Chapter 232: Building the Foundation
Finally, as the final time continues to approach, Tsukiki's incense is gradually burning to the end.
"After so much preparation, are you going to fail?" Yuan Ming slowly opened his eyes and muttered a little unwillingly.
As soon as the words fell, he couldn't help but take a breath. At this time, as the fire on the Zhuji incense was extinguished, the yin and yang pattern on the Heaven Stealing Ding suddenly lit up, and the thick white mist surrounding Yuan Ming immediately split into two streams and rolled upside down into his nose.
Yuan Ming only felt that a hot sensation in his throat spread all the way downward, into his chest and abdomen, and finally fell into his dantian. In the next moment, it was like a heavenly thunder that had stirred the earth fire, and the mana that was originally in a boiling state in Yuan Mingdantian's field finally broke through the bolt at this moment and achieved a qualitative change. The mana began to condense and shrink, as if it had completed some kind of magical extraction, until it shrunk into a glossy transparent liquid, which accumulated in the dantian. "Tick, tick" Yuan Ming first heard the sound of two water droplets, and then his ears were drowned out by the howling sound of a strong wind.
He only felt that his eardrums were bulging, and his whole body was surrounded by powerful heaven and earth vitality, and the pores around his body seemed to be stretched, greedily sucking the gathered aura. "Is this what it feels like to build a foundation with condensate?
Yuan Ming only felt that his whole person was dizzy, as if he had drunk a large jar of mellow wine, wandering in the feeling of happiness. And his body, at this moment, is like a puppet that operates on its own, almost without his control, it can complete the swallowing of heaven and earth spiritual energy on its own, transport it into the dantian, condense and extract it into liquid, and gather it into that small pond.
I don't know how long it took, Yuan Ming's dantian finally came with a feeling of fullness and saturation, and the state of absorbing the aura of heaven and earth on its own gradually lifted, and Yuan Ming's divine consciousness also returned to normal. He reluctantly woke up from that transcendent state, and couldn't wait to check his dantian, only to find that all the mana stored in it had condensed into a liquid state, like a lake of flowing water. In terms of the total amount of mana alone, it has increased more than three times compared to when he was refining qi, and as for the purity of mana, it is even more incomparable.
In fact, using the cultivation of the thirteenth layer of Qi refining to complete the foundation building made Yuan Ming's own mana not only more refined than ordinary monks in the same realm, but also at least half more than the number of monks in the same realm, which gave him a great innate advantage when facing monks who were also in the early stage of foundation building. At the same time, Yuan Ming felt that the power of his divine sense, as Xiying said that day, had nearly doubled. By the time the pranayama was completed and the customs clearance was successfully completed, it was already the early morning of the third day.
Yuan Ming refreshed himself and pushed open the door of the quiet room, and saw Xuanhua Zhenren sitting on a stone bench in the courtyard with his back to him. His shoulders were a little drooping downward, and he looked a little deflated. Yuan Ming knew it in his heart, and knew that most of it was a failure to build a foundation. Building a foundation is a major pass on the road of cultivation, and it is only right that most people can't get through, if he doesn't have the effect of stealing the heavenly body to increase his holdings of building the foundation incense, it is still unknown whether he can succeed this time.
Feeling the sound of footsteps coming from behind him, Xuanhua Zhenren turned his head to look over, and saw that Yuan Ming's face was calm, and he couldn't see the joy and sorrow, he subconsciously thought that Yuan Ming had also failed.
"Yuan Daoyou, it's not easy to build a foundation, although I have refined the foundation building incense, but there is no guarantee that it will be foolproof, so you don't have to worry too much. Let's look for materials in the future and continue refining." Xuanhua Zhenren comforted Yuan Ming first.
"That...... Xuanhua Daoist, I have succeeded in building the foundation." Yuan Ming coughed lightly and said. Xuanhua Zhenren froze when he heard this, and looked at Yuan Ming with some incredulity, and his eyes were also wide.
Yuan Ming saw that he was muffled and had no choice but to speak, "I won't tell you, I also tried three times before I succeeded." He deliberately said it one more time to show how difficult it was for him to build a foundation.
Unexpectedly, Xuanhua Zhenren made a bitter face and said, "This is also the third time for me." "The third time, the first two times?" Yuan Ming was surprised.
"The Tsukidan that I got with all my wealth ended in failure, my talent is too bad, how lucky...... It's even worse." After Xuanhua Zhenren said helplessly, he forcibly squeezed out a smile and said: No problem. In the future, with this skill, I am not afraid of not being able to eat."
"That's right."
When Yuan Ming heard this, he could only smile embarrassedly.
"Yuan Daoyou...... It should be called Senior Yuan, what are your plans for the future?" Xuanhua Zhenren asked.
"It doesn't have to be between you and me." Yuan Ming said with a smile.
"On the path of cultivation, the attainer is respected, and the cultivation is one level higher, and the generation is one level higher, which is common sense." Xuanhua Zhenren is extremely serious.
"No, we're still commensurate with fellow Daoists. I'm going to leave soon, and I'm going to go on a solo trip." Yuan Ming said.
