Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 176 Haunting
The breakthrough process was extremely smooth.

If one were to base his talent on mid-grade spiritual roots, it would be a blessing to be able to break through to the foundation-building stage. At the very least, it would require considerable support from a great opportunity to achieve this.

After reaching the foundation-building stage, the efficiency of cultivation can be described as extremely slow.

Before he could no longer farm and eat pills like candy beans, Li Ye could only accumulate one or two liquid mana every year even if he was willing to spend spirit stones to assist in his practice.

And its bottleneck will be difficult to break through. Even if the magic power is fully accumulated, it will be restricted for a considerable period of time.

But Li Ye's situation was completely different. It felt like everything was happening naturally. The bottleneck that he had planned to break through several times did not pose much of an obstacle at all, and he broke through it easily.

"But it's also true... The elixirs I use are all Danwen Spiritual Pills, and they have been refined by the spiritual essence of the Void Realm for many years. With the quality of my current mana, it is no less than any mid-stage cultivator. It can be said that my accumulation is extremely profound! Even if there is a bottleneck in my aptitude, it will be greatly weakened. It is normal for it to come naturally!"

Li Ye made a judgment.

"By analogy, with the spiritual essence of the Void Realm cleansing me year after year, the quality of my mana will only become more astonishing, far surpassing other cultivators of the same level..."

"It will take at least several decades to progress from the middle stage to the late stage, and even to complete my cultivation... By the time I reach the late stage of foundation building, I'm afraid it's hard to predict what my mana will be like..."

"If I can gradually condense my magic power to a state close to solidification, it will be of great benefit to Dan-forming!"

As his thoughts turned, he focused his consciousness inward and looked at himself.

I saw fifty slightly shrunken round liquid magic powers in the dantian, continuously transforming and absorbing spiritual power to replenish itself.

Although his magic power was still a little weak after just breaking through, his cultivation level had increased dramatically.

"Now there are fifty liquid mana, if I want to reach the bottleneck and try to break through, I need to accumulate a hundred..."

"According to my cultivation speed, it will take at least twelve years of hard work to achieve..."

"wrong!"

Li Ye's expression changed slightly and he opened the panel.

[Name: Li Ye]

[Spiritual Roots: Medium-grade Earth and Wood Spiritual Roots]

[Age: 36 years old]

【Lifespan: 190 years】

【技能：种植三阶下等（7147/15w）、丹药二阶上等（6140/9w）、炼器二阶上等（2787/9w）、符箓二阶上等（4317/5w）、蛊术二阶上等（3769/7w）、阵法三阶下等（1217/30w）、傀儡二阶上等（1470/7w）】

【草木灵蕴：青玄灵蕴*642、玉竹灵蕴*228、血珀灵蕴*126、溶血灵蕴*400、枯骨灵蕴*400】

[Spiritual Essence Entries: Vitality Level 48.19, Absorption Level , Wood Spirit Level , Tongtian Level (%), Poison Level ]

【Experience: 0】

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After five years of accumulation, Li Ye has improved all his skills to at least the upper level of the second order.

The planting technique, which was extremely important to him, and the formation technique that depended on whether he could withstand the turmoil brought about by the lava underground palace were first upgraded to the third level!

Now he has basically completed the deduction of the formation that will upgrade the mountain protection formation to the third level with the Sky Realm Tree as the center and with the help of its increasingly powerful boundary power, and has begun gradual transformation on Pingyang Mountain.

The outermost blazing flame formation was basically a facade to confuse others.

The idea of using wood to generate fire and increasing the power of the formation to the third level was once deduced, but it was no longer sufficient as a trump card in the face of a true third-level formation with the power of the void.

At most, it can serve as a variant of the formation to deal with more situations.

The actual power is not much stronger than the wood-type formation that Li Ye deduced by absorbing the essence of various formation diagrams after holding many auctions in the past few years.

Li Ye knew all of this. He glanced at the entry for [Tongtian], and a look of determination and confidence appeared on his face.

"The Sky Realm Tree's second round of solidification of spiritual essence is almost halfway complete. In another five or six years, I'll definitely be able to upgrade the [Heavenly Transcendence] attribute to level two, achieving a top-grade spiritual root!" "By then, my cultivation speed will increase further... After that, I'll most likely reach the late stage of foundation building in less than ten years!"

"According to this calculation, perhaps by the time I complete my foundation building and have the qualifications to attempt Dan formation, I might not even be a hundred years old?"

With this in mind, his expression became a little strange.

Apart from cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots, I am afraid that without great opportunities, cultivators with earthly spiritual roots who can obtain continuous supplies for cultivation will not be able to cultivate as fast as him!
"In this way, my cultivation will only become smoother in the future. I can be said to have accumulated a lot of experience and finally made a breakthrough..."

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After more than ten days of seclusion and practice, Li Ye finally came out after completely consolidating his magical powers.

But before he walked out of the cave, his magical power quickly declined and returned to the state of the early stage of foundation building.

After all, up to now, the spiritual plants he planted were still a little short of the minimum standard for refining medicine.

Almost all the elixirs used in alchemy were obtained through various channels accumulated through the auctions held in succession over the years in exchange for elixirs.

According to the normal amount, it is not enough to improve his cultivation beyond common sense...

Considering his aptitude, it is a bit exaggerated to say that he can break through a small realm within five years of the foundation-building stage.

You should hide it a little.

As soon as he came out of seclusion, four maids sensed it and came to greet him one after another.

Yingying and Yanyan congratulated and asked in a soft voice, and wanted to prepare soup and rice for Li Ye.

"Let's prepare first and call Luo Feibai over."

Li Ye gave the order calmly.

The four girls exchanged glances and agreed immediately.

Rong Yue, Xia Qiong and Hong Yao left the kitchen hand in hand to prepare, while Ruan Jin, who knew that he had some connection with Luo Feibai, went to call him.

Not long after, before the meal was ready and only some fruits and pastries were served, Luo Feibai hurried over.

"Meet the leader!"

Luo Feibai bowed deeply and respectfully presented a jade slip.

"This is the story of the events that occurred in the Red Mountains and the surrounding countries during your retreat..."

Li Ye took the jade slip, and after reading it with his spiritual sense, he casually asked,
"Hmm... Let's talk about those fire beasts. Are the underground fire channels still unstable? Have the fire beasts appeared more frequently?"

"Report to the leader..."

When talking about this, Luo Feibai's face turned a little ugly.
"I've already had my subordinates try to set up the formation you gave me. It's already had a good effect in suppressing and controlling the underground fires in various locations. It can continue to be used for alchemy and refining, and it won't affect our continued production and profit..."

"But the situation with the fire beasts isn't optimistic... They're elusive and could emerge from anywhere connected to the underground fire. Most of them are quite powerful. Even though we've assembled a team to try and eliminate them, they've still caused considerable damage..."

"It even seems that some cultivators have vaguely discovered the existence of what appears to be foundation-building fire beasts in some passages..."

"The cultivators throughout the Red Mountains are panicking and greedy. Order has begun to fall apart..."

Li Ye listened silently, but his expression did not change.

He looked at Luo Feibai and suddenly laughed:

"You are not far from the fifty-year mark. Now that you have been cultivating your Qi for a long time, your cultivation has become more and more refined. Do you dare to try to break through to the foundation-building stage?"

　Thanks to Zuiyu Dingxiang for the 100-point reward, thank you for your support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)