activa-t Chapter 183 The Foundation Has Been Completed
Chapter 183 The Foundation Has Been Completed
Chapter 183: Foundation Establishment Achieved
With years of experience under his belt,
Li Lan found refining these Purple Sandalwood Spiritual Beans quite smooth.
It only took seven months,
to prepare all the cultivation resources needed for Foundation Establishment.
During this period,
he controlled the Spirit Bean Soldiers in the mine tunnels below,
to excavate many middle-grade spirit stones.
Li Lan immediately covered the entire cave dwelling with these spirit stones,
creating a cultivation environment for himself that was almost comparable to a middle-grade Spirit Vein.
Looking at the five Qi Refining Tenth Level sitting cross-legged in front of him,
as well as the numerous Qi Refining Fourth Level and First Level Spirit Bean Soldiers behind them,
Li Lan let out a long breath.
Sitting cross-legged on the cushion,
he cast a hand seal, activating the Gathering Spirit Formation beneath his feet.
Immediately, he patted his storage bag with one hand,
summoning the log-shaped purple sandalwood tree core.
Then, he flipped his hand and took out a Gathering Qi Pill and a Foundation Establishment Pill to consume.
After doing all this,
he formally began attempting to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.
In an instant,
the runes of the Gathering Spirit Formation flickered with dazzling light,
like lively chains, forcefully pulling the surrounding beneficial spiritual energy towards it.
In the originally calm space,
spiritual energy gathered like a rushing river, and amidst the whistling sound, it even faintly formed a visible vortex,
scrambling to pour into the Gathering Spirit Formation.
Li Lan consciously used his divine sense to control this heaven and earth spiritual energy, channeling it into the purple sandalwood tree core,
and after it had been roughly refined,
he then absorbed this spiritual energy into his body and circulated his cultivation technique to refine it one by one.
Very quickly,
strands of profound magic power flowed towards his dantian.
Driven by such immense magic power,
the originally still mist of magic power in his dantian began to churn violently.
After reaching the Qi Refining Great Perfection realm,
the interior of this magic power mist had already become extremely saturated,
even condensing into tiny mist droplets.
At this moment,
as large amounts of magic power continuously poured in,
the magic power mist began to undergo subtle changes once again.
Just like morning dew gathering into small water droplets on a leaf,
those originally scattered mist droplets also began to gradually approach and merge.
The magic power mist gradually shrank, its humidity decreased,
slowly transforming towards a liquid state.
To successfully break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, one must at least transform all of this magic power mist into condensed beads and fill one-tenth of the space within the dantian.
Li Lan's eyes were tightly closed, and in just a short while, his forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat. The entire process sounded easy to describe, but was exceedingly difficult to actually perform.
Every drop of condensed magic power bead required his full concentration to guide and compress before it could form.
During this period,
some external cultivation resources also played a crucial role.
For example, the Foundation Establishment Pill,
it could not only prevent the immense magic power within the dantian from suddenly becoming chaotic and damaging the foundation during full compression,
but also serve as a guide during the qualitative change of magic power from gaseous to liquid.
Without this pill,
ordinary Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivators would likely spend their entire lives,
and still find it difficult to figure out how to make the magic power within their bodies complete this transformation.
Furthermore, cultivation resources like the Gathering Qi Pill and middle-grade Spirit Veins,
to fill one-tenth of the dantian's space with these condensed magic power beads,
relying solely on the magic power mist within a Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator's body is completely insufficient.
This requires Qi Refining cultivators, while breaking through,
to also rapidly refine enough magic power and replenish it in time while the effects of the Foundation Establishment Pill last.
Even single Spirit Root cultivators with exceptionally fast cultivation speeds would find it difficult to achieve this based solely on talent.
Therefore,
most cultivators, when attempting to break through,
will specifically seek out low-grade or middle-grade Spirit Veins, which are,
places where the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy is exceptionally abundant and pure, to accelerate their cultivation speed.
At the very least, they will use a large amount of spirit stones to create a similar environment, thereby effectively assisting the cultivator in breaking through the bottleneck.
Li Lan temporarily created such an environment.
The middle-grade spirit stones on the surrounding walls flickered with dazzling, brilliant light,
and under the effect of the Gathering Spirit Formation, continuously emitted tangible heaven and earth spiritual energy.
As time passed,
some middle-grade spirit stones would gradually dim in surface luster,
due to the spiritual energy within them being completely consumed.
At this time,
the Spirit Bean Soldiers waiting nearby would stand up, take out a new spirit stone, and replace it.
This cycle ensured that the concentration of heaven and earth spiritual energy in this cave dwelling,
could always maintain the same level as a middle-grade Spirit Vein.
Nine months passed in a flash.
When the effect of the first Foundation Establishment Pill was about to dissipate,
Li Lan slightly opened his eyes and furrowed his brows.
Now, more than half of the magic power mist in his dantian had dispersed,
but the condensed magic power beads he had accumulated were pitifully few.
This won't do,
even if he used up three Foundation Establishment Pills, he feared it would be difficult to break through the bottleneck.
Although he had the assistance of various cultivation resources like the purple sandalwood tree core,
his speed in absorbing heaven and earth spiritual energy was still a bit too slow.
Fortunately, Li Lan had already prepared for this.
A Qi Refining Tenth Level Spirit Bean Soldier stepped forward at the right time,
Li Lan placed his palm on its body,
and began circulating the Devouring Yuan Great Art to absorb the magic power within its body.
