Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 54: Killing Fan Ji

Gu Xiaoxing traveled alone in the world in the cave. A day passed quickly. Looking at the only three drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid in the bottle, he fell into silence.
"At this rate, it will be difficult to build a spiritual foundation, let alone an immortal foundation..."
He could obtain three drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid a day, and that was when he was working at an extremely fast speed. But even so, that was only ninety drops a month. One hundred drops were needed to build a spiritual foundation, and one thousand were needed to build an immortal foundation. It was a huge difference!
This is not because those stone monsters are difficult to kill. Their cultivation is basically at the ninth level of Qi Condensation. Even though their stone bodies are hard, they may be difficult for others to deal with, but not for Gu Xiaoxing. Compared with the stone monsters, his physical body is stronger, so it is not difficult to kill them.
If one punch doesn't kill it, use two punches. Even when he met the strongest stone demon spirit whose cultivation was close to perfect Qi Condensation, it was smashed to pieces by Gu Xiaoxing's ten punches.
What troubled him was that these stone spirits were too hard to find. It often took several hours to encounter one. Moreover, the world in this cave was too huge, with huge pillars rising into the sky everywhere, so that places that were too far away were completely blocked by those pillars and could not be seen at all.
Gu Xiaoxing pondered for a moment and flew away again. This time, he no longer went out of his way to look for the Stone Demon Spirit, but started looking for someone!
After all, their Soul-Devouring Sect still knew too little about the situation inside the Foundation Establishment Mountain. Perhaps they could start from other sects.
But as he continued to move forward, Gu Xiaoxing discovered that this world in the cave was not only large, but also had an extremely complex terrain. It was blocked by countless giant pillars, making it seem like a huge maze. Even though there were nearly two hundred people in it, it was not easy to find traces of other people.
Finally, the second day was coming to an end. After Gu Xiaoxing had two more drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid, he sensed fluctuations in cultivation in the distance. It seemed that someone was fighting?
Gu Xiaoxing's expression condensed slightly. He took out a breath-suppressing talisman and stuck it on his body, then carefully approached in that direction.
What appeared in front of him was a huge pillar. Unlike other pillars, the pillar was not straight up to the sky. Instead, it had a slight curve, which made it very recognizable. Just below the pillar, there were three figures. When Gu Xiaoxing saw them, his eyes widened immediately.
He suddenly realized that the noise he just heard was not someone fighting, but someone breaking through!
Moreover, among those three people, two of them were breaking through, and the other young man was vigilantly guarding the surroundings, probably to protect those two people.
"Have you collected all the foundation-building spiritual liquid so quickly?" Gu Xiaoxing was shocked. Even he had only collected five drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid, and he was still a long way to go!
He didn't believe that anyone could collect a hundred drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid so quickly!
Sure enough, Gu Xiaoxing soon discovered something strange. Although the two men were breaking through, their power was not very strong. It was not until he saw them each take out a pill and swallow it during the breakthrough that Gu Xiaoxing immediately realized.
They are not building a spiritual foundation by gathering a hundred drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid; they are building a mortal foundation!
In fact, as long as Gu Xiaoxing is willing, he can do it. Although it is extremely difficult to build the foundation of the Soul-Devouring Body, Gu Xiaoxing is special. He has been tempered in the Sanyang Soul Refining Furnace for so long, and has even refined the Sanyang Alchemy Body. His foundation is even much deeper than those orthodox cultivators. He is confident that as long as he uses his own cultivation to force a breakthrough, supplemented by the Foundation Establishment Pill, there is a high probability that he will be able to successfully build the foundation. However, such a foundation is just an ordinary foundation, and he naturally does not want to do so.
Gu Xiaoxing continued to stare at that side, his brows gradually furrowed. After taking the foundation-building pill, the aura of the two suddenly surged. When it reached a certain critical point, with a loud "boom", the two broke through at the same time!
Build foundation!
Immediately afterwards, after successfully building their foundation, the two men not only did not show any arrogance, but instead respectfully saluted towards the young man who had protected them before and whose cultivation was only at the perfect stage of Qi Condensation. The young man said something to them lightly, as if he was more like a superior!
Seeing this scene, Gu Xiaoxing immediately understood!
These three people must be from the same sect. Because they have some understanding of the world in this cave, they had already decided to meet under some iconic pillars. They would then selectively "sacrifice" some disciples with less talent to break through the mortal foundation first, and then help those disciples with better talent to gather the foundation-building spiritual liquid to build the spiritual foundation!
After all, Gu Xiaoxing has experienced it deeply. It is difficult for one person alone to find a hundred stone spirits within a month. Therefore, selective "sacrifice" to help those more talented disciples is undoubtedly the best approach.
After thinking about these, Gu Xiaoxing's face gradually became ugly, and he had a bad premonition in his heart. That is to say, the competitors he was going to face were not Qi Condensation cultivators from the beginning, but a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators!
On the other side, two foundation-building masters looked respectful. One had a big beard, and the other was a middle-aged man with an ordinary face. They were listening to what the young man in front of them was saying. Suddenly, the one with the big beard looked serious, glared in one direction, and shouted, "Who!"
Gu Xiaoxing was shocked and ran away, then he remembered that once the foundation was established, spiritual consciousness would be condensed, and even the breath-suppressing talisman could not escape the detection of spiritual consciousness.
