Chapter 113: Twenty Years Later

Twenty Years Later

The refining of spiritual energy by Foundation Establishment cultivators has become an instinct, unlike the Qi Refining stage, where cultivation stops except for the few hours of special practice every day. Foundation Establishment cultivators, even in rest and sleep, will constantly attract spiritual energy, roll down the Dao foundation, and fall into the Jade Pool. When the Jade Pool is full, spiritual energy steams up, and then it is thread by thread, turning the phantom of the Dao foundation into reality, and condensing a new layer of steps for the high platform.

This kind of refining spiritual energy, the speed is naturally fast and slow. The more layers the Dao foundation condenses, the purer the spiritual energy that slides into the Jade Pool, and the faster the steaming mist casts the Dao foundation high platform. It's just that later on, the more spiritual energy is needed to cast the high platform. This is a process of pure spiritual energy washing and refining the Dao foundation at the bottom. According to Both Both Ruan Ci's understanding, the moment the external spiritual energy pours into the body is the purest. The short distance from falling to the high platform will be consumed by many inexplicable things. Therefore, the first one or two layers of Dao foundation high platforms have more impurities. After practicing to the later layers, the massive amount of spiritual energy required, in addition to building the high platform itself, also needs to refine the bottom Dao foundation.

And when it reaches the eighth and ninth layers, after the spiritual energy is poured, it is almost instantly caught by the Dao foundation, which is naturally extremely pure. Measured by this standard, almost every layer at the bottom needs to be rebuilt. It is also because of this that the time required for each layer is exactly the sum of each previous layer. After spiritual energy enters the body, careful observation can reveal that when building the high platform, more than half flows down to nourish the bottom Dao foundation, and the remaining half stays to build the current layer where the figure stands. It's like the Dao foundation leaking water, and half of the water liquid must leak down.

Both Both Ruan Ci is now full at the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment, and the fifth layer has just built a corner. In the inner scene world, the Lingling figure stands leisurely at a corner of the high platform. As her consciousness invests, the figure also becomes active, as if becoming Both Both Ruan Ci's incarnation in the inner scene world. This figure has blurred features and can move around in the inner scene world, observing the Jade Pool, wandering the lake shore. Every activity can be reflected outside. This is also the way many cultivators perform supernatural powers. For example, Both Both Ruan Ci has read many ways to trace the cause and effect in the classics, all related to the Jade Pool —— although cultivators have an unforgettable memory, sometimes consciousness will be negligent. Observing the Jade Pool can project the memories in the heart into the Jade Pool, watch them repeatedly, and look for clues.

After she went ashore from the Treasure Cloud Sea, she experienced several shocks, and returned to the sect and was busy with human relations. This trip out can be said to be a full load, and her status in the sect is naturally different from the past, so she has the confidence to walk around in various places. Therefore, she has not used her heart to practice in recent days, just relying on instinct to attract spiritual energy, and building the Dao foundation at an extremely slow speed. The progress of this construction can be ignored, that is, it is very difficult to build a layer in millions of years, so Both Both Ruan Ci did not pay attention to the progress.

At this time, when she entered meditation and operated the mental method, she felt something different. When spiritual energy fell on the Dao foundation and rolled down layer by layer, there was no loss at all. A group of extremely pure spiritual mist was steaming above the Jade Pool all the time, which was infinitely close to the spiritual energy that could be controlled in the Golden Core stage. Not to mention this, the speed of building the Dao foundation was twice as fast as before. After careful tasting, she felt that the spiritual energy that had seeped into the bottom before no longer leaked down, but was completely used to build the fifth layer —— this was not because she was eager for success and ignored the toughness of the bottom Dao foundation, but because the bottom Dao foundation was already as tough as jade, integrated with the high platform, as if it had been tempered for a thousand times and achieved perfection, and no longer needed other things to nourish it. It had been tempered to... the strength of the Dao Ancestor level!

