No matter how the outside world changes, Xiaozhu Peak remains peaceful, but the person in charge now has been replaced by the real person in charge, Wei Chongran.
After condensing the golden elixir, Li Wuyi not only had to consolidate his new realm, but also had to learn many immortal arts that he had never been exposed to before, which required a lot of time to practice.
Wei Chituo seemed to be inspired by Li Wuyu and Gong Chenying. After returning and secluding himself for half a year, he broke through to the false elixir realm in one fell swoop. After coming out of seclusion, he looked at the courtyard where Li Wuyu lived for a long time. He seemed to have made some decision and went to Yunchun courtyard.
The two talked for a long time in the courtyard, and no one knew what they talked about. Afterwards, Wei Chituo went to the main mission hall of Laojun Peak with Yun Chun, who had broken through to the late stage of foundation building, and took on more than a dozen tasks in one go.
For some unknown reason, they chose extremely difficult levels for each mission, and such missions would almost certainly result in a life-or-death situation.
The way the two of them responded frightened the deacons of the mission hall, who thought that the two of them had been provoked into committing suicide.
After that, the two of them would often be gone for several months at a time, and when they came back, they both carried a strong smell of blood that made people want to vomit.
Moreover, there was one time when both of them returned with serious injuries. When they returned to the sect, Wei Chituo carried the unconscious Yun Chun on his back. The moment they landed on Xiaozhu Peak, he also woke up from coma. In the end, it was Wei Chongran who took action personally to rescue the two.
Later, there were rumors in the sect that among the missions accepted by Wei and Yun, one was to hunt down a fake golden elixir cultivator. Unexpectedly, the person being hunted had already condensed a golden elixir more than a month before the two of them arrived.
This caused serious errors in their intelligence, and they were directly put in a life-and-death situation, but they were both men of strong character, so how could they allow themselves to be slaughtered
The two of them unleashed their full potential, using all their magical powers, and finally, at the cost of burning their blood and essence, after paying an extremely heavy price, they actually joined forces to kill the Jindan master who was at an unstable level.
The two of them were also seriously injured and almost died, but because of this mission's final result, after they returned to the sect, they exchanged 50,000 spirit stones for this mission alone. It can be said that the mission was both dangerous and rewarding.
Wei Chituo and Yun Chunqu rested in the peak for more than four months to recover from their injuries, but the blood and energy burned in the battle would take at least a few years to recover.
It was just that just after their injuries had improved, they began to frantically take on missions again, and they were extremely dangerous missions at that.
Many people in the sect gasped in shock. They were clearly two lunatics who were willing to sacrifice their lives. Wei Chongran did not care about their actions and simply did not care.
What is unexpected is that he is also a disciple of Xiaozhu Peak.
After two months of training with Lin Daqiao in the Ten Thousand Mountains, Wen Xinliang actually started accepting missions crazily. No matter whether they were from the sect or from various peaks, they swept the mission hall without any scruples. However, there were only two types of missions they could accept: assassination and assassination.
Their methods are completely different from those of Wei Chituo and the other two. In the assassination attempt, they often stalk their opponent for days or even months before suddenly attacking and killing him, often with one fatal blow.
Moreover, the escape route was also planned in advance, and almost every action was without a trace, coming and going.
At the same time, they do not linger in fighting. If they miss the first attack, they will quickly escape thousands of miles away, and then lurk again, waiting for an opportunity to strike until the target dies.
Assassinations involve the use of traps, poisoning, spreading poison, and even formations. Often, the opponent is turned into a pool of pus when he is completely unprepared.
The two of them could transform into any ordinary cultivator, or appear in the market and pass by each other, or walk past the neighboring table in a teahouse or wine shop. Soon after, those people would disappear from this world completely...
The four people from Xiaozhu Peak have been accepting missions crazily in the sect, which has gradually made the Xiaozhu Peak, which had been silent for a long time, famous again.
As the tasks of the four people in two groups were constantly handed over, and accompanied by the deaths of notorious villains from the outside world, the names of these fallen people all appeared in the tasks accepted by the four people, and among them were people from the other three major sects.
