In the long and tortuous monastic career, the foundation building stage is located between the Qi refining stage and the Golden elixir stage. Since then, the path of cultivation has finally begun to take shape. Different from the entry-level Qi refining period, which is often similar, starting from the foundation building period, each cultivator will also embark on a different path.
Foundation building, as the name suggests, strives to lay as good a foundation as possible at this stage. Tall buildings rise from the ground. Whether you can lay a solid foundation and solid foundation at this stage will determine whether the road to immortality will be smooth or not in the future.
Liu Yuan spent a full year and a half, immersed in the Tianji Diagram, and the sun and the moon flew by. He forgot the passage of time, and did not return to reality until the entire chessboard was completed. In this strange state, Liu Yuan even forgot when he took the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Yes, he has already broken through to the foundation-building realm. However, most of the stored elixirs were used up unknowingly, and three-fifths of the foundation-building elixirs were also used.
Now, he looked inside his body and found that the spiritual energy in his body was clearly detectable. They spontaneously established a complete and orderly operating network centered on the Dantian.
Compared with the Qi refining stage where one had to deliberately follow the guidance of the meridians to operate, now in the foundation building state it can be as natural as breathing, with the inner breath automatically running day after day, silently absorbing the spiritual power of heaven and earth, without having to waste any more energy. Extra mental effort.
Another biggest gain comes from the spirit body. Not only the veins of the spiritual body can also circulate on their own, practicing simultaneously with the main body. The effects of various exercises have also been greatly improved.
Starting from the initial understanding of the marrow cleansing effect of the air membrane technique, Liu Yuan's air membrane has evolved through successive times and has transformed into a spiritual body, which is inseparable from the main body.
The power of elixirs combined with spiritual understanding has also continued to evolve through experience, and many types have been added. The current total is:
Marrow Cleansing - understood from the Marrow Cleansing Pill, it has the effect of improving physical fitness and root bones, and eliminating impurities. Consumption of spiritual power: more.
Return to God - Increase the recovery of spiritual thoughts by transforming spiritual power. Consumption of spiritual energy: much.
Qi gathering - Consume a small amount of spiritual energy to greatly speed up the gathering and absorption of spiritual energy in a short period of time. Consumption of spiritual thoughts: less.
Rejuvenation - Evolved from the original hemostatic pill, combined with the effect of the Nine Turns Resurrection Pill and the Rejuvenation Technique, it has the effect of healing. Spiritual power consumption: medium to large, determined by the injury.
Nine Turns of Resurrection - learned from the Nine Turns of Resurrection Pill, it has the heaven-defying effect of bringing the dead back to life, but it can only work on the spiritual beasts summoned by spiritual power, currently only ants. And it requires consuming a certain amount of spiritual power and spiritual thoughts at the same time.
Beauty care - learned from beauty lotions, hemostatic pills, muscle-building pills, etc., it can repair skin scars, and has the effects of partial detoxification, acne removal, whitening, and skin improvement. Consumption of spiritual power: very little.
During the Qi refining period, Liu Yuan continued to cleanse his own marrow for a period of time. After finding that it had little effect, he only occasionally used the marrow cleansing technique to cultivate the evolution of ants. But on a daily basis, he only continues to activate the beauty-nurturing techniques that consume the least amount of spiritual power. Anyway, it's better than nothing.
Whenever he meditates quietly, when he is full of energy, he will use the Qi Gathering Technique to instantly speed up his practice. In addition, it can be supplemented with divine spells, Qi-gathering pills or spiritual stones, which in turn restore spiritual thoughts and spiritual power. In this way, spiritual energy and spiritual thoughts can be saved at the same time through the incoming and outgoing of divine thoughts.
He has calculated that if he uses this method to cycle back and forth, the consumption of conventional elixirs will be reduced by more than 40% than before, and the cultivation speed will be accelerated by nearly half.
However, in view of the inherent shortcomings of his pseudo-spiritual roots, these little tricks can only barely increase his cultivation speed to the lowest level of earthly spiritual roots, or even slightly worse.
Fortunately, Liu Yuan still has the help of his spiritual body, and his overall cultivation speed can reach the superior level of the earth spirit root.
It would be great if there was any way to improve the spiritual root qualifications. I would definitely ask more about it if I had the opportunity in the future. Liu Yuan kept this wish in his heart.
However, after successful foundation building, spiritual root qualifications are only one aspect that determines the speed of cultivation, and the level of the technique is also very important. I just don't know if my "Tianji Landscape Picture" and the stone tablet text I randomly fumbled out can be photographed.
To create such a huge chessboard square when breaking through the foundation building, this set of techniques should not be bad. He comforted himself like this.
After establishing the foundation, both the control of spiritual power and the speed of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth have improved significantly compared to the Qi refining stage. Moreover, as the mind moves at random, a line of body-protecting Qi naturally emerges on the body surface, and there is no need to activate any special techniques.
Liu Yuan's perception of the external environment has also been greatly improved. Liu Yuan closed his eyes and expanded his consciousness, and he could understand everything within a few feet of him at a glance, as if he saw it with his own eyes, down to the smallest detail.
This experience was really wonderful, and he couldn't help but think that this was what cultivating an immortal should feel like.
Only then did he notice that outside the cave door, several transmission notes were beating eagerly, and he didn't know how long he had been waiting outside.
There are people from Wu Darong and people from Liu Yanzhi. They were all left after he visited during his retreat.
Liu Yuan quickly replied one by one with the news of successful foundation building.
After he released the transmission talisman and was about to return indoors, his spiritual awareness of the surroundings reminded him that he had missed something. He suddenly discovered that an inconspicuous blind burrowing ant was also at the door. It looked restless and seemed to be waiting. It’s been a long time.
By the way, he then remembered his great career of digging holes.
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Following the blind ant all the way underground, Liu Yuan lit a beam of firelight between his fingers and saw that the cave was surrounded by wet, black stone walls. Many marks that looked like knives and axes were carved on the stone walls. It is the work of bull ants.
As we descended a little bit, the temperature slowly dropped, and the rock wall became more and more humid. From time to time, water droplets dripped, and the sound of water drops echoed in the cave.
The entrance to the cave began to become narrower and narrower, and the slope became steeper. However, Liu Yuan could sense that the scent of the grouper ants below was starting to become clearer.
Sure enough, after descending for dozens of feet, he turned a corner and suddenly saw a bright view.
A huge underground cave appeared in front of him, and one of the two grouper ants was waiting for him.
There was indeed something in it. Liu Yuan happily patted the grouper ants that came over. It was a double happiness today.
The cave is about as high as a three-story attic and more than a hundred feet in diameter. The stalactites on the roof of the cave are scattered in an orderly manner, and the rock walls also show different colors of multiple strata, which look strange and bizarre under the light of the fire between Liu Yuan's fingers.
However, Liu Yuan searched the entire cave carefully and found nothing good, let alone any treasures.
It seems that this is just a giant cave formed naturally.
Is it really?
Liu Yuan looked at the grouper ants helplessly. The other party did not send any useful information. One person and one ant were just staring at each other. Only the stalactites on the top of the cave had water droplets falling from time to time, making a crisp tinkling tinkling sound. The sound broke the silence.
