Half a year later, in a cave in Jingyangfang City.
Lu Zhong sat motionless on the futon, a small porcelain bottle in front of him was empty.
Just now, he took the second Foundation Establishment Pill.
The Foundation Establishment Pill contains a large amount of pure spiritual energy and has a strong catalytic effect. It starts to work immediately after taking it. It is like a blazing furnace. While releasing a massive amount of spiritual energy, it also creates a star-like sea of energy in the Dantian.
changes occur.
The wisps of gaseous spiritual power that have gathered into Xingxuan are rapidly collapsing towards the center. The gathering method is quickly used, and the collapse speed of the spiritual power suddenly increases a lot.
During this process, Lu Zhong felt the familiar deep-rooted pain.
After all, the process of foundation building is also a process of rebirth and marrow cleansing.
In ancient times, foundation building was the beginning of the path to immortality, representing a monk's initial success in cultivation and officially embarking on the path to pursue the path to immortality.
Therefore, foundation-building monks are called "true cultivators".
As time passed by, affected by the power of the foundation-building pill, the collapse process of Dantian Xingxuan continued, and the spiritual power level in the center continued to increase.
Lu Zhong has been gritting his teeth and persisting.
The four spiritual arts are constantly running, absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world, refining it into spiritual power, and then using it to temper the meridians, making them wider and tougher, thereby meeting the basic requirements for containing liquid true energy.
During this process, part of the power of the Foundation Building Pill was diverted to help him protect his meridians.
The collapse continues.
Finally, the first drop of liquid essence finally appeared!
Lu Zhong was filled with energy, and he immediately endured the severe pain in his body and controlled the drop of true energy.
The last time he tried to build a foundation, he failed at this step. The reason was that in the previous step of washing the essence and cutting the marrow, he consumed so much energy that he could not even control the true energy in his body.
Like playing with a greedy snake, the liquid true energy continues to stretch, swallowing up all the gaseous spiritual energy it encounters along the way, and it gradually becomes larger and larger from the small droplet at the beginning.
In the end, a "small puddle" formed.
The pain in his body immediately receded like a tide.
Then, what replaced it was an unspeakable ultimate comfort.
The whole body feels like it is soaked in amniotic fluid, returning to the happy time of life.
At this time, Lu Zhong was surprised to find that the intensity of his spiritual consciousness was rapidly increasing. From the initial range of ten feet, it quickly skyrocketed to the hundred feet that a monk should have in the early stage of foundation building, and finally ended at one hundred and twenty feet.
There was no time to be overjoyed, so he immediately looked inside his Dantian with his spiritual consciousness.
It was shocking to find that all the spiritual energy in the Dantian had been transformed and turned into liquid and viscous real energy.
True essence can also be called magic power, and it is another proof of embarking on the immortal path.
"Unexpectedly, I successfully built the foundation!" Lu Zhong murmured to himself.
He casually performed a breath-gazing technique, and he found that he could see the world more clearly. Even the dust particles in the air could be clearly captured. Objects that seemed to have no aura at first could be seen with a faint glow if he looked carefully at this moment.
Light, this also explains why the foundation-building monks can easily see through the breath-containing techniques of the Qi-refining monks.
This is determined by the difference in strength level.
"besides……"
Lu Zhong held his hand, and an airflow mask immediately formed on his body.
He turned over his hand and pulled out the golden sword, and without hesitation activated his "armor-breaking" magical power, stabbing it towards the cover of his body.
With a clang, the golden sword was directly bounced away.
If you look carefully, you can find that the so-called light mask is actually made of airflow, which can deflect and deflect attacks.
"This...is this a powerful qi method that only true cultivators of foundation building have?" Lu Zhong was secretly pleased.
I tried Shining Gold Sword again, and this time it was no exception, the attack was also cheap.
He finally understood why monks in the Qi Refining Stage were unable to fight back in front of the True Cultivators of Foundation Establishment. He thought this Gang Qi was one of the reasons.
As long as the external attack does not exceed the upper limit, the Gang Qi will not be broken and defeated, and can be maintained until the real energy in the body of the foundation-building cultivator is exhausted, which will have a great advantage against the monks in the Qi refining stage.
In addition, the spiritual consciousness with a range of a hundred feet, and the true energy that is several levels higher than the spiritual power.
The three combined into one, resulting in the fact that the foundation-building true cultivators crushed the Qi-refining cultivators.
Lu Zhong was so happy that he calmed down.
He recalled the "He Ling Fei Xing Sutra" inherited by Feixing in his mind. Since he had successfully established the foundation, he started practicing directly from the foundation construction chapter.
There are nine levels of this skill in the Foundation Building Chapter, which correspond to the early, middle and late stages of Foundation Building.
Every small realm has a secret technique that can be practiced.
They are Xing Yang Gang, Star Pulling Technique, and Combined Star Explosion Technique.
