Chapter Eighty-Four: Homecoming
A year later, the six members of the Zhu family returned to their home in Langya Mountain, and the Zhu family came to greet them.
After Zhu Youdao inquired about the situation at home, he encouraged everyone, and then let the family disperse, leaving only the monks of the Zhu family.
Zhu Youdao said: "Everyone is here, just have a meeting! We have gained a lot from this trip to the Vientiane Secret Realm! In the future, the Zhu family will enter a period of steady development! Everyone should cultivate hard and don't go out if you have nothing to do! There are a few major things, first, you have to recuperate well and prepare to build a foundation for the second time!"
Zhu Youqing nodded: "Big brother, I didn't know how thick the sky was when I built the foundation last time, and I underestimated the difficulty of building the foundation, but this time I am sure that the foundation will be successful!"
Zhu Youdao nodded, and said to Zhu Ganglie again: "Father, you still practice with all your might, strive to achieve the consummation of Qi cultivation as soon as possible, and then prepare to build a foundation!"
Zhu Ganglie suddenly smiled bitterly: "There is a way, a few years ago, I still had the idea of trying to build a foundation, but now that I have cultivated more and more, I know the difficulty of building a foundation! If a monk of the Five Spirit Roots wants to build a foundation, it is impossible without more than five attempts! I only have one chance to build a foundation at my age, and if I try, it is just a waste of a precious foundation building pill! Therefore, I don't plan to build a foundation!"
Zhu Youdao was silent, he knew that his father's hope of building a foundation was close to nothing, but as a son, he knew that this Zhuji Dan was a waste, and he also hoped that his father would try it, after all, since he had embarked on the road of cultivating the truth, it would be a lifelong regret if he didn't try to build a foundation!
Zhu Youdao didn't know how to persuade his father, Zhu Yuanchang jumped up, pointed at Zhu Ganglie and scolded: "You bastard! I'll kill you bastard! Why did the Zhu family come up with your unplanted goods! I don't even dare to build a foundation, what else do you dare to do! You Lao Tzu and I are also old, and we can't cultivate to complete the cultivation of qi, otherwise we dare to eat ten Zhuji Dan! Zhuji Dan is not afraid of anything, our family is united, how many Zhuji Dan can't be obtained under the leadership of Youdao? You have such a good son, are you afraid of wasting Zhuji Dan? It's a great blessing that our five spirit roots can have the opportunity to build a foundation, and your mother's mother actually retreated! If you dare to say such a frustrating thing, Lao Tzu will break your legs!"
Zhu Yuanchang scolded and was angry, and wanted to fight, but Zhu Youdao hurriedly went up and grabbed his grandfather.
Zhu Ganglie was scolded by his Lao Tzu in public, his face couldn't hold back, and he said with a stiff neck: "Which one is not planted! Isn't there a way to be my seed! I just feel sorry for the hard-won ...... of Zhuji Dan."
Zhu Yuanchang continued to scold: "Lao Tzu has been a soldier on the battlefield since he was 12 years old, and he has been a partial general since he was 16 years old! On the battlefield, he has only learned one truth: Even if there is no way to live, he cannot sit still and wait for death, and he must fight to the death! The same is true for the road of cultivation, I can't even reach the perfection of Qi training, that is a dead end, and you are a special mother, do you also learn from Lao Tzu to eat and wait for death? You just want to pick a son, you Zhu Ganglie is not qualified to do so! You have learned the way, he is also a five-spirit root, don't you lead our family well! You're damn good!"
Zhu Ganglie was silent, he didn't want to fight once, but it was too important to build a foundation pill, he would rather exchange his life for a building foundation pill than waste one on himself in vain.
Zhu Youdao comforted: "Father, although the Zhuji Dan is precious, it is also used for people! Since you still have a chance to build a foundation, then you must seize it, otherwise even I will have demons in my heart, which will have a great impact on my future practice, after all, as your son, if conditions permit, you can't let your father try to build a foundation, that is a great unfilial piety, an unfilial person, how to cultivate immortals and seek the Tao?"
