Chapter 107 The Troubles of Building a Foundation
After two days of careful flight, Wu Yan successfully returned to the Five Elements Peak of the Cultivation Sect. As usual, he pretended to be unaware of the person hiding nearby and monitoring his actions.
With his current disguise and concealment skills, even if Zhao Wugui and Lei Chuang really followed him, they would be thrown off by him. He didn't care about such an insignificant little person at all. What's more, this person's existence could paralyze Zhao Wugui and Lei Chuang.
After returning to the Five Elements Cave, Wu Yan couldn't wait to take out the things he bought in the Danqi Pavilion and checked them one by one. It took more than ten days, after repeated practice, he was completely familiar with the use of the Xuantong Ruyi Shield and the Black Brick Talisman.
Then, he took out all the magic weapons on his body, put them in front of him and checked them one by one. He was going to classify them well and arrange how to use these magic weapons and talismans in the future.
As for attacking instruments and talismans, he now has the Molin Sword, the Chixie Flag, the Black Brick Talisman, the Purple Gold Flying Knife Gourd, the Black Pearl Instrument, more than 20 low-level attack talismans and several mid-level spell talismans. Among them, the Molin Sword and the Chixie Flag are both top-level instruments, each with its own strengths. Mo Ao said that if he can successfully build a foundation, the Molin Sword can exert even greater power. And this Chixie Flag also has some special functions. From a note obtained from Jiang Xiekong's storage bag, it is known that this Chixie Flag has a more sinister name, called the Evil Soul Flag, which can devour evil ghosts and continuously improve its power. At present, there are only more than a hundred evil souls in the Chixie Flag, so it is also called the "Hundred Ghosts Evil Soul Flag". If there is a chance to devour more ghosts, this flag can also reach the "Thousand Ghosts Evil Soul Flag" and the "Ten Thousand Ghosts Evil Soul Flag". If he could absorb and devour the ghosts to the number of 100,000 in the future, he could even use a special ritual method to refine this flag into a magic weapon, "Ten Thousand Ghosts Evil Soul Banner". In other words, this Red Evil Flag is a magic weapon that can be upgraded.
Needless to say, the power of the black brick talisman is great. However, he is only in the Qi Refining Stage now, and cannot fully exert the power of this talisman. The power that can be exerted now should be comparable to that of the Molin Sword and the Red Evil Flag.
The purple gold flying knife gourd and the black bead magic weapon are both mid-level magic weapons with limited power, but they can be used as auxiliary magic weapons.
For defensive magic weapons and talismans, he now has a high-level green tortoise shell magic weapon, a top-level black copper Ruyi shield, five mid-level defensive talismans, and one high-level flying talisman.
As for the black viper vine seeds and various poisons, of course, they can also be used as auxiliary means of attacking and entanglement.
Wu Yan has already mastered the first level of the cultivation of the spirit. His current spiritual consciousness should be equivalent to the spiritual consciousness power of a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building. Therefore, he planned to retreat for a period of time to practice the method of controlling several or even dozens of magic tools at the same time.
Time passed quickly, and Wu Yan retreated in the Five Elements Cave for another three months.
One day three months later, the stone door of the Five Elements Cave opened, and Wu Yan walked out with a slightly excited face. As soon as he came out, he took out the banana leaf boat magic tool and flew to the medicine garden.
Half a day later, he returned to the Five Elements Cave again and closed the stone door.
Half a month later, the stone door of the Five Elements Cave opened again. Wu Yan walked out with a gloomy face.
After three months of retreat and practice, Wu Yan finally mastered the art of splitting the spirit to control seven or eight magic tools at the same time.
After completing the practice, Wu Yan spent another day adjusting his state, and then took three portions of the twelve spiritual medicine materials needed for the foundation-building pill from the medicine garden. Including the portion purchased from the Danqi Pavilion, there were four materials in total. He entered the Earth Fire Alchemy Room of the Five Elements Cave, ready to try to refine the foundation-building pill.
In the past two years, when he was refining the three kinds of pills he got from the Sutra Pavilion, "Juyuan Pill", "Buqi Pill", and "Dingyan Pill", he had practiced the alchemy skills very well. Especially when refining the "Buqi Pill", he already had a 70% success rate. As for the "Dingyan Pill", the success rate was too low, mainly because the properties of the selected spiritual medicine materials conflicted, but he also refined one furnace, a total of four pills. He tried to take one pill himself, and felt that there was no change in himself, so he didn't care much about the other three pills and threw them into the storage bag casually.
Who would have thought that this time, the refining of the foundation-building pill was a strange failure. Four materials, but none of them succeeded. This is a unique thing for Wu Yan, who has mastered many alchemy techniques.
Wu Yan has been in the state of Qi Refining Great Perfection for almost half a year, and he is full of unprecedented desire for foundation building. However, after several attempts, he thoroughly realized how ordinary his qualifications are, and how difficult it is to build a foundation with this Qigong Xiuzhen Jue. It seems that it is almost impossible to succeed in building a foundation without the help of external objects.
However, the failure of refining the foundation pill four times in a row made Wu Yan suddenly realize that there is a high possibility that there is something wrong with the recipe of the foundation pill. After all, the materials he chose to refine the foundation pill are all substitutes, and the materials required for the original recipe are all spiritual medicines and herbs that have disappeared in the world of immortal cultivation. Who knows what unexpected changes will occur after thousands of years of evolution.
