Chapter 105 Reunion

  The refinement of Pei Ji Dan requires a full half-day to complete. During this process, there can't be the slightest mistake or interruption, otherwise the entire furnace of elixirs will definitely have to be scrapped. Therefore, Zhao Di often starts refining a furnace immediately after setting up the formation array. Regardless of success or failure, he won't continue refining, but instead sits in meditation and quietly waits for the arrival of the demon beast.

  This technique of refining elixirs with the You Dan is indeed quite perfect. Although Zhao Di can't be said to be highly skilled in alchemy, when it comes to refining the Pei Ji Dan, the success rate is over 30%. For every three furnaces of elixir, one furnace succeeds. Moreover, the other two furnaces are mostly second-grade elixirs that can be promoted to ordinary successful elixirs using a small cauldron.

  Such a result made Zhao Di extremely delighted. After using up all the materials in his hand that could be refined into Pei Ji Dan, he obtained more than 20 Pei Ji Dans and 30-40 Ci Dans. According to his estimation, these elixirs would be enough for him to advance to the early peak of the Foundation Building stage after being promoted with a small cauldron, or even break through to the middle period of the Foundation Building stage!

  Moreover, these are just third-grade elixirs. The number of fourth-grade elixirs in his hand is even more numerous, and he can refine the Spirit Gathering Pills that are extremely beneficial to the foundation-building cultivators in the early and middle stages. If the success rate is also so high, then it won't be too difficult for him to reach the later stage of foundation building!

  Could it be that he still has a great chance of breaking through to the Golden Core? Zhao Di couldn't help but think excitedly, but this thought quickly cooled down. Compared to the difficulty of the Golden Core, the bottleneck of building the foundation is simply child's play! Especially for cultivators with poor spiritual roots, the Golden Core is basically an insurmountable barrier.

  During the Qi Refining stage, cultivators who break through to establish their foundation, regardless of whether their spiritual roots and talents are good or bad, theoretically speaking, as long as they have enough Foundation Establishment Pills, they will have a great chance of entering the Foundation Establishment stage.

  But in this Xianxia world, there doesn't exist any kind of spiritual elixir or wonderful medicine that can be taken continuously to help break through the bottleneck of forming a Dan!

  Rumors of a few extremely rare elixirs only slightly increase the success rate of forming the Golden Elixir, yet they have already driven those Foundation Building cultivators who are about to form the Golden Elixir crazy. Moreover, these spiritual elixirs can only be taken once when impacting the Golden Elixir, and taking multiple doses has no additional benefits.

  This way, the importance of qualifications is doubly demonstrated. The legendary Tianlinggen cultivator, without any bottleneck in condensing dan, as long as they cultivate to a certain level, can naturally form a golden dan and become a high-ranking cultivator in the dan-forming stage. This makes those cultivators who have been searching for various wonderful methods to form dan so jealous that they are about to vomit three liters of blood!

  Except for the Tianling Gen cultivators, even those with two spiritual roots or heterodox spiritual roots cannot avoid this bottleneck of forming a Dan. Although they have an easier time forming a Dan compared to ordinary cultivators, more than half of these elites still cannot overcome this hurdle and remain at the late stage of foundation building their entire lives.

  For a five-element root cultivator like Zhao Di, wanting to form an elixir is as difficult as ascending to the heavens!

  Thinking of these things, his mood was inevitably somewhat depressed.

  He soon regained his composure, having grown accustomed to not being looked upon favorably by others or even himself due to his poor spiritual roots, yet still firmly taking one step at a time on the path of cultivation. Perhaps someday he would encounter another strange occurrence and find a way to reach the Congealing Dan stage after all!

  On this day, Zhao Di stayed on a deserted island with an area of dozens of miles. The island had only two or three inconspicuous stone mountains and some tall and short trees scattered around. This island was slightly larger than his demon-hunting plan required, but there were no more suitable islands within hundreds of miles, so Zhao Di prepared to set up a spell array here and start another station of demon-hunting action.

  He was about to insert the banner into the ground when he suddenly saw a black dot moving in the distance. He immediately retracted the banner, cast the Concealment Technique, and quietly hid in a gap between the rocks, vigilantly gazing at the distant sky.

  And that broken treasure windbreaker, in order to be on the safe side, he had been wearing it all along without taking it off.

