Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 13 Combat System
Of course, using pills for cultivation also has certain disadvantages, such as the high cost of purchasing pills and the high cost of cultivation.

Secondly, after refining pills to improve cultivation, one must carefully hone one's foundation; otherwise, an unstable realm will have a huge impact on future breakthroughs.

Finally, there's the toxicity of elixirs.

Every medicine has its side effects. Although pills can quickly improve one's cultivation level, taking too many will still lead to the accumulation of a large amount of pill toxins in the body.

Not only is it bad for your health, but it can also hinder your future breakthroughs.

However, these things are still far off, and Su You hasn't taken too many pills yet. Besides, there are always solutions in the future.

After this battle, Su You also clearly saw his own strengths and weaknesses.

Firstly, his strong mental power indeed brought him great convenience, especially when facing enemies of a lower realm than him, making them very easy to deal with.

However, it is not as effective when facing a more powerful enemy.

Furthermore, the methods of using witchcraft remain the same, over and over again.

The main reason is that I have only just learned the other spells and I am not yet proficient in using them. It will take some time before I can unleash them, so it is better to use the ones that I am already proficient in.

This is not a problem that can be solved in a short time; it requires a significant amount of time for training.

In addition, the power of magic should not be underestimated. Although his current cultivation level is still low, the power he can unleash when using magic may not be as great as witchcraft. However, as his cultivation level increases, the power of magic will gradually increase, and it will also become one of his important means of fighting enemies in the future.

The only difficulty is that when using the power of two different systems simultaneously, one cannot yet use them skillfully.

This relates to the application of mental power, which requires repeated training to master.

The sealed gray-black stone door slowly opened, and the twin clones, after absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy to reactivate the twin marks, left the cultivation room feeling completely relaxed.

The Foundation Establishment Realm has been achieved, but this is only a small goal on the path of cultivation. The path to immortality is vast and boundless, and the desire to achieve longevity and freedom in the world is still a long way off.

……

Changlin Peak, Inner Affairs Hall.

"Greetings, Elder of Internal Affairs. Inner disciple Jiang Chen has broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm and has come to report this," Su You said respectfully.

After a breakthrough in cultivation, you need to report to the sect and update your information.

In addition, after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm, the monthly salary from the sect will be higher. After all, the Foundation Establishment realm is considered the backbone of the sect, and the benefits and treatment are much better than those of the Qi Refining realm.

The elder in charge of internal affairs gently scanned Su You with his divine sense, confirming that Su You had broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm, and then said, "Take out your sect token."

Su You handed over the sect token.

A moment later, the Elder of Internal Affairs took out a new token for him, on which his current information was recorded again. "Later, when you go to the Divine Soul Pavilion, leave your divine soul aura in the sect's jade book."

Then, the Elder of Internal Affairs took out two more items. "These two are rewards from the sect to newly promoted Foundation Establishment disciples. This is a bottle of Jade Spirit Pills, which are effective in improving cultivation in the early stages of Foundation Establishment. And this is a token, which you can use to go to the third floor of the Transmission Pavilion to choose a Foundation Establishment cultivation technique."

"Thank you, Elder." Su You nodded and accepted the reward.

However, this is probably the last time the sect will provide the benefit of elixirs.

Unlike the Qi Refining stage, the Foundation Establishment stage requires refining second-tier pills using spiritual herbs that are over a hundred years old. Even sects wouldn't have that many reserves. Therefore, disciples who reach the Foundation Establishment stage receive spirit stones as their annual bonus.

If you want pills, one way is to buy them in the market outside. The Void Heaven Immortal City is so big that there are many shops selling pills. As long as you have spirit stones, it is easy to buy second-tier pills.

Another option is to exchange merit points within the sect, but there is a limit to the number of times this can be done.

Apart from that, Su You's status remains unchanged; he is still an inner disciple, and the next level above an inner disciple is a true disciple.

The benefits and treatment of true disciples are far superior to those of inner disciples. Becoming a true disciple means being nurtured as a potential Golden Core cultivator, with a high probability of reaching the Golden Core realm in the future.

The sect's resources will also be tilted towards the true disciples.

However, to become a true disciple, one must first make sufficient contributions to the sect, and secondly, one's own cultivation level must reach the late Foundation Establishment stage. Only after being selected by the sect's elders' council will one be qualified.

