Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 101 The Way of Cultivation
Ji An laughed a few times to vent his excitement.

All the sufferings endured during the foundation-building process have become the scenery along the way, making this moment even more beautiful.

Outside the bamboo building, the gray-feathered sand goose felt the spiritual pressure of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Its eyes rolled around a few times and it let out a flattering hiss.

The spirit-seeking rat jumped up and down, squeaking non-stop.

After a while, when his mind had calmed down again, Ji An began his first practice after building his foundation to consolidate his realm.

At this time, the Qingyuan Sutra seems inadequate. The range and efficiency of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth cannot meet the current needs. No matter how much spiritual energy is absorbed, it can be refined in an instant.

He looked inside his body and found that his immortal veins had become tougher and thicker, and had opened up many smaller branches, like capillaries.

Suddenly, a look of joy appeared on his face, but he was so shaken that he could hardly keep the technique running.

Ji An focused his mind and continued to practice his technique, his mind sinking into his dantian.

The stone turtle was floating in the magic jade liquid, with a faint spiritual light on its surface and an even more ancient and heavy aura. He had a vague illusion that it was a living creature.

Its spirituality has become stronger, but this is not the reason why Ji An was shocked just now.

He felt the refined mana dripping into his dantian. The stone turtle would still devour it, but the proportion it devoured was much less than before, and the refined mana was only reduced by 30%.

With the help of building the foundation to strengthen the immortal veins, his qualifications have been improved, and the proportion of mana devoured by the stone turtle has been reduced. In the future, his efficiency in improving his cultivation will be higher, and he can save a lot of spirit stones at the same time. It can be said to be a triple blessing.

Ge Ying looked at the disciple whose spiritual pressure occasionally leaked out, nodded with satisfaction, and said gently:

"Very good. Only after building your foundation can you truly embark on the path to immortality. Given your current age, the sect will certainly increase its training efforts."

Every three years, the sect would recruit disciples from various Taoist academies, with each batch of disciples ranging from a minimum of two thousand to a maximum of three thousand.

There are too many people to take care of them all, so they adopt a laissez-faire attitude towards the Qi Refining disciples.

If one can stand out and successfully build a foundation under such circumstances, it means that he is worth further training.

The sect knew that this method was not friendly to those disciples who had no foundation, but there was no better solution.

Although there are many resources, it still feels too little per person on average.

"Thank you for your cultivation, Master. If it weren't for the exquisite foundation-building pills you provided, I would have encountered difficulties in building my foundation."

Ge Ying waved her hand and smiled:
"Don't be modest. Aside from those cultivator seeds whose aptitude has reached Earth Grade or above and who are bound to be able to establish a foundation, in my opinion, the difference between a 60% to 70% chance of establishing a foundation and an 80% to 90% chance of establishing a foundation isn't that significant.

There are only two possible outcomes: success or failure. I've even seen people with a 90% chance of building a foundation fail."

Who is so unlucky? Ji An grinned. Wouldn’t he be nailed to the pillar of shame for the rest of his life?

Ge Ying pondered for a moment and slowly said:

"You have successfully established your foundation and will soon face the issue of choosing a cultivation method. I will share my experience with you for reference.

After building the foundation, we begin to truly experience the mysteries of cultivating immortals. The mana we cultivate through the techniques will have distinct characteristics."

“Some techniques display characteristics such as wind, thunder, and ice, and these techniques have certain physical requirements.

Most of the skills are related to the Five Elements, and the magic power is the meaning of the Five Elements. Some skills are single-attribute, some are multi-attribute, such as water and wood, wood and fire, etc. There are even skills that contain more than three of the Five Elements.

Foundation Establishment cultivators should just choose a single-attribute technique. If they can fully comprehend a technique with one attribute, they have already taken a step towards the Chao Yuan Stage."

"The power of practicing the Wood Element Kung Fu will show the characteristics of vigorous growth and endless vitality, while the power of practicing the Metal Element Kung Fu will show the image of solemnity and desolation.

When we comprehend the divine intention of a technique, we can more easily grasp the meaning of similar spells."

"You have excellent talent for planting. You can practice any of the three types of skills: water, wood, and earth. They will all be helpful for planting.

It is recommended to practice water or wood-based exercises. If you learn alchemy in the future, these two types of exercises will be of great help.

I highly recommend you practice the Wood Element Kung Fu. It will be more beneficial to your future development, and it can also prolong your life."

In fact, for a sect, it is more significant for spiritual farmers to practice earth-based exercises, and it is more advantageous to cultivate spiritual veins.

However, this requires that there must be a group of excellent spiritual farmers in the foundation-building stage among the disciples of each generation. The sect obviously cannot meet this requirement. Therefore, for the sake of the disciples' future, Ge Ying does not recommend that the disciples practice earth-based exercises.

"If a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage has not taken the longevity pill and has not suffered a serious injury that would damage their foundation, the maximum lifespan is two hundred years.

Depending on the level of comprehension of the divine will of the technique, cultivators practicing the Wood Element Technique can extend their lifespan by twenty to fifty years. My current lifespan is forty to fifty years longer than cultivators practicing other types of techniques."

Ji An thought for a while and said:
"Master, since comprehending the techniques can help us better understand the meaning of the spells, then if I comprehend the meaning of the water spell, will it also help me comprehend the divine will within the techniques?"

Ge Ying paused and continued:
"yes.

Although you have comprehended a little bit of the meaning of water magic, the meaning you comprehended is not complete, it is only a part of the water magic.

