Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 134 Foundation Building 【Subscription】

During the days when Zhou Daoyi was not in Lanzhou, many things happened in Lanzhou.

When he heard the news that the Mu family had been destroyed, he, who was in Yunzhou, was also shocked.

If he hadn't considered that the Zhou family still had Zhou Mingde as the mainstay, he might have had someone replace him back then.

And the fierce battles he participated in and witnessed in Yunzhou also gave him a great sense of crisis about the current situation.

He knew in his heart that the Zhou family had to erupt in overall strength in order to stabilize themselves and seek development in this complicated situation.

So after returning with Foundation Establishment Pill this time, the first thing he did was to ask Zhou Chun to start retreat and concentrate on improving his cultivation to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

Now that the Zhou family has two Foundation Establishment Pills, as long as Zhou Chun's luck is not extremely bad, success in Foundation Establishment is not a problem.

If one is lucky and succeeds with only one Foundation Establishment Pill, the extra Foundation Establishment Pill will have another chance to create another Foundation Establishment monk for the Zhou family!

And although Zhou Chun didn't understand why Zhou Daoyi was so eager to let him build the foundation, since it was the patriarch's order and it was beneficial and harmless to him, he naturally would not object.

So after explaining the family affairs to Zhou Daoyi, he returned to his residence and concentrated on cultivating.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhou Chun to devote all his time to cultivation in a day, and cultivation only takes up part of the time.

For the rest of the time, he was thinking about how to go after the foundation was established.

When Zhou Daoyi asked him to retreat and build the foundation, he took advantage of the opportunity and asked him to bring a "Detailed Explanation of Foundation Establishment" from the library, which was specially compiled by the senior monks of the Zhou family for the younger generation's new foundation-builder monks.

The book lists in detail the path development of monks after establishing a foundation, including the choice of exercises, elective skills, secret techniques that focus on cultivation, methods and directions for self-improvement, and so on.

I dare not say that this "Detailed Explanation of Foundation Establishment" has written all the circumstances of the monks who established the foundation, but it will definitely let the monks who read this book avoid many detours and wrong paths, and have more opportunities to attack the Purple Mansion.

Therefore, although this book is not a secret skill, it is not something that monks below the foundation of the Zhou family can read.

Originally, Zhou Chun should have waited for the success of foundation building before he could read this book.

But the patriarch Zhou Daoyi believed that he could succeed in building the foundation, so he let him see it in advance, so that he could make a choice quickly after the success of foundation building.

To be honest, after reading this book, Zhou Chun's eyes were really broadened, and he gained a lot of useful knowledge.

But soon he also faced a difficult choice.

Because there are indeed many trade-offs to be made!
In many places, once a trade-off has been made, there is basically only one way to go. If you want to change it, it will be very difficult.

This makes it easy for Zhou Chun to stare at the sky in a daze when he is free for the next few days.

And besides the various choices he needs to make after building his foundation, Zhou Chun has one more thing to worry about, and that is the promotion of the Rock Earth Turtle and the Silver Lightning Thunder Python to the second level.

Among them, the Silver Lightning Thunder Python is an intermediate-level monster, and there is no bottleneck in advancing to the second level.

However, if it is allowed to grow normally, the time span from a first-level high-grade monster to a second-level monster will be very long.

If he wanted to be promoted to a second-tier monster quickly, he had to prepare some precious pills and spiritual objects that could speed up his growth.

The rock and soil turtle is just a low-level monster. Although it once used a piece of "Tianhuangshi" to purify its blood, it still needs the help of some special spiritual objects to sublimate its blood and evolve into a mid-level monster.

Those special spiritual objects are often not cheap, and they are extremely difficult to find.

Regardless of Zhou Chun's current wealth, if he wants to support these two spiritual pets to advance to the second level, he may have to lose most of his wealth.

This is because after he succeeds in building the foundation, he doesn't need to spend money to buy exercises and magic tools for himself.

Otherwise, if he is just a casual cultivator, even if he has accumulated tens of thousands of net worth before the foundation establishment, he will spend it all soon after the foundation establishment is successful.

Earn more and spend more, this is a very normal phenomenon after foundation establishment.

"So it's still a word for money!"

"If I succeed in building the foundation, I will be ten times more profitable than monks of the same level, and I will have a lot more choices, so I don't have to worry about which one to choose!"

