Mysterious mirror hanging high

"Huh? Why is the starting price for this Foundation Establishment Pill only one hundred spirit stones?"

Jing Yu realized something was wrong the next moment. He took a closer look at the Foundation Establishment Pill and suddenly realized, "It turned out to be a waste Foundation Establishment Pill."

Currently, the mainstream foundation-building pills in the world of immortal cultivation are all refined according to the same recipe. Jing Yu remembered that the recipe was called the [Foundation-Building Pill Recipe].

It doesn't mean that there is only one method of refining the Foundation Establishment Pill in the entire world of immortal cultivation. For example, some prestigious sects with a long history have also preserved several Foundation Establishment Pill recipes with a higher success rate, such as the [Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill Recipe] and the [Wanfa Foundation Establishment Pill Recipe].

However, these pill recipes either have too complicated refining techniques, or use too many spiritual medicines and materials. For example, the famous [Heavenly Dao Foundation Building Pill], which can increase the probability of foundation building by 50%, requires spiritual medicines worth enough to be used to refine a furnace of infant transformation pills that increase the probability of forming an infant. The cost-effectiveness is really too low.

The pills made with the [Foundation-Building Pill Recipe] have a moderate level of difficulty in refining, and the consumption of spiritual medicines is also within a reasonable range, which is why they have quickly become popular.

Generally, genuine foundation-building pills will have two golden lines on them, which are called "Dao lines", also known as "double-line foundation-building pills". They can not only protect the Dantian and prevent the cultivators who are trying to establish their foundation from losing their lives due to failure, but also increase the success rate of foundation-building by 20%.

(This 20% success rate for foundation building doesn't mean the original probability was only 10%, but after taking the genuine foundation building pill, the probability will increase to 30%. Instead, it means that the 10% probability has been increased by 20%. That is, after taking the genuine foundation building pill, the success rate of a cultivator who originally had a 10% probability of foundation building has increased to 12%. And if a genius cultivator who originally had a 50% probability of foundation building success takes the genuine foundation building pill, he will have a 60% chance of success.)

If you are lucky, you may be able to refine a [Super-grade Foundation-Building Pill] with three Dao patterns, also known as a [Three-Pattern Foundation-Building Pill], which can increase the success rate of foundation-building by 30% on the original basis.

But if one is unlucky or the alchemist's skills are not good enough, it is possible to refine an inferior foundation-building pill with only one golden Dao pattern, which can only increase the success rate of foundation-building by 15%.

But this is all under the premise of success. If the alchemy fails, the furnace will explode. Another possibility is to refine several [waste foundation-building pills], which do not even have a Dao pattern. They can only increase the success rate of foundation-building by half and cannot protect the dantian. If you use waste foundation-building pills to build the foundation, if it succeeds, it's fine. Once it fails, there is a high probability that the dantian will explode and you will die.

What is being auctioned in the display case in front of you is just such a [waste foundation-building pill] without any Dao patterns.

Around the display case, there was a circle of white-haired old monks, staring at this scrap foundation-building pill with hesitant expressions.

"Fellow Daoist Wang, are you ready to take action?" A female cultivator with white hair and chicken skin turned to ask another male cultivator with a white beard.

The white-bearded male cultivator looked struggling. "I'm seventy-nine years old this year, and I've only saved up a little over three hundred spirit stones. Let alone a genuine Foundation Establishment Pill, even a low-grade one is still a long way off. If I delay for a few more years, my chances of success will become even slimmer. Perhaps by the time I'm eighty-five, the extra 15% chance of success from a genuine Foundation Establishment Pill won't even make up for the reduced chance due to the decline of Qi and blood, and the depletion of my meridians!"

"But this junk foundation-building pill has no effect on protecting the dantian after all. If the foundation-building fails, there is a high probability of death..."

"Damn! If I can't build my foundation in this lifetime, what difference will the remaining ten years of my life make from death?"

