Cultivation begins with alchemy and collecting runes.

Li Xiuyuan was a complete novice when it came to formations; he couldn't even understand the basic ones, let alone the more powerful restrictions.

He has no intention of studying!

You must know that the art of formations is incredibly complex and vast; if you try to learn it while you're distracted, it will be difficult.

It would take at least ten or twenty years to achieve even a small degree of success, and that's with the help of runes.

This would definitely delay his cultivation, a loss he could not afford.

In the world of cultivation, there may be geniuses who can study formations, while also cultivating themselves, and even use formation cultivation to help their own cultivation.

Li Xiuyuan knew in his heart that it was definitely not him.

If he gets distracted by these things, not to mention anything else, his cultivation speed of the [Primordial Five Elements Immortal Foundation] will definitely slow down, and his hope of entering the Core Formation stage will also disappear.

Fortunately, there are countless geniuses in the world who cultivate immortality, and they have developed portable and easy-to-deploy array artifacts such as array flags and array plates.

These types of magical artifacts can only set up simple magic arrays, and cannot cast powerful array restrictions.

However, Li Xiuyuan only needs one set of formations to defend his cave and conceal the aura of the Spirit Eye Spring.

Furthermore, if the power is insufficient, quantity can make up for it; he believed that enough spirit stones could solve this problem.

He spent nearly ten thousand spirit stones to buy Foundation Establishment Pills and Fire Lotus Spirit Fish.

Compared to the more than 30,000 spirit stones he amassed through Chunsheng Hall during his years stationed in the market, plus the gains from destroying the Liu family of Black Wind City and the disciples of the Demon Flame Sect, this was insignificant.

He still had 43,000 low-grade spirit stones and 10 mid-grade spirit stones on him.

He did not close Chunshengtang. He will continue to refine pills in the future, and it is good to have another channel to sell pills.

Biyue Palace is the most famous of the five sects for its array formations among the surrounding countries.

Every year, some of these forbidden magical artifacts, such as array flags and array plates, are lost to the outside world and used to exchange for spirit stones and spiritual materials.

Li Xiuyuan naturally focused his attention on the Biyue Palace Market, where there were bound to be forbidden magical artifacts that could meet his needs.

He planned to first cultivate a few foundation-building spells to enhance his offensive capabilities.

The spells I learned before were all at the Qi Refining stage, which are nothing to Foundation Establishment cultivators.

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a few days later.

Inside the Heavenly Fire Cave.

Li Xiuyuan sat cross-legged, circulating his internal energy.

He took out a golden spirit jade from his storage bag, its intense heat baking the surrounding spiritual energy.

This is a pure fire-type spiritual object that he refined using the essence of the earth's fire through the "Separation Fire Elixir Technique".

This item possesses an exceptionally pure fire elemental energy, making it ideal for cultivating magical arts and supernatural powers.

Li Xiuyuan threw it above his head, and just as it was about to fall, a burst of crimson flame light shot out from his mouth.

Holding the Golden Spirit Jade aloft and suspending it at his chest, Li Xiuyuan released his divine sense, allowing the Xuan Guang to repeatedly wash and polish the spirit jade.

The spiritual energy continuously gathered from within the Spirit Eye Cave, flowing into his body through his mouth and nose.

The constant stimulation of spiritual energy caused the three drops of incomparably pure Burning Heaven Magic Power in the Qi Sea to operate powerfully.

New mysterious light and spiritual energy are constantly generated and then sent to the spirit jade, making the process of refining the spirit jade and the earth fire spiritual energy continuous.

If he were still a Qi Refining cultivator, how could he have achieved this level?

They mobilize the earth's vein fire to temper spiritual materials and absorb spiritual energy, all for the purpose of cultivating spells and improving their cultivation.

He was likely burned to ashes by the intensely hot earth fire before he could even unleash the "Separation Fire Pill Technique".

More than half a month has passed.

The palm-sized Golden Fire Spirit Jade on Li Xiuyuan's chest had shrunk to the size of a firefly, flickering with a faint light, like a candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

Li Xiuyuan knew that the critical moment had arrived, and he dared not slacken in the slightest.

With extreme focus on controlling his divine sense, as the golden fire light faded and the crimson flame light on his chest intensified, the speed at which it absorbed fire-type spiritual energy also increased.

In the end, the Golden Fire Spirit Jade shattered and exploded with a 'bang'.

It turned into a pile of lifeless powder, scattering in all directions.

A dazzling golden light rose and fell on his chest, like the divine light of the sun, illuminating the earth.

Li Xiuyuan opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and then drew the mysterious light to his fingertips.

Suddenly, a sharp and fierce aura that could cut through bones and skin swept over him, and even his soul felt a faint stinging pain.

But his eyes revealed immense joy.

Finally, he completed the cultivation of [Crimson Flame Mystic Light] and condensed a stream of mystic light sword energy.

