Chapter 121: Mountain Collapse, Avalanche, Changchun Perfection

"Yinlingquan, Qiuxu, Yongquan, Dadun, Xiangu, Neiting."

"The six major acupuncture points on both feet have finally been stimulated once."

In the cave, Luo Chen bared his teeth, the veins on his forehead jumping wildly.

That kind of pain, even though he had gotten used to it a lot these days, was really unbearable when six points were stimulated at the same time.

But Luo Chen still held on tightly.

To put it bluntly, it was just pain and wouldn't be life-threatening.

Plus, he covered the meridians near the six major acupuncture points with spiritual power, greatly avoiding possible internal injuries.

So, just endure it!

Just pretend he was doing a foot massage and the technician was attacking his kidney reflex zone hard!

For a long, long time.

It felt like a lifetime had passed, and Luo Chen stopped this practice of Bright Spirit Breaks Sha, covered in sweat.

Releasing the spiritual power needles on the six acupuncture points, Luo Chen slumped against the wall.

"Six points are so stimulating; when thirty-six points are stimulated at the same time, wouldn't I go to heaven!"

Luo Chen shivered, a bit afraid to imagine the future when Bright Spirit Breaks Sha was running at full power.

He calculated the time; it had actually only been a stick of incense.

But just now, it felt like a day was like a year.

Thinking of that feeling worse than death, Luo Chen inexplicably sighed at Wang Yuan and the martial arts great demon who created this method.

There were millions of mortals, and being able to rise among so many people and become one of the few martial arts innates indeed had its unique features.

Not to mention anything else, just this powerful martial arts will was not something ordinary people could compare to.

Even the vast majority of Qi Refining cultivators were not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as them.

And Luo Chen currently only belonged to the entry stage, resisting only the most ordinary negative emotions like pain.

To train a powerful will that is indomitable and fearless of life and death, he still had a long, long way to go.

"Today’s practice of Bright Spirit Breaks Sha ends here; next is the practice of the main cultivation method."

Compared to the unbearable pain of Bright Spirit Breaks Sha, Changchun Gong was simply too cute.

In the past, practicing it several times a day, his body and soul couldn't take it.

Even with auxiliary cultivation resources like Calming Incense and Essence-Nurturing Spirit Liquid, Luo Chen would feel tired from time to time.

But now, by comparison, he felt that it was simply nothing.

He had already seen bigger waves; what were a few drops of wind and rain?

After making various preparations, Luo Chen operated Changchun Gong as usual.

His body was like a vortex, and the wood-type spiritual energy gathered by the Spirit Gathering Array was captured, stored, refined, and finally achieved the spiritual power that belonged exclusively to him.

At dawn, Luo Chen suddenly opened his eyes.

On the attribute panel, a line of faint light shone brightly.

【Cultivation Method: Changchun Gong (Perfected)】

No too much surprise; this was expected.

The day of perfection was in these few days, and Luo Chen had long been prepared.

Achievement points increased by one.

But Luo Chen didn't pay attention; he took a deep breath and operated Changchun Gong again, trying to find the difference from before.

The efficiency of capturing and refining spiritual energy had not changed.

The dantian limit had not changed.

The twelve regular meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians had not widened either; they were still the same as before.

The feature of automatic Qi recovery was still retained.

So where was the change?

Luo Chen stopped operating Changchun Gong and subconsciously struck out a palm of spiritual power.

Bang!

A rock wall was beaten into powder.

Looking at this power that had increased by a tiny bit compared to usual, Luo Chen realized.

"Sure enough, my guess was also right!"

"The perfected Changchun Gong has made up for the pure spiritual power method deleted by the Medicine King Sect."

"Now after I cultivate, the spiritual power in my body has been vaguely purified once."

The effect was not obvious, but under Luo Chen’s constant observation, he discovered this tiny change.

It was not a passive effect, but an active effect.

It must be actively operated to have this effect.

But even so, it was already enough!

"Foundation Establishment, there is hope!"

