No hope for eternal life

Mu Changsheng took the jade bottle and found a Yuan-refining Pill inside. This kind of pill is considered one of the best pills in the Qi-refining realm. One pill is worth nearly a hundred low-grade spirit stones. This price is almost as much as the harvest from his own spiritual field in half a year.

Mu Changsheng was very touched by this, but he still said with a smile: "I will definitely be able to break through today."

After saying that, Mu Changsheng crossed his own spiritual field and came to the foot of the mountain next to it. The mountain was a small hill, not very famous, and it didn't even have a name. Mu Changsheng loved to come here to play since he was a child, and he even dug a small cave here specifically. This was his own little world.

The entrance of the cave was ajar and was very small, only able to accommodate one person. Mu Changsheng had to bend over to enter the cave.

When you get to the inside of the cave, you will find that there is actually a natural spiritual pool. Of course, it is called a spiritual pool, but it is actually just a small puddle. Water drops continuously drip from the cracks in the mountains above. The water contains a kind of spiritual energy, which makes the spiritual energy in the cave much richer than outside. That is why Mu Changsheng likes to come here to practice.

When Mu Changsheng first discovered this spirit pond at the age of ten, he was extremely excited and thought he had found a treasure. He dug a lot of other holes in the cave, but found nothing. The spirit pond was just an ordinary spirit pond. The only benefit was that it made Mu Changsheng's cultivation speed a little faster.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng seized the opportunity and immediately sat cross-legged beside the spirit pool to practice meditation and breathe in the spiritual power of heaven and earth.

The spiritual power of heaven and earth was absorbed by Mu Changsheng and circulated through the meridians of his body. After being refined through a large circulation, the spiritual power flowed into the magic power pool in his dantian, and the spiritual power in his dantian was increased.

After practicing for two hours in a row, the spiritual power in Mu Changsheng's dantian only increased by a dozen strands, which was so slow that it made people anxious.

The spiritual power in spirit stones or spirit valleys is more docile and condensed, and easier to refine. Therefore, absorbing the spiritual power of heaven and earth to practice is often the worst way to practice. A better way is to take spirit valleys to practice, and an even better way is to use spirit stones to practice. Spirit stones are divided into four grades: low, medium, high, and top. The higher the grade of the spirit stone, the greater the help it will naturally provide to the speed of practice.

But Mu Changsheng's family is ordinary, so he has to use spiritual stones, not to mention spiritual grains, sparingly.

However, Mu Changsheng is trying to reach the peak of Qi Refining today, and this is when he needs to use the Spirit Valley.

Mu Changsheng then took out the bag of spiritual grains, pinched out two grains with his fingers, and swallowed them. The two grains melted in his mouth and turned into two spiritual powers that flowed through his body. Mu Changsheng quickly refined the two spiritual powers, and in a short while, the mana pool in his dantian added two more spiritual powers, and the efficiency was significantly improved compared to before.

Next, Mu Changsheng followed the same method and continued to practice with the spiritual valley. He was determined to achieve a breakthrough today.

After another two hours, most of the spiritual grain in Mu Changsheng's hands was consumed, and he finally felt that the spiritual pool in his dantian had reached saturation. It was time to make a breakthrough.

So, Mu Changsheng took out the Lianyuan Pill that he had placed close to his body in his arms, took a deep breath, and swallowed it in one gulp. The Lianyuan Pill melted in the mouth just like the Linggu, but the difference was that the medicinal power transformed from the Lianyuan Pill did not wander around the body, but went straight to the Dantian.

After the medicinal power of the Lianyuan Pill reached the Dantian, it was directly integrated into the spirit pool in the Dantian. As the medicinal power was integrated, the spirit pool in the Dantian gradually expanded.

Mu Changsheng's parents had already explained countless times about the precautions for practicing in the Qi Refining Realm and the Foundation Establishment Realm. Naturally, Mu Changsheng kept them in mind. At this time, the range of the Dantian Spirit Pool was expanded with the help of elixirs. It was the critical moment when he needed to replenish his spiritual power. He hurriedly swallowed several grains of spiritual grains to replenish the Dantian Spirit Pool.

Just like that, under the dual effects of the power of the Yuan Dan and the replenishment of the spiritual valley, the spirit pool in the Dantian steadily expanded and eventually filled the entire Dantian, marking that Mu Changsheng had officially entered the peak realm of Qi Refining!

"Huh." Mu Changsheng opened his eyes, exhaled a breath, and his face was filled with joy of breakthrough.

"It's worthy of being the Yuan Dan. It broke through so smoothly." Mu Changsheng said with emotion.

Mu Changsheng felt refreshed after the breakthrough. He glanced outside the cave and saw that it was already dark. He was not in a hurry to go home. His parents knew that he liked to practice here and never restricted him. Or perhaps his parents had already come to see him when he was practicing and just didn't disturb him.

"Continue to practice." Mu Changsheng was full of energy and decided not to go home tonight and continue to practice here.

Although Mu Changsheng's Dantian has been filled with the spirit pool, this does not mean that his Qi Refining Realm training has come to an end.

Mu Changsheng's mind moved, and he summoned a strand of spiritual power from his Dantian, which circulated through the meridians in his body. After a cycle, the strand of spiritual power became smaller, but also more condensed. This is what a cultivator at the peak of Qi Refining needs to do, constantly refining the spiritual power in his body to prepare for building a foundation in the future.

Although cultivators have foundation-building pills to help them build their foundation, if their own spiritual power is not refined enough, no matter how good the foundation-building pills are, they will not be able to help the cultivator build his foundation successfully.

Generally, one must refine the Dantian spiritual power at least three times before trying to use the foundation-building pill to build the foundation. And what Mu Changsheng has to do now is to refine the spiritual power for the first time.

Mu Changsheng spent the whole night in silence, as he worked tirelessly to refine his Dantian spiritual power. It was not until a little light came from the cave entrance that Mu Changsheng stopped practicing, opened his eyes, and walked out of the cave.

The sun was about to rise, and Mu Changsheng began to climb the mountain.

There has been a saying circulating in the Nine Realms that when the sun is born, purple air will come from the east. At this time, if one practices facing the sun, the speed of practice will be increased.

Mu Changsheng had tried this many times, and he felt that his cultivation speed seemed to have really become a little faster. Over time, he developed a habit of climbing to the top of the mountain to practice every morning.

While Mu Changsheng was walking quickly up the mountain, he was also thinking about his own cultivation in his mind. After practicing for a night, he had only completed about one twentieth of the first round of refining spiritual power. According to this progress, three refinements would take nearly two months, and eighty-first refinements would take four and a half years!

Why did Mu Changsheng want to refine his spiritual power eighty-one times?

That’s because there is already a precedent in the Nine Realms. After refining spiritual power 9981 times, one can build the foundation on his own even without the Foundation Establishment Pill.

"It seems that it is a waste of time to build the foundation without relying on the Foundation Establishment Pill." Mu Changsheng sighed in his heart. Cultivation has always been slow, step by step. Spending nearly five years just to build the foundation is really unacceptable.

"But the foundation building pill is really expensive." Mu Changsheng continued to calculate in his mind. The foundation building pill is divided into three grades: second-grade foundation building pill, first-grade foundation building pill and the best special-grade foundation building pill. The better the foundation building pill, the higher the price. But even the worst second-grade foundation building pill requires 300 low-grade spirit stones, the first-grade foundation building pill requires 500 low-grade spirit stones, and the special-grade foundation building pill requires 1,000 low-grade spirit stones!