Chapter 126: Retreat

"Senior brother, being able to reshape one's Taoist heart is a great blessing. There is no need for you and me to say thank you..."

A smile appeared on Su Ming's face, and he immediately followed him into Cave No. 3.

As early as Zhou Xun made up his mind to attack the foundation building period, Su Ming made a request to observe the entire process of the opponent's foundation building.

In this regard, Zhou Xun did not hesitate at all and readily agreed, which shows his trust in Su Ming.

When a monk breaks through the foundation building stage, he has no ability to protect himself at all, and he cannot even control the magic weapon to defend himself.

If disturbed by the outside world, it is very easy to go crazy. The breakthrough may be unsuccessful, or the body may die.

Zhou Xun was able to allow him to watch him closely when he broke through the foundation building stage. It could be said that he unconditionally handed over his wealth and life to Su Ming.

If there is even the slightest bit of distrust, it is possible to be distracted by Su Ming's presence when breaking through to the foundation building stage, leading to failure of the breakthrough.

After entering the cave, Su Ming controlled the token that prohibited the formation, used his magic power to hold it suspended in front of him, and continued to hit more than a dozen magic spells on the token with both hands.

The token suddenly glowed brightly, flashing out three haloes of red, yellow, and blue, and then turned into dozens of white lights and shot at the formation nodes in every corner of the cave.

In his sight, rays of three-color brilliance suddenly formed a whole, turning into a layer of pale white formation protective cover.

The three-color halo on the surface of the protective shield circulates rapidly and becomes stable within a few breaths, transforming into streams of light flowing on the protective shield.

After activating the formation, Su Ming nodded as he felt the powerful spiritual energy fluctuations emitted by it. He tried his best to reach out of the formation with his spiritual consciousness, but it was as if he had hit a thick wall and was unable to move forward at all.

Seeing this, Su Ming couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.

Then Su Ming's consciousness swept away, and the scene inside the cave appeared in his mind. The decoration of the cave was simple and plain, with only a table, a chair, a futon, and not even a stone bed for resting.

There is also a plaque hanging on the wall of the cave.

There are four big characters written on the plaque.

"Refining Qi!"

Refining essence into Qi, refining Qi into spirit, refining spirit into void, and refining void into Tao. This passage is the secret of the Great Dao passed down by ancient monks.

In just twelve words, the true meaning of immortality is revealed.

Today's cultivation realm in the world of immortality is all derived from this twelve-character mantra.

In Su Ming's spiritual sense, the aura in Xuansu Peak Cave was extremely rich, far exceeding that of his Qingquan Peak Cave by about five times. Su Ming felt a stream of aura being sucked into his body just by breathing.

Although there is a second-level mid-grade spiritual vein on Xuansu Peak, there are naturally high and low levels among the eighty-one caves. The concentration of spiritual energy in No. 3 Cave is also at the top of all caves, and it is even richer than ordinary caves. About 20%.

Seeing that Zhou Xun had already walked to the futon and sat down cross-legged, and placed various items including inferior foundation-building pills and foundation-building experience items in front of him, Su Ming stepped forward and took out a jade box from the storage bag, and put it in Next to the jade bottle.

"This thing is the Purple Sun Ginseng that my junior brother got by chance. It has an auxiliary effect on the monks' attack on the physical body..."

"Senior brother, after all, you are nearly sixty years old, and your energy and blood have begun to decline. With the help of this thing, the possibility of hitting the foundation building stage will be greatly increased..."

"Junior brother, I am in my prime, and I have the Foundation Establishment Pill to protect me. It doesn't matter whether I have Purple Sunflower Ginseng or not..."

Su Ming smiled and took out the Purple Sun Ginseng and placed it in front of Zhou Xun. Without giving him a chance to refuse, he waved his sleeves, moved the chair to the edge of the cave, sat down, and began to close his eyes and rest.

Seeing this, Zhou Xun did not refuse. Instead, he began to slowly run his skills, began to adjust his energy and spirit, and waited for a glimmer of inspiration to break through.

The time a monk in the Qi Refining Stage can take to attack the Foundation Building Stage can vary from long to short, ranging from a month to more than half a year before success or failure is known.

The Guiyuan Sect allows its disciples to attack and establish their foundation for a maximum period of one year. After one year, no matter what the outcome is, they must leave the seclusion. If unfortunately they die in a cave, special monks will come to collect the body.

(A patch. The time required to break through the foundation building period was written incorrectly. It takes a hundred days to build a foundation, so three months is normal. If it takes more than one year, you can basically collect the corpses. Chapter 121 mentioned in this regard has been changed.)

If a monk succeeds in building the foundation, he will normally be given three years to consolidate his cultivation and become familiar with his realm.

During this period of time, in addition to consolidating their cultivation, monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage also used it to specialize in the new techniques of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

"Brother, just treat me as nothing and focus on attacking the bottleneck of the foundation building period."

As Su Ming's voice fell, his powerful consciousness spread in the cave and spread to Zhou Xun's body, feeling the changes in his body.

Feeling Su Ming's powerful spiritual consciousness, Zhou Xun's eyes flashed with surprise.

"It's no wonder that Junior Brother Su is valued by Elder Jindan. The strength of his spiritual consciousness is almost three times that of mine..."

Seeing that Su Ming had developed his spiritual consciousness, Zhou Xun didn't care that the changes in his body and the operation routes of his exercises were all exposed to his spiritual consciousness. He grabbed the few foundation building experiences in front of him and began to study and understand each one of them carefully. detail.

Su Ming, on the other hand, was using the Hidden Spirit Art to cover up all the mana fluctuations around his body, sitting quietly at the edge of the cave like a stone.

The two of them had no influence on each other, and time passed by bit by bit.

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Seven days later, Xuansu Peak, No. 3 A

His eyes were closed tightly, his expression was peaceful, neither happy nor sad, and a blue halo gradually appeared on his face.

"It's time."

Zhou Xun opened his eyes, a light flashed in his eyes, and whispered to himself.

In seven days, Zhou Xun had adjusted his spirit to the best state. He raised his hand and lit a "calming incense" for the cultivators to break through the barriers.

This incense is very valuable. It is sold for two hundred spirit stones in the market. It has the effect of refreshing the mind and keeping the cultivator's mind clear. It can make the cultivators who break through the barriers highly concentrated and better grasp the situation in the body.

Then, in Su Ming's perception, Zhou Xun, who was sitting cross-legged on the cushion, began to operate according to the route of the method to break through the foundation-building period. The atomized mana became more and more pure under the operation of the method.

Under the control of the divine consciousness, the mana in the body flows along the meridians in the limbs and bones at a high speed, and finally gradually rotates above the dantian, forming a vortex, constantly trying to compress inwards, trying to cultivate the first drop of liquid mana in the body.

This is the first major difficulty for the cultivators in the Qi Refining Period to break through the foundation-building period, the mana barrier, corresponding to the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit.

The mist-like vortex of mana in the Dantian is spinning faster and faster. If you are not careful, it will disintegrate and damage the meridians and Dantian, and the path will be cut off from then on.

This step not only tests the purity of the cultivator's mana, but also has extremely high requirements for the cultivator's spiritual consciousness and mana control ability.

Fortunately, Zhou Xun is not bad in spiritual consciousness and mana control, so there is no great pressure to control the mana vortex.

As time goes by, although the mana in the center of the mana vortex becomes more pure, there is no sign of liquefaction.

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