Chapter 160 Mingyue Palace, Li Changzhou [5K]
The waiting process was not too long.
About half a day later, a vortex of spiritual energy quietly emerged between heaven and earth, and rushed towards the retreat room like a funnel.
"It looks like there's no problem."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart and couldn't help but smile.
The biggest difficulty in building the foundation by taking the foundation-building pill is to open the dantian. Once the dantian is opened, the possibility of failure in building the foundation with the help of the Taoist essence of the foundation-building pill is basically no more than 30%.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is gathering before his eyes. It is obvious that someone has opened his Dantian. The possibility of failure in breaking through should be small.
In fact, it was true. Half a day later, as the vortex of spiritual energy dissipated, a middle-aged man with gray hair on his temples walked out.
The person who made the breakthrough was Ye Linze, the only cultivator in the family besides Ye Linyuan who specialized in water magic to build his foundation.
He had reached the great perfection of Qi training before the age of seventy, and had made more than ten attempts to break through to the foundation-building stage. In the previous breakthroughs, he mainly focused on breaking through the Dantian, and he only took the foundation-building pill during the first breakthrough.
After more than ten impacts, with the tenacity of water dripping through stone, his Dantian barrier has been opened by nearly half, but it is still insufficient.
Therefore, the probability of Ye Linze building a foundation should not exceed 30%.
The reason they were able to complete the foundation building this time was mainly because he relied on the recovery ability of water cultivators and sacrificed 90% of his own essence and blood.
A cultivator's blood and essence are of vital importance. If an ordinary cultivator loses even 30% of it, his vitality will be seriously damaged. If he loses 50%, his essence will be greatly depleted and it will take decades to recover. If it exceeds 50%, he will be in danger of death.
At that time, Ye Qinxin broke through to the foundation-building stage after losing 50% of his essence and blood, but the price he paid was slow progress in his cultivation over the next thirty to fifty years.
Relying on the powerful life-sustaining ability of water-attributed true qi, Ye Linze consumed a full 90% of his essence at one time, allowing himself to finally break through the bottleneck and reach the foundation-building stage.
As a price to pay, not only would Ye Linze's vitality be severely damaged, but his lifespan would also be shortened by 30 years.
Of course, compared to the inability to build a foundation, this is already considered an advantage of the water method. An ordinary cultivator can only consume 50% of his essence and blood to break through. Any more and he will be in danger of death.
And sometimes, the indestructible Dantian barrier can be broken through with just one last breath.
Of course, no matter what the reason, Ye Linze still broke through the foundation-building realm. Even if it was only the weakest water-based foundation-building realm, his status and position were incomparable to what they were in the past.
Understanding this, Ye Linyuan smiled and said, "Congratulations, brother, you have finally established your foundation."
"It's all thanks to the support of the clan leader." Ye Linze answered cautiously.
Seeing this, Ye Qinxin on the side said, "Your vitality has been greatly damaged. You should recover from your injuries first."
Ye Linze nodded, bowed, and went to heal his wounds and consolidate his cultivation.
After he left, everyone began to wait for Ye Huaixue's breakthrough. Unfortunately, after waiting for three whole days, there was no sign of a successful breakthrough.
Finally, Ye Huaixue came out with a pale face, and even his hands were bloodless. It was obvious that he had failed to break through by burning his Qi and blood.
"Ugh."
Seeing this, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but sigh slightly.
Ye Huaixue majored in wood magic and was a little older when he started to build his foundation, so it was reasonable that he failed to break through this time.
In fact, Ye Huaixue was just an ordinary cultivator with five spiritual roots. It was an amazing fortune that he could cultivate all the way to his current level. The possibility of further breakthroughs was not great.
Ye Huaixue also understood this, and immediately stood up and saluted them, saying: "Clan leader, aunt, Huaixue is not up to the task and cannot break through the foundation-building stage. I disappoint you."
"Alas." Ye Qinxin helped her up, then sighed and said, "Child, this is your fate. From now on, you should stay with your aunt and spend your old age in peace."
Ye Linyuan watched all this calmly without saying anything more.
Although the Ye family has a good foundation now, the two times of providing Foundation Establishment Pills, plus the Soul Nourishing Pills and other spiritual items, the spirit stones spent on Ye Huaixue are no less than tens of thousands.
Spending up her resources like this has been a great favor to Ye Huaixue. Her inability to break through can only be blamed on her own destiny and lack of fate.
