There are currently a total of five foundation-building monks in the Li family of Taiqiu. In addition to the patriarch, who is a eldest brother, there are also two eldest-generation monks in the foundation-building stage, one who is in the middle stage of foundation building and the other who is in the early stage of foundation building.
There is also a first-generation foundation-building monk, but he is nearing his end of life and has been in seclusion.
The remaining foundation-building monk is from the Qing generation, which can be regarded as the Mesozoic generation of the Li family.
Many people in the Li Jiaqing generation have good qualifications. Except for this person who has successfully established the foundation, five people including Li Qingjing have the opportunity to enter the foundation building stage.
As for the Xuan generation below, they are still in the development stage. The highest cultivation levels are Li Xuangang's second brother Li Xuantian and his thirteenth brother Li Xuanyuan, both of whom have reached the seventh level of Qi refining.
The Li family became a foundation-building family when the first patriarch, Li Taiqiu, entered the foundation-building period. Before that, the Li family was just a Qi-refining family.
Five hundred and eighty years ago, since Li Taiqiu led his tribe to snatch its territory from a third-level tiger demon as the new residence of his family, it has been passed down for five generations: Taiyi Chang Qingxuan.
In order to commemorate Li Taiqiu, the first monk in the foundation-building period of the Li family, this mountain also changed from an unknown wild mountain to Taiqiu Mountain.
After that, God may have shown mercy, and among the younger generations of the Li family, many people with amazing talents appeared. With the help of Li Taiqiu, two more first-generation monks successfully entered the foundation-building stage, thus completely stabilizing the status of the Li family's foundation-building family.
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And after hundreds of years of cultivation by the Li family, Taiqiu Mountain has changed from a barely second-level spiritual vein to a top-level second-level one.
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This period of family history is recorded in the family's classics, and every member of the Li clan is familiar with it.
Li Xuangang had no intention of paying attention to this at this time, but focused on the practice of magic.
In order to successfully practice, Li Xuangang carefully understood the Five Metal Corpse Refining Technique. Although he was far from the Dacheng state in the end, he did get started. At least he could do the preliminary training and successfully transform the walking corpse into his own corpse refining.
After carefully considering the materials and steps required for transformation, Li Xuangang adjusted his condition and began to refine his own corpse for the first time.
The Hardware Corpse Refining Technique originated from the Corpse Ghost Sect. By chance, more than two hundred years ago, a first-generation ancestor of the family in the foundation-building period obeyed the Corpse Ghost Sect's order and hunted down a traitor of the Corpse Ghost Sect, and finally killed him.
After killing it, I got this spell from its storage bag.
Afterwards, the Corpse Ghost Sect did not take it back, but accepted it as one of the Taizu's rewards.
So in the end, the magic of the hardware corpse refining art was stored in the library of the Li family.
The rules of the Li family's library are very different from those of others. In other places similar to the library, you have to pay an equal price for each spell, exercise, or other things. But the Li family's book collection
Different from the Pavilion, there are no restrictions. Anything in the Library Pavilion can be read for free by clan members named in the Li family tree, but clan members are strictly prohibited from passing it on to outsiders.
Therefore, in theory, a monk of the Li family can learn all the exercises and spells collected by the Li family, as well as the practice experience accumulated by the monks of the Li family over the years.
It is said that this was the rule set by Li Taiqiu, the first generation ancestor of the Li family, when he founded the family in Taiqiu Mountain.
This kind of rule cannot be said to be much better than the rules of other forces, but it does have its own advantages. It can only be said that each has its own merits.
Li Xuangang began to refine his own corpse according to the method recorded in the Hardware Corpse Refining Art.
After he took out the walking corpse, he let it lie flat on the ground. He mixed a variety of metal powders with the monster's blood to make a thick juice, and then drew a strange pattern on its head.
, and finally put his own essence and blood on his forehead, and used his spiritual power to continuously guide the essence and blood, slowly spreading along the trajectory of the pattern, and finally the essence and blood disappeared together with the pattern on the head skin of the walking corpse.
Below, when Li Xuangang guides his essence and blood into the body of the walking corpse, you can clearly feel the latter's resistance.
When the process reached a critical point, the corpse's body actually showed signs of breaking through the corpse-suppressing talisman, but it returned to calm under Li Xuangang's timely suppression.
This was repeated five times, and after consuming five drops of Li Xuangang's essence and blood, the preliminary sacrifice was finally completed on the walking corpse. At this time, the walking corpse had turned into a refined corpse.
Li Xuangang withdrew his spiritual power, adjusted his breathing, and restored his condition.
He could now feel a mysterious connection between himself and the corpse, so the next moment Li Xuangang took off the corpse-suppressing talisman from the corpse.
Sure enough, the corpse showed no signs of riot, so Li Xuangang tried to make it jump, and the latter did so.
Li Xuangang was overjoyed. Although the mental suppression of the corpse was not very obvious yet, performing a few more sacrifices on it in the future should be able to greatly reduce the possibility of its backlash.
Many monks in the Corpse Ghost Sect have experienced the backlash of their own corpse refining, and some even paid with their own lives.
