Chapter 257: Mid-Stage Foundation Building

On the second day after the four academies' competition, Zhou Ling came to Dean Zhong's side hall and asked him for a reward of 1,000 points and a Jade Purity Pill.

This Jade Purity Pill helps foundation-building cultivators break through the small stage and is a kind of barrier-breaking pill.

"I didn't expect that you actually have five spiritual flames. No wonder you have five elements of spiritual roots and your cultivation progress is so fast."

"But in this case, you must lay a good foundation and don't rush."

"With your talent, plus the resources of the Taoist Academy and the Tiangong Division, it is only a matter of time before you enter the Golden Core realm."

"Moreover, your future achievements will definitely not be limited to the Golden Core realm!"

Dean Zhong gave him a jade card for points and a pill bottle, and solemnly reminded him.

Now, Zhou Ling's talent has been greatly proven.

Not only is his talent in refining equipment amazing, but his talent in swordsmanship is also no less than that of refining equipment.

Such talents must be cultivated by the Taoist Academy with all their strength.

"Yes, Dean!"

Zhou Ling knew that the dean was planning for his long-term, but he had the support of his talent, and his foundation would not show any signs of being unstable.

In the Taoist Academy, there are naturally many disciples who have made rapid progress in their early cultivation.

But once the foundation is not solid, after entering the Golden Core, the subsequent lack of strength will only allow them to stay in the Golden Core realm for the rest of their lives.

However, now that he has the assistance of talent and the spiritual flame to temper his magic power, even if his realm can be improved a few points, it will not be a big problem.

After all, he has never relied on steady progress all the way through his cultivation.

The two talents like [Aura Affinity] and [Spiritual Medicine Stress] are also the fastest for his cultivation.

So he plans to cultivate to the peak of foundation building at the fastest speed.

After all, the Jade Huan Jindan that can impact the bottleneck of the Golden Core is already in hand, and he only needs to exchange for some auxiliary spiritual objects.

There are also natal spiritual objects such as the Five Elements Spiritual Flame and the Five Elements Sword, which can already impact the Golden Core realm.

In this process, the spiritual flame and talent are superimposed to assist, and the foundation will not be in a state of emptiness.

In this way, he can strive to form a pill next year.

At that time, he will concentrate resources to assist Xin'er, and there will be no problem in forming a pill within ten years.

After chatting with Dean Zhong for a few words, Zhou Ling also told Dean Gong about his promise to teach at Jiutian Sword Academy.

If it was before, Dean Zhong would definitely oppose it.

On the one hand, he was planning to let Zhou Ling become the dean of Xuanyuan Taoist Academy in the future.

In addition, Zhou Ling is now a Tiangong Si Tianwei.

These two professions will consume a lot of Zhou Ling's energy, which will more or less affect the progress of cultivation.

Now with the teaching of Jiutian Sword Academy, there will be even less time.

It's totally not worth the loss.

But according to Dean Gong, with Zhou Ling's sword talent, he will even have the opportunity to enter the fifth realm in the future.

So he didn't plan to stop Zhou Ling.

After all, the five realm swordsmanship is rare in the entire Taoist League.

Zhou Ling has a chance, so he naturally wants to try it.

Seeing that Dean Zhong did not object, Zhou Ling left happily this time.

After leaving Dean Zhong's side hall, Zhou Ling met his two disciples again.

Song Yue and Bai Ji.

This time, the foundation seed assessment of the Taoist Academy overlapped with the competition of the four major Taoist academies because of the time.

So Zhou Ling did not go to watch.

Both of them performed well.

As expected, Song Yue won the first place in the assessment.

And Bai Ji also reached the fourth place and was rewarded with a ground-grade foundation-building pill.

"One first place and one fourth place, they are my disciples!"

After hearing the two report the assessment results, Zhou Ling showed satisfaction.

Especially Bai Ji, it was not easy for him to get the fourth place with the eighth level of Qi training.

He knew that Li Yu and others participated this year.

Last year, their level was not low. Although they lost to him in the end, the gap was not big.

However, this year, this heaven-grade foundation-building pill was taken away by Song Yue, and the efforts of the three of them for a year were wasted.

Now I am afraid that he is very dissatisfied with him.

Not only did he lose to him, but now he lost to his disciples.

However, this is also normal.

After all, there are talents in every generation.

No one can be sure what will happen next year?

Of course, Song Yue can stand out, in addition to his own cultivation and talent.

Zhou Ling's teaching is also related.

The reason for this is that Zhou Ling was able to point out the deficiencies in her cultivation process and correct them in time.

In addition, Zhou Ling was able to point out the methods of refining many inscriptions.

Bai Ji himself was amazing in terms of comprehension, but was limited by resources.

This affected his cultivation progress.

With Zhou Ling's guidance and assistance, many problems were solved.

In addition, with sufficient elixirs, if he was given a few more months to reach the ninth level of Qi training, or the peak of Qi training, he would also be able to compete for the top spot.

