Li Yan felt that his left foot, which was still on the eighth step, suddenly felt empty. He didn't even need to look to know that all the steps under him had collapsed. His eyes turned red.
All the strength in his body turned into a force to pounce forward. However, this was an extremely simple action at ordinary times. However, in the cold voice, the space around Li Yan was like a quagmire, making him move as slow as a snail.
Li Yan was anxious, his mind raced, he stepped his right foot on the ninth step, and once again had the thought of "staying together forever", and stuck himself firmly there.
"Get out!"
Just as Li Yan's body was slowly leaning forward, an icy voice in the sky, which seemed to contain supreme anger, rang out again, like rolling thunder exploding in Li Yan's ears.
There was also a pressure that was dozens of times stronger than the previous one, which slammed into Li Yan's body. Li's body was suddenly hit hard and he couldn't help but sink down again.
Countless black gases spewed out from his mouth and nose, and his breath instantly weakened.
"You, Heavenly Dao? But, so what?"
The veins on Li Yan's neck and forehead were like ferocious earthworms, and he roared for the first time since he stepped into the void. The two profound skills in his body, the Guishui Sutra and the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique, burst out with full force in an instant.
As his strength exploded, more black air gushed out from his mouth and nose. Every time a stream of black air was gushed out, his body dissipated a little in this space, and he actually began to dissipate into nothingness.
But Li Yan didn't care at all. As the energy continued to dissipate, he saw that he was about to fail. His eyes became bloodshot and he shouted again.
"rise!"
Following this loud shout, an unprecedented aura burst out from his body, and his body suddenly rose up. In an instant, the illusory, almost transparent body was standing upright on the ninth step.
From the moment Li Yan subconsciously made the strange posture of Qiongqi Purgatory Technique on the eighth step to the moment he finally completed it in one go and stood up straight on the ninth step, it was a long story, but it actually only happened within four breaths.
"Building the foundation in front of the seat, done!"
Just when Li Yan stood on the ninth step, that cold voice was heard again, but this time there was no anger in it, and it was just as emotionless as before.
The moment Li Yan heard this voice, all the pressure on the entire ninth step disappeared instantly, and his body began to emit green light and floated into an illusory step above the ninth step.
This illusory staircase was formed the moment Li Yan stepped onto the ninth step. If one looked closely, it was clearly a black lotus throne with a blurry, almost invisible shadow of a golden pill on it.
The green light that Li Yan transformed into was integrated into the foundation stone beneath the black lotus throne.
Pingtu was still staring blankly ahead, his mouth on his huge illusory face wide open as if to occupy the entire face. In this secret room filled with rich earth spiritual energy, his mutterings echoed.
"This, this, this is already the ninth level of foundation building? How could it be so fast? Pei Bu Chong charged for a full seven hours, but finally fell. This is too, too impossible..."
The scene just now shocked him so much that when the eighth ray of light just lit up on Li Yan’s forehead, before he could react, the ninth ray of light had already lit up.
Then, after just two flashes, blood gushed out from all the pores and orifices of Li Yan's body, making him look like a bloody man. Then, the ninth ray of light on his forehead shone brightly...
All this was completely different from what he had imagined. Except for the first five levels which were relatively smooth, the rest were all within his expectations. It can be said that each level was full of ups and downs.
Especially at the eighth level, that was already a sign of complete failure, but how could he break through to the ninth level in just three or four breaths
If it was so casual, why did the process of clearing the level earlier seem like a dry stomach and being unable to defecate, which was torturous
Just as Pingtu stood there in a daze, a series of muffled thunder-like sounds suddenly came from Li Yan's bloody body, and the sounds became louder and louder, as if they were about to leave his body.
Pingtu woke up suddenly and heard the thunder in the secret room getting louder and louder, accompanied by the sound of wind whistling. He waved his hand quickly, and a powerful light shield immediately covered Li Yan, and the sound suddenly became much smaller.
