Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 113: I have reached Foundation Building, in good condition!

In the cave, Su Ping silently operated his cultivation technique, free from distractions.

Gradually, he felt his entire body's spiritual energy becoming viscous, and every inch of his skin and every bone seemed to undergo a mysterious transformation along with the changes in spiritual energy.

At the beginning of this liquefaction process, Su Ping felt a bit uncomfortable, but gradually, he experienced a sense of pleasure akin to being reborn.

He even wished that this process could continue indefinitely...

He didn't know how many days had passed.

Suddenly, Su Ping felt that the liquefaction process had already ended. His entire body's spiritual energy had turned into approximately 120 drops of spiritual liquid, flowing slowly within his body, strengthening him.

His body and even his soul felt an unprecedented sense of comfort.

Buzz!

Su Ping released his divine sense.

In an instant, he swept through the surroundings of the cave.

"I can clearly perceive a distance of 350 meters!"

"Foundation Building success, my foundation has increased by more than double!"

"Finally... Foundation Building is a success!"

Su Ping retracted his divine sense and exhaled a breath of white air.

Then, he sat cross-legged and floated off the ground.

Being able to fly off the ground was a great benefit after Foundation Building.

In the future, he would no longer need the assistance of formations or special effects to perform aerial flight.

After familiarizing himself with his current state, Su Ping didn't rush to leave the cave. Instead, he returned to the Pot World for a short rest, then transformed back into the appearance of the White Crane Boy before returning to the cave.

Outside Su Ping's cave in the Yunshan Market.

In the past few days, people came to check on the situation from time to time. When they discovered that the aura inside the cave was weakening, they shook their heads, thinking that Su Ping's Foundation Building had probably failed.

But they didn't expect that the aura in the cave suddenly became dense again these past two days.

Even the Foundation Building officials in the Yunshan Market were alarmed and came to take a look, giving a high possibility of success.

This made the representatives of various cultivation families excited.

Su Ping opened the restriction, transformed into the appearance of the White Crane Boy, and opened the door of the cave. When he slowly walked out, he immediately saw representatives from various families waiting in line outside the cave.

Su Ping wasn't surprised by this.

He chose to complete his Foundation Building in the Yunshan Market to let everyone know that the Foundation Building that appeared near the Golden Sparrow City was not some foreign Foundation Building with a big background and a hidden conspiracy.

Instead, it was just an ordinary person who came to the market, took a chance, and luckily advanced from Qi Refining to Foundation Building!

Compared to the former, the latter undoubtedly made most forces feel more at ease and less likely to cause trouble.

In the current environment, this kind of Foundation Building was afraid of being involved in conspiracies. Therefore, Su Ping chose not to be a follower but to act alone. He took over a first-grade inferior spiritual vein market, which was completely reasonable, right?

Su Ping had already decided on the market he planned to take over in front of the Foundation Building, which was the Nine Leaf Mountain Market.

With this, there would be no corner of the Golden Sparrow City that Su Ping couldn't reach, and it would be easier to maintain the safety of the Lin Yue Lake.

There was no choice. The fact that the Nine Leaf Mountain Market was besieged by a group of foreign cultivators without Foundation Building last time made Su Ping realize that without the presence of Foundation Building to maintain order, the boundaries in this increasingly unstable cultivation world were becoming more and more unsafe!

In order to prevent another siege of the Nine Leaf Mountain Market, which could potentially involve the Golden Sparrow City and accidentally destroy the Lin Yue Lake, Su Ping made a decision. He, as a Foundation Building cultivator, Baihe Zhenren, would take charge of the only spiritual vein in the Golden Sparrow City that could cause trouble.

If everything went smoothly, he could also sell the specialty products from the Water Blue Star and have a stable income of spiritual stones to support his family.

At the same time, some things that were temporarily not needed could perhaps qualify for an auction to sell to cultivators in need?

Su Ping released his divine sense, directly suppressing the cultivators in front of him.

The suppressed cultivators' eyes immediately focused, without any doubt.

"Congratulations, fellow cultivator, on your successful Foundation Building!"

