Chapter 115: Comeback
The eight extra meridians are different from the twelve meridians in the human body. There are eight of them, so they are called the eight extra meridians.
If the twelve meridians are broad roads, then the eight extra meridians are alleys, connecting the twelve meridians; if the twelve meridians are ditches, then the eight extra meridians are lakes, which have a regulating effect on the accumulation and infiltration of the qi and blood of the twelve meridians. In other words, the eight extra meridians are a supplement to the twelve meridians.
Xiao Mian intends to refine the eight extra meridians, which even Gui Tou finds incredible. From ancient times to the present, no one has ever heard of anyone refining the eight extra meridians while refining the body.
Xiao Mian doesn't care about these. After asking Gui Tou that there is no harm in refining the eight extra meridians, he began to practice.
Now Xiao Mian's body has been cleared of the poison, so the first step of introducing the poison into the body that was omitted before cannot be omitted.
At that moment, Xiao Mian opened the storage bag, took out the pills he got from Yuanxu, and found some low-level pills that were of no great use as snacks and stuffed them into his mouth. He did not use the medicinal power of the pills, but let them dissipate and waste, and only cared about accumulating pill poison in his body.
If other cultivators knew that Xiao Mian took pills not for the medicinal power, but for the pill poison, they would be dumbfounded and would probably strangle him to death.
Xiao Mian's knowledge is naturally much higher than before. Thinking about how he wanted to cultivate to the foundation-building stage by taking pills before, Xiao Mian smiled bitterly.
The pill poison is secondary. The key is that the spiritual energy generated by the medicinal power of the pill does not belong to oneself. It cannot provide essence for the cultivator in the future when building the foundation. In other words, this part of the true energy has no contribution to the forged Dao foundation grade.
This is also the reason why Yuanxu did not let Lu Chengfeng take pills during the Qi training period. As for Xiao Mian being raised by him as a medicine man, there is naturally no taboo, as long as he builds the foundation as soon as possible.
However, if Xiao Mian's practice of taking pills only to store the poison and expel all the effects from the body were spread out, it would be shocking enough!
During this year, Xiao Mian tempered all the eight meridians; then he used the poison mist to temper his right foot bone, and completely fused the marrow of the golden claw that he had hurriedly fused because of time constraints that day; then he turned the poison into toxin essence and fused it into his own flesh and blood, and then Xiao Mian stopped.
Now that he has completed the twelfth level of Qi training, the three souls and seven spirits of the spirit training have resonated, and the four stages of the body training "The Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" have all been completed, Xiao Mian feels that the time is ripe for him to build his foundation again. He wants to see: what level of Taoism can he achieve this time?
On the first day of April, it is suitable to start construction.
On this day, Xiao Mian decided to build his foundation.
That morning, Xiao Mian came to Shuiyun Peak, the highest peak beside Bi Bo Tan.
Including the Biluoxian Leng Ningyu, all the disciples of the Bibotan lineage live by the Bibotan, and therefore Shuiyun Peak is not crowded, which is quite suitable for Xiao Mian to build his foundation.
Besides, the area around Bibotan is Leng Ningyu's sphere of influence. Now the headmaster Dan Qiusheng is in seclusion to seek a breakthrough, and the elder Yuan Yuan Zhenren is in seclusion to heal his injuries. There is only Leng Ningyu, a Jindan strongman, in the entire Five Elements Sect. Who dares to run to Bibotan to make trouble?
Randomly choosing a flat area on Shuiyun Peak, Xiao Mian took out the array plate of the Nine-Bend Sky River Array from his storage bag and arranged it calmly. Although it is unlikely that this place will be disturbed by others, it is always better to be prepared. With the Nine-Bend Sky River Array as a protection, Xiao Mian is naturally more at ease, although the cost of arranging the Nine-Bend Sky River Array is a bit too much for Xiao Mian!
Although the array plate of the Nine-Curved Heavenly River Array was an inconspicuous black iron disc, in fact, the disc itself was applied with a very sophisticated space array. Xiao Mian poured true energy into the black iron disc, and in an instant, a large number of round, square or triangular black iron objects fell out of the black iron disc. These were the real array plates for the Nine-Curved Heavenly River Array. The black iron disc was just a thing to store these array plates - of course, it could only store array plates.
