Ling Pengyun Establishes His Foundation
Meanwhile, inside the only Cultivation Abode Lingxiao Mountain.
Ling Pengxing was sitting cross-legged here, and the strange movement of Spiritual Qi in the mountain was caused by him.
The abundant Spiritual Qi from Lingxiao Mountain entered his body, causing his meridians to bulge.
The feeling of distending pain in the meridians also originates from this.
However, he dared not be distracted for too long. He could only grit his teeth and suppress the throbbing pain, focusing on condensing the massive Spiritual Qi surging into his body into more of the Foundation Establishment Realm's signature "Liquid Spiritual Power" to break through the bottleneck in his Dantian.
Qi Refining cultivator's Dantian contains spiritual energy, while Foundation Establishment Cultivator's Dantian contains Liquid Spiritual Power.
Spiritual power is formed by compressing Spiritual Qi, while Liquid Spiritual Power is formed by compressing spiritual energy.
Three days later, as a drop of Liquid Spiritual Power was condensed into his body, he mobilized this Liquid Spiritual Power to bombard the solid bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment.
Under constant bombardment, the bottleneck in the Foundation Establishment gradually began to shake.
Not long after, a crack appeared on the bottleneck.
Ling Pengxing, with his eyes closed, noticed this, frowned, and thought to himself.
"Geng Metal Sword Seed".
A golden sphere the size of a fingernail suddenly flew out from his Dantian and merged into his meridians.
The sphere flashed with golden light and instantly transformed into a small golden sword.
Once the small sword was formed, it followed the drop of spiritual liquid that Ling Pengxing had condensed when he relied on Qi Infusion, and together they bombarded the cracked area at the bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment.
The golden sword was extremely powerful, and with the combined force of the dozen or so drops of spiritual liquid, it shattered the bottleneck in one fell swoop.
The drop of spiritual liquid flowed into his Dantian without any further obstruction, Dantian and expanding Dantian.
Half a day later, when Ling Pengxing opened his eyes, his face was full of joy.
"Foundation Establishment complete."
One year later.
Lingxiao Mountain, halfway up the mountain, there is a quiet courtyard.
Ling Pengyun, who was sitting cross-legged on the Meditation Mat, gradually increased his aura until he reached a limit and then stopped.
He then opened his eyes, a smile spreading across his face.
"After three years of arduous cultivation, I have finally purified the remaining 60% of spiritual energy in my Dantian to its limit."
"Now that I have reached the Qi Training Completion, it is time for me to try to break through to Foundation Establishment."
Having made up his mind, Ling Pengyun stood up, walked out of the courtyard, and went to find Ling Ruxian in the Affairs Hall halfway up the mountain.
The elderly Ling Ruxian, seeing Ling Pengyun arrive, showed a slight joy and inquired.
"Peng Yun, it's been a long time since I've seen you. Are you here to exchange for Cultivation Resources?"
Ling Pengyun shook his head, a look of joy on his face, and replied.
"Eleventh Great Grandfather, I have purified all the spiritual energy in my Dantian to the limit. Now I have reached the Qi Training Completion stage. I have come here to collect the Hundred Spirits Water that the Lineage and I jointly purchased. I plan to use this water to try to break through the Foundation Establishment bottleneck."
Upon hearing this reply, Ling Ruxian's smile became even brighter.
However, to confirm whether this news was true, Ling Ruxian used his Divine Sense to scan Ling Pengyun.
Only when he realized that Ling Pengyun's aura had indeed reached perfection did he confirm it.
He was overjoyed and exclaimed with delight.
"That's great! If you can also reach the Foundation Establishment, our Ling Clan will have four Foundation Establishment."
Upon hearing this, Ling Pengyun, who was standing to the side, had a thought and asked.
"Eleventh Great Grandfather, a year ago, was it my Third Brother stirred up the Spiritual Qi in the mountains?"
