Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 37 Qin Sufu

"Three idiots!" Kang Dabao cursed softly after listening to his apprentice's account of his experience. He ignored the three confused apprentices and got on the donkey cart without saying anything more.

The four masters and apprentices drove the donkey cart to the center of the market and stopped in front of a dome-shaped building.

"Master Kang, it's been a long time since we last met." A white-haired old man with two swords on his back came up to the door with a smile.

"Brother Gui Dao is still as charming and elegant as ever. I miss you very much." Kang Dabao put on his businessman look again and said happily.

"I am not as old as you, my brother. Please come in. Leader Qin has been waiting for you for a long time." The white-haired old man held Kang Dabao's right arm, looking very intimate.

"Then I will go in first. I don't want to trouble Brother Qin to wait for a long time." Kang Dabao gently withdrew his right arm and bowed in farewell.

Pushing the door open and entering the house, I saw a huge lotus pond under the dome.

There was a faint fragrance of spiritual mist in the lotus pond that diffused throughout the room. More than a hundred spiritual fish were shuttling back and forth throughout the night. The water in the pond was extremely clear, and they all seemed to be swimming in the air.

The starlight shines through the transparent dome directly into the center of the pool, and then slowly flows along the water to a stone island about a meter wide in the middle of the pool.

On the stone island there was a man sitting with his eyes closed, looking very graceful.

Mr. Qin Sufu of Yushan was not only one of the most accomplished cultivators in Pingrong County, but also had a beautiful appearance that was known even to many female cultivators in Xuanwei City.

"Brother Kang, everything has been fine since you came. Qin was wrong. Congratulations on your great progress in cultivation. You are on the verge of building a foundation." The man smiled, jumped up, and a breeze was raised under his feet, and he landed in front of Kang Dabao.

"Brother Daoist, your cultivation is getting more and more advanced! When we meet again soon, I will probably have to address you as senior!" Kang Dabao praised sincerely. At the age of forty, he had cultivated to the peak of Qi training as a casual cultivator and had a good chance of building a foundation. With such talent, he could be considered upper-middle even in the big Jindan sects.

Then he asked his three disciples to come forward one by one to pay their respects.

"You and I are brothers, let's not talk about this. These three are your disciples? Good, good. The Chongming Sect has a chance to be revived. Uncle He will be very happy in his grave! Since we are meeting for the first time, I will give you some small things."

Three high-quality first-grade lower-level magic weapons could be sold for at least a hundred spirit stones outside, which is about ten years' income for those casual cultivators who were struggling to survive in the market.

The three disciples already had an idea of ​​how valuable the spirit stones were, so they were stunned. This senior was really generous.

"It's a gift from the elder, so just accept it." Kang Dabao didn't care much, but he might have been thinking of taking advantage of him. He made the decision for the three disciples and waved his hand to send them to wait outside the door.

"Brother Kang, have you thought about what I told you last time?" Qin Sufu looked at Kang Dabao with sharp eyes.

"Integrate the scattered cultivators in Pingrong County to serve the imperial court. Brother Dao, this is a serious matter, please think twice!" Kang Dabao put on a solemn expression.

"The commander of the Baisha County Demon Correction Division, Tie, met with me three times and spoke to me from the bottom of his heart. He said that if the matter is successful, he would recommend me as the deputy commander of the Baisha County Demon Correction Division, and would also ask Shannan Dao for a foundation-building pill for me.
We have known each other for many years, and I know your abilities. If you help me take care of the affairs of the fellow practitioners, I will accomplish great things. If I build a foundation, it will be easy for me to ascend to the top of the Ming Sect and return to the top of Pingrong. "When Qin Sufu mentioned the word "foundation building", there was a trace of longing on his face.

“Foundation Building Pill” Kang Dabao thought to himself, so that’s how it is. No wonder this Taoist brother is so concerned about it.

Whenever a cultivator breaks through a realm, blessings and disasters always occur together.

Just take the first stage after entering the Tao, the foundation building, as an example. Except for the cultivators with natural spiritual roots who are jokingly called "descendants of the Taoist ancestors", there is no bottleneck before forming the pill.

The probability of other Qi-cultivating monks being able to successfully establish their foundation without the help of external objects is less than 5%.

Please note that this does not mean that five Foundation Establishment cultivators can emerge out of a hundred Qi Condensation cultivators, but that five Foundation Establishment cultivators can emerge out of a hundred Qi Condensation cultivators at the peak stage.

As for most other Qi training practitioners, they will never even reach the late stage of Qi training in their lifetime.

There are not many cultivators like Bai Bian who can cultivate to the seventh level of Qi training at such an old age.

Most Qigong practitioners begin to lose their Qi and blood after the age of ninety, and their magic power is no longer as condensed as before. If they are still at the peak of Qigong at this time, they should not think about finding a foundation-building elixir.

Take good care of your health and avoid competing with others. After you are over 100 years old, you often still have 30 years to live. The real thing is to take good care of your body and keep your life to protect your family and descendants.

For cultivators with declining Qi and blood, their cultivation foundation has begun to deteriorate, and the chances of further progress are almost zero.

However, there is always a way out, and it is not impossible to succeed in building the foundation at this time. It's just that this approach is not much different from seeking death.

This is because when it comes to building a foundation, the most important thing is foundation, followed by luck, and then resources.

The Foundation Building Pill is the most stable spiritual item for foundation building. According to the conclusion of some alchemy masters, after comprehensive consideration, it should be able to increase the success rate of the user by 30%.

Even though a 30% chance may not sound high, it is enough to attract all Qigong practitioners.

It should be understood that once the foundation-building fails, one may have to rest for a few years if he is lucky, but it will take at least ten years of hard work and recuperation to build the foundation next time.