Luo Chen let out a long breath of turbid air; he didn't know how many worries and troubles were spat out with this breath.

According to Mi Shuhua’s "Qi Refining Insight", there were three barriers to Foundation Establishment!

They were spirit and soul, physique, and spiritual power.

Spirit and soul affected the spiritual sense born after Foundation Establishment.

The stronger the spirit and soul, the stronger the foundation of spiritual sense, and the better one could control spiritual power during Foundation Establishment. After Foundation Establishment, the projected spiritual sense would also be stronger.

If the soul was incomplete from birth, it was almost impossible to establish a foundation.

Luo Chen didn't worry much about this point.

He had once survived a heart tribulation, and now his spirit and soul strength had doubled compared to before.

The second barrier was the physique barrier.

This was very simple; for cultivators, it was not a problem either.

Because any cultivator who cultivated to the perfection of Qi Refining would not have any major problems with their body.

The only impact was that if Foundation Establishment failed, the body would not be strong enough, easily causing injuries that were difficult to heal.

Luo Chen didn't worry about this either; he ate plenty of demon beast meat and spirit rice.

He also used Essence-Nurturing Spirit Liquid to increase blood and Qi.

Although most of the blood and Qi were used to cooperate with refining external spiritual energy,

the remaining part was also constantly increasing his foundation.

The only thing that had worried Luo Chen for a long time was the third barrier—the spiritual power barrier.

All along, his cultivation mainly relied on pills.

For this reason, he even developed a drug resistance to Essence-Nurturing Pills.

Logically speaking, pill cultivation didn't have any major problems either.

But he had heard that disciples of large sects, no matter how generous their benefits were, had their monthly pill consumption strictly controlled by the sect.

It was said that they were worried that taking too many pills for cultivation would make the spiritual power very floating and not condensed enough.

When impacting Foundation Establishment, if the spiritual power was not condensed and pure enough, it was very easy to fail.

Immortal cultivators were previously called Qi Refiners; what they cultivated was the breath in their chest.

If the breath was not pure, how could one talk about breaking the barrier, how could one talk about longevity?

Large sects were still so cautious, so it was no wonder Luo Chen racked his brains to find a way to purify spiritual power.

Fighting and Bright Spirit Breaks Sha were all efforts he had made.

Now that Changchun Gong was perfected, his worries were finally resolved.

"Next, the only thing to consider is the Foundation Establishment Pill needed for Foundation Establishment."

"Oh no, it should be reaching the perfection of Qi Refining first!"

Luo Chen looked at his realm progress bar and couldn't help but smile.

He was still at Qi Refining Stage 7; thinking about it was a bit far.

As for how to get the Foundation Establishment Pill, Luo Chen actually had a plan long ago.

Mi Shuhua’s promise was not credible.

Who knew if he was really willing to help him; if he felt that he would be hard to control after Foundation Establishment, he might even obstruct him in every possible way.

Luo Chen could only rely on his own efforts!

The direction of effort was very simple.

Save money!

Save spirit stones!

Save enough spirit stones, and then actively participate in every auction.

Large sects didn't kill all rogue cultivators; they would always leave one or two Foundation Establishment Pills for rogue cultivators to bid on.

That was Luo Chen’s chance!

Hum!

A muffled sound came, startling Luo Chen from his deep thought.

What happened outside?

He quickly got up and put on his clothes.

He put away the Spirit Gathering Array, left the Hidden Spirit Array, and quickly arrived at the Alchemy Hall.

And as he arrived outside, the sound became even more magnificent.

Boom!

Another explosion, and a silver-white lightning appeared in the sky.

"It’s thundering!"

Luo Chen realized, reaching his hand out across the cliff wall.

Fine raindrops fell on his hand.

Winter had passed.

Spring thunder sounds, and all things grow!

A clap of spring thunder, a spring rain.

The lively rainwater swept away the snow on the cliffs, and the two merged into a stream that flowed down.

In Xieyue Valley, the spirit planters of the Medicine Hall all ran out happily, removing some of the winter arrangements.

