Starting with warding off evil and disaster, one can ascend to immortality after countless tribulati

Under the blazing sun, a small caravan passed by in the valley.

The leader was a mature and beautiful woman, with graceful bearing and alluring manners.

Sitting in the carriage, the beautiful woman's broad buttocks, like small mountains, pressed against the legs of the richly dressed young man.

Her red lips exhaled gently, continuously blowing out a warm, fragrant breeze.

"Young Master Liu, when you return to your family, don't forget to take care of my business."

With burning desire, Liu Xin helped the beautiful woman undress. He licked his lips, his lust raging. "It's up to you now."

"Young Master Liu, we're in the Chaotic Soul Mountain, isn't this a bit inappropriate?" The beautiful woman hesitated, then instinctively refused.

But then Liu Xin, tongue lolling out, rushed over impatiently, looking confident. "Don't worry, with me here, nothing will go wrong!"

"If I eat this, will Young Master Liu be able to revive the Chamber of Commerce?" The beautiful woman blinked tremblingly, her posture humble as she tentatively asked.

Liu Xin slapped her impatiently, his eyes filled with anger.

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up. My family is big and powerful; do you think I'd go back on my word?"

With practiced ease, she parted her red lips slightly, and the beautiful woman, though feeling wronged, could only obediently comply.

For a moment, Liu Xin smiled with satisfaction, feeling as if he were floating on air.

thump!

A loud bang was heard, and the caravan came to an abrupt halt. In her panic, the beautiful woman lost her strength.

"What are you doing? Get out!"

Frowning in pain, Liu Xin roared, hastily put on his clothes, and kicked the beautiful woman. Then, he glared at the car and questioned her menacingly.

"Who has the audacity to attack me?"

The driver pointed frantically at the huge rock blocking the road ahead, his face grave and on the verge of tears.

"Young Master Liu, we've been attacked! We might not be able to escape without suffering some bloodshed."

Liu Xin jumped off the carriage, walked forward with a cold face, smashed the stone to pieces with a palm strike from a distance, then turned around and gave an domineering order.

"Wait for me here, I'll be right back."

"I'll see who's behind this! Trying to steal spirit stones from me? Do they even have the chance to spend them?"

Looking at Liu Xin who was gradually approaching, Jiang Ming pulled off the black cloth on his face and decisively summoned the White Bone Sword to attack directly.

Before the man arrived, the sword came first.

With a whooshing sound, a streak of white light vanished in an instant.

Liu Xin sensed the danger and hastily dodged, but was still injured by the sword light.

Clutching his bleeding shoulder, his eyes widened in horror, "A sword cultivator?!"

His face turned extremely pale, and realizing that something was wrong, Liu Xin quickly activated a life-saving talisman.

In an instant, a clear light enveloped his body, firmly shielding him.

Looking at the beautiful woman's expectant and worried gaze, Liu Xin felt a pang of reluctance.

Forced by circumstances, he had no choice but to harden his heart and abandon everyone to flee in a sorry state!

The caravan had money and women; any swordsman who wasn't stupid wouldn't be chasing after him relentlessly.

As he pondered how to take revenge, the sword light arrived before him, its edge already close enough to strike him. His pupils widened in terror.

Looking at the gradually cracking life-saving talisman, Liu Xin's face turned fierce, and he was completely determined to fight to the death.

Wood elemental energy gathered in his palm, and with the force of a dragon's roar and a tiger's howl, he suddenly attacked, shouting, "Why are you still chasing me!"

Ignoring Liu Xin's roar, Jiang Ming secretly used the Soul Devouring Technique to absorb spiritual power and convert it for his own use.

He then countered each move with his own, unleashing a fierce attack with his flying sword, launching surprise attacks from various angles as if testing his moves.

Perhaps because his body had been tempered, Liu Xin was extremely difficult to kill. Even when he was hacked to pieces like a man being slowly sliced ​​to death, he still struggled to hold on.

Seeing that Jiang Ming's offensive had slowed down, he panted and pleaded, "It's just spirit stones, right? You can have them all... Stop bothering me."