This Spirit Bean Soldier was different from the purple sandalwood tree core,
as the latter could only roughly filter out spiritual energy impurities,
whereas the former contained the purest magic power,
which Li Lan could directly channel into his dantian for use without needing to circulate it through his meridians for further refinement,
This directly saved him a significant amount of time required for absorbing and refining spiritual energy.
With such abundant backup support,
the speed at which Li Lan's dantian converted into condensed beads suddenly increased by a large margin.
As large amounts of magic power flowed away,
this Spirit Bean Soldier's cultivation realm also dropped again and again,
eventually falling to a level lower than Qi Refining First Level.
If an ordinary cultivator encountered such a thing, they would likely go insane on the spot.
But on the Spirit Bean Soldier's face, which was identical to a human's,
there were no emotional fluctuations whatsoever,
as if it wasn't the one losing its cultivation.
Although these Spirit Bean Soldiers had human appearances,
they were ultimately not human.
They were merely puppets, without self-awareness,
and all their thoughts and actions were carried out under Li Lan's control.
After draining the magic power from this Spirit Bean Soldier,
Li Lan switched to another Qi Refining Tenth Level Bean Soldier.
He had originally wanted to try if he could break through the Foundation Establishment Stage realm without using the Devouring Yuan Great Art.
This wasn't because Li Lan was kind-hearted and reluctant to take away the cultivation of these Spirit Bean Soldiers.
It was simply because,
although these Spirit Bean Soldiers could also absorb spiritual energy and cultivate, their speed was ultimately far inferior to that of normal human cultivators.
Once the Qi Refining Tenth Level realm was lost, it would likely take a long time to recover.
Spirit Bean Soldiers at this cultivation level could already store energy for talismans,
and could be of great help in combat against others.
If possible,
Li Lan certainly didn't want to temporarily lose this assistance.
But now that breaking through the Foundation Establishment Stage had reached a critical moment,
he could only choose the greater of two benefits or the lesser of two evils.
Cultivation knows no time,
and in the blink of an eye, another two years had passed.
On this day,
in the cave dwelling, the gray humanoid mud figure sitting cross-legged on the cushion suddenly reacted.
Li Lan slowly opened his eyes, and a sharp glint flashed within them.
Feeling within his dantian,
the source of magic power as tranquil as a pool of clear water,
even Li Lan, who wouldn't bat an eye if a mountain collapsed before him,
couldn't help but feel a trace of excitement well up in his eyes.
After twenty-seven years of painstaking cultivation,
at this moment, he had finally successfully achieved Foundation Establishment!
He let out a breath of turbid air,
feeling completely comfortable from the inside out.
Slightly moving his body,
the already solidified gray mud crust peeled off,
revealing Li Lan's skin, which was like that of a newborn, faintly emitting a subtle spiritual energy halo.
The moment he broke through to Foundation Establishment,
meant that he had completely transformed into a Spirit Body, thoroughly drawing a line between himself and his mortal flesh.
This was a tremendous change in the essence of life, like a silkworm tearing through its old cocoon.
Qi Refining cultivators often needed to concentrate and hold their breath to sense heaven and earth spiritual energy and absorb it into their bodies.
However, Foundation Establishment cultivators possessing a Spirit Body,
didn't need to expend much effort at all,
as this heaven and earth spiritual energy would automatically surge into their bodies,
Based solely on this point,
the speed at which the two refined spiritual energy and converted it into magic power was worlds apart.
In addition to this,
the breakthrough in realm was also more directly reflected in divine sense and lifespan.
Presently, Li Lan,
compared to when he was at Qi Refining Great Perfection,
his divine sense strength had expanded by dozens of times, if not more.
With a thought,
he could easily perceive any movement within a radius of one li.
As for the increase in lifespan, it was even more astonishing,
The original Li Lan, who had not yet broken through, after a period of cultivation,
had only forty-five years of lifespan remaining.
But now,
with successfully passing the first major hurdle on the path of immortal cultivation,
and completing a stage-based leap in realm,
his remaining lifespan had reached two hundred and forty-nine years.
Recalling the past,
if he hadn't embarked on the path of immortality,
Li Lan, at most, would only have lived to around sixty-six years old.
But now,
even if he did nothing else from now on,
he could still live for over two hundred more years in this world.
Wasn't this a form of defying fate and changing destiny?
However, Li Lan had always possessed the ambition to ascend to the highest ranks,
and naturally would not stop here just because of these mere two hundred years of lifespan.
After sighing inwardly for a moment,
Li Lan quickly adjusted his emotions,
and took out a handwritten cultivation technique from his storage bag.
Back when he was at Guangji Temple,
he had only completed the Qi Refining chapter of the Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art.
Now that he had achieved Foundation Establishment,
if he wanted to progress further in the future, he would need to complete the subsequent chapters.
[Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art Fragment: Completing the Foundation Establishment chapter requires thirty years of lifespan]
[Completing the Golden Core Realm chapter requires]
[Current Remaining Lifespan: Two hundred and forty-nine years]
Just the cultivation technique for the Foundation Establishment chapter alone,
the lifespan required to complete it was already almost comparable to completing a magic treasure.
From this, it could be seen,
the extraordinary nature of this Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art.
Li Lan only hesitated for a moment,
and immediately chose to complete this cultivation technique.
As thirty years of lifespan were expended,
an exceptionally vast amount of unfamiliar knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind out of thin air,
even with Li Lan's current cultivation realm,
such a massive and complex amount of knowledge made his mind feel faintly swollen.
At the same time,
a new prompt appeared before his eyes.
[Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art Foundation Establishment Stage chapter is complete. Continue to expend five years of lifespan to complete the Foundation Establishment Stage chapter and comprehend the Mixed Origin Rotation Art!]