In fact, if Ye Linyuan was willing to pay a huge price, even at the cost of sacrificing some of his essence to restore her essence, and then buy her a longevity pill, it would still be possible for Ye Huaixue to break through, but he would not do that.
The Ye family is not a family of one or two people. It is okay for Ye Linyuan to support these family members while delaying his own cultivation. But if everyone cultivates them with all their strength, it will inevitably drag down the Ye family completely.
Today, the Ye family not only has five true disciples, but also seven or eight elders who have achieved great perfection in Qi training. Each of them is related to Ye Linyuan, and some of them are cousins, and they have developed a certain relationship over the years.
If I only focus on cultivating Ye Huaixue, what will others think?
However, if everyone puts all their efforts into cultivation, the cost will be too great. Not only will it delay one's own practice, but it will also completely ruin the family's finances.
At that time, how would Ye Linyuan build nine star towers, and how would he accumulate the resources for Dan-forming?
So at the beginning, Ye Linyuan set the rules, and gave two foundation-building pills each to the first generation, including Ye Linze and Ye Huaixue.
Ye Linchu and other first elders of the family, Ye Linyuan, out of old friendship, granted each of them an opportunity to build a foundation.
Because they are considered the original shareholders of the family, and the family also needs to build a foundation to guard the major spiritual veins. As long as they break through the foundation, it will be beneficial to the family as a whole.
After Ye Qinxin and Ye Qinchu established their foundation, the family was no longer so anxious for new people to establish their foundation. What Ye Linyuan wanted was a genius who was good at cultivating all kinds of arts or could cultivate a superior Taoist foundation.
The former is extremely skilled in the art of cultivation, and is willing to cultivate and build his foundation at any cost. He can repay his debts within a hundred years, and then earn spirit stones to subsidize his family.
For example, the spiritual builder Ye Xuanheng, once he successfully builds the foundation, he can use his spiritual building skills to help Ye Linyuan design and build the Star Tower.
The construction of spiritual buildings is very slow, and it often takes several years or even decades. It requires spiritual builders to be stationed on the construction site to work all year round, so the cost of hiring spiritual builders is also frighteningly high.
Ye Linyuan wants to build nine second-order star towers. This alone can save Ye Linyuan at least 50,000 spirit stones.
Another example is Ye Xuanjin. There is no need to say much about the value of a second-level alchemist. As long as there are spiritual plant husbands who can provide unlimited spiritual plants, the alchemist is the most profitable secondary profession in the world of immortal cultivation.
For Ye Linyuan, training Ye Xuanjin and Ye Xuanheng to build their foundation is essentially a long-term investment rather than a losing business.
The purpose of training Ye Xuqiu and others is to cultivate the backbone of the family's combat power and help Ye Linyuan resist powerful enemies. Not to mention that Ye Xuqiu and Ye Yingxu are extremely talented and have outstanding abilities in all arts of cultivation.
Therefore, the intensity of family support is completely different for different monks.
Ye Huaixue, Ye Linze and others have limited talent in the arts of cultivation. It will probably take them a hundred years to master the second-level arts of cultivation after building their foundation. So giving them two foundation-building pills is already a great kindness.
"..."
"According to the time, the Seven Domains Conference is almost here."
After Ye Linze established his foundation, half a year had passed unknowingly.
That day, Ye Linyuan finished his retreat and left Yejia Island alone to go to Tianxing Continent. When he arrived at Tianxing Continent, he found that Minghuang Jianzi had been waiting for a long time.
"You've come just in time. We're ready to go."
Seeing him arrive, Minghuang Jianzi couldn't help but smile.
Ye Linyuan nodded and looked towards Tianxing Island, but saw a large ship of nearly a hundred feet in length docked in front of the port of Tianxing Island.
This is a huge treasure ship, which is made up of hundreds of thousands of pieces of spiritual wood. The core materials such as the keel of the main body are composed of seven huge second-grade high-quality spiritual woods.
And on the treasure ship, there is a huge seven-leaf sail, which is engraved with various Taoist patterns and formations, and is filled with spiritual ideas that shock the heaven and earth.
"Second-level high-quality treasure ship."
The first time Ye Linyuan saw the treasure ship, he couldn't help but show a look of surprise.
