Chapter 169 Uncle Tao Returns to the Mountain

On the last three days of every month, Xiao Lin would still return to Qingzhu Peak and go to the Dharma Transmission Building to humbly ask the uncles and uncles in the foundation-building stage for advice on cultivation.

Originally, Xiao Lin was worried that no one would water the spiritual field after he left, but after experiments, he found that the spiritual grass in the spiritual field would have no effect if it was not irrigated within three to five days.

This also made Xiao Lin start to take out three to five days every month to return to Qingzhu Peak. On the one hand, he did not want to miss the time for the foundation-building cultivators sent by the sect to transmit the Dharma every month, and on the other hand, he entered the sect's academy to learn various common sense of cultivation.

He had read the Qingyan Treasure Scroll no less than ten times, but he was still confused about the contents recorded in it. This was not because he had a bad understanding, but because the ancient seal characters in the Qingyan Treasure Scroll were very obscure, and there were many characters that Xiao Lin had never seen before, so naturally he had no way of understanding their meanings.

Moreover, through the teachings of the foundation-building cultivators, Xiao Lin's previous problems in cultivation began to be solved one by one. For example, when he was fighting with others before, if the speed of mana input was too fast, it would pull the meridians and make him sore all over. Even after the fight was over, this pain would last for several days.

Through learning and asking questions humbly, Xiao Lin understood that this was mainly due to the problem of the connection between his new and old mana. Every spell would violently draw mana from the meridians at the moment of casting. At this time, the mana in the dantian needs to be filled into the meridians of the whole body.

At the moment of casting a spell, the mana in the body will continue to be absorbed. Only when the mana is filled throughout the body can the mana in the meridians be avoided from being suddenly emptied due to the completion of the spell, which will lead to the contraction of the meridians. When the mana in the dantian travels through the meridians again, the meridians will expand again. Such contraction and expansion will naturally cause discomfort in the meridians, resulting in endless pain.

In the process of learning, Xiao Lin also understood that cultivators usually practice magic after building their foundation. The main reason is that the life span of cultivators in the Qi Refining stage is no different from that of ordinary people, and for cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, the best age to build their foundation is before the age of 30.

Beyond this age, the success rate of building the foundation will be greatly reduced, so when those uncles and uncles in the Foundation Building stage teach the law, they will emphasize that before building the foundation, don't put too much energy and time on the practice of magic.

After thinking for a long time, Xiao Lin also decided to suspend the practice of magic. He also gave up the idea of ​​going to the Immortal City to see the seal.

Before joining the sect, he practiced magic desperately to improve his combat power. Fortunately, he was able to pick the purple spirit flower in the cave trial and joined the five major sects. Now this goal has been achieved.

Xiao Lin naturally didn't need to waste time on practicing magic. Now his most urgent task was to refine the Five Elements Spirit Pill and improve his cultivation. Only by reaching the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage as soon as possible could he try to build his foundation.

On this day, Xiao Lin, who was meditating in the alchemy room, opened his eyes. Although the mana in his body was flowing, there was still a trace of helplessness on his face. Although he knew that his spiritual root qualification was the true spiritual root of the ice attribute, and the spiritual energy on the spiritual field was also very rich, he was still very dissatisfied with the speed of cultivation.

The feeling of taking the spiritual pill to make his cultivation rise step by step made him linger, but after a little thought, Xiao Lin put on a smile on his face again.

The Five Elements Spirit Herbs in the Spirit Wood Space have been harvested twice, and there are dozens of them. As for the Ice Yin Grass and Fire Scale Fruit, since they are only auxiliary medicinal materials, the demand is not much. Although only one crop was harvested, it is barely enough.

It was just that some common auxiliary herbs were still missing. Although these auxiliary herbs were all in the stone hall of Master Tao, Xiao Lin did not dare to use them easily. If he was discovered, his secret might be leaked.

After thinking about it, Xiao Lin decided to go to Xueling Fairy City to purchase more auxiliary herbs, so that he could start to refine the Five Elements Spirit Pill.

In addition to the Five Elements Spirit Pill, the more important one was the Foundation Building Pill. After Xiao Lin got the formula of the Foundation Building Pill, he also decided to refine it himself. In addition to the very precious purple spirit flower, the most important thing for refining the Foundation Building Pill was a spiritual herb called Dust Cleansing Grass.

The rest of the auxiliary herbs were relatively common. In Xiao Lin's opinion, as long as he went to Xueling Fairy City, he could prepare them all.

But this Dust Cleansing Grass was also a precious second-level spiritual herb, and the age of the Dust Cleansing Grass used to refine the Foundation Building Pill needed to be at least 120 years, that is, the fully mature stage.

Although the Dust-Cleansing Grass is precious, it is not unavailable in Dancao Mountain. Xiao Lin learned from the notes of Uncle Tao that the reason why the Foundation-Building Pill is precious is that the bottleneck is the Purple Spiritual Flower. In contrast, the Dust-Cleansing Grass can be cultivated through spiritual fields.

However, the spiritual fields for cultivating the Dust-Cleansing Grass are all special spiritual fields, and the number is not too large. After all, no matter how much Dust-Cleansing Grass is planted, it is useless if there is not enough Purple Spiritual Flower.

However, regardless of whether he can get the Dust-Cleansing Grass from the sect, Xiao Lin decided to prepare the other auxiliary herbs first, so that as long as he can get the Dust-Cleansing Grass, he can start to refine the Foundation-Building Pill after cultivating a few crops.

