Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 76: The Middle Stage of Foundation Building
Someone once said that time is poison. Wherever it passes, everything decays. However, the purpose of a monk is to reduce the toxicity of time by practicing and becoming stronger step by step, and ultimately seek immortality.
Some people also say that time flies, spring, summer, autumn and winter are like the changing of the four seasons, from nothingness to the birth of all things, and finally all things wither and return to nothingness. Time is a cycle, and the so-called longevity in the world is not true longevity. Only when you transcend this cycle can you achieve true longevity.
But no matter whether it is poison or reincarnation, if you die in time, it will all turn into nothingness. Therefore, you must fight to cross it. If you want to live forever, you must fight to turn the world upside down.
At this moment in the foundation-building mountain of the small wasteland, there is a young man who is in the middle of a struggle. This is the seventh year that he has been sitting cross-legged in the cave. He has never moved at all, and even a thin layer of crystal stones has formed on his body. If it were not for the endless spiritual energy that still flows into the boy's body, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he is the stone in this cave.
However, the spiritual energy that kept pouring in was already extremely thin, not as surging as at the beginning. Until there was no more spiritual energy pouring in, the young man slowly opened his eyes.
This young man was naturally Gu Xiaoxing. With a slight movement, a layer of crystal stones on his body surface fell off immediately. Seven years of practice was like a moment for him, but it also gave him the foundation that a cultivator should have, just like his eyes, which now had a depth that he never had before.
Gu Xiaoxing blinked and felt himself, feeling better than ever before!
There was no change in his appearance, he was still fair and clean, his body shape was still normal, even to the point that he disliked it, and his burnt hair had grown back. If one had to say there was any change, it would be that the soul-eating insect between his eyebrows had completely hidden itself in the Niwan Palace and was no longer visible.
But this is only the surface of the body. If we talk about the inside of the body, the changes are huge!
First of all, he has established his foundation, and it is not the early stage of foundation building, but the middle stage. It seems that he is not far from the late stage, which can be said to be a big step forward.
In the upper Dantian, the placenta of Taoism had already melted away and was completely absorbed by the Soul-Eating Insect. After building the foundation, the Soul-Eating Insect had changed from black to gold. However, Gu Xiaoxing's golden Soul-Eating Insect was different. There were nine more Tao patterns on the golden shell. Not only did it look more powerful, its aura was many times stronger than that of an ordinary Soul-Eating Insect that had built its foundation.
Speaking of the middle dantian, it now seems as if there is really a black palace standing there, no longer illusory. Taoist incense is burning in the center of the palace, and the green smoke is still curling. As the green smoke floats up, it seems to be growing all the time, and there is no longer any limit.
Gu Xiaoxing felt that even without the soul-eating insects, he could continue his practice by burning Taoist incense. He was immediately excited. He actually completed the second foundation building in his body. He dared not say that there had never been anyone like him before or after him, but it could at least be called rare in the world.
Gu Xiaoxing raised his hand, and a burning incense appeared in his hand. He waved it gently, and it was so smooth. He snorted coldly and said lightly: "Xu Qianxing, Qin Yunfeng, if you dare to mess with me again, I will just burn the incense and smash them to death!"
Then, Gu Xiaoxing swept his spiritual sense around, and everything in the cave appeared in his mind. Then he felt embarrassed. He thought that he should find a way to get out of the Foundation Establishment Mountain first.
Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxing's consciousness seemed to sense something. He looked up and saw nine bulges on the top of the cave. Before he built his foundation, he couldn't see what was inside. Now, with a sweep of his consciousness, he was surprised to find that there were nine things like babies inside.
Although the aura of these "babies" was hidden very deeply, Gu Xiaoxing found that each of them was extremely terrifying and contained great power that he could not contend with now. He was about to withdraw his spiritual sense for fear of alarming them, but he found that one of the "babies" suddenly sprayed some milky white liquid from some "organ", which flowed out from the small holes on the bulge and then flowed into the pool below.
Gu Xiaoxing was petrified instantly. He stared blankly at the nine empty pools around him and was speechless for a moment.
"Forget it, this is just a coincidence. I don't know where these foundation-building spiritual liquids came from. I really don't know..." Gu Xiaoxing hypnotized himself, but when he thought about the fact that he had eaten up all the stuff that had been secreted by nine babies for countless years, he still had an urge to vomit.
In fact, Gu Xiaoxing had already guessed that the nine "babies" might be the Nascent Souls of the Foundation Building Mountain. Zhou Shoutai must have learned from somewhere that the Nascent Souls of the mountain demons would secrete the foundation building spiritual liquid, so he came up with the plan of the Foundation Building Mountain.
However, Zhou Shoutai did not expect that the foundation-building spiritual liquid he found was just missed, and the place found by Gu Xiaoxing was the real place of fortune.
But no matter what, Gu Xiaoxing had to find a way out first. Walking down along the metal passage he had opened up, he felt like crying. It had taken him twenty days of hard work and sleepless nights to carve out this passage, but now he flew over it without even accelerating.
"I don't know how much time has passed outside. Ling'er, that crybaby, must have cried so hard when she saw that I didn't go back..."
"I don't know what happened to Dongfang Yu, but the line is still there, so he should be fine..."
"Village Chief, fellow villagers of Fulai Village..."
"Wangcai..."
