Chapter 150: Luo Tian? The Native Protagonist?

"Foundation Establishment Pill?"

Looking at the youth before him, whose aura was pure and whose cultivation had reached the peak of Qi Refining, Ye Qingxuan felt somewhat puzzled.

The youth before him did not seem like one who had consumed pills to directly boost his cultivation base with medicinal power. Perhaps Ye Qingxuan's scrutiny made the youth uneasy; his expression grew nervous, and he could not help but ask again:

"Shopkeeper, do you not sell Foundation Establishment Pill here either?"

He had already visited many shops.

However, in the current Di Xuan Realm, Foundation Establishment Pill was too niche; there were very few alchemists capable of refining such a pill.

In the Di Xuan Realm, refining Foundation Establishment Pill was not only time-consuming and laborious, but finding buyers was also difficult.

Therefore, few alchemists would deliberately waste time learning to refine Foundation Establishment Pill.

Precisely because of this, most shops did not have Foundation Establishment Pill for sale.

Shops with channels to obtain Foundation Establishment Pill mostly did not have stock on hand; they required paying a large amount of spirit stones to commission an alchemist to refine it.

But this cost far exceeded what he could afford.

Seeing the youth ask again, Ye Qingxuan smiled lightly:

"I have Foundation Establishment Pill, but I wonder how many spirit stones you are willing to pay?"

When he had previously helped the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, refine pills that could directly boost cultivation, Ye Qingxuan had practiced with Foundation Establishment Pill.

So he actually had a few Foundation Establishment Pills, which had been gathering dust in the storage ring of his original body.

However, Foundation Establishment Pill was basically not circulating in the market now, so there was no clear market price.

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, the youth, whose eyes had already shown disappointment, instantly brightened and said excitedly:

"Really?"

Immediately, he could not help but take out his storage bag, pour out all his spirit stones, and say anxiously:

"Shopkeeper, is this enough?"

Looking at the excited youth before him, Ye Qingxuan felt somewhat amused.

Glancing at the spirit stones on the ground, there were only three thousand five hundred and seventy-six low-grade spirit stones.

It was clear that this must be the youth's entire fortune.

Ye Qingxuan did not make things difficult for the youth; amidst the youth's anxiety, he spoke:

"It is enough. Wait a moment; I will go get the Foundation Establishment Pill."

After speaking, Ye Qingxuan entered the back hall of the shop.

Opening the realm gate, his original body, far away in the Qingxuan Blessed Land, teleported the Foundation Establishment Pill over.

After obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill, Ye Qingxuan returned to the front hall of the shop and tossed the bottle containing the pill to the youth: "Here, this is the Foundation Establishment Pill you wanted."

Hearing this, the youth excitedly took the bottle, opened it, looked inside, and said happily: "Hahaha, thank you, Shopkeeper!"

After bowing to Ye Qingxuan, the youth prepared to leave the shop.

However, before walking out the shop door, the youth turned back and asked tentatively: "Shopkeeper, do you have pills that can directly boost cultivation for sale here?"

Hearing the youth's question, Ye Qingxuan said playfully:

"I do! What? Do you have more spirit stones?"

The youth was embarrassed, scratching his head and cheeks, and said with a red face: "No, but after I earn spirit stones in the future, I will come back to buy."

Although somewhat embarrassed, hearing Ye Qingxuan say that he had pills that could directly boost cultivation made the youth very happy in his heart.

This way, he would not have to search everywhere for pills.

However, the joy in the youth's heart had just risen when Ye Qingxuan ruthlessly interrupted: "I am preparing to close the shop. Next time you come, you will not find me."

The youth was somewhat disappointed and asked hopefully: "Then if I want to buy pills, where can I find you, Senior?"

"Senior?"

Ye Qingxuan felt speechless, but thinking of the image of his mysterious clone as an old man, he understood.

Seeing the youth not give up, Ye Qingxuan was also very curious.

At such a young age, he already had cultivation at the peak of Qi Refining, yet now he was unwilling to think clearly and planned to consume pills to boost cultivation, growing his cultivation base directly with medicinal power? Although curious, Ye Qingxuan had no habit of prying into customer privacy.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Qingxuan's eyes rolled, and a mischievous thought immediately arose in his heart.

Pretending to stroke the beard of his clone, Ye Qingxuan chuckled: "Hehehe, little one, if you want to find me, go to the Mysterious Mall in the Xuanmu Realm in the future!"

After speaking, Ye Qingxuan waved his sleeve and sent the youth out of the shop.

By the time the youth came to his senses, Ye Qingxuan and the mysterious shop had vanished from the spot.

"Xuanmu Realm? Mysterious Mall?"

The youth unconsciously murmured.

Then, the youth's eyes gradually became firm, and he said in a deep voice:

"Senior, I, Luo Tian, will definitely go to the Xuanmu Realm to find you." Although the Xuanmu Realm was full of dangers, if one only traveled between cities, the danger was not great.

