Chapter 120 Five Years

After breaking through the ninth level of Qi Refining, Su Ming reduced the time he spent on practicing the daily exercises, and used the extra time to deduce the Hetu Luoshu to carve the formation with his body and refine his consciousness.

The reason for doing this is also very simple. There is no bottleneck between the ninth level of Qi Refining and the perfection of Qi Refining.

The practice of breaking through the perfection of Qi Refining is to accumulate and polish the mana, make it more pure, and make the mana produce initial atomization, in preparation for the mana liquefaction during the foundation building period in the future.

Su Ming is only 29 years old now, and there are still 11 years before he breaks through the foundation building period at the age of 40. There is no need to rush for quick success and instant benefits in the process of accumulating and polishing mana. Slowing down the pace of practice, patiently polishing, and making the mana more pure is the right way.

After completing the practice every day, Su Ming will also practice magic tools and spells.

The simple use of magic tools is not difficult, but if you want to make the strengths and weaknesses of magic tools and spells complement each other and achieve the power of one plus one greater than two, daily practice is essential.

Of course, he never gave up the practice of talismans, but due to the limitations of his mana and spiritual strength, he never succeeded in breaking through to the second-level talisman master.

However, Su Ming was not in a hurry. He never thought that he was a genius. If he could not break through to the second-level talisman master in the Qi Refining Stage, he would wait until the Foundation Building Stage.

The road to immortality is long. It is not a big deal to walk fast, but it is great to walk far.

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There is no time for cultivation. Three years have passed in a flash.

Five years have passed since Su Ming began his retreat.

Guiyuan Sect, in the cave of Qingquan Peak.

Su Ming took the last hundred-year-old peach, sat cross-legged on the stone bed, and began to practice today's skills with blue light flashing on his face.

After the mana in his body circulated twelve small cycles along the route of the Shuiling Jue skills, Su Ming seemed to have a blessing. He did not end the practice of the skills as usual, but continued to circulate the small cycles.

After the mana circulated for thirty-six small cycles, the light blue gaseous mana in Su Ming's body became more and more pure, and finally turned into mana in a state like water mist.

Qi Refining is complete, success!

Su Ming opened his eyes, a blue light flashed in his eyes, and slowly ended the practice of today's technique.

Cultivating to the perfection of Qi Refining at the age of thirty-two is not outstanding in Guiyuan Sect, but it is an unimaginable practice speed for a disciple with pseudo spiritual roots.

Because of his cultivation, the appearance of Su Ming, who was thirty-two years old, did not change much compared to five years ago. He still looked about twenty years old.

After Su Ming broke through the perfection of Qi Refining, the amount of mana in his body did not change much, but the quality was on a higher level. The quality of mana alone increased by about 30%, and the strength of his consciousness also increased from 120 feet two years ago to 200 feet.

This strength of consciousness has reached about three times that of a normal Qi Refining Perfection cultivator. Even a cultivator like He Ru who practiced the secret method of consciousness in the Qi Refining period is far inferior to Su Ming in this realm.

Of course, the key to improving the consciousness to this level is the continuous tempering of the consciousness by Hetu Luoshu day and night. Otherwise, it would be good if Su Ming's consciousness could reach 70 feet.

Feeling the changes in mana and consciousness, Su Ming smiled. With his current cultivation foundation, he could have a 30% success rate even without taking the foundation-building pill.

Combined with the foundation-building pill, Ziyang ginseng and soul-nourishing liquid, Su Ming's chance of breaking through the foundation-building period is as high as 70%. This probability can be said to be a stable foundation in the world of immortal cultivation.

After finishing the exercise, Su Ming got up from the bed, grabbed the ebony tea on the table and took a sip, and slowly walked into the training room next door.

There were two naked bodies of a man and a woman in the training room. The copies of the bodies had been hollowed out, and there were countless cut marks on the limbs and bodies. With the dim light in the training room, it looked very strange and terrifying.

Su Ming looked at the bodies of Xu Yang and Meng Xueer in front of him, shook his head, raised his hand and threw out two fist-sized fireballs, burning the bodies of the two.

After the two bodies turned into ashes, Su Ming raised his hand and waved, and the ashes of the two flew into the jade boxes that had been prepared long ago.

Now, the two bodies that have been broken are no longer valuable to Su Ming.

However, the two have helped Su Ming a lot in his cultivation. When the time comes, he plans to find a beautiful place to bury them properly, so that the two can rest in peace.

As early as a year ago, Su Ming became a second-level array master through the River Map and Luoshu, and preliminarily completed the deduction of the method of carving arrays with the body. The remaining year is basically to check for omissions and make up for deficiencies.

By now, the method of carving arrays with the body has been relatively complete. If it is based on the previous deduction, Su Ming is confident that he can use the Dantian as the array eye, turn the meridians into array patterns, and arrange the water-based spirit gathering array on his body.

But because of the appearance of Meng Xueer's Water Jade Body, Su Ming had greater ambitions.

Even if he succeeded in engraving the second-order water spirit gathering array on his body, Su Ming could only be called an acquired water spirit root.

There is only one word difference between innate and acquired, but the difference is a world of difference.

Although the acquired water spirit root can greatly increase the possibility of breaking through the foundation-building stage, it is of no help for breaking through the golden elixir stage in the future.

Now, by chance, Su Ming's breakthrough to the foundation-building stage is a sure thing, so he naturally has to think more about his future path.

Every time a cultivator breaks through a major realm, it can be called a leap in life. Once the breakthrough is successful, not only will the strength be greatly improved, but the life span will also be greatly increased.

"It's not enough to just have the water spirit gathering array. If I can engrave the sunflower water array that I deduced based on the water jade body into the body, the two arrays will form a composite array 'water virtue array', and with the help of the life transition that breaks through the foundation-building period..."

"The two arrays complement each other, and if they are sublimated together, they can turn decay into magic. There is a 30% chance that I can achieve the acquired water spirit body, and at the very least, I can achieve the water jade body..."

Su Ming whispered to himself, took out the "Spiritual Root Theory" from the storage bag and flipped through it, his eyes flickering.

The innate water spirit body is one of the top five elements spirit bodies in the world of cultivation, and is the upper spirit body of the water jade body. The cultivator with the innate five elements spirit body must have the corresponding attribute of the heavenly spirit root qualification, and the qualification is first-class in the entire world of cultivation.

According to the biographical records in the Guiyuan Sect's Sutra Library, the number of recorded innate five-element spirits in the entire Jiang Kingdom does not exceed five fingers. Every innate five-element spirit cultivator who did not die in the middle of the journey eventually became a Yuanying Zhenjun, which shows that this spirit is domineering.

If Su Ming can use the foundation-building heavenly gate to achieve the acquired water spirit body, then his qualifications will no longer be a shortcoming. Instead, he will be far superior to ordinary cultivators and no less than a cultivator with a heavenly spiritual root.

Relying solely on the method of carving a formation with one's body is not enough to change one's fate. If Su Ming gives up this great opportunity to break through the foundation-building period, he will have to spend hundreds or even thousands of times more energy to succeed in carving a compound "Water Virtue Formation" in his body in the future.

A tall building rises from the ground, relying on a solid enough foundation.

The same is true for the cultivation of immortals. When the cultivation is deep, the difficulty of making up for the early foundation will only increase by thousands of times, or even impossible to make up for it.

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