How to know that this is the strength of the Dao Ancestor level, Both Both Ruan Ci had no way of knowing, just a trace of intuition in the dark. She incarnated into a figure, couldn't help but bend down and gently brush the warm and moist platform surface, feeling its touch like gold and jade, and murmured, "Qingjun gave me height, True Person Hengze gave me strength, next, who else will give me something else?"

"You Dao Ancestors, one after another, made moves on me, and in the future, you expect me to sing what kind of good show in your game?"

She was no longer as raw and suspicious as when she first dealt with Sister Xie Sister Xie Yan Yan Huan, and she could treat this matter quite calmly —— she was somewhat used to it. After thinking about it, she was relieved, and refined spiritual energy with all her heart. The Nirvana Dao Ancestor's move might also be hoping that her cultivation would improve faster. Both Both Ruan Ci also felt that time was pressing. She already had her own guesses about this game, but there were still many joints that she hadn't figured out, so it was not convenient to discuss with anyone. Actually, maybe time is always enough —— for the Dao Ancestor, time is just one of the scales, and there is no real 'too late'. But since she is not yet a Dao Ancestor, she can only work hard to practice according to her own vision.

This trip out, she saw too many mysterious confrontations, which also washed her Dao heart. After a little operation, she forgot things and objects, and all thoughts entered silence. Only the spiritual dew rolled down, and the spiritual mist steamed repeatedly. She didn't know how long it had passed. Both Both Ruan Ci performed twelve weeks of work, checked the spiritual platform silently, and saw that the fifth layer of high platform had built a small piece of ground. She calculated it in her heart, and couldn't help but nod slightly: at this speed, it only takes twenty years to refine the fifth layer of high platform. However, from the sixth layer, I don't know how much time it will take, but this can still slightly alleviate the need for time spiritual objects or Donghua remnants.

This is also a matter of taking one step at a time. Both Both Ruan Ci is not in a hurry. Who knows what spiritual objects are waiting for her at that time. Actually, she has only been practicing for thirty-four years and is already at the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment. If there is no miracle, even the most genius disciple cannot compare with her. Think about Jiang Jiang Youwen and Su Jingxing, these two Sheng Sect disciples also have opportunities, so she finally realized the weight of the word 'fortune'. In this cultivation world, one step ahead, every step ahead. The fellow Daoists who entered the sect with her in South Zhuzhou at that time looked much thicker than her, but now they have been left far behind by her.

The most important thing for a cultivator is to endure loneliness. After returning to the mountain, Both Both Ruan Ci closed the door to practice, occasionally left seclusion to play with Seeing Tianlu and others for a few days, and went to Zhuiyue Cliff to visit Wang Wang Panpan. She was quite attentive to her servants. Occasionally, she gave precious materials. Although she took refuge in Zixu Heaven, she still hoped to have a force that belonged entirely to her. He Tong and others practiced quite diligently. During the days when Both Both Ruan Ci practiced on the mountain, they all had the cultivation of the fifth layer of Qi Refining. When they were free, they received friends for Both Both Ruan Ci, passed messages, and also inquired about news in the sect.

Before she knew it, Both Both Ruan Ci had been practicing in Zixu Heaven for twenty years. In these twenty years, she had not spent more than a month in leisure. If it were Qin Qin Fengyu, she would have been bored to death. Although Both Both Ruan Ci also felt boring, her toughness was much stronger than before, and she could settle her mind to work hard.

On this day, she was sitting cross-legged in the grotto-dwelling, her body suddenly trembled slightly, and her pretty face showed a layer of precious light, as if there was some happy change in her body reflected outside. After a while, Both Both Ruan Ci finished her work and got up, a smile appeared on her face, she reached out and caught a wisp of spiritual light, played with it for a while, and felt the difference. It turned out that the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment had been built, and she began to build toward the sixth layer.

