Chapter 22: The Secret Ceremony of Foundation Building and Transformation

The cold touch and the endless pain on his body made Yu Man wake up directly.

"Um...where is this?"

Yu Man opened his eyes. There was a ceiling above him. There was a cold and dry atmosphere in the air. It seemed to be a secret room.

"I remember... wasn't I refining the [Child-Mother Soul Chasing Blade]... why... did it appear here?"

The Son-Mother Soul-Chasing Blade is a special magical weapon used during the Qi training period. It has a mother blade and six child blades. Not only can it control the child blades by operating the mother blade, so that multiple magic weapons can attack at the same time, but it can also be condensed into one to increase its attack power.

However, the refining of this magic weapon requires the user's spirit, and it must be carried around at all times and maintained with true air. Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it also greatly damages the body's vitality, so few people practice it.

But the magicians among the casual cultivators actually came up with a very cruel refining method, which is:

Use people to refine weapons!

Looking for a female cultivator, the higher the strength, the better. Leave your own blood in her body, then wait for her to give birth to a son, and use her blood essence and soul to refine the child blade. When the number is enough, she will be trained into the mother blade.

The magic weapon refined in this way contains terrifying evil spirits, and its power is higher than that of regular refining, so it is sought after by a large number of evil cultivators.

The Qingyun Sect naturally hates this, not only because its refining method is very cruel, but also because this refining method will cause a large loss of population and harm the interests of the Qingyun Sect. Therefore, this is strictly prohibited and cracked down on!

Although this method is very inhumane, in Yu Man's view, isn't Qingyun Sect's harvesting of the resources of the lower-level monks also a form of plundering, squeezing, and eating the flesh and blood of the lower-level monks?

It's just that compared to their obscurity, I just do it more directly.

In Yu Man's view, strength is the only truth in this world.

What's the big deal if you sacrifice some people in order to become stronger!

And in his opinion, compared to those so-called righteous hypocrites who love to use righteousness as a fig leaf, he can be considered frank!

At this moment, Yu Man struggled, feeling constant pain all over his body, his memory was confused and unclear, and he felt a chill all over his body. Apparently, someone had stripped him of his clothes.

Not only that, there was an indescribable severe pain in his Dantian and his whole body. His mouth was missing all teeth, and he felt empty. There were even shackles around his neck.

"Am I... captured? Damn it... what happened?" Yu Man turned his head to look at his surroundings, but his pupils suddenly shrank.

Next to him, there were also iron cages, and in the iron cages, naked people were also imprisoned!

Of course, what shocked him was not the scene before him, but a person imprisoned not far from him!

The other person has a white face and beardless skin, and looks like a boy or girl. He is sitting in the iron cage with a numb look on his face.

"It's you!!!" At this moment, Yu Man felt a surge of anger rushing into his heart, completely ignoring the surrounding environment, staring at the other person with his eyes, almost ready to spit fire.

He will never forget this face!

The person in front of me is extremely famous among these evil cultivators and is called the ‘Jade Faced Evil Cultivator’.

And the reason why he is famous is not because of his strength, but because of the opponent's wonderful behavior.

The jade-faced evil cultivators in other areas are always trying to harm female cultivators, but the other party does the opposite and specializes in seducing male cultivators.

Every time, he would dress up as a coquettish female cultivator to seduce others. He would cultivate with his prey and take off his clothes. He would attack the prey with both mental and physical blows.

Yu Man is one of the victims, and genius knows what he went through at that time!

If he hadn't reacted in time and ran quickly, he would have almost died!

"Oh? Do you know him?" At this moment, in the darkness, a doubtful voice came.

"Of course I know him. Even if he turns into ashes, I will still remember him!" Yu Man's face was full of anger.

"Oh?" A faint voice came from the side, "It's really fate that I can meet acquaintances in this place! As the saying goes, meeting an old friend in a foreign country is really a happy event in life!"

"Go to a foreign country..." Yu Man just wanted to yell. Meeting an enemy in a cell is called meeting an old friend in a foreign country?

But just as he was about to curse, he suddenly froze and turned his head sharply.

Only then did he realize that not far behind him, a figure appeared in the darkness.