Xingyang Gang is a gas-gathering and refining technique. It can transform the originally attributeless Gang Qi into Xingyang Gang Qi, which has a stronger defensive effect than ordinary Gang Qi. It also has the characteristics of flying star mana and a long breath, so Gang Qi
The recovery speed of Qi is also extremely fast.
The star-pulling technique that can be practiced in the middle stage of foundation building is an inherited secret technique.
This technique has been used and can have the effect of moving stars. Whether it is to attract opponents or to suddenly increase one's own speed, it is an extremely good practical use.
As for the combined star explosion, it is a secret attack technique.
Through long-term spellcasting, the true energy of the whole body can be gathered at one point, and then a terrifying power can be unleashed, which is comparable to the power of a single blow of the golden elixir.
Lu Zhong looked at the two secret arts at the back and was naturally extremely greedy.
It's a pity that you can watch it but not eat it.
Throwing away the distracting thoughts in his mind, he began to practice the Heling Fei Xing Sutra. The process only took less than an hour, and all the true energy in his body was transformed into Fei Xing mana.
Lu Zhong still felt a little pity about this.
After all, the spiritual power of the Four Spiritual Techniques has its own "purifying" characteristics, which is very suitable for the cultivation of the Four Spiritual Roots monks. If it were not for the lack of follow-up of this technique, then he would definitely not choose to change his practice, but would continue to practice it.
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More than half a year has passed.
Lu Zhong finally stabilized his cultivation.
Opening his eyes in the quiet room, he stood up from the futon, glanced at the bottles and jars on the ground, gathered them together casually, and then rolled them gently with Gang Qi.
In an instant, it was crushed into powder.
The strength of the spiritual consciousness of the foundation-building cultivators can already allow them to interfere with reality.
Just like now, Lu Zhong's spiritual consciousness just pushed the door open directly.
Immediately afterwards, a dragon-like cloud of dust rumbled out, hovering in the courtyard for a while before falling into a flower bed filled with bright flowers, and rolled up a figure beside it that could not be avoided.
"Ah!" Li Hejun screamed and was pulled into the quiet room.
At dusk, the two of them came out.
Li Hejun, whose face was still flushed, looked at Lu Zhong, who looked even younger. His expression was slightly startled, and then he smiled and congratulated: "Congratulations to the master for successfully building the foundation. I am really happy in my heart and mind!"
Lu Zhong's five senses at this time were much sharper than before, so he naturally noticed something strange about her.
Yes, after I broke through the foundation building, my lifespan suddenly doubled.
As long as you don't waste your vitality excessively, you can live for at least two hundred years.
As for Li Hejun, she is just a mortal.
Lu Zhong didn't think about it deeply. After all, everyone has his own destiny, and there is nothing he can do about it.
"Come on, let's go have a nice meal."
After being in seclusion for so long, he was starving. He wished he could go to a restaurant, order a table full of spiritual food, and feast on it. Anyway, there were still 70,000 spiritual stones in the bag.
When we came to the streets of Jingyangfang City, the annual auction was about to start again, so now there were more people, including monks like Lu Zhong who were accompanied by beautiful women.
While walking and watching, the two of them had a great time shopping.
Soon, we came to a riverside planted with willow trees.
"The spring breeze turns green to the south bank of the river..." Lu Zhong was so moved by the scene that he couldn't help but recite an ancient poem from his previous life.
Li Hejun next to him was puzzled and said: "This is obviously Jiangbei..."
After hearing this, Lu Zhong just smiled slightly.
Without giving any explanation, after all, this was the secret hidden in his heart. Suddenly his eyes moved forward, pointing to a food boat moored by the river and said: "Precious food boat, let's go eat there."
When they arrived at the restaurant, there was a waiter waiting at the door and saw Lu Zhong and two people walking towards them.
He looked at it carefully first, and then said with a bright smile: "Senior, please come to the private room inside to invite me. A batch of good ingredients just arrived on the boat today. I hope you can taste it after you eat it!"
This was the first time Lu Zhong heard someone calling him senior, and he felt secretly happy.
So he nodded and said: "Lead the way."
Walking through the elegantly decorated lobby, feeling the surprised and respectful gazes of the Qi Refining monks in the hall, he felt even more comfortable. After all, he had been like this before.
Now that I'm in a different place, it's so refreshing.
"Be wary of impatience! Be careful in your words and deeds!" Lu Zhong quickly performed the Bingxin Jue to calm himself down.
Just have a good time, there is no need to indulge in it.
Achieving foundation building is just the beginning of the path to immortality. There is still a more rugged and bumpy road ahead. From the division of talismans into nine grades, we can know that there are at least seven major realms to be crossed in the future.
After forming the elixir, there is the stage of forming a baby, and after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, there is also the stage of transforming into gods...
It is said that when you reach the stage of becoming a god, you will ascend and leave this world and enter the legendary spiritual world.