"I can't make up my mind. I'd rather save spirit stones for another five years and build my foundation at the age of eighty-five, so I can at least buy one inferior foundation-building pill!"

"Me too! There is a great terror between life and death, but I am still no match for Fellow Daoist Wang. I cannot break through it, I cannot break through it..."

"I'm leaving, I'm leaving. I'm eighty-three years old this year. Building a foundation is not something I can aspire to do, and I'm too lazy to bother with it. At worst, I can leave the spirit stones I've saved to my grandson to build his foundation. It's also a thought."

"Fellow Daoist Qian, are you still in need of a grandson?"

While several old monks were talking, many of them dispersed, leaving only the white-haired female monk and the male monk named Wang who were still standing there.

After that, the auction price of this scrap foundation-building pill changed several times and rose to 109 spirit stones. The white-haired female cultivator sighed, shook her head and left.

Only the cultivator named Wang was left. He seemed afraid that someone would try to snatch the pill from him, so he didn't go anywhere else and simply stayed by the booth. When someone came to watch and offered a price, he immediately raised the price to a spirit stone, which made the stall owner who was selling the pill laugh and cry.

"When I'm building my foundation in the future, maybe I can buy a [junk foundation building pill] to fool people..."

Although Jing Yu had never built a foundation himself, he was not unfamiliar with the process of building a foundation. During the five hundred years in the Hall of Longevity, except for Lu Yingzhao who probably thought that building a foundation was too simple and there was no need to explain it in detail and only explained the key points of forming a pill, people like Ye Xingyun, Yun Xuance, Li Jiangmei and even Han Ping were not reluctant to share their experience in building a foundation.

To put it simply, building the foundation is to compress and condense the gaseous magic power in the body into liquid, and create the [Immortal Jade Liquid]. After success, it can cleanse the body and open up the sea of ​​consciousness, which is considered to be stepping into the door of immortality.

Ordinary cultivators can only compress their magic power one strand at a time according to the procedure, and they cannot control it precisely. To a large extent, they can only act on instinct. However, Jing Yu opened up his sea of ​​consciousness in advance during the Qi training period. At that time, he only needs to use his spiritual thoughts, and the stage of turning magic power into liquid is within his grasp. There is no possibility of failure.

It can even be said that Jing Yu does not need the so-called foundation-building pill to protect his dantian, because unless he is knocked unconscious in the middle of the foundation-building process, there is no possibility of failure in his foundation-building!

But if an old cultivator with only low-grade spiritual roots succeeded in building his foundation without even buying a foundation-building pill, it would be too conspicuous. Jing Yu would definitely buy one to make it look like he was doing something stupid.

Of course, he could also just buy a genuine foundation-building pill and keep it without taking it. After successfully building his foundation, he could find an opportunity to resell the genuine foundation-building pill, which would not be a loss.

However, this would be a big challenge to his cash flow of spirit stones, but it was reasonable and much more logical than using waste foundation-building pills to break through the foundation-building stage.

"Forget it. By the time I establish my foundation, it will be more than 20 years later. There is no need to rush now."

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On the other side of the venue, a burly man in a black cloak, with a dark complexion and a full beard, looked at the endless stream of people with a slightly dazed look in his eyes, thinking to himself:

"It's been five years since the fall of Yellow Wind Valley. After traversing the entire Wushan Mountains and overcoming countless dangers, I finally arrived in the Cloud River Region. Here, commerce is flourishing, spiritual resources are plentiful, and the cultivators are friendly... It's quite different from the customs and practices of the Southern Sky Region."

"This is just a small market town. I wonder what the Happy Alliance headquarters [Happy Immortal City], where several Jindan Great Immortals are in charge, is like? I'd really like to go there and see for myself."

"Huh... Never mind. I should buy some spiritual herbs and medicine first, and refine a furnace of healing pills to treat my injuries."

Then the dark-faced man smiled heartily and said to the stall owner beside him:

"My fellow Daoist, I wonder what the [price] is for this spiritual herb? If the price is right, I will buy it on the spot!"