Chapter 70: Impact and Foundation

  Zhao Di let out a long breath after entering the refining room. As someone who had always been low-key due to possessing a precious treasure, he was somewhat astonished and shocked for these three Foundation Establishment Pills.

  It's likely that after he came out of the Refining Room, the news of his safe return from Dragon Descending Valley and his exchange of three Foundation Establishment Pills had already spread among all the Qi Refining stage disciples in Taixu Temple.

  He even felt that this place was no longer suitable for him to stay in for a long time. Such an eye-catching matter, I'm afraid it will eventually expose some clues about him. If someone investigates and reveals his secrets, he's afraid that he'll be caught immediately, without even having the chance to reincarnate.

  As for this reincarnation and cycle of rebirth, Zhao Di originally didn't believe it even if you beat him to death. However, he inexplicably was born in the Tianyuan Continent and personally witnessed all sorts of inconceivable magical abilities of the cultivators, so he began to have his doubts about these unclear and inexplicable things.

  According to some classics, after the death of monks and ordinary people, their souls will disappear and disperse, turn into nothingness, and reincarnate into the cycle of life.

  Whether it is true or false, there are many different opinions, and even in the immortal world, this is also an undecided matter.

  However, one thing that most cultivators acknowledge is that once the soul has been refined through special means, it will completely lose its possibility of reincarnation and become a ghostly object. Among the evil demons and heretics, there are also ghost cultivators who specialize in studying this matter.

  However, Zhao Di knew very little about these things.

  In any case, his priority was to take a look at that Qian Kun Bao Ding and see if it could enhance the Zhu Ji Dan.

  If it were any other elixir, Zhao Di would still be very confident, but the rumors about this Foundation Establishment Pill had been too exaggerated! As for whether the small cauldron could also enhance it, he didn't have full confidence either.

  He opened a square wooden box, took out a round red dan pill that was slightly smaller than an egg and emitted a strong medicinal fragrance, put it in the small cauldron, covered it with a lid, then picked up a high-grade water spirit stone and sat down.

  One day and one night later, when he opened the small tripod cauldron, he indeed found that the color of the Zhū Jī Dān was even brighter, and the spiritual energy and medicinal fragrance were even more abundant.

  He covered it with a lid and continued to cultivate it.

  Seven days and nights later, the Zhū Jī Dān finally stopped changing. At this point, it had become almost transparent in texture, emitting a medicinal fragrance and spiritual energy that was vastly different from its original appearance.

  According to Zhao Di's estimate, this top-grade Zhū Jī Dān cultivated by Xiao Ding contains about four or five times more spiritual energy than an ordinary Zhū Jī Dān.

  Now that Xiao Ding can cultivate top-grade Zhu Ji Dan, everything else will be much easier.

  Zhao Di first took the few pellets of Easy Tendon Pills and other Qi-refining stage elixirs in his hand and put them into a small cauldron one by one to cultivate, then he took medicine and sat in meditation, gradually increasing his cultivation to near the peak of the twelfth layer.

  Then he upgraded the remaining two Chikudan to Extreme Chikudan.

  After making these preparations, Zhao Di used the spiritual spring water from the alchemy room to bathe and change his clothes. Then he sat in contemplation, sitting for a full three days and three nights.

  After that, Zhao Di, who was in the best period of his magical power, divine consciousness and mental state, finally started taking the first top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.

  As soon as the red and translucent dan pill entered his abdomen, it immediately transformed into a dense and intense spiritual energy that spread throughout the eight extraordinary meridians. Zhao Di immediately felt an intense pain like thousands of insects gnawing at his bones, and cold sweat poured out of his body like a fountain, almost causing him to faint from the pain. Fortunately, his divine consciousness was stronger than ordinary people, and under the intense pain, he managed to maintain a thread of clarity, hastily following the incantation of the "Chasing Wave Technique" to circulate the spiritual energy throughout his body's meridians, then gathering it in his dantian.

  After only running for two or three small weeks, Zhao Di suddenly felt that his cultivation had broken through the bottleneck of the 12th layer of the Refining Qi period and entered the 13th layer. Moreover, most of the spiritual energy in his body was still rampaging around, making him feel extremely painful.

  Next, he gritted his teeth and continued to cultivate the thirteen-layer mantra, transforming the spiritual energy into his dantian. His cultivation also surged with it, and in just over ten days, his cultivation suddenly advanced to the peak of the Refining Qi stage!

  Next, he encountered the last bottleneck of the Refining Qi stage. If he broke through this bottleneck, he could take a step into the sky and become a Foundation Establishment cultivator!

