Ball Ball Cultivation

Qiuqiu was carried aloft by a maid on a flying paper crane to the cave. Looking around, Qiuqiu discovered that Flowing Cloud Mountain was no longer within Flowing Cloud City, but rather independent. The mountain and city protection formations were interconnected, employing the principles of the Yin-Yang formation, creating a mutually reinforcing, cyclical system. Amazing! Formations could be combined like this; I'd learned something new.

Seeing Qiuqiu looking around with an amazed expression, the maid in green proudly explained, "This is the seventh-grade protective formation set up by our sect's Grandmaster Ming Zhenzi, the Peak Master of the Formation Peak, when he was still in the Nascent Soul stage."

"How amazing! Are you a disciple of the Taixu Sect?"

"Yes, I am an outer disciple of Taixu Sect, and this is the sect mission I accepted."

As he spoke, he reached the top of the mountain. Following the instructions of the woman in green, he took out the small wooden sign and placed it in a groove. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared, and Qiuqiu took out the small sign again. "Okay, the formation is activated. You can enter and exit at any time with the small wooden sign. Just follow the path I brought you. If you act recklessly and encounter unreasonable seniors, you will suffer even if we step in to deal with them. When the time comes to return, take the small wooden sign directly to the trading hall, and we will check and settle the spirit stones!"

After explaining everything clearly, he boarded the flying paper crane and flew away.

Qiuqiu entered the cave, and the first thing he saw was a small courtyard a hundred feet in radius, with lush vegetation growing in disarray. A narrow bluestone path, about one person wide, split in the middle, one leading to the cave, the other to the pavilion. The cave was located on the mountain, less than a hundred meters from the peak. It was a large excavation carved out of the mountain, with a slightly larger cave in the middle and two smaller caves on either side. It was completely empty, nothing at all. It was such a perfunctory job. I felt so bad for the spirit stone... crying (′;︵;`).

Qiuqiu used his spiritual sense to scan the yard and found nothing unusual. He entered the cave and took out a fourth-grade defense array and an advanced spirit gathering array and activated them.

Entering the space, Bai Yi and Bai Er were practicing.

Qiuqiu first cooked a lot of food, and then the two little ones and a little yellow bird came out and had a good meal.

"The Taixu Sect has just finished recruiting disciples, so we can only wait another year. I've rented a cave here and plan to go into seclusion. How about you guys go out and practice well while I build my foundation before going out to play?"

"We must practice hard. I'm already at the second level of Qi Refining." Bai Er said firmly. Bai Yi also nodded.

"There's no need to rush this practice. You also need to train your body. There are various training rooms in the interstellar laboratory. You can ask Huahua to help you open them."

The two little ones nodded in unison.

"My injuries are basically healed. I will watch over these two in their daily practice. You can focus on building your foundation." The crisp bird voice of Xiao Huang was heard.

"Okay." After that, he led a group of people to set up camp in another cave.

After several hours of accumulation, the spiritual energy in the cave became even richer, almost catching up with that in the space. The forty-nine high-grade spirit stones were indeed not wasted!

Qiuqiu sat beside a spiritual cavern connected to a spiritual vein node in the stone cavern and began to meditate. After nearly seven years of arduous cultivation, his Dantian meridians were overflowing with spiritual energy, and the feeling of building a foundation could no longer be suppressed. As a chaotic spiritual body, he naturally absorbed spiritual energy. Images of his parents and relatives surfaced in his mind, along with the seven years of giving birth and raising his child. The path to becoming stronger through cultivation was already underway. He was determined to successfully build his foundation, his conviction unwavering.

This time, all the suppression was released, one big circle after another... the speed was getting faster and faster, and the surrounding spiritual energy all attached to the ball, forming a spiritual cocoon, but the ball inside the cocoon was in extreme pain.

The technique ran quickly, bringing the surrounding spiritual energy closer. She was a chaotic spiritual body, so a large amount of spiritual energy entered her body. She could only speed up the technique to refine the spiritual energy. This was a vicious cycle. The massive influx of spiritual energy was about to burst her dantian and meridians. To relieve the pressure on her dantian and meridians, she had to speed up the refining of the spiritual energy, which was even more painful.

