Achievement foundation established, system upgraded!

  "It's still not working, it's not just a matter of not having enough magical power."

  Lin Feng stopped his meditation and stood up straight, furrowing his brow into a knot.

  He had been working hard for nearly a month, but still couldn't open up his qi sea and establish his foundation.

  Lin Feng carefully pondered the subtleties within, and discovered that it wasn't his insufficiently powerful magical abilities, but rather he hadn't thoroughly grasped the profound meaning and principles hidden within the Eight Trigrams Heavenly Dao.

  This door of fusion of eight major Taoist methods, although created by Lin Feng himself, still requires Lin Feng to carefully ponder its subtleties.

  Feeling a bit annoyed in his heart, Lin Feng didn't dare to force himself to break through again. Instead, he stopped practicing and stood up to take a walk around the area, relaxing his nerves.

  In the depths of the mountain, Lin Feng walked steadily along a small pool of water between the mountains, gazing at his reflection in the water, quietly contemplating the problems he had encountered during his training.

  There were small insects flying on the water's surface, Lin Feng recognized them as mayflies.

  A small insect with only a few days of life.

  Lin Feng crouched beside the pond, staring at the fluttering dragonflies in a daze: "With only a few days of life left, is this kind of life meaningful?"

  As a half-ordinary and half-retarded young man, Lin Feng rarely thought about such artistic things, but these days he had been filled with gossip about the Taoist methods of the Eight Trigrams Heavenly Dao Cang, constantly thinking about the principles of creation and destruction of all things revealed within.

  After a long time, Lin Feng suddenly had an epiphany in his mind.

  "Humans live for a hundred years, and mayflies live for just a few days. Both have birth, aging, illness, and death, ultimately ending in death, with no difference. Human life has meaning, and so does that of the mayfly; it's just that humans can't necessarily understand the mayfly."

  Lin Feng raised his head, staring blankly at the sky above, slowly turning his neck to look around at the mountains, rivers and trees, looking at the pond in front of him, and finally his gaze fell on that short-lived little insect again.

  For three whole days, Lin Feng sat motionless by the small pond, observing the entire process of a dragonfly's birth, growth, and eventual decline and death, witnessing the creation, decay, illness, and extinction of a life.

  After another cicada's death, Lin Feng suddenly stood up and closed his eyes: "Cicadas, humans, all living things in this world, even the entire universe, have to go through a process of birth, growth, decay, collapse, and ultimately return to nothingness!"

  "After destruction, return to nothingness, then be recreated from the void of chaos, the heavens and earth open, the vast expanse appears, followed by the birth of all things, experiencing the passage of time, growing old and decaying, ultimately rotting until complete annihilation and non-existence!"

  "Birth, old age, sickness and death, this is life." Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes, and in the pupils, countless fragmented scenes flashed by, countless scenery, wind and fire, pavilions and towers, sun and moon, mountains and rivers, merchants and travelers, dragons and elephants, tigers and leopards, all things constantly emerging and perishing.

  "Birth, growth, decay, emptiness - this is the way of nature!"

  Lin Feng's mind was as calm as a spring breeze, fully immersed in the changes of his body and communicating with heaven and earth. In an instant, it seemed like thousands of years had passed, and Lin Feng's eyes suddenly burst forth with endless divine light!

  Rumble!

  Between heaven and earth, a surge of mighty willpower connects the blue sky above with the yellow springs below, inheriting the spirit of heaven and earth.

  Lin Feng only felt his entire body's spiritual power shaking at once, transforming and changing in a heaven-defying and earth-shattering way.

  There is no monk who has not opened the twelve-story building, and his magical powers are stagnant in the cave, like a pool of dead water. The monk who has opened the twelve-story building, his magical powers are connected throughout his body, like a river; And the monk who has built the foundation of the Tao, his magical powers carry heaven and earth, vast and boundless like the ocean!

  At this moment, Lin Feng not only grasped the true meaning of the Eight Trigrams Heavenly Dao Zang, but also touched a hint of the heavenly way's virtue and the expanse of the heavens' operation as described in the Tao Te Ching when the chaos first opened.

  The foundation period is over!

  "Congratulations, host, on advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage."