Such as the Four Seasons Like Spring Array and so on.

The difficult winter of the past had finally been endured.

Compared to previous years, the Medicine Hall’s life was much better this year.

The specific reason had to fall on the neighboring Alchemy Hall.

The profits generated by alchemy in the Alchemy Hall were not just about selling pills.

A large part of the auxiliary materials were purchased directly from the Medicine Hall.

Even if it was just the internal price, that part of the profit was enough for the Medicine Hall cultivators to have a good winter.

In Luo Chen’s words, this was forming an industrial chain.

High-end industry (Alchemy Hall) drove low-end industry (Medicine Hall), thus forming a win-win situation.

However, this industrial chain was not yet perfect.

For example, the source of main materials and the consumption of other things had to be purchased from outside.

By comparison, a large sect like the Medicine King Sect must have already formed a complete industrial chain.

From the planting of raw materials to deep processing, then to pill production, assembly, channel distribution, and even after-sales service, etc.

In the middle, there might be pill testers, pill testers, specialized research institutions, external market development departments, etc.

So many things could not be completed independently by a small Po Shan Gang.

Even ordinary small sects couldn't do it.

Only a sect like the Medicine King Sect, which had both high-end force suppression and a large amount of low-level manpower, and most importantly, possessed a complete territory!

The Medicine King Domain spanned tens of thousands of miles from east to west, with vast territory, and high-level spirit fields were everywhere.

Standing in front of the Alchemy Hall cliff, blowing the biting spring wind, Luo Chen had wild thoughts.

If one day, there was such a large force for him to drive, how proud and successful would that be!

Just as he was daydreaming, Sikong Shoujia brought him an unexpected thing.

"Whose hand?"

A human palm frozen in an ice block was placed in front of Luo Chen.

Sikong Shoujia smiled slightly, "Dan Xiu!"

"That rogue cultivator who robbed me?"

"Yes, how is it? Very surprised, right!"

Luo Chen looked at him with a strange gaze, not seeing any surprise at all.

"If you were carrying a human head over, I would be very happy. But just a palm, not even an arm, do you think I’m very surprised?"

Sikong Shoujia said blankly: "A Qi Refining Stage 9 cultivator, and a rogue cultivator who is good at fighting, how could it be so easy to kill."

"Just this hand, it was still because the Guild Master issued a bounty over at Xuelianfang that someone sent it. For this, the Guild Master even paid a considerable reward."

Luo Chen said with hatred for iron not becoming steel: "Since you found the person, why did you startle the snake? Don't you know how to send enough manpower to directly wipe them out?"

"But Xuelianfang is not our territory; how could it be so easy to send people over!"

"You!"

Luo Chen took a deep breath and waved his hand, "Alright, alright, take it away; it’s creepy to look at."

Our generation of cultivators fights with heaven for the Dao; is it creepy to look at a severed hand?

Sikong Shoujia opened his mouth, really not expecting Luo Chen’s reaction.

He had thought Luo Chen would be very happy.

However, after alchemy ended in the morning, looking at the number of Jade Marrow Pills refined, Sikong Shoujia breathed a sigh of relief.

It had already recovered to forty percent!

It seems Luo Chen is still very happy in his heart; alchemy has become much smoother.

Too lazy to pay attention to Sikong Shoujia’s knowing smile, Luo Chen went to wash his hands by the small pool.

The reason for the high success rate today was actually very simple.

After experiencing the pain of six acupuncture points being stimulated simultaneously last night, he could already endure the pain caused by stimulating just one or two acupuncture points during normal activities.

Naturally, during alchemy, he would return to the proper level.

He even secretly embezzled a few high-grade Jade Marrow Pills just now.

Now that Changchun Gong was perfected, it had a purification effect on spiritual power, which was a good thing, but it also had disadvantages.

Purifying spiritual power would affect the accumulation of the total amount of spiritual power, and the time to break through the realm would become slower.

