Chapter 127: Building the Foundation (Part 1)

Originally, Zhou Xun's wind-type alien spiritual root qualifications, both in terms of the purity of his natural mana and his cultivation speed, were far superior to those of ordinary monks. As long as he practiced and polished his cultivation to perfection, it was not very difficult to pass the mana level.

But cultivating a path is like sailing against the current, if you don’t advance, you will retreat!

At this moment, Zhou Xun paid the price for wasting more than ten years of cultivation time.

Even though he had resumed his practice in the past few years and successfully reached the state of perfect Qi refining, Zhou Xun, because of his old age, did not have much time to spend on polishing the magic power in his body, which made it extremely difficult to pass the magic power level that could have been easily passed.

"It's a pity that Senior Brother Zhou has no time to continue to hone his magic power at his age. If he waits until he is sixty years old, even if Ziyang Ginseng helps Senior Brother, the possibility of him passing through the physical barrier is very slim..."

Sensing the changes in Zhou Xun's mana through his spiritual consciousness, Su Ming sighed slightly in his heart, understanding that given the purity of the opponent's mana, it might be difficult to further compress it to produce liquid mana.

At this time, the monks must use some external forces.

"well!"

With a sigh, Zhou Xun raised his hand and opened the jade bottle in front of him. A spiritual elixir in the bottle floated in front of him and flew slowly towards him.

This elixir is the size of a long eye, dark in color, with a faint green brilliance flowing around it.

It was that slightly flawed Foundation Establishment Pill!

Although it contains erysipelas, it is still a rare treasure for ordinary Qi refining monks.

Zhou Xun opened his mouth, his Adam's apple moved and swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill.

In Su Ming's spiritual perception, as soon as the Foundation Establishment Pill entered his stomach, the power of the medicine turned into a mass of cold air, flowing along the meridians of Zhou Xun's limbs and bones.

When this airflow enters the mana vortex of Dantian, it becomes extremely hot, like a ball of flame.

"snort!"

Caught off guard, Zhou Xun groaned in pain, but he adjusted his condition in the blink of an eye, and controlled the hot mana vortex to run at a faster speed through his spiritual consciousness.

The Foundation Establishment Pill is indeed the elixir that countless Qi-refining monks dream of. Even if it has flaws, it will show immediate results after taking it.

With the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill, the speed of the mana vortex more than doubled, and the mist-like mana that had never been liquefied in the center finally changed.

As the atomized mana becomes more and more pure, it finally condenses at the bottom of the vortex and turns into a "rain cloud".

The birth of the "rain cloud" caused the mana vortex to move faster, and the pressure on the Dantian increased, and it began to slowly expand and expand.

I don't know how long time passed. Zhou Xun's mind was entirely focused on controlling the mana vortex, while Su Ming was concentrating on observing the changes in Zhou Xun's mana.

In this state of love, the two of them are completely unaware of the passage of time in the outside world.

The "rain clouds" at the bottom of the mana vortex accumulated thicker and thicker, and finally the first drop of "rain" condensed before the effect of the Foundation Establishment Pill completely disappeared.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. The production of the first drop of liquid mana causes a chain reaction in the entire "rain cloud".

One drop, two drops, three drops...

As the liquid mana was generated rapidly, mana rain began to fall in Zhou Xun's dantian. At the same time, the mana vortex on the rain cloud began to slowly dissipate, and the mana rain cloud gradually became smaller.

In the end, there were more and more liquid mana. After the rain cloud completely disappeared, a total of 112 drops of liquid mana were formed, forming a lake of mana at Zhou Xun's dantian, which continued to absorb the few mist-like mana in his body.

When the Lake of Mana, or "Mana Puddle" is formed, it represents.

The magic test has been successfully passed!

Zhou Xun pointed at the cave token placed beside him and activated the second-level spirit gathering array arranged in Cave No. 3.

The concentration of the already rich spiritual energy increased to a higher level, and was inhaled into the body by Zhou Xun, who had just passed the mana barrier, to replenish the newly formed liquid mana.

As time passed, the liquid mana gradually became saturated, and all gathered into the mana lake under the control of Zhou Xun's spiritual consciousness.

According to Su Ming's spiritual perception, Zhou Xun finally condensed one hundred and twenty-three drops of liquid mana, which was not much different from what was recorded in the foundation building experience.

After a normal monk passes the mana barrier, he can probably condense one hundred to one hundred and fifty drops of liquid mana.

The more liquid mana there is, the deeper the monk's mana base is during the Qi refining period. Zhou Xun's mana base can only be regarded as "middle-class", far from the level of a normal spiritual root monk.

Judging from the foundation-building experience that Fang Yuechan gave Su Ming, he had condensed a total of 223 drops of liquid mana that year, and his mana accumulation was almost twice that of an ordinary monk.

When the mana lake was completely condensed, the last remaining foundation-building elixir power flowed towards Zhou Xun's limbs and bones, forming a thin film to protect his meridians.

If he fails to pass the next two levels, he can rely on the effect of the Foundation Establishment Pill to save his life and not die on the spot.

Passing the mana level is just the beginning. The mana in the foundation building stage, the physical body and the spiritual consciousness in the Qi refining stage cannot be passed through the next two levels. Either the body will be exploded by the liquid mana on the spot, or the spiritual consciousness will not be able to successfully control the mana.

If the liquid mana remains uncontrolled for a long time, it will eventually dissipate again into the gaseous mana during the Qi refining period.

After passing the magic power barrier, what you have to face is the physical body barrier, which is the process of "spiritual power filling the body and physical body transformation", which is a great test of the physical strength of the monks.

This level is also the most difficult one for Zhou Xun to pass. At his age, his energy and blood are close to decay, and the possibility of passing the physical level is far less than that of young monks.

Zhou Xun quickly opened the delicate jade box in front of him and took out a spiritual grass with green leaves, purple body and red veins. It was Ziyang Ginseng.

After biting the purple yang ginseng, the skin broke, and this rare spiritual medicine turned into liquid medicine in an instant, flowing down Zhou Xun's throat into his stomach, leaving only branches and leaves and a thin layer of skin.

After the purple yang ginseng entered his mouth, it quickly exerted its medicinal effect.

In Su Ming's spiritual perception, Zhou Xun's gradually declining blood and qi began to surge and boil, and his white hair gradually turned black from the root under the effect of the medicine. He looked more than ten years younger, and his blood and physical strength were temporarily improved to a level not weaker than that of a normal Qi-refining cultivator.

Sensing Zhou Xun's changes, Su Ming couldn't help but sigh at the wonderful use of the purple yang ginseng, and he was much more confident that Brother Zhou could pass the physical barrier.

At this time, the rich spiritual energy in the cave seemed to be controlled by a pair of invisible hands. A large amount of spiritual energy surged and rushed into Zhou Xun's body, starting to cleanse his essence from the inside out.

For an old cultivator like Zhou Xun, the physical body is extremely dangerous. If the physical body with declining blood and qi cannot withstand a large amount of spiritual energy, it may explode and die at any time.

Seeing the spiritual energy filling the body, Su Ming's face condensed, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, and his consciousness also carefully felt the changes in Zhou Xun's physical body.

If things are impossible, even if he gives up the foundation, it is better than Zhou Xun's death.

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