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Chapter 72: Peak of Qi Training
Since settling down in the underground factory, Lu Yan has immersed himself in spiritual practice.

In two days, he broke through the sixth level of Qi training. Five days later, he broke through the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi training and entered the seventh level of Qi training.

In just half a month, Lu Yan completed the journey that most casual cultivators have never completed in their entire lives, and successfully broke through to the tenth level of Qi training, which is the peak of Qi training in the conventional sense.

Once one enters the tenth level of Qi training, one has the opportunity to impact the Foundation Establishment Realm. Most of the independent cultivators will try their best to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill at this level of cultivation, hoping to use the Foundation Establishment Pill to break into the Foundation Establishment Realm.

However, in pursuit of a more perfect foundation, disciples from large sects will step into the eleventh or even the twelfth level of Qi training.

Just like the practice before the Qi training period, the so-called eleventh and twelfth levels of Qi training are also a painstaking process of accumulating magical power. After the tenth level of Qi training, each advancement requires a huge amount of resources.

The resources consumed in breaking through from the tenth level of Qi training to the eleventh level are enough to train several more cultivators at the tenth level of Qi training, not to mention the twelfth level of Qi training later.

Even among the disciples of Qingwu Sect, most of them only stopped at the eleventh level of Qi training.

Only those outstanding disciples who aim to break through the foundation and become the elders' personal disciples from the very beginning will try to break through the twelfth level of Qi training to improve their own foundation.

Normally, a disciple who has been practicing since childhood and can break through the twelfth level of Qi training before the age of twenty-five is considered a genius. Once he breaks through the foundation building stage, there is a high probability that he will become the elder's personal disciple. This shows how difficult it is.

In the cyber version, how long did it take Lu Yan to break through from the sixth level of Qi training to the twelfth level of Qi training?
The answer is one and a half months!
With the abundant supply of spiritual energy from the underground factory, Lu Yan's magic power increased more than tenfold in just one and a half months, and his cultivation reached the astonishing twelfth level of Qi training, just one step away from the foundation building stage.

With an adequate supply of spiritual energy, Lu Yan doesn't need to worry about circulating the Qi in his body. He just needs to breathe in and out to assimilate the spiritual energy.

With this almost unlimited improvement, Lu Yan's cultivation speed is terrifying. Even if the old monster in the Nascent Soul stage takes over another's body and cultivates again, he may not be able to reach this speed.

If what happened here were reported back to the Xianxia version, this underground factory would even be enough to attract a god-level monster to come fight for it.

Today, this is a cyber paradise that belongs to Lu Yan alone!

In the underground factory, Lu Yan, who was sitting cross-legged in the center, slowly exhaled, ending his practice for the day.

The huge vortex of spiritual energy in the factory gradually subsided as Lu Yan stopped breathing, and the empty factory was once again filled with abundant blue spiritual energy.

There was a slight gleam in Lu Yan's eyes, and a virtual progress bar appeared in his eyes.

[Version update progress: 25.7%]

In one and a half months, the version update progress reached a quarter, and Lu Yan stayed in this version for about half a year.

Although the stay time was doubled, it was still within a controllable range.

In the past month and a half, Lu Yan has not been practicing all the time.

The nature of industrial-grade psychic energy is too violent. Lu Yan needs to stop and rest after assimilating psychic energy for a period of time to prevent losing control of the rapidly growing magic power.

Taking advantage of the time between practice, Lu Yan renovated the original underground factory. The rusty production lines were dismantled and sent to the warehouse, leaving only the huge factory as Lu Yan's practice ground.

Calming down the restless magic power in his body, Lu Yan felt that the growth of his magic power had approached the limit of the Qi training period, and the next thing he should consider was the foundation building.

Laying the foundation is the first hurdle that cultivators need to go through. Before this, the Qi Refining stage can be reached by accumulating resources or grinding away at it, but laying the foundation is not that simple.

For the sect disciples, this is the gap between the outer sect and the inner sect.

And for casual cultivators, entering the foundation-building stage is like entering another world entirely.

Whether a foundation-building cultivator enters some small or medium-sized sects to serve as an outer sect deacon, or is hired as a guest official of a certain force, he can get good treatment.

Even occupying a spiritual vein and establishing a family of immortal cultivation that has been passed down for hundreds of years may be a way out.

