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Chapter 18 Foundation Building
This Heavenly Origin Mirror Scripture has thirteen levels, with the highest level attainable through cultivation up to the Nascent Soul stage.

The first three levels are for those in the Qi Refining stage.

It comes with the supernatural power of Heavenly Origin Golden Light—once mastered, one can emit Heavenly Origin Golden Light with just their palm. It can be emitted instantly. When used by a Foundation Establishment cultivator, its power can rival that of a typical high-grade attack magic weapon. Its power increases with the advancement of cultivation.

The third level of foundation building can be practiced.

It comes with a supernatural power: a protective golden light. Once mastered, it can instantly release a protective golden light, with defensive power comparable to a high-grade defensive magic weapon. The defensive power increases with the level of cultivation.

Giant Mirror Technique – Once mastered, it uses a mirror artifact as its main component, allowing multiple artifacts or magical treasures to be fused into a single giant mirror to kill enemies.

It can be practiced at the third level of the Core Formation stage, and one can cultivate the Golden Light of the Earth and the Golden Divine Flame.

Golden Light Across the Ground – Once mastered, it allows one to unleash a golden light attack comparable to teleportation, aided by the reflection of a mirror.

Golden Divine Flame – By incorporating Golden Flame Stone into the Eight Gates Golden Light Mirror, one can generate their own Golden Divine Flame. Alternatively, one can integrate their own essence into the Eight Gates Golden Light Mirror to strengthen the inner fire and emit the Golden Divine Flame. However, this will reduce the power to one-tenth or one-twelfth. Furthermore, excessive consumption of essence will lead to a decline in cultivation level.

"Wen Tianren, the young master of the Reverse Star Alliance and the successor of the Six Paths in the original work, should have used the second method. In the original work, Han Laomo only obtained a Golden Flame Stone in the Tianlan Grassland. I wonder if I can also obtain one."

Qin Sheng thought to himself.

Once you reach the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, you can cultivate the Eight Golden Light Mirror Formation, which can pull people into the mirror's inner space and kill them.

As for the last level, it can be practiced by those in the Nascent Soul stage, but although Tianjing Sanren created it, he himself did not break through to the Nascent Soul stage, so he did not have any accompanying supernatural abilities.

"It's actually the cultivation technique practiced by the Heavenly Mirror Hermit, the number one cultivator in the Chaotic Star Sea thousands of years ago!"

From the eight methods of refining the Golden Light Mirror, Qin Sheng deduced the origin of this cultivation technique. He was both surprised and delighted. With the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, he would hardly lack resources in the future. Although the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye's growth-promoting effect was not as good as Han Laomo's Palm Heaven Bottle, it had the advantage of being able to be mass-produced on a large scale. All he needed was the seed.

However, he still had no clue about the cultivation method.

The cultivation techniques sold by the major powers in the Chaotic Star Sea are mostly ordinary; the powerful and profound techniques are not taught to outsiders.

Now we have obtained the Heavenly Origin Scripture, a top-tier cultivation technique that can be cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage.

Moreover, it was a fire-attribute cultivation technique suitable for him to practice.

When you're really sleepy, someone brings you a pillow.

"Thank you, Mr. Fang. No, I should call you Mr. Ye."

Qin Sheng looked at Fang Lao's family tree, which recorded his real name as Ye Shougong. Scrolling further up, he found the name of the Heavenly Mirror Hermit, Ye Xuan.

In other words, his cheap teacher was actually a descendant of the Hermit of Heavenly Mirror from thousands of years ago.

According to the family genealogy, after the death of the Hermit of Tianjing, his descendants suffered a devastating blow from the Star Palace.

Fortunately, Tianjing Sanren knew that he had offended the Star Palace too much back then. After realizing that he could not destroy the Star Palace, he moved a branch of his family out of the area in advance and gave them his cultivation techniques and some resources.

This bloodline has been preserved to this day. However, with the passage of time and years of suppression by the Star Palace, this group of people has been forced to hide and gradually declined. By the time it reached Doctor Fang's generation, only he remained.

Now Qin Sheng has benefited.

