Immortal Palace Longevity - Chapter 111: Building the Foundation (Part 2)
Liu Yu was cautious by nature, and he had another thought in mind. What if Geng Yuanzhang had tampered with the foundation-building experience? At this time, the replica of the experience would come in handy.
When tired, he would lie on the stone bed to rest. When hungry, he would take a bigu pill. If thirsty, he would use magic to condense clear water to drink.
In this hard practice day after day, half a year passed quickly.
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Half a year later, Liu Yu’s cultivation was one step closer to the perfection of Qi Refining. After repeated polishing, his magic power became more pure and round, and his spiritual consciousness increased to 120 feet, which was only 30 feet less than the one-mile range of the foundation-building.
“It’s time.”
Liu Yu decided to start building the foundation from today. He first slept for eight hours, then took a bath and changed clothes to wash off the dirt on his body.
Then he sat cross-legged on the futon, meditated for a day and a night, adjusted his mental and physical state to the best, and lit a “calming incense” worth 30 spirit stones.
This incense has the effect of refreshing the mind, allowing the cultivator to maintain clarity, making the cultivator’s mind highly concentrated and better grasping the situation in the body.
There are three major difficulties for cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage to impact the foundation.
The three levels are the physical level, the magic power level, and the spiritual consciousness level, corresponding to the tests of the cultivator’s essence, qi, and spirit.
In Liu Yu’s current situation, there is no hidden injury to the physical body. At the age of 28, the blood and qi in his body are at their peak. There is also the purple sun grass that can increase the strength of the physical body in a short period of time. The last level of spiritual energy is more likely to be filled.
Although the magic power has not reached the perfection of Qi Refining at this time, it is not far away. After so many years of careful polishing, the magic power has been pure enough to reach the standard of liquefaction, and there is also the help of the foundation-building pill, so the difficulty is not too great.
As for the spiritual consciousness level, although there is no treasure to help, it is the easiest of the three levels for Liu Yu.
His spiritual consciousness is inherently stronger than that of ordinary cultivators. With the improvement brought by Qinghe Lingcha and the magic method of storing spirit, he is close to the foundation-building stage and can easily master the liquefied mana to keep it stable and not dissipate and fall into a lower realm.
Liu Yu sat cross-legged quietly on the futon for six days and six nights, and the skills were running slowly without stopping. Just when he was struggling to find the best time, he suddenly felt that the vitality between heaven and earth was slightly stronger than usual.
Looking up through the window, he found that it was the morning of the seventh day. At this time, the morning sun was rising and the clouds were shining. It was the secular “Qingzhe” time, and the speed of mana running was involuntarily accelerated.
Liu Yu was blessed, and he felt that this was the best time to impact the foundation. He practiced the wood attribute skills, and this season and time were the most suitable time for him to build the foundation.
Liu Yu ran the Wood Spirit Technique with all his strength, and performed the Great Zhoutian cycle. The mana was running at high speed in the meridians of his limbs and bones.
The spiritual consciousness controlled the mana lake in the Dantian to gradually rotate, forming a vortex that continuously compressed inward, trying to condense the first drop of liquid mana.
The vortex of the mana lake rotated faster and faster. If you don’t pay attention, it will collapse into a ball and hurt the Dantian. This requires a high level of spiritual consciousness. Fortunately, Liu Yu’s spiritual consciousness has reached 120 feet, so there is no great pressure to control it.
As time passed, although the mana in the center of the vortex was a little purer, there was no sign of liquefaction.
“It seems that it’s time to use auxiliary spiritual objects.”
Seeing this, Liu Yu knew that it would be difficult to further compress and produce liquid mana with his own qualifications and cultivation. At this time, some external force must be needed.
He quickly opened the three jade boxes in front of him and took or used the auxiliary spiritual objects in them one by one. These spiritual objects are all helpful for the liquefaction of mana. Although they are far inferior to the foundation-building pill, they are better than nothing.
