Chapter 141 Passing Three Levels

When Song Qingming was building his foundation that day, he also experienced many dangers.

At the beginning, he followed the foundation-building steps he knew and used the marrow cleansing pill in his hand to temper his body.

Although this step was a bit painful, the overall process was relatively smooth. Although it was a bit difficult to temper the bones and marrow for more than ten days, Song Qingming, who had been practicing Taoism for many years, had already experienced this level of physical pain several times.

The marrow cleansing pill is the best for tempering the cultivator's body only when it is taken for the first time. If you take it again, it will basically have no effect. Generally, cultivators will only take one such pill in their lifetime.

After tempering his body, Song Qingming did not delay. After adjusting his mana to the best state, Song Qingming also began the formal first step of building his foundation.

The first step for cultivators to build their foundation is to cleanse the marrow and change the muscles through the meridians with the mana in their bodies. Although this is similar to the effect of refining the marrow cleansing pill, the process and results are different.

The marrow cleansing pill only helps the cultivator to temper his own bone marrow through the power of the pill, so as to improve the strength of the cultivator's body from the inside. The step of the cultivator's foundation-building marrow cleansing and tendon-changing is to penetrate all of his own mana into the tiny meridians and blood vessels of his limbs and bones. Not only the bone marrow, but also every inch of flesh and blood in the cultivator's body will undergo a thorough cleansing.

Only after passing this step can the cultivator's body have a qualitative leap, thus reaching the level of the body that only the foundation-building cultivator can have.

Although Xu Ziyan had reminded him in advance that it would be very uncomfortable to cleanse the marrow and change the tendons, Song Qingming did not expect that this process would be so painful, as if he had experienced a long period of severe torture.

The process of marrow cleansing and tendon-changing is not only very painful, but also extremely slow. It takes at least half a month to complete. Every inch of flesh and blood that the mana penetrates seems to be constantly scraped and eaten by someone. Not long after, Song Qingming's body was in pain and beads of sweat broke out involuntarily.

At least 60% of the cultivators who failed to break through the foundation building in the world of immortal cultivation failed at this first step. This level is not only very difficult, but also very dangerous. If you are not careful, you can easily hurt your body.

A few days later, Song Qingming, who had just cleansed less than a quarter of his body, felt that he could not hold on any longer, so he immediately took the foundation building pill he had prepared.

After the pill entered his body, the effect of the medicine took effect very quickly. In an instant, Song Qingming felt a trace of warmth coming from his dantian, which immediately relieved him of a trace of pain. The huge spiritual power contained in the foundation building pill also helped him speed up the speed of his body cleansing. It was not until more than ten days later that Song Qingming's body was slowly covered with a layer of excess substances refined from his body, and this ended the step of marrow cleansing and muscle change.

Fortunately, Song Qingming had taken the marrow cleansing pill before, which had strengthened his physical strength, and with the help of the foundation building pill, he passed the first level of foundation building without any danger.

However, when it came to the second level, the Qi Condensation, he was not so smooth.

Qi Condensation is to condense all the mana in the cultivator's body into the Dantian, and through continuous contraction, the mana is condensed from the original gaseous state to the liquid state. As long as the cultivator passes this step, he has already stepped half a foot into the foundation-building realm.

Based on his own summary and the experience taught by Xu Ziyan, Song Qingming tried several times in succession, but failed. Until the first foundation-building pill was completely exhausted, he just touched a little bit of the door.

Fortunately, Song Qingming has passed the most difficult first step of marrow washing and muscle change. Although it is easy to fail in the Qi Condensation stage, with the protection of the foundation-building pill, the cultivator's own Dantian will basically not be hurt.

After experiencing a failure, Song Qingming was not discouraged. After re-polishing his mana, he decisively took the second foundation-building pill with the slight feeling he had already grasped.

After gaining some experience, Song Qingming finally did not disappoint himself this time. He successfully completed the second level and condensed the huge mana in the dantian into a liquefied state.

When it came to the third level of foundation building, forging the soul, it was unexpectedly smooth.

This level is mainly to strengthen the soul in the body of the cultivator. It may be because Song Qingming has practiced the soul forging technique, and the soul in his body is already quite strong. Although Song Qingming spent a lot of time to temper the soul at this level, he basically did not encounter a big bottleneck and smoothly raised the soul to the foundation building stage.

I didn't expect that practicing the soul technique would be helpful for foundation building. This was a bit beyond Song Qingming's expectations.

Although it is not that easy to practice the soul technique, it is useful for building the foundation. Song Qingming was a little confused, "Why are there still not many people practicing the soul technique in the world of immortal cultivation?"

However, after he came out of retreat and talked with Xu Ziyan, he soon understood that the most difficult part of building the foundation for cultivators is the first two levels. Very few people will fail at the third level when building the foundation. Generally, Qi-refining cultivators spend too much time practicing the soul technique. It is better to put this energy into raising resources for building the foundation.

After nearly a year, Song Qingming stumbled and finally succeeded in building the foundation without any danger.

It has been three years since Song Qingming left home and came to Xiaoyao Sect. Now that he has successfully built his foundation, he is naturally eager to tell the good news to the Song family members thousands of miles away.

After exchanging foundation-building experiences with Xu Ziyan for a few days, Song Qingming was also ready to leave Xiaoyao Sect.

After bidding farewell to Xu Ziyan, Song Qingming returned to his cave in Yangshanfang, packed up his things, and returned to the rented cave. Song Qingming immediately set off to return to Qinghe County.

When leaving Xiaoyao Sect, Xu Ziyan unexpectedly asked Song Qingming to bring her another Huiyan Pill when he came next time, saying that it was for a friend.

Song Qingming happened to have two pills on him, so he simply gave them all to her. Anyway, this thing was of no use to him, and he was going to give it to others. Unexpectedly, Xu Ziyan was very happy when she saw Song Qingming take out the Huiyan Pill, which made Song Qingming almost confused, and he didn't know whether she liked it or not.

After building his foundation, Song Qingming first learned the art of flying with a sword. It was thousands of miles from Xiaoyao Sect to Qinghe County, so this skill came in handy.

In the past few years in Xiaoyao Sect, Song Qingming also experienced flying with Xu Ziyan several times. He yearned for this kind of flying and hiding ability that only high-level cultivators could use. Now he finally achieved this wish and could travel alone between heaven and earth.