Immediately, someone spoke up to congratulate him and presented a gift.

Su Ping quickly smiled and thanked them with a cupped hand gesture, but he temporarily did not accept the gifts, instead expressing his attitude directly.

He was already the only living successor of the Immortal Crane Reflecting the Moon and Listening to the Wind technique, and in order to keep this lineage unbroken, he would not participate in any forces for at least the first twenty years of Foundation Building. Instead, he would find a small spiritual vein as a place for inheritance.

After the inheritance was stable, he would consider the next steps.

Upon hearing this, the cultivators around him had different reactions, some admiring, some skeptical, and some thinking it must be a lie.

However, they all had expressions of righteousness on their faces!

After declining their invitations, Su Ping accepted the invitation letter from the Yunshan Market's resident steward.

This was an invitation from the Foundation Building, and as a newly promoted Foundation Building cultivator, Su Ping couldn't refuse.

At the same time, Su Ping was actually curious about other Foundation Buildings, so he followed the steward who delivered the letter to the mountain-top courtyard.

After the battle, the mountain-top courtyard had been repaired, and many places were obviously newly built.

The inner courtyard was set up with a gathering Qi formation. As soon as Su Ping stepped into the inner courtyard, he immediately felt that the density of spiritual energy had increased.

Comparing it, Su Ping found that the environment of the steward's residence in the Yunshan Market was only slightly worse than his own Pot-in-a-Pot Heaven.

Looking around, he discovered that the inner courtyard was cultivating spiritual herbs and medicines, and there was a pond with more than ten spiritual fish.

Not bad, it really was just a slightly worse place than his Pot-in-a-Pot Heaven!

Su Ping soon met the steward of this market, an elderly Foundation Building cultivator who called himself Mu Zhenren.

Mu Zhenren appeared kind and friendly, showing considerable support for Su Ping as a new Foundation Building cultivator.

Not only did he explain some of the doubts that Su Ping had just had after Foundation Building, but he also gave him spiritual tea and expressed his support for Su Ping's choice.

In the words of Mu Zhenren, it was important not to have any regrets after Foundation Building. If there had been a formal commitment before, one should try their best to fulfill it. Only by having a complete state of mind could one advance in cultivation and touch the realm of the Gold Core.

Then, Mu Zhenren and Su Ping exchanged for more than three hours before finally letting Su Ping go and personally seeing him off.

He watched as Su Ping, in the form of the White Crane Boy, flew away into the sky.

A Foundation Building female cultivator wearing a red mask appeared behind Mu Zhenren.

"Senior Mu, this person has been keeping his divine sense on the surface. I didn't dare to directly investigate for fear of being discovered, but I can sense that this new fellow cultivator has a strong divine sense."

"Just at the Foundation Building stage, and already possessing such a strong divine sense. This Baihe Daoist friend must have exceptional aptitude."

Mu Zhenren nodded slightly in agreement with the Foundation Building female cultivator's judgment.

"I talked to him about the surrounding environment and probed a bit. He really doesn't know much. It seems he hasn't had any dealings with cultivators at the Foundation Building stage like us."

"What a pity. With his aptitude, if he had joined our Qixin Sect from the beginning, he could have reached the Foundation Building stage at least ten years earlier!"

"Perhaps he has a chance to reach the Gold Core stage."

Mu Zhenren clearly misjudged Su Ping's true aptitude. However, aside from regretting the loss of talent, he didn't have any other thoughts.

He sought out Su Ping for two reasons. On one hand, he wanted to establish a relationship with a Foundation Building cultivator, perhaps even becoming colleagues in the future. On the other hand, he wanted to test the waters for the sect and see if Su Ping was a spy from another major sect.

Based on the current situation, it seemed that he had overthought things.

What spy would risk everything and come to a resource-poor realm like this as a Foundation Building cultivator?

And after finally achieving the Foundation Building stage, why would he only seek out a small spiritual vein and settle for a meager inheritance?

Most importantly, if there really were such an exceptional spy, why would they come to this barren realm?

