Cultivation of Immortality: Start by Improving Spiritual Root Qualifications

Chapter 870: Spread the Dharma throughout the world and comprehend the thunder tribulation!
Zhou Xun's voice was not loud, but it flowed like a clear spring, clearly reaching the ears of every cultivator present.

"The way to practice Qi, the most important thing is the foundation." He tapped his fingertips lightly, and a ray of spiritual light turned into thousands of runes, flowing in the air.
“Everyone in the world wants quick success, but they don’t know that ‘full energy overflows naturally’ is the great way.”

The runes condensed and turned into an illusory spiritual vein, demonstrating the flow of spiritual energy in the meridians.

"The ninth level of Qi training is actually the foundation of the 'Nine Turns to Foundation Building'. If you can refine your spiritual power to the extreme at each level, then when you build your foundation, it will be a natural progression."

As soon as these words came out, many foundation-building cultivators showed sudden realization on their faces.

Although they have successfully established their foundation, this kind of analysis from the principle point of view will also be of great help to their cultivation.

Dozens of people even sat cross-legged on the spot, with spiritual energy surging around their bodies.

One of the bearded men suddenly let out a long roar, and a shadow appeared above his head - it turned out to be a casual cultivator who had been trapped in the initial stage of foundation building for decades, and at this moment he suddenly realized the key!
Zhou Xun glanced over and flicked his fingertips. A breeze wrapped in pure spiritual power sank into the big man's head.

The big man's whole body was shaking violently, black impurities seeped out of his pores, but his aura kept rising, and in the blink of an eye he broke through to the middle stage of foundation building!

"Thank you Master for your enlightenment!" The big man was so excited that he prostrated himself on the ground, and banged his forehead heavily on the bluestone slab, leaving spider-web-like cracks.

Zhou Xun smiled calmly and continued:
"The third stage of foundation building focuses on the 'dantian square inch'."

Zhou Xun's voice was as gentle as a spring breeze, and every word was precious. All the monks present held their breath and concentrated, fearing that they would miss a single word.

As he spoke, the runes on Zhou Xun's fingertips changed again, and the virtual shadow of his dantian evolved layer by layer. The bottom layer was as rough as gravel, but the top layer was as crystal clear as glass.

"In the initial stage of foundation building, the spiritual power turns into liquid and needs to be 'condensed but not dispersed'," runes flowed, demonstrating the process of spiritual power condensing into liquid in the Dantian.

"In the middle stage of foundation building, spiritual power is like mercury and needs to 'flow continuously'." In the virtual image of Dantian, spiritual power surges like a river, circulating over and over again.

"In the late stage of foundation building, spiritual power is like crystal, and it is necessary to 'return to nature'," the rune suddenly shrank and turned into a dazzling crystal core, floating in the center of Dantian.

"Wow—"

The Foundation Establishment monks below the stage all changed color, some suddenly realized, and some regretted deeply.

"So that's how it is! No wonder I've been stagnant in the middle stage of foundation building for many years, it's because there's something wrong with the way I circulate my spiritual power!" A middle-aged cultivator slapped his thighs suddenly, and the spiritual power around his body adjusted itself, and there was a sign of a breakthrough.

Zhou Xun glanced around and saw that people in the field were constantly bursting with the aura of breakthrough, so he nodded slightly and continued to explain:

"After the foundation is built, one should follow the 'way of mana purification'. If one can purify the mana into crystals during the foundation building period, the quality of the inner elixir will be improved by at least 30% when the elixir is formed."

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was shocked!

"Purify Ruojing!"

“No wonder when the geniuses of those big sects condense their inner elixir, the quality is far superior to that of ordinary people. Condensing a top-grade true elixir is as easy as drinking water!”

Many foundation-building monks showed fanaticism and pondered.
Seeing this, Zhou Xun smiled slightly and slowly said:

"I have a 'Three-turn Pill Condensation Technique', which I will teach you today. This method can purify mana and increase the probability of forming a pill. It can also enhance the quality of the inner pill!"