  That black spot was getting bigger and clearer. After half a stick of incense, Zhao Di saw that it seemed to be a mass of black air moving quickly, as if flying towards the small island where he was.

  After a while, Zhao Di saw more clearly that in the dark air, two or three figures faintly appeared.

  "It's them!" Zhao Di's heart skipped a beat, and he didn't even dare to lift his head, hiding his entire body under the cloak, and using the Concealment Technique to its extreme, not revealing any breath or aura. However, his divine sense was used to its extreme, meticulously controlling every move within several miles around him.

  Before long, three black-robed monks appeared in the dark air and descended onto the island together.

  Zhao Di's divine sense vaguely sensed that among these three people, two were late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the other was a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

  "Young master, we have been searching this sea for years, carefully examining countless deserted islands, but there is no sign of Ximen's whereabouts. Could the rumors be false?" An old man's voice rose up, seemingly dissatisfied with such a futile effort.

  "Hey, if it were that easy to find, would this secret have been kept for two or three hundred years? This information was obtained by the young master at a great cost, from a cultivator in the Condensing Dan period. It's definitely not fake, but the specific location is really hard to determine. All I know is that it's in the sea area north of Wuxing Island No. 5." A young man said coldly.

  "Master, how much longer do you plan to search? We've already lost half of our men on this road. If we continue like this, the danger will be enormous!" A middle-aged man's voice, his cultivation was the lowest among them, at the mid-stage of foundation building, and he was quite timid.

  "What's there to fear? As long as we don't go looking for trouble with other cultivators, can't we take care of ourselves? You two just be patient for a bit longer, after Young Master finds the cave left behind by West Gate Wanderer, he will definitely inform Uncle and make sure to record your merits in thick ink. At that time, you will naturally receive a large amount of spiritual stones, pills, and furnaces, so why bother with this short period of time?" The young cultivator comforted them once again.

  "Thank you, young master! I will definitely do my best to assist the young master in completing this matter!" The two of them immediately smiled and laughed. The old man asked again: "May I ask, young master, Xi Men San Ren was just a late-stage cultivator who had some fame on a foreign star three hundred years ago, what kind of treasure could his cave have that would make the young master willing to spend so much effort and search for it with such difficulty? With the young master's status and position, even treasures that early-stage cultivators couldn't obtain can be easily obtained by the young master! Why bother with the legacy of a lone cultivator like Xi Men San Ren?"

  "Hey! You'll find out about this sooner or later, anyway! To be honest, do you know what kind of spiritual roots and talents our young master possesses?" The youth asked back with a bitter smile.

  "Hmm, this... I've heard that the young master's spiritual root talent is ordinary, not particularly exceptional, but the young master's intellect surpasses others, and his cultivation is meticulous and bitter, which is why he has achieved today's foundation period peak cultivation!" The old man hesitated for a moment, and replied somewhat evasively.

  "Haha," the young man sneered, saying: "It's not just that his talent is ordinary, he's simply a waste! This young master is actually the worst of the five spiritual roots cultivators with the lowest spiritual root talent!"

  "'Five Spiritual Roots?' The middle-aged cultivator muttered in extreme surprise."

  "Not bad, this young master's innate talent is extremely poor. If it weren't for his unusual identity and the large amount of elixirs that assisted him, how could he have cultivated to this level?! The youth said with hatred: "My fate is in my own hands, not in heaven's! Even if I had a five-element spiritual root, this young master would still need to overcome the bottleneck of forming the Dan and condense his primordial infant, becoming an overlord like Uncle!" The youth's heartfelt declaration was quite bold and heroic, causing Zhao Di, who was eavesdropping from outside, to be moved in her heart as well."

  These three were the same demonic cultivators who had ambushed him, Xi Feng and Di Er three years ago. However, two of them were missing. One of them, an ugly middle-aged cultivator in the middle of the foundation stage, was killed by Zhao Di, but it was unknown what happened to the other one, a late-stage foundation cultivator.

  Was it He Feng and others who killed them? Are there any survivors among He Feng and the others? Zhao Di naturally thought of this question.

  Since he had encountered these few Mo Gate cultivators again on this desolate island, with his current strength being different from before, he naturally wouldn't let them off easily!

  However, he still patiently waited for an opportunity to annihilate all three of them, leaving no one alive.

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