Chapter 20 Foundation Building Pill
"It's here. The notes left by the ancestor are indeed correct. There is really a water spirit fruit tree here! It has been more than a hundred years, and the water spirit fruit should have matured." The two Liu elders behind Liu Tianlong seemed a little excited.
The Liu family did not hesitate to mobilize most of the family's combat power this time, and also spent a lot of money to hire three nearby Qi Refining family cultivators, not just to kill the second-level silver-armored crab monster just now.
The real purpose of the Liu family's trip was to eliminate the second-level monster that occupied the pool, and then successfully sneak into the bottom of the pool to find a second-level water spirit fruit tree recorded in Liu Tianlong's notes.
The notes on Liu Tianlong's body were left by a foundation-building ancestor of the Liu family more than a hundred years ago. It recorded that this Liu family ancestor had accidentally discovered a second-level water spirit fruit tree here when he was hunting monsters in the Floating Cloud Mountains.
It was also relying on a mature water spirit fruit on the tree at that time that the Liu family ancestor exchanged a foundation-building pill from Xiaoyao Sect and then successfully built his foundation.
After the Liu family ancestor established his foundation, he wanted to transplant the water spirit fruit tree to the Liu family mountain. Unfortunately, there was no second-level spiritual plant master in the family, and he did not dare to trust outsiders, so he had to give up temporarily.
The Liu family ancestor kept this matter a secret in the family, and only recorded it in his own notes. Unexpectedly, he died unexpectedly outside, and other members of the family did not know about it. It was not until decades later that he succeeded the patriarch that he accidentally discovered this note and sent people to the Floating Cloud Mountains to find the pool recorded in the note.
Finally, after the Liu family patiently hibernated for nearly a hundred years, when the water spirit fruit matured again, Liu Tianlong came here.
Since the Liu family lost the only foundation-building cultivator in the family due to the riot of monsters in the northern border a hundred years ago, all the Liu family cultivators have been thinking about how to restore the glory of being a foundation-building family for more than a hundred years.
To achieve this goal, the Liu family must find a way to train another foundation-building cultivator. Now they are very close to this goal. After years of training, the Liu family has hidden a seed that can build a foundation. Now they only need a foundation-building pill.
Except for the rare cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots, ordinary cultivators will encounter a big bottleneck when breaking through the foundation. Less than half of the cultivators can successfully break through by force.
Once the breakthrough fails, the violent spiritual power in the meridians of the cultivator's body will instantly backfire on the fragile meridians, causing injuries that are difficult to recover.
In this way, the cultivators who fail to break through will take at least 20 years to fully recover from their injuries, and basically miss the opportunity to build a foundation again, and the road of cultivation will come to an end. In serious cases, they will explode and die on the spot after the failure, and their cultivation will disappear, and their death will be extremely painful.
This also makes many talented cultivators like Liu Tianlong in the world of immortal cultivation dare not easily take such a huge risk to build a foundation by force, even if they can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining before the age of 60.
In order to increase the success rate of more cultivators breaking through the realm, the world of immortal cultivation has gradually developed various kinds of elixirs and spiritual objects to assist cultivators in breaking through the realm after the research and accumulation of many top cultivators. Among them, the best and most recognized one is the foundation-building pill.
The foundation-building pill is a second-level pill developed by a powerful cultivator in the God-Transforming Stage in ancient times to assist cultivators in building their foundation. After countless generations of high-level alchemists carefully improved and tested, it has now become an indispensable item for cultivators to build their foundation.
When cultivators build their foundation, they need to inhale a large amount of spiritual energy to liquefy the spiritual power in their bodies. Taking the foundation-building pill can reconcile the large amount of spiritual power that is rioting in their bodies when the cultivators break through the foundation.
The foundation-building pill can not only greatly increase the success rate of ordinary cultivators in building their foundation, but also protect the cultivators' meridians from too much backlash when the breakthrough fails. In this way, even if the cultivators fail to break through, they will not be too seriously injured. They can recover after three to five years of cultivation and have the opportunity to build their foundation again.
Although the foundation-building pill is only a second-level top-grade pill, it is very rare in the Weiguo cultivation world. Apart from the overlord Xiaoyao Sect, it is occasionally found in the black market near the Floating Cloud Mountains. Its value is far higher than other second-level pills, and even higher than some third-level pills.
It is very complicated to refine the foundation-building pill. The main medicine requires two jade marrow golden branches and five-element spiritual fruits with a medicinal age of more than 800 years, and there are more than a dozen auxiliary spiritual medicines that take one or two hundred years to mature.
It is difficult to find these mature spiritual medicines in the wild. In the entire Weiguo, only the spiritual medicine garden of Xiaoyao Sect can supply all kinds of spiritual medicines needed for refining foundation-building pills for a long time.
