Chapter 36: Aunt's Foundation Establishment

Here, the Fourteenth Uncle's Foundation Establishment Ceremony had just been held, and the family had completed a major event.

Far away in Jinzhou Prefecture, Lin Maoting had also reached the most important moment of Foundation Establishment. Since arriving here, renting a cave abode, she had been waiting for the start of the auction.

It was not easy for the auction to start, and she didn't dare to delay, directly taking the first Foundation Establishment Pill for 50,000 spirit stones. Then she immediately went to the backstage to pay the spirit stones and exchange them for the Foundation Establishment Pill, directly going into closed-door cultivation to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

This closed-door cultivation to impact the Foundation Establishment stage had already lasted for two or three months. Now it was to compress the spiritual energy and transform it into mana, but this was not an easy thing.

There was a very huge quality gap between the two, and it was not so easy to cross!

But once the transformation was successful, and then the body was nourished with mana, the transformation of the life level could be completed, and the lifespan would also increase by two sixty-year cycles, possessing 240 years of lifespan.

Lin Maoting followed the experience left by the ancestors in the family's Scripture Pavilion and taught by her father, combined with her understanding of herself, compressing her spiritual energy bit by bit.

Fortunately, the divine sense stage among the three stages of Foundation Establishment had been completed in advance. That day, her father called her into the secret room and gave her a piece of purple fruit pulp the size of a finger.

She didn't know it was a treasure and was baffled, asking him what it was, but he wouldn't say. After confirming that her father wouldn't say anything, she swallowed it directly.

She had just swallowed it and was preparing to refine it. At first, she wasn't prepared at all, until a powerful purple energy rushed directly into her sea of consciousness, and she knew it was a treasure to enhance soul power.

Because the medicinal power was truly too strong, she almost couldn't hold on at the beginning. Fortunately, she persisted and finally slowly refined it successfully.

Her divine sense directly broke through the Qi Refining limit, reaching an astonishing 50 zhang, which was 150 meters. She was too happy and excited; it was simply like a dream! The super-strong divine sense also gave her a stronger ability to control spiritual energy.

After these two or three months, she finally compressed the spiritual energy to the extreme.

Having reached this step, it was the most critical moment.

If successful, she could compress the spiritual energy into mana. Then she would have completed the most important step of Foundation Establishment, the mana stage. The rest would only need to nourish the body with mana to complete the body stage.

If she failed to compress and transform, then the spiritual energy compressed to the extreme would erupt. If there was no protection from the Foundation Establishment Pill, it would instantly blow her meridians into a sieve.

Lin Maoting didn't rush to complete this step. She calmed her mood and swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill into her abdomen.

Instantly, a burst of energy rushed into her dantian and meridians, her essence, energy, and spirit merged, fully urging the spiritual energy to complete this last step of crossing.

It was now! She gritted her teeth and urged her whole body's spiritual energy to condense. After a loud "boom" that resounded through her soul, the first wisp of liquid mana was finally born in her body, and soon a chain reaction occurred.

With this wisp of mana as a foundation, the remaining spiritual energy also quickly condensed into liquid mana, and her dantian became empty.

After the transformation in the dantian, the remaining mana was less than one-tenth.

"Success!" Lin Maoting didn't have time to think too much, hurriedly calmed her excited mood, concentrated her attention, and fully urged the Foundation Establishment part of the Green Wood Longevity Sutra, running the heavenly cycle to consolidate her current cultivation base.

And she took out the mid-grade wood spirit stone she had specially left on her body, frantically absorbing the spiritual energy within to strengthen her mana.

Then she urged the newborn mana to continuously run the heavenly cycle, letting her body slowly adapt to the existence of mana.

She didn't know how long it had been! She felt that her cultivation base was finally consolidated.

Only then did she dare to get up, tidy up, open the door of the closed-door cultivation room, and excitedly tell her father, who was guarding the door, that she had successfully established her foundation.

Lin Fandao was also excited and burst into tears. It was truly not easy. Since his beloved wife was ambushed and fell, he had to take care of three children alone, and also cultivate and take care of the Baicao Garden. It was truly very difficult! Now that his daughter had finally established her foundation, the stone in his heart had also landed. Since the violent fluctuation of spiritual energy in the closed-door cultivation room half a month ago, his heart had never been at peace. Only those who had experienced Foundation Establishment knew the dangers involved! Now he could breathe a sigh of relief and also felt happy and proud for his daughter.