When building a foundation without taking foundation-building pills, the technique states: compress and condense the spiritual energy in the body to the extreme, allowing it to transform into spiritual fluid and gather in the dantian. The technique doesn't mention how to condense the spiritual energy into spiritual fluid, which is true. Cheap things don't always come with quality, but this technique isn't cheap either! Five kinds of fourth- and fifth-grade spiritual plants, five kinds of fifth-grade refining materials, and an array formation costing over a hundred high-grade spiritual stones is equivalent to the net worth of a Nascent Soul cultivator, which means that expensive things aren't necessarily good!

As the spiritual energy within her body increased and her cultivation techniques were pushed to their limit, it still showed signs of turmoil. Qiuqiu had no choice but to draw her consciousness into thin strands to guide the turbulent spiritual energy. The situation immediately eased, but the spiritual energy outside her body continued to penetrate her body without paying. Qiuqiu felt ripped off. She had only rented a medium-level orange-level cave dwelling and was worried that the spiritual energy would not be enough to build her five spiritual roots. She even spent half of her wealth to set up a high-level spirit gathering array! How could there be so much spiritual energy?

Poor Qiu forgot about the eye of the spiritual vein here, and there was no one on the surrounding hills. The spiritual energy accumulated over the years was all attracted by her super black hole chaotic spirit body.

Just as Qiuqiu's spiritual consciousness was nearly exhausted, with a loud bang, his dantian expanded more than double in size. Like a high-spirited warrior finally emerging from a maze and finding his nemesis, spiritual energy surged through his veins, rushing into his newly expanded dantian. Like a flood rushing into a small river, his veins were instantly breached and widened. The vitality-purifying soul grass's properties were revealed, strengthening his veins and strengthening their resilience. It tamed the spiritual energy and allowed it to flow through the Great Circulation of the Heavenly Qi, slowly nourishing and repairing them. The dried-up spiritual consciousness was also nourished. With this surge of spiritual energy, the newly formed dantian was filled. If the previous moment had been a rushing stream, now it was like the Yellow River bursting its banks. The spiritual energy rapidly filled his dantian. As soon as his spiritual consciousness had recovered a little, he began to guide the spiritual energy through the Great Circulation of the Heavenly Qi, accelerating it once again. It seemed like it had become an instinct.

At this time, a light golden color appeared in the lungs, revealing a bit of heavy pressure. This was the benefit of comprehending the artistic conception of gold. With a "pop" sound, the first drop of spiritual liquid appeared in the dantian; with a "boom" sound in the brain, the spiritual consciousness also changed and was further condensed. The sea of ​​consciousness also expanded by more than double, and the spiritual consciousness reached the golden elixir stage.

The newly added consciousness quickly guided the influx of spiritual energy through a great circulation, compressing and condensing it before solidifying it into spiritual fluid. This continued until the entire spiritual energy within the dantian had been transformed into spiritual fluid, covering the entire bottom of the dantian. By this time, the newly added consciousness had also completed its initial condensation, enveloping the "Nine Nines Return to One Chaos Divine Language" within the sea of ​​consciousness with its full consciousness. Finally, a new chapter emerged, marking the foundation-building period's cultivation method. The following also noted that only by comprehending the artistic conception of water could one achieve elixir formation.

Qiuqiu now understood why, just as she was about to burst from the spiritual energy, a faint golden light emanated from her lungs, compressing and consolidating her spiritual energy and consciousness, leading to a successful foundation building. Otherwise, she would have been the unlucky one, suffocated to death by her own spiritual body absorbing too much spiritual energy!

I understood the meaning of gold, and gold governs the lungs in the human body, which also corresponds to the five elements of the human body.

After running through three great cycles of the Foundation Establishment technique, he felt refreshed. He opened his eyes and stood up, smelling a foul odor. He cast a few Dust Clearing Techniques on himself before he saw a palm-sized creature with five tentacles, resembling a starfish, floating above him.

