The demon monk in the second dimension

This is too dangerous.

Despite knowing that this thing must be very valuable, Xia Zhi still covered it with cement and then sank it face down to the bottom of the water.

At the same time, he also used a lot of stones to build a small mountain to suppress the magic mirror.

Once everything was done, the group walked out of the sewer.

Back at the Supreme Temple, the Sword Saintess handed out the agreed-upon commission of one bag of gold coins to each person.

Summer Solstice collected his commissions, addressing the elven archers, dwarven sorcerers, and lizardman monks.

"I'll rest here for the night and go back the day after tomorrow."

The lizardman monk held the money, his face beaming with smiles.

"Hehehe. With so many gold coins, this humble monk will now have the chance to sample the delicacies of the Water City."

The dwarf warlock couldn't help but nod.

"I've heard that the sake in Water City is really good! I've only tried a few kinds before, but this time I'm going to try all the rest!"

The elven archer then looked at Xia Zhi.

"What about you?"

"I still have some things to do."

Xia Zhi said expressionlessly.

……

When Xia Zhi mixed some negative emotions into her roar, the Sword Saintess straightened her body, her voice sounding like a sob.

A few seconds later, Xia Zhi lay on the bed with the Sword Saintess, who was completely limp.

The sweat from their bodies soaked the sheets, a testament to the intensity of the battle.

Although the old demon had a high level of mental fortitude and a resolute Dao heart, it still felt good to vent.

After waiting a few minutes, when the Sword Saintess came to her senses, Xia Zhi gave her some instructions.

"Prepare a house in Water City. I have a childhood sweetheart in a border town; keep an eye on her."

"If one day I suddenly disappear, you should bring her and her uncle to live in Water Seven."

Upon hearing this, the Sword Saintess's expression changed slightly.

She looked at Xia Zhi with concern, but said nothing, only whispering.

"I see."

"Ah."

After a while, the Sword Saintess asked Xia Zhi with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation.

"Will you come looking for me again?"

She clung to Xia Zhi's strong arm, her expression showing great reluctance.

Summer Solstice spoke.

"I'll come if there are goblins."

The land of gentle pleasures is a graveyard for heroes, and Xia Zhi knew this very well.

Throughout the history of demonic cultivation, there are numerous examples of demonic cultivators creating alluring female ghosts, only to fall into their traps and have the ghosts become their masters.

When he first joined the Hehuan Sect, the sect leader, along with her holy maiden disciple and six elite female elders, set up the Celestial Eight Formations, hoping to keep him as the vice sect leader of the Hehuan Sect.

Ten days and ten nights later, Xia Laomo still refused and returned to the White Bone Sect in a huff.

This is historically known as "moved but refused"!

Xia Zhi knew in her heart that the Qi Refining stage was not the time to enjoy herself!

He can only breathe a sigh of relief when he can recover his previous cultivation level.

Despite her reluctance, the Sword Saintess was unable to seduce Xia Zhi.

On the third day, Xia Zhi, along with the elven archers, dwarven sorcerers, and lizardman monks, departed from the Water City in a carriage.

What? You're asking where they went the next day?

Go ask the photographer who went to eat chicken leg rice again!

……

Back in the border town, Xia Zhi handed in her mission and then asked the receptionist a question.

"Any quests related to goblins?"

In the border town, there are many requests related to goblins, and you encounter quite a few goblins each time.

It is very suitable for summer solstice meditation.

So, more than ten days passed.

A few days ago, news of the Demon King being defeated by the Hero Squad spread throughout the entire continent.

After the Demon King died, his army fell apart, and the number of related missions and requests suddenly decreased.

Many adventurers are so bored they're practically picking their toes.

Thus, a new round of "quest-grabbing wars" began in the adventurers' guild of the border town.

But what does this have to do with goblins?

Goblins are abundant, have a stable production rate, and are found everywhere.

And every now and then there are surprises like Goblin Heroes and Goblin Shamans.

Most importantly, almost no one is competing with Xia Zhi for it.

What more do you want?

Therefore, two months after leaving the City of Water, Xia Zhi, who had already reached the tenth level of Qi Refining, felt it was time to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Chapter 29 Foundation Building

Foundation building, as the name suggests, means laying the foundation for the Dao.

Just like building a house, different types of buildings require different foundations.

The choice of Dao Foundation is the choice of a cultivator's main cultivation direction.

It's perfectly fine to interpret it as a job change.

The White Bone Sect, or rather the entire demonic path, has three main foundation-building methods.

The first is called the base of ten thousand withered white bones.

His main focus was on cultivating spells related to bones, as well as his own skeleton.

Through countless trials and tribulations, one can achieve the "Eternal Undying White Bone Demon," comparable to the Buddhist "Great Sun Vajra Lapis Lazuli Body."

However, as the saying goes, "One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand."

To walk this path means to be constantly surrounded by bones, and to achieve great success, one must not only cultivate qi but also refine the body.

From the Foundation Establishment stage onwards, one must temper one's body like iron being quenched, which is extremely painful.

It is not uncommon for skeletal cultivators to be driven insane by the pain, or even die from it.

