Chapter 184: Beginning to Build Foundation
Upon hearing this, Xiao Lin looked at the woman named Wen Mei in silence. Although the woman's tone was to refute Wang Xiangchen, it was obviously provocative.
"Hey, boy, if you have the guts, come and compete with me. How about we fight on the life and death stage?" Wang Xiangchen looked at Xiao Lin with a provocative look on his face.
Xiao Lin frowned. The life and death stage was a duel venue set up by Dancao Mountain for disciples to resolve conflicts. Although private fights were strictly prohibited within the sect, the life and death stage was allowed. However, if you want to resolve grievances through the life and death stage, you also need the approval of the elders in the sect.
Xiao Lin obviously had no interest in such a dispute of loyalty. He glanced at Wang Xiangchen as if he was looking at an idiot, turned around and left the steps, and headed towards the Cangzhen Hall.
"Wait, boy, I won't give up." Seeing Xiao Lin's disdainful expression, Wang Xiangchen was immediately furious and shouted at Xiao Lin's back.
"Wang Xiangchen, now we are all registered disciples of Master Su. Isn't it too much for you to provoke Xiao Lin like this?" Looking at Xiao Lin's back, Wen Mei showed a thoughtful expression on her face and said.
"Humph, if it weren't for this kid who didn't know what was good for her, Sister Ying wouldn't have lost the foundation-building pill, couldn't build a foundation, and would have lost the chance to be on the road from now on." Wang Xiangchen said angrily.
Hearing this, Wen Mei's face suddenly showed a speechless look, and she said: "The Lan family originally wanted to steal Xiao Lin's foundation-building pill, but he refused. If it were me, I would also refuse. Isn't stealing the foundation-building pill of the black family a great vengeance that cuts off people's immortal path? It's natural to refuse."
"Humph, that's because he didn't know what was good for him, but he actually passed the Five Prisons Illusion Trial and won the first place. In this way, he has two foundation-building pills in his hand, hehe." Looking at Xiao Lin's disappearing back in the distance, he sneered.
Xiao Lin was naturally not interested in the life-and-death fight. He cultivated Taoism for immortality, and naturally disdained to get involved in anything else.
Moreover, in Xiao Lin's opinion, although he had become a registered disciple of Su Qingyun, he could not offend people everywhere, so he ignored Wang Xiangchen's provocation with the mentality of less trouble than more trouble.
Xiao Lin had naturally heard of Wang Xiangchen, who was known as the number one outer disciple of Dancao Mountain and an outstanding descendant of the Wang family, which ranked first among the top ten cultivation families in Dancao Mountain. Even if he did not participate in the "Five Prisons Illusion" trial, it would not be difficult for the Wang family to get him a foundation-building pill with its power.
And the woman Wen Mei was also from the Wen family, one of the top ten cultivation families, which made Xiao Lin think of Wen Lu. In the cave trial, he and Wen Lu had a friendship in the same team.
However, Xiao Lin was indifferent to this kind of friendship. Even Wang Xiangchen and Wen Mei, who were nominally brothers and sisters because they had become Su Qingyun's disciples together with him, did not feel that they were fellow disciples.
The reason why he became Su Qingyun's disciple was just to have more self-protection power in the Dancao Mountain where the water was relatively deep. As for these two fellow disciples, it was good enough that they did not stab him in the back at a critical moment.
Xiao Lin soon came to the Treasure Hall. After showing the sect token, Xiao Lin got the second foundation-building pill. After putting the foundation-building pill into the storage bag, Xiao Lin left Qingdan Peak and returned to Qingzhu Peak, his residence.
After entering the secret room of the residence, Xiao Lin closed the door of the secret room and sat on the futon.
He took out two jade boxes with excitement on his face and opened them gently. Suddenly, the fragrance was overflowing, and two emerald green spirit pills the size of pigeon eggs appeared in front of Xiao Lin.
Looking at the two foundation-building pills in front of him, Xiao Lin wondered whether he should take them and try to build his foundation.
With two foundation-building pills, he should have at least a 20% chance of building his foundation successfully, relying on his true spiritual roots. If he could really build his foundation successfully with these two foundation-building pills, then he would not need to refine foundation-building pills anymore.
After all, although foundation-building pills are precious, they are only disposable consumables. As long as the foundation is successfully built, the foundation-building pills are useless except for improving his cultivation.
Looking at the walls of the secret room, Xiao Lin thought again that once he successfully built his foundation, he would have to go to the Qingning Hall on the back mountain of Qingdan Peak to meet Su Qingyun and officially become his disciple. By then, he would be a true disciple and would be on par with many outer sect elders.
More importantly, once he successfully built his foundation, his combat power would surely increase greatly. At that time, he would study the "Qingyan Baozhuan" and condense the "Qingyan Linghuo". By then, even if the old man Lan Xin wanted to make trouble for him, he would not be afraid at all.
The only thing that made Xiao Lin a little depressed was that once he succeeded in building his foundation, he had no cultivation method suitable for the foundation-building period, which was a bit of a pity. However, if he could succeed in building his foundation, he could enter the second floor of the Dharma Hall for free and choose a cultivation method for the foundation-building period.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin was shocked.
