No hope for eternal life

"It's okay, I just suffered some minor injuries while practicing the secret technique." Mu Changsheng said as he untied his headscarf and face scarf, revealing his face.

In order to prevent Mu Yanggu from worrying, Chen Wanru also echoed: "I have checked, and they are indeed minor injuries."

"So that's how it is." Mu Yanggu was also shocked when he saw Mu Changsheng's face. After listening to Chen Wanru's explanation, he finally felt relieved. Then he told Mu Changsheng: "No matter how good the secret technique is, you must practice it in moderation. You must know that too much is as bad as too little."

"Yanggu, Changsheng and Qin Xuan from the Qin family have made an appointment to fight." Chen Wanru interrupted and expressed her concerns.

"Ask for a fight." Mu Yanggu's face changed when he heard that.

"Dad, Mom, don't worry for now. I have something important to tell you." Mu Changsheng said solemnly.

Seeing Mu Changsheng's serious expression, Mu Yanggu nodded and said, "Go ahead, I'm listening."

Chen Wanru on the other side also pretended to listen.

Mu Changsheng slowly told the story of his discovery of the spiritual mine, and he told everything else he could, except for the secret technique of the nine transformations of the physical body, which involved the inner demon oath.

He had not said it before because he was worried about bringing trouble to his parents, but the scene that happened in the alchemy workshop before made Mu Changsheng realize that he was wrong.

As the saying goes, he who is not envied is a mediocre person. With his cultivation and rise, his family is destined to be envied. Since jealousy is inevitable, there is no point in hiding it from his parents. It is better to let his parents know so that they don't have to worry about a few trivial spirit stones. They can cultivate with peace of mind in the future and ascend to the great path together.

"Is there really a magical mine on the barren mountain, and it's yours?" Chen Wanru said in disbelief.

"Shh." Mu Yanggu hurriedly whispered, "Be quiet, be careful, there are ears on the other side of the wall."

"Dad, Mu Bo's family lives next door to us, and Mu Bo is not that kind of person." Mu Changsheng consoled him. He saw Mu Qun first stand up for justice in Xukai Town, so he still trusted him.

Mu Yanggu shook his head and said, "Since ancient times, money has moved people's hearts, and people's hearts are easily changed, so we must be on guard against others."

Mu Yanggu also felt that Mu Qunxian was a good person, but one couldn't gamble on such things.

Afterwards, Mu Yanggu warned Mu Changsheng: "I know you said this to reassure us. Now that we all know it, don't mention it again."

"Yes." Mu Changsheng nodded and agreed, then said: "I am practicing the secret art of body refining. Even if I get beaten up, it is equivalent to helping my practice. So you don't have to worry about the fight between Qin Xuan and me."

"It's okay as long as you know it in your mind." Mu Yanggu nodded slightly. After knowing about the spiritual mine, he was indeed relieved. The practice of cultivators requires four things: land, companion, method, and wealth. Although the word wealth comes last, it is also the most critical one. Now that Mu Changsheng has the spiritual mine, he can look forward to a bright future.

Mu Changsheng then handed Mu Yanggu a storage bag and said, "Dad, here are a thousand middle-grade spirit stones. Go to Qihua City to buy a Jindan for mom to help her break through to the Jindan realm as soon as possible. You two can keep the rest of the spirit stones. I still have more than five thousand middle-grade spirit stones here."

Mu Yanggu did not refuse this time and directly accepted the storage bag, but then he said solemnly: "I will accept it this time, but this is the last time. When your mother breaks through to the Golden Core Realm, the two of us in the Golden Core Realm can be self-sufficient no matter what. Unless you break through to the Nascent Soul Realm in the future, don't give us spirit stones anymore."

"Your father is right. The two of us have not laid a good foundation for cultivation since childhood. We are destined not to go far on the road of cultivation. Your spirit stones should be used by yourself first." Chen Wanru also said from the side.

"Okay, I understand." Mu Changsheng responded with a smile. In his opinion, even if the foundation of cultivation is not good, there are various ways to make up for it. He will help his parents find a solution in the future.

Finally, Mu Changsheng said: "I will go practice first."

"Go ahead," Mu Yanggu said quickly.