Those with bad luck are like Chen Ye, the leader of the Grass Witch Cult, who has been suffering from chronic illnesses and pain for decades, and is still stuck in the Qi training stage and cannot make any progress.

Those who are worse off will die suddenly on the spot, and decades of practice will turn into dry bones and ashes.

In fact, among those who fail, nearly 90% end up like the second category, and there are not many people in the first, third and second categories.

But over the years, the number of cultivators who build their foundation without the help of external objects has become increasingly smaller, and it has not been heard of in Yunjiao Province in the past twenty years.

Even if they cannot get the foundation-building pill, people will often try their best to find some spiritual objects with much lesser effects, such as Qingwen Nuanyu and Shiniuzhi, to assist in building the foundation.

From this, we can see how precious the Foundation Building Pill is, as it can increase the success rate of the user by 30%. However, it also has two drawbacks: one is that it is too scarce, and the other is that it is too expensive.

Such elixirs are rarely seen at major auctions in Yunjiao Province, and even if they are, they will be sold at sky-high prices.

The last time it appeared was at a large auction in Hancheng three years ago.

Ten foundation-building pills were placed on the stage, and I don't know how many cultivators below the stage were aroused to murderous intent.

It was the emblem of the Liangyi Sect on the pill bottle that made them come to their senses and dare not act rashly. Several of the Jindan ancestors from his family were notorious and well-known in Shannan Road.

In the end, among all the forces in Yunjiao Prefecture, only the Niu family of Dingnan and the Yue family of Hancheng purchased one for 86,000 spirit stones and 79,000 spirit stones respectively.

Then half a month later, the news spread in the market that the eldest son of the current head of the Dingnan Niu family failed to build his foundation after taking the foundation-building pill and died on the spot.
Therefore, it is not without reason that countless predecessors have said that when it comes to building a foundation, the most important thing is the foundation, and the second most important thing is luck.

Therefore, even though Qin Sufu was already a favored child of heaven in Kang Dabao's eyes, he was still so eager for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

How could Qin Sufu not be afraid if he was not a natural spiritual being?

But, in order to obtain this foundation-building pill, one must surrender to the imperial court. This Taoist brother, you have never seen any good cakes, right?

The founding emperor of the David Immortal Dynasty advanced to the status of a god with a pseudo-spiritual root six thousand years ago. Inheriting the legacy of the previous dynasty, he opened up countless demonic lands in the Lishan Mountains. Since then, he has established twenty-nine roads and more than four hundred prefectures, moved three thousand sects, and established hundreds of millions of people to establish their own sects.

When this dynasty was at its peak, county magistrates could not be appointed without elixirs, provincial governors could not be appointed without years of experience in elixirs, and all the governors-in-chief had the hope of reaching the state of godhood.

However, the founding emperor Taizu and most of the founding members have been trapped in an ancient forbidden area for more than a thousand years.

Now, there are only three Yuanying (Nascent Soul) left in the royal family including the present emperor to maintain their dignity. If they were not in a very dilapidated state, how could the lord of an important border county like Pingrong County be only at the second level of Qi training?

Even the governor who is now in charge of the thirteen counties in Yunjiao Prefecture is only in the initial stage of foundation building. He is very old and it is unknown how many years he has left to live.

In the early days of the country, every county had a Demon-Suppressing Division, which consisted of one Foundation-Building Commander, one Deputy Foundation-Building Commander, three Foundation-Building Guards, ten people at the peak of Qi training, and a hundred people in the late stage of Qi training.

Up to now, among the seventy-six prefectures in Shannan Road, only six counties and six departments remain.

Although the Iron Commander of Baisha County is only a county commander, he is a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building. Now he can call himself one of the six giants in the Shannan Dao Demon Correction Division system.
The current imperial court is so decadent that it cannot even collect taxes from clans. The dispute between the legitimate and illegitimate children of the Yang family in neighboring Yezhou has been going on for nearly seventy years, and the imperial court has been mediating for nearly seventy years.

It was still impossible to avoid the situation in Yezhou where corpses were scattered all over the place and countless lives were lost.

A great state with abundant people has now become a ghost town.

The Yang family is just a medium-sized family with a few golden elixirs, yet the imperial court is so powerless.

There are thirty-three Yuanying sects in David's territory. The three Yuanying of the royal family cannot protect the destiny of David's Immortal Dynasty. They have to rely on the flickering soul lamp of the founding ancestor.

But the Soul Lamp could not control the fact that the major sects were becoming more and more arrogant, and whether or not to be granted a title of nobility was just a matter of thought by those sect leaders.

Is it really possible to serve a court like this? !

Just for that foundation-building pill that you don't even know if it really exists? If you throw it over, you will be regarded as a lackey of the imperial court in the eyes of the sect. Can you stop it?
"It is easier said than done to integrate the scattered cultivators in Yunjiao Prefecture, and the imperial court doesn't have the money." Kang Dabao looked strange, "Brother, do you know that the county magistrate of Pingrong County has been owed his annual salary for three years?"

"Isn't the county magistrate's annual salary only thirty yuan?"

"It was changed ten years ago. The governor of this province sent a letter to each county, asking them to share the country's worries. Now it's only twenty yuan."

"Do you know why it wasn't sent?"

"The Pingrong Ling hasn't paid taxes for fifteen years."

"Brother Ekang, you won't hand it over either?"

"If no one else pays, I certainly won't."

"You are not afraid?"

"Everyone is not afraid, so of course I am not afraid. Brother Dao?"

".That's true. The Cultivator Association is just a group of scattered cultivators who come together for warmth. I'm just trying my best to run it. How can I have extra money?"

"Brother Dao, what you said makes sense."

"Well, then, my brother is right about this matter. We need to take a long-term view."

"Brother Dao is wise!"

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