Chapter 893: Foundation Building Completed
After the death of the old servant Zhou An, the manpower on the ship became even tighter. The eight groups were changed to seven groups. Jubei Sanren, who was at the fourth level of foundation building, and Fu Yunxiao, who was at the first level of foundation building, were reallocated together and used as one person. The task of Qingyang was still done by Xiying and Xiao Yuhan, and no one else felt it was inappropriate.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye. They stopped and started along the way and sailed for more than 20 million miles. They were very close to the Ancient Wind Continent. Occasionally, they could see other spirit ships flashing by, but the speed of the spirit ships was very fast. They could not rashly go forward to inquire about the distance. According to Master Shi Han's inference, it would take at most half a year and at least one month to reach the Ancient Wind Continent.
Why is the time so inaccurate? It is mainly because too few people have been to the Ancient Wind Continent. The distance between the two places is not accurate. Moreover, they have been sailing on the sea for ten consecutive years, and they don’t remember how far they have traveled. Not only that, when they traveled, they only knew the general direction of the Ancient Wind Continent. There would definitely be errors in sailing, and they didn’t know how much they deviated in the end.
However, as we get closer to the Ancient Wind Continent, we will definitely encounter more and more spirit ships in the future, and there will be no shortage of lone cultivators. We will always be able to find out the specific situation at that time.
In the past ten years, Qingyang's cultivation has improved a lot. About three years ago, he successfully broke through to the ninth level of foundation building. Now he is also a veteran ninth-level foundation building cultivator, but there is still a distance from the perfection of foundation building. It may be difficult to achieve without five or six years.
For most foundation building cultivators, improving one and a half levels of cultivation in ten years is very good. You know, many foundation building cultivators with insufficient resources often need ten to twenty years to improve one level of cultivation. If compared with Xiao Yuhan, Qingyang's achievement is not worth mentioning.
Ten years ago, Xiao Yuhan's cultivation was only half a level higher than Qingyang, but now he has reached the level of perfect foundation building, which is more than half a level higher than Qingyang. Even if he shares all of Qingyang's tasks and often takes time to control the spirit ship, the gap in qualifications between the two sides can be seen.
As for Xiying, he was not far from the perfect foundation ten years ago, and it is natural for him to become a foundation cultivator now. However, he has no chance to form a pill, so it is difficult to break through in a short period of time. His main task now is to refine the true essence to consolidate the foundation and prepare for the formation of the pill.
Other casual cultivators, Jindan cultivators have not made any changes in strength because it is too difficult to improve their cultivation, and the perfect foundation cultivators are still in the perfect foundation because of the bottleneck. Only those with lower cultivation have made some progress, more or less. Among them, Qi He has also reached the perfect foundation, and Jubei Sanren and Fu Yunxiao have also improved their cultivation by one level.
After the death of the old servant Zhou An, there were only fifteen people left on the ship, three Jindan cultivators, one at the ninth level of foundation, one at the fifth level of foundation, and one at the second level of foundation. The remaining nine were all perfect foundations. If they said that they did not come to the Ancient Wind Continent to find opportunities, I am afraid no one would believe it.
In the past ten years, the changes in the Drunken Immortal Gourd have been great. The injury of the alcoholic queen bee has long been healed. In recent years, her strength has improved a lot, and her momentum has become more and more stable. She is no less inferior to those cultivators who have completed the foundation building outside. Qingyang knows that this alcoholic bee should also be on the verge of advancement, but just like human cultivators, it has no suitable opportunity, so it cannot advance.
The other six bees will successfully enter the fifth level, which is roughly equivalent to the fourth or fifth level of the foundation building of human cultivators. There are nearly 200 other purple-backed alcoholic bees, and the number of ordinary alcoholic bees has reached nearly 2,000. The strength of the entire tribe has been greatly improved, and the power of the pollen maze has also been greatly increased. If they encounter the blood-clothed man in the fifth level of the golden elixir at this time, the pollen maze will definitely not be easily broken by the other party.
The strength of the Iron Arm Monkey has also been raised to the peak of the sixth level, and the matter of advancement is imminent. However, Qingyang doesn't even have a golden elixir to use now, so naturally he can't take care of him. He can only see if there is a chance in the future. If he gets enough golden elixir materials and has surplus pills, or can get the demon barrier pill, he can give it to him.
The Wannianhong and the peach tree have not changed much, but they are taller than before. The second gourd on the gourd vine has matured completely, but Qingyang has not picked it for the time being. He plans to wait until he arrives at the Ancient Wind Continent and settles down temporarily, and then ask Master Shi Han to help refine it into a treasure.
Under the gourd vine, there are two small flowers, one male and one female. It is estimated that it will not be long before the third gourd will grow on it. Qingyang is already accustomed to this and does not pay too much attention to it.
The two bunches of grapes on the vine were also completely ripe, and the tempting fruity fragrance almost filled the entire Drunken Immortal Gourd, making people intoxicated. Such spiritual objects are probably rare in the world. Not only the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey can't bear it, but even Qingyang is itching to scratch it, and can't suppress the desire to taste it.
So Qingyang gritted his teeth, picked a bunch from the grape rack, washed it in the pond, and gave a few to the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey, a few to the alcoholic queen bee and the six bee generals, and swallowed the rest in one breath. Because he ate in a hurry, Qingyang didn't taste anything, but felt that it was sweet and delicious, with a fragrant fruity aroma. It was a rare delicacy in the world.
Before Qingyang could come back to the taste, the grapes in his stomach were transformed into streams of pure energy, rushing towards Qingyang's meridians, surging and surging, countless energies impacting Qingyang's meridians, just like a huge flood rushing into a stream, and like a group of elephants breaking into a flower garden, being wantonly bumped and trampled, one who couldn't control it well, there was a possibility of exploding and dying.
Qingyang did not dare to neglect it, and immediately sat in the Drunken Immortal Gourd, using the exercises to guide the energy to circulate in the meridians, and gradually flowed from the meridians into the Dantian. With Qingyang's guidance, the energy found an outlet and became much gentler. Although there was still a lot of energy, almost bursting the meridians of the whole body, it was no longer as violent as before.
A large amount of energy flowed into the Dantian, and Qingyang's cultivation increased at an unprecedented speed, hundreds or thousands of times faster than before. At this speed, it would not take long for Qingyang's cultivation to reach the perfection of foundation building.
Qingyang was in pain and happy. On the one hand, he had to endure the huge pain caused by the huge amount of energy colliding and raging in the meridians, almost bursting his meridians and Dantian, and on the other hand, he enjoyed the continuous increase of the true essence in the Dantian and the comfortable feeling brought by the rapid improvement of strength.
I don't know how long it took, the energy brought by the grapes was all consumed, and Qingyang's strength improvement also reached the limit, encountering a bottleneck that was vague but unbreakable. Qingyang knew without looking inward that his strength had reached the level of perfect foundation building. Like Xiying and Xiao Yuhan, he had reached the critical point between foundation building and golden elixir.