Every layer of high platform stepped on in Foundation Establishment is a different scenery. The five senses will be stronger, the understanding of spiritual energy will be more subtle, and the manipulation will naturally be more precise. However, Both Both Ruan Ci had experienced the experience of upper-level cultivators in hallucinations countless times, so she naturally got used to these slight differences after a while. She opened the door and went out, her long sleeves waved lightly, the spiritual spring in the courtyard gushed out, and immediately filled a small pool in the corner. Both Both Ruan Ci was like a fairy, flying away, her magic clothes and embroidered shoes flew down naturally, and she jumped into the spiritual spring, couldn't help but giggle —— actually, with Both Both Ruan Ci's current cultivation, her jade body is not stained with dust, even if she is in seclusion for a hundred years, there is no dirt, but she was born in a place without water, but she loves playing with water very much.

If it were a chaste fairy, she would just close her eyes quietly in the spiritual spring, but Both Both Ruan Ci was not such a temper, her jade feet kicked in the water, splashing a lot of water, and rolled in the water, splashing a large area of the small courtyard floor. Wang Wang Panpan called outside the wall, "Noisy to death, you didn't say anything when you left seclusion."

It jumped onto the wall, Both Both Ruan Ci said with surprise, "Wang Panpan, why are you here?"

Wang Wang Panpan raised its claws and licked, rolled its eyes at Both Both Ruan Ci, and said proudly, "Why, can't I come?"

What kind of relationship are Both Both Ruan Ci and Wang Wang Panpan, she was too lazy to hide anything, and in her heart, Wang Wang Panpan was a female cat, so she still soaked in the pool and waved, "Wang Panpan, come down and take a bath with me."

Wang Wang Panpan's hair exploded. In response, it jumped onto a large stone beside Both Both Ruan Ci and said, "You guy, I came from Zhuiyue Cliff to send you a message, but you want me to take a bath? Then I'm going back. If you don't give me some Shallow Cherry Contending for the Ferry to eat, I won't tell you the news."

One person and one cat made a fuss for a while, Both Both Ruan Ci had to promise to catch more Shallow Cherry Contending for the Ferry for Wang Wang Panpan to eat in the future. Wang Wang Panpan then told her, "Lin Xianen also succeeded in Foundation Establishment. It was two or three years ago. You have been in seclusion for a long time this time. A few days ago, she came to visit and said she was going to take a mission and go out to do things. I thought if you left seclusion, you should express it, so I came to take a look at you."

Both Both Ruan Ci ah-ed, and also said, "Not bad, naturally we should support a little."

Fellow disciples like Lin Xianen will be her connections in the sect in the future. True Person Wang has few disciples, and Both Both Ruan Ci naturally wants to make friends outside. She had already thought about how many magic weapons she could choose. In addition to Lin Xianen, the disciples who entered the sect from South Zhuzhou in these years probably also reached Foundation Establishment one after another, and there should be some human relations. After leaving seclusion this time, she wanted to rest, just to arrange a banquet and entertain everyone at Zhuiyue Cliff.

She changed her clothes casually, went out to the small courtyard on the cliff of True Person Wang, and knelt down to pay respects —— Both Both Ruan Ci had to come to pay respects every time she left seclusion. Whether True Person Wang saw her was one thing, but the etiquette could not be wasted. However, True Person Wang had not seen her several times before. Both Both Ruan Ci bowed several times, Seeing Tianlu came out of the courtyard and asked her to go in. Both Both Ruan Ci asked softly, "Have you been inside all this time?"

Seeing Tianlu also replied in a low voice, "As long as I am in Zixu Heaven, as soon as the True Person calls, I will arrive when I open the door."

Both Both Ruan Ci gathered her spirit, walked into the room, and wanted to salute True Person Wang again, but was stopped by True Person Wang. Both Both Ruan Ci saw that he didn't speak, so she pointed to the ground by herself. As her heart turned, the room responded, and naturally turned into an embroidered stool. Both Both Ruan Ci sat on the embroidered stool.

Seeing Tianlu hurriedly retreated, probably to make tea. True Person Wang smiled slightly, not offended. He was a Foundation Establishment incarnation here today, giving Both Both Ruan Ci less pressure, and his mood seemed good. He looked at Both Both Ruan Ci a few times and asked casually, "Already at the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment?"

