Chapter 5 Foundation Building Cave

"I hope that what happened back then will be lost forever in the past..."

Su Ming looked back with a complicated look in his eyes, then turned and walked towards the mountainside of the Giant Stone Peak.

The rising sun shone on his back, casting a shadow in front of him.

"First go to the Earthly Yuan Palace to register for the cave, and then go to the Sutra Pavilion to select the secret technique..."

Su Ming patted his storage bag, and the Two-Yin Soul Chasing Blade turned into a stream of light and appeared in front of him, growing to a size of ten feet.

He touched the blade with his toes, and turned the magic weapon into a blue escape light and flew towards Yuquan Peak, and soon disappeared into the sky.

Su Ming estimated his escape speed. At this time, the speed of full-strength flight was about three times that of the Qi Refining Stage.

Feeling the increase in escape speed, Su Ming looked down at the Two-Yin Soul Chasing Blade under his feet.

Obviously, the best magic weapon could not fully exert the full power of the liquid magic power of the foundation-building stage cultivator. If he wanted to increase his escape speed to the limit, he still needed to refine the spiritual weapon.

This is also the reason why most sect cultivators do not rely on magic tools as much as they do in the Qi Refining Stage after the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The second-level magic spells cast with liquid mana are already powerful and cannot be underestimated. In the process of fighting, magic tools and spells must complement each other. If you still rely on magic tools like in the Qi Refining Stage, you will probably fall flat on your face when you meet a good player in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

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Tianmu Peak stands tall, surrounded by clouds and mist, like a fairyland.

A blue escape light flashed in the air and fell on the mountainside of Tianmu Peak. Su Ming walked straight up the mountain in a green shirt.

Along the way, if you meet a sect disciple, the other party must bow and respectfully call him "Uncle Master".

Guiyuan Sect rules stipulate that outer disciples wear gray robes and inner disciples wear white robes, but there are no restrictions for foundation-building cultivators, and they can wear whatever they like.

The privileges brought by cultivation are reflected in all aspects of the sect.

Originally, the first thing for a sect cultivator to break through to the foundation-building stage was to report to the head of the Diyuan Hall, receive a cave, and change the disciple's status to a deacon, so that he could receive and enjoy the treatment that the foundation-building stage should have.

After Su Ming broke through the foundation-building stage, his mentality changed a lot. He was no longer in a hurry like before, but admired the scenery of Tianmu Peak and walked slowly towards the Diyuan Hall built on the top of the mountain.

After passing the Zhongyuan Hall on the mountainside, the number of cultivators coming and going was obviously much less. Occasionally, a cultivator was seen, and they were all in the foundation-building stage.

The perspective and scenery seen are completely different after a realm is improved.

Su Ming walked all the way to the door of the Tianyuan Hall. The gatekeeper disciple felt the spiritual pressure on him, and hurriedly saluted and asked in a deep voice:

"Disciple Hong Xiangyun, meet the master uncle, I wonder what the master uncle has to do?"

The gatekeeper disciple had to bite the bullet and asked Su Ming.

"Su wants to meet the head master, you go and report it."

Su Ming smiled lightly and spoke to the gatekeeper disciple.

Hong Xiangyun hurriedly responded after hearing this, and then walked into the hall after bowing.

After a while, Hong Xiangyun walked out quickly and said respectfully: "Uncle Su, please come in, the master invites you!"

Su Ming was not interested in showing off in front of the Qi Refining disciples. He nodded slightly and walked into the Diyuan Hall.

After passing through the gate of the Zhongyuan Hall, he came to the master's hall after a few steps. At this time, there was an old man with white hair and beard in the hall who was writing furiously, as if he was handling the affairs of the sect.

There was an incense burner next to the old man's table, with a few sticks of incense in it. It looked like they were all valuable meditation incense, emitting a faint smoke that calmed the mind.

"Disciple Su Ming, I pay my respects to the master uncle!"

Feeling that the other party's cultivation was more unfathomable than Fang Yuechan, he bowed and saluted.

As far as Su Ming knew, the master of the sect was a foundation-building cultivator thousands of years ago, but later it seemed that something happened, and the position of the master was changed to a Jindan cultivator.

