Chapter 64: Building the Foundation
"Is it so painful to strengthen the Dantian and meridians?" Wang Hao grumbled, "First the Dantian, then the meridians will be more painful!"
As he expected, when the severe pain in the Dantian disappeared, his meridians began to bear pressure again, but it was not pain, but an indescribable itchy and numb feeling, as if he had been poisoned by a nerve paralysis, and there were millions of ants gnawing at his meridians! The feeling was not intense, but it was torturing him all the time!
As the drug penetrated deeper, not only the meridians, but also the muscles and skin began to feel this way. Wang Hao resisted the urge to scratch, gritted his teeth and struggled to get through it.
After an hour, this itchy and numb feeling all over the body disappeared, and the body began to become warm, making people want to shout out in comfort.
Wang Hao reached out to wipe his sweat, put his hand down, and found that there was a black substance stuck on it. He was immediately disgusted. When he checked his body, the skin all over his body was covered with this stuff, emitting an extremely fishy smell.
"Washing the essence and marrow?" Wang Hao curled his lips slightly, and quickly performed the body cleansing technique to wash away the stench. After a while, he sat cross-legged again and became serious.
Because the next step is the key stage of foundation building - condensing magic power!
Wang Hao tried to use his spiritual consciousness to control the pure spiritual power released by the foundation building pill and the magic power in his body to compress them together. If he wanted to convert the gas into liquid, the pressure required was not ordinary. At this moment, the benefits of a strong spiritual consciousness were reflected. Ordinary cultivators had to try hundreds of times and spend nearly half a month to complete this task. Wang Hao only had five days and failed more than fifty times before he successfully condensed a drop of liquid true essence in his dantian.
When this drop of true essence fell on the dantian, he even heard the crisp sound of water drops!
After condensing the true essence, the next step is to control the true essence to travel throughout the body, which is to make the meridians adapt to the strength of the true essence and also play the role of secondary tempering of the meridians. Although Wang Hao made preparations in advance, when the highly compressed and condensed mana true essence gushed out from the Dantian Qi Sea and flowed into the meridians, the pain like a needle piercing and burning still made him grimace and sweat all over.
However, the meridian protection pill he took in advance and the foundation-building pill itself strengthened the protection of the meridians of the immortal cultivators. Although the pain was unbearable, there was no accident.
The most critical and difficult step of foundation building was completed, and Wang Hao's tense nerves were finally able to relax for a moment!
After a while, Wang Hao practiced the skills again and found unprecedented ease. As his skills were pulled, the hungry Dantian and meridians in his body began to absorb the external spiritual energy crazily.
The dense mist-forming spiritual energy, as if sensing some kind of call, rushed towards Wang Hao at an unusually fast speed. From the distance of Ruojun Mountain, you can see the clouds and mist flowing rapidly towards the top of the mountain!
"Spiritual energy fills the body! Hao'er succeeded!" Wang Yanfeng, who was outside the stone gate, noticed the abnormal flow of spiritual energy, stood up suddenly, and looked inside the stone gate with excitement and joy.
The tribesmen who were busy in the spiritual field in the distance also stopped their actions and looked at the top of the mountain in surprise. Most of them were at a loss.
"What is this... What is going on? How can spiritual energy flow back to the top of the mountain?"
"I don't know either. Could it be that the family's foundation-building ancestor is practicing some secret method?"
Wang Yanfeng, who was also practicing in the secret room, opened his eyes and quickly went out to check the situation: "Is someone building a foundation?" A trace of loss flashed across his face. He could have built a foundation a long time ago and also obtained the foundation-building pill, but he was always afraid and didn't dare to take it, so he had been in seclusion to polish his magic power.
"It seems to be Wenhao. He, who has five spiritual roots, can succeed. Why can't I?" Wang Yanfeng's eyes flashed, and he clenched his fists, and his confidence began to firm up.
He decided to borrow the cave on the top of the mountain from Wang Yanzhao to break through the foundation after Wang Hao came out of retreat. At the same time, he quickened his pace to the top of the mountain, ready to congratulate him, and by the way, he also asked Wang Hao about the difficulties he encountered and the solution. There is no such thing as foundation building experience.
When Wang Yanfeng arrived at the top of the mountain, he saw Wang Yanzhao standing in front of the door, and he slowed down his pace and congratulated softly: "Congratulations, second brother. Now that both father and son have built their foundations, it will surely become a family legend, passed down for thousands of years, and admired by future generations!"
"Haha, eighth brother, you are joking. I see that your magic power has been perfected. Do you have any plans?" Wang Yanzhao laughed, and did not deny it. At the same time, he was concerned about Wang Yanfeng's condition.
"Thank you for your concern, second brother. I was still a little worried. I thought I would polish my magic power for a few years when I was young, but Wenhao, a man with five spiritual roots, is moving forward bravely. Why should I stop?" Wang Yanfeng said solemnly: "I hope you can borrow the cave for me!"
Wang Yanzhao nodded with satisfaction. He and Wang Yanfeng had learned alchemy together since childhood and had the best relationship. Naturally, he hoped that he could also build a foundation: "Well, pure magic power is indeed more conducive to building a foundation, but the heart of Tao is the foundation. If you have a firm heart of Tao, the success rate of building a foundation has increased by half! As for the remaining half, as long as you deal with it carefully, without fear or greed, you can get through it! As for the cave, of course, you can use it when Wenhao comes out of retreat, and second brother will also protect you!"
Wang Yanfeng thanked him and stood quietly on the side. After all, this is Wang Hao's critical period, and it's not too late to talk to him after he comes out!
It took Wang Hao about five days to refine all the spiritual energy that flowed into his body into magical essence. At this time, the amount of magical essence in his Dantian Qi Sea had increased from the initial drop to a small puddle, and then became a small pond, officially consolidating his cultivation at the first level of foundation building.
Although the Qi training stage is the first realm of the immortal cultivator, the life span is only 120 years. Mortals can live to this age. The foundation building means a significant increase in life span, which is completely different from mortals.
Wang Hao has a feeling that his current mana value is more than that of ordinary cultivators. The reason is that the amount and time of spiritual energy infusion are too different from those of the foundation building experience he has read!
After moving his body, he also felt much younger than before. Then he condensed a water mirror in front of him. Sure enough, his appearance has returned to the state of twenty years old. In addition, because of the practice of ice skin and jade bone skills, it is not an exaggeration to say that "the man on the street is like jade, and the young master is unparalleled in the world"! Wang Hao doesn't care much about his appearance, but who would dislike being handsome?
The foundation-building period generally produces foundation-building true fire. The properties and power of the true fire are different according to the different skills and spiritual roots. The one produced by Wang Hao is called Red Lotus True Fire, which is the hottest fire, known for its domineering and fierceness. It is also one of the most suitable true fires for alchemy and refining.
This Red Lotus True Fire has the attribute of Yang, which is extremely restrained by Yin. For example, most magic cultivators can turn into a red lotus to attack after mastering it, and burn everything. It is several times stronger than the foundation-building true fire mastered by ordinary cultivators.
At the same time, Wang Hao can also absorb some heaven and earth spiritual fire to strengthen the Red Lotus True Fire. According to the description of the skills, it is not difficult for the Red Lotus True Fire to burn mountains and boil seas after it grows!
"It's so powerful, I wonder if it can completely unlock the Tuhun Seal!" Wang Hao has been thinking about it since he discovered the secret of the Tuhun Seal last time, but unfortunately the residue on the seal is a bit high-level, and he has no way to remove it. Now that he has the Red Lotus True Fire, he wants to try it.