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Chapter 73: Foundation Building Thunder Tribulation
Yun Xi gave two spirit stones to Jiaozi and sent him away before stepping forward and speaking loudly:

"Senior, I want to rent a cave."

The old man opened his eyes, saw Yun Xi, yawned, and asked:

"Our shop has three grades of caves: high, medium, and low, based on the concentration of spiritual energy in the caves and the spirit gathering arrays set up. Different grades require different spirit stones. Which grade would you like to rent?"

Wei Yunxi chuckled and said:

"Senior, I am short of money, so I can only rent the lowest-quality cave, but it must be safe."

The old man glanced at Yun Xi and found that the little girl was on the verge of a breakthrough. He lazily handed over a jade token and said:

"The lower-class Bingsi Cave Residence costs 20 lower-grade spirit stones per day. You need to pay 500 lower-grade spirit stones first. When you leave, you will be refunded the excess and compensated the shortfall.

But let me be frank with you, the spiritual energy in the lower-grade caves is very thin, which is not conducive to your breakthrough."

After hearing this, Yun Xi readily paid the spirit stone, took the jade token and said with a smile:

"Thank you for the reminder, Senior. I know my own business, and this is all I can do. I'll just make do with it for now. I'll see what happens when I reunite with my companions. Maybe I can even use their advanced cave."

Yun Xi's words were ambiguous, indicating that she was not alone, and that some of her companions had enough spirit stones, but they were just separated temporarily, and she entered the city first in order to break through.

After hearing this, the old man didn't say anything more. He took the spirit stone and led the man to the entrance of the lower-class Bingsi cave, and gave him another instruction:
"The jade token in your hand is the key to the cave. The isolation array and the spirit gathering array inside the cave are also controlled by this jade token. You must not lose the jade token, otherwise your cave will belong to someone else. The cave only recognizes the jade token, not the person."

"Yes, I've made note of it."

Yun Xi immediately bowed to express his gratitude, then used the jade token to open the cave.

It really is a cave. There are obvious signs of excavation on the cave wall, and there is only ten square meters of space. There is a cushion placed in the middle, which looks very cramped.

Yun Xi felt that the five hundred low-grade spirit stones were not worth it, but when traveling, one should keep things simple, so she had to make do with it. She inserted the jade token into the slot inside the cave, and the cave door closed again, and then the isolation array and the spirit gathering array opened one after another.

Looking at the array pattern that lit up with the cushion as the center, Yun Xi felt that the spirit stones he spent had made a sound.

However, to be on the safe side, Yun Xi took out his third-grade formation plate and placed nine medium-grade spirit stones in it before moving the fairy grass out of the space.

The fairy grass stretched out its leaves, felt the concentration of spiritual energy in the air, and then asked:

"Xiao Yunxi, have you left the sect?"

"Well, I have arrived at Baohua City at the foot of the Baohua Mountains, but my cultivation is a little bit uncontrollable."

Yun Xi spoke the truth.

The fairy grass shook its leaves and said:
"Then build your foundation first, so that after entering the Baohua Mountains, you can go deeper."

"Yes, that's what I planned too, so I rented a cave and prepared to build my foundation first."

"Tsk tsk, considering the richness of the spiritual energy in this cave, you must have rented the lowest grade one." Xianlingcao said bluntly.

Yun Xi touched his nose and said:
"You're right. It's my fault that I'm so poor. I spent all the spirit stones I saved up on the teleportation array. If I hadn't sold some of my inventory, I wouldn't even be able to afford to rent this lowest-end cave."

"How dare you, a mere cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, take the teleportation array? Aren't you afraid of being targeted?"

Yun Xi replied evasively:
"I originally wanted to take an ordinary flying boat to Baohua City, but for some reason, my sixth sense told me that I had to leave as soon as possible. The teleportation array happened to be short of one person, so I chose to take the teleportation array and leave."

The fairy grass shook its leaves to show that it understood. This was the cultivator's sense of danger.

"Alright! Then I'll help you build your foundation first. The spiritual energy I've accumulated is enough for you to build your foundation."

"Okay, let's get started!"

Yun Xi didn't waste any words. She sat cross-legged on the cushion, then placed the fairy grass beside her, closed her eyes and began to practice the exercises. The sooner she could build the foundation, the less spirit stones she would spend. Naturally, she wanted it very much.

When Yun Xi began to practice the Qi Refining Technique, the Immortal Grass supplied its young master with the pure spiritual energy it had condensed, while secretly extending its roots into the spiritual vein below the cave to intercept some of the spiritual energy in the vein.

At this time, Yun Xi was guiding the spiritual energy in his body to impact the barrier of the foundation-building period, once, twice, and three times. Until the ninth impact, a crack appeared in the barrier of the foundation-building period, and then the pure spiritual energy swarmed into the dantian.

While the spiritual energy was expanding the Dantian, it was also compressing the space of the spiritual energy in the Dantian over and over again, until the spiritual energy was compressed into spiritual liquid and fell to the bottom of the Dantian, indicating that Yun Xi had completely broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Immediately afterwards, wind and clouds began to surge above the cave, and calamity clouds quickly formed and locked onto Wei Yunxi.

The old man who was dozing off behind the counter suddenly opened his eyes. When he saw the direction where the calamity clouds were gathering, he knew that the little girl who had checked in three days ago was undergoing the foundation-building thunder tribulation. He flashed to the outside of the lower-grade Bingsi Cave and watched the first calamity thunder fall.

The moment Yun Xi was locked by the thunder, she waved her sleeves and put the fairy grass into the space. This great treasure must not be exposed. Then she opened the cave and appeared in the open space in front of the cave in a flash.

She didn't want the thunder to strike down other people's caves, as that would require compensation in spirit stones. She wished she could break a spirit stone into two pieces. She couldn't afford such a loss.

These thoughts only flashed through his mind, and made Yun Xi, who was going through the thunder tribulation for the first time, less nervous. Then the first thunder tribulation fell and struck Yun Xi's head.

The old man who was watching was a little surprised to see Yun Xi facing the thunder tribulation without any preparation. Is this girl stupid? She didn't even throw a defensive array plate. He touched his chin and felt that this girl must be short of money, so she had to withstand the thunder tribulation.

This guess was half right. The other half was that Yun Xi knew that he had thunder spiritual roots, so he wanted to use thunder tribulation to temper his body.

After the first thunderbolt entered Yun Xi's body, it began to run around everywhere. Fortunately, her consciousness was stronger than her cultivation, so it only took two breaths for Yun Xi to guide the thunderbolt that entered her body to travel through her meridians. While tempering her meridians, she was also refining that trace of thunder spiritual power.

Finally, the refined thunder spiritual energy entered Yun Xi's dantian, and then slowly sank into the thunder spiritual root at the bottom of the dantian. The thunder spiritual root flashed a purple light, appearing even brighter.

After refining the first thunder tribulation, Yun Xi gained a lot of confidence. At this moment, the second thunder tribulation fell. Yun Xi followed the same method and continued to refine the power of the thunder tribulation.

However, the time intervals between the subsequent thunderbolts became shorter and shorter, as if they would no longer show mercy after confirming that the person undergoing the tribulation could adapt to this intensity. The last three thunderbolts fell almost at the same time.

Yun Xi gritted her teeth and resisted, a group of alpacas running through her mind. She didn't expect that the thunder tribulations would be more powerful than the last. The first one made her feel a little numb, and the later ones felt sour and pleasurable as if she had touched a high-voltage switch.

(End of this chapter)