Immortal Road.

Chapter 106: Qi Training Completed
When Lin Shan returned to Yichuan, he first went to the auction house to take a look.

He dealt with some treasures that the appraisers were unable to identify and had accumulated, and then went to the city center to rent a cave for 30 spirit stones per month, and rented it for two years.

Anyway, I now have a thousand spirit stones obtained from Zen Master Xingtai, and I don't feel sorry at all to spend them. I am so generous.

Now that the proprietress of Yanchunlou has made a two-year agreement with me, I must practice every minute and try to break through the foundation before going to the Black Lotus Sect, so that I can have a chance of escaping from being cannon fodder.

Lin Shan remained in seclusion for a whole year.

……

"It is worthy of being the most expensive cave in Yichuan. The concentration of spiritual energy is 30 times that of the outside world!"

"Normally it would take thirty years to reach the late stage of Qi training outside, but here it was achieved in just one year."

"Is this the charm of krypton gold training?"

Opening the long-sealed cave and blowing away the dust around with a flick of his sleeve, Lin Shan felt that his cultivation had no room for improvement and realized that he had truly completed all the stages of the Qi training phase and had reached the bottleneck of the foundation building phase.

The ninth level of Qi training has been completed!
However, the bottlenecks in the foundation-building stage and the previous Qi training stage are completely different.

The bottleneck of the early and middle stages of Qi training only needs strong spiritual power to break through, in order to expand the capacity of Dantian. But the bottleneck of the foundation-building stage requires not only breaking through the Xuanguan acupoints, but also completing the further transformation of the spiritual consciousness.

The initial transformation of spiritual consciousness during the Qi training period only makes people's ears and eyes sharp, and at the same time they can feel and absorb the free spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

However, the transformation of spiritual consciousness during the foundation-building period involves the initial "integration of Qi and Spirit", laying the foundation for the real Qi refining and spirit transformation in the future.

Why can the Foundation Establishment Stage enter and exit the Azure Sky, fly with a sword, and even attack with the soul and transmit the sound with the consciousness?
It is because the spiritual consciousness has the power of flexible control to reach the state of being able to control it freely.

Therefore, after completing the ninth level of Qi training, the challenge of entering the foundation building stage is extremely difficult. It is no exaggeration to say that 99% of the people in the cultivation world are stuck at this step.

It is not safe for cultivators to accomplish the "combination of Qi and spirit" by themselves alone, or with the help of elders. The method with the best success rate recognized by the immortal cultivation world is the "Foundation Building Pill".

"Foundation Building Pill" has three major benefits.

The first advantage is that it possesses a huge amount of spiritual energy to assist monks in breaking through barriers.

The second benefit is to assist and increase the success rate of the cultivator in breaking through the integration of Qi and Spirit.

The third and most important point is that even if you fail to break through the barrier by taking the Foundation Establishment Pill, no "Dao Mark" will be left!
"Daohen" is a general term in the world of cultivation. Every realm has its so-called "Daohen".

Generally, after a cultivator fails in a breakthrough, a "Dao mark" will appear, which will make the next breakthrough more difficult and the bottleneck more profound.

Only the foundation-building stage is the first hurdle for cultivators to embark on the road to immortality, so the "Dao mark" is not particularly outrageous and can be eliminated by the "foundation-building pill".

If it is replaced with the bottleneck of the later Jindan or even Yuanying period, the "Dao Hen" at that time will be basically unsolvable.

Therefore, many old monsters who have lived for hundreds of years have been forced to stagnate in their cultivation because of repeated failures in breaking through the barriers. This is because there are too many accumulated “Dao Traces”, which completely block their way forward!

But when he thought of the "Foundation Building Pill", Lin Shan felt a little headache.

Not for any other reason, first of all, I don’t have that many spirit stones.

At last year's large-scale auction, most of the foundation-building pills were first divided up by the major sects and cultivation families, leaving only ten to give the independent cultivators a chance to break through. But the problem is that the minimum price for each of those ten foundation-building pills is 5,000 spirit stones!

After deducting the rent and adding the salary from Yichuan Auction House this year, I only have a total of 1,500 spirit stones, which is not even half of it.

You have to know that the average Foundation Establishment Stage person’s circulating worth alone, apart from their personal belongings, is only about two thousand spirit stones. At the Qi Condensation Stage, he is already considered a wealthy man among his peers.

But there are always people better than you in this world, and there will always be someone richer than him.

There are rich people every year, and every year there are more of them! Expecting the price of foundation building pills to drop? Absolutely impossible!

The materials needed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill are all spiritual flowers and herbs that are hundreds of years old, and can only be cultivated by ancient sects and some special secret realms in heaven and earth.

Therefore, each year, apart from the internal consumption of the large sects, the number of Foundation Establishment Pills circulated is only a small amount, which is not enough for the various forces in the world of cultivation to share.

You can't afford it, but there are many people who are scrambling to buy it just to increase the probability of breaking through the foundation.

After all, as long as one becomes a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to reach heaven in one step.

……

Lin Shan scratched his hair in distress, left the cave first, and looked to see if anyone had left him a message in the past year.

You know what, there are really quite a few sound transmission talismans accumulated in the cave. Because they haven't been opened in this year, they are still slowly flying in the living room.

Lin Shan grabbed them one by one and found that most of them were appraisers from the auction house. The annual auction would start in two days, and they had a backlog of items that they could not identify, so they were anxious for Lin Shan, the chief appraiser, to take charge.

Others were good friends he had known before. For example, Lin Fan sent him a letter by post. After all, Zixiao Sect was a bit far away from here, and the sound transmission talisman could not be delivered, so he entrusted some "hyacinths" in the cultivation world, that is, postmen, to deliver it on his behalf.

Lin Fan's letters were mostly filled with complaints: he felt so suffocated all day, wanted to go out and look for treasures, he felt like he was "too full" now, etc.
Lin Shan looked at it for a long time but didn't quite understand what it meant. What was it that made him feel uncomfortable? Was it "luck"? He had accumulated too much of this thing, so he needed to go out and consume it?
It turns out that the “Son of Luck” also has troubles?
Lin Shan felt a little more balanced when he thought of this. Although Lin Fan, who was hanging on the wall, had no shortage of opportunities, he had also lost a lot of experience.

For example, although he is rich, he has never experienced what it is like to be poor;
Although he had picked up all kinds of treasures, he no longer had the joy of struggling;

Although he can get something for nothing just by lying down, but well
Lin Shan couldn't comfort himself any more. The more he thought about it, the more sour he felt. So he simply stopped paying any more attention to it.

He flipped through the other letters and found that they were from the talisman stall owner and the spell stall owner whom he had met in the stall area before, the two "pseudo-immortal second generation" from the cultivation family.

These two probably sent group messages to all their friends in their address book, saying things like "The world of cultivation is not peaceful lately", "The devil is ready to make a move", "Everyone, don't run around", "Buy talismans/spells from me and there are still discounts", etc.

Lin Shan flipped through it casually and lost interest. He never replied to group messages in his previous life. Besides, the postage for hyacinths in the cultivation world is ridiculously expensive now. His own spiritual stones are not enough to buy foundation-building pills, and he still has to reply to text messages everywhere.

After looking around for a while, I simply went straight to the auction house to see what this year's auction was like.

Although I don’t have enough spirit stones, if there is an auction of Foundation Establishment Pills, maybe I will have a chance?
……

As soon as he walked into the door of the auction house, a maid seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time and came forward to invite him.

"Master Lin, the head master Zuo Zhenren is drinking tea in the reception room on the fifth floor. He told me to go up to see you if I see you coming."

(End of this chapter)