Secondly, it is said that a hundred ghosts devour the heart.

His main practice involves magic related to spirits and ghosts, as well as a heart that is both fallen and not fallen into demonic ways.

Just as "a good rider falls from his horse, a good swimmer drowns, a good drinker gets drunk, and a good warrior dies in battle."

Unlike skeletons that can be used even after death, or are even more useful after death, the process of refining ghosts requires subjecting the ghosts to all sorts of torture and abuse, both after death and before they are born, before they can finally take shape.

For cultivators who have forged the Foundation of a Hundred Ghosts Devouring the Heart, their minds will rapidly become twisted during this process, and it is perfectly normal for them to become psychopathic killers.

If you can't control this demonic heart, it's common to be devoured by the very demons you control while practicing.

It could even be written into a book titled "One Hundred Ways for a Hundred Ghost Cultivator to Die After Being Killed by Ghosts".

The third is the foundation of a thousand generations of flesh and blood.

The main practice is the wondrous method of cultivating flesh and blood, with the ultimate goal of being reborn as a celestial being and achieving an immaculate body.

Many Taoist schools also aim for "harmony between heaven and humanity" to achieve the unity of heaven and humanity.

However, compared to the Taoist practice of quiet and inaction, the Thousand Transformations Flesh and Blood Foundation requires transforming the flesh and blood of countless races into one's own body, sinking into an endless sea of ​​blood, and finally emerging from an extremely filthy and unclean body like a pure white lotus rising from the mud.

The process is quite brutal; it's the kind of thing that will make your SAN value drop just by watching it.

Of these three paths of cultivation, this one is the most difficult, but upon completion, one directly becomes a Mahayana cultivator, even stronger than Xia Zhi was before she possessed his body.

Throughout the entire history of the Heavenly Realm, spanning over 80,000 years, only two or three people have succeeded.

The rest of them all turned themselves into monsters.

Before the summer solstice, he was a cultivator with withered bones and white bones.

He didn't choose to reincarnate and start over because he realized there was no hope of transcending the tribulation and there was no way forward.

Instead, he found a way to successfully overcome the tribulation, but was shattered by divine punishment and had to flee the Heavenly Realm.

Otherwise, even if Xia Zhi's physical body turns to ash, as long as his primordial spirit remains within the Heavenly Realm, the remaining thousands of heavenly punishments will still relentlessly pursue him.

Therefore, Xia Zhi will naturally choose to take the original route.

We're familiar with each other, after all!

Otherwise, the magical artifact he crafted wouldn't have been the White Bone Banner.

Moreover, revising the course allows for the identification of omissions and deficiencies, and makes up for any shortcomings.

Inside a goblin cave, Xia Zhi, covered in blood, piled up the corpses of twelve ordinary goblins and a goblin shaman.

He spat out a white bone banner from his mouth, chanted an incantation, and erected the seven-foot-long banner behind him.

Then, Xia Zhi took out the evil soul belonging to the Eye Demon, as well as the souls of the two goblin shamans she had encountered in the past two months.

Ordinary Qi Refining cultivators need a lot of materials to establish their foundation.

Besides a sufficient amount of souls, it would be best to have Foundation Establishment Pills, and also to use high-quality white bones as a Dao guide.

However, Xia Zhi already possessed the White Bone Banner, a magical artifact, and being a reborn old demon who had undergone tribulation, he no longer needed it.

"Hoo~, inhale~, hoo~, inhale~"

Summer Solstice sat cross-legged and began to circulate the Soul Devouring Technique.

First, the evil spirit of the Eye Demon was absorbed into Xia Zhi's body.

With the Eye Demon's malevolent spirit as the main body, his mind sank into the primordial spirit in his sea of ​​consciousness, echoing the White Bone Banner.

The White Bone Banner is a magical treasure that perfectly matches the Dao Foundation of Ten Thousand Withered White Bones, making it even more useful than the Foundation Establishment Pill and the White Bone Dao Guide.

Subsequently, the souls of the other goblins were also sucked into Xia Zhi's mouth.

Under Xia Zhi's influence, all the true energy in his body was mobilized and sent to his dantian.

Soon, his belly began to swell at a visible rate.

A few minutes later, Xia Zhi's belly swelled up noticeably, as if a basketball had been stuffed inside.

"change!"

With a command from Xia Zhi's divine sense, the true energy within his dantian began to slowly rotate, centered on the Eye Demon's fierce soul.

At the same time, the white bone banner behind Xia Zhi flickered with a hazy glow, transforming the evil spirit into the form Xia Zhi desired.

The true energy swirled within the dantian, like a galaxy and a sea of ​​stars, and gradually seeped into the evil spirit.

It's like a hammer striking an iron ingot, forging it through countless hammer blows.

This was Xia Zhi's second time establishing his foundation, and with divine guidance, he was already very familiar with the process.

Half an hour later, Xia Zhi's clapping belly returned to normal, and there was no true qi left in her dantian.

But correspondingly, a spring rises and falls in the dantian during the summer solstice.

Strands of magical energy emanated from the spring, condensing into liquid magical energy that flowed within Xia Zhi's dantian.