
Some new disciples who had just joined the sect didn’t know much about the forces in the world of immortal cultivation. They once thought that the Tiandao Sect was a demon sect, and that the Lianhun Sect and Hehuan Sect were the brother sects of the righteous path. Although their names didn’t sound very nice, they really looked after the Kunlun disciples like a sect…
Later, the Kunlun disciples gradually found out that the reason why the disciples of the two sects took such good care of them was because of Li Yu.
When he was in the Thousand Poison Cave , he was kind to the geniuses of the Demonic Path and had given special instructions to the geniuses of the two sects, hoping that they would take good care of the Kunlun disciples if they met them outside.
Many Kunlun disciples were deeply moved when they learned about this.
For someone like Senior Brother Li, who always cares about Kunlun disciples, there are actually people who suspect that he has something to do with the evil way. Do they really have no conscience?
Ziyun Peak, Villa No. 69.
Li Yu hasn't appeared in public for half a year. Every month, apart from going to Lingyun Peak to collect and sell low-quality elixirs, going to Tianzhu Peak to pay for purple gold, and going to Yuzhu Peak to see Jiang Li, he would occasionally leave the sect to see Xu Yi and Tian Qi.
He spent most of his time practicing.
His hard work was not in vain, just now, he finally compressed all the magic power of the five spiritual veins into ten acupoints.
The foundation-building pill randomly selects spiritual veins, so he cannot choose a certain spiritual vein to build the foundation first. He can only compress the magic power in all the spiritual veins to the extreme and then build the foundation at the same time.
The magic power of seventy-two acupoints, after being compressed to ten acupoints, will become extremely thick. It will be more difficult to compress it further and it will take longer. Generally, when it reaches this level, it is necessary to rely on the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Li Yu sat cross-legged in the quiet room, and a white pill appeared in his hand.
On the pill, two lines of elixir were faintly visible.
This is a mid-grade foundation-building pill. Foundation-building pills are third-grade pills, which are more difficult to refine. Even a third-grade alchemist would find it difficult to refine a top-grade one.
However, a mid-grade foundation-building pill is enough. After all, most immortal cultivators will only take one or a few foundation-building pills in their lifetime. The amount of pill poison accumulated in their bodies is not much, and it can be all refined in a little time.
Li Yu held the middle-grade foundation-building pill in his hand. After a moment, sweat appeared on his forehead. He stretched out his palm again, and the pattern on the pill had turned into three.
The quality of the elixir will be improved by one level, and the possibility of breaking through will be greater.
Without much hesitation, Li Yu put the foundation-building pill into his mouth.
After the pill entered his mouth, it turned into a powerful stream of spiritual power, crashing into a spiritual vein in his body. This foundation-building pill chose the fire spiritual vein. Li Yu's body shook, and he felt that under the impact of that spiritual power, the magic power in his fire spiritual vein was compressed all the way and soon broke through ten acupoints.
Nine, eight, seven...
Although the process of forcibly compressing spiritual power is somewhat painful, it is within the tolerable range.
Finally, after the magic power of the Fire Spirit Vein was compressed into three acupuncture points, the flow of spiritual power slowly dissipated.
It was obvious that the first foundation-building pill did not help him build his foundation successfully.
However, Li Yu was not panicked at all. Over the past six months, he had saved up more than twenty Foundation Establishment Pills, so it didn't matter if he wasted a few.
He took out another foundation-building pill, purified it, and continued trying.
This foundation-building pill was chosen for the Water Spirit Vein, but it still failed to succeed in building the foundation. All the magic power was compressed into four acupoints.
Li Yu's luck was not good. The three foundation-building pills that followed chose the other three spirit veins fairly. None of the spirit veins succeeded in building the foundation. Except for the fire spirit vein, the mana of the other four spirit veins was compressed into four acupuncture points.
He had previously relied mainly on elixirs to improve his cultivation, and compared with those disciples, there was no discernible difference in talent.
But when it comes to building the foundation, the gap is very obvious. Those disciples with a little talent can successfully build the foundation with one foundation-building pill, but with his talent, he needs two. For those with worse talent than him, even two may not be enough.