Of course, most Jindan Zhenren are unwilling to take such a position that requires wasting time for cultivation.

But the Yuanying ancestor of the sect spoke, and these Jindan Zhenren did not dare to disobey his order. In the end, the position of the head of the sect was taken by some old Jindan Zhenren who had a short lifespan and no possibility of breakthrough.

However, even if the Jindan Zhenren had a short lifespan, as long as there were some means of prolonging life, most of them could outlast the foundation-building cultivators.

According to Fang Yuechan, the current head of the sect is named Ding Qiuyu, who has the peak cultivation of the middle Jindan stage. He was stuck in the bottleneck of the late stage for many years and could not break through, so he took the initiative to take the position of the head of the sect.

The person who urged Fang Yuechan to accept a disciple was the old man in front of him.

The gap in strength and status was too big. Seeing that the other party was still busy, Su Ming could only wait quietly in the hall.

Ding Qiuyu also pretended not to hear and continued to write something with his head down. It was not until a cup of tea that he put down his pen and looked up at Su Ming and said:

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time."

Su Ming waved his hand and said: "Uncle Master, you are too polite. I just arrived. It's okay to wait for a while!"

Hearing this, Ding Qiuyu showed a gentle smile: "Junior Brother Su has the courage to give it a try. He is far better than me in the past if he succeeds without the help of the foundation-building pill..."

"He also seized the opportunity to learn about the Tao and build a foundation. Maybe he will be one of us in the future."

"Uncle Master, I am very pleased to see that the sect has produced a newcomer like you before I die!"

Feeling the kindness radiated by Ding Qiuyu, Su Ming was a little puzzled.

It seems that the other party knows him very well?

"I have an old relationship with Junior Sister Fang. As her direct disciple, you can just call me Uncle Ding..."

Seemingly seeing the doubt in Su Ming's heart, Ding Qiuyu smiled and spoke.

As a Jindan Zhenren of the other courtyard sect, he had a good relationship with Master Fang Yuechan. After Master Fang Yuechan passed away, he took good care of this Jindan Seed, and they were both teachers and friends.

Otherwise, with Fang Yuechan's arrogant temperament, how could she "obediently accept a disciple" because of the urging of the headmaster.

"Disciple greets Uncle Ding!" Su Ming hurriedly saluted after hearing this.

Ding Qiuyu smiled and nodded, took out ten pieces of medium-grade spirit stones with water attributes from the storage bag and handed them to Su Ming, while explaining:

"This is a one-time reward from the sect for the newly promoted foundation-building cultivators. In the future, there will be ten pieces of medium-grade spirit stones issued every year, including other resources and low-grade spirit stone salaries, which need to be collected by the nephew himself at that time..."

"The main purpose of issuing these ten pieces of medium-grade spirit stones is to allow some disciples without a foundation to buy a top-grade magic weapon as soon as possible, and not to die easily. After all, it is not easy to cultivate foundation-building cultivators."

Su Ming nodded, and understood in his heart.

Many disciples without a solid foundation basically spend all their wealth to break through to the foundation-building stage.

Even if they succeed in breaking through, they will be in a difficult situation in a short period of time. Some even need to spend several years to repay the sect contributions and spirit stones borrowed from their fellow disciples before breaking through.

After all, there are very few Qi-refining cultivators as "rich" as Su Ming. Most Qi-refining cultivators may need to break through to the foundation-building stage to own a top-grade magic weapon.

Ding Qiuyu then took out a huge scroll and spread it on the table, showing a map of the Kunwu Mountains with many red and green light spots on it.

"The foundation-building cultivators of our sect can choose a cave on the White Jade Peak, or be assigned a second-level spiritual mountain for cultivation..."

"The red light spot means that the cave and the spiritual mountain have an owner, and the green light spot means that there is no owner. You can choose at will..."

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(As the protagonist's cultivation level becomes higher, he will gradually come into contact with other methods and inheritances, but it is only as a means, and mainly relies on the way of talismans and formations. It is not said that he will be transferred to a sword cultivator with the 'Spiritual Sword Pill'.)