"It's okay, I also plan to leave the Xuanhua Temple and go out to look for opportunities." Xuanhua Zhenren nodded.
"Where are Xuanhua Daoists going?" Yuan Ming asked.
"If you go to the southern region of southern Xinjiang, you might even go to the South China Sea Islands to have a look. It is said that there are many overseas cultivators there, and some special spiritual materials that are not found in southern Xinjiang and the Central Plains are also produced, and many of these ores can be used to refine spiritual incense." Xuanhua Zhenren's eyes flashed with longing and said.
"Take care all the way, I was able to successfully build the foundation this time, I can't do without the help of Xuanhua Daoists, I have succeeded in building the foundation of the four spirits, don't be discouraged.
If Yuan Ming hadn't gotten the materials this time, he would not have been able to make Zhuji Lingxiang at all, and also helped him get out of trouble. He groaned on his face, and it took a long time to take out a cyan book and hand it to Yuan Ming.
Yuan Ming took a closer look and found that it was the incense-making secret book that Xuanhua Zhenren cherished, and was immediately surprised.
"Xuanhua Daoist, what are you doing here?" Yuan Ming blurted out.
"Senior Yuan, your talent is better than mine, and you have enough talent in making spiritual incense, and now that you have successfully built the foundation, Shou Yuan is also longer than me, and you will have more time to study this way in the future. I don't want to wait for my own death to disappear one day, so I hope you can make good use of this secret book and truly carry forward the spiritual incense." Xuanhua Zhenren said earnestly.
Yuan Ming was a little overwhelmed for a while.
Put it away, don't let me down. "Xuanhua Zhenren stuffed the cheats into Yuan Ming's hand and admonished.
"It will not be negative." Yuan Ming clenched his fists and replied solemnly.
After that, Xuanhua Zhenren seemed to have untied some knots in his heart, and shouted that Yuan Ming would invite him to a banquet, go to have a good meal, and not return home if he was not drunk. So Yuan Ming summoned Qingyunhe, carried the old Xuanhua Dao, and went to the nearby state city together, found an ordinary restaurant, and asked for a private room.
Two days later, Yuan Ming said goodbye and left, and continued to embark on the journey back to the north. As he said, the real person of Xuanhua left the Xuanhua concept and went south. Seven or eight days later, Yuan Ming soared in the sky by crane, and after building the foundation, Yuan Ming's mood was completely different from when he first came to Yueguo. The various spiritual incense with different effects recorded in the book made him a little dazzled, and he couldn't help but feel itchy, so he wanted to try refining one or two.
Along the way, when passing through a small market, Yuan Ming also purchased a batch of materials in it by the way, and then stopped and stopped while hurrying, while refining some special spiritual incense, passing by the beautiful mountains and rivers, and stayed for a few days. Among them, in addition to the misty incense, mist incense and beast incense that he had made by mistake before, he also refined some Qingxuan incense, requiem incense, and body cultivation incense that had a certain healing effect to assist in cultivating meditation. In addition to the above, there are also some incense with special effects like Zhuji incense, but the requirements for materials and craftsmanship are more rigorous, and they are not something that Yuan Ming can refine at the moment.
Two months later. In the middle of the country, a small city was built outside the city near the intersection of two rivers.
Yuan Ming was dressed in a cyan robe, holding the edge of the hat with one hand, looking up at the not very tall city gatehouse in front of him, and pronounced the name on the plaque: Hekou Town."
"It seems that this is the source of the epidemic." Yuan Ming sighed lightly and looked inside the city gate. I saw that the two vermilion gates there were open and closed, and there were no guards at the door, but at the base of the city wall, there was a dirty, skinny old man, leaning on it half-dead.
Yuan Ming stepped forward and leaned over to check it, he was already angry, and his life was not long in coming.
He shook his head, took out an elixir, and wanted to stuff it into the old man's mouth to renew his breath, but the other party
But even the strength to open his mouth is gone, and even if he barely breaks it, he is afraid that he will not be able to chew.
The old man's eyes were blank and his expression was indifferent, obviously he had no desire to survive. Yuan Ming was helpless, put away the pill, walked past the old man, and entered the city. He had arrived in the vicinity of the estuary town three days earlier, where several nearby market towns and villages had been plagued by widespread outbreaks.
Yuan Ming did not let it go, but took a slight action to help clear the surrounding epidemic. As a result, after some inquiry, I learned that the first place where the epidemic broke out was this abandoned "estuary town", which had the earliest epidemic and the most serious situation. Other market towns had also come to their aid, but found that they could not contain it at all, and finally had no choice but to give up.
Without foreign aid, the town of Hekou could only allow the situation to deteriorate, so that most of the city's population died, and the rest of the people only continued to wait for death, with no hope at all.
The local government was powerless to take care of it, and there was no Xiuxian Sect to make a move, so Yuan Ming couldn't bear it for a while, so he came here. If he didn't see it, it would be fine, since he saw it, he wanted to save these mortals, otherwise he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.