Chapter 18 18 Practice the Second Heaven, Build the Foundation!

Chapter 18 18. Practice the Second Heaven, Build the Foundation!

"Brother Lei, you have awakened the latent dragon spirit body and have completed the twelfth floor of Qi Refining. You are only one step away from building the foundation."

Wang Guiyuan's expression became serious: "But you must not be impatient, especially you must not underestimate the difficulties when breaking through the realm."

Lei Jun nodded slightly.

In this world, the difficulty of breaking through the realm from the first heaven to the second heaven is often greater than all previous practices, and the same is true for the second heaven to the third heaven, etc.

Because the checkpoints between the realms are usually called natural chasms, also known as practice disasters.

Crossing the natural chasm, experiencing disasters.

If you can't break through, you will be seriously injured at best, or die at worst.

Of course, you can also choose not to break through and stay in the current realm.

Tianshi Mansion is a Taoist holy land with a profound heritage and many talented disciples, so similar situations are rare.

In the outside world, there are many cultivators who are stuck in the Qi Refining stage in small sects and families.

But then they will face the problem of aging and approaching the end of their lifespan.

The "Dao Jing of Zhengfa Zhenyi" in Tianshi Mansion is extremely exquisite, and Lei Jun has a latent dragon spirit body. Under normal circumstances, Wang Guiyuan is not worried that his junior brother will not be able to pass the first chasm.

He is mainly afraid that Lei Jun will be too eager for success and mess up his state of mind, which will affect his tribulation.

"Don't worry, senior brother, I understand." Lei Jun smiled.

Wang Guiyuan nodded: "That's good."

After settling everything, he went back to his old job and played the role of a Taoist boy for Elder Liu.

Lei Jun then continued to concentrate on his own practice at his own pace.

Get up early and take a cup of Peiyuanjiang to lay a good foundation for the day.

Listen to Master Yuan Mobai's lectures and scriptures in the morning class and in the morning.

After lunch, take a Qi Lingdan, light a Dingshen incense, and breathe in and out silently to refine Qi.

During the practice, a pair of warm jade discs were separated and placed on the palms of his hands. The person nourished the jade, the jade warmed the spirit, the spirit moistened the qi, and the qi refined the person. After a set of cycles, he achieved twice the result with half the effort.

At the evening class, he summarized his questions of the day and asked Yuan Mobai for advice.

After the evening class, he returned to his residence, took a ladle of medicinal bath mother liquid and some auxiliary medicinal materials, put them together into the bath in the courtyard, and led the mountain spring water to combine them to form a large pool of medicinal liquid.

Lei Jun sat in it again, cleansed himself with medicinal bath, and continued to warm and nourish his breathing.

Finally, he ended a day of practice and fell asleep peacefully to strengthen his foundation.

I don’t know how long the practice is, and time passes quickly.

One night a month later.

Lei Jun, who was soaking in the bath, suddenly rose.

He didn’t jump out of the water on his own initiative.

Instead, he sat steadily on the surface of the bath, as if sitting on solid ground.

In Lei Jun’s body, the originally surging true qi condensed, and it seemed to turn from illusion to solid, forming condensed magic power.

It was like a large amount of gas, after transformation and condensation, turned into a wisp of liquid.

It seemed weak, but it was far more condensed and flexible than the original large burst of true qi.

Just a trace of mana was enough to defeat a large amount of true qi of the Qi Refining cultivator.

This was a change from quantitative change to qualitative change.

Lei Jun smiled comfortably and walked out of the bath.

Cultivating mana means a great realm of cultivation, and he successfully broke through.

From the first level of Qi Refining to the second level of foundation building!

"I didn't feel that there was a fierce calamity..." Lei Jun was slightly surprised.

As soon as the doubts in his heart arose, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind:

The spirit body of the latent dragon...

If the real dragon leaps in the abyss, it will soar into the sky.