These things are still somewhat distant for him right now; he can only plan them once his cultivation level improves.

After leaving the Inner Affairs Hall, Su You did not go to the Transmission Pavilion to choose a cultivation technique. He was not in a hurry to find a Foundation Establishment technique. He wanted to revive his original body first.

……

The Void Heaven Immortal City, a Class C cave dwelling.

A figure slowly materialized in the void.

Although it wasn't the first time Su You had seen this change, he was still very curious.

After the main body was resurrected, the twin clones did not return immediately, but waited quietly in the Void Heaven Immortal City.

Su You had already rushed back to the Liuyun Mountains to retrieve his storage bag.

This time, apart from the final loot and two storage bags, all the previous loot was hidden in the safe house he had built.

Because we'll be spending a longer time in the Liuyun Mountains this time, the benefits are expected to far exceed those of the last time.

The only pity was that the second-tier demon beast that Su You had killed earlier had already been devoured by other demon beasts by the time he arrived, and even his storage bag and magic weapon were nowhere to be found.

It's unclear whether the monster took it away or if other cultivators exploring the Flowing Cloud Mountains picked it up.

After waiting for five days, Su You finally made his way over, and that was by flying boat. If he had traveled on his own, it would probably have taken him at least a month to get here.

After all, the Void Heaven Immortal City is located in the center of Qingzhou, while the Flowing Mountain Sect is located on the edge of Qingzhou, and the two are hundreds of thousands of miles apart.

To save time and for safety reasons, Su You would definitely not skimp on the spirit stones needed to travel by flying boat.

This time, Su You did not use the identity of the Twin Avatars of the Void Heaven Sect to sell himself.

It's always best to be careful, and besides, he doesn't care about the difference of a few hundred or a thousand now.

All the demonic beasts had been dismembered, and Su You constantly changed their appearances before selling them in various shops.

After all, the monsters Su You killed were all too intact, making it easy to tell that they died from attacks using divine sense. So he kept some of their leather and bones and sold the rest.

Su You can also make use of these leathers and bones.

Now that the twin clones have successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they can truly begin to systematically learn various knowledge of the cultivation world.

As for wizards, although they have inherited memories, these are just memories, and they still need to digest and integrate them slowly.

Leather and bone can be used to experiment with weapon crafting.

Various medicinal herbs are rare, but the bones and skeletal remains of demonic beasts are relatively easy to obtain.

Whether it's alchemy or weapon crafting, if you can master them, they can be a profitable trade.

As for alchemy, refining pills for the Qi Refining stage is no longer of much use to me, while for the Foundation Establishment stage, spiritual herbs that are over a hundred years old are quite rare.

It would be better to wait until the Wizard Tower is completed before trying.

Previously in the wizarding world, many wizard towers had special wizarding gardens for cultivating potions. If these gardens could also be effective for elixirs, the cost of alchemy could be reduced.

Su You sold the materials in more than 20 shops and finally sold out all the goods he had collected over the past three months, totaling 77,632 spirit stones.

This many spirit stones are enough to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill.

The market price of Foundation Establishment Pills is 40,000 spirit stones, but because there is always a high price but no market, they can be auctioned for up to 50,000 spirit stones.

However, Su You has no plans to purchase Foundation Establishment Pills yet, as he is still some distance away from advancing in his cultivation level.

Although he has been taking pills, he has only just reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. It will take at least half a year for him to reach the Qi Refining Perfection stage. He will also need to refine his foundation during that time, and it will be at least a year before he can break through.

Moreover, it will take him more than half a year to break through to the late stage of the first rank in terms of body refinement.

After purchasing enough body-refining treasures and Qi-refining pills in the Void Heaven Immortal City, Su You handed over all the remaining spirit stones to his twin clones and returned to the Flowing Mountain Sect. This time, he was going to go into seclusion for a while.

The twin clones returned to the sect, first heading to the Divine Soul Pavilion to leave behind their divine soul aura.

Su You wasn't worried about this. Even if the other party had tampered with it, with the Twin Marks, he wouldn't be harmed. Moreover, based on Su You's research on mental power, leaving behind a soul aura would at most only confirm whether the disciple above was dead, and then he could use that aura to track down the person. Otherwise, it posed no threat.

