Born with immortal seed

Chapter 180 Middle Stage of Foundation Building
The Tianxin Sword, having been soaked in the sword-quenching spiritual water for a day and a night, was completely renewed.

Having absorbed the essence of the five metals from the sword-quenching spirit water, and disregarding the losses during the great battle, the tiny grain-sized chips caused by clashing the flying sword itself have all been repaired.

On the other side, the cracks on the willow-leaf sword have also been repaired.

However, Bai Zichen's brute force, enhanced by the Glazed Fire God's Body, damaged the Willow Leaf Sword's spiritual essence.

It will probably need to soak for another day to fully recover.

"It seems that even with my talent in weapon crafting, it would take me about twenty years to be confident in successfully crafting a first-tier flying sword, even if I focused all my energy on it..."

Bai Zichen regretfully confirmed that, like his family, his family did not possess outstanding talent in weapon crafting.

The flying knife magic weapon in front of me was shattered on the ground. It wasn't because I failed to control the firepower properly during the solidification stage, but because I over-tempered it.

The problem was that too much force was used in the final step of the restriction, exceeding the limit that the basic materials could withstand.

Of course, with the wondrous power of the spirit body, as long as one is willing to spend the time, one can always push the various arts of cultivation to a level equal to one's own cultivation.

In that case, cultivating during the Foundation Establishment stage would be somewhat uneconomical.

"I don't lack second-tier flying swords. I also cultivate weapon crafting to make it easier for me to forge third-tier flying swords... At this stage, as long as I practice a little, I can reach the peak of first-tier weapon crafting level before forming the Golden Core. After forming the Golden Core, my divine sense will be attached to the Golden Core, giving me a commanding view and making breakthroughs much easier."

Bai Zichen waved his wide sleeves, sweeping a large pile of basic materials and a refining cauldron into a corner of the room, and stopped the specially summoned earth fire.

When Baiyulou was built, considering the possibility of learning various arts of immortality in the future, it specially divided up alchemy rooms, weapon refining rooms, talisman drawing rooms, and so on.

The vast majority of buildings remain unused and unused.

Back in his meditation room, he poured out a Flame Spirit Pill, sat cross-legged in the Five Hearts Facing Heaven posture, and skillfully began to circulate the first level of the Fire Dragon Returning to Origin Scripture.

Before setting off for Zengguang Immortal City, Bai Zichen, with the help of the Nine-Turn Dragon-Tiger Pill and other pills that enhance his cultivation, was already not far from the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage.

If it weren't for the time wasted in reshaping the Glazed Body, the spiritual liquid in the dantian and sea of ​​qi would have already exceeded one-third, reaching the limit of the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

This seclusion is precisely to make the most of my strength and not emerge until I have pushed my cultivation to the peak of the initial stage.

He specifically told his senior brother Liang Yu that he had gained enlightenment and found a breakthrough opportunity through life-and-death struggles with others, so his entry into the Enforcement Hall would be delayed by a few years.

Liang Yu could understand this very well. In his opinion, it was normal for a genius swordsman like Bai Zichen, who could comprehend sword qi and thunderous sound before the age of thirty, to break through and gain insights during a battle.

Otherwise, why would those peerless sword cultivators spend their days traveling with their swords, testing their skills against the strongest warriors in the world?

Each time a Flame Spirit Pill is refined, a drop of newly generated liquid mana falls from the Qi Sea, creating ripples in the liquid.

At the same time, a fiery ray of light hung over the sea, radiating astonishing heat.

After spending several days absorbing and digesting this Earthly Spirit Flame, transforming it into the purest fire-type magic power, another drop of liquid magic power was added to the pool in the Qi Sea.

Fortunately, the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword Embryo, which had fallen into a deep slumber and remained completely still, was still unconsciously emitting arcs of lightning due to its inherent rank, which would sweep across the surface of the Spirit Liquid Lake every now and then.

This ensured that Bai Zichen had an extremely high absorption efficiency of the medicine, and the resulting medicinal residue and poison dissipated the moment it entered his Qi Sea.

Two years later.

A dazzling crimson light flashed around Bai Zichen, reaching its peak after a few breaths, turning the entire quiet room red.

He reached the quiet room of a mid-grade third-level spiritual land. The spiritual energy inside surged and roared like dragons, forming several streams that rushed towards his body.

A scorching heat rose in the air, as if one were standing on the top of a volcano, with magma and flames ready to erupt at any moment.

A soft dragon roar, violent and with the power to incinerate everything, swallowed up all the spiritual energy.

The red light on the body surface completely subsided, returning to normal. At the same time, the temperature in the quiet room dropped, and the strange phenomena from before seemed to have never happened.

Bai Zichen remained expressionless. The second level of the Fire Dragon Returning to Origin Scripture, which he had long memorized, began to operate spontaneously. A spiritual rain fell in his Qi Sea, and the spiritual liquid lake visibly rose by one level.

Most noticeably, the Nine Yang Divine Fire Mirror, which was originally tucked away in a corner with only a small portion of its surface submerged in the spiritual liquid, now has more than half of its surface covered by the nourishing liquid magic power.

As the second layer of the Fire Dragon Returning to Origin Scripture completed a full cycle, a new and even more powerful magical pressure emerged.

"Mid-stage Foundation Establishment, achieved in one fell swoop..."

Bai Zichen's heart remained largely unmoved as he quietly contemplated the changes that had occurred after breaking through to the next realm.

With the help of elixirs, he cultivated diligently for two years and finally pushed his cultivation to the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage. Without any pause, he immediately launched an attack on the next realm.

Such a careless attitude would surely drive cultivators who have been stuck at their bottlenecks for decades and who fast and bathe to keep their minds pure before breaking through to a higher realm crazy.

No more, no less, within a month, he successfully broke through to the next realm.

