The Mortal's Path to Immortality

After a long talk with Wu Qingxuan, it was already noon.

Cao Rui stood up and said goodbye. He summoned Hei Yu, stepped on Hei Yu's back, and left from the gate of the Spirit Beast Sect.

At dusk on the first day, Cao Rui finally arrived at Qingling Xiuxianfang.

After returning to Qingling Xiuxianfang, Cao Rui continued to retreat to refine pills and tools.

About ten days after this retreat, Cao Rui successfully delivered all the first batch of pre-sold Lingyin jade pendants.

The Lingyin Jade Pendant Store began to announce that the orders of the first batch of pre-sale customers would be delivered in order from now on.

Qinglingfang was suddenly filled with joy.

After forty days of retreat, Cao Rui's Bailu Dan and the first-level alchemy were successfully completed, consuming 200 copies of Bailu Dan spiritual medicine materials.

This time, Cao Rui's success rate in refining Bailu Dan was 50%, and the success rate of the pill reached about 7 pills. Two hundred sets of Bailu Dan spiritual medicine materials yielded a total of 700 Bailu Dan.

Together with the 370 Bailu Dan refined before, the total number of 1,070 Bailu Dan was enough for Cao Rui to use experience beads to advance to the first level of the foundation-building period.

Cao Rui did not hesitate, and stopped refining tools and pills, and rested for a day.

On this day, Cao Rui took out 800 Bailu Dan.

Cao Rui opened his mouth slightly, and under the control of the object control technique, the Bailu Dan was automatically swallowed into his mouth.

After the Bailu Dan was swallowed into the stomach, it immediately turned into a rich medicinal power to be supplied to the experience beads of [Shenyuan Jue] for absorption.

In Cao Rui's mind, the experience value of the [Shenyuan Jue] experience beads rose rapidly with the influx of medicinal power.

After Cao Rui swallowed about 805 Bailu Dan, the experience beads of [Shenyuan Jue] finally reached the maximum value.

The experience beads after reaching the maximum value emitted a rich purple light, flashing in Cao Rui's mind.

After a long period of crazy practice for eleven hours every day, Cao Rui finally ushered in this moment.

"Experience beads, give me a breakthrough!"

Buzz!

The experience beads trembled slightly, and the purple experience beads in the experience beads instantly turned into a purple torrent that surged into Cao Rui's consciousness and body.

The most obvious thing was Cao Rui's consciousness. A constant purple torrent surged into the depths of Cao Rui's mind and disappeared.

Then Cao Rui realized that his consciousness began to grow rapidly.

From the beginning of three miles, four miles...until five miles, the consciousness stopped growing.

"For ordinary foundation-building cultivators, when they break through from the first level to the fifth level, their spiritual awareness range increases by a maximum of one mile."

"But as for me who practiced the Divine Yuan Jue, I directly increased it by five miles, which is twice the spiritual awareness of ordinary foundation-building cultivators."

"Now my spiritual awareness range has reached five miles, which is already the spiritual awareness range that ordinary foundation-building cultivators can reach at the fifth level..."

As expected of the magic formula created by the Divine Yuan Zhenjun, Cao Rui felt that as his realm improved, it was not impossible for him to be invincible in the foundation-building stage with his spiritual awareness.

At this time, Cao Rui's spiritual awareness was open, and he could already see half of the area from the cultivation tower to the Danlingbao Pavilion.

Cao Rui's spiritual awareness even saw Sun Ming, who was receiving guests in the VIP room of the Danlingbao Pavilion.

Sun Ming was exchanging the contact information of the Lingyin Jade Pendant with the guest, and it seemed that he had reached a good deal.

Sun Ming felt a strong spiritual sense sweeping over him. While he was wondering, Cao Rui had already withdrawn his spiritual sense.

"The mana has doubled, and the liquid mana in the dantian is more condensed, and the quality has obviously improved." Cao Rui felt the surging mana in his body and marveled in his heart.

"Let's see, how many Bailu pills are needed to advance to the third level of the foundation-building period?" Cao Rui took a deep breath and decided to explore further.

He took out a Bailu pill from the storage bag and put it in his mouth.

As the Bailu pill went down his throat, a cool feeling spread throughout his body. He quickly operated the Shenyuan Jue to let the experience bead absorb this medicinal power.

The experience bead flashed a faint light and continued to absorb the medicinal power of the Bailu pill.

The medicinal power turned into a trace of invisible purple energy flowing into the experience bead.

Cao Rui stared at the experience bead closely, observing its changes.

After a period of absorption, the experience bead finally stopped flashing and displayed a value: 0.0625%.

"So little?" Cao Rui frowned, a little disappointed.

Based on this data, Cao Rui quickly concluded that if he wanted to rely on the experience bead to instantly upgrade to the third level of the foundation-building period, he would need at least 1,600 Bailu pills.

The number doubled compared to the first level of the foundation-building period.

"1,600 pills..." Cao Rui muttered to himself.

Of course, if he did not pursue speed, Cao Rui would not need to consume so many Bailu pills for normal cultivation.

However, doing so would not bring out the full effect of the experience bead.

Under conditions permitted, swallowing more elixirs through the experience bead and quickly improving his cultivation is the right path Cao Rui should take.

Because Cao Rui never knows when he will not be able to find elixirs, and how long his lifespan will last after his low talent for cultivating immortals cannot quickly improve his cultivation.

The faster you advance, the more lifespan you have left, and the more room you have for yourself.

"There are still 265 Bailu Pills and 220 Bailu Pills' spiritual medicine materials in the storage bag."

"After the Bailu Pill is completed, the success rate of multiple superpositions can reach 70% to 80%."

"The success rate of the pill can reach about 8 pills."

"220 Bailu Pills' spiritual medicine materials can produce at least 1,300 Bailu Pills."

"And I should be able to perfect the White Dew Pill after refining 200 copies. Theoretically, I can refine more White Dew Pills."

"With the surplus from before, it is almost enough for me to advance to the third level of the Foundation Establishment Stage."

Thinking of this, Cao Rui relaxed slightly. It was worth it to work hard on refining pills.

"Let's see how much the speed of engraving the Lingyin Jade Pendant can be improved after the increase of spiritual consciousness?"

Cao Rui took out a Lingyin Jade Pendant and began to engrave the magic array.

The most important factor for the Lingyin Jade Pendant to be so popular is that it is cheap.

With only five spirit stones and the cost of one Lingyin point, it can be used to communicate within a range of 5,000 miles around the Qingling Xiuxianfang.

High-level cultivators may disdain it, as they have their own means of communication.

But for many low-level cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage who have no sect to rely on, this is the best communication tool that is hard to refuse.

The main reason why the Lingyin jade pendant is cheap is Cao Rui's own skill in engraving the magic array.

Cao Rui's skill alone is worth hundreds of spirit stones.

But Cao Rui did not sell the Lingyin jade pendant at a high price. To some extent, although Cao Rui had his own purpose, Sun Ming's praise for Cao Rui at the auction was not groundless.

Cao Rui, who was engraving the magic array, soon found that engraving these two 0-level magic arrays became easier after his spiritual consciousness increased.

The speed was obviously improved.

In the end, Cao Rui only spent seven minutes to successfully engrave a Lingyin jade pendant.