Luo Chen naturally couldn't tolerate such a thing happening.

Then the demand for pills went up again.

He didn't intend to secretly embezzle thirty or forty Jade Marrow Pills a month like before.

As long as Mi Shuhua wasn't present, he intended to take some every time!

Regardless of whether he could finish eating them, he would embezzle them first!

Just after washing his hands, another loud noise came from outside.

"Thundering again?"

This is spring, not summer; thundering once or twice is enough, why is it thundering all the time!

Luo Chen muttered.

Then, exclamations came from outside the Alchemy Hall.

"The mountain collapsed, the mountain collapsed!"

"Nanwa Snow Mountain collapsed!"

"What mountain collapsed, that’s an avalanche."

How could there be an avalanche for no reason?

Luo Chen walked to the cliff edge and looked into the distance.

Nanwa Snow Mountain was not in the Million Great Mountains, but one of the several large mountains blocking Dahefang and Taishanfang.

Because the mountain top was high and abruptly extended, looking very much like a huge tile, it was called Nanwa Snow Mountain.

Under his Spirit Eye Technique, the distant Nanwa Snow Mountain collapsed inch by inch, and the mountain body, which looked relatively small because of the distance, was now a full inch shorter out of thin air.

"No, it’s not a natural collapse!"

Luo Chen’s eyes narrowed, and he saw a golden stream of light in the sky, pushing aside the overlapping dark clouds, cutting through the sky, and heading straight for Dahefang.

Wherever it passed, the dark clouds broke, and heavy rain poured down.

Several snow mountains nearby that hadn't melted were triggered by a chain reaction, causing huge avalanches.

Luo Chen swallowed his saliva; he had seen this golden stream of light.

"Sword cultivator!"

The moment he blurted it out, Sikong Shoujia and Gu Caiyi beside him also reacted.

The former was even more surprised: "Golden Core sword cultivator!"

That was right; that kind of escape light that broke through everything could only be produced by a high-level sword cultivator driving a sword pill and flying like a rainbow.

Ordinary cultivators driving magic tools simply couldn't create such a strange scene.

Gu Caiyi said suspiciously: "If I’m not wrong, that should be the Sword Sect Golden Core who came to Dahefang to preside over the opening of the Dao Discussion Platform—Pang Renxiong!"

The two people beside him also nodded tacitly.

It couldn't be wrong; it must be that person.

But why would he suddenly return to Dahefang for no reason?

Although the resources here were rich, there was only one large first-rank spirit vein, which was not enough to support a Golden Core great being’s cultivation.

Ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators had to rely on pills and Spirit Gathering Arrays to barely cultivate.

Logically speaking, a Golden Core great being wouldn't linger in such a place!

That rainbow light flew all the way, wantonly displaying its power, breaking through the air domineeringly, as if it wasn't just on its way, but declaring its arrival to the tens of thousands of cultivators in Dahefang.

In almost just a few breaths, the rainbow light that was far away in the sky a moment ago had already escaped into the inner city of Dahefang.

The cultivators of Xieyue Valley discussed this, and then went about their own business.

The arrival of a Golden Core cultivator, although intriguing, had nothing to do with low-level cultivators like them.

Gu Caiyi chatted with Sikong Shoujia for a few words and then didn't care about this matter anymore, just treating it as after-dinner conversation.

Only Luo Chen felt a trace of heaviness in his heart, vaguely feeling that a storm was coming.

A Golden Core great being returning after leaving was definitely not a good thing.

Because there was nothing here to attract him.

Then he came, definitely for some specific matters.

For example... the death of the Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator from Ailao Mountain, Fei Bowen!

That matter still had no conclusion, and according to some things he heard at Xianzhuju last time, the spearhead of this matter vaguely pointed to the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect.

Pang Renxiong came, it should be to find out the truth.

In this process, I’m afraid there will be a bloody storm.

"I just hope it doesn't affect my stable cultivation in the Po Shan Gang!"

Luo Chen sighed, feeling an inexplicable sense of urgency in his heart.