If Su Ping knew what Mu Zhenren was thinking, he would definitely find it amusing. Because his fishing spot was in this realm, and compared to the fishing spot, what were the second and third-tier spiritual veins?

Su Ping left Yunshan Market, returned to his hidden realm to recover, and waited for news to spread.

The next day, Su Ping transformed back into the Baihe Daoist, who was already a Foundation Building cultivator, and flew towards Jiuye Mountain Market.

Jiuye Mountain Market had just experienced an attack, and even though the attack had been repelled, the market was still in a sorry state. It had lost much of its popularity.

After calculating the accounts, the female cultivator from the inner sect looked at the empty warehouse and couldn't help but feel despondent.

"Sigh, it was my greed that led to this. I thought it was just a small market with a low-grade spiritual vein, and as an inner sect disciple, I thought I could control it."

"But I didn't expect that the sect would undergo such a big change, and my identity as an inner sect disciple is no longer recognized by anyone."

The female cultivator from the inner sect and a few trusted subordinates sighed in disappointment.

Suddenly, they sensed fluctuations in the formation.

They quickly rushed out of the room and saw the Baihe Daoist flying in the sky above the mountain peak.

"A Foundation Building cultivator!"

"Could it be an elder from the cultivator alliance seeking revenge?"

"They don't dare to confront that powerful person, so they're planning to bully us to save face?"

"No, this person's appearance seems to match the description of the newly promoted Foundation Building cultivator in the recent news from Yunshan Market!"

Seeing Su Ping flying in the air without using any magical tools, even though they couldn't sense his Foundation Building aura, the female cultivator from the inner sect and her subordinates' faces turned pale, feeling a sense of unease.

They didn't have many spirit stones left for the formation, and a Foundation Building cultivator probably had means to break through it.

"May the owner of this place please come out for a meeting."

Su Ping clasped his hands in a gesture of respect, without the usual arrogance that Foundation Building cultivators had towards Qi Refining cultivators.

This also made the female cultivator from the inner sect feel that the situation might not be as bad as she had imagined.

The female cultivator from the inner sect came forward, completely unaware that the Foundation Building cultivator she couldn't even look directly at was the same person she had recently traded with, obtaining the incomplete North Dipper Greedy Wolf manual from him.

An hour later, the female cultivator from the inner sect and her trusted subordinates left Jiuye Mountain Market.

Through friendly negotiations between the two sides, Su Ping exchanged five hundred spirit stones and a bottle of Qi Refining stage pills provided by Xuanwu cultivators for the land deed of Jiuye Mountain Market.

This price... was naturally a friendly one.

It could be considered that the female cultivator from the inner sect had recognized the reality, admitted her investment failure, and chose a price that would allow her to recover some losses.

"From today onwards, you all will be my followers as the Baihe Daoist."

"I believe you all understand the situation. For now, everything will remain as it was."

Su Ping took over Jiuye Mountain Market and looked at the managers and servants. Without any intention of dealing with miscellaneous matters, he chose to delegate authority first.

Then he would decide who would stay and who would leave based on the results.

In the cultivation world, power belonged to the individual, and there were no family ties to bind him.

He wasn't afraid of being overthrown.

Any small actions from those below him could be easily quelled.

In less than a day, news of the newly promoted Foundation Building cultivator, the Baihe Daoist, obtaining the information about Jiuye Mountain Market through an agreement with the original market owner spread to several nearby cities and realms.

The noble families who had planned to flee Jiuye Mountain were now returning.

After confirming that the instructions from this Foundation Building cultivator were to maintain the status quo, they became excited.

For mortal families who only sought peace, the presence or absence of a Foundation Building cultivator guarding the spiritual veins made a huge difference.

Many wealthy families quickly sent people back to prepare to move more of their clan members.

There were also wandering cultivators who returned to Jiuye Mountain Market, requesting to cultivate the spiritual fields or set up stalls in the market.

All because of the reputation of the Baihe Daoist, a Foundation Building cultivator.

In just a few days, the popularity of Jiuye Mountain had not only recovered but even showed signs of surpassing its previous peak.

(End of this chapter)