Other monks of the Zhu family also came to persuade Zhu Ganglie to put aside his worries and give it a go!
Zhu Ganglie was silent for a long time, and then sighed: "I, Zhu Ganglie, was born in the Zhu family, which is a blessing that I have cultivated in eight lifetimes! From today on, I will retreat and cultivate, and I will not go out until I complete my Qi cultivation! I will go all out to try to build a foundation, no matter whether I succeed or not, I will have no regrets in this life!"
He knelt down in front of Zhu Yuanchang and kowtowed a few times, got up and patted his son's shoulder, and then walked out of the hall without looking back and went to retreat.
Zhu Yuanchang looked at his son's back and sighed. Although the old man said it hardly, if it was replaced by himself, then he would be killed headlong and would not be willing to use up a Tsukidan in the case of little hope, but this is his only son with a spiritual root, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, let him give it a try!
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Zhu Youdao arranged the big and small things at home, and everyone dispersed.
He left Li Yunniang and handed her a one-sided one: "Yunniang, you can figure out this Dan Fang and see if there are any difficulties in refining!"
This Dan Fang is the Dan Fang of "Building Kiev Dan" recorded in the Foundation Building Secret Technique he harvested in the Heart Refining Canyon of the Yashan Sect.
Li Yunniang took it and looked at it for a moment, frowned and said: "Husband, what kind of elixir is this? It's not difficult to refine, but it's very different from the alchemy theory I learned, how does it look like using alchemy to refine weapons, and it's also a bit like using talisman making to alchemy!"
Zhu Youdao said with a smile: "You can see this, I can also rest assured that I will hand over this elixir to you to refine!" Yes, the person who created this elixir borrowed from the means of refining tools and talismans, and spent countless efforts to try before it was successfully developed, although it is called a pill, but its body is a jade talisman, and the jade talisman is a variety of elixir essences, after it is made, it is necessary to refine the natal magic weapon in the dantian for a long time, and practice it with mana every day, even if it is the mana in the late stage of qi training, it has to be used after more than ten years of hard work, this pill can be regarded as a real success in refining, it can be said that it is a thousand grinds and refinements!"
Li Yunniang was surprised: "Then what is the use of this elixir?"
Zhu Youdao said with a straight face: "Yun Niang, what is the use of this elixir, you will know it after refining it! It will be the foundation of my Zhu family, you can't say it to anyone! Even if you and I have a child in the future, you can't reveal half a sentence without my permission! I plan to pass on this pill as the secret of the Zhu family patriarch!"
Li Yunniang saw that he was serious, and said solemnly: "Husband, I won't tell anyone!"
Zhu Youdao nodded, and gave her another storage bag: "In the past year, I have collected all the refining materials in Vientiane City, plus the body of the wooden Xiao that we killed back then, it is just right to refine a few, you can refine the pill first!"
After Li Yunniang left, Zhu Youdao pondered. After the construction of Kiydan, it will go through more than ten years of warm cultivation and refining before it is truly completed.
Zhu Youqing and Zhu Ganglie are too late to use it!
Although Zhu Youdao himself has practiced the ninth layer of qi, under normal circumstances, if he wants to build a foundation, he needs to go through three to four attempts, or even five attempts, and each attempt requires three to five years of recuperation.
As for Li Yunniang, because she didn't have a spiritual root in her body, she had only cultivated to the sixth level of Qi cultivation with the help of Xie Xiaohong regardless of her own losses over the years, and she was still far away from building a foundation. And when she was building a foundation, the difficulty was several times that of the five spirit roots, and she was only afraid that if she ate ten Zhuji Dan, she would have some hope of building a foundation, but with the age limit there, she couldn't have enough time to try to build the foundation again and again.
Fortunately, now that she has won the Dandan Fang of Kiev, Li Yunniang also has the hope of building a foundation.
Even so, Li Yunniang's hope of building a foundation at one time is still not very likely, Zhu Youdao decided to let her cultivate a few more pills in the dantian, although she can only use one auxiliary pill at a time, but if she tries to build a foundation a few more times, she can succeed by luck alone!