Fortunately, he was wealthy, so if five Foundation Establishment Pills weren't enough, he could use ten.
Li Yu took out another foundation-building pill, purified it and put it into his mouth. This foundation-building pill chose the Water Spirit Vein. The Water Spirit Vein could already compress all the magic power into four acupoints. When this foundation-building pill entered his mouth, the flow of spiritual power easily compressed all the magic power into one acupoint.
At this time, the originally gaseous magic power in the spiritual vein was finally compressed into a drop of liquid.
Even if the spiritual power flow disappeared, this drop of liquid magic power did not turn back into gas. Instead, it generated a suction force. The spiritual energy around Li Yu was attracted by it and began to slowly gather into his body.
This method of absorption was too slow, so Li Yu directly took a second-level recovery pill. After the pill entered his mouth, it instantly turned into spiritual power and flowed into the water spirit vein.
After a moment, Li Yu felt a liquid thread running through the water spirit vein and was surprised. Is this the magic power of the foundation-building period?
Judging from the energy fluctuations, the mana in the early stage of foundation building seems to be only five times as strong as that at the peak of Qi Refining, but the degree of concentration of mana is incomparable.
This liquid thread, which appears to be only as thick as a hair, contains extremely huge energy.
Li Yu shot out a water arrow with a flick of his finger. The wall of his room was directly pierced by the water arrow. The water arrow shot out, and even the protective formation of the villa was violently shaken.
Li Yu was shocked by this scene. The power of an ordinary little spell cast by a person in the foundation-building stage and that cast by a person in the Qi refining stage was totally different.
He took out four foundation-building pills again, purified them, and swallowed them one by one.
With the first foundation-building pill as a foundation, the second foundation-building pill went smoothly. After taking these four foundation-building pills, the magic power of the five spiritual veins in Li Yu's body was all transformed into a thin liquid thread.
Five spiritual veins, all foundations established.
At this time, almost two years had passed since he successfully drew in Qi, and four years had passed since he embarked on the path of cultivating immortals.
After building the foundation, Li Yu clearly had a feeling that his lifespan had increased significantly compared to when he was refining Qi. This was the intuition of a cultivator, which could not be described, but it was real.
After building the foundation of the five spiritual meridians, Li Yu turned his attention to the Ren and Du meridians.
During the past six months, in addition to compressing his magic power, Li Yu has also been trying to compress his true energy.
He compressed his Qi quite fast, and with the help of the power of the Five Spiritual Veins, he compressed it to fifteen acupoints in half a year. Unfortunately, the Foundation Establishment Pill was useless for the Ren and Du Meridians, so he had to complete the martial arts foundation building by himself.
After all five spiritual veins were built, the fused mana also underwent a qualitative transformation. Li Yu tried to use it to compress the true qi in the Ren and Du meridians. As he expected, the fused mana compressed the true qi with unstoppable force. Li Yu didn't even try hard. All the true qi was compressed into one acupuncture point and transformed into a drop of liquid...
The feeling of opening the Ren and Du meridians appeared again. After the true qi was liquefied, he suddenly became extremely hungry. That drop of liquid was devouring all the strength in his body.
At the same time, a lot of black substance was once again precipitated on Li Yu's body.
Fortunately, Li Yu had plenty of medicine. Bottle after bottle of Peiyuan Pills entered his stomach and were transformed into strength. They were then absorbed by the Ren and Du meridians and finally transformed into a trace of liquid true qi, filling the entire meridians.
Li Yu put the middle finger and index finger of his right hand together, and an invisible energy force came out from his fingers. The hard jade bed was like tofu and was directly pierced by the energy force.
The release of true Qi is a sign of building the foundation of martial arts.
Once the true energy can leave the body, it can easily take a person's head from ten feet away. Compared with immortal cultivators, the disadvantage of martial arts at a low level no longer exists.
Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief. After building his foundation, he had officially taken the first step on the long road of cultivation.
