Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 136 Lu Wenmei's Foundation Establishment

"Pure Flame Azure Milk is indeed a spiritual item that helps human cultivators break through to the Foundation Establishment realm!"

Upon seeing the Pure Flame Green Milk that Zhu Yan had taken out, Lu Cheng'an was so shocked that he stood up from his seat.

This is a Foundation Establishment spiritual item, an extremely rare Foundation Establishment spiritual item, and now Zhu Yan has given it to him like this.

"It's good that it's a Foundation Establishment spiritual item. Its function is the same as that of the Earth Core Fire Jade for us Fire-Repelling Earth Spider cultivators!" Zhu Yan said with a smile.

Originally, Lu Cheng'an did not want to accept the Pure Flame Green Milk, a Foundation Establishment spiritual item, for free, but after hearing what Zhu Yan said, he changed his mind.

"Fellow Daoist Zhu, please rest assured. Once the clan leader returns, I will definitely help you seize the Earth Core Fire Jade from the giant fire catfish," Lu Cheng'an assured him in a deep voice.

"With you saying that, I can finally rest assured!"

Zhu Yan laughed loudly and said, "There are still cultivators from my clan on Green Crocodile Island, and I'm a little worried about them. I'll take Zhu Lu and the others back with me now!"

Zhu Yan came to the Lu family with two main purposes: one was to bring Zhu Lu and other cultivators from the clan back, and the other was to ask Lu Cheng'an to join her in seizing the Earth Core Fire Jade.

She has now achieved both of her goals and has also unexpectedly obtained the Xuan Turtle Fire Formation. She is very satisfied now.

Lu Cheng'an did not try to keep Zhu Yan. After handing over the six Fire-Repelling Earth Spider cultivators from Zhu Lu to Zhu Yan, he personally escorted her away from Chiyan Mountain.

After seeing Zhu Yan off, Lu Cheng'an returned to his cave to continue his secluded cultivation, waiting for the clan leader to return from Tianyan City.

The volcanic eruption in the Burning Flame Mountains attracted a large number of Foundation Establishment cultivators to enter the territory of the Heavenly Flame Sect.

Although some of these Foundation Establishment cultivators died at the hands of demonic beasts and spirit race cultivators within the Burning Flame Mountain Range, and others were killed by evil cultivators who entered the territory of the Heavenly Flame Sect, their numbers were still considerable.

When Master Xuankong returned from the Burning Flame Mountains, he released the news that the Heavenly Flame Sect was going to hold an auction.

This news attracted many cultivators. Those cultivators from other places who entered the territory of the Tianyan Sect did not leave, but instead attracted even more cultivators to enter Tianyan City.

After Lu Wenxing and Lu Wenmei arrived in Tianyan City with the Dan Ding Sect cultivators, the city was already bustling with activity, and Foundation Establishment cultivators could be seen everywhere.

If you're lucky enough, you might even spot a rare Golden Core cultivator on the streets of the Tianyan Sect.

The auction held in Tianyan City did indeed attract some Golden Core cultivators, after all, the Tianyan Sect had hunted down two newly-entered third-tier demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountains and obtained more than one third-tier spiritual item.

Especially the two corpses of newly-established third-tier demonic beasts—these were two brightly lit Core Formation spiritual treasures.

The Golden Core cultivators who entered Tianyan City came for the two corpses of newly-established third-tier demonic beasts. Even though they knew that Tianyan Sect would not give up the two corpses of third-tier demonic beasts, they still wanted to give it a try.

After bringing Lu Wenmei into Tianyan City, Lu Wenxing immediately began to think of a way to replace the water-attribute Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, Biquan Yuxin, with a wood-attribute Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object.

This would be difficult to do elsewhere, but it is relatively easy in Tianyan City.

Because there are Foundation Establishment cultivators in Tianyan City who share the same thoughts as Lu Wenxing, these Foundation Establishment spiritual items are generally not exchanged for spirit stones or other second-tier materials; they are all traded using the same Foundation Establishment spiritual items.

After searching Tianyan City for five days, Lu Wenxing found a Foundation Establishment cultivator who possessed a wood-attribute Foundation Establishment spiritual item and wanted to exchange it for a water-attribute Foundation Establishment spiritual item.

Lu Wenxing was worried about problems, so when he was exchanging places with that Foundation Establishment cultivator, he invited Wu Qing'an, a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Dan Ding Sect, to help him back up.

The Dan Ding Sect sent a total of four Foundation Establishment cultivators this time. The team was led by Wu Qing'an and Jiang Ying, who were in the late Foundation Establishment stage, and accompanied by Xu Shao and Song Qingzhi.

Song Qingzhi attempted to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm twice. She failed the first time after taking a Foundation Establishment Pill, but then she took a wood-attribute Foundation Establishment spiritual item, and her cultivation finally broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

She was able to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage by consuming two Foundation Establishment spiritual items in succession. This was not only because she had a good master, but more importantly because the Dan Ding Sect had accumulated a large number of Foundation Establishment spiritual items recently.

