Chapter 173 Distribution of Foundation Building Pills

On this day, Xiao Lin opened his eyes from his meditation, and two rays of divine light flashed and disappeared.

Xiao Lin breathed a sigh of relief, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

Feeling the mana flowing in his body, Xiao Lin was thinking about his future cultivation path. In fact, more than half a month ago, he had already cultivated to the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, and the mana in his body was more than twice as deep as when he first entered the sect.

Xiao Lin could actually impact the great perfection of the Qi Refining Stage. As long as he reached the great perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, Xiao Lin could start taking the foundation-building pill and try to build the foundation.

However, Xiao Lin did not do so. On the one hand, the foundation-building pill he needed for foundation building had not been refined yet, and on the other hand, he did not want to attract too much attention. When he first entered the sect, he was only at the early stage of the eighth level of Qi Refining, and he entered the great perfection of Qi Refining in more than a year.

Even with his true spiritual roots, it was too fast, so after stepping into the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, he never tried to impact the bottleneck of the later stage.

The dust-cleansing grass needed for refining the foundation-building pill in the spirit wood space has been harvested, a total of 47 plants, and after the purple spirit flowers have borne seeds, Xiao Lin has planted them all. Now this batch of purple spirit flowers has a medicinal age of 170 to 180 years. According to Xiao Lin's estimation, at most in about half a year, this batch of purple spirit flowers will be able to reach a medicinal age of 300 years.

For Xiao Lin now, everything is ready. As long as he can refine the foundation-building pill, and with the help of the five elements spirit pill, Xiao Lin is still somewhat confident that he will enter the foundation-building period.

But now Xiao Lin is also a little distressed. He hasn't seen the unreliable Senior Brother Xiao for a long time. In theory, the task of refining the spirit pill can be replaced, but now he is the only one in the spirit field, he can't just leave it alone, right?

If Uncle Tao comes back and finds that all the spirit herbs in his spirit field have withered, won't he cut him into pieces?

Another thing that bothered Xiao Lin was how to get a foundation-building pill from the sect. According to his previous understanding, as long as the outer disciples of the Qi Refining Stage who entered the sect through the cave trial reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, they could get a foundation-building pill issued by the sect.

Originally, for Xiao Lin, the foundation-building pill issued by the sect was irrelevant to him, after all, he could soon refine the foundation-building pill himself, but if he did not get the foundation-building pill from the sect, and he succeeded in building the foundation after a while, wouldn't it be telling others that there was something fishy going on?

So after thinking about it, Xiao Lin couldn't think of a suitable time to build the foundation.

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Cuixia Hall of Qingdan Peak

In the middle of the deep hall sat an old man with a long beard in his fifties or sixties. The old man had a Dao Ji on his head, and a green jade diamond was inserted horizontally on the Dao Ji. He wore a dark green Taoist robe and held a Dao dust in his hand, but there was no wrinkle on his face, just like the white-haired and childlike face in the secular legend.

The old man was looking solemnly at the dozen outer sect elders on his left and right, but he didn't say anything.

Below, the dozen outer sect elders sitting in two rows were also silent, most of them were sitting with their eyes down.

In the center of the lower hall, there stood a charming woman in her twenties. She was wearing a dark green long dress, with fair skin and clear eyes. She didn't say anything, but looked at the old man with a long beard sitting in the middle of the hall.

After a long time, the old man with long beard sighed deeply and said, "I didn't expect that our Dancao Mountain would only get 973 foundation-building pills this time. If we divide them over 30 years, we can only get about 30 pills each year, and this is without counting the families of several ancestors."

"Master, Tianyun Pavilion and Qianling Mountain are getting more and more excessive. They rely on the fact that their sect is slightly stronger than the other three sects, and they want more foundation-building pills every time. Should we report to the ancestor Ming Tianyi and have a fight with them?"

"Yes, a total of 5,408 foundation-building pills were refined this time. Tianyun Pavilion alone got 1,400 pills, Qianling Mountain also got 1,200 pills, Bailian Sect and Qianfu Sect got 980 and 855 pills respectively. In this way, the number of foundation-building pills our Dancao Mountain got this time ranks fourth, only a few hundred more than Qianfu Sect."

" Humph, the number of outer disciples of Qianfu Sect is less than one-third of that of our Dancao Mountain. In total, our Dancao Mountain has the least per capita number. "

"Yes, but since Patriarch Futian mastered the Jinxuan Liuhuo Sword Formation, he has become the number one of our five sects. With the reputation of Patriarch Futian, Tianyun Pavilion always gets a lot more foundation-building pills. That's fine, but why do Qianling Mountain and Bailian Sect also get more than us?"

"There is no way. Qianling Mountain now has as many as fifteen Jindan-level cultivators, and its overall strength is also stronger than our Dancao Mountain."

"Although the number of Jindan-level cultivators in Bailian Sect is the same as ours, there are more than a thousand foundation-building cultivators, which is also more than us."

"Master, the distribution of foundation-building pills this time has been approved by all the ancestors. Uncle Wu also distributed foundation-building pills according to instructions after receiving the flying sword message from Patriarch Tianyi." The woman who had been silent all the time suddenly raised her head and spoke.

