Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 43 The second level of Qi refining
Ji Chang took a deep breath, calmed his inner restlessness, and began to prepare to refine the Bigu Pill.

He first took out a few portions of spiritual rice, and then carefully placed them into the alchemy furnace.

Spiritual rice contains rich spiritual energy and is the daily food consumed by monks.

The most common spiritual rice on the market can only be regarded as a basic spiritual item and cannot be ranked high.

It is equivalent to the iron concentrate obtained by refining iron ore in large quantities.

However, spiritual rice can be used as the main medicine to refine the Bigu Pill.

After putting in the spiritual rice, Ji Chang began to mobilize his magic power, and a flame appeared under the furnace.

He carefully controlled the size and temperature of the flame, and placed other auxiliary medicines into the furnace one by one according to proportion and order.

As time went by, the medicinal materials in the furnace gradually melted into liquid, and then slowly solidified into the shape of a pill.

Finally, after two hours of refining, a batch of Bigu Pills was finally successfully refined.

Ji Chang carefully opened the lid of the alchemy furnace, and immediately a fresh fragrance wafted into his nose.

He looked at the dozen or so Qigong pills emitting a faint luster in the alchemy furnace, and couldn't help feeling happy.

The fasting pills on the market are just basic pills, which are mainly used to replenish the physical strength of the Qi-refining cultivators who are unable to fast during their retreat.

The main ingredients of the Bigu Pill are usually spiritual rice or the flesh and blood of monsters. Both of these materials contain rich spiritual energy and can also meet the needs of cultivators in their practice.

However, compared with other elixirs that are specifically used to improve cultivation, the effect of the Bigu Pill is a bit too weak. It is only slightly better than directly taking ordinary spiritual rice.

However, there are also fasting pills that are made using the flesh and blood of high-level monsters and high-level spiritual rice.

That kind of fasting pill is naturally very effective in improving one's cultivation, but it is not generally called fasting pill.

In any case, after refining such a batch of fasting pills, at the rate of consuming one pill a day, it could at least meet Ji Chang's consumption for half a month.

The time saved can be used for cultivation.

Thinking of this, Ji Changwei closed his eyes, focused his mind, and carefully sensed the subtle changes in the magic power in his body.

"It will take another year to break through to the third level of Qi Refining."

Ji Chang opened his eyes and his heart moved slightly.

Ji Chang possesses superior spiritual roots, so his cultivation speed is naturally quite fast.

Although his cultivation resources were not abundant, he still successfully broke through to the second level of Qi Refining in less than half a year.

It seems that even when Ji Chang first started practicing, he was already in his twenties.

It is not that difficult to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining before the age of sixty.

In this way, Ji Chang has great hope of breaking through the foundation.

In this world, cultivators do not necessarily have to take foundation-building pills to break through to the foundation-building stage.

As long as one can successfully pass the three levels of Qi and blood, spiritual consciousness, and magic power, and successfully liquefy the magic power, one can successfully build the foundation.

The Qi and Blood barrier is the easiest of the three foundation-building barriers. Generally speaking, for cultivators who have cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining before the age of sixty, their Qi and blood will not decline.

As long as you are not born weak, seriously injured, or have not suffered from excessive indulgence that causes deficiency of Qi and blood, getting through the Qi and blood barrier will naturally not be a problem.

The spiritual consciousness barrier requires the cultivator's soul strength to reach a certain level, and to successfully condense the spiritual consciousness when building the foundation.

Ji Chang practiced the "Snake Taming Art" passed down from the Cangling Chen family. Although it was a method of taming beasts, it was considered a soul-training method that had the effect of tempering the soul.

As long as one can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining, passing the spiritual consciousness barrier will naturally not be a problem.

As for the final mana level, it requires the cultivator to have sufficient mana, to have reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, and then be in an environment with abundant spiritual energy to meet the conditions for mana liquefaction. Generally, in a second-level spiritual vein, or in a first-level top-level spiritual vein environment with amplification by a spirit gathering array, one can try to liquefy mana.

Of course, if one cannot successfully break through the three foundation-building stages with one's own strength, then one will need external help.

In the world of immortal cultivation, there are many foundation-building elixirs and foundation-building pills that are effective in breaking through the foundation-building period.

Most of them only target one of the three stages of foundation building.

However, there are also elixirs like the Foundation Establishment Pill, which can not only enhance qi, blood, and soul at the same time, but also have extremely powerful medicinal properties. Even if the surrounding spiritual energy is not so abundant, it can still meet the conditions for mana liquefaction.

Therefore, for Qi-refining cultivators who are over a hundred years old and attempt to break through the foundation-building stage before the end of their life, the foundation-building pill is their life-saving medicine.

It’s a pity that the three main ingredients for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, although of low quality and only first-grade spiritual medicines, take hundreds of years to mature.

Therefore, the number of Foundation Establishment Pills is extremely scarce.

However, as long as nothing unexpected happens, with Ji Chang's cultivation speed, there is no need to seek the Foundation Establishment Pill to break through the Foundation Establishment.

But this does not mean that Ji Chang will definitely be able to break through the foundation.

Because after breaking through the three levels, a special foundation-building method is required to liquefy the mana.

This kind of method is only found in the exercises of the foundation-building period.

In Jiaozhou, although the price of practicing martial arts is not expensive, all the martial arts that can be bought are those for the Qi Refining Stage.

Among the nine immortal cultivation families in Jiaozhou, Ji Chang could only be sure that the Wang family of Jiaozhou, a foundation-building family, possessed the foundation-building techniques.

If one wants to break through the foundation-building stage, one has to spy on the Wang family cultivators' foundation-building techniques and change their practice techniques.

However, foundation-building techniques are usually stored in jade slips, which require spiritual consciousness to read. Simply peeking at them basically has no effect.

If one wants to obtain the Wang family's foundation-building technique, one must take action against the Wang family's Qi-refining cultivators.

This kind of thing requires long-term planning and is not something I can plan for at the second level of Qi Refining.

Moreover, the "Snake Taming Art" that Ji Chang is practicing now can condense his soul, so there is no need for him to switch to practicing other techniques now.

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Six days later, Ji Chang received his monthly salary and headed towards the inner city area of ​​Cangyufang City.

Excluding the expenses for daily practice and the cost of purchasing the alchemy furnace.

The salary was more than seventy spirit stones, and now Ji Chang only had more than thirty spirit stones left.

Although this amount of spirit stones is not much, it is enough to buy a snake egg.

The martial art that Ji Chang practiced was the "Snake Taming Art", a beast-taming technique. If he didn't have a spirit snake in his hand, most of his power couldn't be unleashed, which would be a shame.

Since the Cangyu Market was established by the Cangling Chen family and the Yulin Qian family, there is naturally a spirit beast shop opened by the Chen family in the inner city area.

The most numerous of them are various kinds of spirit snakes.

Among them, the cheaper spirit snakes can be bought for thirty spirit stones.

If you buy snake eggs and raise them from scratch, the price can be much lower.

Ji Chang planned to stay in Cangyufang City for a few years and had no need to fight with others in the short term.

So, the natural choice was to buy a snake egg.

(End of this chapter)