Afterwards, the youth named Luo Tian cautiously looked around.

After confirming no one was nearby, Luo Tian quickly moved away from the location of Xingzhan City.

Although the spiritual energy in Xingzhan City was much denser than elsewhere, he did not have spirit stones to rent a cave dwelling in Xingzhan City to cultivate.

So Luo Tian chose to move away from Xingzhan City and arrived at a hidden cave dwelling he had previously built.

Returning to his cave dwelling, Luo Tian excitedly took out the Foundation Establishment Pill.

After making an effort to calm his emotions, Luo Tian finally swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill to assault the Foundation Establishment realm.

The energy of the Foundation Establishment Pill did not spread through Luo Tian's body.

The energy that just appeared rushed all at once into the depths of Luo Tian's dantian.

Deep in his dantian, there was a rusted bronze fragment, continuously devouring all the energy of the Foundation Establishment Pill and transforming it into an extremely pure white energy.

Luo Tian's face lit up with joy, and he began to fully absorb this purified energy from the Foundation Establishment Pill.

With the aid of this energy, Luo Tian effortlessly broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, Luo Tian did not emerge from seclusion.

Although the energy of the Foundation Establishment Pill had been refined by the bronze fragment, the cultivation base achieved by relying on the medicinal power still contained minute impurities in its spiritual power.

Luo Tian continuously poured his Foundation Establishment spiritual power into the bronze fragment, refining the slightly impure spiritual power within himself once more.

After being tempered by the bronze fragment, Luo Tian's spiritual power became utterly pure, completely equivalent to that of cultivators who had not consumed elixirs that directly increased cultivation base.

This bronze fragment had been passed down through Luo Tian's ancestors.

Luo Tian was born in an ordinary village—Luojia Village.

His parents died early, and he grew up eating meals from a hundred families.

At the age of twelve, Luo Tian was tested and found to possess a single-element Metal Spirit Root.

However, the talent of a single-element Spirit Root was too low, and no sect was willing to accept Luo Tian as a disciple.

Thus, Luo Tian could only cultivate the unknown ancestral technique of Luojia Village within the village, slowly entering the Qi Refining realm and stepping onto the threshold of the Immortal Dao.

Later, by a stroke of fate, the bronze fragment passed down by Luo Tian's ancestors unexpectedly entered his dantian.

At first, Luo Tian did not know the function of the bronze fragment.

It was not until he first consumed a Gathering Qi Pill to assist his cultivation that he discovered the bronze fragment could actually refine the medicinal power of the pill, enhancing the effect of the Gathering Qi Pill in aiding cultivation.

A sudden inspiration struck Luo Tian, recalling the elixir described in the ancestral books of Luojia Village that could directly increase cultivation base.

Although such elixirs, which directly increased cultivation base through medicinal power, led to the drawback of impure spiritual power after consumption and had been gradually phased out in the Earth and Profound Realm.

But with the bronze fragment, could he not compensate for this drawback, directly increasing his cultivation base through medicinal power to accelerate his own cultivation speed?

After all, given his talent with a single-element Spirit Root, his growth ceiling was extremely low; it was better to try consuming such an elixir.

The only thing to worry about was perhaps whether his finances could support this method of cultivation.

But a young person in action would have so many concerns? Once the thought arose in his heart, he immediately began to act.

In the time that followed, apart from daily cultivation, Luo Tian was constantly investigating the whereabouts of that elixir which directly increased cultivation base.

Fortunately, his luck was good; the village head of Luojia Village, through some channel unknown, managed to obtain several bottles of Huangya Pills for Luo Tian.

The energy of a single Huangya Pill could directly increase a cultivator's cultivation progress in the Qi Refining realm by five percent.

The increase was great, but the side effects were equally great.

For a normal cultivator, after consuming a Huangya Pill to increase cultivation base, there was no hope of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm in this lifetime.

But Luo Tian, only thirteen years old at the time, was small in stature but bold in spirit, and simply did not worry about these things.

After obtaining the Huangya Pills, he immediately consumed them to increase his cultivation base.

And the final result did not disappoint Luo Tian.

With the help of the bronze fragment, he completely avoided the side effects of elixirs that directly increased cultivation base through medicinal power.

Later, with the help of the Huangya Pills and Luo Tian's own struggles in the outside world over several years.

When Luo Tian was sixteen, his cultivation base had reached the peak of the Qi Refining realm.

In fact, given the purity of Luo Tian's spiritual power, he did not need to rely on a Foundation Establishment Pill to break through at all.

However, no matter how refined the spiritual power, the success rate of breaking through a realm would never be one hundred percent.

And the Foundation Establishment Pill could increase the success rate of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm by thirty percent.

Therefore, Luo Tian, who could ignore the side effects of elixirs, had always sought the legendary Foundation Establishment Pill to increase his success rate of forming a Foundation.

Thus came the scene at the beginning.

(End of this chapter)