"The ninth level wind and thunder are rising, it is indeed the same as the legend says. I have only heard of Dong Fuyi and Fairy Ningke of Yimu Immortal Sect, who were also ninth level foundation building and also had wind and thunder rising in their bodies, but I have never seen it with my own eyes."
Pingtu was really shocked when he first heard Li Yan's thunderous voice, but he reacted immediately.
In Pingtu's memory, there have been many people in the Five Immortal Sect who could build a ninth-level foundation since ancient times, but in their two generations, most of them had built a seventh or eighth-level foundation. Only Dong Fuyi and Fairy Ningke had built a ninth-level foundation.
Generally speaking, a breakthrough in realm will only cause strange phenomena in heaven and earth when one has condensed the golden elixir or reached a higher realm. Building the foundation will at most only cause a rumbling in the body.
But once the ninth level of foundation building is formed, it is close to violating the maximum limit of the rules of heaven and earth, because at this time the lifespan of the cultivator is no longer two hundred years, but four hundred years, which can already cause the suppression of heaven and earth and suppress all unreasonable existences.
So when Li Yan finally stepped onto the ninth level of foundation building, the roar in his body began to spread. When it spread to the outside world, it would trigger a resonance between heaven and earth in the secret realm, bringing about a small foundation building catastrophe.
However, all of this was stopped in time by Pingtu. This small disaster was of little benefit to Li Yan's tempering at the moment. It was purely a disaster caused by the rules.
Moreover, he didn't want the old monster in the secret realm to discover this place. He believed that with his current shield, plus the formation outside the secret room, even the old monster in the Spirit Transformation Stage would not be able to detect any unusual movements here.
Not long after, Li Yan's eyelids trembled, and the moment he opened his eyes, two faint rays of light shot out from his eyes, instantly cutting through the rich spiritual energy in front of him, directly dividing the spiritual energy in front of him into two parts, upper and lower.
Looking at the smiling Pingtu in front of him, the dim light in Li Yan's eyes slowly dissipated, and a smile appeared on his face. He hurriedly stood up and bowed deeply to the huge face.
Although this person in front of him was not a human, he had helped Li Yan a lot on his cultivation path. Li Yan had already regarded him as an elder, an elder with flesh and blood. If it weren't for the person in front of him, even if he could build his foundation, it would probably take at least several years. Moreover, without the rich spiritual energy that could transform his body, and the help of this person with a sharp vision, he might only be able to build his foundation at the fifth or sixth level.
Pingtu looked at Li Yan with a smile, without saying a word, but his eyes were full of admiration. The ninth level foundation building had a promising future, and by then the Five Immortal Sect would have another master.
After Li Yan bowed, he did not say any words of thanks. Some words did not need to be said. He sat cross-legged on the ground again. He did not know the condition of his original body yet, not to mention that his poisonous body suddenly mutated and split. After sitting cross-legged, his consciousness immediately entered his body.
Li Yan's spiritual consciousness first reached the area of the fragmented poisonous body. That area was originally above the dantian, at the lower abdomen, but when Li Yan's spiritual consciousness saw it again, the area was completely different.
In front of Li Yan's eyes, there were originally twelve pieces of separated tendons, bones and flesh in the lower abdomen, which were different from other places. Now, starting from the lower abdomen, they have spread upward to the chest, and there are eighteen more pieces of separated tendons, bones and flesh in the entire area.
"Isn't it twenty-four pieces in total? There are similar records in the classics. How come it has become thirty pieces?"
Li Yan carefully recalled the few records about the three major poisonous bodies, and finally confirmed that he was not mistaken.
"Perhaps it was because of the chaotic rush of Qiongqi Purgatory Technique that it broke through six more pieces? But how long will it take to test it before we can know its use..."
Li Yan looked at the eighteen pieces of toxin that had separated in front of him. In addition to being surprised, he couldn't help feeling a little helpless.
Although the sect has had the fragmented poisonous body before, the toxins that are ultimately separated from each person are different.