In the future, you only need to continuously cast spells to nourish and strengthen the sword energy, which will then grow into a sword that can split light and shadow.

He took out the Golden Light Sword, and Xuan Guang Sword Qi attached it to it.

With a gentle push, the small sword instantly transformed into a streak of crimson-gold light, flickering erratically. With another push, it extended outwards, enveloping his entire body.

Li Xiuyuan looked up, clapped his hands and laughed: "Good, good, good! I have perfected the cultivation of sword qi and profound light, and can activate the magic sword. Its size can also be changed at will. It can protect the physical body and escape at a speed comparable to the full-speed escape of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. With this method, even if I am no match for a cultivator who has left the realm, I can still escape by flying on the sword and will not be captured."

Li Xiuyuan's current cultivation of the [Yi Wood Sword Technique] is merely a mid-grade sword technique, and his method of wielding the magic sword is crude.

Compared to the methods of cultivators from various sects, it's not considered a particularly sophisticated technique.

Fortunately, even Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot truly comprehend the mysteries of swordsmanship; they can only engage in combat by simply wielding flying swords, just like him.

Now that he has perfected a set of supernatural techniques for controlling flying swords, and has acquired another means of self-preservation, he naturally feels more confident.

He swallowed the mysterious light, closed his eyes, and focused his mind.

Upon internal observation, he saw that the originally crimson-gold liquid magic power had gained a hint of bright yellow, making it even more radiant.

"At this rate, the fourth drop of mana essence will be condensed in a year."

"With the continuous spiritual energy from the Spirit Eye Spring, my cultivation speed has indeed increased by more than 30%. As soon as I reached the Foundation Establishment stage, I was far stronger than those cultivators who could only condense a single drop of magic liquid... Coupled with my second-tier body refinement cultivation and the spiritual strength of a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator, how could ordinary early-stage cultivators possibly be a match for me?"

"As for the cultivation of minor fire-type divine abilities, most of the spiritual materials have been gathered, but a few firebird essences are still missing. I wonder if they can be exchanged within the sect."

"If it's really hard to find, we'll wait until we get to the front lines. We'll have to cross the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains then, where there are plenty of monsters, so it'll be easier to search."

Fortunately, these effects did not affect his cultivation of the [Heavenly Gang True Fire Bell] supernatural power during the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

After a brief moment of rest, Li Xiuyuan took out dozens of bottles of Fire Crow Essence, fire-type spiritual materials such as Earth Fire Spirit Liquid, Fire Spirit Jade, Crimson Flame Fruit, and so on from his storage bag.

Having already established his foundation, he had long ago gained a profound understanding of the three supreme spells.

In the following half month, they began to work on constructing the Heavenly Gang True Fire Bell, a divine power.

He took out the Heavenly True Fire, worth a thousand gold pieces, and condensed it into the essence of a fire crow.

He then used his powerful divine sense to control the potent magical liquid.

After repeatedly refining the [Great Sun Fire Phoenix], it began to grow by absorbing the essence of the Fire Crow.

On the twentieth day, he condensed three palm-sized fire phoenixes, which leaned against his dantian, looking lifelike.

But when he began the next step of tempering and transforming the [Great Sun True Fire], the [Mysterious Light Sword Qi] located in the center of his Qi Sea automatically leaped into the Fire Phoenix.

Arranged according to the five elements—metal in the west, wood in the east, water in the north, and fire in the south—they are all surrounded together.

Li Xiuyuan was surprised to find that the Fire Phoenix and the Mysterious Light embraced and transformed into each other, each containing the other.

He pondered carefully, combining the details of his previous practice, and suddenly realized the truth.

The five elements interact in a mutually generating and restraining manner. After the metal element sword energy condenses, it stimulates the metal nature of the sword energy, which naturally promotes the growth of the fire element. The metal and fire intertwine, and without the need for additional spiritual materials, it naturally and effortlessly comes to fruition.

No wonder he refined the Heavenly Gang True Fire faster and faster as he progressed; this is the reason.

However, this is also because the Spirit Eye Spring continuously provides spiritual energy and fire-type spiritual energy.

In other places, you wouldn't be able to do this.

"Once I have mastered the Five Elements Divine Powers, and after forging my Immortal Foundation four more times, I will be able to refine the [Primordial Immortal Foundation], truly 'Primordial True Meaning' to control 'Myriad Manifestations True Qi' and command all techniques and weapons."

Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan involuntarily released the golden fire light within his body and suddenly felt relaxed and at ease.

A purple-gold aura surrounded the small bell, which appeared behind him. Sharp golden swords stood upright around him, seemingly possessing the power to overturn mountains and seas. He couldn't help but smile.

After finishing his practice, Li Xiuyuan went to the back garden, brewed himself a pot of spiritual tea, and savored it slowly.

He had just taken a sip when his divine sense stirred and he discovered a communication jade talisman outside the cave.

Li Xiuyuan reached out and grabbed it, then smiled, "Good, the great mission is accomplished!"