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 was struggling, 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 still toothless, 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 a girl. He is sitting in the iron cage with a numb 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 very 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 always 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 while brazenly attacking, giving his prey a double blow both mentally and physically.
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 asleep uncontrollably.
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-yuan spiritual jade used for setting up formations, and various five-element spiritual materials were consumed by Lin Chen as if they were free of money.
Although it was difficult to earn spiritual stones, Lin Chen didn't hesitate at all when it was time to spend them.
Perhaps he is indeed stingy in other aspects, but when it comes to research, he has always adhered to the principle that it is better to have less than to waste!
After all, in scientific research, if inferior quality is inferior, big problems will arise.
'The three major difficulties when breaking through to the foundation building stage are divided into physical body level, Qi level and soul level. '
'According to classic records, the first of the three levels of foundation building is the body level! When building the foundation, the monk's body must be strong, with strong Qi and blood, and there must be no hidden injuries. It is generally believed in the world of immortal cultivation that it is difficult for monks after the age of sixty to establish a foundation even if they have reached the state of perfect Qi refining. '
'The second level is the True Essence Level. The True Qi must be powerful enough to complete the transformation of the True Qi condensation into True Essence. '
'The last level is the soul level. The monks condense the scattered soul and transform it from [spiritual power] to [spiritual awareness]! '
Although he was thinking, Lin Chen's hand speed did not slow down at all, almost creating a series of afterimages, and a large number of spiritual materials were arranged in a specific way.
"After my research, although the foundation building process is divided into three levels, in the final analysis, there is only one core, and that is the liquefaction of true energy into true essence!"
"However, due to the difficulty and process of liquefaction of true energy, it can be roughly divided into three steps. Each step has its own difficulties. Once one cannot be overcome, the foundation building will fail. Therefore, the monks call these three difficulties "foundation building". Three levels.”
"First of all, the amount of true energy stored in a monk's body is limited. At most, it can reach the minimum standard for liquefaction, but it may not be successful. Therefore, external spiritual energy from heaven and earth must be introduced to assist liquefaction."
"The external spiritual energy of heaven and earth has not been refined, and the large influx of it at one time cannot be controlled, so it will cause damage to the body. Therefore, the body must be strong enough to withstand the influx of spiritual energy, and this is what the physical body is about origin."
"The second level of true qi liquefaction is to condense the true qi in the monk's body and the external spiritual energy into true essence, so that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. In this process, because the content of the external spiritual energy is higher than the true qi in the monk's body, and it cannot be controlled , so the monks need to use true energy to guide and operate."
"In this process, the monks are required to have extremely high control over the true energy in their bodies. In other words, the true energy in the monks' bodies is required to come from the monks refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth bit by bit, rather than simply Swallow the elixir, otherwise it will be difficult to control it, this is the key to the True Essence Pass."
"The Soul Pass, also called the Divine Soul Pass, uses true energy as a guide to condense the monk's own soul. During this process, the monk will experience tremendous pain. Once he cannot bear it and faints, all his previous efforts will be in vain!"
According to Lin Chen's understanding, the birth of foundation-building pills and other pills were created by ancient monks to solve these three difficulties.
Its medicinal effect can repair the meridians in the monk's body during the impact of the foundation building stage and prevent the body from collapsing. It can also provide gentle spiritual energy to assist refining, and can also relieve the pain when the soul is condensed. Therefore, it is sought after by a large number of monks.
However, due to the lack of resources in the Lingnan cultivation land, and the fact that the three main medicines for refining the Foundation Building Pill [Immortal Foundation Fruit], [Centennial Spirit Milk], and [Purple Jade Luolan] cannot shorten their growth cycle through special means, it is necessary to build the foundation pill. Kidan is available in very limited quantities.
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 land of Lingnan Cultivation, most of the foundation-building monks among the three major forces relied on one or several foundation-building spiritual objects to achieve breakthroughs.
Lin Chen will not consider the Foundation Building Pill anymore.
After all, it had only been twenty years since the sect last refined the Foundation Establishment Pill. If you wanted to wait for the next batch of refining pills, you would have to wait at least thirty or forty years. Lin Chen was already in his fifties or sixties at that time. Even if With this pill, the chance of attacking the foundation was very slim, so this option was immediately abandoned by Lin Chen.
As for the foundation-building spiritual object, it is also not an easy thing to obtain.
You must know that even second-level talismans are under the supervision of the three major forces in Lingnan, let alone spiritual objects that can build foundations.
Even in the Qingyun Sect, a batch is released every twenty years. Even so, they are still robbed 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 large amount of information, Lin Chen found that with his current methods, there was only one option for him to hit the foundation building stage, and that was the secret method of foundation building!
The secret method of foundation building is a foundation building method developed by ancient monks in addition to elixirs.
However, the success rate of this method in attacking the foundation building stage is not as good as that of elixirs. In addition, it requires monks to have a sufficient understanding of the techniques they practice, the difficulties of entering the foundation building stage, and the mysteries of the next realm, etc., so it is not suitable for Why is it so popular among monks that it is even gradually lost.
After all, there is a shortcut like elixir, so who would choose to take the road full of thorns?
But Lin Chen was different. Compared to mindless pill breakthroughs, this kind of foundation-building secret method that needed to be studied and understood was more popular with him!
Lin Chen read through various records, combined with his own research on the foundation building period, and finally developed a set of secret foundation building methods that is unique to him!
At this moment, in the laboratory, a naked monk was lying on the experimental table. Lin Chen used spiritual ink to carve talismans one after another on his body, which complemented the spiritual light of the formation below the stage.
And in the eight directions around the experimental platform, there are huge bright spiritual beads. Directly above, there is a huge screen transformed by spiritual energy.
"The key to the physical barrier is that the influx of a large amount of external spiritual energy will form spiritual pressure in the monk's body, tearing the meridians, causing the monk's body to be damaged, and in severe cases, he may even explode and die."
"And I placed spiritual beads around the monks to form an anti-cyclone when impacting the foundation building stage, to offset the huge spiritual pressure formed when the true energy liquefies..."
"Then use the restrictions carved on the body to introduce the spiritual energy into the body. This can greatly relieve the pressure on the body's meridians and reduce the difficulty of the physical barrier."
"The liquefaction of true energy may involve a jump in the energy level of spiritual energy. I am confident that processing the medium-grade spiritual stones into spirit condensing liquid can help the liquefaction of true energy."
"As for the pain of the final soul closing..." Thinking of this, Lin Chen took out the soul-nourishing incense that he had recently researched.
In Lin Chen's imagination, this soul-nourishing incense is not only a tonic for cultivating the soul, but also can help monks break through the soul barrier.
Its soothing effect can greatly relieve the pain of soul condensation and transformation!
And this method of foundation building based on targeted formations, spiritual liquids, and medicines developed for each difficulty level was named the secret ritual of foundation building and metamorphosis by Lin Chen!
This is also his own secret foundation-building method created based on his own research!
"By simulating breakthroughs in the foundation building period, I can determine the energy level of whether spiritual energy exists."
"But this method is a preliminary creation after all. If you want to perfect it, you still need to go through experiments!"
Thinking of this, Lin Chen waved his hand, and countless dragon and phoenix dancing formation restrictions began to flash with spiritual light, and countless spiritual energy swarmed in.
The experiment officially begins!
