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Chapter 85: Heavenly Path Foundation Building!
Chapter 85: Heavenly Path Foundation Building!
Thanks to the Zongdi Golden Light accelerating him tenfold, Xiao Chen temporarily escaped his pursuers. Yet he remained on high alert, his mind racing.
He couldn’t guess whether his enemies might be lying in wait at the eastern plains. Nor could he be certain he wouldn’t run into them again if he returned west to his sect.
Abandoning his sect mission entirely, he chose instead to flee south. To shake off any pursuit, he deliberately zigzagged his path aimlessly multiple times over three days. Except for brief meditation sessions to restore his mana, he allowed himself no rest. In just three days, he covered over 1,200 li, finally plunging into a dense forest. He burrowed into a thick patch of grass, using the Seal Acupoints and Conceal Breath Technique to vanish from detection.
After a short respite, he located a nearby cave to serve as his Foundation Building site.
Foundation Building marked the first true threshold of cultivation. Only by crossing it could one transcend ordinary humanity. Sitting cross-legged in meditation, Xiao Chen emptied his mind and steadied his resolve.
At dawn on the eleventh day—the Hour of the Rabbit, governed by Wood—his timing aligned perfectly. He snapped his eyes open, his spirit, vitality, and focus honed to their peak.
From his storage bag, he withdrew 800 spirit stones, arranging them into the Eight Trigrams—Qian, Kun, Zhen, Gen, Li, Kan, Dui, and Xun. Then he sealed the cave entrance with a Golden Light Technique.
Next, he uncorked the remaining vial of Green Wood Spirit Essence, letting it evaporate into a pale azure mist under his Spirit Flame. The cave’s Wood spiritual energy—and its total spiritual energy—soared to extraordinary levels. Though no natural spirit vein existed here, he’d created an artificial advantage.
He summoned the Green Gourd, deploying two Green Wood Spirit Generals to guard the entrance against human threats. With Heaven’s timing, Earth’s advantage, and Human vigilance all secured…
“The most critical step remains,” he murmured.
Normally, this was when one swallowed a Foundation Building Pill. But Xiao Chen instead selected five Foundation Building Spirit Herbs: Yunling Snow Lotus, Mutated Lion Heart, Millennium Sword Bamboo, Azurewood Spirit Spring, and Wuji Spirit Soil.
The order of consumption was vital. He seized the Mutated Lion Heart—a fire-attribute herb—and devoured it raw. Instantly, it felt as though he’d swallowed burning coals. Scorching fire mana erupted from his abdomen, scouring his body, burning away impurities until his skin flushed red and searing hot.
Haaah! He exhaled sharply, a long plume of white vapor escaping his lips.
Grasping the Wuji Spirit Soil, he ruthlessly extracted its earth mana, knowing this would destroy the soil entirely but yield exceptionally pure energy. The earth mana surged into him, filling the voids left by the fire’s purification.
He activated his cultivation manual, absorbing ambient spiritual energy to temper his body. The fire mana began converting into earth mana, a process that accelerated as the Wuji Spirit Soil crumbled to sand between his fingers.
Next came the Millennium Sword Bamboo. As he extracted its metal mana, sharp sword qi lanced out, racing through his meridians.
Hiss, so painful!
The sword qi pierced his flesh like tiny blades, clearing blockages but causing excruciating pain. Though protected by earth mana, the agony intensified as metal mana formed, compounding the torment.
At the peak of the transformation, he discarded the withered bamboo and swallowed the Yunling Snow Lotus whole. It dissolved instantly, a cool stream soothing his organs, limbs, and bones. The relief eased the metal mana’s sting while nourishing his dantian, pushing his mana reserves beyond the Li Qi Stage 9 limit.
The metal mana converted to water mana, pooling in his dantian.
Plop!
A droplet-like sound echoed in his mind. He turned his inner vision inward—liquid mana rained into his dantian like falling drops.
Shock flashed across his face, quickly replaced by ecstatic joy.
Ordinarily, cultivators at this stage could only condense mana into mist. Liquid mana required either supreme talent—a Pure Spirit Root could fully condense it, a Dual Spirit Root half—or years of patient refinement after Foundation Building.
He’d assumed his Low Grade Spirit Root meant slow progress. Yet the Heavenly Path Foundation Building technique had effortlessly transformed all his mana into liquid—rivaling a Pure Spirit Root’s power.
With the transformation complete, he seized the Azurewood Spirit Spring vial and drank.
His water mana, already at its peak, fused with the essence. Within moments, the spring’s energy diffused through his body.
Water generates Wood.
All the water mana shifted into wood mana. The Five Elements’ generative cycle amplified the effect—each transformation not only preserved the energy but enhanced it, compounding fourfold by the final stage.
A surge of vitality coursed through him, remaking his body. His hair lengthened three inches; his skin softened like a baby’s.
An invisible ripple spread from his spirit sea. Suddenly, he saw—a wild hare peering curiously at the cave, a sparrow alighting on a branch, ants building a nest on the cliff above. These details lay beyond his physical sight, yet they crystallized clearly in his mind.
Spiritual sense external projection!
He closed his eyes, his awareness expanding outward. Two hundred zhang in all directions—double the normal range for a Foundation Building cultivator.
“Even my spiritual sense has doubled? Is this another Heavenly Path Foundation Building advantage?”
(End of Chapter)
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