Ling Ruxian. "That's right. Peng Xing entered the Foundation Establishment a year ago and is currently in seclusion in his own courtyard to consolidate his cultivation. The news of Peng Xing's Foundation Establishment has not yet spread, so you must not spread this news. You can do whatever you want. At present, Huai River County is extremely peaceful, and my Ling Clan has no need to hide our strength, nor should we flaunt our strength."
"I understand, Eleventh Great Grandfather." Ling Pengyun also knew the importance of these words and nodded in agreement.
"Let's not discuss this further. Your share of the Hundred Spirits Water is kept in the Clan Repository."
"Come with me to the Clan Repository. After we get these three items, you can break through to the next level in the Spiritual Qi rich Cultivation Abode at the top of the mountain," Ling Ruxian.
"Okay!" Ling Pengyun nodded in response.
Afterwards, Ling Pengyun followed Ling Ruxian to the Clan Repository at the top of the mountain and obtained the Hundred Spirits Water.
Having accomplished this task, the two knocked on the door of the only cave on the mountaintop.
After a short wait, the heavy door opened, and Ling Yunhong stepped out.
Ling Pengyun briefly explained to Ling Yunhong that he had reached the Qi Training Completion and planned to try Foundation Establishment.
"Trying to break through to the Foundation Establishment is a good thing. You don't need to feel pressured. You are only twenty-nine years old now, and you still have thirty-one years until the optimal age of sixty for Foundation Establishment. Even if you fail this time due to bad luck, you will have enough time to recover the damage to your Foundation Establishment Foundation Establishment again." Ling Yunhong comforted Ling Pengyun to avoid putting too much pressure on him.
"I understand, Third Grandfather." Ling Pengyun nodded solemnly.
"I won't say any more. Peng Yun, come with me into the cave abode."
With a word, Ling Yunhong led Ling Pengyun into the cave abode.
This Cultivation Abode occupies an area of fifty zhang, which is not large, with only three rooms.
One of the rooms is the "Hundred Arts House," where pills and Law Artifact are refined. This room is equipped with Second Rank Low Grade auxiliary formation, the Gather Fire Array. Activating this array can condense extremely high-temperature flames, which can be used for Pill Refining and artifact crafting.
One room is a Meditation Room, equipped with a Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Gathering Formation that can absorb the Spiritual Qi from the mountain and refine it into pure spiritual power.
The last room is where the Lineage stores various precious books, such as the inheritance of various arts and Secret Method, Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method, and so on.
As soon as Ling Yunhong entered the cave abode, he went into the study and took out two books, handing them to Ling Pengyun.
"Peng Yun, these two books are my insights on Foundation Establishment, which I wrote after Peng Xing and I broke through to the Foundation Establishment Foundation Establishment. I hope these two books will be helpful when you are Foundation Establishment."
"Third Grandfather, thank you very much." Ling Pengyun reached out and took the gift, expressing his gratitude.
"It's alright, go into the Cultivation Abode and focus on your breakthrough," Ling Yunhong said.
Ling Pengyun nodded slightly and walked into the cultivation room alone.
Ling Yunhong could only make do and stay in the Hundred Arts House to refine pills while Ling Pengyun was breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
As for Ling Ruxian, who went Ling Ruxian to the mountaintop with Ling Pengyun, he left the mountaintop on his own after Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun entered the cave abode and returned to the Affairs Hall halfway up the mountain.
Inside the Mountain Top Cave Residence, in the meditation room.
After entering the quiet room, Ling Pengyun did not rush to consume the Hundred Spirits Water to Foundation Establishment.
Instead, he took out the Foundation Establishment insights given to him by Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengxing, and his cousin Yang Siling in his early years, and looked through them one by one.
These three books on Foundation Establishment insights don't contain much content, but the content is quite different.
Ling Yunhong broke through to the Foundation Establishment Foundation Establishment on his own, and most of the insights he wrote about Foundation Establishment were about the techniques that could be used during the breakthrough process.