After Mu Changsheng entered the room, Chen Wanru threw herself into Mu Yanggu's arms and said softly with tears in her eyes: "Our child has really made it."

"Yes, after all the hardship comes happiness." Mu Yanggu patted Chen Wanru's shoulder and said comfortingly.

Inside the room, Mu Changsheng hurriedly prepared a potion and took a medicinal bath while the wounds on his body had not yet healed. He had made a new discovery while taking medicinal baths these days. Taking a medicinal bath with injuries seemed to make it easier for the medicine to penetrate, and the effect would be better.

With his whole body immersed in the medicine barrel, Mu Changsheng had long been accustomed to the piercing pain. Now, this level of pain made it impossible for him to even groan.

Mu Changsheng practiced while taking a medicinal bath. After successfully building the foundation, it was basically all slow work. He could only practice hard day by day to continuously strengthen the spiritual foundation of his dantian in preparation for condensing the golden elixir in the future.

The Qi Refining Stage is to fill the entire Dantian with spiritual power, while the Foundation Building Stage is to fill the entire Dantian with the spiritual foundation condensed from spiritual power. Currently, Mu Changsheng's Dantian has just been filled by 15%, and he is still in the initial stage of the Foundation Building Stage.

Silent all night.

The next morning, the medicinal power in the medicine barrel had been exhausted, and Mu Changsheng also ended his practice.

After one night, all the scars on Mu Changsheng's head and face had disappeared, and a lot of new hair had grown. The scar removal cream and hair growth pill were indeed very effective.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng used his spiritual sense to look inward and saw that the color of his entire body's bones had gradually changed from light silver to darker, and he was already approaching the state of becoming iron bones.

However, Mu Changsheng knew very well that even if he really reached the level of Iron Bone, it would only improve his ability to withstand blows. Without the ability of long-range attacks, it would still be very difficult for him to defeat Qin Xuan, who was in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

In this regard, Mu Changsheng came up with the solution of talismans. He had the top-grade Efeng talisman pen in his hand, and his cultivation had already broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, so he could directly try to refine a second-grade talisman.

As long as Mu Changsheng could refine a powerful enough second-grade talisman, it would be easy to defeat Qin Xuan, who was in the middle stage of foundation building.

Mu Changsheng had already bought the spiritual materials needed to refine the second-grade talisman, so he could directly prepare the talisman liquid used for refining the talisman.

After the talisman liquid was prepared, Mu Changsheng meditated for another half a quarter of an hour before he picked up the Efeng talisman brush, dipped it in the talisman liquid, and began to draw the talisman.

The talisman that Mu Changsheng was going to draw this time was called the Mountain-Breaking Talisman, a second-grade intermediate talisman. It was also the talisman with the greatest attack power among the six second-grade inherited talismans of the basic talisman secret technique. Its power was comparable to a full-strength attack from a cultivator in the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

The first time, Mu Changsheng was halfway through drawing when the tip of his pen tilted, and the spiritual power in the talisman paper suddenly fluctuated violently. Eventually the spiritual power backfired, causing a small explosion in front of Mu Changsheng's eyes. However, with Mu Changsheng's current physical body, it was easy for him to withstand this backlash and explosion.

"Try again." Mu Changsheng was not discouraged. The greater the power, the more difficult the talisman would be. This was the first time he refined a second-grade talisman. It would be strange if he could succeed on the first try.

In the second attempt, the spiritual power was not supplied in time, causing the talisman pen to be terminated and the talisman drawing to fail.

"Well, the higher the grade of the talisman, the higher the requirements for spiritual power supply and continuity." Mu Changsheng was also constantly summarizing his experience of failure.

The third time failed, the fourth time failed, the fifth time failed, the sixth time succeeded!

"Finally, I succeeded once." Mu Changchang breathed a sigh of relief. He succeeded on the sixth try, which was already very good in his opinion and made him very encouraged.

The seventh failure, the eighth failure, the ninth failure, the tenth failure.

"If I succeed once in ten times, according to the rules of talismans, I can be considered a second-grade talisman master. Moreover, the difficulty of this Mountain-Breaking Talisman is much higher than that of ordinary second-grade talismans." Mu Changsheng comforted himself in his heart, and he also knew that most of this was due to the talisman pen Efeng that Yang Wuque lent him.