The other party was dressed in white, with a crown-like face and sword-like eyebrows, and starry eyes. He was holding a book and had a calm expression.

"It's you!" Yu Man suddenly remembered that when he was refining the Son-Mother Soul-Chasing Blade, he suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, and then he fell into an uncontrollable drowsiness.

And before he lost consciousness, the last scene he saw was this figure.

It turns out that he was caught by the other party!

"Boy, if you know what's going on, let me go as soon as possible, otherwise..." Yu Man said viciously.

Lin Chen didn't reply, but stepped forward directly and took several people, including him, out of the cage.

Seeing this, Yu Man noticed something was wrong. He wanted to resist, but he felt completely weak. The energy in his body had been blocked by some unknown means. He could only let Lin Chen use the iron chain to pull him out of the cage.

He was taken directly outside a laboratory by Lin Chen.

Then, he watched helplessly as the people who were brought along with him were taken in one after another.

At this moment, in the laboratory, Lin Chen was setting up the formation.

Low-grade spiritual stones, precious spiritual ink, earth-element spiritual jade used for array formation, and various spiritual materials of the five elements were consumed by Lin Chen as if they were free.

Although it was difficult to earn spiritual stones, Lin Chen would not hesitate at all when it was time to spend.

Perhaps he was indeed very stingy in other aspects, but when it came to research, he always believed in better to have less than too much!

After all, in scientific research, if you pass off inferior goods as good ones, there will be big problems!

‘The three major difficulties when breaking through to the foundation-building stage are divided into the physical body, the true qi, and the soul. ’

‘According to the records of the classics, the first of the three foundation-building levels is the physical body! When building the foundation, the cultivator must have a strong physique, vigorous qi and blood, and no hidden injuries. It is generally believed in the world of immortal cultivation that cultivators over the age of sixty will find it difficult to build a foundation even if they have cultivated to the perfect state of refining qi. ’

‘The second level is the true essence level, and the true qi must be strong enough to complete the requirement of converting the true qi condensed liquid into true essence. ’

‘The last level is the soul level, where the cultivator condenses the scattered soul and transforms [mental power] into [spiritual perception]! ’

Although he was thinking, Lin Chen’s hand speed did not slow down at all, almost leaving a trail of afterimages, and a large amount of spiritual materials were arranged in a specific way.

"After my research, I found that although the foundation-building process is divided into three stages, in the final analysis, there is only one core, that is, the liquefaction of true qi into true essence!"

"However, due to the difficulty and process of true qi liquefaction, it is roughly divided into three steps. And each step has its own difficulties. Once one cannot be overcome, the impact of foundation building will fail, so the cultivators call these three difficulties the three stages of foundation building."

"First of all, the amount of true qi stored in the cultivator's body is limited, and it can only reach the minimum standard of liquefaction at most, and it may not be successful, so it is necessary to introduce external spiritual energy from heaven and earth to assist in liquefaction."

"And the external spiritual energy from heaven and earth has not been refined, and it is impossible to control it when it flows in a large amount at one time, so it will cause damage to the body. Therefore, a strong body must be able to withstand the influx of spiritual energy, and this is the origin of the physical body stage."

"The second stage of true qi liquefaction is to liquefy the spiritual energy in the cultivator's body. True Qi and external spiritual Qi are condensed into True Essence, so that quantitative change leads to qualitative change. In this process, since the content of external spiritual Qi is higher than the true Qi in the cultivator's body and cannot be controlled, the cultivator needs to use true Qi to guide and operate. "

"In this process, the cultivator is required to have a very high control over the true Qi in his body. In other words, the true Qi in the cultivator's body is required to come from the cultivator's refining of the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth bit by bit, rather than simply swallowing pills, otherwise it will be difficult to control, which is the key to the True Essence Pass. "

"The Soul Pass, also known as the Soul Pass, is to use the true essence as a guide to condense the cultivator's own soul. In this process, the cultivator will experience great pain. Once he can't stand it and faints, all his previous efforts will be wasted! "

According to Lin Chen, the birth of pills such as the Foundation Building Pill was created by ancient cultivators to solve these three difficulties.

Its medicinal effect can repair the meridians in the cultivator's body when impacting the Foundation Building Period, prevent the body from collapsing, provide mild spiritual Qi to assist in refining, and relieve the pain of soul condensation, so it is sought after by a large number of cultivators.