It's a bit of a shame that the mirror talisman obtained from Doctor Fang wasn't made by the Heavenly Mirror Hermit back then, but rather a replica made by his descendants. After all, materials like Golden Flame Stone are extremely precious. Just looking at how Old Demon Han used it to make a replica of the Heavenly Spiritual Treasure Three Flame Fan in the original novel is enough to explain everything.

Qin Sheng carefully put away the Heavenly Origin Mirror and the talismans, and began his seclusion again. This time, it was his first time entering a complete, closed-door seclusion.

The kind of person who won't leave seclusion until they successfully establish their foundation.

He poured the two Foundation Establishment Pills he had purchased into the low-level bottle magic artifact that Doctor Fang used to hold Foundation Establishment Pills.

Then he placed it beside him. Next, Qin Sheng placed the Qi Condensation Powder and Qi Nourishing Pill that Doctor Fang had refined in front of him, took out one Qi Condensation Powder and one Qi Nourishing Pill, and began to refine them according to the Qi Circulation Route of the Blazing Sun Technique.

These two kinds of pills are indeed worthy of being called pills that can improve one's Qi Refining cultivation.

According to Qin Sheng's original prediction, after reaching the eleventh level of Qi Refining, it would normally take at least half a year to cultivate to the eleventh level of the Blazing Sun Technique. However, by taking one Qi Condensation Powder and one Qi Nourishing Pill every day, he reached the eleventh level in just two months. At this time, Doctor Fang's Qi Condensation Powder and Qi Nourishing Pill were almost used up.

Normally, Qin Sheng would have waited until he reached the Great Perfection of the thirteenth level of Qi Refining before attempting Foundation Establishment.

But now that he has obtained another Foundation Establishment Pill, having three Foundation Establishment Pills is enough for him to establish his foundation.

Having made up his mind, Qin Sheng first took the Foundation Establishment Pill that Elder Fang had prepared for him, and then began to refine the medicinal power by circulating the Blazing Sun Technique.

The effects of the Foundation Building Medicine took hold very quickly. Just a few hours later, Qin Sheng felt as if a raging fire was burning in his dantian.

The fire burned ever brighter, but the limbs and other parts of the body were ice cold.

This state only lasted for a short while before the burning sensation in the lower abdomen and the coldness in the limbs returned to normal.

Before he could figure out what was happening, Qin Sheng suddenly felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his dantian, which made his face turn deathly pale. He clutched his dantian tightly with both hands, his body hunched over, curled up on the ground.

This state lasted for quite a while before the excruciating pain subsided. Immediately afterwards, countless streams of heat flowed through Qin Sheng's meridians, spreading throughout his body and penetrating deep into his bone marrow, making him feel as if countless ants were constantly crawling all over his body.

My whole body is incredibly itchy.

This state lasted for quite a while before disappearing.

By this time, Qin Sheng was already drenched in sweat, his clothes soaked with sweat, and his whole body was covered with a layer of inexplicable black substance that was sticky and disgusting.

"Is this the cleansing of essence and marrow that one must undergo during the foundation building process?"

Qin Sheng murmured to himself, ignoring the stench on his body, and continued to circulate his cultivation technique to refine the remaining medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

During the cleansing and marrow-refining process, his cultivation technique advanced to the twelfth level in an instant.

The remaining medicinal effects in the body should not be wasted.

Three months later, Qin Sheng completely refined the medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill, but he did not complete the Foundation Establishment; he only raised his cultivation technique to the thirteenth level.

Qin Sheng knew he had failed in his Foundation Establishment attempt, but he was not discouraged.

After all, he didn't have a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and attempting Foundation Establishment at the eleventh level of Qi Refining inherently carried a very high failure rate.

Having reached the pinnacle of Qi Refining, he began to consume his second Foundation Establishment Pill.

The refining of this second Foundation Establishment pill was much easier than Qin Sheng had imagined. As soon as he swallowed it, the medicinal power inside suddenly burst forth, causing Qin Sheng's meridians to heat up, and he reached the Foundation Establishment stage extremely smoothly.

(End of this chapter)