No hope for eternal life

Outside Mu Changsheng's room, Mu Yanggu also sensed something and exclaimed in surprise: "Spiritual consciousness!"

As a cultivator at the peak of the foundation building stage, Mu Yanggu was naturally familiar with spiritual consciousness. After sensing this spiritual consciousness, Mu Yanggu knew that Mu Changsheng had now broken through to the foundation building stage. He was sincerely happy for Mu Changsheng, and his originally anxious heart was completely relieved.

Mu Changsheng spread his spiritual consciousness toward the uninhabited area outside the door and calculated the limit of the spiritual consciousness's exploration distance.

"It can probably cover an area of ​​about eighty feet around the body." Mu Changsheng understood in his heart. Generally, the spiritual awareness of a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building can cover an area of ​​about fifty feet. His range is already very good, and as his cultivation level increases, the range covered by his spiritual awareness will also expand.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng withdrew his spiritual sense. Generally speaking, cultivators would not continue to spread out their spiritual sense and maintain that state of exploration, because it would be easy to use spiritual sense to explore other people's bodies, which would undoubtedly be a very offensive thing.

Of course, if the gap in realm between the two parties is too great, it is entirely possible to make the other party unaware of being detected by spiritual or divine consciousness.

At the same time, Mu Changsheng just found Mu Yanggu standing outside the door, and he knew that his father was worried about him, but he couldn't come out for the time being. Because at this time, an extremely pure spiritual power surged out from his Dantian spiritual foundation, flowing to his limbs and bones, nourishing his body.

Mu Changsheng was not surprised by this. This was exactly what was recorded in the Nine Transformations of the Flesh Body, that cultivation would feed back to the flesh body. It would happen every time one broke through a realm. This kind of feedback was not obvious when a small realm was broken through, but it was very obvious when a large realm was broken through. When Mu Changsheng was a child, he succeeded in absorbing spirits for the first time and broke through to the Qi Refining Realm. He also had this experience once, but the feeling that time was naturally not as obvious as this time. Moreover, the higher the realm, the stronger the effect of this kind of feedback!

Seeing this, Mu Changsheng did not dare to delay and hurriedly absorbed the spiritual power from the mid-grade spirit stone to replenish the consumption in the Dantian spiritual foundation. Because this feedback needs to last for a period of time, and the longer it lasts, the better. Mu Changsheng needs to replenish the spiritual power for his Dantian.

At this time, the advantages of the Foundation Establishment Realm also emerged. In the past, when in the Qi Refining Realm, the spiritual power in the body was used up as time went by, and one could only slowly refine the external spiritual power or replenish it with spiritual stones, like rootless water; but after the foundation building stage, not only is the spiritual power in the Dantian more powerful, even the external spiritual power absorbed will be instantly refined by the spiritual foundation, greatly reducing the time for spiritual power recovery. The spiritual foundation is to the Dantian like a magic needle that stabilizes the sea!

This spiritual base feeding lasted for a full three hours, and Mu Changsheng consumed a full one hundred medium-grade spirit stones, which was equivalent to tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones. Fortunately, Mu Changsheng now had enough spirit stones, otherwise this feeding would have been greatly reduced.

In addition to exploring the outside world, the spiritual consciousness can also explore inside the body, which is called inner vision.

With the help of his spiritual consciousness, Mu Changsheng could clearly see that every bone in his body had changed, from the color of white jade to light silver. This also meant that his physical body refining realm had successfully reached the second transformation, and his iron bones had become smaller!

At this point, Mu Changsheng's body refining realm finally became his aid. Relying on this physical body alone, he could withstand the attacks of a cultivator in the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm. Even if a cultivator in the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm wanted to break his physical defense, it would not be easy.

"What a reward for one's cultivation." Mu Changsheng was overjoyed. Normally, one would need to take at least three special medicinal baths to have a chance to break through to the Iron Bone Transformation. This time, with the help of the reward from breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could reduce the need for two medicinal baths at least. This would not only reduce the torture of the medicinal baths, but also save some medicinal bath resources.

After walking out of the medicine barrel, Mu Changsheng put on his clothes and couldn't help moving his whole body. The feeling of being in the Foundation Establishment Realm was different. He had been in seclusion for four consecutive days before. If he was still in the Qi Refining Realm, he would have been exhausted. But now he was still full of energy and didn't feel tired at all.