The Lu family's strength is not comparable to that of the Dan Ding Sect. If Lu Wenmei fails to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm this time, it will be difficult for her to obtain another Foundation Establishment spiritual item to assist her breakthrough.

Of course, if the backlash Lu Wenmei suffers after failing to break through is relatively mild, the Lu family will definitely focus on helping her break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

This is because the Lu family currently has very few cultivators who have the potential to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm, and Lu Wenmei is the only cultivator in the Lu family who has the potential to become a second-tier alchemist in the short term.

Considering all these factors, Lu Wenmei is worthy of the Lu family's continued nurturing.

Lu Wenxing had already made an agreement with the Foundation Establishment cultivator. After he took Wu Qing'an, who was in the late Foundation Establishment stage, there were no major setbacks, and he successfully exchanged the wood-attribute spiritual item from the Foundation Establishment cultivator.

After thanking Wu Qing'an, Lu Wenxing hurriedly handed the Foundation Establishment item to Lu Wenmei.

After carefully explaining the precautions Lu Wenmei needed to take when breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm, he rented a new cave dwelling specifically for Lu Wenmei to use for breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm, so that Lu Wenmei could prepare for the breakthrough in the Foundation Establishment realm in the cave dwelling now.

Back then, after Lu Wenxing successfully purchased a Foundation Establishment spiritual item in Tianyan City, he rented a cave dwelling in Tianyan City and broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Lu Wenmei's situation is much better now than Lu Wenxing's was back then.

After settling Lu Wenmei in, Lu Wenxing continued to walk around Tianyan City.

Replacing the wood-attribute Foundation Establishment spiritual object with one that would allow Lu Wenmei to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm was Lu Wenxing's primary task upon arriving in Tianyan City. The second matter he needed to handle was dealing with the various resources his family had obtained during this period of chaos within the sect.

The items Lu Wenxing brought to Tianyan City were all second-tier spiritual objects.

There are too few Foundation Establishment cultivators around Red Smoke Mountain. If they are left to be sold in Qingling Market, it is unknown when they will be able to be completely sold out.

In addition to the auctions held by the Tianyan Sect, powerful Foundation Establishment cultivators in Tianyan City also held trade fairs among themselves.

This kind of exchange is where Foundation Establishment cultivators exchange spiritual items, and they all do so while concealing their identities, making it very safe and secretive.

While Lu Wenxing was busy exchanging Foundation Establishment spiritual items, the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Dan Ding Sect had already participated in several such trade fairs.

Lu Wenxing quickly joined several trade fairs with the cultivators of the Dan Ding Sect and sold a considerable number of second-tier spiritual items.

This is also the main reason why he insisted on coming to Tianyan Sect with the Dan Ding Sect cultivators.

Traveling with cultivators from the Dan Ding Sect greatly reduced his safety concerns and made things much easier for him.

Half a month after Lu Wenxing entered Tianyan City, the auction held by the Tianyan Sect began.

In addition to obtaining the corpses of two newly-broken third-tier demonic beasts from the volcanic eruption in the Burning Flame Mountains, the Heavenly Flame Sect also obtained a large number of precious spiritual items.

Many of the treasures that Tianyan Sect put up for auction came from the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

Lu Wenxing's original intention was to purchase more Foundation Establishment spiritual items, but the number of Foundation Establishment spiritual items offered by the Tianyan Sect this time was extremely limited. Moreover, there were a large number of Foundation Establishment cultivators participating in the auction, making the competition for Foundation Establishment spiritual items extremely fierce.

The Lu family did not lack Foundation Establishment spiritual objects for the time being, so after careful consideration, Lu Wenxing gave up competing for Foundation Establishment spiritual objects and focused his attention on purchasing various books such as cultivation techniques and spells, as well as high-grade second-tier talismans.

The Lu family doesn't have a great need for formations, magical artifacts, and pills right now, as they can produce second-tier spirit formations and magical artifacts themselves.

Although the Lu family cannot refine second-tier pills yet, they have a good relationship with the Dan Ding Sect, which is skilled in refining pills.

As long as you're willing to spend spirit stones, you definitely won't have to worry about getting second-tier pills.

What the Lu family lacks now is a second-tier talisman, and a high-grade second-tier talisman at that.

The reason the Lu family was able to successfully kill the four evil cultivators who attacked them was mainly due to the two second-grade high-quality talismans, in addition to Lu Cheng'an and Lu Chengping.

If it weren't for the power of those two second-tier high-grade talismans that injured that late-stage Foundation Establishment evil cultivator, the Lu family would have had no chance of killing him.

It was for this reason that Lu Wenxing wanted to purchase more second-tier high-grade and top-grade talismans.

The auction in Tianyan City lasted for two days, and Lu Wenxing made quite a few gains during those two days.

He spent over 60,000 spirit stones at the auction, purchasing a total of two second-tier cultivation techniques, four second-tier spells, a second-tier weapon crafting inheritance, a second-tier spirit array inheritance, five second-tier high-grade talismans, and two second-tier top-grade talismans.