However, according to Li Xuangang's induction, his corpse is only at the peak of the third level of Qi refining and needs to be cultivated before it can reach the fourth level of Qi refining. As long as he pays attention, even if there is a backlash, it will not cause any danger to him.
After trying to manipulate the corpse for a while, Li Xuangang put it back into the Nayin gourd hanging at his waist.
The process of refining the corpse seemed simple, but in fact it was quite labor-intensive. In addition, he had consumed five drops of blood essence, so Li Xuangang felt tired for a while, and finally fell on the stone bed again.
This time Li Xuangang slept for three full days before waking up from his sleep.
The first time after waking up, Li Xuangang tidied his clothes and came out of his cave. After looking up and identifying the direction, he walked towards a building on Taiqiu Mountain.
Not long after, Li Xuangang arrived in front of a large building at the foot of Mount Taiqiu.
This is a five-story building with a black color and is mainly made of black iron. Of course, it is also mixed with some other materials.
The whole building is grand and majestic, giving people a sense of towering erectness.
This building is one of the most important buildings of the Li family. Not only is the construction material precious, but it is also protected by a separate guardian circle.
This is the Li family's charity hall, which is mainly used for resource exchange among members of the Li family. What is used as currency instead of spirit stones are the family's contribution points.
In the Shanggong Hall, spiritual stones are also a resource. You can buy them with contribution points, and the ratio is one to one.
Since it is a place for resource exchange, a large amount of resources are often stored in it, so Shanggong Hall is also a place closely protected by the Li family.
After entering the gate, what you see is one container after another. In front of the containers, there are members of the Li family presiding over the exchange.
Li Xuangang's main purpose of coming here was to exchange for some Spring Dew Pills for cultivation, and to see if there was any evil spirit suitable for cultivating corpses.
Although the Taiqiu Li family is under the jurisdiction of the Corpse Ghost Sect, few members of the family practice corpse refining. Therefore, when the family reserves cultivation resources, it rarely reserves resources dedicated to corpse refining such as evil spirit.
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Therefore, Li Xuangang just came to try his luck.
After asking the clan members who were performing the mission here, Li Xuangang felt chilled. It turned out that the family did not have any evil spirits in reserve. If he wanted to buy evil spirits, he had to go to Tianhefang City, which is closest to the Li family.
Since he did not buy the evil spirit, Li Xuangang turned all his attention to the remaining target, which was also the main purpose of this trip: Spring Dew Pill.
Spring Dew Pill is a first-level spiritual elixir, suitable for monks in the early and middle stages of Qi refining. Since the main material of Spring Dew Pill, Huangya grass, is one of the spiritual herbs grown on a large scale by the family, and there are two other spiritual herbs in the family.
He is a first-level alchemist who can skillfully refine the Spring Dew Pill, so the Spring Dew Pill is one of the main pills taken by the monks during the Qi refining period of the Li family.
Every year, the excess is sold in the market.
Contribute a bottle of Chunlu Dan Fifteen, with five pills in each bottle. This price is cheaper than buying it at the market outside, after all, it is for internal use within the family.
Although Li Xuangang has taken on many tasks in the family over the years, he has practiced diligently and almost all the contribution points he earned have been used to exchange for resources for training, so he has not saved much. Now Li Xuangang only has one identity token.
More than 100 contribution points.
Without much thought, Li Xuangang spent 90 contribution points to buy six bottles of Chunlu Dan.
After getting the Spring Dew Pill, Li Xuangang asked the tribesman responsible for the exchange for other items, and found that there was nothing he needed, so Li Xuangang did not waste time here, got up and left the Shanggong Hall.
An hour later, Li Xuangang appeared in front of a cave, but this was not his own cave.
After sending a message to the magic circle guarding the cave, Li Xuangang waited quietly outside the cave.
Not long after, the magic circle opened from inside, and a fat man walked out.
This person's name is Li Xuanshan, and he ranks fifteenth in the Xuan generation.
Li Xuanshan has no particular interest in cultivation, but he is particularly fond of the family's caravans. As long as he can participate, he will never fail.
In the words of an elder in the family caravan: This guy just likes selling things.
Li Xuangang knew this, so he came here to ask him to help him bring back some suitable evil spirit from Fangshi next time he goes out with the caravan.
After hearing what Li Xuangang said, Li Xuanshan agreed wholeheartedly. He also asked Brother Ninth if he had anything else to bring.
Naturally, Li Xuangang didn't have anything else to use. Before leaving, he told Li Xuanshan: "Don't forget, after buying it, just go to my cave to find me."
Li Xuanshan responded: Ninth brother, don’t worry.
After expressing his gratitude to Li Xuanshan, Li Xuangang left here and returned to his cave.
He sat cross-legged, circulated his spiritual energy, and adjusted his breath to exhale. After Li Xuangang finished doing this, he poured out a yellow-orange spring dew pill from a small jade bottle.
Li Xuangang stared at it for a moment, then swallowed it, began to refine the power of Spring Dew Pill, and entered a state of cultivation.