In order to find out where the problem lies, Wu Yan went to the Sutra Pavilion again.
After spending ten spirit stones and getting the money with a smile on his face, Wu Yan walked out of the Sutra Pavilion with an uncertain face and appeared in the Yin Yang Valley.
On the way, he met Lei Chuang and Zhao Wugui, whom he hated very much. The two had just come out of the Deacon's Court. When they saw Wu Yan, they sneered a few times with disdain, and then went to the Transmission Court.
Wu Yan walked out of Yinyang Valley with an expressionless face, and then stepped on the Banana Leaf Boat Magical Instrument, left the Cultivation Gate directly, and flew to the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market again.
From Qian Yan, Wu Yan finally understood where the problem was.
It turned out that there was a change in the ancient pill formula compared with the pill formula used today. That is, in addition to various alternative raw materials, a new material needs to be added-the inner pill of the monster beast with the same properties.
The inner pill of the monster beast is a very common neutralizing auxiliary material for refining pills in the current cultivation world. The first-level monster beast has no inner pill. Only when the monster beast reaches the second level will it form an inner pill in its body.
The strength of an ordinary first-level monster beast is equivalent to that of a cultivator at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, but because it does not have an inner elixir, it can only use some low-level spells, and its strength cannot be compared with that of a cultivator at the twelfth level of Qi Refining. Because the second-level monster beast has an inner elixir, it begins to gradually awaken its own innate magic spells, so its strength gradually becomes stronger, equivalent to that of a cultivator at the initial stage of foundation building. However, if a cultivator at the initial stage of foundation building does not have a powerful magic weapon, and the cultivation method he practices is also an ordinary one, he will definitely not be able to beat a second-level monster beast. After all, the physique of the monster beast itself is very strong, and ordinary magic weapons and spells cannot even break their outer skin, so how can they hurt them.
What made Wu Yan feel extremely depressed was that in order to refine the foundation building pill suitable for him to take, he must have the inner elixir of a monster beast with five elements attributes.
Along the way, Wu Yan thought about this matter while releasing his consciousness and paying attention to the surroundings. Sure enough, when he was about to arrive at the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market, he finally realized that someone was following him from behind.
There were three people following him. They didn't know what they were up to, so they didn't show up to intercept him, but let him go to the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market.
Wu Yan sneered in his heart, and didn't show that he was discovered, but swaggered straight to the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market.
This time when he entered the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market, he didn't disguise himself, but wore the clothes of a disciple of the Cultivation Sect. Therefore, after entering the market, many cultivators saw him and behaved very politely. It seems that the reputation of the Cultivation Sect in this area is still quite large.
Wu Yan went around the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market, even visited the largest Jubao Pavilion, and visited the Danqi Pavilion again. Unfortunately, he didn't even come across a demon beast inner pill with five elements.
Although a large number of demon beasts appeared in the Zhenxie Valley, the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market was full of demon beast materials, but unfortunately there was no inner pill of five elements demon beasts. There were many demon beast inner pills of other attributes, especially the inner pills of earth and fire attributes.
After leaving the Fire Phoenix Mountain Market, Wu Yan's face was extremely gloomy. After he flew dozens of miles on the Banana Leaf Boat, the three guys actually followed him.
Wu Yan, who was in a depressed mood, thought about it, showed a cold smile, sacrificed the Mo Lin Sword, replaced it with the Banana Leaf Boat, and rushed all the way to the west opposite to the Cultivation Gate.
After practicing the first level of the Cultivation God Technique, Wu Yan was able to use the Mo Lin Sword as he wished. This top-level magic weapon is worthy of being a treasure refined by Elder Jin Renfeng. It can actually have the effect of flying, and the flying speed is several times that of ordinary top-level flying magic weapons. The only drawback is that when this magic weapon flies, it consumes several times more mana than a special top-level flying magic weapon.
Wu Yan slapped his storage bag, took out two Qi-boosting pills and threw them into his mouth. While controlling the Mo Lin Sword to fly at a constant speed, he silently absorbed the spiritual power in the Qi-boosting pills to restore the consumed mana.
After half a day, the three guys who were chasing him had been left behind.
Wu Yan checked the terrain below while flying. Half an hour later, his expression changed, and he controlled the Mo Lin sword to land in a narrow canyon.
After wandering around the canyon twice, Wu Yan walked to a thousand-foot-high cliff at the end of the canyon with an expressionless face, stroking his chin and looking at the steep black rocks on both sides and opposite, thinking about something.
After pondering for a moment, he moved. First, he used the Mo Lin sword to pierce a large number of dense thumb-sized holes on the black rocks on three sides, and then stuffed small black things into the small holes one by one.
After doing this, he took out a small leather bag from the storage bag, grabbed some green soil from it, mixed it with the dark brown soil under the cliff, stirred it evenly with mud and water, then bit his tongue tip, sprayed a large ball of blood into the mud, stirred it evenly again, and then evenly smeared it on the three cliffs.
After doing all this, Wu Yan walked to a large rock under the opposite cliff, sat down cross-legged against the rock wall, closed his eyes and began to meditate.