"If I can earn money dozens of times better than monks of the same level, then even if I say arrogantly that I want it all, I still have enough confidence to support it!"

In the yard, Zhou Chun looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.

He has seen the appearance and realized the truth.

Money is definitely not everything in the world of cultivating immortals.

Even rich people cannot let cultivators do whatever they want.

But for monks below the golden core stage, the spirit coins that they don't have to worry about can still solve most of the problems and troubles they encounter.

Whether it's magic tools, pills, talismans, exercises, or secret techniques, all these things can be bought with spirit coins.

A high-ranking monk once said that even a pig, as long as it is willing to cultivate it regardless of the cost of spiritual coins, it can be cultivated into a third-level monster!
This is somewhat exaggerated.

But it also tells most of the truth.

But wanting to be rich is easier said than done!
As Zhou Chun himself said, a person whose ability to earn money is ten times stronger than a monk of the same rank is so rare in the world of cultivating immortals!

I'm afraid it's only possible to find one person out of 1000 people, it can be said to be one in a thousand!

And the person who is dozens of times stronger, I'm afraid you have to choose one in a million!

Because of the great demand for money, monks will start to try to practice one or two skills of immortal cultivation after they build their foundations, in order to earn some extra money.

After all, raw materials are worthless, and low-level materials are not difficult to obtain for foundation-building monks.

If it can be produced and sold by itself, it is also good.

However, the skill of cultivating immortals also requires talent and understanding, and it will take up a lot of time and energy of cultivators, so not everyone can learn to do it well.

However, if one is really talented and can practice any of the four skills of alchemy and talisman array to a high level, then the earning power can indeed be ten times that of ordinary monks of the same rank.

For example, in a cultivating family like the Li family of elixir, the amount of spiritual coins earned by a master of alchemy for the family in a year can reach half of the income of the entire family!
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a humanoid money-making machine.

"I have a purification stone pot. After I succeed in building the foundation, I have mastered the method of purifying the turbid and evil spirit in spiritual objects. I can use it as a cover-up and try to sell the purified elixir in large quantities to earn the difference!"

"And with this treasure in hand, as long as my strength allows, I can also go to foreign countries alone to hunt monsters and collect medicine in the unmanned wilderness, and stay in the wilderness for a long time without worrying about battery life."

"And because it is much easier to purify the turbid evil spirit than others, I can obtain more training materials at the lowest cost even if I practice immortal cultivation skills such as alchemy and talisman formations."

"I still have the support of my family. As long as I am in a high position in the family, when the time comes, I can use the family savings to help me buy some important things!"

Zhou Chun was thinking about his way of making money, and felt that he still had a great advantage compared to other immortal cultivators.

In this case, it is not impossible to relax the choice.

After all, there is always a dream!

Thinking of this, he held the "Detailed Explanation of Foundation Establishment" and started studying again.

Five months later, with the help of Jinya Pill, Zhou Chun finally opened the last three acupoints one after another in one breath, and opened all [-] acupoints in his body.

At this time, his mana cultivation had reached the limit that a monk in the Qi refining stage could achieve, and he could no longer make an inch of progress.

If you think about making progress in mana cultivation, you can only succeed in building a foundation.

And just after he completed his meritorious deeds, he went to meet the patriarch Zhou Daoyi.

Zhou Daoyi just asked him a few words, then took out two pill bottles containing the foundation building pills and handed them to him on the spot: "These two foundation building pills are given to you first, you can go to the foundation building retreat with peace of mind, don't Have any worries!"

"Yes, this junior will definitely live up to the patriarch's high expectations!"

Zhou Chun took a deep breath, took the two Foundation Establishment Pills and put them into the storage bag without hesitation, with a very solemn tone.

Then, while being sent off by Zhou Daoyi himself, he entered the secret room on the top of the pagoda peak that was specially used for foundation building by the clansmen.

The secret room used for foundation building is in an excellent location, just on the main vein of Jiufengling's spiritual vein, and the spiritual energy is very strong.

Moreover, this place is very quiet, and a separate isolation formation is arranged outside the secret room.

After entering the secret room, as long as the formation is activated, there will be people fighting outside, and no sound can be heard inside.

After Zhou Chun entered the secret room, he closed the thick stone door and locked it from the inside.

Then he took out a piece of "sunstone" and placed it on the indoor lamp stand, illuminating the stone room of about [-] to [-] square meters.

There is a desk and bookshelf in the stone room, on which are some foundation building experience left by the predecessors.

