Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 121 Secret Investigation, Three Stages of Foundation Building

"The deputy leader of the Fiery Gang, Xiong Wei."

Lin Qianfan’s first target of investigation was the seventh challenger, who had no motive to challenge Lin Qianfan.

The leader of the Fiery Gang is his father-in-law, and as the sole heir, the position of leader will definitely be passed on to him in the future;
As a shady faction, the Fiery Fire Gang was destined to be unable to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills through formal channels. However, ordinary Foundation Establishment spiritual objects could be purchased with the Fiery Fire Gang's financial resources.

What's more, Xiong Wei has obviously passed the best age for building a foundation. Logically, he should have no desires and only need to maintain the current situation and enjoy the remaining decades.

So he must have been instructed by someone to challenge Lin Qianfan.

The headquarters of the Fiery Gang.

"Who are you? You're trespassing into the Fiery Gang's territory. Even if I kill you, Xiancheng won't care!"

Xiong Wei, who was busy in the land of gentleness, felt a chill on the back of his neck and realized that someone had passed through many checkpoints and broke through the defense formation and quietly entered his yard. He was a little frightened, but still pretended to be calm and threatened.

"Oh? This is the outer city area, not the outer city area. Since when have the rules of the Fiery Gang been able to override the laws of the Immortal City?"

"It's you! Master Lin?!"

Xiong Wei was shocked when he slowly turned around after hearing the sound. It seemed that Lin Qianfan's real strength was much stronger than what he showed on the ring. If he wanted to sneak in here quietly, he had to rely on more than just combat ability.

"I ask you questions and you answer them, otherwise there is no need for you to exist."

"Master Lin, if you ask, I will tell you everything I know."

"Try this self-examination talisman first."

"Mr. Lin, does it really have to be like this?"

"What choices do you have?"

The Phantom Sword, which is far more dangerous than a war sword, is pressed against Xiong Wei's neck. He seems to have no choice but to use the Heart-Searching Talisman obediently.

"Who arranged for you to challenge me?"

"Yes…"

"What did he actually say?"

"We didn't meet in person to talk, but someone sent me a note saying..."

"Is the cop still there?"

"After I saw it, I crushed it."

"Besides the gray income, does your Fiery Fire Gang also have any illegal income? What exactly is it? Where does the income go?"

“Yes, specifically…, the revenue sharing and whereabouts are…”

After being caught by Lin Qianfan himself and under the influence of the conscience talisman refined by Lin Qianfan himself, Xiong Wei spoke very quickly, pouring out everything he knew and guessed.

"Very good, let's just pretend today never happened. The Fiery Gang will still be the Fiery Gang. If today's incident gets out, there will be no more Fiery Gang in this area."

"I understand, and I swear I won't say anything more."

"I don't believe in such a pale oath. This is a specially made heart-eroding pill. Eat it."

"Mr. Lin..."

"I don't want to say it a second time. The cost of replacing a deputy leader for the Fiery Gang is not high. No one will remember who Xiong Wei is by this time next year."

Gulu~

Being controlled by others, Xiong Wei had no choice but to take the red poison pill with a pungent smell provided by Lin Qianfan.

"Mr. Lin, when will you give me the antidote?"

"I'll set you free when the time comes. I have no interest in the Blazing Fire Gang. I just hope you can keep your mouth shut."

Since the old gang leader had retired and was no longer in charge of things, Xiong Wei knew almost everything about the Liehuo Gang. Lin Qianfan recorded the entire interrogation process and gained a lot.

However, these are just the testimonies of witnesses. Witnesses alone are useless. This is called isolated evidence and is untenable. Lin Qianfan needs to obtain sufficient evidence based on the current clues to form a closed loop before he can get rid of this big jackal from the Lin family in Xiancheng.

Compared to Lin Qianfan, he encountered a lot of resistance and had to find another way.

Lin Qiansuo's investigation in Yanglong Bay was much easier.

He first moved directly into the Yanglongwan Penal Court and looked through various previous case files and complaint records, intending to identify some people with criminal records based on these actual cases to see their current situation.

However, to his surprise, the kind of economic cases he wanted to find were extremely rare, and Yanglong Bay seemed to be very clean, far exceeding his expectations.

He then began to check taxes and even sought help from Grandma Ju, who was in charge of Yanglongwan's finances and taxes. However, he found that Yanglongwan's taxes were also very clean, with few flaws and bad debts. There were even fewer people who needed to be dealt with due to economic problems, and they were all minor matters.

Finally, he began to investigate those who used the family reputation to open their own shops.

You wouldn't know until you investigate, but once you do, you'll find real problems. I never expected that Yanglongwan, established only a dozen years ago, would also be plagued by corruption. Those who used their family names to open shops in peripheral markets, or even at small gatherings, were more or less dishonest, with evidence of using their family names to commit illicit activities.

"Very good, I found you!"

Lin Qiansuo, who originally felt a little frustrated, was full of motivation. Although he could not fully understand human nature, he always believed that the people of Yanglongwan could not be much more honest than the Lin family of Xiancheng.

It is nothing more than a question of whether there is an opportunity or not, and those Lin family members who were sent abroad either actively or passively are the hardest hit.

...

Inside the cave specially used for foundation building in Yanglong Bay.

"Excellent condition, today!"

Lin Limao, who had been meditating and adjusting for a few days, suddenly felt a spiritual blessing and began to mobilize the spiritual power in his body with all his strength to compress it into liquid.