"How did you get in?" Qiuqiu was in seclusion, but he used a fourth-level protective formation. How did this thing get in?

"From this spiritual energy point," he pointed to the spiritual energy eye on the ground with a tentacle. It was obvious that his eyes were ignorant and his thoughts were simple.

"What are you doing here?"

"I was sleeping downstairs, and something attracted me here, so I came over. You make me feel so comfortable."

Qiuqiu had also seen Huahua's spirit. This one looked a bit like Huahua, so he guessed it was probably a spirit as well. Qiuqiu called Huahua out to chat with the silly starfish, then returned to his own dimension.

This time when Qiuqiu was building his foundation, the spiritual energy in the space became richer, and most of the spiritual creatures inside benefited from it.

When the ball was building its foundation, the concentration of spiritual energy in the space also increased. The higher the concentration of spiritual energy, the more seals were released. The energy from the released seals would also dissipate to the unsealed areas of the space, making the spiritual energy in the space more concentrated. This is a mutual effect.

I let the two little ones get some fresh air and brought them and Xiao Huang and Xiao Zi to the cave. I saw Hua Hua and Hai Xing chatting happily.

As usual, sit in a row and listen to the results.

This time, Huahua was the main speaker, and the topic was about the origin and ownership of starfish. The monitor was starfish.

The five listeners below were drinking tea, eating fruit, and having various snacks.

Huahua said very seriously: This is a little elf in its larval stage, which can be born in the best spiritual vein.

Generally, a top-grade spirit vein can produce a spirit essence, and then the spirit essence will feed back to the spirit vein, so that they can promote each other. A mature spirit can upgrade the spirit vein from intermediate to advanced, and the advanced to top-grade. This is to promote the spirit vein.

However, the young elves only absorb the spiritual energy from the spiritual vein to grow, and they don't give back to the spiritual vein. The original mature elf naturally doesn't want to use the spiritual vein that it has worked hard to take care of to fatten the little elf. So it squeezes the little elf here.

It turns out the little elf wanted to settle in Floating Cloud City's premium spiritual vein, but that vein was barely balanced. The little elf was currently absorbing more energy than returning, causing it to become over-consumed and dead. The little elf would sleep and grow in this isolated, medium-sized spiritual vein, waiting to grow to the spiritual vein beneath Floating Cloud City. The reason the mountains surrounding the cave were so depleted in spiritual energy was because any excess spiritual energy from the veins was absorbed by the little elf.

In short, the little spirit was the second little spirit born from a supreme spirit vein, and was banished here, a homeless little creature. It was awakened by the large amount of spiritual energy absorbed by the ball while it was building its foundation, and was attracted here. Because the ball was a chaotic spirit, the little spirit naturally felt a special affinity with it.

Huahua invites the little elf to go with Qiuqiu, saying that she can help the little elf grow up quickly. The little elf is willing to go with Huahua. Its growth requires draining the middle-grade spiritual veins, and this place will soon become a dead spiritual vein. As long as the little elf leaves, this place will recover within a thousand years.

Qiuqiu immediately asked: "What's the use of the little elf? There is no spiritual vein for it to grow."

"The little elf can be in the space, or follow you. We can take it with us when we ascend to the upper realm in the future. It will grow slower by staying with us. In the upper realm, where there is abundant spiritual energy, it will grow faster. Moreover, the growth of the little elf takes tens of thousands of years. It has just passed the ignorant period after more than 50,000 years, and now it doesn't understand anything."

"Okay, I have no objection. What about you?" It was a very democratic vote.

Bai Yi: “No problem.”

Bai Er: “You can stay.”

Xiao Zi: “Play together.”

Xiao Huang: “It’s worth studying and exploring.”

Huahua: "Then stay. I'll take the little elf back to the space." As she said that, Huahua and the little elf without attributes disappeared before her eyes.

Qiuqiu left the four little ones in the cave and allowed them to play in the yard. After giving them some instructions, he returned to the space to consolidate his cultivation.