Ling Pengxing broke through to the Foundation Establishment by combining the Foundation Establishment Pill and the Geng Metal Sword Seed, adopting a head-on approach to forcefully overcome the bottleneck in a short period of time.
Yang Siling broke through to the Foundation Establishment by using Foundation Establishment Pill, Hundred Spirits Water, and Meridian Protecting Pill —three Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object working together—a fairly standard Foundation Establishment.
Each of the three reflections has its own unique characteristics.
Ling Pengyun did indeed learn a lot of useful things from this.
After reading the insights of the three Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Ling Pengyun didn't linger any longer. He circulated his cultivation Cultivation Method for a while to restore his body to its best condition. Then, he took Storage Bag the bottle of Hundred Spirits Water that he had jointly purchased with his Lineage, as well as the Second Rank High Grade Meridian Protecting Pill that he had entrusted Ling Yunhong to purchase from the Peace Cloud Yang Clan several years ago.
Looking at the two items in his hands, Ling Pengyun's eyes revealed a hint of anticipation, and he muttered to himself.
"With the help of these two items, plus the Yin Yang Primordial Power that I refined in my early years, which enhances the resilience of my meridians and Dantian, I should have a greater than 30% chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Foundation Establishment."
Like Evergreen Spirit Water, Hundred Spirits Water is made primarily from Evergreen Spirit Fruit, which has the effect of helping one break through realms.
However, when refining the Hundred Spirits Water, a few more precious second-tier spiritual materials were added.
The greatest effect of this spiritual water is that it can double a cultivator's Divine Sense in a short period of time.
The function of the Meridian Protecting Pill is to protect the meridians and enhance their resilience.
Ling Pengyun snapped out of his reverie.
He put the bottle of Meridian Protecting Pill aside, opened the bottle of Hundred Spirits Water, poured all the Hundred Spirits Water into his mouth, and swallowed it.
The Hundred Spirits Water was incredibly pure, comparable to the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water. In just two days, Ling Pengyun refined this spiritual water.
Once he refined this water, his Divine Sense doubled.
The Divine Sense could originally only cover a radius of 100 feet can now cover a radius of 200 feet, which is comparable to the Divine Sense strength of an ordinary second-level Foundation Establishment.
At this moment, Ling Pengyun quickly calmed his mind and, relying on his powerful Divine Sense, forcibly compressed the spiritual power in his Dantian, which had already been compressed to the limit of the Qi Refining realm, for a second time.
The process of compressing spiritual energy a second time was not smooth, as the spiritual energy had already been compressed to the limit of the Qi Training Stage.
After being compressed again, the spiritual energy in the Dantian became somewhat violent, and would occasionally surge and impact the Dantian.
Fortunately, he had taken the Hundred Spirits Water to enhance his Divine Sense, which allowed him to barely suppress the violent spiritual power. His Dantian was also resilient enough to withstand the impact of the violent spiritual power.
After dozens of rounds of secondary compression, Ling Pengyun finally managed to compress the first drop of Liquid Spiritual Power.
Once Liquid Spiritual Power is formed, a chain reaction will naturally occur.
This Liquid Spiritual Power, like a vortex, frantically absorbed the spiritual energy within Ling Pengyun's body to strengthen itself.
Before long, the spiritual energy in Ling Pengyun's Dantian and meridians was completely absorbed, leaving them empty.
The next moment, Ling Pengyun opened the bottle of Meridian Protecting Pill beside him, took out the Meridian Protecting Pill, and quickly swallowed them.
Once it entered his stomach, he used his internal Cultivation Method to refine it.
The Meridian Protecting Pill contained a great deal of medicinal power, and it took Ling Pengyun a full half day to refine it.
Once this pill was refined, the medicinal power of the Meridian Protecting Pill was also delivered by Ling Pengyun to various meridians throughout his body, strengthening them.