After leaving behind his divine soul aura, Su You first went to the third floor of the Transmission Pavilion to select a cultivation technique.

The worst techniques in the third tier are at the Foundation Establishment level, and there are quite a few at the Golden Core level as well. However, Su You can only exchange for one of them for free, and only the Foundation Establishment level.

Only core disciples of a sect, or cultivators with a Heavenly Spiritual Root, would start by cultivating a Nascent Soul-level technique.

Su You examined it carefully and first ruled out cultivation techniques other than those with the attributes of water and wood, because his spiritual root had the dual attributes of water and wood, and the cultivation speed was the fastest when practicing these two attribute techniques.

However, he is currently cultivating a water-attribute technique. If he were to switch to a wood-attribute technique, it would not only consume some of his magical power but also take up a lot of time.

After thinking for a moment, Su You decided to choose from water-attribute cultivation techniques.

He had previously cultivated a Golden Core level technique called the "Water Element Scripture," but unfortunately, its power was mediocre and unremarkable. Now he could switch to a different one.

After careful selection, Su You finally chose the "Mysterious Water Spiritual Essence Scripture". The power of this technique was not very great, only slightly better than the "Water Element Scripture", but its advantage was that the magical power cultivated from it was more profound.

Most importantly, when cultivating the "Mysterious Water Nourishing Spirit Scripture", one can use magic power to nurture a drop of Mysterious Yuan Spirit Water in the dantian. This spirit water can be used when breaking through to the Golden Core realm, increasing the probability by 10%.

That alone makes its mediocre power hardly a problem.

Moreover, the twin clones are meant to stay in the rear, so they don't need to excel in combat; the key is that they can break through more easily.

After choosing their cultivation techniques, the twin clones arrived at the Spirit Mountain Pavilion.

This is a place on Mount Ling where the sect specifically assigns cave dwellings to its disciples.

Now that the twin clones have broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm, they can naturally choose a new cave dwelling.

He now has two choices. One is to choose a cave dwelling on a third-tier spiritual vein, so that he can enjoy the benefits of a third-tier spiritual vein.

Another option is to choose a separate spiritual mountain. You can choose a second-tier spiritual mountain as your cave dwelling. Although the spiritual vein level is low, having a separate spiritual mountain allows you to make use of it and generate considerable income every year.

Disciples without a background would naturally choose a third-tier cave dwelling. After all, if they chose a second-tier spiritual mountain without a background, they would only be assigned a lower-grade second-tier spiritual mountain.

Only those with powerful connections or who bribed the disciples on duty could exchange their lodgings for a better sacred mountain.

Su You naturally chose Mount Ling. Although a third-tier spiritual vein was good, it was just a cave dwelling, and there were many cultivators around. For someone with many secrets, a separate Mount Ling was better.

He didn't bribe any disciples, and Su You didn't care too much about the grade of Mount Ling. If it was just for cultivation, he might as well choose a third-tier cave.

Most people choose Lingshan for its daily benefits; the higher the grade, the better the benefits.

However, Su You didn't care about the income from Mount Ling, which was only a few hundred or a thousand spirit stones a year, and it wasn't much to him at the moment.

Moreover, Su You doesn't actually rely on the spiritual energy of Mount Ling to cultivate, as that would be too slow.

really!

After no bribe was offered, the disciple on duty produced a map of the sect's spiritual mountains, which were all second-tier, lower-grade spiritual mountains.

Su You glanced around and, finding no other options, chose a relatively remote spiritual mountain in the north. It was a second-tier lower-grade spiritual mountain, with spiritual energy equivalent to only a second-tier lower-grade spiritual vein.

……

Jade Spring Peak.

Su You hovered in the air on his sword, looking at the scenery below and said with satisfaction, "Not bad."

There is a hot spring at the top of the mountain and a small lake at the foot of the mountain. It is a pretty good place for people who practice water-attribute techniques. Moreover, the scenery is also quite nice, so it won't be too boring on ordinary days.

In the following period, the twin clones stayed at Jade Spring Peak to cultivate when switching cultivation techniques, and spent the rest of their time at the Transmission Pavilion.

After all, the books and materials on the first floor are free, and Su You needs to learn a lot about the cultivation world in order to integrate them with the knowledge of the wizarding world.

(End of this chapter)