Mysterious mirror hanging high

"It's okay. When you're out and about, you have more friends and more options. This little price difference will allow me to make a friend."

Jing Yu said with a smile, "If you need any medicinal pills in Wushan Market in the future, you can come and find me, Zhao."

"It turns out that Fellow Daoist Zhao is also an alchemist. I, Li, also have some knowledge of the art of alchemy. We can exchange some ideas then." Han Ping bowed. Seeing the sincere attitude of the heroic cultivator in front of him, his tone subconsciously became friendly.

"Easy to say, easy to say."

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After Han Ping left, Jing Yu held the manuscript containing the [Nameless Breath-Concealing Technique] in his hand. After just one flip through it, he realized that this secret technique must be true.

In fact, this is also a test of Han Ping's character. After all, the puppet inheritance he dismantled is a genuine thing. With the vision of a foundation-building cultivator, Han Ping can naturally see its preciousness. If he is so sincere, and he can still fool him with a fake breath-concealing technique, then there is no need to contact him again in the future.

Now it seems that, regardless of Han Ping's character, he at least has basic credibility and does not look like a cunning person.

"With this nameless breath-retaining technique, I can now start to improve my Qi training..."

"You can even ask for the tenth level of Qi training..."

Theoretically, anyone who has just entered the ninth level of Qi training can try to build a foundation. Perfecting the ninth level of Qi training only slightly increases the probability of success. However, it is unheard of for low-level cultivators at the tenth level of Qi training. Among the group of immortals selected at the same time as Jing Yu, only Lu Yingzhao has reached this level. The rest, even Ye Xingyun, who has unparalleled luck, also built a foundation step by step at the ninth level of Qi training.

Logically speaking, if there really is a qualitative difference between the ninth level of Qi training and the tenth level of foundation building, Ye Xingyun, as a direct descendant of the Nascent Soul Immortal Clan, would not be unaware of it. Even if he didn't know, his grandfather who was in the Nascent Soul stage would have reminded him.

In this way, building the foundation after the tenth level of Qi training is nothing more than making the magic power a little stronger. However, on the one hand, this realm cannot be entered naturally, and on the other hand, it will take some time to accumulate magic power. The time of ordinary cultivators, even those at the genius level, is very precious. This little benefit is not enough for them to waste another five or six years.

But as an immortal, Jing Yu has the right to pursue perfection on the path of cultivation. Even the "Suffering Sutra" passed down by Wanshou Daojun has ten levels in the body-casting chapter, which corresponds to the ten levels of Qi training. This is enough to show that there should be some meaning to the ten levels of Qi training.

Jing Yu left the exchange meeting and went straight back to his own courtyard. After saying hello to Mu Shan and his family, he began his longest retreat...

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[Year 576 of the Changsheng calendar]

Twenty years have passed in a flash, and several major events have occurred in Wushan Market during these twenty years.

One is that the number of mortal body cultivators in the market has greatly decreased. Almost all of them have been forced or semi-forced to leave the market and return to the secular countries. Instead, they have been replaced by a large number of newly naturalized low-level Qi cultivators. The overall atmosphere in the market is still thriving.

The second is that the former owner of the market, Yuwen Xiaojin, was transferred out of Wushan Market in the tenth year of Jing Yu's retreat. As Mu Shan had predicted before, he returned to Xiaoyao Xiancheng to take up his post.

Thirdly, it is not a big deal for the market itself. Seven years ago, Mu Shan spent a lot of money to buy a genuine foundation-building pill and tried to build his foundation when he was eighty years old, but ultimately failed. Fortunately, the genuine foundation-building pill has the effect of protecting the dantian. After Mu Shan failed in building his foundation, he was only slightly injured and his life was not in danger.

Jing Yu was worried that all Mu Shan's lifelong pursuits would be in vain and he would lose all hope, so he came out of seclusion once to drink with Mu Shan to help him relieve his emotions. However, Mu Shan himself was quite open-minded. After all, according to the overall ratio in the world of immortal cultivation, there was only one foundation-building cultivator for every three hundred Qi-cultivating cultivators. In remote places like Wushan Market, the ratio was exaggerated to five hundred to one.

Mu Shan had been striving for the elusive path of foundation building. If he succeeded, he would be granted a lifespan of three hundred years, officially entering the realm of immortality and seeking the path to longevity. If he failed, he could still live happily with his beloved wife until old age...

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On this day, Jing Yu, who was living in a quiet room, was covered in gray light, and his entire body looked like a stone sculpture.

Feeling the terrifying physical strength within his body, Jing Yu frowned slightly and thought:

"After twenty years of diligent practice, both my physical and Qi training have reached the tenth level of great perfection..."

"The Qi training system is not difficult to establish a foundation, but there will be a spiritual energy vortex when breaking through. The movement is too loud and it cannot be hidden from others. A genuine foundation-building pill is needed as a cover."

"There weren't any strange phenomena when the Kudu Treasure Body broke through to the [Treasure Body] realm, but this major bottleneck must either be slowly polished and wait for the right time to break through, or I must use a powerful body-refining elixir to try to break through it..."

Thinking of this, Jing Yu flipped his right hand, and a dim, gray pill lay quietly in his palm.

[Waste Foundation Building Pill]!

Looking at the scrap Foundation Establishment Pill in his palm that he had spent 120 Spiritual Stones to buy, Jing Yu said to himself with satisfaction:

"Foundation-Building Pills are meant to aid in foundation building with their pure and immense medicinal power. The difference between a genuine Foundation-Building Pill and a defective one is that they have an extra component to protect the Dantian, and secondly, they contain too many poisonous impurities. This will indeed greatly reduce the probability of building a foundation for ordinary cultivators... However, in terms of medicinal power alone, there isn't much difference..."

"Using this immense medicinal power to break through to the [Treasure Body] realm is perfect."

After saying that, Jing Yu directly threw this waste foundation-building pill into his mouth.

Coo-coo-coo-coo

Jing Yu sat cross-legged when he suddenly heard a loud buzzing sound in his stomach. Fortunately, he had set up a soundproofing formation in the quiet room in advance, so the sound was not transmitted.

The huge medicinal power impacted Jing Yu's limbs and bones. The mysterious mirror suspended in the dantian shook slightly, and instinctively wanted to absorb the medicinal power and condense the gaseous magic power in the dantian into liquid. However, the omnipresent Ku Du Xuan Guang took the lead and swept away all the medicinal power, and seeped it into Jing Yu's bones, flesh and fascia!

"Still short?"

Jing Yu frowned slightly. The bottleneck of the Bitter Crossing Body Refining Treasure Body was too thick. Even the huge medicinal power of a Foundation Establishment Pill was a little weak...

He opened his storage bag and took out two jade bottles. From each jade bottle, he poured out five high-quality Qi Condensation Pills...

Jing Yu opened his mouth wide and violently sucked in the ten Qi Condensation Pills that could help cultivators in the late stage of Qi training to improve their cultivation.

The vast spiritual energy once again filled Jing Yu's body, but this bottleneck was still as solid as Mount Tai, with no sign of loosening.

"what happened?"

Jing Yu frowned, seeing that the huge medicinal power was about to be exhausted, so he simply took out more than ten kinds of monster flesh and blood that he had collected on a daily basis. Without having time to cook or even thaw them, he directly swallowed all the frozen meat with ice chips in it!

"Hmm? Has the bottleneck loosened?"

Jing Yu suddenly realized and laughed:

"So that's what happened!"