Cultivation begins with the Shen family

Chapter 15 The Patriarch's Hesitation

"Grandfather, look at this thing again."

While speaking, Shen Zhirui took out the Lingling Jade Box from his bosom, and carefully handed it to Shen Xiangchi, with a meaningful smile on his face.

After seeing the smile on his face, Shen Xiangchi couldn't help being a little curious, and immediately opened the Lingling Jade Box.

And the moment the jade box was opened, a stream of pure earth attribute spiritual power immediately overflowed from the box and permeated the room.

At this moment, looking at the small handful of brown soil in the box, Shen Xiangchi, who has always been calm, couldn't help becoming excited, and his piercing eyes also showed an expression of disbelief.

After a brief shock, he quickly sealed the jade box again, and the hotness in his eyes gradually dissipated.

"Grandfather, can this spiritual soil be considered a spiritual object?"

Shen Zhirui leaned forward and asked curiously.

Facing the questioning, Shen Xiangchi couldn't help pondering, and after a long time, he slowly opened his mouth and said:

"It should be regarded as a second-order spiritual object."

In fact, even he wasn't sure in his heart, although he had more experience and experiences than Shen Zhirui, but after all, he was just a Qi training cultivator, and he couldn't get in touch with higher level things through what he saw and heard.

However, Shen Zhirui obviously didn't realize this, when he heard that these spiritual soils were most likely to be second-order spiritual objects, he was no longer calm.

"So, grandpa, can't you use this spiritual soil as a medium to plant immortal roots and Dao seeds, so that you can get a glimpse of the foundation building?"

After hearing his words, Shen Xiangchi shook his head and smiled wryly, then sighed heavily.

"How can the foundation building period be broken through so easily?"

This sigh contained the endless hardship and pain in his heart.
If Shen Zhirui is still young and doesn't know the difficulty of building a foundation, then Shen Xiangchi, who has been in the Qi training Dzogchen realm for more than ten years, is very clear about the difficulty.

You must know that in the entire Shayu County and several surrounding counties, within a radius of ten thousand li, there are only three foundation-building forces of the Xuanlingmen, the Kuangsha Sect, and the Liu Family.

These three foundation-building forces have their own foundation-building inheritance, so they can cultivate a foundation-building monk every few decades.

But for those qi training forces under them, firstly, there is no foundation-building period to inherit the exercises, and secondly, there are no foundation-building spirits that can lay the foundation. How easy is it to create a foundation-building road?

Generally speaking, if one wants to build a foundation, one must meet three rigid conditions. One of them is to achieve the state of great perfection in Qi training.

The second is that there is a foundation-building spiritual object that can help monks lay the foundation of the Dao, and the third is the foundation-building method that can help monks refine the foundation-building spiritual objects.

However, Shayu County and the surrounding counties are all located in the last branch of the [Tongtian River], close to the Jue Ling Sand Sea, which is basically the edge of the entire cultivation world.

Since the spiritual power contained in the river flowing here is very scarce, the spiritual energy here is also extremely thin, and the cultivation resources born on this land have also become extremely scarce.

And it is precisely because of the lack of resources and thin aura here that basically no foreign monks are willing to come, and they cannot bring in the cultivation resources from other places.

Therefore, for the qi-training families in Shayu County and the surrounding counties, it is basically impossible to obtain foundation-building exercises or spiritual objects for foundation-building here.

Moreover, even if a foundation-related object really appeared in this area for the first time, the Xuanlingmen, the Kuangsha faction, and the Liu family, the only three foundation-building forces in this area, would not allow others to obtain it. .

Even for some families or forces that tried to cultivate foundation-building monks, they would mercilessly suppress them, so as to maintain the dominance of the three forces.

It can be seen from this that it is as difficult as climbing the sky to achieve foundation building in this area!
However, for the Shen family, they are very lucky, and at this moment, they have unknowingly met all the foundation building conditions.

I'm afraid that everyone in Sha Yu County would never have imagined that the Shen family, which has never had a foundation-building monk, actually possessed a precious foundation-building exercise.

And this foundation building technique was naturally left by the ancestor who founded the family, and it was also the most precious treasure he left to the family.

Even most of the Shen clan, including Shen Zhirui, didn't know that there was a foundation-building technique hidden in their family, because only the patriarchs of the past generations were qualified to know this secret.

This is also why the previous patriarch asked Shen Xiangchi to take over as the patriarch, because he was the most promising monk in the family at that time, and his spiritual root aptitude was very consistent with that exercise.

In fact, the Shen clan has been striving for the goal of cultivating a foundation-building cultivator since the establishment of the clan.

But even if you already have a foundation-building stage cultivation method, how easy is it to train a foundation-building monk?

First of all, he needs to have a clansman with good qualifications who still has the root of the earth spirit, secondly, he needs to cultivate to the state of great perfection in Qi training before the decline of Qi and blood, and finally find a suitable foundation-building spiritual object.

Even after doing everything, the rest can only be left to fate.

Every link in the process requires great luck and resource support, and it cannot be done by a small family that has just established a family.

After more than 200 years of silent accumulation by the Shen family, it is only now that the three hard conditions have been met.

The patriarch Shen Xiangchi has been immersed in the state of Qi training for many years. What he has practiced since he was a child is the ancestral foundation-building technique. In addition to the earth-like spiritual objects obtained by Shen Zhirui, he has completed all the preparations for monks to build a foundation.

However, for Shen Xiangchi, the current family situation and external environmental factors are making him hesitate to take this crucial step.

Because once he starts to try to build a foundation, the consequences will be unpredictable, and he cannot guarantee that he will be successful.

After all, as we all know, the process of building a foundation is very dangerous, and for Qi training monks, it is often the end of a narrow escape.

Once a monk tried to build a foundation, he either succeeded in building a foundation, or he couldn't suppress the spiritual power during foundation building and exploded to death.

Unless there is a special life-saving elixir, the monk can still get a life by chance after failing to build the foundation.

Shen Xiangchi is naturally not afraid of death, but the current family situation does not allow him to take this risk immediately.

If he perishes during the foundation building process, there will only be one qi-training Dzogchen monk with a near lifespan left in the family.

In addition, the only two remaining elders of the ninth level of Qi training are also old, and the second elder, Shen Xianghuan, is not good at fighting, so he can't deter other forces who want to divide and eat Shen.

In other words, after his fall, there was no successor in the family who could stabilize the overall situation and stand up to other forces.

Therefore, when he has not cultivated the next successor, he dare not take the risk of attacking the Foundation Establishment Realm easily.

After all, if it succeeds, everyone will be happy. The Shen family can have the capital to compete with the other three foundation establishment forces, and the family's situation will also usher in a great improvement.

On the contrary, if it fails, the whole family will fall into turmoil, or even completely decline.

However, in addition to internal factors, there are also external factors to consider.

Judging from the current situation in Shayu County and the chain reaction of the three foundation-building forces including Xuanlingmen, Shen Xiangchi had a faint feeling that something big was about to happen.

If you want to allow the family to have the power to protect themselves in this great change, the only way to go is to build a foundation.

"Okay, you can't tell anyone about this spiritual thing. As for other things, you need to think about it in the long run."

Shen Xiangchi slowly put away the jade box, and warned solemnly.

On this side, although Shen Zhirui couldn't understand, he still hurriedly bowed his hands and said:
"Grandson understands!"

"Besides, Sha Yu County Magistrate will hold a concubine feast after ten days. At that time, most of the forces in the county will participate. Come with me."

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(End of this chapter)