Ling Pengyun didn't delay any longer. He touched the only drop of Liquid Spiritual Power in his empty Dantian with his Divine Sense and pondered for a moment.
"Qi Infusion."
Immediately afterwards, the drop of Liquid Spiritual Power containing immense power in his Dantian flashed with light. With Ling Pengyun's deliberate encouragement, this drop of Liquid Spiritual Power emitted a powerful suction force, drawing in the Spiritual Qi of the entire Lingxiao Mountain.
A massive amount of Spiritual Qi surged into Ling Pengyun's body.
The meridians within his body were stretched bulging in an instant.
Fortunately, his meridians were already aided by the Meridian Protecting Pill, and his meridians themselves had been enhanced by the Yin Yang Primordial Power, which allowed him to barely withstand the massive influx of Spiritual Qi into his body.
While enduring the throbbing pain in his meridians, Ling Pengyun also mobilized his Divine Sense to send the large amount of Spiritual Qi that filled his body into that drop of Liquid Spiritual Power.
As Spiritual Qi was continuously injected, the shimmering luster of that drop of Liquid Spiritual Power grew brighter and brighter.
At the same time, Ling Pengyun also mobilized his Divine Sense to control the drop of Liquid Spiritual Power that was continuously injected with spiritual power, and frantically attacked the "inexplicable and inexplicable" bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment.
After hundreds of attempts over nearly a day, and once the Meridian Protecting Pill lost their effectiveness, he finally managed to use that drop of Liquid Spiritual Power to shake the Foundation Establishment bottleneck.
The Meridian Protecting Pill had no effect, and the swelling and pain in his meridians intensified.
The arrow is on the bowstring and cannot be left unreleased. If it stops, the damage to his meridians will be destroyed by the immense Spiritual Qi, and there is no guarantee that his Dantian will also be damaged.
Faced with this perilous situation, he could only endure the burning pain in his meridians, mobilize his Divine Sense to control that drop of Liquid Spiritual Power, and once again attempt to break through the bottleneck of Foundation Establishment.
After nearly half a day of this, just as many of his meridians were about to break due to the massive influx of Spiritual Qi, he finally broke through the bottleneck of Foundation Establishment.
With the bottleneck gone, the massive spiritual Qi Infusion Qi Infusion the drop of Liquid Spiritual Power, drawn by the spiritual energy infusion, surged and spread throughout his meridians and body like a whale sucking in water, nourishing him.
Under the nourishment of Spiritual Qi, the meridians that had been damaged when the Qi Infusion recovered to some extent.
When everything was over, Ling Pengyun opened his eyes. He was overjoyed to have successfully Foundation Establishment.
"Although the meridians damaged by the Qi Infusion have not fully recovered, they will need at least six months to be nurtured. If we can Foundation Establishment stage, that would be a fortunate thing."
With a sigh of delight, he began to experience the changes that followed his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment.
"Breaking through the bottleneck of Divine Sense, I can now mobilize my Divine Sense to cover a radius of 150 feet."
"Although all the spiritual energy in my Dantian was gone and only a drop of Liquid Spiritual Power was compressed out, this single drop of Liquid Spiritual Power is enough to be equivalent to one-tenth of the spiritual energy I had when I Qi Training Completion. In the future, with the strength of my Divine Sense, I will be able to absorb Spiritual Qi energy again and compress it into Liquid Spiritual Power."
"At that time, I will only become stronger."
Thinking this way, Ling Pengyun's face lit up with even more joy.
Just now, when he tested the strength of his Divine Sense, he discovered that Ling Yunhong, the First Great Elder Ling Ruxian, and the Fifth Elder Ling Yunxi were anxiously waiting for him to emerge from seclusion outside his quiet room.
To avoid keeping them waiting, Ling Pengyun did not directly absorb Spiritual Qi to stabilize his cultivation. Instead, he stood up from the Meditation Mat, opened the door of the meditation room, and walked out.
(End of this chapter)