  "Congratulations, host, for comprehending the true meaning of Chapter 1 of 'Tian Dao De Jing' - 'The Eight Trigrams and the Great Way of Heaven'."

  "Conditions have been met, system upgrade begins, entering phase two!"

  Lin Feng heard a series of system prompts and his spirit was lifted, a smile appearing on his face: "I hope this upgrade is powerful enough."

  "System upgrade complete!"

  Lin Feng first opened the exchange system, looked at the things inside, and suddenly widened his eyes: "Good guy, there's actually a pill that directly increases cultivation?"

  Thirty-three days of creation and transformation elixir, a unique item in the system, Tianyuan Daxia itself does not exist.

  Yuanshen period and below cultivators can take it, directly upgrading a small boundary and increasing the probability of breaking through a large boundary. One person can only take it once in their lifetime, and taking it again is ineffective.

  Lin Feng's mouth watered at the sight, but upon closer inspection of the exchange price, he immediately retreated.

  Damn it, all the family property in history added together is still not enough for a single bullet.

  However, Lin Feng was not discouraged, based on experience, things that exist in the exchange system have a certain probability of being drawn out in the lottery system.

  Apart from the Thirty-Three Days Creation Divine Pill, there is also the Demon-Suppressing Pill that helps to subdue one's heart demon during cultivation. The Frenzied Demon Pill temporarily boosts strength but leaves one weak afterwards. The Shadow Clone Pill creates a clone with half of one's own cultivation level for a short period of time...

  All sorts of good things made Lin Feng's eyes widen with wonder.

  Action speaks louder than words. Although there weren't enough points to exchange, previously when Xiao Yan and the others completed the Wind and Thunder Symbol branch quest, the system rewarded Lin Feng with a chance to draw once.

  Lin Feng immediately entered the lottery system and after seeing the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned.

  The lottery system originally had three images: a die representing the dice lottery system and a wheel, representing the wheel lottery system.

  In addition, there is something that is blocked by a gray misty cloud and cannot be selected. It should be the system that has not been opened yet.

  But this time after the system upgrade, the cloud and fog have dispersed.

  Lin Feng looked carefully and found it was a pen holder.

  Click to enter, this is a lottery system.

  Lin Feng carefully read the rules and then directly challenged Ya Huang.

  There are four types of signs in the lottery system.

  Red chopsticks, white chopsticks, long white chopsticks, and short white chopsticks.

  Before drawing lots, you can first select an item you want in the exchange system, then select one of your existing items to give to the system as a voucher, and finally draw lots.

  Winning a red ticket is a special prize, which can directly obtain the coveted item selected in the exchange system, equivalent to exchanging chips for this item, even if the original price of this item is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of points.

  If a white slip is drawn, nothing will be obtained, and the existing items provided to the system as chips will be returned intact, which is equivalent to wasting an opportunity to draw.

  Drawing a long white sign is a random prize, and the chips are non-refundable. A randomly selected item will be returned to Lin Feng, but whether it's good or bad cannot be guaranteed.

  The worst is the short white card, nothing can be obtained, let alone the chips and goods are not returned, losing both wife and army.

  There are thirty divination sticks in the tube, and before drawing, all the sticks look the same. Only after drawing can you tell whether it's a red or white stick, a long or short stick.

  According to the system's instructions, the more expensive the item, the higher the probability of red and long white signs appearing. The highest probability of a red sign is six roots, with a 20% chance.

  On the contrary, the cheaper the chips, the higher the probability of white and short white signatures appearing, while the probability of red signatures is lower, with a minimum of one root and a 3% chance of just emerging.

  In addition, all items from the system cannot be used as chips.

  Lin Feng's mind immediately became active: "Not something from the system, what can be used as a bargaining chip?"

  Hei Yun flag? No way, I'm relying on this thing to rush the journey, and the ability to move space is also very practical.

  Wind and Thunder Symbol? Although the Wind Symbol is from the system, the Thunder Symbol isn't. However, this thing is still quite useful, it can even establish the foundation of a sect, and I'm somewhat reluctant to give it up.

  Qian Kun Mirror? This thing can serve as a radar and is very important for intelligence gathering, but it's also not suitable.

  Lin Feng thought for a moment, his eyes lit up: "This thing should have some weight to it, right?"