The reputations of these four people became more and more famous in the sect, and they were finally called the "Four Evils of Xiaozhu".
Wei Chongran ignored all this and just took Miao Wangjing with him to sort out the affairs of Xiaozhu Peak all day long.
Gong Chenying stayed in the spiritual plant garden all the time. In addition to management, he practiced hard.
She never went out. Only Gong Chenying herself knew the reason why she didn't go out. First, her Qiongqi Purgatory Technique was almost at the late third level, which was a critical moment in her cultivation.
Although it is not like the Qi-refining retreat which cannot be interrupted, it cannot be too long either.
In addition, after Li Yan sent the message a year ago, it seemed that he had completely cut off contact with the outside world. Gong Chenying had the ancestral teachings of the Tianli tribe engraved in her bones, which made her unwilling to have too much contact with other men.
And the only person she was familiar with, Zhao Min, had also entered a long period of seclusion, which made her stay at home even more.
In another space tens of thousands of miles away from the Wuliang Sect, Li Yan was sitting cross-legged in a secret room. At this moment, his eyes were slightly closed, his breathing was long, and the spiritual energy outside his body had turned into a thick black color, enveloping his entire body.
With his breathing, the black air contracted and expanded regularly. The black spiritual energy had become extremely dense, but it still flowed out from the pores of his body continuously with Li Yan's breathing, seemingly endless.
The black gas was so dense at this moment that it pushed the golden earth spiritual energy here away by several feet, forming a hollow area, which looked like a prison drawn on the ground.
On one side of the secret room, in the surging golden spiritual energy, a huge face was staring at the black air outside Li Yan's body, muttering to himself.
"Spiritual energy turns into a swamp. This is the sign that Guishui's Qi Refining has reached its peak and is about to become liquid. It is about to establish its foundation."
The huge face was exactly the transformation of Pingtu's spiritual consciousness.
Li Yan has not gone out since he came here a year ago.
Before he came, he went to Laojun Peak to buy a large number of fortifying and nourishing elixirs, and also received a "foundation-building elixir" from Wei Chongran. When Wei Chongran saw Li Yan coming to receive the "foundation-building elixir", he was also surprised. Although he knew that Li Yan had reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation after returning from the secret realm.
He guessed that in addition to the effect of the outrageously rich spiritual energy in the secret realm, Li Yan's advancement must have been due to some other adventure in the wheel of life and death.
However, no one expected that Li Yan would come to receive the "Foundation Building Pill" only half a year after returning to the sect.
He was worried and let Li Yan's cultivation disperse completely. After confirming that Li Yan had reached the late tenth level of Qi Condensation, he couldn't help but secretly admire the disintegrated poisonous body, which could make a disciple with mixed spiritual roots become no less inferior to those genius disciples.
After a brief thought, Wei Chongran gave the "Foundation Building Pill" to Li Yan. Normally, a sect disciple only has one chance in his lifetime to receive the "Foundation Building Pill" for free.
Moreover, the elixir can only be received by the disciple when he has cultivated to the tenth level of Qi Condensation, to prevent it from being wasted due to careless use.
Once this "Foundation Building Pill" is used and fails to successfully build the foundation, you will have to buy the pill yourself when you want to build the foundation again, but the price is shockingly expensive.
Often, an ordinary Qi Condensation cultivator needs to save up for twenty to thirty years before he can afford to buy one.
Considering the lifespan of a Qi Condensation cultivator, after the first failure in building the foundation, he basically only has one more chance to buy elixirs to build the foundation again.
Li Yan's action was obviously not in compliance with the sect's rules, but Wei Chongran knew that Li Yan had the same idea as a very small number of disciples in the sect, which was to rush from the late tenth level of Qi Condensation to the Great Perfection in one breath.
Then he took advantage of the situation and continued to attack the foundation, but although this behavior seemed to be pursuing a victory, it actually still had great hidden dangers. However, there were also successful people, such as himself who did this.