Although he didn't know the exact time, Gu Xiaoxing always felt that a long time had passed, perhaps more than one or two years, so at this moment his thoughts became very complicated. He thought of a lot of things at once, and even felt a sense of eagerness to return home.
In fact, what Gu Xiaoxing was most worried about was whether those sects would do something against the Soul-Devouring Sect because of the Foundation Establishment Mountain incident. After experiencing so much, he already knew that there was no mercy in the world of cultivation. There was only the law of the jungle, life and death killing and scheming for the sake of profit. He just hoped that Master Bai and the little girl were okay.
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In the center of Xuantian Realm, on top of the thousand-foot Heavenly Palace in the ice lake, Dongfang Yu stood alone, gazing into the distance. Seven years had passed, and she had become more ethereal, and with her frosty face at the moment, standing on top of the thousand-foot Heavenly Palace, she looked like a peerless and independent iceberg fairy.
Dongfang Yu looked along the "line" with a flicker in her eyes. If Gu Xiaoxing saw her expression, he would definitely hide far away, because this was a sign that she was going to hit someone.
In fact, if she was not weak enough, she would have already rushed to the small wasteland to pull Gu Xiaoxing out and beat him up.
"Seven years. How dare you not think of me once for seven years? Humph!" Dongfang Yu was so angry that her hair almost exploded. "Just wait for me. It doesn't take a whole sixty years. It can be another thirty years at most... hm?"
At this moment, the endless "line" suddenly felt an inexplicable throbbing. Dongfang Yu blinked her eyes, which gradually turned red. The frost on her face melted away for some reason, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth...
At this moment, Dongfang Yu is in the middle stage of Jindan...!
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Gu Xiaoxing passed through the metal passage, continued downwards, and then passed through the rock passage and came to the circular cave below. It was still full of black metals that he had chopped off before. He simply put them into the storage ring. Just as he was about to go out of the stone pillar through another passage, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body.
"What's going on?"
Gu Xiaoxing frowned. He felt a sense of malice and his whole body couldn't help but tremble. However, he couldn't figure out where this malice came from. Finally, he looked at the "line" that extended infinitely and narrowed his eyes.
Walking out of the passage, Gu Xiaoxing came to the land in the center of the sea of fire. The high temperature that was almost unbearable before was nothing to him now. Only the area under the sea of fire could make him feel the crisis. After all, there were always a few dangerous places in the body of a demon spirit with a perfect Nascent Soul. This sea of magma had been nurtured in the body of the mountain demon for who knows how many years. If you go too deep, even your Dan will be melted.
Gu Xiaoxing didn't want to suffer under the sea of fire, so he stepped on the Fangcun step and flew over the sea of fire in a few steps. Now with the cultivation level of the middle stage of foundation building, he could perform the Fangcun step. One step was enough to cross five or six miles. If he used all his strength, he could even cross seven or eight miles in one step, which is a little more than a thousand feet in one step.
Compared to his previous one step of a hundred feet, it was simply impossible to catch up. At this moment, Gu Xiaoxing finally understood why it was said that each realm was different. If he were asked to fight a Qi Condensation cultivator now, it would be as easy as crushing an ant. He even felt that he didn't even need to do anything. A simple sweep of his spiritual sense would be the end of it.
Thinking in this way, how powerful would the Jindan be? Gu Xiaoxing has seen the Jindan in action several times. He didn't feel it clearly before because his realm was not high enough. Now, it is like the power of heaven and earth. Even if he is in the Daotai foundation building stage, or even the double foundation building stage, he is still far behind the Jindan stage.
Shaking his head and putting these thoughts aside, Gu Xiaoxing walked forward in the void step by step without touching the ground. His speed was much faster than before. Occasionally, he would encounter stone monsters, but he ignored them. He soon came to the range of the "Sky" pillar and immediately found that all traces of battle had disappeared.
Gu Xiaoxing was stunned. Was it because too much time had passed, or was it because the Foundation Building Mountain had the ability to repair itself automatically?
He also saw some remaining corpses, but they were all covered with a thick layer of crystals, and the flesh inside had begun to petrify. This should be the Foundation Establishment Mountain's way of "digestion". Gu Xiaoxing remembered that when he woke up from his practice, there was also a layer of crystals on his body surface. It seemed that the Foundation Establishment Mountain also wanted to "digest" him, but he was obviously not that easy to digest.
After leaving this place, Gu Xiaoxing went to the other two pillars, but the situations were similar. Now he was the only one left in the huge foundation-building mountain.
Then, he found a dark cave entrance. There were many such cave entrances in the Foundation Building Mountain. It should have been a way out. After building the foundation, he only needed to move forward along the hurricane and he would be able to walk out of the crack in the Foundation Building Mountain. But now that the crack has closed, the original hurricane has disappeared, and there is only endless darkness inside.
With Gu Xiaoxing's eyesight at the foundation-building stage, he could naturally see that the edge of the darkness was exactly that black metal wall. However, he gave up after just scanning it with his spiritual sense, because he not only felt a sense of heaviness from the metal wall, but also an inexplicable and fatal crisis that made him dare not try it easily.
After retreating from the cave entrance back to the world inside the cave, another two days passed in the blink of an eye. Gu Xiaoxing was finally able to refine the two magic weapons he had obtained by himself. One was the Green Needle, and the other was the Golden Feather.
At the same time, he was also thinking about how to get out, but he had no idea. For a moment, he was at a loss. Did he really have to stay here for five hundred years?