He walked out of the room, and a white shadow that was playing in the yard flew into Li Yu's arms. He didn't know if it was because of the practice, but Ling'er hadn't grown much in the past two years. At first glance, he would just think it was a big white cat.
But if you really think of it as a big cat and think it is easy to bully, you are very wrong.
Over the past six months, Li Yu collected a few Jade Spirit Fruits from Xu Yi and Tian Qi every month, and refined quite a few Tongmai Pills. In addition to the waste pills collected from the sect every month, he had already fed Ling'er to the perfection of Qi Refining.
Now, all the eighty- one have been opened, and it is trying to compress its magic power according to Li Yu's guidance. It will take only a few months to build its foundation.
Don't be fooled by its cute and adorable appearance. Even a peak Qi Refining cultivator with a single spiritual vein is no match for Ling'er.
Zhou Zixuan was standing in the yard watering the flowers. The flowers, plants and trees in the garden were growing more luxuriantly and seemed to have endless vitality. This was also because her wood spirit vein had already established its foundation.
Zhou Zixuan established his foundation a few days earlier than Li Yu.
It’s not that her talent is better than Li Yu’s, but that Li Yu has too many foundation-building pills, which saves her the time of compressing her magic power. After practicing to the peak of Qi Refining, it is not necessary to compress the magic power by herself. If conditions permit, she can directly use the foundation-building pills.
However, you need to compress it to a certain degree first, and then you can build the foundation with one or two foundation-building pills.
If you want to save time, you have to use more Foundation Establishment Pills, maybe even five or six pills. Even the disciples of the Nascent Soul Grandmaster cannot be so extravagant. People like Li Yu who cultivate the Five Spiritual Veins need more Foundation Establishment Pills.
Zhou Zixuan was different. She only had a single spiritual vein, so Li Yu had the capital to allow her to be extravagant. In half a year, she compressed her magic power to the level of thirty acupoints. Li Yu used four foundation-building pills to help her successfully build her foundation.
So she established her foundation a few days earlier than Li Yu.
Looking back on the past few years of practice, the best thing Li Yu did was probably to listen to Senior Sister Xu's advice and become an alchemist.
I must repay her if I have the chance.
After a while, Li Yu walked out of the villa. Several old men were still playing cards at the door. Ziyun Peak seemed to have not changed much from half a year ago, but the aura around them was more vicissitudes and decayed than half a year ago, as if not half a year had passed, but half a century.
In the last few years of their lifespan, the bodies of cultivators will decay quickly, which is normal. The current condition of these people is better than that of Elder Sun, but not much better. They should be within a few years of returning to the abyss.
Old He raised his drooping face and glanced at Li Yu. His cloudy eyes moved and he asked, "Have you established your foundation?"
Li Yu nodded and said, "I just built my foundation."
The movements of several old foundation-building masters paused, and when they looked at Li Yu, their eyes were filled with envy as well as deep complexity.
They saw their own shadows in Li Yu.
Two hundred years ago, they were also full of vigor and high morale. Everyone had the dream of obtaining the Golden Elixir in their hearts, just like Li Yu now. But in the blink of an eye, two hundred years have passed...
After leaving Ziyun Peak, Li Yu went to a mountain where the Dharma disciples lived.
That is where Chen Ming lives.
He and Zhou Zixuan have both successfully established their foundations, and there are still more than a dozen foundation-building pills left. Ling'er cannot use so many, and the extra ones are useless to Li Yu, so he naturally thinks of his old friend.
Chen Ming’s talent was not very good to begin with, so naturally the sooner he built his foundation the better.
Li Yu doesn't have many friends, and Chen Ming is one of them. Although the two of them had some unpleasant experiences in the past, they have experienced life and death together. What's more, that guy also promised to make him a prince and choose a concubine for him. Just based on this kindness, it is worth two foundation-building pills.
When Li Yu arrived at Chen Ming's residence, he knocked on the door, but no one answered for a long time. He thought Chen Ming had gone out to refine purple gold. However, the door of the courtyard next door opened with a creak, and a disciple walked out and asked, "Are you looking for Chen Ming?"
Li Yu nodded and asked, "Isn't he at home?"
