Chapter 140: Foundation Building

The two waited outside the Law Enforcement Hall for less than a cup of tea, and the Qi Refining disciple who had just entered returned.

"Uncle Xu, Grandmaster Li is still in retreat and not in the hall, but Grandmaster and several uncles on duty have explained the matter of this fellow Daoist Song, and he can go in directly with us!"

After Xu Ziyan nodded, the two followed the disciple into the Law Enforcement Hall. Song Qingming gradually relaxed when he heard that the Jindan ancestor seemed not to be here.

After entering the Law Enforcement Hall, Song Qingming did not see the old man surnamed Zhou who had dealt with him several times last time. They were received by two younger foundation-building cultivators.

After confirming Song Qingming's identity, the two did not embarrass him. They just looked at him curiously, counted the eight thousand spirit stones that Song Qingming took out, and one of them handed him a foundation-building pill that had been prepared long ago.

"Junior Sister Xu, the foundation-building pill has been handed over to this little brother. Please take care of him when we leave. Send him directly out of Guyang Mountain. Not long ago, a disciple who exchanged for the foundation-building pill in the Good Deeds Pavilion did not take it immediately. As a result, not long after, both the person and the foundation-building pill disappeared. The sect is still investigating this matter. I think you should be more careful, lest your friend be targeted by someone after he leaves here." When the two left, one of them who seemed to be close to Xu Ziyan came forward and gave them a warning.

After leaving the Law Enforcement Hall, Xu Ziyan asked directly: "I wonder if Fellow Daoist Song has planned where to go for retreat and foundation building?"

Song Qingming sighed and replied: "It's so dangerous outside, where else can I go? I can only go back to the cave I rented in Yangshanfang to build my foundation."

"The spiritual energy of the ordinary caves in Yangshanfang is not as good as my sacred mountain. Fellow Daoist Song, why don't you go back to my place and find an empty cave to retreat. I also need to retreat recently, so I can just take care of you." After thinking for a while, Xu Ziyan made a suggestion that surprised Song Qingming.

"That's great, but I have to bother Captain Xu again!"

After Xiaoyao Sect's Qi Refining disciples enter the sect, they all practice in the Transmission Hall and are not qualified to open a cave on their own. Only cultivators who have successfully built their foundation can apply for an unmanned sacred mountain in the sect's General Affairs Hall to practice alone.

In addition to being able to occupy a sacred mountain alone, foundation-building cultivators can also go to the Transmission Hall to select Qi Refining disciples to help manage their own sacred mountain caves. Because after the Qi Refining disciples become disciples, they can follow their master to practice on his Spiritual Mountain. Not only is the spiritual energy for practice more abundant here, but there is also a foundation-building master to rely on. The conditions for practice are much better than in the Transmission Hall. This is also a good thing that many cultivators who have joined the Xiaoyao Sect have dreamed of.

Before Xu Ziyan built her foundation, she also practiced on her master's Spiritual Mountain. After building her foundation, she moved to this Spiritual Mountain. Since she had not been building her foundation for a long time, she only accepted three disciples and did not develop this Spiritual Mountain much. There are still many caves and spiritual medicine gardens left by the previous foundation-building cultivators on the mountain.

After Song Qingming searched around Xu Ziyan's Spiritual Mountain, he saw a cave with more spiritual energy and had been abandoned for many years, and decided to retreat here to build his foundation.

Before he retreated, Xu Ziyan also specially passed on some of her experience in building her foundation in the past, as well as some matters that need special attention. After Song Qingming learned about it, he also benefited a lot, and his gratitude to Xu Ziyan increased a lot.

In the past two hundred years, the entire Song family, except for the ancestor who had already passed away, has not produced a foundation-building cultivator. In this regard, there is indeed not much experience left for future generations. Song Qingming's knowledge of foundation-building basically comes from some classics he read in Guiyunfang.

When Xu Ziyan built her foundation, she did not use foundation-building pills, but she was a cultivator with three spiritual roots, and her talent was much better than Song Qingming. Without foundation-building pills, relying only on a few ordinary foundation-building spiritual objects, Xu Ziyan still fought hard to pass the foundation-building stage. Song Qingming has always admired her courage to pursue the great path of cultivation.

There are not many experiences of building a foundation without using foundation-building pills, even in Xiaoyao Sect. If ordinary disciples want to look through such relevant records and classics, they have to go to Xiaoyao Sect's Good Merit Pavilion to exchange for good merits. Song Qingming did not expect Xu Ziyan to pass on this precious foundation-building experience to him.

Song Qingming spent more than ten days to thoroughly comprehend all the foundation-building experience that Xu Ziyan had taught him, and then he activated the restrictions outside his cave, preparing to retreat to the foundation-building realm.

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A year later, Xu Ziyan, who was practicing in her own cave, suddenly felt a trace of spiritual fluctuations outside, which made her open her closed eyes immediately.

After quickly finishing her practice, Xu Ziyan walked out of the cave and unexpectedly found that the person standing at the door of the cave was Song Qingming, who had been in retreat for almost a year.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you have successfully built your foundation. When did you come out of retreat?" Xu Ziyan was slightly stunned when she saw Song Qingming, and then she came back to her senses and asked with some surprise.

Song Qingming smiled and replied: "I succeeded in building my foundation three months ago. I spent some time in the cave to stabilize my cultivation. I just came out of retreat. I'm coming to see Captain Xu right away."

"Congratulations to Fellow Daoist Song for building the foundation and becoming one of our generation. From now on, we are all foundation-building cultivators, so let's call each other Fellow Daoist."

"Then Song congratulates Fellow Daoist Xu on his improvement in cultivation." When he saw Xu Ziyan, Song Qingming had already discovered that during his year of retreat, Xu Ziyan's cultivation had also broken through a level and reached the third level of foundation building.

Xu Ziyan smiled and said, "This is all thanks to you. The pearl of spiritual medicine that Fellow Daoist gave me last time happened to be used by a senior brother in the sect to make pills, so I exchanged it with him for a second-level spiritual pill, which enabled me to break through in advance."

"I don't deserve this. My success in building the foundation this time is also the result of Fellow Daoist Xu's unremitting help. Fellow Daoist has been very kind to me, and a second-level spiritual medicine can't compare to it." Song Qingming thanked him humbly.

After listening to this, Xu Ziyan shook her head and said, "Fellow Daoist Song is wrong. Ziyan helped you because of our past friendship. How could she say that she was grateful to the Great Dao? Fellow Daoist Song, please don't be too reserved.

For cultivators like me with average spiritual roots, it is not possible for anyone to help us build our foundation. Although you have a foundation-building pill to help you, no matter if you have one or not, the one who can successfully build his foundation must be a person with a firm heart. Even if I don't help you, it's only a matter of time before you become one of us."

"Fellow Daoist Xu is right. Qingming has learned from your teachings!"

What Xu Ziyan said was not an exaggeration. Even if you have a foundation-building pill, it is not a simple matter to build your foundation. Song Qingming deeply understood what she just said after he had experienced the process of building his foundation.