There is another sheet of cold jade.

Cold jade is a kind of spiritual jade. If it is made into a jade bed, monks can sit cross-legged on it, which will have the effect of concentrating and meditating.

For the first half month in the secret room, Zhou Chun just meditated daily to sort out his mana and energy mechanism, and read those predecessors' foundation building experience.

When he was hungry, he took a bigu pill, when he was thirsty, he cast a spell to gather clear water, and when he was sleepy, he went to the cold jade cave.

Half a month later, he consciously adjusted to the best state.

So he sat cross-legged on the top of Han Yutao, took out a foundation building pill, put it in his mouth, and slowly melted it with the body fluid in his mouth.

The matter of building a foundation may sound abstruse, but it is actually like that.

Apart from some unexpected factors, there are three main factors that hinder the success of a monk's foundation building, namely, spiritual root qualification, monk's will, and physical state.

The better the monk's spiritual root aptitude, the easier it is to succeed in building a foundation.

If you have a high-grade spiritual root qualification, if you take a foundation establishment pill, the success rate of foundation establishment will be directly above [-]% to [-]%.

On the other hand, considering the qualifications of the Zhongpin Spiritual Root, the success rate of foundation establishment by taking the Foundation Establishment Pill is only between [-]% and [-]%, and it is difficult to exceed [-]%.

As for low-grade spiritual root qualifications, the success rate will be even lower.

The reason is not complicated.

Because the better the monk's spiritual root aptitude, the less "impurities" in his body, and one of the great uses of the Foundation Establishment Pill is to help monks get rid of "impurities".

It is said that on top of the top-grade spiritual root, there is also a "Heavenly Spiritual Root" qualification. A monk with that kind of qualification can easily succeed in building a foundation without even needing a foundation building pill!
But such a cultivator with a spiritual root, even the sect of Qinglian Temple, is rare to come out once in a hundred years.

The Zhou family has been passed down for more than 700 years, and there has never been a monk with this kind of spiritual root, which shows how rare it is!

Compared with the importance of spiritual root aptitude, the monk's will has less influence on the success of foundation building.

Once the twelfth-level monks in the Qi refining period start to attack the foundation building, many illusions will appear in their minds to confuse the monks' consciousness. If the monks cannot break through these illusions and let their consciousness escape, they will eventually exhaust their energy and sit in the boundless illusions. change.

The stronger the mind and will, the faster the illusion will be explored, and the illusion will not consume too much energy and waste the power of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

As for the state of the physical body, as long as the monks are not in their seventies or eighties, their physical blood energy begins to decline, their meridians begin to shrink, or they have suffered some internal injuries that are difficult to heal, in fact, it will not affect them much.

Zhou Chun's spiritual root aptitude is average, not very good, but not bad either.

After taking Zhuji Pill, he felt the effects of the medicine on his body not long after.

A tingling feeling seemed to come from his bones, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

This situation has long been recorded in the foundation building experience of the seniors, so he didn't panic at all, but just performed the exercises silently, absorbing the cool and cold air from the cold jade tower below him.

With the help of the cool and cold air, the itchy feeling was suppressed to a more bearable intensity.

At this time, Zhou Chun had already stripped off all his clothes, and a kind of off-white substance could be faintly seen overflowing from the skin surface.

This thing is the "impurity" in the monk's body, something that hinders the monk's longevity and detachment.

The classics didn't describe this thing too much, only saying that it was a kind of filthy impurity that the human body was born with.

This process of getting rid of "impurities" was very slow, and it took seven days and seven nights before Zhou Chun's body did not overflow with that kind of impurities.

This is not to say that the impurities in his body have been completely removed, but that the medicinal power of Zhuji Dan can only be removed so far.

Generally speaking, when the medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill no longer removes impurities in the cultivator's body, it also means that the cultivator can establish the foundation.

So Zhou Chun quickly calmed down and entered the next stage.

This is the stage of real foundation building.

boom!
As if he had touched some kind of taboo, Zhou Chun's mind went dark, and when he woke up again, he found that his whole body was tied to a pillar, and another "self" was holding a barbed iron whip and staring at him coldly. look at yourself.

"Outsider, you can't imagine that after more than ten years of walking in the world of cultivating immortals with my identity, you will fall into my hands again today!"

"How do you say I should concoct you so as to eliminate the hatred in my heart?"

