Mysterious mirror hanging high

"But burning mana can always be restored as long as it doesn't damage the fundamentals. Consuming blood and energy isn't your lifeblood, so it can be replenished slowly."

"Lifespan is different. A cultivator's lifespan is limited. Every year they use it is one year less. How many precious medicines and elixirs are there in the world that can restore a lost lifespan? It's not something that can be squandered."

Song Jianxu sighed, "I am seven hundred and thirty years old this year. My Golden Elixir has an eight hundred year lifespan, so I should have seventy more years to live. However, when I was young, I didn't know how to cherish my life and often squandered it on divination and fortune-telling. Now I have only thirty years left to live. I don't know if I can cultivate a True Man named Song for my family before I die."

Song Jinghong, who was listening, looked tense and felt a heavy pressure in his heart.

"I will first teach you the science of divination and numerology. Once you have mastered the art of divination, I will then return to improve your alchemy skills."

"Don't fall behind in your cultivation during this period. I think you're not far from the late stage of foundation building. If you can reach the late stage, your mana capacity, quality, and spiritual power strength will increase by about 30% to 40%, making it easier to refine pills."

Song Jianxu said in a gentle voice, "I have some precious pills here that are suitable for Foundation Establishment cultivators to enhance their cultivation. I'll offer them to you first. When I'm out of danger, you can come with me to Xingluo Island and refine a few furnaces for my Song family as repayment."

"Thank you, Immortal, for the elixir." Jing Yu thanked him.

After all, it was a pill given by a great immortal in the late Jindan stage who was proficient in alchemy. The medicinal strength and grade of the pill were not comparable to the ordinary products refined by Jing Yu. Originally, Jing Yu felt that it would take at least six or seven years for him to enter the late foundation building stage. Now, with the precious pill given by Song Jianxu, plus [Ku Du Xuan Guang], he can quickly absorb and refine the pill poison, and he will be able to break through to the late foundation building stage in three or four years at most.

As for the bottleneck from mid- to late-stage?

That is something ordinary monks need to consider.

Obviously, Song Jianxu has already tacitly accepted that Jing Yu is the kind of genius cultivator who will not have obvious bottlenecks in the foundation-building stage.

Jing Yu thought of this and suddenly had an idea. He thought, "Master Song might be trying to test the quality of this 'prodigy cultivator' of mine... If I had the help of a precious pill like this, I could have saved myself the painstaking effort of accumulating mana. But in the end, I was stopped by a bottleneck before reaching the late stage of foundation building. Wouldn't that reveal my true colors?"

For a period of time thereafter, the three of them hid in the underground cave of this nameless deserted island. The Red Dust Sea is vast, with countless islands of all sizes on the sea. Under the vast ocean, there is a great immortal like Song Jianxu in the late Jindan stage who interferes with the secrets of heaven and conceals their tracks, so they have never been discovered. Naturally, Song Jianxu's enemies in the Jindan stage could not catch any trace of them.

Jing Yu then entered a rare period of rapid growth in his cultivation. He usually swallowed elixirs and precious medicines to refine the medicinal power and accumulate merit and magic power.

In his spare time, he would seek out Song Jianxu and ask this great master to teach him the skills of divination and alchemy.

Jing Yu had extraordinary natural talent in alchemy, and now that he had met a famous teacher, his alchemy skills had naturally improved by leaps and bounds.

His original talent in divination was mediocre, but by cheating by being able to consume his lifespan infinitely, his progress was even faster than that in alchemy.

Song Jianxu had seen many geniuses in his life, but only Jing Yu was an expert in both alchemy and divination, just like him when he was young. In addition, Jing Yu was naturally intelligent, had noble character, and was careful and polite. The more Song Jianxu saw him, the more he liked him. He couldn't help but want to take him as his disciple. However, taking into account Jing Yu's original master background, he had to give up this idea to avoid offending the True Lord behind Jing Yu and causing the Song family to suffer a devastating disaster.

"Even if we can't be master and disciple, it would be good if we could form a marriage alliance."

Song Jianxu thought so in his heart, but he looked at Jing Yu's heroic and extraordinary face, and then looked at his great-granddaughter Song Jinghong, and sighed secretly:

"It's a pity that Jinghong is in such a state... If I force this matter, it really won't be considered a favor, and I'm afraid it will only create an enemy."

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Several years passed like this, and in the blink of an eye it was the 614th year of the Changsheng calendar.

On this day, Jing Yu swallowed a pill as usual, refined the medicinal power, and inhaled and exhaled spiritual energy to hone his magic power. He felt that the liquid magic power in his dantian had reached the point where it was full and overflowing, and his dantian already felt a little swollen.

Suddenly, I felt my dantian expanding and contracting, as if an invisible barrier was broken. The entire dantian actually grew a circle larger. The bottleneck from the middle stage to the late stage of foundation building was broken naturally.

Then the spiritual energy in the underground cave quickly gathered around Jing Yu, and soon a thick spiritual pressure of the late foundation building stage emanated from Jing Yu's body, and Jing Yu's spiritual power also suddenly increased by about 30% to 40%, almost approaching the level of a Jindan cultivator!

After Jing Yu absorbed the last breath of spiritual energy into his body and his magic power circulated for a full week, he slowly opened his eyes and found Song Jinghong standing in front of him, congratulating him:

"Congratulations, Brother Ye, on your great progress in cultivation. After twenty or thirty years, when you have perfected your cultivation to the level of foundation building, forming a pill will be a natural progression!"

Jing Yu and Song Jinghong had been living together in this underground cave for several years and had become quite familiar with each other. After getting along with each other, Jing Yu discovered that although this female cultivator from the Song family was ugly in appearance, she was a very stable person with no bad behavior. Therefore, Jing Yu had a good relationship with her and no longer had the defensive attitude he had at the beginning.

"Jinghong, you are too kind. If we talk about forming the elixir, maybe you are one step ahead." Jing Yu said with a smile.

"I have been in the late stage of foundation building for many years. Even if I reach the stage of pill formation at the same time as you, I am still far inferior to you." Song Jinghong said with a wry smile.

"That's alright. I still have another twenty or thirty years left in my old bones, which is more than enough to protect you two on your final journey. I must see at least one of you form a golden elixir before I can close my eyes."

An old voice sounded, and the two turned around to see Song Jianxu, who was walking in from a fork in the cave with his hands behind his back. A golden elixir divine sense swept over Jing Yu, and he nodded with satisfaction:

"Indeed, although you have taken a lot of elixirs in the past few years, I have observed that after breaking through to the late stage of foundation building, your magic power is still thick and solid, and your foundation in the immortal path is even more solid. It can be seen that you have not forced your growth, and every step you take is solid."

"With this kind of consolidation and polishing, I may be able to obtain the [Purple Qi Golden Pill] in the future!"

Song Jianxu looked strange:

"Friend Ye, are you really not a genuine descendant of the Ye family?"

Jing Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Ye Yulou is indeed a pseudonym of this junior. I do have a past relationship with a certain True Lord of the Ye family, but I am definitely not a direct descendant of his family."

"As for my true identity, my family has forbidden me from revealing it. I hope you will forgive me."

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay." Song Jianxu smiled and twirled his beard, but he couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "Whose True Lord is this who is so mysterious? It's fine as long as he is not a descendant of the Emperor of the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty..."