Chapter 417: Ninth Level of Foundation Building

In addition to the monks who live in Yangshanfang, there are also many monks from all over the country who come here every year to buy cultivation materials. Naturally, there are also some monks who are eager to break through like Song Qingming now, and they temporarily rent caves here.

After hearing Song Qingming's explanation, the old man didn't bother too much, smiled and nodded, and turned to go through the check-in procedures.

After a while, the old man returned to the original place with a smile on his face, and handed a restriction token he had just taken to Song Qingming.

"Senior, this is the restriction token for the cave you chose No. 11. This item will automatically expire after half a year. If you still want to continue renting it at that time, just come here to find me to help you renew the lease."

After Song Qingming took the token, he smiled and nodded, and gave him a bag of spirit stones for renting the cave, and gave him an extra spirit stone as a reward.

After seeing the spirit stone, the old man was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly, and happily sent Song Qingming out.

Outer disciples like him have a very low status in Xiaoyao Sect. Once they reach a certain age, they will be sent out to various places to help perform sect tasks or manage some of Xiaoyao Sect's industries. Basically, they will not have any chance to build a foundation.

Although it is safer for him to stay in Yangshanfang to perform tasks, compared with other dangerous missions, the rewards of good deeds and spirit stones will naturally be relatively less. If there are more guests like Song Qingming in a day, their lives will be much better.

With the guidance of the cave token, Song Qingming quickly found the cave he rented in the back mountain.

After feeling that the spiritual energy in the cave was close to the lower third grade, Song Qingming nodded with satisfaction.

"I spent more than a dozen spirit stones, and the difference in treatment is different. With such abundant spiritual energy, there is no need to set up a spirit gathering array. If it still doesn't work this time, it will be unfair to me."

Song Qingming had tried to break through several times in Funiu Mountain before. Although he failed, he also laid a certain foundation. In addition, he had the help of Wangyue Pill in this retreat, so Song Qingming was very confident of a successful breakthrough.

When a cultivator breaks through a realm, his own mentality and cultivation state are also very important. If a person's Tao heart is not firm enough, even with the help of better pills, it is easy to fail in the breakthrough.

After muttering to himself, Song Qingming took a deep breath, lit a quiet incense, slowly calmed his mind and sat down on the spot, and began to adjust his cultivation state with the help of the yellow spirit talisman in his hand.

This yellow spirit talisman, which looks inconspicuous, is the Qingxin Talisman that Song Qingming has been using for a long time. After practicing Taoism for so many years, Song Qingming also cherishes this talisman very much. No matter when and where, he will basically have a few of them on him.

Although the Qingxin Talisman is not of high grade, it is only a first-level spiritual talisman, but Song Qingming doesn't know if it's because he is used to it. Whenever he breaks through in seclusion or practices a new technique and needs to stabilize his mind, he still thinks that the Qingxin Talisman in his hand is the most useful.

After an incense stick of time, Song Qingming, who closed his eyes tightly, felt that his body state had been adjusted almost, and began to pinch his hands to run the Yuxuan Sutra, the technique he practiced.

As a cyan light began to wrap around his whole body, the aura on Song Qingming's body suddenly became like a calm lake, and began to roll up waves of whirlpools.

The mana stored in the dantian of the foundation-building cultivator is like liquid water, and it is constantly impacting the acupoints in Song Qingming's body.

After the cultivator reaches the foundation-building realm, as the mana cultivation continues to improve, the dantian in the body will gradually expand. From the first level of foundation-building to the eighth level of foundation-building, Song Qingming's current dantian capacity has increased by four or five times compared to when he just broke through the foundation-building.

After the mana in his body washed the acupoints all over his body and returned to his dantian, Song Qingming once again circulated the Yuxuan Sutra to gradually stabilize his mana, and then took out the Wangyue Pill he had obtained not long ago.

Song Qingming's failure to break through the ninth level of foundation building several times before was not actually due to insufficient mana in his body, but because he failed to control his mana in time and stabilize his cultivation when he successfully broke through the bottleneck, causing his cultivation to fall again not long after.

The effect of Wangyue Pill is to help cultivators stabilize their mana when breaking through. When Song Qingming broke through from the seventh level of foundation building to the eighth level of foundation building, he successfully broke through the realm after taking Wangyue Pill in seclusion.

After reaching the late stage of foundation building, the difficulty of breaking through each level has increased a lot compared to before. If there is no pill to help, Song Qingming is probably still like most cultivators, with his cultivation staying in the middle stage of foundation building, and even the seventh level of foundation building is difficult to break through.

After swallowing the Moon-Watching Pill, the spiritual power contained in the pill gradually began to merge into Song Qingming's body. Soon, Song Qingming felt a relatively gentle spiritual power in his dantian.

Seeing that the effect of the Moon-Watching Pill had begun to show, Song Qingming no longer hesitated, closed his eyes and concentrated on raising the mana in his body, and began to attack the last bottleneck of the foundation-building realm.

A few months later, a white spiritual light suddenly lit up at the entrance of Song Qingming's cave, which was already full of fallen leaves. After a wave of spiritual power appeared in the restriction at the entrance of the cave, Song Qingming, with a calm face, strode out from inside.

At this moment, the momentum he exuded was obviously different from before the retreat. After several months of retreat, Song Qingming's cultivation had reached the peak of the foundation-building realm, and he was only one step away from the golden elixir realm.

Although it took several months to break through the ninth level of the foundation-building stage during this retreat, it was relatively smooth and there were no unexpected situations.

Standing in front of the cave, Song Qingming looked up at Yangshanfang at the foot of the mountain, and his heart felt very refreshed.

After a hundred years of cultivation, he finally broke through the last level of the foundation-building stage and reached the stage of forming a golden elixir.

Recalling the time when I was weak, I worked hard to improve my cultivation just to have more self-protection power and survive safely in this world of immortal cultivation. When I just succeeded in building my foundation, I was still a little confused and didn't know where my path would go.

But now Song Qingming, even though he is not so sure about the success of forming a pill in the future, his eyes are more determined than before. The pursuit of Taoism by cultivators is nothing more than fighting for the chance of immortality. No matter what difficulties and dangers he will encounter in the future, he must be determined to pursue Taoism.

Even if he fails to make it to the end, at least he will not regret it in the future.

Happy New Year to everyone