The so-called foundation-building is to build the foundation!
In ancient times, the world was full of spiritual energy and abundant spiritual charm. The cultivators at that time cultivated the three paths of essence, energy and spirit simultaneously. When they built their foundation, they integrated their essence, energy and spirit to build a flawless foundation and enjoy a long lifespan.

But the era of rapid world development has passed, the top of the pyramid is already full of people, and Lord Tiandao does not want too many powerful people to interfere with the operation of the world order.

Therefore, the cultivators nowadays do not have the bonus of the times to enjoy, and can only follow the will of heaven and build the foundation with the "qi" of essence, energy and spirit. The name of the realm of Qi Refining also comes from this.

This method of building a foundation with "Qi" is that the Qi-refining cultivator compresses and purifies the gaseous spiritual power that has already grown to the extreme in the body, transforming the gaseous spiritual power into a thicker and more energy-dense liquid spiritual power, and using the liquid spiritual power as the basis for the operation of the technique.

As long as one can condense twelve drops of liquid spiritual power in the Dantian Qi Sea at one time, one will have passed the first and most basic of the three stages of foundation building.

That’s right, it’s just the first of three levels.

Although we are refining "Qi", it does not mean that essence and spirit are not important.

Human beings are a complete whole. Although the three core dimensions within this whole are divided into high and low levels, they still need to be coordinated. It does not mean that one strong board can break through the sky while the other two weak boards are still on the ground and have not grown. That cannot support a cultivator.

To put it simply and straightforwardly:
The average physical strength of Nascent Soul cultivators who never deliberately cultivate their physical bodies is greater than the average strength of third-level body cultivators.

This is the change brought about by the life status. High-dimensional creatures should crush low-dimensional creatures in all aspects, rather than having an advantage in only one dimension and even being defeated by others in the Jindan and Yuanying stages.

Based on this, every time a major realm is crossed, the spirit, energy and soul must undergo a test. Only after completing the test and reaching the most basic standards can one receive subsequent gifts from heaven and earth. However, the higher the realm, the more additional disasters there will be.

Otherwise, your foundation is too poor and overcoming the tribulation will mean death!
"Twenty-four drops of condensed liquid! Thirty-seven years of unremitting cultivation, today finally yielded sweet fruits."

Twelve drops of condensed liquid is only the minimum standard for building a foundation. Those who cannot reach this standard have a weak foundation and cannot enter the tribulation normally, or they have failed before they even start.

Of course, the more liquid is condensed, the better. The more liquid is condensed, the greater the total amount of spiritual power in the body, the deeper the foundation, and the higher the starting point of cultivation after the foundation is established.

The limit of condensed liquid is thirty-six drops. This is a limit constant and no one has ever exceeded this limit because the physical body of a Qi-refining cultivator has its own limits. This pool can only hold so much spiritual power, even if it is a physical cultivation.

However, this does not mean that the strength of those who have thirty-six drops of condensed liquid is similar. It only means that the starting point of the Foundation Establishment Realm is the same. The quantity is the same but the quality may be different. There is always a gap between any person.

"The second level, opening up the divine consciousness!"

The Foundation Establishment Stage is the first major hurdle on the path of cultivation. Once you cross it, the transformation will be all-round.

When the gaseous spiritual power turns into liquid spiritual power, the total amount will be very different; and the spiritual power that was originally difficult to leave the body and difficult to mobilize will give birth to and develop into concrete spiritual thoughts.

Divine consciousness is the concrete manifestation of a cultivator's soul. This special power, which could only be passively consumed deep inside the body, has become a power that can be actively used outside the body.

The most common application of divine consciousness and the most prominent ability of foundation-building cultivators is divine consciousness detection.

With just a light sweep of the divine mind, all information within the detection range of the divine mind can be obtained without being noticed by others. This information is highly credible, and there are few means that can deceive the detection of the divine mind.

In addition, divine thoughts have many wonderful uses, such as controlling flying swords, flying shuttles, flying needles and other means of attack from a long distance, and even directly using divine thoughts to materialize offensive and defensive means.

It's just that spiritual thoughts involve the fundamental mysteries of human beings. The skills and secrets in this area rarely appear in the world. There is no such inheritance in the general foundation-building forces. Only the Jindan forces with an orderly inheritance have the skills to further cultivate the spirit and soul on the basic basis.

"Spiritual Mind, turn on!"

A flash of inspiration emerged,
Lin Limao felt like he had an extra pair of eyes, able to see things he couldn't see before; it seemed as if he also had an extra pair of ears, able to hear a wider range of sounds; he even had an extra sense of smell, taste and touch, and it felt like the whole world had changed.

“What a novel experience!”

The world perceived by divine thoughts is different from the world originally observed by the five senses, but they cross-confirm each other, as if this is a more real world.

“Be modest and keep up the good work!”

The Divine Mind Stage is the most dangerous of the three stages of foundation building. Most people who die in the foundation building process often die because their souls are annihilated when they fail to develop their Divine Mind.

The third level is the Qi and blood level, also called the physical body level.

Passing this level will cleanse your marrow and bones and completely free you from the mortal body. The myriad disasters and diseases that plague mortals will be completely ineffective.

At the same time, after passing this level, they will have real reproductive isolation from mortals. That's right, foundation-building cultivators and mortals are no longer the same species.

(End of this chapter)