Minghuang Jianzi nodded, then said with a smile: "This is the second-level top-grade treasure ship Jiaosha, and it is also one of the seven second-level top-grade treasure ships of my Tianxing Sword Sect."
"Its entire body is made of more than 300 second-level spiritual woods and tens of thousands of first-level spiritual woods. The seven-leaf sail on it is made of the leather of seven foundation-building sea beasts, including a great monster in the late foundation-building stage."
Ye Linyuan's heart was slightly moved when he heard this. This kind of super-large treasure ship would cost no less than hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. Even if it was a powerful foundation-building force, it would take at least three hundred years to build such a treasure ship.
The Ye family now has ten acres of second-level spiritual fields and second-level super-quality spiritual plants, but building such a treasure ship will require twenty to thirty years of accumulation.
Of course, this kind of treasure ship is extremely expensive to build, so it also possesses extraordinary power.
This second-level treasure ship is engraved with hundreds of formations, which can be considered a super complex formation. It even contains a large number of spirit gathering beads, spirit gathering formations, spirit storage formations, etc. It is itself a mobile second-level top-grade mobile spirit vein.
Once the treasure ship is fully launched, its combat power is even enough to rival that of a fake elixir real person. Even when facing a powerful person in the early stage of the golden elixir, it has a certain ability to survive.
Of course, the greatest use of this treasure ship is in war.
A second-grade, top-quality treasure ship can not only be used to cross the extremely dangerous deep sea, but also can single-handedly defeat a coalition of 200,000 to 300,000 demons or monks.
Such a strategic role naturally needs no further explanation.
In addition, there is a large amount of storage space inside this treasure ship, which can be used for ocean trade across the deep sea when there is no war.
"For this Seven Domains Conference, we need to cross a long deep ocean. It will be much safer to go there on the Jiaosha."
Minghuang Jianzi took Ye Linyuan onto the treasure ship and spoke with a smile.
Ye Linyuan nodded. He looked around and found that there were more than 300 foundation-building cultivators in the treasure ship. They were obviously going to the Canghai area to participate in the Seven Areas Conference.
As the leader of the seven regions, the Canghai Region is 600,000 miles away from the Tianxing Sea Region.
This vast deep sea of 600,000 miles is filled with countless underwater spiritual veins, which naturally gave birth to a large number of deep-sea monsters.
According to rumors, there are many huge sea beasts in the false elixir realm in this deep sea, and some people have even seen traces of deep-sea beasts in the golden elixir realm.
It is very dangerous for ordinary foundation-building cultivators to cross this deep sea. Once they encounter a deep-sea monster in the false elixir realm, they will probably be in a life-and-death situation.
Therefore, taking the Jiaosha to the Canghai area is the greatest guarantee for their safety.
"The deep sea leading to the Canghai area is extremely dangerous. It is said that the deepest part of the sea water is not less than ten thousand miles. Without the help of the Jiaosha, it would be very dangerous for ordinary foundation-building cultivators to cross it."
"If we cultivators didn't have a place to live in the shallow sea, I'm afraid we wouldn't have a place to stand in this Cangling Sea."
Minghuang Jianzi spoke slowly and then said solemnly: "This is just the deep sea inside the Seven Domain Alliance. It is said that the deep sea outside the Seven Domain Alliance is even more terrifying."
"Oh?"
Ye Linyuan looked slightly solemn. This was the first time he heard news outside the Seven Realms Alliance. He couldn't help but ask, "What kind of world is outside the Seven Realms Alliance?"
Minghuang Jianzi pondered for a moment, then said, "The Seven Regions Alliance where we are is located in the eastern region of the Cangling Sea, which is just a remote area in the eastern region of the Cangling Sea."
"Beyond the Seven Domain Alliance is an endless deep ocean. The nearest prosperous shallow sea archipelago is millions of miles away from us."
"In that vast sea, there are legends that there are turtles carrying islands, black water snakes hiding in the abyss, and groups of majestic sky whales roaming around. Each of them is an existence that we cannot afford to offend."
Upon hearing this, Ye Linyuan's eyes couldn't help but become solemn.
The Tyrant Turtle, the Black Water Serpent, and the Sky Whale tribes are all the top-notch descendants of the True Spirits. Their talents are much stronger than the Black Flood Demon King, and perhaps they are enough to be on the same level as the Flood Dragon.
There is only one letter difference between Jiao and Jiaolong, but the former has only begun to awaken the dragon blood and has only the potential of the golden elixir level.