The face of the Qi Condensation Youth darkened, and he said in a cold voice: "No matter who it is, catch him, and never let others know the location of our Changle Sect!"
"Don't worry, young master!"
After saying that, the two foundation-building masters flew up and chased in the direction of Gu Xiaoxing.
Gu Xiaoxing ran wildly all the way. With his current powerful cultivation level, he could cross a hundred feet in one step with his full strength. If he was in a flat and open area, an ordinary foundation building cultivator would not be able to catch up with him. However, this cave was full of pillars blocking the way, and his Fangcun Step was extremely difficult to perform. He always had to adjust the direction after taking one or two steps. Facing the true aerial pursuit of the foundation building cultivator, he was gradually shortened in distance.
"Someone from the Soul Devouring Sect?" The bearded man swept his spiritual sense over, trying to imprison him with his spiritual sense, but found that it was useless. "Boy, surrender, we won't make it difficult for you!"
"You're not going to make things difficult for me and you want me to surrender?" Gu Xiaoxing shouted, "Then don't chase me!"
"No need to waste time talking to him, just kill him!" Another middle-aged foundation-building cultivator snorted coldly, found an opening, and immediately cast a talisman, which turned into a ray of thunder and blasted away.
It is the Thunder Talisman.
At this moment, Gu Xiaoxing's face turned grim. Since he couldn't run away, he simply didn't run. He turned around angrily, took a step forward with a flash of golden light, dodged the lightning and instantly came in front of the middle-aged foundation-building man. He punched him without hesitation, using all his strength!
If it was Qi Condensation, he would have been shattered by a punch when caught off guard like this, but Foundation Building was still Foundation Building after all . Although he was surprised, he reacted in an instant. The pendant on his neck flashed and turned into a shield to block in front of him.
However, with a loud bang, a crack was directly blasted on the shield. The middle-aged foundation-building cultivator was immediately shocked. This was a medium-level magic weapon!
Can it be blasted apart with just the flesh?
Gu Xiaoxing would not give the other party time to be shocked. Facing those who wanted to take his life, he always killed them directly. He immediately swept his foot across, and the shield shattered. The big foot flashing with golden runes kicked directly on the middle-aged foundation-building person. The middle-aged foundation-building person immediately fell like a meteor and hit a giant pillar.
Gu Xiaoxing knew that the foundation-building warrior would not die so easily, and wanted to pursue the victory, but at this time the bearded foundation-building warrior had also attacked. He quickly raised his hand, took out the Zi Ming sword, and then cut him down with one sword.
The bearded man wanted to kill him with a sudden blow, but he didn't expect the opponent to react so quickly. The spear he thrust out collided with the Ziming sword, but his spear tip was instantly shattered. He was immediately shocked, "A top-grade magic weapon?"
"Feng Chen!" Gu Xiaoxing snorted coldly and used his Feng Chen magical power without hesitation.
Suddenly, the bearded man felt like he had jumped into chaos. He lost all six senses and was completely confused. Although he broke free from that state in just a moment, in that moment, his whole body tightened and he was entangled by a chain. The chain was red all over, and there were blood-colored runes connected in a line. No matter how hard he struggled, he could not break free!
After a year of nurturing, the Soul Binding Rope has become stronger and tougher than before!
At this moment, the bearded foundation-building warrior finally panicked, realizing that the young man in front of him was completely different from the legendary soul-devouring body. He was not weak at all, but very strong. He was so strong that he could use Qi Condensation to destroy the foundation-building warrior. Although he had just established the foundation not long ago and his cultivation was not very stable, and he was only establishing an ordinary foundation, this was also a foundation-building warrior!
Just when the bearded master was feeling regretful and wanted to negotiate with a conciliatory attitude, he was met with a sword!
"No! You can't , I'm..."
The next moment, the head fell off.
"You forced me to do this. If you have anything to say, just go downstairs and say it!" Gu Xiaoxing's voice was cold. He was no longer the young boy who had just started out. He knew very well that if he was not decisive enough, once the other party found an opportunity, they would kill him without hesitation.
In the past year, he had seen too many such stories in books, and almost all of those books mentioned what it meant to cultivate immortality.
We must fight!
Be ruthless!
In the distance, when the middle-aged foundation-building cultivator struggled to get up from a pile of rubble and saw this scene, he was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out, and he immediately turned around and ran away.
Gu Xiaoxing collected the storage bag from the bearded man's body, and then chased after him...
Changle Sect can only be regarded as the lowest among the many forces that have entered the Foundation Building Mountain, but fortunately, this is not their first time entering this place, so they have set up a stronghold in advance, waiting for the disciples to gather together to break through the foundation building, and then help the young master collect the foundation building spiritual liquid and build the spiritual foundation!
There are seven of them entering the Foundation Establishment Mountain. By then, six of them will search together. It is possible that they can gather enough immortal foundation in a month!
With such a vision, the young master of Changle Sect smiled, but soon frowned and looked into the distance, saying with some dissatisfaction: "What's going on? Does it take so long to kill a Condensed Qi?"
It was not until a familiar figure flew over from afar that he smiled again, but the smile soon froze again. He realized something was wrong, because the flying figure now had a look of panic on his face.
"Young Master, run away!"
Hearing this voice, the young master of Changle Gate frowned even deeper, and then he saw the man being cut in half by a sword. He finally realized something, and when he was about to escape, it was too late, because a person had already appeared in front of him.
It’s Gu Xiaoxing!