When Mu Changsheng walked out of the room, the first person he saw was his father, Mu Yanggu. He couldn't help but grin and said, "I have broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage."

Mu Yanggu looked Mu Changsheng up and down, nodded and said: "Not bad."

Then he added: "Don't be complacent."

"I understand, Dad. You should also go into seclusion and break through to the Golden Core Realm as soon as possible." Mu Changsheng urged. He didn't want to waste his father's time anymore.

"You, no matter how much I practice in this life, how much can I achieve? Do you still care about this little time?" Mu Yanggu smiled and shook his head, but still listened to Mu Changsheng's advice and told Mu Changsheng: "I will go into seclusion now, and you can continue to do what you should do."

"It's my turn to guard the gate for you this time." Mu Changsheng said with a smile: "It just so happens that I also need to stretch my muscles and practice some boxing and kicking skills."

What Mu Changsheng said was true. There were very few foundation-building cultivators who practiced two paths at the same time like him. Now, he was busy breaking through the realm, refining talismans, and cultivating his body. He was like a spinning top that never stopped. He didn't even have time to practice the boxing and kicking skills that were essential for body-building cultivators. This was just the right opportunity for him to practice one or two.

"It's up to you." Mu Yanggu felt helpless when he saw this. Although the reasons given by Mu Changsheng were very reasonable, most of them were just to guard the gate for him.

After Mu Yanggu walked into the room, Mu Changsheng began to practice boxing and kicking kung fu. His boxing skills were also derived from the secret art of the nine transformations of the physical body, and were called Tongbian Quan. This was not only a boxing skill, but also a kicking skill, an elbowing skill, and so on. It was profound and required constant practice to improve.

Mu Changsheng also noticed that it was already past noon and Yang Wuque had finished his lecture, so it was not appropriate to disturb him for the time being. He planned to report the results of his retreat to Yang Wuque after finishing his class tomorrow.

Night fell quietly, and Mu Changsheng had been practicing boxing tirelessly until the sound of a door opening reached his ears. Mu Changsheng then stopped and found that it was his mother Chen Wanru who had returned home.

"Mom, you don't have to go to the alchemy workshop to work every day. You can take a few days off occasionally." Mu Changsheng persuaded.

When Chen Wanru saw Mu Changsheng, she asked in surprise: "You have broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage?"

"Yes." Mu Changsheng replied, and at the same time repeated his words of persuasion.

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you." Chen Wanru touched Mu Changsheng's head and smiled with narrowed eyes.

"Mom, I have another question to ask you. Please don't be angry." Mu Changsheng suddenly said carefully. Now that he has broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, his confidence has soared. He wants to ask a question that has been buried in his heart.

"You say." Chen Wanru said with a smile.

"How did my grandfather's family die?" Mu Changsheng asked in a low voice. Ever since he heard about his grandfather's family from Mu Yanggu, he has kept it in mind. However, his father did not elaborate on how his grandfather's family died, so he wanted to ask.

Chen Wanru's smile suddenly stopped when she heard this, and turned pale, as if the past events were still vivid in her mind. She shook her head and said, "Don't ask, and don't think about revenge. We can't afford to offend those people, not even Mr. Yang."

Mu Changsheng's expression became solemn when he heard this. He didn't expect that the murderer who killed his grandfather's family was so powerful, so he didn't ask any more questions and just buried the matter deep in his heart again.

"Mom, Dad is in seclusion in his room trying to break through. You should go to the next room and rest." Mu Changsheng reminded.

"I understand. Just follow Mr. Yang and practice well. Don't think too much." Chen Wanru still reminded Mu Changsheng.

After Chen Wanru went back to her room to rest, Mu Changsheng practiced his boxing skills even harder, apparently inspired by Chen Wanru's words.

Nothing happened that night until the next morning, when it was time to go to class. Mu Changsheng then stopped practicing and told his mother to stay at home for a while to keep watch for his father.

Later, Mu Changsheng walked out of the house and saw Mu Xun in the sword-making shop, who was still swinging his hammer to help Mu Qun forge the sword. It is said that a man should be looked at with new eyes after three days of absence. Mu Changsheng felt that Mu Xun's temperament seemed to have changed a lot after not seeing him for a few days.