Lingyuan Immortal

Chapter 266: Building a Strong Foundation
The strong spiritual inspiration lingered in the air, and Chen Mu became curious. He immediately activated his spiritual sense and suddenly expanded it. The scene of six thousand feet was right before his eyes.

Who knew that before they could figure out who was building the foundation, they first discovered a group of cultivators slowly coming up the cliff steps.

"Why are they here?"

Chen Mu frowned slightly, but ignored it for the time being. His spiritual sense probed towards the spiritual center of the back mountain, and he immediately saw a muscular man with his upper body naked. He closed his eyes and tried his best to control the powerful fluctuations caused by the breakthrough of his realm.

It was none other than the dark-skinned Niu Dali!

"It really is him..."

Chen Mu pursed his lips and smiled, then stood up and walked out.

Less than a quarter of an hour after they stopped in front of the pavilion, more than ten people came up the cliff steps.

The person leading the group was wearing a white dress, looking cool and gentle, with her red lips tightly pursed. She was Ye Ning, a fellow villager and junior whom Chen Mu had not seen for a long time.

And who else could the lively young man following her be but Zou Yongyi?
As for the others, they were all recent Immortal Seed disciples, and Chen Mu was quite familiar with their faces...

"Senior Brother Chen!"

Zou Yongyi was still the most active. He bowed respectfully from a distance, but did not raise his hand to greet people like last time.

Seeing his attitude, others could only salute from a distance, fearing that something might go wrong.

Seeing this, Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, then immediately extended his hand to signal them to come closer and talk.

"Brother Chen, I was in seclusion a few days ago, but I heard from others that you have successfully established your foundation, so I came here today with all the brothers to congratulate you."

Ye Ninglian took light steps, and her cold voice was as clear as pearls and jade.

As soon as he finished speaking, all the disciples behind him smiled and nodded in agreement, congratulating each other one after another, and some even took out gifts first, which led everyone to follow suit.

Chen Mu smiled indifferently, waved his sleeves to take everyone's thoughts into his pocket, and with a quick sweep of his spiritual sense, he found that they were all rare and unique first-level spiritual materials.

It is not very precious in the eyes of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but it is not an easy task to take it out from the hands of a Qi Condensation disciple.

"Thank you all for your kindness..."

Chen Mu smiled calmly and turned to look at the disciples.

There were young disciples from the same class as Ye Ning, as well as fellow students like Ge Guanghe and Gu Liang who had been with them for many years...

Seeing Chen Mu's gaze turned towards him, Ge Guanghe's old face flushed. He gritted his teeth and stepped forward and said, "Senior Brother Chen, I remember back at the Tianhu Summit that year, Junior Brother Gu and I competed with you for the elixir, and we had a quarrel over it... We never found a way to resolve it, so I hope you won't blame me."

As soon as these words were spoken, Gu Liang walked out from the crowd, scratched his head and bowed.

Seeing this, Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, then reached out to lift up the two of them. "Two brothers, please don't act like this. I, Chen Mu, am not someone who can't tell right from wrong..."

"The road ahead is long, and some conflicts are inevitable. Besides, the two brothers are upright and have no sinister schemes. What's wrong with that? Don't mention it again!"

Ge Guanghe and the others felt relieved upon hearing this, and quickly put on a smile and nodded in agreement: "I've heard that Senior Brother Chen is clear about right and wrong. Now I see that it's true..."

Chen Mu pursed his lips and smiled, and after talking with the disciples for a while, he vaguely discovered that Ye Ning, who had joined the sect, had become the leader of the group, and he couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

"The tenth level of Qi Condensation... This woman's cultivation speed is not inferior to that of Niu Dali, who has top-grade spiritual roots. I guess there must be another opportunity..."

However, every exceptional cultivator will have his own opportunities, more or less. He is no longer surprised by this, after all, he himself is an example.

Chen Mu pondered for a moment, then with a subtle chuckle asked, "Junior Sister Ye, have you sensed any spiritual fluctuations in the back mountain?"

Ye Ning's expression remained unchanged as he nodded and replied, "Just now, when we were climbing the cliff, we suddenly noticed a surge of spiritual energy coming from the back of the mountain. The energy was strong... but we didn't know why, so we ignored it." "Yes." Chen Mu nodded slightly, his eyes flickering. "That was the overflowing spiritual energy generated when breaking through the Foundation Establishment Realm..."

He didn't keep anyone in suspense and told the reason directly.

"Breakthrough on foundation building!"

The disciples were shocked when they heard this, but then they all showed joy and asked hurriedly, "Excuse me, Senior Brother Chen, which senior brother is the one who has established the foundation?"

With one more foundation-building cultivator in Shuiyunjian, its strength would be correspondingly stronger, so the disciples were naturally delighted.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mu looked towards the mountain behind him, as if the person who had established his foundation was right in front of him. He said softly, "It's not someone else, it's the true disciple... Niu Dali."

"Senior Brother Niu..." The disciples had different expressions upon hearing this, their thoughts churning in their hearts.

"It's done, it's done, it's done!"

Before everyone could continue talking, a loud laugh was heard everywhere. At the same time, a dark light shot up into the sky and flew around the sky above the back mountain, looking excited and free, like a bird that had just learned to fly.

Seeing this, Chen Mu smiled and immediately led all the disciples towards the back mountain.

Not long after, before they arrived, Niu Dali had already discovered them.

"Hahaha...Junior Brother Chen..." The black escape light suddenly stopped, revealing Niu Dali with a look of shock.

"Junior Brother Chen, you... you have also completed the foundation-building process?"

"Senior Brother Niu, how are you?" Chen Mu laughed and nodded.

Niu Dali stood in mid-air, sizing up Chen Mu. After confirming Chen Mu's cultivation level, he immediately burst into laughter, his voice even stronger than before:

"Alright, alright! Now that you and I have both entered the Foundation Establishment stage, the world is vast, and we can explore it!"

"We pay our respects to Senior Brother Niu and wish him success in building his foundation and a bright future ahead..."

Seeing him so happy, Ye Ning and others also found the opportunity to congratulate him, with envy and longing on their faces.

Niu Dali paused, waved his hand casually to deal with it, then took two steps forward and wanted to pull Chen Mu to drink three hundred cups.

But just as he was about to pull up the corner of Chen Mu's clothes, he was interrupted by Shi Xin who came over.

"Niu Dali, you just broke through and instead of consolidating your realm, what nonsense are you doing!"

Having said that, anyone could see that Shi Xin was so happy that he could hardly contain himself.

"Hehe, Master..." Niu Dali scratched his head and smiled. In front of Shi Xin, he did not look like a foundation-building cultivator at all.

It was Chen Mu who dissuaded him: "Wine, drink it another day, go and consolidate your realm!"

Niu Dali then waved his sleeves angrily, nodded to Chen Mu, and flew down with Shi Xin.

Seeing this, Chen Mu lost interest. He turned around and chatted with Ye Ning and the others for a few words, then got up and returned to Duhai Cliff.

"Now that our sect has suddenly gained two more Foundation Establishment cultivators, I believe their apparent strength is not much different from Zi Fenglin's..."

Chen Mu paced on the top of the cliff, thinking secretly in his mind.

"However, it's impossible that we are the only one like this. People like Jiang Cheng from Zifenglin and Chu Li from Wenjian Pavilion, if they had the Foundation Establishment Pill, they should be able to enter the Foundation Establishment realm just like Brother Niu."

(End of this chapter)