It had taken him more than a year to separate the twelve toxins, before he had a basic understanding of the specific uses, characteristics, and even the time of onset of each toxin.
All of these required him to experiment again and again, and it took him several more years to finally be able to combine the magic skills and use them flexibly.
Now there are eighteen more toxins at once. It will take him at least two or three years to figure them all out. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a headache.
After confirming that his poisonous body had been successfully advanced by accident through the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique, Li Yan then sank his consciousness into his dantian.
Although he had seen the spiritual power cauldron that had turned into a round cauldron when he was at the seventh stage of "laying the cauldrons to build the foundation", he was even more excited when his spiritual consciousness saw it again at this moment.
In front of Li Yan was a huge Dantian Lake with five four-legged round tripods in the lake. At this moment, the five large tripods were no longer floating on the surface of Dantian Lake, but were floating on the Dantian Lake in an orderly manner in height.
Although it was said to be floating, Li Yan actually felt as if he was deeply rooted in the soil, so firm and unbreakable.
The five tripods had turned dark black and were emitting faint light. The runes on them and their reflection on the water surface exuded a chill. From time to time, a faint light would pass over the runes, giving people an extremely mysterious feeling.
Between the two tripods, thick spiritual power was flying out from one tripod and quickly falling into the next tripod... and finally fell into the Dantian Lake. As the Dantian Lake was boiling, several spiritual power waves rushed out and shot into the first Youding, going back and forth...
Li Yan estimated that the scope of Dantian Lake at this time should be fifty times larger than before.
"No wonder the Foundation Building and Qi Condensation fight like a strong man playing with a child. Some time ago, I felt that I could easily kill the Foundation Building, and I was really a little frivolous.
Although Senior Brother Five reminded me, I only realized today that the gap between the two is as huge as a chasm. Now, a trace of spiritual power in the Dantian Lake is several times stronger than the previous 10% of spiritual power. The vast Dantian Lake seems to contain infinite spiritual power. "
Li Yan thought in his heart, and at the same time thought of his own sea of consciousness.
As soon as he thought about it, Li Yan's illusory figure appeared in the sea of consciousness. Li Yan did not come here very often. He usually entered here when he was acquiring the next level of martial arts. Every time he was promoted, the expansion of his sea of consciousness amazed him.
When Li Yan came to the sea of consciousness again this time, although he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked beyond words. When he reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation, his sea of consciousness seemed to be four thousand feet wide.
Now the sky is higher, the ground is lower, the distance is even more vast and boundless, with no end in sight.
The sky was no longer black, but had turned into blue sky with white clouds. Looking at the sea of consciousness that had now expanded to seem without boundaries, and then looking at the lake under his feet that had also expanded from a small black lake to a thousand-foot lake, Li Yan felt a little dazed.
The black water of the lake below was rippling. A breeze blew through the air, causing the water to slightly wrinkle, as if this was a paradise.
Although there was no green as far as the eye could see, under the blue sky and white clouds, in addition to the lake that was thousands of feet high, there were three mountains faintly visible in the distance. Li Yan glanced into the distance, his figure flashed, and he flew directly into the distance.
About half an incense stick of time later, Li Yan returned to the sky above the black lake again.
"My sea of consciousness is now estimated to be ten thousand feet in size, and in some places, small grass has grown. Although it is very rare, it is still there. This shows that my sea of consciousness has really been promoted to a new realm.
When it was more than 4,000 feet, my spiritual sense could cover an area of 70 miles. Now I think a range of 170 miles should be no problem. After returning to Xiaozhu Peak, I can really test it. Now... "
This was Li Yan's thought. Floating in the air, he lowered his head and looked at the huge lake with excitement in his eyes.
There are the initial foundation-building techniques of the Guishui Sutra, as well as the long-awaited magic arts of the Five Immortal Sect.
Li Yan was excited, and his spiritual consciousness focused, and he had already explored the lake surface below!