There were a total of 9981 array plates for the Nine-Curved Heavenly River Array. 9981 medium-grade spirit stones were placed in each array plate. Xiao Mian cast a spell one by one, and these array plates were thrown out one by one.
In a moment, all the array plates disappeared, and nine crisscrossing heavenly rivers flashed above Xiao Mian's head, protecting Xiao Mian in them.
Xiao Mian meditated for a while, on the one hand to calm his mind and on the other hand to replenish the true energy consumed by the previous arrangement of the Nine-Curved Heavenly River Array.
After a while, Xiao Mian entered the state of forgetting both the self and the world.
He plans to start building the foundation!
He plans to start building the foundation without taking the foundation-building pill!
In fact, as early as the ancient times, cultivators did not need the foundation-building pill to build the foundation. At that time, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was abundant, and cultivators often only needed a hundred days to build the foundation - this is also the reason why the saying of "hundred-day foundation-building" came into being.
Of course, for the highest level of cultivation that could be cultivated to the Mahayana stage at that time, the foundation-building stage was really nothing, and naturally no one would invent any foundation-building pills for this purpose. But later, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became increasingly scarce, and it became increasingly difficult for cultivators to cultivate. Until now, the highest level of cultivators has been suppressed to the Nascent Soul stage. Correspondingly, it has become difficult for cultivators to build the foundation, and the foundation-building pill came into being.
Xiao Mian naturally had his considerations for not using the foundation-building pill, because even the best top-grade foundation-building pills are, to put it bluntly, pills, and there are pill poisons. Although the use of foundation-building pills can increase the probability of successfully building the foundation, it will inevitably cause the grade of the foundation to be reduced. Now Xiao Mian is full of confidence that he can successfully build his foundation this time, so naturally he doesn't need to take any foundation-building pills. This time, he wants to be perfect!
In fact, what Xiao Mian didn't know was that he was not the first to build a foundation without using a foundation-building pill. For the direct disciples of those large sects in Zhongzhou, nine out of ten would not use the foundation-building pill to build a foundation. Their concerns were similar to Xiao Mian's, and they strived for perfection.
From this point alone, Xiao Mian, a disciple of a small sect in Nanyuezhou, already had the same courage and vision as the direct disciples of the large sects in Zhongzhou.
Of course, it was not only courage that made Xiao Mian make this decision, but the strong confidence brought to him by the Three Pure Ones Bible - he was confident that he could successfully build a foundation without using a foundation-building pill, because of the amazing effect of the Three Pure Ones Bible!
As he ran the Three Pure Ones Bible, Xiao Mian's heart gradually relaxed, and the only tension he had left him. Now he no longer had any concerns about building a foundation, but was immersed in the peace of cultivation.
Every time Xiao Mian ran the Three Pure Ones Bible for a cycle, the true qi in Xiao Mian's body grew stronger. Twelve cycles, thirty-six cycles, seventy-two cycles, one hundred and eight cycles - finally, after running two hundred and sixteen cycles, the true qi content in Xiao Mian's body had reached the edge of building a foundation.
As long as Xiao Mian was willing, he could start to build his own foundation.
But this was not enough, Xiao Mian continued to run the Three Pure Ones Bible.
Fortunately, Xiao Mian's meridians were extremely tough, so he could withstand the severe pain of a large amount of true qi washing through his meridians, but even so, when Xiao Mian ran the Three Pure Ones Bible for three hundred cycles, he felt that his meridians seemed to explode - he found that he had underestimated the power of the Three Pure Ones Bible. Every cycle of the Three Pure Ones Bible could generate a large amount of true qi, which rolled into the true qi flow like a snowball. The more Xiao Mian ran a cycle, the more true qi he produced.
This is naturally a good thing under normal circumstances, but for Xiao Mian, who wanted to complete the 365 big cycles, it was quite difficult to get off the tiger!