Xiaoyao Sect only refines a few furnaces of foundation-building pills every ten years, and the maximum number of pills is only 20 to 30. Most of them are divided up within the sect, and only a small part will be sold to the major cultivation families under its banner. Even the foundation-building families find it difficult to get this opportunity, let alone the lower-level Qi-refining families.
Even if there is an opportunity to buy a foundation-building pill, the price of the foundation-building pill is still high. Under normal circumstances, one foundation-building pill requires 10,000 spirit stones to buy. Compared with the price of the foundation-building pill auctioned on the black market, it is already very affordable.
After deducting expenses, the Song family where Song Qingming is located can only save a few dozen spirit stones a year. In times of disaster, they need to take out some to supplement. The treasury accumulated for a hundred years only has two or three thousand spirit stones.
For a low-level Qi-refining family like the Song family, even if there are cultivators with excellent spiritual roots and talents, they can only send them to the Xiaoyao Sect to have the opportunity to build a foundation.
The Xiaoyao Sect also relies on firmly controlling the supply channels of the Weiguo Foundation-Building Pill to absorb a large number of talented cultivators from the major immortal cultivation families under its jurisdiction, and continuously enrich the blood of the sect.
The water spirit fruit that Liu Tianlong is looking for is the five-element spirit fruit, one of the two main medicines needed to refine the foundation-building pill, and it is extremely valuable.
The Xiaoyao Sect also purchases various spiritual medicines for refining foundation-building pills from the outside for a long time. Anyone who can take out the main medicine of the foundation-building pill with enough years can directly exchange it for a foundation-building pill in the Xiaoyao Sect. The Liu family's foundation-building ancestor built his foundation in this way a hundred years ago.
After the three Liu family members walked forward dozens of steps towards the blue light, they passed through a low cave entrance and the passage suddenly became wider. The blue light was emitted by a small green tree in the cave.
Liu Tianlong approached and saw that the tree was five feet in size, about the same height as him, and exuded a rich spiritual energy. There were five or six blue fruits on the tree. The fruits were crystal clear and all emitted bursts of blue light, which was very tempting. The light that the three people saw outside just now was emitted by the fruit on this tree.
"Haha, this should be the water spirit fruit. The time remembered by the ancestor is indeed correct. If we had come a few years earlier, the fruit would probably not be ripe yet." Looking at one of the fruits that was completely transparent, an elder of the Liu family laughed and said.
"Everyone, be careful and try not to damage this fruit tree. We only need to pick the ripe fruit. When our Liu family has trained our own second-level spiritual plant master in the future, we will find a way to transplant this water spirit fruit tree."
The water spirit fruit tree is a second-level spiritual wood. Without a second-level or higher spiritual plant master, rash transplantation can easily cause the spiritual energy of the spiritual wood to be greatly damaged, lose its activity and slowly die, and the unripe spiritual fruit on it will also be lost.
If this water spirit fruit tree can be secretly transplanted to the Liu family's sacred mountain in the future, the Liu family can exchange for a foundation-building pill every hundred years, and the family can prosper for a long time. This is also the greatest opportunity for all the cultivators of the Liu family to change their fate.
Liu Tianlong wanted to pick the ripe water spirit fruit with his hand, but found that the connection between this second-level spirit fruit and the fruit tree was extremely tough and difficult to pick. He could only release a top-grade flying sword and cut the fruit with one sword.
The Liu family elders on the side hurriedly packed the water spirit fruit carefully in a jade box that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Liu Tianlong.
Looking at this water spirit fruit that carries the hope of the family's revival, Liu Tianlong was also a little excited. The road to the revival of the Liu family has finally taken the first step in his hands.
The three people had just picked a ripe water spirit fruit and were about to turn around and leave this place, but suddenly felt a terrifying spiritual pressure from the darkness on one side of the cave. A pair of huge red eyeballs suddenly opened in the darkness and stared at the three tiny humans in front of them.
"This is... How could there be another Level 2 monster here? No, run!"
"Leader, hurry up, we'll cover you."
Looking at the huge black shadow in front of them, Liu Tianlong and the other two couldn't help but tremble. The spiritual pressure emitted by this Level 2 monster was much stronger than that of the previous silver-armored crab. They had been in the cave for so long but didn't notice it at all.
After the Liu family found this pond 20 years ago, they had sent cultivators to explore this pond many times. Except for the silver-armored crab that had just advanced, no other Level 2 monsters had ever been seen.
How could Liu Tianlong have thought that there were actually two Level 2 monsters hidden in this small pond.
At this moment, Liu Tianlong suddenly understood that the monster skeletons in the cave that they had seen along the way were not eaten by the Level 2 silver-armored crab, but by another Level 2 monster in front of them that exuded a stronger aura than the silver-armored crab.