My Optimized Immortal Life

Three years later, in the Sky Valley, Chen Qing, dressed in a black robe and with a calm expression, stood suspended above the lake of underground fire. His hands kept making spells in front of him. In front of him, a ball of underground fire several cubic meters in size was constantly surging. As Chen Qing's magic power flowed, some fragments of underground fire were constantly refined from it and fell into the lake below, causing ripples.

At the four corners of the Lake of Earth Fire, you can see several formation flags standing upright, with formation patterns flashing in the air. The center is exactly the ball of earth fire in front of Chen Qing. The formation he arranged is assisting Chen Qing in refining this ball of earth fire.

Compared to the fatigue when he refined a ball of earth fire three years ago, it is now extremely easy for Chen Qing to refine this earth fire. In the past three years, he has refined the earth fire every day and is naturally very familiar with it.

Moreover, his current cultivation level is vastly different from what it was three years ago, which is why he can refine the earth fire so easily.

Half an hour passed in a flash. At this time, Chen Qing had stopped using his magic power. A piece of earth fire essence as big as a fist was suspended in the air and was put into Chen Qing's storage bag.

This piece of earth fire essence is extremely heavy and is enough to be used as an item at the Wanren City auction.

Chen Qing let out a long sigh and returned to his cave. Three years had passed, but his cave had not changed much. Xu Lingxin was not there, and he did not have the energy to tidy up the entire cave, so he left it as it was.

At this time, sitting cross-legged on the cushion, Chen Qing looked inward at his body with his spiritual consciousness, which escaped into his dantian.

In the dantian, which was several feet in size, three hundred drops of deep red liquid mana were suspended in the center of the dantian. Not only that, the shape of these three hundred drops of liquid mana was also different from the liquid mana that Chen Qing condensed when he just entered the foundation-building stage.

Compared to the light red liquid mana that condensed at the beginning, Chen Qing's current deep red liquid mana looked more viscous, and all the liquid mana gathered together, faintly forming a deep red golden elixir.

The phenomenon of liquid magic power semi-condensing into a pill is called a false pill, and those who can reach this level are all cultivators who have completed the foundation building.

Chen Qing pursed his lips and smiled.

In just three years, driven by sufficient earth fire essence, Chen Qing's cultivation level advanced by leaps and bounds, soaring straight up from the initial stage of foundation building to the perfection of foundation building, becoming a fake elixir cultivator.

This speed far exceeds that of ordinary cultivators. Even the legendary cultivators with natural spiritual roots do not have such a cultivation speed.

However, family members know their own business. The fact that Chen Qing was able to cultivate to perfection in foundation building so quickly is inseparable from the earth fire veins here.

However, what helped him the most was still his innate ability. If he did not have the innate ability to optimize the Earth Fire Transformation Technique, he would not be able to refine the Earth Fire Veins and extract the Earth Fire Essence from it to provide for his own cultivation.

Sitting cross-legged on the cushion, while looking inward at himself, Chen Qing was also practicing the Earth Fire Transformation Technique to restore his own magic power.

After his cultivation broke through to the perfection of foundation building, the amount of his liquid mana was naturally more than 300 drops. With the help of the Earth Fire Transformation Technique, which was considered the best technique for foundation building, Chen Qing's liquid mana was as much as 360 drops, reaching the limit of mana that a cultivator in the foundation building stage could cultivate.

On this basis, his magic power was able to condense into that fake pill. With that fake pill, his chances of breaking through the Jindan stage increased by 30%.

However, he is not planning to form a pill, at least in the next ten years.

The biggest reason is naturally that the Earth Fire Transformation Mysterious Technique does not have a chapter on forming a pill. Although this technique is derived from the combination of more than a dozen techniques, including three techniques for forming a pill, it does not contain any fire-related techniques, so the chapter on building a foundation cannot be deduced. This is actually quite normal.

Before the invasion of the Demonic Path, there were only five forces in the entire Song Dynasty that possessed cultivators at the Jindan stage. The Lieyang Sect, the Baihua Palace, the Taixuan Sect, and the Qiubo Lake each had only one cultivator at the Jindan stage. Although the Tianyuan Sect had a Yuanying ancestor, the number of Jindan cultivators within the sect did not exceed the number on one palm. Under such circumstances, the techniques that could be cultivated to the Jindan stage were naturally extremely rare.

Chen Qing has been practicing all the way, and he has only acquired three exercises related to the Jindan period. One was obtained from Zhong Ning, one was obtained from Liu Yanghe, and one was obtained from the auction in Wanren City. Apart from these, he has not seen any exercises for the Jindan period. Due to the rarity of the exercises, Chen Qing cannot continue to deduce the Dihuo Zhuanxuan Gong. After all, there are too few exercises that can be used as a reference.

His next main goal is to collect the skills for the Jindan stage, or even the Yuanying stage. Otherwise, it would be too troublesome for him to seek the skills for the next stage every time he breaks through a major realm.

However, this is not an easy task. Song State is too small, so small that it can only support one Tianyuan Zhenjun. If one wants to continue practicing, it is imperative to leave Song State.

However, this matter will have to wait until Chen Qing breaks through the Jindan stage or even reaches the perfection of the Jindan stage before it can be considered. After all, the situation outside the Song Kingdom is more complicated. The vast wilderness alone is enough to stop a group of cultivators who want to leave this place.

After sitting cross-legged in the cave for a while and recovering his magic power, Chen Qing prepared to leave.

His cultivation has now reached the perfection of foundation building. Due to the limitations of his skills, he can no longer make progress. There is little point in staying here any longer.

As for the four arts of cultivating immortals, he had already broken through to the second level in all of them. Moreover, after three years of continuous refining by him, the surface of the Earth Fire Lake here has dropped a lot compared to three years ago, and the amount of Earth Fire essence contained in it has also greatly decreased.

After taking a look at the fiery red lake, Chen Qing then withdrew his gaze. Before leaving, he still had to deal with the cave here.

The first thing was to close the passage between the cave and the lake to prevent the underground fire here from destroying the cave after he left.

He was not planning to take this cave made of black stone away. It was too troublesome, time-consuming and laborious, and he had to worry about the outbreak of the Earthly Evil.

During these three years, Chen Qing had only encountered one outbreak of Earthly Evil. That Earthly Evil surged out from deeper underground, and the place where he was was also affected. At that time, he was still refining the essence of Earth Fire, and saw a black fog surge from the depths of the Earth Fire. In a blink of an eye, it came to the surface of the lake, directly covering the formation he had set up, causing him to immediately lose contact with the formation and no longer be able to control it.

Fortunately, Chen Qing was staying next to the cave when he was refining the essence of earth fire. After discovering that something was wrong, he immediately retreated into the cave. At the same time, the Black Nether Stone did not disappoint him and successfully isolated the Earth Evil outside. Otherwise, even if he was a foundation-building cultivator, he would have to experience the feeling of having all his magic power suppressed.

After taking care of everything, Chen Qing left the cave and came to the outside of the Sky Valley. Staring at the crack that looked like a long dragon, Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief, then stepped onto the flying boat and left.