Those two second-tier cultivation techniques, one is a fire-attribute technique that can be cultivated up to the late Foundation Establishment stage; the other is a wood-attribute technique that can only be cultivated up to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Two of the three second-tier spells were requested by Lu Cheng'an. One was a second-tier stealth spell, which was similar to the concealment spell that Lu Cheng'an had previously practiced. Both were spells used to hide one's whereabouts and aura.

The other one is the Starfire Escape Technique, a fire-attribute spell that Lu Cheng'an needs to increase his speed.

The Starfire Escape Technique can be stacked with the second-tier Sword Control Technique. This means that if Lu Cheng'an uses the Cloud Shadow Sword Technique to fly on his sword, he can increase his flying speed by up to 50%.

In addition, even if the cultivator is not flying on a sword, the Starfire Escape Technique still allows the cultivator to fly by controlling their qi for a short period of time.

However, this will slow down the cultivator's speed and increase the consumption of mana.

The second-tier weapon crafting inheritance allows cultivators to reach the highest level of second-tier superior weapon crafting master. It records the crafting methods for fifteen types of second-tier magical artifacts.

This second-tier weapon-refining inheritance is far more profound than the weapon-refining inheritance that the Lu family previously obtained from the Xu family.

Lu Wenxing purchased this set of second-tier weapon-refining inheritance for Lu Cheng'an's sake.

The quality of the second-tier array inheritance is slightly lower, at most enabling cultivators to become mid-grade second-tier spirit array masters. It records the arrangement methods of six second-tier spirit arrays.

This array inheritance is far inferior to the array inheritance that Lu Chengping obtained. After all, the array inheritance that Lu Chengping obtained was a top-grade inheritance in the second tier, which could directly make him a top-grade spirit array master in the second tier.

However, the second-tier array inheritance that Lu Wenxing purchased was definitely useful to Lu Chengping.

The more classic texts a cultivator reads in order to improve their skills, the better they will be in practicing the various arts of cultivation.

After the auction in Tianyan City concluded, Lu Wenmei's breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment realm was also completed.

Lu Wenmei's talent for cultivation may not be as good as Song Qingzhi of the Dan Ding Sect, but her temperament is far superior to Song Qingzhi's.

After spending nearly half a month in seclusion in her cave, she successfully broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, becoming the fourth Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Lu family.

Wu Qing'an and the others from the Dan Ding Sect did not linger in Tianyan City. After the auction, they returned directly to their sect.

At this time, Lu Wenmei's cultivation had successfully broken through, and Lu Wenxing immediately followed the cultivators of Dan Ding Sect to leave Tianyan City.

He auctioned off quite a few items at the auction, which was a small display of his wealth.

His cultivation level is only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, which could very likely arouse the thoughts of some cultivators to kill and plunder.

The group from Dan Ding Sect consisted of four Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Wu Qing'an and the other two were both at the late Foundation Establishment stage.

He could avoid these risks by leaving with the cultivators from the Dan Ding Sect.

Lu Wenxing and Lu Wenmei first went to the Dan Ding Sect with the cultivators. After expressing his gratitude to the Dan Ding Sect cultivators, Lu Wenxing presented two second-grade low-level spiritual herbs as a thank-you gift.

Two second-grade low-level spiritual herbs are not particularly valuable, but they are definitely not cheap either.

The Dan Ding Sect is also a sect that excels at refining pills, so these two second-grade low-level spiritual herbs are the perfect gift of thanks.

Jiang Ying and Wu Qing'an did not refuse too much. After exchanging a few polite words, they each accepted a medicinal herb.

Afterwards, Lu Wenxing and Lu Wenmei did not stay at Dan Ding Sect for long and went straight back to Chi Yan Mountain.

Chiyan Mountain and Dan Ding Sect are only nine hundred miles apart. Now that Lu Wenmei's cultivation has also broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, the two arrived at Chiyan Mountain in no time.

"Congratulations, Second Elder, on breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm!"

Lu Wenxing and Lu Wenmei were discovered by Lu Cheng'an before they even entered Chiyan Mountain.

Because there were two Foundation Establishment auras, Lu Cheng'an immediately left the cave to investigate the source of these two auras. Then he saw the clan leader and the second elder returning safely.

"Haha, this is all thanks to the family's support!" Lu Wenmei said with a smile.

As the three were talking, they entered the Crimson Smoke Mountain.

Lu Wenmei did not talk much with Lu Cheng'an. After entering Chiyan Mountain, she quickly returned to her cave.

She rushed back to her clan shortly after her cultivation breakthrough, and her cultivation has not yet been fully consolidated.

Moreover, she still has a lot to do. Once her cultivation is consolidated, she will strive to improve her alchemy skills and become a second-tier alchemist as soon as possible.

After Lu Wenmei left, Lu Cheng'an followed her to Lu Wenxing's cave and asked him about what had happened to Lu Wenxing in Tianyan City.

“Foundation Establishment spiritual items did appear at the auction in Tianyan City, but I didn’t buy them. Instead, I purchased a large number of ancient books…”

(End of this chapter)