The latter is about to transform into a dragon, an existence close to or even comparable to the lower-grade true spirits of heaven and earth. Even in this era when the Great Dao is incomplete, they are all true Nascent Soul seeds.
Moreover, it is foreseeable that each of these true spirit descendants is an existence that cannot be provoked. They are at least deep-sea behemoths in the late Jindan stage or above.
"In the Cangling Sea, the human cultivation world is extremely prosperous, but those deep-sea beasts and monsters are the masters of this place."
Minghuang Jianzi sighed solemnly. He told Ye Linyuan that the archipelago of the Seven Realms Alliance was actually a shallow sea with higher terrain in the entire Cangling Sea, which was why it could protrude to form the Seven Realms Alliance's world of immortal cultivation.
But outside the Seven Domain Alliance, the vast deep sea is extremely dangerous. Even the Jindan masters of the Seven Domain Alliance dare not leave this shallow sea archipelago easily.
"The Eastern Region of Cangling Sea?"
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart. In his previous life, he didn’t know much about this Cangling Sea. He just heard that this place was a relatively closed place for cultivating immortals in the East China Sea.
Now his cultivation is still far from enough. It seems that he needs to have at least the combat power of the late Jindan period before he can initially leave the Seven Domain Alliance and experience the charm of the Eastern Region of Cangling Sea.
"Woo——"
Just as Ye Linyuan was deep in thought, the sound of a ship's horn slowly rang out, and the big ship slowly started moving.
As the formation patterns on the big ship were activated one by one, the formation patterns on the seven-leaf sail slowly opened, and the treasure ship finally sailed out of the Tianxing Sea.
Such a large treasure ship, loaded with living creatures and monks, should have been traveling very slowly, but unexpectedly its speed was exceptionally fast in the deep sea.
With the help of Qi Yefan's super acceleration formation, the treasure ship could actually travel at a speed of nearly 30,000 miles a day.
The treasure ship continued to cross the deep sea, and in just over twenty days it flew hundreds of thousands of miles and arrived at the vast ocean.
"The Canghaizhou Continent is ahead."
After setting foot in the Canghai area, Minghuang Jianzi introduced it to Ye Linyuan. Ye Linyuan pondered and looked at the Canghai Island in front of him thoughtfully.
The core of this vast ocean is not a vast continent, but an extremely special archipelago sea state.
It stretches for nearly ten thousand miles and is made up of tens of thousands of islands, large and small. These islands are connected by a large number of Taiyin Shehua Formations, which gather moonlight and spiritual energy to supply a third-level spiritual building field.
Canghai Yuehua Palace.
When Ye Linyuan arrived at this third-level dojo, he felt a surge of tremendous moonlight power. The endless sea moonlight power surged, causing the sea moon magic power in his body to boil, almost reaching the extreme of his life.
"If I can practice here for a long time, my training speed will increase by at least 50%."
With this thought in mind, Ye Linyuan got off the Jiaosha.
But just as he landed, he saw a graceful female cultivator walking towards him.
This female cultivator had reached the late stage of foundation building, and seemed to be a favored girl who had cultivated a superior foundation. When she saw Ye Linyuan, she smiled and asked, "Are you Ye Linyuan?"
Ye Linyuan was stunned for a moment, then said, "It is me."
"That's right." The female cultivator smiled slightly, and then said, "My master wants to see you, please go and have a chat."
Upon hearing this, Ye Linyuan was slightly stunned. Then he turned his head to look at Minghuang Jianzi, only to see that Minghuang Jianzi nodded.
Seeing this, he cupped his hands and asked, "Who is your young master?"
The female cultivator did not answer, but said mysteriously: "Fellow Daoist Ye will know it after seeing it."
Having said this, she turned and led the way.
Seeing this, Ye Linyuan took a step forward and followed.
After walking for a while, the two came to an empty moon-viewing platform.
Ye Linyuan heard a deep flute sound and looked up at the moon-watching platform.
But under the moonlight, a man in white clothes who looked like a banished immortal was seen playing the flute to the moon, and the faint heavenly sound echoed in the vast ocean.
It was not until a long time later that the man put down the flute in his hand, looked at Ye Linyuan and smiled.
"My name is Li Changzhou, nice to meet you, Fellow Daoist Ye."
(End of this chapter)