  But this bottleneck is fundamentally different from those in the past.

  In the past, the bottleneck of the refining period was the accumulation of quantity. When the spiritual energy stored in the dantian reached a certain amount, it could open up some meridians and expand the dantian to absorb more spiritual power, which is a progress in cultivation.

  However, this time the bottleneck is a qualitative change, which requires repeatedly compressing the gaseous spiritual energy inside the dantian to form a liquid storage mode. Only in this way can the dantian store enough spiritual energy.

  While building the foundation, it is the process of converting the spiritual energy in the dantian into liquid true yuan. If successful, one can enter the ranks of foundation-building cultivators; if not, they will always be a peak cultivator of the qi-refining period. If too much spiritual energy is forcibly stuffed into the dantian and cannot be compressed into a liquid state, there is even a possibility of exploding and dying!

  The power of Zhū Jī Dān lies in its ability to not only provide a sufficient amount of spiritual energy at once, but also improve the physical constitution of Qi-refining cultivators. Its magical effects can help cultivators eliminate impurities from their bodies that are unfavorable for foundation-building, making their lower abdomen more suitable for the existence of liquid true yuan, and thus it is indispensable for cultivators to break through the foundation!

  The top-grade Zhaodi Fuyong's Jibidan in the impact bottle is several times more effective than ordinary Jibidan!

  Zhao's unceasing efforts to guide the spiritual energy of the Extreme Foundation Establishment Pill into his dantian had finally borne fruit. Two months later, he could distinctly feel a change within his dantian - the compressed spiritual energy was stirring, as if it were about to liquefy.

  Although there was still a lot of medicinal power left in his body at this time, it was far from the previous fierce one. Zhao Di saw that his dantian true energy had signs of liquefaction, and he was afraid that he would lose his chance due to insufficient spiritual power supply, so he took another extreme-grade foundation-building pill!

  After taking this top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, he still felt an intense pain that cut to the bone and a surge of cold sweat, not much different from last time. Fortunately, his spiritual awareness was much stronger than that of other cultivators at the same level, or else he would have fainted on the spot.

  A strand of spiritual energy was extracted from the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, circulated through the Small Heavenly Cycle, and transformed into the elixir field. As time went on, it became increasingly difficult. Two months later, the spiritual energy in the elixir field finally began to liquefy slowly, and the speed at which the elixir field absorbed spiritual energy accelerated continuously. After half a month, Zhao Di finally converted all the spiritual energy in the elixir field into liquid true yuan! From then on, he entered the ranks of foundation-building cultivators!

  Overjoyed Zhao Di suddenly jumped up high, dancing with joy. With this stir, the unstable liquid true yuan in his dantian showed some signs of activity again, scaring him into hastily suppressing his inner excitement and calming down to meditate, only then stopping the evaporation of the liquid true yuan and saving his life.

  At this time, there was still a lot of spiritual energy from the foundation-building pill lingering in his meridians. If he didn't use it up, it would cause him unbearable pain in his eight extraordinary meridians, and if prolonged, might even leave behind lasting damage.

  However, at this time, the qigong method "Zhu Lang Jue" of the Refining Qi stage was no longer suitable for his current cultivation.

  Helpless, Zhao Di could only pick up a book, which was found in the storage bag of an unknown dead monk, the water attribute foundation period technique "Hai Jiue", and start practicing.

  This foundation-building method that any cultivator in the Qi Refining stage can get their hands on naturally wouldn't be a top-notch, extremely good method. However, Zhao Di has very few foundation-building methods at his disposal, and none of them are better than this "Chaotic Sea Scripture". Moreover, water-attribute methods generally speaking cultivate relatively quickly, which suits Zhao Di. As for how powerful this method is or how it will develop later on, those aren't things that Zhao Di needs to consider right now.

  More than half a year has passed since entering the No. 9 Refining Room and starting to close the door. Zhao Di finally refined the medicinal efficacy of the two top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills into his own True Yuan, and finally became a long-awaited early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator!

  However, Zhao Di did not rush out. He had already felt that he had attracted the attention of many people like Lu Wen in Tai Xu Men, and he must make sufficient preparations.

  He took out all the refining materials from his storage bag and planned to refine a few treasures that could greatly enhance his own strength!

  In the world of cultivating immortals, strength is always the most important thing.

  In many cases, such as in the Dragon Descending Valley, if you encounter other cultivators, having strength is a good thing, enemies are equivalent to delivering treasures to you; without strength, that's your doomsday.

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