Cultivation begins with the Druid panel

Chapter 152 Water-based Foundation Building

At noon, after the two finished their meal, they returned to the shore and sat cross-legged on the rocks. The threads on the bamboo poles in their hands dangled into the lake, creating ripples on the surface.

Lu Lin said, "Senior sister, you seem calm, but your heart is restless. Perhaps you could try to distract yourself; that might help."

Upon hearing Lu Lin's words, Shi Jia slowly closed her eyes, trying to forget that she was fishing and instead focusing on her cultivation.

Lu Lin's guidance quickly proved effective. Once Shi Jiayi stopped focusing on catching fish, fish soon took the bait beneath the surface of the lake. Feeling the pull on the bamboo pole, Shi Jiayi immediately broke free from her cultivation rhythm and pulled on the bamboo pole, but the fish escaped at that moment.

Lu Lin sighed, "Senior Sister, don't be impatient. We need to find the right rhythm. Our goal is cultivation, not fishing, understand?"

After saying that, Lu Lin put down the bamboo pole in his hand. He stopped fishing and began to wholeheartedly instruct Shi Jiayi.

Shi Jiayi looked at the empty fishhook, nodded slightly upon hearing Lu Lin's words, and quieted down to begin a new round of cultivation.

Having learned from her first experience, Shi Jiayi made great progress this time, quickly catching her first fish and gradually finding her own rhythm.

Lu Lin was somewhat surprised to see this, clearly not expecting Shi Jiayi to be so quick to understand.

Without needing any further prompting, Lu Lin simply sat cross-legged and began circulating his qi to heal his injuries.

The panel refreshed in front of him, and the experience points for Heart of Nature and Divine Enlightenment continued to increase.

The two were so engrossed in their activities that time flew by, and when Lu Lin opened his eyes again, night had already fallen.

He turned to look at his side and saw that Shi Jiayi had finished fishing and was now sitting cross-legged beside him, with her eyes closed and her hands placed on her lower abdomen. A mysterious aura surrounded her, clearly indicating that she had entered a state of enlightenment.

Knowing that Shi Jiayi had been stuck at the peak of the Qi Refining stage for a long time, Lu Lin was happy for her when he saw this.

Without disturbing her, he carefully climbed down from the rock and quietly left the waterfall, leaving the space to Shi Jiayi, who had entered a state of enlightenment.

But shortly after he left, Shi Jiayi's brows furrowed slightly, and he was jolted awake from his state of enlightenment. His forehead and back were covered in cold sweat, and the vortex around him exploded uncontrollably, turning into a hurricane that made the nearby forest rustle.

Shi Jia's face turned pale, and she subconsciously reached out to touch the side of her, wanting to find something to lean on, but then she realized that Lu Lin had already left.

Why did he leave? Shi Jia wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, put the bamboo pole in front of her aside, and jumped off the rock. She did not choose to rest, but set off to find Lu Lin.

It was getting late, and Master and fellow disciples had already gone to rest. The night was incredibly quiet. Shi Jia walked along the path and arrived at Lu Lin's residence, but found that Lu Lin was nowhere to be seen inside.

"Where is he if not here?" Shi Jiayi thought to herself, but she had already set off for the bamboo forest. However, she still couldn't find him in the bamboo forest. Finally, Shi Jiayi found Lu Lin in the spirit field.

She stood at the entrance of the spirit field, watching the figure squatting in the field feeding a small black dog with spirit beast meat. Her expression immediately softened, and she quietly walked over and squatted down next to Lu Lin.

Lu Lin sensed the newcomer and immediately looked puzzled: "Senior Sister, why did you end your cultivation so soon? That opportunity for enlightenment was so good."

Shi Jia folded her skirt over her knees and asked curiously, "When did you leave?"

"Less than a quarter of an hour." Lu Lin was taken aback, and asked with some concern, "Did I disturb Senior Sister's cultivation when I left?"

"It's only been less than a quarter of an hour?" Shi Jiayi looked a little dazed, but quickly regained her composure and said, "It's not your fault, it's just that my state of enlightenment was too shallow."

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin didn't say anything, but simply patted Xiao Hei's head and sent Xiao Hei to the spirit field.

"What brings you here so late, Senior Sister?" Lu Lin asked after Xiao Hei had gone far away.

"Nothing much, I just came to find you." After answering Lu Lin's question, Shi Jia immediately changed the subject, pointing to the spirit field in front of her: "Are those two little guys taking care of this spirit field for you now?"

"Hmm." Lu Lin nodded: "Guji is a wood spirit, and Xiao Hei is a water spirit beast. They can help me take care of the spirit field, so I can have more time to cultivate."

Shi Jia then asked, "So, do you have any plans for your future cultivation?"

Lu Lin was taken aback and fell into deep thought. After a long while, he said to Shi Jia, "I have an idea. I plan to stay here in Tianhang Mountain and cultivate spiritual plants, practice the Shennong Codex, absorb the energy of nature to cultivate, and use the earth's energy to build a Daoist temple to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage."

"I've looked around. Although the spiritual energy concentration here at Tianhang Mountain isn't high, the feng shui is excellent, making it very suitable for me to take this path. However, it seems that there aren't enough spiritual fields here for me to cultivate spiritual plants and gather earth energy, so I'll have to clear the land myself."

The Earth's Qi Condensation Dao Field — This is indeed a method for Foundation Establishment, and it is very much in line with the natural path that Lu Lin cultivates.

At this point, Shi Jia asked, "Then tell me, what kind of foundation building is suitable for me?"

Lu Lin shared his thoughts: "I read in the book that there aren't many or difficult methods for building a foundation in the Water Path. The simplest one is to enter the water with your heart and directly use the power of the Water Path to build a Daoist temple. With this method, the strength of a Water Path cultivator will increase exponentially as long as there is water."

"But what if this path doesn't work out for me?" Shi Jia asked. "Do you have any other ideas for Foundation Establishment?"

Lu Lin fell into deep thought and began to recall the books he had read: "Yes, Senior Sister may be able to merge with the Dao and establish her foundation, transforming her essence into water. However, merging with the Dao and establishing the foundation is mostly used by cultivators on the path of forgetting emotions. To merge with the Dao, one must forget emotions."

"I can't forget love, is there anything else?"

Lu Lin didn't want his senior sister to forget her feelings, so he offered his third idea: "Then the last method is to build a foundation with emotion. Water benefits all things without striving, water prefers stillness to movement, water has tenderness and affection. If one uses emotion to build a foundation in the Water Dao path, one's future strength will be affected by emotions. Therefore, the strength of one who successfully builds a foundation using this method will be unstable during the foundation-building period, which has great drawbacks."

"To put it another way, building a foundation on emotion requires finding a vessel for that emotion. In other words, it requires you, Senior Sister, to develop feelings for a certain object or a certain person."

This feeling cannot disappear, because if it does, your Daoist practice grounds will collapse, and your cultivation level will plummet.

All cultivators in the world pursue transcendence and freedom, but building a foundation with emotion is to build a cage of emotions for oneself. Therefore, the drawbacks of this foundation-building method are even greater than those of forgetting emotions.

Lu Lin sighed deeply, "Senior Sister, you should proceed step by step with the first method of Foundation Establishment. You should already understand the advantages and disadvantages of these three methods."

Shi Jia lowered her eyes and did not respond to Lu Lin's words.