However, due to the lack of resources in the Lingnan cultivation land, and the fact that the three main medicines for refining foundation-building pills, [Fairy Foundation Fruit], [Hundred-Year Spirit Milk], and [Purple Jade Roland], cannot shorten their growth cycles through special means, the number of foundation-building pills is very limited.

Almost every fifty years, Qingyun Sect can refine a batch of foundation-building pills, but there are only about ten pills, which are very rare.

Therefore, in the Lingnan cultivation land, even the foundation-building cultivators in the three major forces, most of them rely on one or several foundation-building spiritual objects to break through.

Lin Chen did not consider the foundation-building pill.

After all, it has only been twenty years since the last time the sect refined the foundation-building pill. If you want to wait for the next batch of refining, you have to wait at least thirty or forty years. Lin Chen will be in his fifties or sixties at that time. Even if he has this pill, the chance of impacting the foundation is very slim, so this option was immediately abandoned by Lin Chen.

As for the foundation-building spiritual object, it is also not something that is easy to get.

You know, even the second-level talismans are under the supervision of the three major forces in Lingnan, not to mention the spiritual objects that can build the foundation.

Even in Qingyun Sect, only one batch is released every twenty years. Even so, it has been snatched by countless people. Those with connections, high qualifications, and talents are all vying for it, so the chance is very slim.

Therefore, after consulting a lot of information, Lin Chen found that with his current means, there is only one choice for him to impact the foundation-building period, that is, the foundation-building secret method!

The foundation-building secret method is a foundation-building method developed by ancient cultivators in addition to elixirs.

However, this method has a lower success rate for impacting the foundation-building period than elixirs. In addition, it requires cultivators to have sufficient understanding of their own cultivation methods, the difficulties of impacting the foundation-building period, and the mystery of the next realm, so it is not very popular among cultivators, and it is even gradually lost.

After all, with the shortcut of elixirs, who would choose to take the thorny road?

But Lin Chen is different. Compared with the brainless pill breakthrough, this kind of foundation-building secret method that requires research and understanding is more favored by him!

And Lin Chen read various records, combined with his own research on the foundation-building period, and finally developed a set of foundation-building secret methods that belong to him!

At this moment, in the laboratory, a naked cultivator was lying on the experimental table. Lin Chen used spiritual ink to carve a series of talismans all over his body, which reflected the spiritual light of the formation under the stage.

In the eight directions around the experimental table, there are huge and dazzling spiritual beads. Right above, there is a huge screen transformed from spiritual energy.

"The key to the physical level is that the influx of a large amount of external spiritual energy will form spiritual pressure in the cultivator's body, tear the meridians, and cause damage to the cultivator's body. In severe cases, the body will even explode and die."

"And I will place spiritual beads around the cultivator to form an anticyclone when impacting the foundation-building period to offset the huge spiritual pressure formed when the true qi is liquefied..."

"Then use the restrictions engraved on the body to guide the spiritual energy into the body, which can greatly relieve the pressure on the body's meridians and reduce the difficulty of the physical level."

"The liquefaction of true qi may involve the transition of spiritual energy levels. I am confident that the processing of medium-grade spiritual stones into condensed spiritual liquid can help the liquefaction of true qi."

"As for the pain at the last soul level..." Thinking of this, Lin Chen took out the recently developed soul-nourishing incense.

In Lin Chen's imagination, this soul-nourishing incense is not only a tonic for cultivating the soul, but also can help cultivators break through the soul level.

Its calming effect can greatly relieve the pain of soul refining and transformation!

And this foundation-building method with targeted formations, spiritual liquids, and medicines for each difficulty level is named by Lin Chen as the foundation-building transformation secret ritual!

This is also a unique foundation-building secret method created by combining his own research!

"By simulating the breakthrough of the foundation-building period, I can determine the energy level of spiritual energy."

"But this method is a preliminary creation after all. If you want to perfect it, you have to go through experiments!"

Thinking of this, Lin Chen waved his hand, and countless dragon-flying and phoenix-dancing formations began to flash with spiritual light, and countless spiritual energy swarmed in.

The experiment officially began!