Both Both Ruan Ci said, "Yes, I got the Donghua sword intent in the mountain before, and refined four layers in one breath. Now it took twenty years to refine to the fifth layer, which is still fast."

True Person Wang nodded, "You have such patience, it's not bad."

He meant that Both Both Ruan Ci did not lose her heart to practice because the Donghua sword intent refining feedback was faster, and she was intent on looking for sword intent. Both Both Ruan Ci heard him say this, and didn't be humble, raised her head, and had a taste of it. True Person Wang saw it and couldn't help but sigh, and pointed out some difficulties in Both Both Ruan Ci's cultivation. Both Both Ruan Ci said, "I have been in meditation for twenty years, and the longest time I have been in seclusion is only more than a year, and I feel that I need to get up and rest and play for a few days, but obviously spiritual energy, spiritual sense, and heart energy can all persist. It's just that I feel that if I persist, it will not only fail to temper my heart, but will have an impact on my cultivation. Does Master know why?"

True Person Wang said, "Cultivators should follow the trend. You can't practice because the 'static' trend is exhausted. You need to come out of this undulating wave and find another wave that is about to turn to 'Ning', 'Jing', and 'Ding'. Resting for a while is not a bad thing. It is not that sitting in seclusion is a detached state of mind. Cultivators still pay attention to the combination of movement and stillness. If you are always in seclusion in the grotto, where does the opportunity come from?"

Both Both Ruan Ci realized it when she heard it, but she was curious about how to grasp and capture the trend of static and movement. True Person Wang said, "This is at least something that can be sensed in the Golden Core stage. No need to be anxious. You should practice the Dao foundation with peace of mind and achieve the Golden Core early."

"How long has it been since Foundation Establishment, Master is talking about Golden Core again." Both Both Ruan Ci couldn't help but say, "Is it that this time you are going to give me a time limit, how many years can I achieve Golden Core, and what reward will you give me?"

Mentioning this, her heart was also a little uneasy. Seeing True Person Wang as if nothing had happened, she knew that the aftermath of the last question about the name had passed, and her courage was even greater. She counted her fingers and said, "Well, last time Master told me his real name, what should I ask Master to tell me this time? Is it the Great Dao Master practices, or Master's Dharma image? I don't know if Master's Dharma image is as majestic as True Person Qingshan ——"

Seeing Tianlu hurriedly lifted the curtain and walked in, just interrupting Both Both Ruan Ci's words, "True Person, Miss Ci, please have tea."

Both Both Ruan Ci knew she was overstepping, couldn't help but take the teacup, and secretly stuck her tongue out at Seeing Tianlu. Seeing Tianlu also winked at her. True Person Wang took all the eyebrow official business of the two into his eyes, rubbed the teacup with his long fingers, and said, "I only said one sentence, but you have a hundred sentences to return to me. I think you want to go to Zicui Cliff to watch the door."

Both Both Ruan Ci didn't know where Zicui Cliff was, but Seeing Tianlu was very anxious, and gave Both Both Ruan Ci a look. Both Both Ruan Ci hurriedly knelt down, knelt forward a few steps, looked up at True Person Wang on the couch, and begged, "Master, please calm down, I was just joking, but I didn't mean to disobey Master."

In fact, her temper, one is because Both Both Ruan Ci's status is special, and the other is somewhat spoiled by True Person Wang. True Person Wang's long eyes narrowed, closed his eyes and let her act like a spoiled child for a long time, before saying, "This is also because I didn't teach you. In the future, remember not to ask about the Great Dao held by Grotto-Heaven True Persons, otherwise you will be killed on the spot, and there is nowhere to reason."

Both Both Ruan Ci had already reached out to push True Person Wang's knee. At this time, she knew that True Person Wang was unhappy. Her hand was still on True Person Wang's knee, and she looked up in confusion, "Although this is true, which Grotto-Heaven True Person is not famous? The techniques practiced, looking at supernatural powers, can't be hidden, and what Great Dao is held, what can't be revealed?"