The rest was to temper the meridians and nourish the body.

While making the meridians stronger, she nourished the body with mana, which lasted for about three months, completing the hundred-day Foundation Establishment and allowing her own life form to complete the transformation.

From now on, her life level was very different from before. With mana continuously nourishing her body, as long as she didn't suffer from incurable injuries, living to two hundred and forty years old was almost a nail in the coffin.

He instructed his daughter to nourish her body with peace of mind and repeated his techniques and insights again.

He took out the second-tier mid-grade spiritual artifact Qingping Sword and the second-tier low-grade spiritual artifact Xuan Gui Shield he had prepared in advance for her. He let her refine them by the way; the road back wouldn't be peaceful.

On the way back, she should take a detour to go to markets she hadn't been to before to deal with the Vermilion Fruits in her hands.

The 48 century-old Vermilion Fruits brought out this time were only consigned for 8 at the auction, with each transaction price between 2100 and 2300. After deducting a 10% handling fee, she got about 16,000 spirit stones.

There were also 2 dealt with in the black market, getting 3,600 spirit stones, and there were still 38 Vermilion Fruits in hand.

She had to try her best to sell them all on the way back. She didn't know how things were at home. She didn't know if Ling'er's spirit roots were good? Maoxiang's Foundation Establishment Ceremony should have been finished, right! On the Lin family's Nine Peaks Mountain side, there was also good news. His parents and second uncle had successfully advanced one after another after consuming the Vermilion Fruits.

Now his father and second uncle were both at the ninth layer of Qi Refining and had to start polishing their spiritual energy to prepare for Foundation Establishment. His mother was still a little bit behind, now at the eighth layer of Qi Refining, but she was also fast.

When his grandfather returned and came forward to let them consume the Earth Soul Fruit to enhance their soul power, then Foundation Establishment would be more guaranteed in the future.

Since the end of the ceremony, Lin Zhangqing had returned to his original rhythm. Every morning he insisted on cultivation, then during the day he went to the Baicao Garden and Aoyun Peak to take care of spirit medicines and spirit fields, and at night he practiced spells and entered the space to catalyze spirit medicines and spirit fruits.

The only difference was that there was an extra group of Purple Crystal Scorpions that loved to sunbathe. Now Lin Zhangqing let the Purple Crystal Scorpions roam freely on Aoyun Peak.

They often ate until they were full and then all lay on the stones to sunbathe. 124 of them lying together looked dense.

Chuyi's nest was also on Aoyun Peak. Fortunately, both sides had Lin Zhangqing's aura, and with Lin Zhangqing's repeated instructions, they both knew they were their own people, so they could live together peacefully.

The one with the biggest change in the whole family was his younger sister Lin Ling. Because she had spirit roots, she was given a character in the generation and entered the genealogy, ranking thirty-sixth among her peers. Now she was officially called Lin Changling.

During the Fourteenth Uncle's Foundation Establishment Ceremony, the Clan Leader even personally brought her into the core of the Mountain-Protecting Great Array, protecting her tightly, just for fear that outsiders would know.

This made her not see the fun and very unhappy. However, Lin Changling's cultivation aptitude was really too good.

It took her three days to successfully introduce Qi, and ten days to officially advance to the first layer of Qi Refining. She practiced the same cultivation method as the Sixth Elder, the Three Yang Flame Fire Scripture, which was a mysterious-grade mid-rank cultivation method and could be practiced to Foundation Establishment Perfection.

This was already the family's best fire-attribute cultivation method. To get a better cultivation method, she would have to collect it herself in the future or buy it at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Now two or three months had passed, and she was almost at the peak of the first layer of Qi Refining. If it weren't for the Third Elder suppressing her and letting her lay a solid foundation, she might already be at the second layer of Qi Refining.

Compared with her, Lin Zhangqing was depressed. He could only cultivate even harder. Fortunately, there was Lin Zhangliu. In fact, Lin Zhangqing's cultivation speed could now rival that of four spirit roots.

In the future, as Lin Zhangliu grew and the space became larger, Lin Zhangqing's cultivation aptitude would get better and better, until he caught up with the cultivation speed of heavenly spirit roots, or even surpassed them. However, the resources required for this were definitely an astronomical figure! So now he not only had to cultivate hard but also earn more spirit stones to let Lin Zhangliu absorb and digest. Only by doing both could Lin Zhangqing walk further on the path of cultivation.

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