Everything has yin and yang, and water is divided into Ren and Gui.

The Dharma you have comprehended is only the Dharma of Guishui. Only when you comprehend the Dharma of Renshui, the harmony of yin and yang, can you be considered to have truly entered the realm of enlightenment."

"We can also switch to other types of skills, but doing so will result in a loss of mana, so it's best not to do that."

Ge Ying stopped talking, giving his disciples time to think.

After listening to Master's explanation, Ji An felt relieved. Others first comprehended the divine intention of the technique and then assisted in comprehending the Dharma intention. He could do the opposite, comprehending the Dharma intention and then assisting in comprehending the technique. "Master, I choose the Wood Element Technique."

After careful consideration, he made a decision that living longer would always have some benefits.

Because of the stone turtle, he has a much greater advantage in practicing magic than others and it is easier for him to improve the level of his magic. This is his reliance.

Therefore, even if he practices the wood-based techniques, the effects of his metal and fire-based spells will not be worse than those of the monks who practice this type of techniques.

After advancing to the foundation-building stage, as long as the sect can meet his cultivation needs, he will stay in his own cave obediently.

Unlike sword cultivators, he does not have to hone himself through fighting. He only needs to go out hunting monsters with a few familiar fellow Taoists occasionally to maintain his fighting skills.

If he wasn't facing the threat of a demonic disaster, he probably wouldn't want to go demon hunting.

Some cultivators emphasize that cultivation requires struggle and conquest. What is the main reason?
Because resources are limited, wouldn't it be like practicing in the cold wind if you didn't fight for them? If there were any other options, no cultivator would be willing to risk their life every day fighting for opportunities.

If you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet. You never know when you will encounter force majeure and fall to your knees.

He has the skills of planting and making talismans. Now that his qualifications have improved, the requirements for cultivation resources are lower than before.

"I'm practicing the Wood Element Kung Fu, the Qingmu Changchun Kung Fu. This Kung Fu can support us in our cultivation to the Chaoyuan Stage without having to change the Kung Fu method midway.

If you have any questions in the future, feel free to ask me.

If you have established your foundation before the age of thirty, and meet the sect's key training requirements, you can exchange for early and mid-stage foundation-building techniques for free."

Disciples without family background are more valued by the sect, and those family disciples who want to squeeze into the core of the sect must slowly cut off their ties with their family.

Otherwise, if the disciples you have trained with so much effort only think about their own families, how can the sect have any cohesion?
"I will ask Master for more advice in the future."

Ge Ying's expression became much more serious, and he said in a deep voice:

"We have always said that only after the foundation-building stage can one truly embark on the path to immortality. There is another very important reason for this. The concept of cultivation after the foundation-building stage is different from that of the Qi-refining stage.

The Qi Refining Stage is a completely external seeking process, where cultivators absorb spiritual energy from the heaven and earth or from various elixirs and spiritual objects to nourish themselves.

During the foundation-building stage, while seeking externally, one must also consider internal pursuits, using the body as a furnace and spiritual energy as fire to refine the elixir of the human body."

"The characteristic of a breakthrough from the Qi Refining Stage to the Foundation Establishment Stage is the transformation of mana into liquid, while the characteristic of a breakthrough from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Chao Yuan Stage is the ignition of the Yuan Life Fire.

The Yuanming Fire has nothing to do with the Fire Qi, it refers to the fire of life.

It’s too early to talk about this now. Once you break through to the late stage of foundation building and comprehend the divine will of the technique, you will naturally gain some insights.”

Seeing Ji An's confused look, Ge Ying smiled and said:

"You don't need to think too much now. Thinking too much about some things will only cause you trouble. When you reach a certain level, you will naturally understand what you need to understand."

“I’m very happy that you’ve established your foundation so quickly, but the medicine garden needs to be looked for disciples to take care of it, and it’s impossible to find a spiritual farmer of your level.

However, I have been very busy with alchemy tasks recently. Please help me go to the General Affairs Hall to post the tasks and recruit one or two spiritual farmers who have passed the magic level.

It requires that at least one of the Small Cloud Rain Technique and the Thick Earth Technique be perfected, and the other one must also be at the Great Completion level."

"Disciple will stay in Ningcui Cliff for a while longer to help Master screen and find a satisfactory candidate."

Ji An laughed and said:

“Actually, I originally had a candidate to recommend. He was a disciple who had been in the sect for seven or eight years and had some talent for planting.

However, since his spells are not at the perfect level, he can only give up."

He was talking about Huang Feihu, and it seemed that the other party had no such luck.

This is also good. He lacks someone to take care of him, and Huang Feihu is just the right person.

Ge Ying's eyes flickered slightly, and she nodded gently:
"Have a heart."

After a long talk, Ji An bid farewell to his master and went to the medicine garden.

Xiang Yong felt the spiritual pressure on him and his eyebrows jumped:

"Congratulations, uncle!"

The foundation has been built successfully, and the other party should be leaving. He feels very reluctant to let him go. When the other party was around, his life was much easier, and he could also earn extra money.

I don’t know what level the successor will be, but he will definitely not be as good as the other party.

"Happy together."

Ji An waved his hand and said with a smile:

"Lao Xiang, you are the elder of the medicine garden. You should help newcomers to complete the assigned tasks in the future."

He gave some words of encouragement, saying that the new spiritual farmer needed some time to adapt, and that during this period, Lao Xiang would need to take on more responsibilities.

"Don't worry, Uncle Master, I promise to complete the task beautifully."

(End of this chapter)