So this initial natural barrier is a dangerous obstacle for many people, but it can't stop the latent dragon from being born.

"No wonder there is a legend that the top geniuses can make rapid progress in cultivation."

Lei Jun looked inward at himself and was quite emotional for a while:

I wonder what Tang Xiaotang's immortal body looks like when she is practicing?

He shook his head, cleared his mind, and sat cross-legged again, breathing in and out his qi silently.

Lei Jun could clearly feel that his vitality had also become extremely strong.

His life span had increased.

Once the foundation is successfully established, the life span will be 200 years.

Lei Jun entered the sect late and practiced Taoism late. He was led back to Longhu Mountain by Xu Yuanzhen at the age of 18.

Fortunately, he got all kinds of opportunities to avoid danger and practiced seriously. He successfully established the foundation in less than two years, surpassing countless sentient beings.

Now he is nearly 20 years old, which seems to be a lot of time compared to the 200-year life span of the foundation-building cultivator.

But...

"For the cultivators in this world, the life span of the realm is still not much." Lei Jun sighed: "Two hundred years is not much."

Because there is a very realistic problem in front of him.

From the first level of Qi refining to the second level of foundation building, the life span increases from 100 years to 200 years.

But from the second level of foundation building to the third level of the altar realm, the life span limit does not increase.

To break through to the fourth level of Yuan Fu realm, the life span will increase again.

Although the life span of cultivators in the foundation building and altar realms is 200 years, which is much higher than that of Qi refining cultivators, they still face the same problems.

The golden window period for Qi refining cultivators to improve their cultivation is only around 25 years old.

The rapid growth period of foundation building cultivators is extended to around 50 years old.

However, from the age of 50, foundation building cultivators will also enter the middle-aged plateau period, and their strength will remain at the peak, but the improvement speed will slow down greatly.

From around 100 years old, foundation building cultivators will enter the aging period, just like Qi refining cultivators over 50 years old.

Not only will it be difficult to improve the realm of cultivation, but their energy and strength will even begin to decline.

For a 100-year-old foundation-building cultivator, the hope of further advancement is extremely slim. Throughout history, there have been only a few special cases, and the probability is much lower than one in ten thousand.

But there is still a glimmer of hope.

After about 150 years old, the foundation-building cultivator enters the twilight period, and there is no hope for anything. The weakening and decay accelerates rapidly, and the strength may even fall from the large realm to a small realm until the end of life.

The most uncomfortable thing is that the cultivators in the third heaven altar realm are in the same situation as the second heaven foundation-building cultivators in this regard.

So if you want to continue to move forward on the path, the cultivator must try to rush to the fourth heaven Yuanfu realm before the age of 100, in order to increase his lifespan again.

In the Tianshi Mansion, the watershed between the disciples who are ordained and the disciples who are granted the talisman is generally just at the third heaven to fourth heaven realm.

Considering the potential for cultivation in the future, it is best to break through to the fourth heaven within the golden window period of fifty years old.

As expected, it fits the word "foundation building". We have just started... Lei Jun's joyful mood when he just broke through calmed down, and his state of mind returned to stability.

The next morning, Lei Jun went to see his master Yuan Mobai as usual.

Yuan Mobai looked at him with a smile: "Compared to your successful foundation building, I am more happy that your state of mind is still peaceful now."

Lei Jun: "My disciple is young and inexperienced, and I am just influenced by you and follow your example."

Yuan Mobai smiled and nodded: "Since your state of mind has returned to peace and natural, let's continue as usual."

In the morning class and morning practice, he explained the Taoist scriptures and Taoist methods as usual.

But in the afternoon and evening classes, Yuan Mobai adjusted the teaching plan.

"You have successfully built the foundation. Next, continue to practice steadily without rushing or being impatient."

He set up a prayer table in the courtyard and said to Lei Jun: "In addition, as a disciple of the Tianshi Mansion, you should start studying the talisman scriptures and learning to make talismans."