Finding the right moment, Jiang Ming thrust his sword towards his vital point. He shook his head and said indifferently, "Kill you, and everything will be mine."

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Liu Xin's eyes widened in anger, a mouthful of blood choking him, his gaze filled with grief and indignation.

"Ahem, so it's you. Fifth-order perfection, you've really been hiding your true abilities."

Just wait, the Liu family won't let you and that bitch Xu Youwei get away with this...

With a flash of sword light, Liu Xin's head was severed, and he was kicked away.

As she turned and passed the caravan, the beautiful woman in palace attire was terrified. She slid to her knees, revealing most of her shoulder, and pleaded softly with a fawning smile.

"Immortal Master, according to the rules, the spirit stones for your journey have been prepared. Please spare my life!"

Jiang Ming readily put away the spirit stones, glanced at the mature woman a few times, and seeing that her cultivation level was low, he did not make things difficult for her.

He took off on his sword and disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant.

Two hundred spirit stones isn't a lot, but it's still a windfall.

If things really don't work out in the future, becoming a Tribulation Cultivator doesn't seem so bad.

If you don't make any business for three years, then when you do, you can live off it for three years. That's a really great life.

The only downside is that you have to wrap your head around your waistband, and from then on, you live a precarious life.

The outer gate of the Wanfa Sect.

Back in the stone chamber, they emptied Liu Xin's storage bag and laid the items out neatly on the ground.

Jiang Ming's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he couldn't help but smile. "Liu Xin still has three Eight Treasures Pills left. This is a good deal for me."

Born into a family of cultivators, they are indeed extravagant.

The number of spirit stones I carry with me is more than my entire fortune at my peak.

After taking stock of his spoils, Jiang Ming had a clear idea of ​​what he had gained. He then took out a talisman, dripped blood on it, and gently crushed it.

This item has an expiration date. If you don't use these two now, they will expire at the end of the month, and you'll be wasting this valuable resource.

In a short while, the secret realm of cultivation opened.

Arriving at the stone tablet again, Jiang Ming was noticeably bolder this time, having received no warning.

Last time, Tuoba Youyou chose a low-difficulty, high-reward level and passed it smoothly. This time, he decided to follow suit.

He obtained a seventh-grade sword technique and a White Bone Sword from the middle rewards alone.

Jiang Ming couldn't even imagine how generous the high-yield rewards would be!

As a burst of clear light appeared, Jiang Ming found himself in a small cave.

Before him stood an old scholar with sunken cheekbones and an exceptionally shabby demeanor, holding a book.

Despite the darkness of the room, the old man still couldn't bear to turn on the lamp.

He put down the heavy ancient book in his hand, raised his head, stared at Jiang Ming for a long time, and then broke the silence.

"My lifelong ambition is to establish my foundation in my lifetime. However, establishing a foundation is more difficult than ascending to heaven."

There are only thirty orthodox positions, and each position can only support ten Foundation Establishment cultivators.

In other words, even if all the cultivators in the Qi Refining Realm in the world tried their best and devoted their entire lives to it, only three hundred people would be able to achieve their wish.

While it may be simpler to build a foundation through unorthodox methods like relying on incense offerings, it immediately pales in comparison when compared to orthodox practices.

During magical duels, there have even been instances of someone being kicked to death.

I have searched through ancient books and discovered that in ancient times, there was no concept of attainment in cultivation; all cultivation depended on oneself.

So, I had a sudden inspiration and created a theory of emptiness, which is to extract imagery from the fruition position and ultimately base it on the five elements.

"This demonstrates a foundation for the Dao that rivals the orthodox attainment of Buddhahood!"

After listening to the old man's long-winded explanation, Jiang Ming immediately sensed something was wrong.

The only condition for his advancement to the inner sect was mastering a certain fruition image.

The method created by this old man actually requires the combination of five different fruition images; this is simply too far-fetched.

Is something this difficult really just easy?

"Young man, this level is different from the others; there is no time limit."

If one manages to gather all five fruition-level images within their lifetime, they will receive a generous reward—a Foundation Establishment opportunity!