Through Li Yan's performance in the past few years, Wei Chongran already knew Li Yan's character. He was an extremely cautious person who thought carefully before doing anything. He was the most stable person in Xiaozhu Peak except Li Wuyi.
They are not like Yun Chunqu and Gong Chenying, who are taciturn and seem very steady. In fact, one is extremely fierce and the other is extremely stubborn when encountering things, and they lack flexibility.
Therefore, after some consideration, Wei Chongran finally gave the "Foundation Building Pill" to Li Yan and told him the timing of swallowing the pill, precautions, etc. He explained everything to Li Yan for half an incense stick of time.
This made Li Yan feel the importance of his master once again. If Wei Chongran hadn't said anything, he might have made mistakes in some minor details due to his negligence.
Of course, Pingtu should have given me guidance at that time, but when the critical moment came, I didn’t know whether it would be too late.
Finally, Wei Chongran said to Li Yan with some apology.
"Except for you, I have taught the other disciples how to cultivate. However, your physique is special, so I can only tell you about my understanding in general. I have never taught you the immortal arts, so you have to understand them on your own. If you have any questions in the future, you can come to me more often."
When he said this, Li Yan's heart moved. Most of the immortal cultivators were heartless and ungrateful. Someone like Wei Chongran who spoke to his disciples with an apologetic tone should be an exception.
Li Yan has already accepted Wei Chongran and Xiao Zhufeng into his heart and acknowledged them as his master.
He bowed respectfully and then, after Wei Chongran was worried and emphasized the things he needed to pay attention to in building the foundation, Li Yan said goodbye and left.
But he didn't notice that when he left, Wei Chongran looked at him with a different expression, as if he had something to say.
After Li Yan prepared various elixirs, he hung a sign of seclusion outside the bamboo courtyard, took out the round diamond crystal, and was directly teleported to the secret room in the secret realm. He decided that he would never come out of seclusion unless he succeeded in building his foundation this time.
After arriving at the secret room, he began his monotonous and boring practice. When his Qiongqi Purgatory Art had used up all his mana, he practiced the Guishui Sutra to restore his mana. When his mana was fully restored, he practiced the Qiongqi Purgatory Art again...
Day after day, month after month, two months later, Li Yan reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation.
Four months later, the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique showed signs of breaking through to the second level. From then on, he began to concentrate on consolidating his magic power, and this sitting lasted for ten months.
These ten months may seem very long, but in fact, they are not. One should know that someone like Lin Daqiao, who had reached the great perfection of Qi Condensation Stage, stayed there for several years before he finally broke through and succeeded in building the foundation.
Looking at the rich spiritual energy outside Li Yan that seemed to be condensing into water, the face that appeared in the secret room became more and more solemn.
Although the Five Immortal Sect's skills can greatly increase a person's chances of building a foundation, there is still a great possibility of failure.
Once the first foundation-building attempt fails, the difficulty of building the foundation the second time will be at least ten times more difficult than the first time, and it will become more and more difficult as time goes by.
Laying the foundation is the first step for a cultivator to truly embark on the path to immortality.
The Qi Condensation Stage is only to lay the foundation for all of this, using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to change one's own physique, cleanse the impurities in the body, and allow the physical body to reach the minimum standard of becoming an immortal.
At the same time, the spiritual power in the body will continue to change as the body becomes stronger, from being thin to becoming thicker and thicker, until finally, the Dantian is filled with rich spiritual power and becomes extremely slow in flow.
As they squeeze each other, they need more space, and their spiritual power will be continuously compressed as they practice.
At this time, the cultivator's body needs to undergo a major change: the Dantian and spiritual consciousness expand, the tendons and veins become wider, the strength of the flesh and blood becomes stronger, and when all the spiritual power in the body is transformed from Qi, then the foundation of cultivation can be truly established.
Of course, the final expansion of each person's Dantian varies in size, depending on the method of practice, physical condition and other factors. This is also the reason why there are strong and weak strengths among cultivators of the same level.
But at this moment, Li Yan is about to face a crisis, which Pingtu did not expect. His poisonous body began to split at this moment!