The disciple shook his head and said, "He has not lived here for a long time."
Li Yu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Did he move?"
The disciple showed envy on his face and said, "He moved. He moved more than three months ago. I don't know what's so good about this guy that he was chosen by a third-rank alchemist, who took him in as his Taoist partner and gave him a foundation-building pill to help him build his foundation. Damn it, why am I inferior to him? This world is so fucking unfair. It makes me so angry..."
When this disciple mentioned Chen Ming, he was obviously very angry. He slammed the door while cursing. Li Yu walked a long way away and could still hear him cursing in the yard.
Li Yu could feel the sourness even from dozens of feet away.
However, it must be said that the disciple is really not as good as Chen Ming. Although Chen Ming's appearance is not as good as his, he is still handsome, and can even be said to be a little handsome. After all, he is a secular royal family, and his parents' genes are not too bad, otherwise the previous Foundation Establishment Elder would not have taken a fancy to him.
Especially after he came to Kunlun and suffered enough from practicing, he was no longer cynical and had a decadent temperament. This type of person is still very attractive to middle-aged and elderly women.
But it was still beyond Li Yu's expectation that he could be associated with a third-rank alchemist.
A third-rank alchemist can refine Tuomai Pills. Even if Chen Ming is given one pill a year, he can cultivate to the peak of foundation building within fifty years. If he is given one pill a month, he can complete his foundation building in less than ten years. With more than two hundred years of life left, he can form a golden pill with his eyes closed and fulfill Elder Sun’s lifelong wish...
Although he is not talented, he always practices the life motto that Elder Sun taught him.
There are many powerful Jindan masters in the sect, but there are not many third-grade alchemists, and even fewer female alchemists. Li Yu easily found out Chen Ming's new address.
When he saw Chen Ming again, Li Yu discovered that he had indeed established his foundation. Not only had he successfully established his foundation, but his magic power was also deeper than that of the cultivators who had just established their foundation. He had at least expanded his meridians five times.
It seems that the third-grade alchemist is very kind to him.
Li Yu smiled at him and said, "Congratulations on building your foundation. I wanted to give you two foundation-building pills, but I didn't expect you to be one step ahead of me..."
The two of them reminisced for a while, and Li Yu couldn't help but ask curiously: "How did you do it, kid?"
Chen Ming lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "The royal family of Chen State has a book of secret techniques for sex... You know it."
Li Yu raised his eyebrows: "Tell me more..."
After a while, Li Yu and Chen Ming said goodbye.
When he left, he left behind a bottle of second-level Baoyuan Dan and took away a book of secret techniques.
Afterwards, Li Yu came to Yuzhu Peak.
Now that he came to Yuzhu Peak, it was no different from going home. The disciples guarding the peak no longer needed to be notified, and Li Yu could move freely through the various halls of Yuzhu Peak. When he arrived at Jiang Li's residence, Xu Qingxin was chatting with Jiang Li. When he saw Li Yu come in, he left silently and stood at the door of the hall, habitually keeping watch for the two of them.
In the past six months, Li Yu successfully established his foundation, and Jiang Li also successfully formed his elixir.
Her Water Spiritual Vein is a Heavenly Spiritual Vein, and there is no bottleneck before the Golden Core stage. After only two years in the sect, with the help of Patriarch Xuan Zhen, without taking any realm-breaking pills, her Water Spiritual Vein formed a pill first and entered the Golden Core stage.
The other four spiritual veins are still some distance away from the peak of foundation building. After all, the monthly quota of Tuomai Pill is too small. Even if she has a heavenly spiritual vein, the other Nascent Soul ancestors in the sect will not agree if all of it is given to her.
Senior Sister Xu was beside them, and the two of them just held hands. After Jiang Li formed the elixir, Grandmaster Xuan Zhen no longer restricted her freedom. Li Yu patted her head and said, "Let's go out and take you to eat delicious food. Piaoxiang Pavilion has added a few new dishes..."
When passing by Xu Qingxin, Li Yu said, "Senior Sister Xu, come along too. Let's go, let's go. We are a family, why should we be polite..."
