100-year-old foundation building, starting from the maximum level of understanding

Chapter 1 Fallen Hope

The night is like water.

Ji Haoyuan sat alone outside a stone house, lost in thought.

After midnight tonight, it will be my 100th birthday.

Time flies by so fast.

There was an expression of bitterness, helplessness and melancholy on his face.

A hundred years have passed since I traveled to this world.

Ever since he was diagnosed with two spiritual roots, he has been regarded as the hope of the family, and all the cultivation resources in the family have been given priority to him.

And at that time, he did not disappoint his tribe members.

At the age of ten, he successfully drew Qi into his body and became a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining.

At the age of thirty, he had already reached the peak of Qi Refining.

At the age of forty, he carried all the hopes of his tribe members, took a foundation-building pill that the tribe had spent huge resources to get him, and began to try to build his foundation.

However, his progress also stopped from this moment on.

Two years later, he failed to establish his foundation.

But fortunately, he had accumulated a lot of experience. Although he failed to build his foundation, with the help of the foundation-building pill, his foundation was not damaged. He still had the opportunity to continue building his foundation, and the probability of success was still not small.

So, ten years later.

After comprehensive evaluation by the entire Ji family and with the approval of the ancestor Ji Bochang, the second foundation-building pill that was finally obtained after almost exhausting most of the Ji family's resources once again fell into the hands of Ji Haoyuan.

At this time, the situation of the entire Ji family had become quite difficult.

Especially their ancestor Ji Bochang, after returning from an outing with serious injuries, his lifespan was severely damaged.

He was still in his prime and could have lived for more than a hundred years, but now he only has fifty or sixty years left to live.

This resulted in the invisible reduction of some of the Ji family's industries and influence.

As a result, the tribe’s income and the resources provided to its members were also reduced.

Unless, their Ji family can produce a second foundation-building cultivator.

Only then can everything get better.

It can be said that Ji Haoyuan's foundation building this time has already affected the rise and fall and survival of their entire Ji family.

Because after this incident, the entire Ji family no longer has the ability to seek a third Foundation Establishment Pill.

If they fail, there will be only one outcome for the Ji family, and that is that they will be kicked out of the ranks of the three major foundation-building families in Nanning County in the near future.

Any discerning person can foresee what will happen then.

Those who had grudges against their Ji family, or even those who had no grudges against them, would rush towards their Ji family like sharks smelling blood, until they devoured their entire Ji family.

However, I don’t know if it was because the pressure Ji Haoyuan was under was too great, or for some other reason, but despite the high expectations of all the tribesmen, Ji Haoyuan’s foundation building failed again.

Ji Haoyuan still remembers the sad and desperate looks of the elders and clansmen after he came out of seclusion, as well as the helpless and disappointed sigh of his ancestor Ji Bochang.

Now, a full fifty years have passed since that day.

Over the past fifty years.

Ji Haoyuan has been working for the family to repay the debt he owes to the family.

During this process, he increasingly felt that as his ancestor Ji Bochang's life was approaching, the situation of their Ji family in the entire Nanning County was becoming increasingly difficult.

The family's assets and influence have undoubtedly shrunk by half compared to fifty years ago.

Currently, all that remains under his name is a market town and some scattered industries.

Even their Ji family's first-grade superior fire spirit vein located on Taiping Mountain was bought at a low price by the Zhang family, one of the three major foundation-building families in Nanning County.

You know, the Fire Spiritual Vein is an excellent place for cultivators to make pills, refine weapons, and practice fire-attributed techniques.

Even if its grade was only a first-grade upper-grade one, its value was equivalent to half of a common second-grade lower-grade spirit vein. A hint of bitterness appeared on Ji Haoyuan's lips again.

He knew that the time left for their Ji family was actually not much.

As far as he knew, the tribe had already begun secretly sending some people down the mountain in batches many years ago.

The purpose, of course, is to leave a glimmer of hope for their Ji family.

But Ji Haoyuan, who had been in the world of immortal cultivation for nearly a hundred years, knew very well that after those people came down the mountain, they fell from being descendants of immortal cultivation families to becoming independent cultivators.

And it is so difficult for a casual cultivator to survive in this world of cultivation where the strong prey on the weak and every step requires a hard struggle to survive.

The hope and probability of rising again are countless times harder than winning the five million lottery in his previous life.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

No matter how low the probability is, having a glimmer of hope is better than having nothing and seeing nothing.

As he thought about these things, a hint of determination gradually emerged on Ji Haoyuan's already old face.

Instead of continuing to struggle for the rest of your time, you might as well take advantage of now and make one last effort.

Yes, he planned to make one last attempt at building his foundation.

Although he himself knew that at his current age and with his declining energy and blood, fighting for that slim chance of building a foundation would undoubtedly be tantamount to seeking death.

But so what?
Having lived to this age, experienced such great ups and downs, and witnessed all kinds of fickleness in the world, what else could he not let go of?
Perhaps, ending the rest of my life in this way can be a kind of relief.

Thinking about this, Ji Haoyuan slowly stood up.

At this time, the moonlight disappeared into the clouds.

Quietly, midnight has arrived.

It was at this moment that Ji Haoyuan seemed to hear a voice in his ears.

"Having achieved the hundred-year achievement, I will now extract your only talent.

Talent extraction in progress...

Congratulations, you have achieved the maximum level of enlightenment."

At this moment, Ji Haoyuan only felt that his consciousness was infinitely elevated.

All kinds of insights that he had or had not had in the past, all flooded into his heart.

Especially as to why he had failed in building his foundation twice before, in his current state, it was as clear as reading the lines on the palm of his hand.

It turns out that the fire-attributed martial art that our Ji family possesses, called "The True Art of Fire Separation", has so many deleted parts.

Especially in the aspect of condensing liquid magic power, the most important key step is missing, which is the need to use a spiritual object called Shuihua Crystal to neutralize the most violent and fiery part of the technique.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to truly control the violent and burning magic power, which would lead to the failure of the magic liquid.

No wonder no one in my Ji family has succeeded in breaking through the foundation-building stage using the True Fire Technique.

of course.

This may also be related to the fact that the True Art of Fire Separation is not the clan's signature technique, the "Qingmu Longevity Art".

There aren't that many people practicing cultivation.

Even if they practice, most of them aim to become alchemists or weapon refiners.

Moreover, it was obtained by the previous generation patriarch by chance when he went out.

It doesn't stay in the family for long.

It is not surprising that no one has truly discovered or noticed the flaws in this technique.

After understanding the situation, Ji Haoyuan couldn't help but have another thought.

At this moment, can I modify this technique to make it the most suitable technique for me to break through the foundation-building stage?
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