"Will I have such a day?" Lu Zhong was not sure.
Soon I came to the private room and sat down, and the waiter began to tell the names of the dishes skillfully.
Lu Zhong ordered eighteen dishes that the two of them liked to eat, and then he hugged Li Hejun, teasing him from time to time, and looking at the scenery outside.
After waiting for a long time, not a single dish came.
He felt a little angry, so he called the waiter and asked: "What's going on? It took so long to order the dishes, but not even one dish was served. Could it be that you are just having fun with it?"
While speaking, he deliberately let out a breath.
The waiter suddenly shivered and couldn't even speak because he was too scared.
"Please step aside first." A mellow voice came from outside the private room, but it was said by an elegant middle-aged man wearing Chinese clothes and with three strands of long beard.
The waiter Ru Meng was amnesty and hurriedly stepped back with his waist bowed.
The elegant middle-aged man waited for the waiter to leave, and then he handed over his hands with an apologetic expression: "I am the owner of this place, Tan Shihe. I want to apologize to fellow Taoist first. Something happened in the kitchen just now, and it happened to affect the ingredients used in fellow Taoist's dishes.
, so it’s not that we intentionally tease fellow Taoists.”
"What if this doesn't happen? Taoist friends can change the dishes to eighteen dishes at will. At the same time, Zhenshifang will waive all fees as compensation for this accident."
"Fellow Taoist, what do you think?"
Hearing this, Lu Zhong couldn't help but glance at Tan Shihe in surprise.
The other party's apology was indeed a bit exaggerated.
Not only did he allow himself to change dishes at will, but he also generously saved nearly four digits of spiritual stones.
You know, based on his previous understanding in Heling Sect, if an ordinary foundation-building monk does not have a good way to make money, the amount of spiritual stones he can earn in a year is basically around a thousand spiritual stones.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhong cupped his hands with a half-smile and said: "Fellow Taoist Tan, if there is anything else, you might as well tell me directly, so as to save Lv from having an unpleasant meal!"
"Hahaha! Let Taoist Fellow Taoist see through it!" Tan Shihe laughed while stroking his beard, and then held his hands again and said: "In that case, I will tell you what I have to say directly. May I ask Fellow Taoist Lu if you have planned where to go in the future? If you don't mind, you might as well join.
How about being a guest of our Tan family?"
It turned out to be the one who recruited me.
Lu Zhong knew what a guest was, after all, he had served in Wanfa Pavilion before.
Family guest ministers are slightly different from this. They usually take on the responsibilities given by the master, which is somewhat similar to the sect's deacons. It is really easy to say that it is easy, and it can even be said that they have nothing to do.
Basically, the host family just borrowed the name of the foundation-building monk to control the situation.
In return, the master will provide certain benefits, or guarantee the supply of cultivation resources, or agree on terms satisfactory to both parties in advance, or even directly give a large sum of spiritual stones.
Lu Zhong thought for a while, stretched out his hand to avoid hitting the smiling man, and decided to listen to the other party's conditions.
Before that, it is necessary to clarify one's worth.
"I was born in the Heling Sect, and I am also a talisman maker. I have mastered the method of making golden talismans. I wonder what conditions Fellow Taoist Tan can give. If you want to try your luck, I advise you not to talk about it."
After hearing this, Tan Shihe glanced at Lu Zhong in surprise.
He originally thought that the person in front of him was just a casual cultivator who had just established his foundation, but he never thought that he was actually a former sect cultivator, and he was also very good at making talismans.
The golden light talisman is a best-seller in the world of cultivation. With the strength of a foundation-building monk, it is not a problem at all to earn more than a thousand spiritual stones a month.
Recalling the explanation given by his clan brother before going out, Tan Shihe suddenly paid attention.
"The Tan family is willing to invite Fellow Daoist Lu to be their guest minister for five years at the expense of teaching them flying talismans!"
"Oh?" After hearing this, Lu Zhong looked calm on the surface, but actually his heart was filled with turmoil.
You need to know how to make the second-level talisman, which is not something you can buy casually on the street.
If you want to be like the first-level talisman, asking someone to teach you or buying a talisman-making book is all wishful thinking.
Regarding this kind of background, whether it is a sect or a family, the attitude is firm and unified, that is, it will not be spread easily.
His previous idea, after arriving in Lingyue Fairy City, was just to earn spiritual stones by making golden light talismans.
But now, the flying talisman is placed in front of him.
Suddenly, Lu Zhong was in trouble.
Once you miss this opportunity, you will almost never get it again.
After pondering for a while, he forced himself to calm down and decided to ask clearly before talking, so as not to suffer a big loss due to unclear things, and even lose his life because of greed.
"I wonder what kind of responsibilities you need to perform as a guest of the Tan family?"
If the other party is so anxious, maybe there is something important.
Things like this usually involve a battle of wits, which may be life-threatening.