A great foundation-building cultivator has a lifespan of three hundred years, which is completely different from a Qi-cultivating cultivator who has a lifespan of two hundred years.

If one wants to truly take the step from mortal to immortal, most cultivators will choose to take precious foundation-building pills and use the medicinal power of the pills to build their foundation.

Relying on external forces to build the foundation of immortal cultivation will undoubtedly affect the root. It is difficult for those who take foundation-building pills to achieve golden elixir. This is the consensus of all sects.

Therefore, most of the outstanding disciples in the big sects will choose to break through the eleventh level of Qi training and forcefully break through the foundation-building period with a strong foundation of magic power. The cultivators who successfully build the foundation in this way can be called the humane foundation, and there is hope that they can get a glimpse of the golden elixir realm in the future.

And if one can further break through to the twelfth level of Qi training, one can try to comprehend the artistic conception and achieve the authentic foundation.

It was during the Qi training period that Ji Xingyao realized the Heavenly Sword Intent, and then he used the sword dao to build his foundation and became the number one person in Qingwu Sect in the past hundred years. Those who like to talk about it called him at the Nascent Soul stage.

As long as nothing unexpected happens in the underground foundation building, he will definitely be able to become a Golden Elixir True Person in the future.

Ji Xingyao's situation was obviously an accident. She was being chased and mistakenly entered the forbidden area, which damaged her foundation. Otherwise, with her talent, she would have entered the Golden Core realm long ago.

As for the foundation building above the underground way, there is also a legendary foundation building of the heavenly way, which is to use the power of the heavenly way to achieve the foundation of the heavenly way.

The Heavenly Dao Foundation Building is just an illusory legend. After searching through the entire fairy-xia version, only the legendary immortals have reached such a realm, but its authenticity is still questionable.

Recalling all the information about foundation building, Lu Yan, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, slowly raised his right hand, and magic power began to surge in his palm.

The surrounding blue spiritual energy began to recede, and the tremendous magic power forcibly suppressed all the spiritual energy within the factory, opening up a pure land without any spiritual energy in the center of the factory.

As the thought flashed through his mind, a beam of fire suddenly appeared inside the factory, and a huge bonfire suspended in the air illuminated the entire factory.

This is a first-order, lower-grade spiritual fire technique, but with Lu Yan's powerful magic power, it can fully exert a power that is no less powerful than an attack spell.

With a light wave of his right hand, the Hundred Souls Banner in the storage bag fell into Lu Yan's hand. When the soul banner opened, eight hundred evil spirits and the three main souls all appeared, and the ghost fog filled the entire castle.

With the cultivation level of the twelfth level of Qi training, Lu Yan did not feel any pressure in controlling more than 800 evil spirits in the top-grade magic weapon, the Hundred Soul Banner. He was finally able to unleash the full power of this soul banner.

"My current mana is close to that of a great cultivator who has broken through to the tenth level of Qi training. With such a strong mana, as long as I provide enough spiritual energy, building a foundation of humanity will be easy for me.

As for the underground foundation that requires the comprehension of artistic conception, I don’t have any ideas.”

Lu Yan looked thoughtful.

Building a foundation is related to his future development. Should he directly break through the realm with his powerful magic power and use his higher cultivation to gain benefits in the cyber version? Or should he calm down and look for an opportunity to build a foundation underground?
Lu Yan was a little confused for a moment.

"Boom boom boom!"

At this moment, there was a sudden urgent knock on the door of the underground factory.

Lu Yan's eyes focused, and the spiritual fire in the air dissipated. The eight hundred evil spirits that appeared around him were quickly collected into the soul flag.

At the same time, outside the door, Quentin was walking back and forth anxiously, with a complex emotion of grief, anger and fear on his face.

When the rusty door opened, Quentin immediately turned around, took a deep breath, and prepared to ask a question.

But when he saw Lu Yan behind the door, an inexplicable feeling of fear suddenly surged in his heart.

He was still dressed in the long blue robe, and even his appearance had not changed at all, but Quentin felt the fear of facing a high-level psychic.

The words that I wanted to say were stuck in my throat.

"What's the matter?"

A calm voice sounded, without any emotion but it made Quentin's body tremble instinctively.

Quentin wanted to turn around and run away, but in the end his poor rationality overcame his instinctive fear.

He had a sad face and whispered:

"Sir, your psychic tax is almost overdue!"

(End of this chapter)