As he spoke, Zhou Xun flicked his sleeves, and rows of golden ancient characters appeared in the void. They were the "Three-turn Alchemy Technique".
This method is a simple and improved version of the "Nine-turn Pill Condensation Technique" that Ji Wuya gave him.
The entry difficulty has been greatly reduced, and ordinary practitioners can practice it.

Zhou Xun was born in the later generations after all, so he didn't have so many thoughts of keeping things to himself. He just wanted to make some of these secrets public.

This will allow the human world to have more high-level monks, giving it a better chance of victory when facing the invasion of ghosts in the future.

Of course, the most core version is only passed on to one's own disciples.

Everyone who heard the sermon took out their jade slips to record the events.

Seeing this, Zhou Xun smiled slightly and instructed Xu Shaoqing who was standing beside him:
"Qing'er, after the sermon is over, engrave this 'Three-turn Alchemy Technique' and my sermon today on a stone tablet and place it in the Dharma Stele Forest!"

That was where Zhou Xun arranged for people to record the secret techniques of martial arts. Anyone could make a copy for free.
The reason why there are so few high-level cultivators in the cultivation world today is that there are not many geniuses. This can be solved by encouraging childbirth and increasing the population base.
Another is the monopoly of knowledge. Many monks have no way to seek the truth, and even take the wrong path, wasting their precious years and eventually dying in depression.

Zhou Xun's sermon today and the Dharma Forest of Steles are meant to solve this problem.

After a thousand years, the Eastern Wasteland would become a holy place for cultivating immortals.

After building the foundation, the next step is to form the elixir.

Zhou Xun flipped his palm, and an illusory golden pill emerged, with clearly visible patterns on it.

"The path to forming an elixir is to first and foremost focus on 'tempering the spiritual consciousness'."

"As the saying goes, 'Once I swallow a golden pill, I realize that my fate is not determined by heaven.'"

"Inner elixirs are divided into five grades: golden elixir, upper, middle and lower grade true elixir, and fake elixir!"

His eyes were as fast as lightning as he swept across the Jindan cultivators in the front row.

The golden elixir in his palm slowly rotated, and five-colored lines appeared on its surface. Each line represented a different realm of alchemy.

"Although the fake elixir cultivator has the form of the inner elixir, he does not have the substance of the inner elixir." Zhou Xun tapped his fingertips lightly, and the outermost layer of the golden elixir phantom peeled off, revealing the rough inner core.

"Most of these people rely on external forces to barely form a pill, and they will never make any progress in their lifetime!"

The faces of the thousands of fake Dan monks in the field suddenly changed, and cold sweat oozed from their foreheads.
"Low-grade true elixir, mixed spiritual power, impure elixir fire." The golden elixir phantom continued to evolve.
Until the birth of a baby,
Zhenren Yuyuan in Yuquan Valley below was trembling all over, and a gleam of light flashed in his cloudy old eyes.

He had been stuck at the peak of the Jindan stage for over a hundred years. At this moment, as he looked at the phantom of the jade platform, it seemed as if thunder had exploded in his sea of ​​consciousness.

"It turns out that I have been taking the wrong path all along!" Master Yuyuan suddenly burst into tears and started dancing without caring about his image.

He has a spiritual root of 81 points. If he was born outside the Eastern Wilderness, he would naturally be a genius of a great sect and would be able to obtain a Nascent Soul easily.

Born in the East Desert, although he has reached the peak of Jindan, the road ahead is not clear, and he has wasted time until now.
The spiritual energy all over his body was surging like boiling water, and a shadow of a golden elixir appeared faintly above his head - this was a sign that the elixir was about to break into an infant!
Zhou Xun nodded slightly, and a jade pill flew out from his sleeve. It was a fourth-grade "longevity pill" that he had personally refined.

The elixir turned into a stream of light and sank into the old man's mouth. In an instant, the dead tree came back to life. The hunched back of Master Yu Yuan gradually straightened, and his white hair turned black.

"Today, there will be one more Nascent Soul in the Eastern Wilderness." Zhou Xun's tone was calm, but it made the hearts of all the Jindan cultivators present beat like drums.