"Master, I want to prepare for foundation building next month. Can I rent the fourth-level spiritual room in the Taoist Academy for one more month!"

Song Yue said to Zhou Ling again.

In order to ensure the heavenly foundation building and stabilize the realm, Song Yue hopes to have the right to use the spiritual room for two months.

The time limit for this reward is only one month.

Zhou Ling nodded and smiled, "I will talk to Dean Zhong about this matter later. I think there will be no problem."

He is now only an instructor in the outer courtyard and has no right to decide the use of the spiritual room.

But this kind of thing is just a small matter for him now.

Dean Zhong will definitely agree.

After all, if Song Yue succeeded in building a foundation of heaven grade again, it would greatly enhance the reputation of Xuanyuan Daoyuan.

Last year, he succeeded in building a foundation of heaven grade, and this year, another person succeeded in building a foundation of heaven grade, two people succeeded in building a foundation of heaven grade in two years.

This would make more disciples flock to Xuanyuan Daoyuan.

"Thank you, Master!"

Song Yue thanked Zhou Ling with a smile on her face.

Originally, she was more curious than respectful of Zhou Ling, the little master, but now she mentioned that her master actually won the championship in the battle strength competition of the four major Daoyuans.

This made her even more curious.

Afterwards, Zhou Ling gave her the jade slip of his foundation building experience, asking her to understand it well, and to ask him if she didn't understand anything.

"Bai Ji, what are your plans?"

Zhou Ling looked at Bai Ji and asked.

Now Bai Ji is at the eighth level of Qi training, but with his current progress in cultivation, he will be ready to build a foundation by the end of the year.

And now he already has a ground-level foundation-building pill in his hand, and other auxiliary spiritual objects can also be exchanged in the Daoyuan.

"Master, I want to try again next year, hoping to win the Heaven-grade Foundation-Building Pill."

"Try to build the foundation again."

Bai Ji thought about it, and then said to Zhou Ling with a slightly hesitant expression.

Originally, he thought that being able to build the foundation of the Earth-grade was already good.

But with Zhou Ling's guidance, his level of refining progressed rapidly.

He felt that as long as he reached the peak of Qi training, he would have a chance to win the Heaven-grade Foundation-Building Pill next year.

It would not be too late to try to build the foundation then.

After all, it was only a matter of a few months.

Of course, he did not have much confidence in his heart. If the master thought it was unnecessary, he would not insist too much.

"Well, you have your own ideas!"

"However, you must be prepared in your heart. It is not that you can build the Heaven-grade foundation just by getting the Heaven-grade Foundation-Building Pill."

"The Heaven-grade foundation requires the spiritual power in the body to be compressed to the extreme, and there are also requirements for spiritual roots and other aspects."

Zhou Ling said seriously.

Bai Ji has his own ideas, which is naturally a good thing in his opinion.

But the difficulty of building the Heaven-grade foundation is not small.

Xuanyuan Daoyuan successfully refines two or three Tianpin foundation-building pills every year, but in the past thirty years, only he has succeeded in Tianpin foundation-building.

It can be seen how difficult it is to build a Tianpin foundation.

Even now, according to the foundation-building test for admission, the probability of Song Yue to build a Tianpin foundation is only 30%.

Bai Ji has not taken the test yet, but the probability is definitely lower than Song Yue.

If he were to make the decision, he would not recommend Bai Ji to go for Tianpin foundation-building.

But since there is this idea, he also supports it. Of course, he must understand the difficulty.

After all, if Tianpin foundation-building fails, it will have a significant impact on the subsequent foundation-building.

"Yes, Master!"

Bai Ji replied seriously.

"Next, just practice with peace of mind. If you need any pills, you can ask your master's wife. If there are none, then go to the Daoyuan to exchange them!"

The two helped in the workshop, and Zhou Ling did not let them work in vain.

In addition to teaching the two to practice in the imprinting aspect, he also provided pills.

And Bai Ji is not like Song Yue, who has a family to rely on.

If he wants to build a foundation in the future, he will need his help.

He will definitely have to find a way to prepare spiritual objects for building a foundation.

Of course, these are no longer a big problem for Zhou Ling now, and he can exchange them through the Taoist Academy or the Tiangong Division.

"Thank you, Master!"

Bai Ji bowed and replied.

After arranging the affairs of the two disciples, Zhou Ling sent a voice transmission to Dean Zhong to ask him about the spiritual energy room.

Dean Zhong naturally agreed.

Then, he went to the Taoist Academy treasury.

He exchanged points for a third-level spiritual gathering array.

Although the spiritual energy concentration of the family is now at the third-level spiritual vein, it has not reached the third-level concentration in these days.

It is probably only about the second-level middle-grade.

If you want to reach the third level, it may take several months.

Of course, the second-level middle-rated products are enough for now.

But he will impact the middle stage of building a foundation next. In order to ensure success, he still needs to increase the concentration of spiritual energy as soon as possible.

