Chapter 179 Bottleneck

Logically speaking, it should indeed be handed over to Li Zhirui for refining, but Li Shiqing knew that he would not be out of seclusion in a short time.

"Second brother is worried that Zhi Rui will be in seclusion for a long time, right?" Seeing Li Shiqing nodding, Li Shilian thought for a moment and said, "Then wait a little longer. Anyway, the family is not short of foundation-building pills now."

If there are enough foundation-building elixirs, you can try to train an alchemist again, but now there are only ten materials, and the spiritual objects grown by the family will take decades to mature. They cannot afford to be wasted, so it is better to play it safe. good.

And the protagonist Li Zhirui, whom everyone calls, has now ended his nearly ten-year retreat!

But it's not because he successfully broke through and returned to his family to seek help from Li Shiqing to protect the Dharma, but because he encountered a bottleneck!

Li Zhirui had a vague feeling in his heart that if he wanted to spend his time in seclusion alone, he might not be able to succeed within ten or twenty years.

"Alas! Why did we encounter a bottleneck at such a critical moment?" Li Zhirui sighed helplessly.

He originally thought that he could successfully step into the gate of Jindan and become a real Jindan, but he did not expect to encounter such setbacks.

In fact, Li Zhirui had a guess as to where the bottleneck came from. It was probably because he had swallowed too many elixirs. Even though he had polished his magic and cleaned up the erysipelas, some hidden dangers were still left.

But over time, this hidden danger eventually turned into a bottleneck, blocking his cultivation path.

There are two ways to get rid of the bottleneck. The first is to be patient and spend more than ten years to solve it. The second is to go out for experience, or to increase your mood when encountering problems, or to break through the bottleneck in a life or death crisis.

Li Zhirui never thought of using the first solution. Although it was safe, it took too long, and now the relationship between the family and Yuan Mingzong was in conflict at some point.

So Li Zhirui had no choice but to go out to practice and seek opportunities for breakthroughs.

And it seems that he will encounter an opportunity this time out?

Li Zhirui frowned slightly. This vague feeling meant that the relationship between chance and him was not that close.

Shaking his head and not thinking about this matter, Li Zhirui pushed open the door of the quiet room that had been sealed for a long time and said to Daqing and Xiaoqing: "Let's go back to Darong Island first."

grumble!

Daqing screamed in confusion, wondering why Li Zhirui left before he could break through.

After so many years of practice, Daqing is not far away from the late stage of foundation building, and he should be able to break through in a few years.

And Xiaoqing's cultivation speed is not too slow, and he is about to break through the middle stage of foundation building. It seems that in addition to the large number of spiritual objects given by Li Zhirui, he has also taken care of his cultivation in recent years.

"I've encountered a bottleneck and I can't break through it in a short time, so I'm going to go out for a walk." Li Zhirui said with a smile.

Phew!

When Xiao Qing heard this, he screamed excitedly. Although no one restrained him, he was already tired of flying just a few hundred miles above Sequoia Island.

"I know, I know. When I get out, I will let you out and let you have fun." Li Zhirui rubbed his ears. He hadn't heard such a loud eagle call for a long time, and suddenly he couldn't accept it.

Li Zhirui took his two pets back to their space, pushed open the courtyard door, and prepared to speak to the tribesmen stationed here.

"Uncle Jiu, you are finally out of seclusion!" A somewhat unfamiliar Qi Practitioner shouted in surprise.

Li Zhirui was stunned when he heard this, Uncle Jiu? Although there were already mature members of the clan, this was the first time he heard a young man who looked like him call him Uncle Jiu.

"Well, I am going to go back to the family this time. After a while, the family will send another foundation builder to take charge. We will protect the city and prevent any accidents."

"Yes!" Several people responded excitedly.

Li Zhirui looked at them with amusement, thought for a while, took out a few bottles of Jade Spirit Pill from his storage bag, and said, "Practice hard."

After that, he called out Xiaoqing Feitian and left.

"Do you think Uncle Jiu has broken through to the late stage of foundation building?" Several people put away the jade bottle excitedly, and then started discussing with great interest.

"It must have been a breakthrough!"

"With Uncle Ninth's qualifications, he must have broken through to the late stage of foundation building if he has been in seclusion for such a long time."

Although Li Zhirui has not shown up for a long time, the stories about him in the family have not diminished because of this. After all, his growth experience and process are indeed worthy of being written down by the Li family and setting him as an example for other clan members.

"That Blue Wind Eagle is so majestic. It would be great if I had such a spiritual beast!"

"Don't think about it, that's a third-level spiritual beast."

"I heard that Uncle Jiu's blue-wind eagle often mixes with the family's jade-billed eagle, and maybe it can give birth to a hybrid spiritual eagle."

"Even if it's true, we can't make a contract unless we can break through the foundation." After hearing this, everyone's originally excited expressions instantly turned cold.

As children of the family, their treatment is definitely better than that of casual cultivators. They don't have to run around for sporadic resources, but it is not much easier to build a foundation than casual cultivators.

"Do you know Aunt Xuan? She is just a Four Spiritual Root, but now she is a foundation-building monk! Don't give up easily!"

Having said that, how many people can do this?

And if Li Zhirui is a role model for all members of the Li family, then Li Zhixuan is the idol of those members of the family who have poor qualifications, giving them a glimmer of hope and motivation to persevere.

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"Why did you suddenly leave seclusion?" Li Shiqing looked at Li Zhirui who suddenly appeared in front of him and said with some surprise.

Li Zhirui pursed his lips, told him about the bottleneck he encountered, and then said: "I am going to go out to practice and seek opportunities for breakthroughs."

"You have just come out of seclusion. You don't know that Shi Lian broke through the golden elixir some time ago. Yuan Mingzong is no longer such a big threat to the family. You don't have to take such risks."

Now the situation of the Li family is not that bad. Although Shen Lei Shan hopes that the two families will start fighting, everyone is still calm.

Of course, it may be because he knows that he can't do anything to the other party. If he really fights, he will completely waste his own strength and it is not worth it.

Before the existing balance is broken, the Li family will be in a peaceful development environment.

Therefore, Li Shiqing did not want Li Zhirui to risk going out to look for opportunities to break through. Instead, he wanted to stay in the clan and slowly eliminate the bottleneck.

"Grandpa Lian has formed an elixir?" Li Zhirui looked overjoyed. He did not expect that such a good thing would happen to him after he came out of seclusion.

Then Li Zhirui was thinking about whether to continue going out.

Although there was no external pressure, opportunities still tempted Li Zhirui, so he finally decided not to change his mind.

Li Shiqing took one look and knew that Li Zhirui didn't listen. He shook his head helplessly and said, "Before you leave, help the family refine ten furnaces of foundation-building pills."

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