After taking these three spiritual objects, the deadlock was finally broken. The speed of the mana vortex was two points faster, and misty gas appeared faintly in the center and gradually increased.
Time passed slowly until three days later when all the three spiritual objects were used up, and the misty mana became much denser. However, without the stimulation of the spiritual objects, the misty mana not only stopped increasing, but also tended to dissipate.
Liu Yu certainly would not remain indifferent to this. He knew that the opportunity to take the foundation-building pill had come. With a move of his right hand, he quickly picked up the porcelain bottle on the side, opened the stopper and poured out a pill.
This pill was the size of a longan, dark blue in color, and had a blue glow flowing on the surface.
It was the foundation-building pill!
Liu Yu pinched the foundation-building pill without hesitation and stuffed it into his mouth. He swallowed it into his stomach with a move of his Adam’s apple.
As soon as the foundation-building pill entered his stomach, the medicinal power began to take effect, and it continued to turn into streams of mana, running along the meridians of the limbs and bones, feeling very comfortable and cool.
But once it entered the Dantian, it became very hot, like boiling water.
“Hum”
Liu Yu let out a painful hum when he was caught off guard, but the pain in his body was nothing, thousands of times lighter than the pain of refining the spirit, and within the tolerable range.
His spiritual sense controlled the boiling mana to enter the Dantian and immediately sank to the bottom, joining the mana vortex, and then the effect of the foundation-building pill began to take effect.
The speed of the vortex was twice as fast, and wisps of mist-like mana were continuously generated in the center, floating above the vortex, forming “rain clouds”.
The foundation-building pill is worthy of being the first treasure among the three foundation-building treasures. After using it, the effect is immediate, and new mana is constantly added to the vortex.
The faster the vortex runs, the greater the pressure on the Dantian, and it begins to slowly expand and expand.
I don’t know how much time has passed. Liu Yu’s mind is fully devoted to controlling the mana vortex, and he can’t feel the passage of time in the outside world at all.
The “rain cloud” on the mana vortex became thicker and thicker, and finally, when the new mana flowing into the dantian gradually decreased and the effectiveness of the foundation-building pill began to decline, the first drop of “rain” condensed.
As if a chain reaction had started, after the first drop of liquid mana condensed, the second and third drops were also generated rapidly. At the same time, the speed of the mana vortex slowly slowed down until it dissipated, and the dantian finally expanded by more than two times.
The liquid mana increased, and when the rain cloud was consumed, there were more than a hundred drops, falling into the mana lake, continuing to absorb gaseous mana.
From then on, the mana barrier had been passed!
Liu Yu slapped the storage bag, and with a wave of his hand, five hundred spirit stones appeared in front of him, shining with green, red and yellow light, corresponding to his spiritual root attributes of wood, fire and earth.
With another wave of his hand, all the five hundred spirit stones turned into powder, turning into rich spiritual energy, which was absorbed into Liu Yu’s body to replenish the liquid mana that had just formed.
After an unknown amount of time, the liquid mana gradually saturated, and Liu Yu’s consciousness controlled it to gather into a mana lake at the bottom of the dantian again.
The mana of the foundation-building period and the consciousness of the Qi refining period, because they have not yet completed the promotion, the consciousness is still in the Qi refining stage, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary cultivators to control it. If the liquid mana is not controlled for a long time, it may dissipate into gas again and fall into a lower realm.
But this is the easiest level for Liu Yu. He easily controlled the new liquid mana, and after slowly circulating in the meridians, it flowed into the bottom of the dantian to form a “small lake”.
After passing the first two levels, the spiritual energy of the five hundred spirit stones had been absorbed, but more spiritual energy surged in, and began the final “spiritual energy infusion” to test the body.
Liu Yu quickly opened a delicate jade box in front of him, revealing a snow-white spiritual grass with purple veins inside, which was the purple sun grass.
Liu Yu pointed at everything, and the white skin of the Ziyang grass was cut open. Then he pulled it out with a little force, pulled out all the purple meridians, and swallowed it in one gulp.
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