The spiritual energy around Master Yu Yuan formed a vortex, and dark clouds gathered in the sky, which was a precursor to the arrival of the Nascent Soul Tribulation!
True Lord Tianci and True Lord Tieshan looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes. When they broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, didn't they prepare for decades?
Zhou Xun actually made people realize the truth on the spot with just a few words!
"Fellow Daoist Yuyuan, why don't you go to the cave in the city!" He then ordered Xu Shaoqing to open the spirit gathering formation in the city to help Taoist Yuyuan break through.

"Thank you, Master!" Master Yu Yuan bowed and thanked him, then flew into the city.

Zhou Xun continued to preach, and what followed was the way of the Nascent Soul. Most of the people in the field could no longer understand, only those Nascent Soul cultivators were ecstatic.

Zhou Xun now reads a lot of books and discusses the Dao with the Blood Demon Ancestor and Lu Chang'an, both of whom are cultivators in the Void Refining Realm. His knowledge is profound.
From this high vantage point, even Tianci Zhenjun, who was also in the late Nascent Soul stage, gained a lot.

Xu Shaoqing stood aside, watching his master enlighten all living beings with infinite reverence in his heart.

She suddenly discovered that the stagnant spiritual energy in her body had become unobstructed without her noticing. The Red Sun Golden Pill in her dantian was spinning rapidly. Before she knew it, she had reached the late stage of Dan Formation!

Across the plain, the aura of breakthroughs rose and fell. More than three foundation builders broke through, more than ten people were striving to form a core, and countless cultivators suddenly realized the key to their skills.

As for those who have broken through the bottleneck in the Jindan stage, there are also dozens of them.

After the sermon, Zhou Xun returned to the cave.
At this time, Yu Yuan Zhenren's breakthrough to Nascent Soul had reached the most critical moment.

The sky above the entire Wangchuan Fairy City was covered with dark clouds and flashes of lightning. It was the thunder tribulation that caused the formation of the infant.

Above the Immortal City of Wangchuan, thunderclouds rolled like raging sea waves. Purple lightning as thick as buckets shuttled through the clouds, emitting a heart-pounding pressure.

The monks in the city all looked up at the gathering calamity clouds, with awe and anticipation in their eyes.

"Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation." Tianci Zhenjun stood on the city wall with his hands behind his back, his eyes complicated.

"Fellow Daoist Yuyuan has been stuck at the peak of the Jindan stage for over a hundred years. If you can succeed today, my Eastern Wasteland will have another fellow Yuanying Daoist."

True Lord Tieshan stood aside and said in a deep voice: "With the guidance of Brother Zhou and the longevity pill, Yu Yuan has at least 30% chance of success."

“Seventy percent.” Tianci Zhenjun sighed, “When I was overcoming the tribulation, I only had a twenty percent chance of success and nearly died.”

As the two were talking, the thunderclouds in the sky suddenly shrank, and then -

"boom!"

A thick purple bolt of lightning came crashing down, hitting a cave somewhere in the city!
"The power of heavenly tribulation is indeed mysterious," Zhou Xun whispered to himself.

He moved his fingertips slightly, and a ray of purple lightning moved in his palm, which resonated subtly with the thunder in the sky. Since he mastered the "Purple Sky Thunder Art", he had simulated thunder many times, but in the end, he was still a little short.
That trace is like a natural chasm.

But at this moment, Zhou Xun fell into a mysterious situation and began to realize.
Below, numerous protective formations had already been set up outside the cave. However, under this thunder, those formations were torn apart in an instant like paper.

The thunder's force remained unabated and continued to blast towards the depths of the cave!

At this critical moment, a green light shot up from the cave into the sky and turned into an ancient bronze mirror. The mirror flipped over and actually reflected the thunder back!

"It's Yuyuan's 'Qingxuan Mirror'!" exclaimed a sharp-eyed cultivator.

The thunderclouds in the sky seemed to be enraged, and the second and third thunderbolts struck one after another, each one more ferocious than the last!
The figure of Master Yu Yuan finally appeared in the air. He had now returned to his middle-aged appearance, with flying black hair and spiritual energy surging like the sea. As he made hand gestures, the Qingxuan Mirror kept flipping, reflecting or dissolving the lightning.