During the monthly teaching, the uncles and uncles in the Foundation-Building Stage will also focus on explaining the difficulties and precautions of the foundation-building to them, the outer disciples in the Qi-Refining Stage.

The foundation building of a cultivator is, after all, a sublimation of the life level. In the whole process of foundation building, not only will the turbid qi of the cultivator be cleansed, but also the spiritual consciousness will be strengthened. More importantly, the foundation building can compress and purify the mana in the cultivator's Dantian again.

Therefore, the gap between the Qi Refining Stage and the Foundation Building Stage, which seems to be a realm, is actually very different. Even in the world of cultivation, many cultivators will call this difference the difference between immortals and mortals.

From this, the gap between the two can be seen. While listening carefully, Xiao Lin couldn't help but think of the Nine Evils of Snow City. The main reason why the one known as the leader of the Nine Evils of Snow City was so famous and called the leader of the Nine Evils was that he had fought with a cultivator in the Foundation Building Stage and escaped from that cultivator in the Foundation Building Stage.

For cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage who want to build a foundation, except for the darlings of the Heavenly Spirit Root, they all need the assistance of the Foundation Building Pill. By swallowing the Foundation Building Pill, the turbid qi in the body can be cleansed to achieve the effect of refining blood and washing marrow, and then loosen the bottleneck of foundation building, so as to achieve the purpose of rebirth.

And the foundation-building pills cannot be taken unlimitedly. In the process of listening to the Dharma, Xiao Lin also learned that no matter how many times a cultivator fails in foundation-building, he can only swallow nine foundation-building pills in his lifetime.

If a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage swallows nine foundation-building pills and still cannot successfully build a foundation, then this person is doomed to fail to build a foundation in this life, and even taking more foundation-building pills will not help.

When Xiao Lin heard this, his original plan to push himself into the foundation-building stage by refining a large number of foundation-building pills was completely shattered. However, after listening to the reason detailed by the uncle in the foundation-building stage who explained the foundation-building process, Xiao Lin finally understood it.

The foundation-building pill is like a magical medicine. When taking one pill, it can clear a few points of turbid air in a person's body through the medicinal effect. At this time, the probability of breaking through the bottleneck is naturally much greater than that of not taking the foundation-building pill.

This process is limited. If one pill of foundation-building pill can remove half of the turbid air in the body of a cultivator, then taking the second pill may only remove half of the remaining half of the turbid air in the body. By analogy, after taking a certain number of foundation-building pills, either the medicinal effect of the foundation-building pill itself is not enough to remove the remaining turbid air in the body of the cultivator.

Or the turbid air in the body of the cultivator is too stubborn, even the foundation-building pill cannot remove it. In this case, it is nothing more than a foolish dream for this person to build a foundation.

But for the outer disciples of Dancao Mountain, there is no need to consider this concern, because even the son of the sect master wants to get nine foundation-building pills at a time, which is basically impossible.

Even if it is a mortal spiritual root, if there are nine foundation-building pills, there is at least a 10% or 20% chance of successfully building a foundation. Of course, Dancao Mountain cannot waste all nine foundation-building pills on an outer disciple with mortal spiritual roots.

Dancao Mountain only distributes dozens of foundation-building pills every year, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of outer disciples in the Qi Refining Stage. Even for these dozens of foundation-building pills, the sect still has to consider seniority, based on comprehensive factors such as background, qualifications, and cultivation.

So although on the surface, in a sect like Dancao Mountain, every outer disciple who has reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage under the age of 35 has the opportunity to get a foundation-building pill, in fact, many people have waited until they are 70 or 80 years old and still haven't got their turn.

This is also the main reason why every time the underground cave is opened, in addition to a large number of independent cultivators, there are also a large number of sect disciples participating, because in the five major sects, as long as you pass the underground cave trial and get a purple spirit flower, you can use this purple spirit flower to exchange for a foundation-building pill, without having to wait in line.

After understanding this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but feel fortunate. If he didn't have such a heaven-defying place as the Spirit Wood Space, even if he joined the five major sects, with his cultivation, qualifications and background, the probability of getting the Foundation Building Pill would be really low.

At the same time, he also had an idea in his mind. In addition to the purple spirit flower that he exchanged for the Dao Order, he also had three more. Should he exchange them directly for three Foundation Building Pills?

But as soon as this idea came to his mind, Xiao Lin dispelled it. Not to mention whether three Foundation Building Pills could help him successfully build his foundation, even if he really took out three purple spirit flowers, there was a high probability that he would not get the Foundation Building Pills, and he would suffer a catastrophe.

Because it was very simple. If he took out the purple spirit flowers, it meant that he had hidden it during the cave trial, and the sect would definitely investigate the reason. At that time, the secret of his Spirit Wood Space would probably be difficult to hide.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Lin stood up and was about to water the spiritual field when there was a hurried knock on the stone door.

Xiao Lin was slightly stunned, and then a helpless smile appeared on his face. Needless to say, the one knocking on the door must be Senior Brother Xiao. Since he took over the miscellaneous work of taking care of the spiritual field, this Senior Brother has disappeared every now and then.

Xiao Lin waved his hand to open the stone door.

A young but anxious face appeared outside the stone door.

"Hurry up, get ready, Uncle Tao is back."