True Person Wang said, "Although this is true, each of the techniques we practice can correspond to three or five Great Daos. You want to ask which one he practices from these three or five Great Daos, which is to violate his deepest secret. Once you know the Great Dao, it is easy to be calculated, and what is more worrying is that if he practices this Great Dao and has a Dao Ancestor presiding over it, he answers you, and the Dao Ancestor may know his existence. You don't understand these things if you say too much. In short, except for cultivators after Dao Integration, the whole universe will naturally know what Great Dao he practices, otherwise don't ask other cultivators."

Both Both Ruan Ci listened half-understood, "Does the Dao Ancestor not know that there are Grotto-Heaven cultivators practicing his Great Dao, and may drive him out of this Dao in the future?"

"If the Dao Ancestor knows, then apart from his own Dao system, no cultivator would dare to practice that Great Dao, do you think so?" True Person Wang asked back, "If one day, all three thousand Great Daos are presided over by Dao Ancestors, then apart from the three thousand Dao systems, which Dao should the cultivators of this universe practice?"

"As long as the cultivator who practices this Dao enters Grotto-Heaven, the Dao Ancestor will only know that there is one more potential opponent, but will not know any information about him. You can also treat this as a Dao dispute between Grotto-Heaven and Dao Ancestor. Naturally, if the cultivator says it himself, it is another situation. There are also some World Sect disciples, whose techniques are passed down by the Dao Ancestor, which is another matter. These disciples will not have the danger of becoming Dao slaves even if they enter Grotto-Heaven. When the practice enters a certain realm, the Dao Ancestor will lock his cultivation, making him forever unable to integrate into the Dao, but he will not be swallowed by the Great Dao."

When he pointed out Both Both Ruan Ci, he was extremely patient. Both Both Ruan Ci lay on Master's knee, and couldn't help but listen intently. Only then did she know that the Dharma image she asked just now was fine, but asking about the Great Dao practiced by True Person Wang was extremely taboo. It was no wonder that the True Person was slightly angry. If this was asked by others, not only would Both Both Ruan Ci have trouble, but even True Person Wang would be ridiculed for not knowing how to teach disciples.

She felt a little embarrassed in her heart, wanted to apologize, but couldn't let go of her face, so she straightened up and hammered True Person Wang's legs, saying, "Thank you Master for your teaching, disciple will definitely be cautious in the future, and will not lose face for Master."

True Person Wang didn't say whether he enjoyed her service or not, closed his eyes and hummed, and said, "I called you here this time, indeed with the intention of encouraging you to practice, but since you are so lazy, then forget it."

Both Both Ruan Ci had to apologize with many soft words, and then said, "Your clan sister Ruan Rong has already achieved Foundation Establishment, and will go out to handle errands in a few years. In my opinion, she may go to Hanyu Swamp, which is to go out within thirteen years. She is the Donghua sword envoy. This trip out will definitely be watched by all sects, and there will be many obstacles. According to the rules, there should be someone to protect the Dao —— however, the protectors in the sect are usually Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivators. You are only at the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment now. It is difficult to pull your cultivation to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment within thirteen years, but it doesn't matter if you don't go. You have successfully achieved Foundation Establishment and brought back Hengze Jade Dew, and you can safely practice to the Golden Core stage. Ruan Rong's role is exhausted, and this substitute dies if she dies, which is not a pity."

"Whether to go or not, it's all up to you. I don't have the heart to ask, so go, practice well, and come to pay respects in thirteen years."

As he spoke, his long sleeves waved, his phoenix eyes drooped, and he had already entered meditation. Both Both Ruan Ci's heart was like a stormy sea. After a long time, she climbed up from the master's statue-like knees, slowly exited the small courtyard, and calculated to herself.

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, this chapter has some unpleasant people replaced by True Person Wang Shengyu!

I will send out the red packets for the previous chapter in a while~~

I started reading "Fa Qing" again. This article is really too funny. Actually, I think this is the ancestor of Dihua articles.

It seems there is no S tournament to watch in the afternoon, so I will watch Super Little Jie play Ma Zao!

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Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 114 =====