After hearing this, all the noise stopped abruptly, and the old man standing in the middle of the hall sighed softly and said, "Since this is the decision made by the ancestors after private discussion, then we, the younger generation, can only follow it."

"Master, we now have thousands of outer disciples who have reached the great perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, and there are four to five hundred people under the age of thirty, and the number is increasing every year. The number of foundation-building pills we issue each year is only twenty or thirty, which is far from meeting the demand."

"Yes, if this goes on, those outer disciples in the Qi Refining Stage who meet the requirements may come out to make trouble. How can we calm their resentment?"

"Humph, they are just outer disciples. Can they rebel?"

"Brother Gongsun, don't say that. The Qi Refining Stage disciples are the cornerstone of our sect. It is also the foundation of our Dancao Mountain. We must think of a proper solution to this matter, otherwise it will shake the foundation of our sect. "

"What else can we do? There are only so many foundation-building pills, and there are too many people and too little porridge, so we can only give priority to those disciples with better qualifications."

"That's what I said, but our Li family's annual quota of three foundation-building pills cannot be reduced."

"Your Li family has a lot, and our Wen family's quota of three foundation-building pills cannot be reduced. No, our Wen family has an excellent disciple who has reached the great perfection of the Qi Refining Stage this year, so we have to share four pills this year."

"Humph, our Gongsun family has seven or eight children who have reached the great perfection of the Qi Refining Stage who meet the conditions, so should we share eight foundation-building pills this year?"

The whole hall began to make a noise, and several outer sect elders representing the major cultivation families also argued with red faces.

The old man with a long beard looked helplessly at the quarreling elders below, but did not speak.

The old man with long beard is the current head of Dancao Mountain, Changqing Zhenren, a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. Changqing Zhenren has been in charge of Dancao Mountain for sixty years and is now nearly two hundred years old.

He has been in the late stage of foundation building for seventy or eighty years and has long lost hope for his future in cultivation. Under normal circumstances, if a cultivator in the foundation building stage cannot form a pill before the age of one hundred and fifty, then the hope of becoming a golden pill cultivator in this life is very slim.

More than half of the outer sect elders below are in a similar situation to Changqing Zhenren. Most of these outer sect elders come from cultivation families. Although they basically have no hope of forming a pill in this life, they can use the power in their hands to seek more benefits for the family and cultivate excellent offspring.

And the foundation building cultivators who are really obsessed with the great way are usually not interested in the management of the sect. They either practice hard in seclusion all year round or travel around to find immortal fate. They will not focus on these trivial matters in the sect.

Changqing Zhenren himself was born in a cultivation family, and he was a great elder of the Wang family, the leader of the top ten cultivation families in Dancao Mountain. Over the years, Changqing Zhenren has been seeking benefits for his clan. Every year, at least four or five foundation-building pills issued by Dancao Mountain flow into the Wang family.

This situation has lasted for hundreds of years. Although Changqing Zhenren is the great elder of the Wang family, the leader of the top ten cultivation families, he wanted to change this situation when he just became the head of Dancao Mountain, because if this continues, the lower-level outer disciples of the Qi Refining Stage will continue to accumulate resentment, and in the long run, the development of Dancao Mountain will be greatly affected.

However, he alone cannot change this situation. More than half of the thirteen Jindan ancestors above him are from cultivation families, and the rest are from casual cultivators, but they don’t care about the affairs of the sect and are only dedicated to pursuing the great way.

Once he touches the interests of the cultivation family, he will face pressure from those ancestors from the cultivation family, and he will have to submit.

Thinking of this, Changqing Zhenren couldn't help but sigh.

The noisy quarrel below lasted for half an hour before it finally calmed down. Everyone looked at Changqing Zhenren, as if waiting for his decision.

After looking around at everyone, Changqing Zhenren stroked his long beard and said, "Nowadays, fewer and fewer foundation-building pills are being refined. In the next few decades, the average number of foundation-building pills issued each year will be less than 30. In this way, our major cultivation families will inevitably be affected, but there is nothing we can do about it."

"According to the practice of previous years, the quota of one foundation-building pill for each outer sect disciple with a middle-level emperor spirit root must not be changed. These people are the elites of our Dancao Mountain and are related to the long-term development of our sect. As for the remaining foundation-building pills, I will make a decision after reporting to Uncle Su."

Hearing what Changqing Zhenren said, the outer sect elders below showed dissatisfaction on their faces, but no one refuted it, but all chose to remain silent.

It’s not that they don’t want to refute and use this to gain benefits for the family, but they also know that the reduction in the number of Foundation Establishment Pills will have an impact on everyone. Master Changqing obviously also knows this, so he wants to ask Uncle Master Su first.

This Uncle Master Su is the most beloved disciple of Patriarch Tianyi, and his cultivation has reached the middle stage of the Golden Core. Although he is not the one with the highest cultivation among the thirteen Golden Core ancestors, he is definitely the one whose words are effective, because this Uncle Master Su has been accompanying Patriarch Tianyi all the year round and has become the spokesperson for Patriarch Tianyi.