"My divine sense has increased dramatically, and its range can now reach 160 feet... I remember that the effect of a normal cultivator's advancement in realm does not have such an amazing effect on the enhancement of their divine sense. I guess it is the effect of the Divine Forging Technique."

Bai Zichen was very satisfied with this, as his spiritual strength was approaching that of a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator.

This ensures that his spiritual sense will not be a weakness when facing any Foundation Establishment cultivator.

As for Core Formation Realm cultivators, they are not on the same level. It is said that no movement within ten miles can escape their divine sense.

No matter how much progress one makes, one will never become so arrogant as to think that one can meet a Core Formation Realm expert.

If that day ever comes, there will only be two things to do—

He self-destructed his glass body, activating the Taiyin Star Escape Talisman.

Whether they can survive after doing all this depends on fate.

Looking inward, the total amount of liquid mana has increased by about half, so the power of various spells will definitely be improved accordingly.

Of course, the most important change for Bai Zichen is that he can now unleash three swords instead of two at most when he combines the two swords.

"But for opponents I can defeat, two sword strikes are enough... For those I can't, it seems like one more strike won't make much of a difference?"

For ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, unless they possess top-tier cultivation techniques or great supernatural abilities, Bai Zichen is no longer so worried.

Even without resorting to the extreme measure of self-destruction of his crystal body, he was confident that he could defeat more than 90% of late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

As for Foundation Establishment Perfection, one has taken the final step before Core Formation, and with perfect magical power, whether the two swords in one's hand can unleash two or three strikes will not affect the final outcome.

Unless they can combine their two swords and make it a regular offensive tactic, they will be no match for them.

Therefore, although he has taken a step forward in terms of realm, when he really faces an enemy who has reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, he will probably still only have the move of self-destructing his glass body.

"Unless I advance further in my swordsmanship and reach the legendary level of refining swords into silk... I can only be considered invincible below the Core Formation stage."

Bai Zichen recalled the scene in the inherited image of the old man in the true sword dao manual left by Xinghe Sword Lord, who manipulated the silk-like sword light with both hands, ignoring defensive magic treasures and piercing through more than a dozen opponents. He longed for that scene.

If one possessed such skill, and applied it to the duel with Meng Shigui that day, one could have easily secured victory with just a pair of flying swords.

The so-called "one sword breaks ten thousand laws" refers to the realm of refining swords into silk.

No matter your myriad spells or defensive treasures, I can shatter them all with a single sword strike.

Generally speaking, once a sword cultivator has come into contact with the true meaning of the Great Dao, it is relatively easy for them to comprehend the Dao of the sword from a high vantage point and master the art of refining swords into threads.

The rest of the people, only those who make their own alchemical treatises early on, understand the path that suits them, are the most outstanding Core Formation cultivators, and at the same time possess unparalleled swordsmanship talent.

Only then will one have the opportunity to reach the realm of refining swords into silk during the Core Formation stage.

"Forget it, refining swords into silk is too far beyond my reach... I'll just study the True Sword Technique more and master the legendary Sword Heart Clarity, that would be quite good."

Bai Zichen shook his head, abandoning the unrealistic idea.

"But if we're talking about a way to greatly increase my combat power in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, there's another one, and only I can do it."

The third layer of the pentaceous glass body is a pentaceous permanent casting.

Ancestor Ge Cang is currently at this level in this body-refining technique.

If we say that the first two layers of the pentaceous glass body can be mastered through a long period of time and a bit of luck, then it's possible to get started.

Starting from the third level, the entry threshold is raised again.

If you can't understand it, you just can't understand it; no amount of time will help.

Judging from Yang Laozu's tone, he definitely hadn't cultivated the Five Crystal Glazed Body to the third level.

The minimum cultivation requirement for the Five Crystal Eternal Forged Body is the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Bai Zichen believed that even Ancestor Ge Cang only began to attempt the entry into the third level after he had formed his core.

He used the first two layers for twenty years, and it's normal for the three layers of five-crystal permanent casting to take forty or fifty years.

Even if a cultivator with a Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivates very quickly, the extra time is not used in this way.

Unless it's a secret technique that can significantly increase the probability of forming a core, no one would dare to spend so much time in the Foundation Establishment stage investing in something unrelated to their cultivation level.

"It is necessary to nurture and strengthen the five crystal divine irons in the sea of ​​consciousness, transforming the current piece, which is at most the size of a walnut, into a hill... At the same time, connect the inner and outer worlds and give birth to spirituality."

Bai Zichen stared at the third level of the Five Crystal Glazed Body technique, speechless with astonishment.

Since the five crystal divine iron condensed in the sea of ​​consciousness, it has taken so many years for it to grow from a grain of rice to the size of a walnut today.

However, the number of levels involved in transforming it into a mountain is so vast that it's hard to imagine how much time it would take.

Not to mention connecting the inner and outer worlds to generate spirituality, which is somewhat similar to the methods of cultivating spiritual treasures.

Of course, fifth-order spiritual materials are created by the heavens and earth, and are imbued with spirituality from the very beginning of their formation.

Since this body-refining technique requires the simultaneous use of Five-Crystal Divine Iron and Glazed Fire Jade, fully utilizing the strengths of both fifth-grade spiritual materials to achieve an unparalleled physique, it's normal for it to achieve this.

"The Five Crystals Eternal Forging Body is too profound. I'll study it properly in a while... However, advancing one level in the Fire Dragon Returning to Origin Scripture will definitely change my aptitude. If I cultivate two more levels, my fire spirit root aptitude will be no worse than that of a dual-spirit root cultivator."

After the breakthrough, when Bai Zichen first activated the second level of the Fire Dragon Returning to Origin Scripture, he felt the difference compared to when he refined the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

(End of this chapter)