Successful Foundation Establishment

Two days later, having finally calmed the chaotic spiritual energy within his body, Song Wen opened his eyes and, without hesitation, picked up another Heavenly Spirit Fruit.

After taking a deep breath, Song Wen swallowed the Heavenly Spirit Fruit.

Upon consuming the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, a surge of violent Spiritual Qi erupted suddenly.

The surging Spiritual Qi surged like a runaway horse, rampaging through Song Wen's limbs and meridians.

The violent Spiritual Qi caused cracks to gradually appear in Song Wen's meridians, and waves of intense pain swept through his entire body.

Tiny cracks appeared on Song Wen's skin, and bright red blood slowly seeped out, quickly turning Song Wen into a blood-soaked figure.

This time, Song Wen did not take any supplementary spirit medicine. He gritted his teeth, endured the excruciating pain, and focused on circulating the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art>.

As for whether blood loss would lead to insufficient Essence Blood, this was completely outside of Song Wen's consideration.

The advantages of expending enormous resources and painstakingly cultivating the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art> and <Myriad Poisons Primordial Body> finally manifested at this moment.

These two Body Refining Cultivation Method made his skin, muscles, meridians, internal organs, and bones—in short, from the inside out—far more resilient and stronger than those of ordinary Qi Refinement Perfection cultivators.

This would prevent his meridians and physical body from being breached by the violent power of the Heavenly Spirit Fruit.

Under the guidance of the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art>, the raging spiritual power was gradually drawn in and began to flow along the meridians, eventually returning to the Dantian.

The spiritual energy gathering in the Qi Sea gradually increased, but it was far from filling the Qi Sea or even becoming liquid.

Sensing that the Spiritual Qi of the Heavenly Spirit Fruit within his body was gradually decreasing, Song Wen resolutely swallowed another Heavenly Spirit Fruit.

"Ah!"

Another wave of excruciating pain swept through his body, causing Song Wen to let out a low growl.

The violent Spiritual Qi surged and crashed through the meridians once again.

With his previous experience, Song Wen was much more at ease this time, circulating the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art> and slowly guiding the surging spiritual power within his body.

The surging spiritual energy flowed through the meridians like a rushing river, then returned to the Dantian lower abdomen) and the sea of qi.

The Spiritual Qi in the dantian gradually filled up until it was completely full and could no longer hold any more spiritual energy.

However, there is still a large amount of spiritual energy in the meridians that has not been fully refined. Under the guidance of the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art>, this spiritual energy is still continuously entering the Qi Sea.

An excessive amount of spiritual energy was poured into the dantian, as if it were about to burst.

However, Song Wen continued to guide the Spiritual Qi into his Qi Sea. When the spiritual energy in the Qi Sea reached a certain critical point, it began to compress itself.

A drop of liquid spiritual energy appeared at the center of the Qi Sea.

Spiritual energy liquefies!

This is a sign of advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

However, the Foundation Establishment was not yet truly successful, and there was still a large amount of spiritual energy in the Qi Sea that had not yet been liquefied.

Song Wen continued to circulate the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art>, refining the remaining Spiritual Qi of the Heavenly Spirit Fruit. At the same time, his body was rapidly absorbing the free-floating Spiritual Qi in the world.

With a flick of his finger, a thousand Spirit Stone flew out of his storage ring and fell into the Spirit Gathering Formation.

The Spiritual Qi within the cave abode suddenly surged, and Song Wen continuously absorbed the extremely dense Spiritual Qi.

One drop, two drops, three drops...

Liquid spiritual energy continuously condenses within the Qi Sea.

Two weeks later, Song Wen opened his eyes, his eyes filled with undisguised joy.

Foundation Establishment successful!

He is now Foundation Establishment cultivator.

No longer at the very bottom of the Cultivation World.

Song Wen did not stop practicing his internal energy cultivation. After several hours of regulating his breathing and calming the surge of energy within his body, Song Wen stopped meditating and stood up.

He has been in seclusion here for almost twenty days; it's time for him to return to his sect.

Taking out the Formation Plate, casting a few Method Formula, and putting away the <Spirit Gathering Formation> and <Qi-Sealing Spirit-Isolating Formation>, Song Wen stepped out of the temporary cave abode.

Outside the cave abode, the pseudo-second-tier Corpse Puppet stood motionless, like a statue.

After putting away the Corpse Puppet and recalling the eight Black Armor Gu, Song Wen boarded the flying boat and headed towards the sect.

After a brief conversation with the Black Armor Gu, Song Wen learned that apart from two Qi Refinement cultivators who happened to pass by, no other cultivators had visited this place during this period.

The two cultivators were completely unaware of the cave abode on the cliff.

This made Song Wen very satisfied with the effect of the <Qi-Sealing Spirit-Isolating Formation>.

This Foundation Establishment cost Song Wen three Heavenly Spirit Fruits and five thousand Spirit Stone, leaving him with four Heavenly Spirit Fruit remaining.

Dozens of miles away from the sect, Song Wen put away the flying boat and walked towards the sect.

Passing through the market town at the foot of the Corpse Demon Sect mountain, and looking at the Corpse Demon Sect disciples and Rogue Cultivator coming and going, most of whom were Qi Refining Stage cultivators, Song Wen felt a surge of pride.

He was no longer Qi Refinement cultivator struggling at the very bottom of the cultivation world.

Then he remembered that Shi Shou was still a threat on his shoulders, and his good mood vanished instantly.

The path of spiritual cultivation is long and arduous. I have only just left the foot of the mountain and need to persevere before I have the opportunity to see the scenery from the summit.

Song Wen noticed that there seemed to be more Rogue Cultivator coming and going in the market. He saw several Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator just by walking around the market once.

Normally, it's extremely rare to see Foundation Establishment experts strolling around the market.

Crossing the street, Song Wen arrived at the stall area and immediately spotted Chen Yi setting up her stall.

In a good mood, Song Wen took the initiative to greet him.

"Junior Sister Chen, it's been a long time. How have you been?"

Upon seeing Song Wen's sudden appearance, Chen Yi's face lit up with a bright smile.

"Extreme Yin Brother Jiyin, where have you been these days? I haven't seen you in so long. I sent you a message, but you didn't reply?"

Song Wen replied, "I was out of town recently and didn't receive any messages. Junior Sister, is there something important that you're sending me a message about?"

"It's nothing important, I've just been feeling down lately and wanted to talk to someone."

"Oh? I do have some free time right now. Junior sister, if you have anything bothering you, feel free to speak up. Don't keep it bottled up inside; it's not good for your cultivation in the long run."

Chen Yi opened her mouth, but no sound came out; she seemed to want to say something but hesitated.

After hesitating several times, she finally just shook her head and sighed.

"It wasn't anything serious, just some trivial matters. It's all in the past, so I've let it go and there's no need to bring it up again."

Seeing that the other party didn't want to talk, Song Wen didn't force him and changed the subject.

"Junior Sister, how's the spirit herb business lately? I've noticed quite a few new rogue Rogue Cultivator in the market; it seems your business must be doing pretty well."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yi gave a wry smile.

"There have been quite a few more cultivators in the market lately, but business has been a bit worse."

"For some reason, these newly emerging Rogue Cultivator never buy spiritual herbs, but are extremely interested in talismans and magical Law Artifact."

"Recently, talismans and magical Law Artifact have been selling quite well in the market."

"That's rather unusual."

After chatting with Chen Yi for a while, Song Wen took his leave and headed towards his cave abode.