A voice full of hatred came from the mouth of that "self", and the iron whip in his hand hit Zhou Chun hard.

what! !

The severe pain made Zhou Chun couldn't help screaming out, feeling that he had never endured such severe pain.

"Is it painful? Pain is right! Feel this pain well! Hahahaha..."

Crazy laughter and Zhou Chun's painful screams resounded together.

Under the extreme pain, Zhou Chun felt that his consciousness was about to be torn apart.

He was also very panicked in his heart, he didn't understand how the "self" who was beating him had come back to life again.

"Could it be that his remnant soul has not dissipated, but has been hiding in the sea of ​​consciousness?"

Zhou Chun thought in horror, and then he was whipped severely, causing him to scream again in pain.

And as soon as this idea came up, he couldn't help thinking about it, and then he thought about it carefully, and the fear in his heart became deeper and deeper.

At the same time, the pain caused by the iron whip became more and more intense, and even made it difficult for Zhou Chun to think about anything.

"Wait, can you stop and listen to me?"

He struggled and shouted loudly, hoping to stop the other party.

But what greeted him was a rapidly enlarged iron whip, hitting him straight in the face.

No need for any explanation, as if he just wanted to vent the hatred in his heart, no matter how much Zhou Chun yelled, the iron whip on him never stopped.

It took him an unknown amount of time before he realized something was wrong.

How come I have been beaten for so long, but I just feel pain and weakness all the time, and there is no obvious damage to my soul?

"I understand! You are not an undestroyed remnant soul at all, but just vain thoughts!"

A shout full of surprises came out of Zhou Chun's mouth, and then he ignored the iron whip that was being whipped, and no longer felt any panic or fear, and just faced the iron whip like this.

Suddenly, like a breeze, the iron whip and the darkness in front of him quickly dissipated, and Zhou Chun's consciousness returned to the closed room.

"Oops! The Foundation Establishment Pill has lost a lot of power!"

When Zhou Chun regained consciousness, he looked inside himself, his mood sank, and he felt something was wrong.

Originally for him to get rid of the "impurities" in his body, the medicinal power of Zhuji Dan wasted a lot.

And he didn't know how long he was trapped in that illusion, and the mental deficit he had been consuming all the time was made up by the power of the foundation pill.

Now the remaining medicinal power is running out.

But even so, Zhou Chun could only grit his teeth and continue.

I saw that his spiritual sense controlled wisps of misty mana to flow into the Qihai acupoint of Dantian, forcing them to fuse into a larger wisp of mana, and then trying to make it form a cyclone.

But even after taking the "Soul Heart Fruit", his spiritual consciousness is much stronger than that of ordinary twelfth-floor monks in the Qi refining stage, it is not easy to accomplish this.

And every time the cyclone fails to form, the force of the forcibly fused mana collides and collides in the Qihai acupoint, which will have a considerable impact on the acupoints.

It was only because the medicinal power of Zhuji Dan could form a protective film on the acupuncture points that he could keep trying.

In this way, Zhou Chunchun formed a cyclone, and after the rotating cyclone attracted the mana in the meridians and other acupoints in the body, the cyclone also turned bigger and bigger.

At this time, a very miraculous scene appeared.

The sea of ​​qi hole that seemed to be small in the induction, with the rotation of the qi, the space inside gradually became wider, as if something had been blown away.

almost!

After Zhou Chun sensed this scene, he realized that it was time to take the last step, and it was also the most dangerous step!

I saw that his spiritual consciousness was concentrated in the cyclone in Qihai Cave, suddenly condensed into an invisible pillar, stirring in the opposite direction, trying to push the cyclone to reverse.

As a result, the cyclone quickly swayed violently under his agitation, showing signs of instability, which frightened him to slow down the agitation hastily.

Then after the cyclone stabilized, he continued to stir in reverse.

But after trying this a dozen times, because of one of his mistakes, the cyclone suddenly exploded and dispersed, turning into countless mist and rushing in all directions.

Suddenly, a sharp pain erupted from Zhou Chun's abdomen, which made him almost faint on the spot.

After the pain had passed, he realized to his dismay that his first foundation building had completely failed!

Because the protective film formed by the foundation-building pill in his body had been completely shattered in the impact of the mana rampage just now.

It's also fortunate to have that layer of protective film to protect him, otherwise he would probably be shattered by the sea of ​​Qi now, and his cultivation base would be useless!
(End of this chapter)