A mortal cultivating immortality can nurture spirit beasts.

As soon as Lin He returned to his residence after returning to the sect, a beautiful figure rushed over to him—it was Senior Sister Chen!

"You rascal, you made me worry for days for nothing. I'm so glad you finally came back."

Lin He patted her on the back and smiled, saying, "Didn't I tell you? Don't worry about me. You're just worrying unnecessarily."

"The forbidden area trial is rumored to be so dangerous. How can I not be worried? Moreover, this time, twenty-five of our Yellow Maple Valley disciples went, and more than a dozen of them never returned, forever trapped there."

"Alright, I'm back now, let's not dwell on these unpleasant things. I'm going into seclusion to establish my foundation, but before that, I need your help."

Lin He finally got down to business, but Senior Sister Chen's hands kept teasing him.

"What kind of busy work are you doing?"

"During my trial in the forbidden area, I killed some disciples from other sects and obtained some magical artifacts. I want to sell them quickly and exchange them for some mid-grade spirit stones."

As they spoke, Lin He had already handed over several storage bags, filled with various high-grade, mid-grade, and low-grade magic artifacts. Senior Sister Chen examined them with an incredulous expression and quickly asked…

"Junior brother, how many disciples from other sects did you kill to obtain so many magical artifacts?"

"You're wronging me. This forbidden area trial is so dangerous that many people plan to kill and plunder inside. I was just lucky and managed to take advantage of the situation after these two groups were both exhausted."

After this explanation, Senior Sister Chen finally found it believable. After all, it was already difficult for a cultivator at the eleventh level of Qi Refining to survive the trial, let alone kill so many disciples from other sects.

"This matter must be handled discreetly to avoid attracting the attention of those with ulterior motives. It's best to process them in batches; processing too many at once can easily arouse suspicion."

Senior Sister Chen pondered for a moment and said, "You've come to the right person. Our Chen family is fully capable of handling these matters for you. However, my father is currently in charge of the Chen family. If I were in charge, you wouldn't need to pay any price. But now... you need to pay a 20% handling fee."

Senior Sister Chen looked at Lin He with a worried expression, afraid that he would blame her, but unexpectedly, Lin He did not bargain at all.

"I'm already quite satisfied with being able to handle this batch of goods. The handling fee is not a problem, but I only request that they all be exchanged for mid-grade spirit stones."

"No problem." Senior Sister Chen was very happy to see this and quickly said, "You see, I'm not just a pretty face without any ability. I can also help you. Now, how are you going to thank me?"

"It seems you won't let me go easily unless I give my senior sister some benefits today."

Senior Sister Chen exclaimed in surprise, and then realized that she had been lifted up around the waist.

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Three days later, at Yuelu Hall, in the Earth Fire Chamber.

Lin He waved his hand and took out a large number of spiritual herbs from his personal space. Among them were six or seven thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, and dozens of other spiritual herbs that were four or five hundred years old.

Lin He then took out two pill formulas that he had copied from Senior Master Xu in Yuelu Hall. They were the formulas for Foundation Building Pill and Youth Preservation Pill. After comparing them, he found that he had actually collected all the materials for these two pills before coming to the Earth Fire House.

"Although I already have two Foundation Establishment Pills, it's always good to have a few more. Even if I have too many, I can save them for later. As for the Youth Preservation Pill, I definitely need those. If I run out of spirit stones in the future, I can sell them to female cultivators at a high price. The only thing I need to worry about is my alchemy skills."

Instead of rushing to use these precious spiritual herbs to refine pills, Lin He took out some low-level materials and low-level pill formulas that he had purchased in advance to improve his pill refining skills. For this purpose, he even bought a silver wire cauldron from his senior uncle Xu.

Time flew by, and three months passed in the blink of an eye. Lin He looked at the eight Foundation Establishment Pills and eight Youth Preservation Pills that exuded spiritual energy in front of him and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At first, he lacked proficiency and failed several times in a row. Fortunately, as he accumulated experience, his success rate increased rapidly, and he finally succeeded in refining a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills.

Since there was no need to counteract the effects of the Youth-Preserving Pill, Lin He swallowed one directly.

"Now you can take the Foundation Building Pill!"

After taking a Foundation Establishment Pill, a warm current appeared and began to impact the meridians in his body. This process of changing the meridians and cleansing the marrow was extremely painful. Half a month later, Lin He finally managed to get through it. Layers of gray substance had condensed on his body, and a fishy smell wafted over.

"This must be what they call impurities."

After removing these impurities, he indeed felt much lighter, and the neutralization of this part of the medicinal power also allowed Lin He's cultivation to advance to the thirteenth level.

He believed that as long as he fully digested the medicinal power, reaching the peak of the thirteenth level would be no problem at all, but Lin He was too lazy to wait any longer. After all, he still had nine Foundation Establishment Pills left, so he swallowed another one.

After using this one pill, Lin He reached the peak of the thirteenth level in just a few days. Without further hesitation, he took the opportunity to begin foundation building.

Time flies, and three months have passed in the blink of an eye. The door of the Fire House remains tightly closed. The ugly man guarding it is getting anxious, fearing that Lin He might die inside, since such things have happened before.

On this day, Ugly Man was hesitating whether to report the matter. He wasn't concerned about Lin He's life or death, but rather afraid that the person in charge above would blame him.

Just then, the door of the Fire House finally opened, startling the ugly man. He then realized that a handsome young man in yellow was walking towards him, none other than Lin He.

"Junior brother, you've finally come out! I was just about to call for help."

Lin He smiled slightly and said, "Thank you for your trouble, Junior Nephew. I originally only wanted to refine some magical artifacts, but I suddenly felt that this place was not bad, so I took a Foundation Establishment Pill. It was just a coincidence that I successfully established my foundation in such an inexplicable way."

"Foundation Establishment?" The ugly man looked incredulous upon hearing this and quickly used his Heavenly Eye Technique to look. Lin He, however, made no attempt to conceal his cultivation level, openly displaying his abilities, which startled the other man, who immediately became respectful.

"Junior brother... no, senior uncle, congratulations on successfully establishing your foundation!"

The ugly man, who had previously been indifferent to Lin He, immediately changed his attitude completely upon seeing Lin He establish his foundation, becoming extremely respectful.

But Lin He, who had already established his foundation, naturally wouldn't bother with him. He simply waved his hand and then piloted his flying spirit boat away.

Back at his residence, after packing his things, Lin He prepared to go to Sect Leader Zhong to collect the sect's reward and to select a cave dwelling.

Just as he was about to leave, a beautiful figure walked in. Senior Sister Chen had actually reached the early Foundation Establishment stage, but she didn't seem happy; instead, her expression was somewhat gloomy. Upon seeing Lin He, she threw herself into his arms.

"Junior brother, congratulations on reaching Foundation Establishment!"

"What's wrong? You look like something happened."

Upon hearing this, Senior Sister Chen felt a pang of sadness. "My elder brother failed to establish his foundation, and the clan was preparing to send him to handle clan affairs. My elder brother has treated me very well, and he has been doing his best to help me with the task you entrusted to me. I never expected that his path of cultivation could only go this far."

"Really? I don't think so," Lin He said, taking out a blue pill that exuded spiritual energy, which made Chen Shijie's eyes freeze.