And with the third-level spiritual gathering array, the spiritual energy in the family will soon reach the third level, and it will become more and more concentrated.

It can upgrade the lower-grade third-level spiritual vein to the middle-grade third-level, or even the upper-grade.

This can also speed up the cultivation of Xin'er and her mother.

It will also be of great help to them in breaking through the small realm.

After returning home, Zhou Ling handed the spirit gathering array to Xin'er and asked her to prepare the array.

The arrangement of the spirit gathering array is relatively simple, and even if you are not a formation master, you can arrange it.

It is just that the arrangement by the formation master will be faster and the effect will be better.

After Wang Xin made some plans, she took out the array plate, chanted the spell, and hit the array flags into the ground along the corner of the courtyard.

As the eight array flags were hit into the ground one by one, a cloud-like light shone on the array plate.

Soon Zhou Ling felt that the originally rich spiritual energy seemed to be compacted in an instant, and it seemed to be more pure.

The spirit gathering array was originally to speed up the absorption and condensation of spiritual energy.

The source of the Chen family's spiritual vein is the fourth-level spiritual vein of the Taoist Academy.

So there is no problem with spiritual energy.

After setting up the spirit gathering array, the speed of gathering spiritual energy increased by at least two times.

Of course, it will take some time to gather to the level of a true third-level spirit vein.

Zhou Ling thought that it might take several hours, and it might be midnight by then.

"Xin'er, can you refine the Yuqing Pill recipe I gave you last time?"

Zhou Ling took out the Yuqing Pill he had received from Dean Zhong and asked his wife.

Dean Zhong is already a fourth-grade alchemist, and the pills he refines are of high quality.

And he gave it to himself for free, so he didn’t want it for free.

In Xuanyuan Taoist Academy, this second-level Jade Clear Pill requires sixty or seventy points to exchange for it.

And the quality is not that good.

If Xin'er can refine it, she will save a lot of points in the future.

After all, now in the family, parents, Yuanhu, Baiji and others also need to use this bottleneck-breaking elixir.

"Husband, there is no problem. I made two furnaces last time and successfully made one furnace and two pills."

"It's just a pill pattern. I haven't tried it yet on how effective it is!"

Wang Xin said uncertainly.

"Okay, it would be nice if it could be refined."

"The effect, let Yuan Hu or Bai Ji try it out then!"

Zhou Ling said with a happy face.

He naturally has confidence in his wife's alchemy skills.

Later, he asked about other pills.

Next, he will speed up his improvement in cultivation.

Therefore, the use of elixirs is definitely indispensable.

Wang Xin also told him that he had been able to stably refine the Yidan Zengyuan Pill.

Hearing this, Zhou Ling was also very happy.

The Zengyuan Pill is a pill that foundation-building monks mainly take to improve their cultivation.

One Dan pattern is already considered to be of good quality.

And with the Five Elements Spirit Flame, he doesn't have to worry about the existence of erysipelas.

In addition, the level of [Elixir Stress] is also constantly improving, and the effect is getting better and better.

"Next, if you want to become a teacher of Jiutian Sword Academy, you must break through the middle stage of foundation building."

"Qin Zhizheng will be transferred out at the end of the year, and I will have to reach the late stage of foundation building by then!"

Thinking of this, Zhou Ling also felt a lot of pressure.

There are still six months before the end of the year, and it’s too difficult to do one level in two months.

But if you hold this position right, your cultivation level as a foundation-building monk is too low.

If I am only in the middle stage of foundation building, it really can’t be justified.

"Hey, just try your best!"

Zhou Ling shook his head and stopped putting pressure on himself.

After dinner, he went to the training room, sat cross-legged and practiced with his eyes closed.

Wait for the change in aura.

I don’t know how long it took, but I felt that the spiritual energy around me became obviously lush.

Zhou Ling took out the Yuqing Pill and threw it into his mouth.

The elixir melted immediately in his mouth, and then a strong medicinal power was released in Zhou Ling's body.

[You are absorbing the power of Yuqing Pill, the elixir stress +1, the power of Yuqing Pill +2]

The rich medicinal power merged into the meridians like a torrent of spiritual power, flowed into the sea of ​​​​qi, and began to impact the bottleneck of the sea of ​​​​qi.

This is not the first time Zhou Ling has hit a bottleneck, but the previous one is a small bottleneck and not difficult.

And this is a big bottleneck, and the difficulty is several times higher than before.

But he has the [Elixir Stress] talent and the assistance of Five Elements Heart Fire.

The rich medicinal power of Yuqing Pill, assisted by the Five Elements Spirit Flame, instantly washed away the surrounding Qi Sea.

Soon, Zhou Ling felt that the bottleneck in the Qi Sea was broken, and the entire Qi Sea expanded a bit in an instant.

Zhou Ling controlled his spiritual power and quickly broke through the fourth level of foundation building.