Sitting cross-legged, the tenth level of the Dry Water Sutra was silently running, and Xiao Lin quickly entered the state of cultivation.
Three days later, Xiao Lin opened his eyes from his meditation, and two divine lights flashed from his eyes. After three days of cultivation, his spirit and energy had been adjusted to the best state by him.
Feeling the flowing mana in his body, Xiao Lin took out a foundation-building pill from the jade box, and after a moment of hesitation, he gently put it into his mouth.
The foundation-building pill melted in his mouth, turning into a cool breeze that flowed down his throat.
Soon, Xiao Lin felt this cool breeze spreading from his chest and abdomen, and then turned into a majestic aura, which spread domineeringly into his whole body, including his internal organs, blood, and even Xiao Lin felt that his bones all over his body had an extremely itchy feeling.
This made his face change, and he hurriedly concentrated his mind. The formula of the tenth level of the Dry Water Sutra kept flashing in his mind, but this domineering aura almost instantly spread to every corner of his body.
Xiao Lin felt that his meridians were swollen and painful as if they were about to split, and his face couldn't help but turn pale.
But Xiao Lin endured this pain, and vigorously drove the mental method of the Dry Water Sutra to guide the aura in the meridians to keep running.
Xiao Lin had heard from his uncles and uncles in the foundation-building stage several times in the Dharma Transmission Building about the various feelings and manifestations after taking the foundation-building pill. He was already familiar with them and naturally knew that these were all normal reactions after taking the foundation-building pill.
The medicinal effect of the foundation-building pill was several times more powerful than that of the Five Elements Spirit Pill. Without such a powerful medicinal effect, it was not enough to cleanse the turbid air in his body, not to mention that the blood, internal organs and bones needed fierce medicinal power to penetrate.
Half an hour later, Xiao Lin was sweating all over. There were black impurities in the sweat. At the same time, black smoke was dissipated from the surface of his body, and the whole stone room was suddenly shrouded in a fishy smell.
But Xiao Lin, who was immersed in the breakthrough, naturally didn't know all this. The meridians in his body had been stretched more than twice as thick as usual by the fierce spiritual power. Xiao Lin immediately felt that his meridians seemed to be torn in half, causing cold sweat to flow on his forehead.
But he gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain. The pain of a cultivator breaking through a great realm is also a test. After all, breaking through the bottleneck of the foundation-building period is a transformation of the life level for a cultivator, just like a pupa turning into a butterfly or a bird egg breaking out of its shell.
Experiencing incomparable pain is also a test of one's will.
Three hours later, the cold sweat on Xiao Lin's forehead gradually stopped flowing, and his whole body was shrouded in a faint green aura.
Although the domineering spiritual power in Xiao Lin's body continued to cleanse his flesh, blood, internal organs, and bones, after experiencing the initial pain, he got used to it, and his mind was strong. Most of these manifestations were normal physiological reactions, but Xiao Lin's heart was always very calm.
His thinking was even clearer. By controlling the spiritual power in the meridians, he washed his whole body over and over again.
In the end, Xiao Lin was shrouded in green aura, as if he was wrapped in a layer of aura cocoon, and Xiao Lin's mind was completely immersed in the process of washing his flesh, blood, bones, and impurities.
Half a month later.
The green spiritual light that enveloped Xiao Lin's body gradually dissipated, and he opened his eyes after a long sigh of relief.
After a brief pause, Xiao Lin opened another jade box again, took out another foundation-building pill, gently put it into his mouth, and closed his eyes again to practice the Dry Water Sutra.
After the Five Hells Illusion Trial, Dancao Mountain fell into silence again.
After this trial, it can be said that some were happy and some were sad. The outer disciples who got the foundation-building pill were naturally very happy. Having the foundation-building pill meant that the great road was expected, and there was a possibility of further progress on the road of cultivation.
The outer disciples who did not get the foundation-building pill, in addition to being disappointed and depressed, also began to reflect on their own cultivation. After all, the Five Hells Illusion opens once a year. If you fail this time, it does not mean that you cannot pass it next time. With the opening of the Five Hells Illusion, many outer disciples who had already lost hope for the future have rekindled hope.
Even those outer disciples who were in their 40s and 50s and had reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage had regained their spirits and started to practice hard. No matter whether it was magic or some ways of making talismans or refining weapons, as long as they could improve their own strength, some people would practice.
Moreover, in the month after the end of the Five Prisons Illusion Trial, there were good news that some people had successfully built their foundations.
The foundation-building stage was the ultimate dream of a large number of low-level cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage. Once the foundation was successfully built, it would not only mean stronger combat power and higher status, but also a lifespan of more than 200 years.
What is the purpose of practicing Taoism? Nothing more than the word "longevity".
Only by entering the foundation-building stage can one truly be different from ordinary mortals, and a lifespan of more than 200 years will undoubtedly make one's path of practice full of countless possibilities.
If one can go one step further and enter the Golden Core Realm, it will surely be a bright future, a different kind of beautiful scenery.