A Mortal's Supporting Character's Different Kind of Cultivation

With his cultivation already firmly established at the early Foundation Establishment stage, Lu Yunfeng now planned to begin cultivating a powerful and domineering secret technique from the "Xun Tribulation Scripture"—"Forging Back to Truth".

This secret technique is extremely unique. It treats the cultivator's own soul as a natural mineral, repeatedly tempering and forging it with secret methods, removing layer by layer the impurities hidden deep within the soul, making it increasingly condensed and pure. If one can cultivate the first level, the power of the soul will increase several times over. With his current early Foundation Establishment stage spiritual foundation, once he perfects the first level of "Forging Back to Truth," the strength of his soul will be enough to rival that of the late Foundation Establishment stage, leaping across two major realms. The terrifying magnitude of this improvement is unimaginable.

When Lu Yunfeng first read this technique, he was greatly shocked and secretly marveled at its heaven-defying nature. However, after reading the entire text carefully, he realized the terrifying danger hidden behind such a terrifying amplification.

The process of forging the soul is extremely dangerous, like tempering the soul in fierce fire. The slightest carelessness can damage the soul and shatter the sea of ​​consciousness, resulting in the complete loss of cultivation. Precisely because the risks are too deadly, Shenfeng Zhenjun, who created this technique, only dared to attempt to cultivate it after his cultivation reached the Nascent Soul stage. However, by then, the soul had already taken its final form, and the foundation was difficult to deeply reshape. In the end, the improvement to the soul was limited, far from matching the life-and-death dangers involved. Instead, it became a tasteless and regrettable secret technique.

To make up for this deficiency, Shenfeng Zhenjun searched far and wide for rare and precious formulas for nourishing the spirit and practiced them together with secret techniques for solidifying the soul, so as to buffer the damage to the spirit and soul caused by soul forging to the greatest extent.

What others treasured as precious spiritual nourishment pills and soul-protecting techniques were nothing special to Lu Yunfeng. The many wondrous formulas he possessed were of far superior quality and efficacy to those collected by the True Monarch in his time. This gave him the confidence to cultivate this dangerous secret technique.

More importantly, he had long wanted to refine the source of the malevolent energy, intending to use it to create his own external avatar. However, once the avatar was formed, the malevolent energy would be overwhelming, and without a strong and stable divine soul to suppress it, he would sooner or later suffer a backlash from the heavenly demons and his mind would be corrupted. For both reason and emotion, he had no choice but to cultivate this "Forging Back to Truth" technique.

With his mind made up, Lu Yunfeng took out the Fire Cauldron he had prepared earlier from his storage bag. With a flick of his fingertips, a levitation spell descended. The small cauldron immediately floated in the air, landing steadily above the round base. He had already honed this basic spell to perfection, making ample preparation for today's pill refining.

He raised his hand and cast a crimson magic seal towards the dragon's head. The dormant dragon's head suddenly awoke, and a wisp of slender, thread-like purple earth fire slowly spewed out.

Before any medicinal ingredients were added to the cauldron, Lu Yunfeng remained calm and deliberately suppressed the earth fire to make it extremely fine and gentle. With the continuous preheating from the eight fire lines, the suspended cauldron began to slowly rotate, and scorching waves of heat gradually rose around it.

A quarter of an hour passed in the blink of an eye. The cauldron was scorching hot, radiating an astonishingly high temperature, having reached the preheating temperature required for alchemy.

Lu Yunfeng's eyes narrowed, and with a flick of his finger, the lid of the cauldron flew up, revealing its deep mouth. He flipped his right hand, and a lustrous white jade bottle appeared in his palm, containing precisely proportioned medicinal powder.

With his divine sense guiding him from afar, he poured all the medicinal powder from the bottle into the cauldron, casually discarding the empty bottle aside. He then took out several more medicine bottles and methodically repeated the process of adding the ingredients.

What he was going to refine this time was the Spirit Nourishing Pill, a magical pill that had been lost in ancient times.

