Fairy, return my flying sword to me

Chapter 30 Foundation Building
"Hurry up! I feel like I'm almost at the foundation building stage. Is there anything I need to prepare?"

Lin Jian originally planned to find his master, but unfortunately he couldn't find him after searching for a long time.

I asked my senior sister but she didn't know where my master had gone. Fortunately, there was a female swordsman at home who should be much more powerful than my master.

Lin Jian humbly seeks advice.

Chunxue looked at Lin Jian, a smile in her eyes, "It's time to build your foundation."

"You can take out the things I asked you to buy a few days ago."

That was when they were about to leave after refining the elixir at the monks' market. Chunxue dragged him around and bought a big bag of miscellaneous things.

At this moment, all the garbage poured out from the forest and piled up into a small hill in his yard.

White tiger teeth, red blood grass, bluestone flakes, jade powder, black willow branches, cloud iron nails, incense ash, colored sand, pine needles...

Lin Jian casually checked and classified them, while asking, "What are these used for?"

"Magic circle."

Chunxue walked forward with a smile. "Building the foundation requires a large amount of spiritual energy. We need to set up a temporary spiritual gathering array. These are what I will use to set up the array."

Lin Jian flattered him enthusiastically, "Master Sword Immortal has great foresight!"

"Are you going to do it or am I going to do it?" Chunxue asked while looking at Lin Jian with a smile, pinching the huge white tiger teeth.

"Can I come too?" Lin Jian's face was full of surprise. "I'll come, I'll come!"

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. While the female sword fairy is here, we must learn more skills from her.

Haruyuki casually tossed a piece of jade towards him. "It's been prepared a long time ago. Take a look for yourself."

If she came, she would naturally draw the complete magic circle route on the ground in advance, and then let Lin Jian follow suit, just injecting true energy while moving the brush.

But if it were Lin Jian himself, he would have to master the mysteries of the magic circle from the beginning before he could complete the carving.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to observe intently in the forest, Haruyuki explained to him in detail the effect of each material when carving the magic circle.

"The red blood grass is the ink, and the white tiger teeth are the brush. The lines of the magic circle drawn by combining the two have the power to connect heaven and earth."

"The bluestone flakes are just ordinary stones imbued with spiritual energy from the mines of Lingshan. After being polished, they can also serve as the cornerstones of the nodes of the magic circle, guiding and gathering the surrounding spiritual energy."

"Jade powder can be spread around the magic circle to enhance its stability."

"The incense ash from the temple has a purifying effect, reducing the chances of you becoming possessed."

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Laying the foundation is not an easy task.

A substantial jump in the level of true Qi, including the opening of the Tianmen Sea of ​​Consciousness, may cause cultivators to fall into problems such as "going astray, true Qi collapse" in the midst of such drastic changes.

Ensuring the supply of spiritual energy and purifying distracting thoughts and turbid energy as much as possible are things that need to be considered in the process of breaking through the foundation.

Haruyuki quietly waited for Lin Jian to digest all the knowledge about magic circles.

In fact, the depiction of magic circles and runes are similar in nature. This kid has a good talent in drawing runes, so it seems that the magic circle patterns are not a big problem for him.

Sure enough, he sat in the woods for a long time, then suddenly stood up with bright eyes.

"No problem."

The patterns of the magic array are complicated and need to be completed in one go.

During the process, you need to keep injecting true energy at all times, which is really not an easy task.

Fortunately, the simple temporary spirit gathering array pattern that Chunxue provided was still quite different from the previous improved version of the divine movement rune. The only difference was that one was drawn with the will in the void, while the other needed to be drawn with the body.

He thought it shouldn't be a big problem.

He then ground the red blood grass into blood ink, dipped the white tiger fang in it, and used all his zhenqi to carve it. The temporary magic circle for one person didn't occupy a large area, just enough for him to sit cross-legged.

After trying two or three times and wasting some red blood grass, the rest of the carving was completed in one go.

As the magic circle was set up, Lin Jian followed Chun Xue's instructions and put in the auxiliary materials one by one. Finally, he filled the area around the magic circle with spirit stones to prevent it from absorbing too little spiritual energy from heaven and earth. After that, Lin Jian aimed a stream of true energy at the key node and the magic circle slowly started up.

The bright lines illuminated the two people's faces in the dark at night, and their faces were filled with joy as they felt the gathering of spiritual energy from heaven and earth in the forest.

The products of the Sword Immortal are easy to use. Once the magic circle is activated, all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will be drawn here.

Lin Jian didn't dare to waste time and immediately sat down in it.

The so-called foundation-building is to build the foundation for becoming an immortal.

From this level onwards, the cultivator can be said to have truly embarked on the path to becoming an immortal.

The physical body's Dantian becomes empty and turns into a sea of ​​nothingness.

Tianmen's spiritual consciousness became real and began to form the real power itself.

Most importantly... lifespan.

A cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage has just begun to refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into himself. If he cannot build a foundation, he has not actually left the realm of mortals. When he is in his seventies or eighties, his body functions decline, and death from old age and illness is common.

When the cultivator completes the foundation building, the true energy in his body connects with the heaven and earth and begins to build a complete spiritual power circulation system.

The physical body is free from mundane restrictions to a certain extent, and can survive by relying on the spiritual energy between heaven and earth even if it does not eat or drink for ten days or half a month.

It is easy to extend your lifespan by dozens or even hundreds of years.

Only a longer lifespan can support cultivators in pursuing the next stage of their lives - the Golden Elixir.

The innate soul-absorbing holy body and the violent suction force of the soul-gathering magic circle caused the soul stones around the magic circle to shatter.

A force eight gale blew up in the deserted mountain courtyard, and endless spiritual energy gathered towards the figure sitting in the center of the magic circle.

The mortal body gradually became ethereal under the cleansing of this endless spiritual energy, and the first thing to change was the dantian which originally stored energy.

The ethereal spiritual consciousness gradually solidified into real power that was strong enough to be released independently.

In the woods, I heard the chirping of insects from farther away...

The mountain wind carried dead leaves and blew into the forest. The insects huddled under the leaves, looking for food in the quiet night.

Not far from the courtyard, a steady breathing gradually approached...

Lin Jian suddenly stood up and kicked the magic circle on the ground.

All the materials used in the magic array that were originally sparkling at night suddenly dimmed at this moment as if they had lost their lives.

"Beep beep."

At the right moment, there was a knock on the door outside the yard.

"Come in." Lin Jian casually released a stream of true energy to move the door valve, and looked outside with indifferent eyes.

A thin figure in a thin white dress stood in the cold wind outside the yard. The evening breeze lifted her dress. Bai Jingxuan glanced at the mortal woman sitting at the stone table in the yard, and then looked calmly into the woods.

Bow your hands and salute.

"The Four Sects Competition is approaching, and the sect will also select participating disciples. After tomorrow's morning class, I will go to see Senior Brother Lin... I will be happy to give you some advice."

It was like a tender voice in the voice change period issuing a challenge. Lin Jian was stunned for a moment and happily agreed.

"Okay."

He also wanted to see what level he would be at among ordinary cultivators after breaking through the foundation-building stage.

(End of this chapter)