Chapter 238: Green Water Bell
This bottle of earth spirit dew is almost equivalent to a foundation-building cultivator's ten years of hard work. As Huo Feng said, with Song Qingming's cultivation level, refining this bottle of earth spirit dew now is enough for him to break through to the fourth level of foundation-building immediately.
However, Song Qingming did not plan to refine this spiritual object immediately. He had only broken through to the third level of foundation-building for only one year. Now that his cultivation level has been improved, it may attract the attention of others or Xiaoyao Sect. After thinking about it, in order to avoid some unnecessary trouble, he decided to wait a few years before refining this object.
After returning to Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming began to retreat and prepared to sacrifice the bronze bell magic weapon he got in the secret realm.
After returning from the Taiyue Lake secret realm this time, Song Qingming felt that his strength was still lacking. Facing a slightly stronger foundation-building cultivator of the same level, he was not sure that he could defeat the opponent.
In the battle with Chen Yuan, although Song Qingming finally defeated and killed the opponent, it was mainly due to strategy and luck. If he had bad luck and the opponent didn't fall into the trap, he might have died in the secret realm.
Since Song Qingming established his foundation, he has actually been in a difficult situation. The family has consumed a lot of spiritual stones to improve the spiritual veins, and they can't give him much subsidy.
The spiritual stones he earned by making talismans and other methods to maintain the daily practice of a foundation cultivator and buy elixirs, there are not many left. Although he has a few second-level magic weapons for so many years, they are all the most common low-grade magic weapons. In the battles with cultivators of the same level, they are of very limited help to him.
However, after this trip to the secret realm of Taiyue Lake, Song Qingming, who is now well-off, finally has the resources to improve his strength.
Refining this magic weapon is just the first step. Next, he plans to go around the surrounding markets and find a way to get a few more powerful second-level magic weapons for protection. This way, he won't have to worry too much if he encounters ordinary cultivators like Chen Yuan who have the same cultivation level as him next time.
This time, it took Song Qingming nearly a month to complete the refining of the magic weapon.
Sitting in the cave, Song Qingming's magic power was constantly pouring into the palm-sized small copper bell in his hand.
Under his control, the copper bell suddenly began to grow slowly until it completely supported the highest point of the cave.
At this time, the widest part of the copper bell in contact with the ground was already several feet. As Song Qingming used his magic power again, the copper bell suddenly became several times smaller, returned to his head and slowly fell down, protecting him in it.
After refining this magic weapon for a few days, Song Qingming was finally able to fully control the copper bell beside him, and gradually understood some of the special abilities of this magic weapon.
In addition to its outstanding defensive capabilities, this bronze bell can also be used to control the opponent. Once it is covered by this bell, as long as the opponent is not a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building or a demon beast, it is absolutely impossible to escape in a short period of time.
In addition to its outstanding defensive and containment capabilities, this bell can also release several very powerful water-attributed defensive spells when facing the enemy, and it also has some restraining effects on cultivators and magic tools that practice fire-attributed exercises.
In view of this feature, Song Qingming named this bell, the Green Water Bell.
Song Qingming's current cultivation level is only the third level of foundation building. Although he can use the Green Water Bell, a second-level top-grade magic tool, he can only exert 60% to 70% of its strength. When his cultivation level is raised to the late stage of foundation building, the power of this bell can be further improved.
After completing the ritual of refining this Green Water Bell, Song Qingming's ability to fight with others has increased by at least 30% to 40% compared to before.
Now, as long as he doesn't run into cultivators with strength above the late stage of foundation building, he won't have to worry about his life when facing people with one or two levels higher than him, even if he can't defeat them.
After building the foundation, the biggest goal of all cultivators is to form a golden elixir and become a high-ranking golden elixir real person.
Huang Shengxin of the Huang family has been deep in the Fuyun Mountains to pick high-level spiritual medicines and enter the secret realm of Taiyue Lake to find life-extending spiritual objects in recent years. The reason why he is willing to take such a big risk is just for the illusory chance of forming an elixir.
Even if there is a glimmer of hope, these strong men who have cultivated to the peak of foundation building will be willing to take a risk. This is the fate that all cultivators cannot escape. If they cannot successfully form an elixir, their cultivation will eventually turn into yellow earth after more than two hundred years. They have cultivated to the peak of foundation building and only need this step to change their fate. Who would be willing to fall here?
Almost all the large mineral resources in Weiguo are controlled by Xiaoyao Sect. Immortal cultivation families like the Song family, in addition to regularly supplying disciples with better spiritual roots to Xiaoyao Sect, are only helping Xiaoyao Sect control some remote areas.
Even those immortal families with several foundation-building cultivators in their families have very limited resources under their control. If they want to establish a market in their territory to collect cultivation resources, they have to share part of the profits with Xiaoyao Sect.
In the entire cultivation world, cultivators below the Jindan level can only be regarded as the lowest level cultivators. It is difficult for them to obtain too many cultivation resources. Without sufficient cultivation resources, it is difficult for both Qi-refining cultivators and foundation-building cultivators to improve their cultivation to obtain more resources. They have entered this vicious circle and can only become vassals of large sects from generation to generation.
If you want to get out of the control of Xiaoyao Sect and get more cultivation resources, you must have someone in the clan successfully form a pill and become a Jindan family like the Ma family of Tiexian Valley.
The cultivation world around the entire Floating Cloud Mountains is similar. Only cultivators above the Jindan level are qualified to sit at the table of resource allocation, and only Yuanying-level strongmen are qualified to control the power of one side and issue orders.
Compared with foundation building, the difficulty of cultivators forming a pill is at least ten times more difficult. In the major cultivation families of the entire Weiguo and the casual cultivators, there are people with good luck like Song Qingming who can successfully build a foundation almost every year, but among the cultivators who have formed a pill, there has only been one casual cultivator, Li Xianyun, who has successfully formed a pill in the past hundred years.
Li Xianyun was a native cultivator of Wei State. He was gifted and succeeded in forming a golden elixir in less than a hundred years of cultivation with his second spiritual root qualification. His feat even shocked Li Mufeng, the supreme elder of Xiaoyao Sect, who personally invited him to join the sect. Unexpectedly, Li Xianyun was very proud and unwilling to be bound by the sect, so he directly refused the offer without even giving face to the Nascent Soul Patriarch. Not long after, he left Wei State to travel and has not returned for decades.