This elixir is incredibly miraculous, specifically designed to cure all injuries to the divine consciousness. Even if one's sea of ​​consciousness is destroyed and one's soul is on the verge of death, with only a sliver of life remaining, consuming this elixir can slowly repair the soul and restore life. If he hadn't fortuitously found the core ingredient of the Spirit Nourishing Pill, the "Spirit Cleansing Grass," in the forbidden medicinal garden, ordinary cultivators wouldn't even be qualified to refine it.

With such a divine pill by his side, it is perfect to combine it with the Soul-Stabilizing Secret Technique to maximize the offsetting of the backlash damage during the Soul Refining process of "Forging Back to Truth".

Dozens of rare medicinal powders were successively added to the cauldron. Lu Yunfeng raised his hand and closed the cauldron lid, thus completing the first step of the alchemy process of adding ingredients. The whole process was smooth and without any mistakes.

The next moment, with a thought, the eight dragon heads spewed forth purple flames, which grew from thin to thick, and in an instant, they grew to the thickness of a finger; the fire cauldron that was suspended and rotating gradually slowed down its rotation speed, and trembled slightly in the blazing purple flames, and the spiritual medicine inside the cauldron began to slowly melt and merge.

Time slowly passed, and wisps of clear and mellow medicinal fragrance wafted from the cracks of the cauldron, which could clear one's mind and soothe one's spirit.

However, Lu Yunfeng knew in his heart that this was only the initial stage of the extraction of spiritual herbs, and it was still far from being a true pill. In order to make the pill perfect and the medicinal power solid, he needed to urge a more intense earth fire to condense the pill instantly, so as to refine a true Spirit Nourishing Pill.

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, his concentration sharpened, and he manipulated the purple flames to surge dramatically, their bodies thick as bowls, completely enveloping the entire cauldron. From afar, the small cauldron resembled a burning fireball, its rich medicinal fragrance spreading out, becoming increasingly invigorating.

Lu Yunfeng knew that this was a sign that the medicinal powder had completely blended and was about to condense into a pill, so he immediately became extremely vigilant and dared not relax for a moment.

A moment later, a muffled rumbling sound faintly emanated from within the cauldron, marking the most dangerous and crucial stage of alchemy: the condensation of the elixir. He focused his mind and spirit, fully unleashing his divine power to precisely control the intensity and flow of the earth fire.

Suddenly, a series of crisp cracking sounds rang out from inside the cauldron, the burning fireball abruptly stopped, and the Flame Cauldron came to a complete standstill.

Lu Yunfeng raised his hand and lifted the lid of the cauldron. Three pills, shimmering with a faint purple light, lay quietly at the bottom of the cauldron, their appearance lustrous and their spiritual energy contained.

He reached out and took out the pill, examining it closely. It truly lived up to its name as an ancient and wondrous elixir. When he probed it with his divine sense, he was faintly drawn to the pill by its invisible power, which exuded an indescribable, eerie, and wondrous aura.

He didn't dwell too much on the strange phenomena of the pills. He immediately sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, regulated his breathing, and stabilized his depleted spiritual consciousness.

Over the next month, Lu Yunfeng refined pills nine times.

Only the first time was he incredibly lucky, and he successfully completed the pill in one go. Several times in between, due to his unfamiliarity with controlling the fire, all the pills exploded and were ruined, and all his hard work and spiritual herbs went to waste. It wasn't until he gradually understood the characteristics of the earth fire and became familiar with the rhythm of pill condensation that he successfully completed two more batches of pills.

After nine firings, he finally harvested eleven high-quality Spirit-Nourishing Purple Pills. This result satisfied him greatly.

The refining of the Spirit Nourishing Pill is extremely taxing on one's spiritual energy, and frequent refining can easily damage the very foundation of one's soul. Lu Yunfeng already had a plan in mind: once he had mastered the basics of the "Forging Back to Truth" technique and greatly increased the strength of his soul, he would start refining the pill again. At that time, not only would the success rate be higher, but he could also save a lot of unnecessary losses of spiritual herbs.

Looking at the eleven pale purple pills lying quietly in the jade box, Lu Yunfeng slowly nodded.

Everything is ready; it's time to officially begin cultivating "Forging Back to Truth".