"The fourth one." Xu Shaoqing stood beside Zhou Xun and clenched his fists nervously.
Watching the Nascent Soul stage impact ceremony at close range is an extremely rare opportunity for these Jindan cultivators.

Sure enough, when the seventh thunder fell, the Qingxuan Mirror finally couldn't bear it anymore, and it flew away with a wail and fell far away.

Fortunately, this magic weapon is of top-grade level, and now only its spiritual light has been damaged.

Master Yu Yuan groaned, a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, but he did not retreat. He clasped his hands together and took out a jade ruler.

"It's Yuquan Valley's treasure - 'The Measuring Ruler'!" Someone recognized this magic weapon.

The measuring ruler swelled in the wind, becoming a hundred feet in size, and withstood the eighth thunderbolt. However, the ruler was also covered with cracks, and its spiritual light dimmed.

The last thunder is coming!

The lightning was purple-gold in color and as thick as a mountain. Before it even landed, the terrifying pressure had already made it difficult for the low-level cultivators in the city to breathe.

When the thunder strikes just now, Zhou Xun's pupils shrink suddenly.

The lightning split into nine parts in the void, and each part was in line with the rhythm of heaven.

"So that's how it is!" The pool of thunder in his body surged, and the seventy-two thunder seeds evolved on their own, actually simulating the magic of the Nine Revolutions of Thunder.

"Master?" Xu Shaoqing sensed the change in Zhou Xun's aura. He saw fine lightning patterns appearing around his body and purple electric light flashing between his hair from time to time.

Zhou Xun pretended not to hear anything, his entire mind immersed in the understanding of the Way of Thunder.

"Click——"

When the last ray of purple-gold lightning struck, Zhou Xun's eyes lit up.

He clearly saw the ray of chaotic lightning source at the core of the thunder, which was a realm he had never reached before.

The thunder pool suddenly flew out on its own, and under Zhou Xun's deliberate guidance, it produced a wonderful resonance with the thunder.

"So this is how the heavenly thunder works." Zhou Xun raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

The lightning in his palm suddenly changed in nature. In the originally pure purple color, a purple-gold light exactly the same as the thunder appeared.

Zhou Xun smiled slightly and waved his sleeves lightly. A ray of purple light flew out. It was his natal magic weapon, the Thunder Pool!

Lei Chi met the purple-gold thunder, but not only did he not resist, but he swallowed up all the power of the thunder like a whale sucking water!

"This" everyone was stunned.

Since ancient times, when a cultivator is going through a heavenly tribulation, other people would never dare to interfere, as doing so would be targeted by the tribulation and a more powerful thunder would fall upon them.

Even a Divine Transformation cultivator would find it difficult to resist!

These are the rules!
At this moment, the aura on the thunder pool was exactly the same as the thunder of tribulation. This was exactly the true meaning of the thunder of tribulation that Zhou Xun had realized.

After swallowing the thunder, the lightning in the thunder pool surged.

Even more amazing was the fact that the calamity clouds above began to dissipate, which meant that Zhou Xun had successfully intervened.
And True Man Yu Yuan successfully survived the thunder tribulation!

"what--"

Yu Yuan Zhenren howled to the sky, and his spiritual power surged wildly. An inch-tall phantom of a Nascent Soul appeared above his head.

The face of the Nascent Soul was exactly the same as his, only younger, with a faint purple aura surrounding his body.

"Nascent Soul, it's done!" Tianci Zhenjun said excitedly.

After the thunderbolt, there is the inner demon tribulation. However, this tribulation seems to last for eternity for the person who is going through it, but it only lasts for a moment in the outside world.
After that, the road will be smooth.
If you don’t get through it, you will die.

And at this moment,
Yuyuan Zhenren - no, now he should be called Yuyuan Zhenjun,

Standing in the air, feeling the surging power in his body, his eyes full of disbelief.

He turned around and bowed deeply to Zhou Xun: "Thank you for your help, Master! Yu Yuan will serve you wholeheartedly in this life!"

Zhou Xun nodded slightly: "Congratulations to you for entering the Nascent Soul stage."

(End of this chapter)