Chapter 417: Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment

Besides those cultivators who live in Yangshan Market for a long time, there are also many cultivators from all over the place who come here every year to purchase cultivation materials. Naturally, there are also some cultivators who, like Song Qingming now, are in a hurry to break through and come here temporarily to rent cave dwellings.

After the little old man heard Song Qingming's explanation, he didn't pester him too much, nodded with a smile, and turned to handle the check-in procedures.

A moment later, the little old man returned to the original place with a smile and handed a restriction token he had just taken to Song Qingming.

"Senior, this is the restriction token for cave dwelling number eleven you selected. This item will automatically expire after half a year. If Senior wants to continue renting at that time, you can come directly to me to help you handle the renewal."

After Song Qingming took the token, he nodded with a smile, gave the other party a bag of spirit stones for renting the cave dwelling, and gave him an extra spirit stone as a reward.

Seeing the spirit stones, the little old man was full of joy and thanked him repeatedly, happily sending Song Qingming out the door.

As an outer sect disciple like him, his status in the Xiaoyao Sect is very low. Once he reaches a certain age, he will be sent out early to help perform sect tasks or manage some Xiaoyao Sect industries. Basically, there will be no Foundation Establishment opportunities.

Thinking that he is staying here in Yangshan Market to perform tasks, although it is relatively safe, compared to other dangerous sect tasks, the rewards of merit and spirit stones he gets are naturally relatively less. If he could have a few more guests like Song Qingming a day, their lives would be much better.

With the guidance of the cave dwelling token, Song Qingming quickly found the cave dwelling he rented in the back mountain.

Feeling that the spiritual energy in the cave dwelling was close to third-tier low-quality, Song Qingming also nodded with satisfaction in his heart.

"Spending more than ten spirit stones, the treatment is different. With such sufficient spiritual energy, there is no need to specifically set up a Spirit Gathering Array. If it still doesn't work this time, then it is truly unfair for heaven to treat me."

Before, when he was on Mount Funiu, Song Qingming had already tried to break through several times. Although he failed, he also laid a certain foundation. Coupled with the assistance of the Wangyue Pill for this seclusion breakthrough, Song Qingming felt that he had a great chance of success in breaking through this time.

When a cultivator breaks through the realm, his own temperament and cultivation state are also very important. If a person's Dao heart is not firm enough, even with better pills to assist, the breakthrough will easily fail.

After muttering to himself in his heart, Song Qingming took a deep breath, lit a piece of calm-spirit incense, slowly settled his mind, sat down in place, and began to use the yellow spirit talisman in his hand to adjust his cultivation state.

This yellow spirit talisman, which does not look very conspicuous, is precisely the Clear Heart Talisman that Song Qingming had started using a long time ago. After cultivating the Dao for so many years, Song Qingming also cherished this talisman very much. No matter when or where, he would basically prepare a few on his body.

Although the grade of the Clear Heart Talisman is not high, it is only a first-tier spirit talisman, but Song Qingming does not know if it is because he has become accustomed to using it. Every time he secludes himself to break through, or needs to stabilize his mind when cultivating new techniques, he still feels that the Clear Heart Talisman in his hand is the best to use.

After an incense stick of time, Song Qingming, who had his eyes closed tightly, felt that the state of his body had been adjusted almost enough, and began to run the cultivation technique Yuxuan Sutra he cultivated by pinching the magic seal with both hands.

As a cyan light began to wrap around his whole body, the aura on Song Qingming's body suddenly became like a calm lake, starting to roll up whirlpools.

The magic power stored in the dantian of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is already like liquid clear water, and at this moment, it is constantly impacting the various acupoints in Song Qingming's body.

After a cultivator reaches the Foundation Establishment realm, as the magic power cultivation continues to improve, the dantian in the body will gradually expand. From the first layer of Foundation Establishment to the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment, Song Qingming's dantian capacity now has increased by a full four or five times compared to when he first broke through Foundation Establishment.

After the magic power in the body washed through the acupoints around the body and returned to the dantian, Song Qingming ran the Yuxuan Sutra again to gradually stabilize the magic power, and then took out the Wangyue Pill he had obtained not long ago.

Before, Song Qingming tried to impact the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment several times and failed. It was not because of insufficient magic power in his body, but because he failed to control his own magic power in time when he successfully impacted the bottleneck, stabilizing his cultivation, which led to his cultivation falling back down not long after.

The efficacy of the Wangyue Pill is precisely to help cultivators stabilize their own magic power when breaking through. When Song Qingming broke through from the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment to the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment, it was precisely by taking the Wangyue Pill and secluding himself once that he successfully broke through the realm.

After the cultivation reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, the difficulty of breaking through each layer of the realm increased a lot compared to before. If there was no assistance of pills, Song Qingming would probably still be like most cultivators, with his cultivation staying in the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, and even the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment would be difficult to break through.

After swallowing the Wangyue Pill in one gulp, the spiritual energy contained in the pill gradually began to merge into Song Qingming's body. Soon, Song Qingming felt that there was an extra relatively gentle spiritual energy in his dantian.

Seeing that the efficacy of the Wangyue Pill had begun to appear, Song Qingming no longer hesitated, closed his eyes and concentrated on lifting the magic power in his body, starting to impact the last bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment realm.

A few months later, at the entrance of Song Qingming's cave dwelling, which was already full of fallen leaves, a white spiritual light suddenly lit up. After a wave of spiritual power appeared on the restriction at the entrance of the cave dwelling, Song Qingming, with a calm face, walked out from inside with big strides.

At this moment, the momentum emanating from his body was obviously different from before he went into seclusion. After a few months of seclusion, Song Qingming's cultivation had already reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment realm, only one step away from the Golden Core realm.

This seclusion breakthrough to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment, although it took a few months, was still relatively smooth, and there were no unexpected situations.

Standing in front of the cave dwelling, Song Qingming looked up at Yangshan Market at the foot of the mountain, and the feeling in his heart was also very refreshing.

After cultivating the Dao for a hundred years, he finally broke through the last layer of the Foundation Establishment stage and reached the step of Golden Core formation.

Recalling when he was weak back then, he worked hard to improve his cultivation more just to have a few more points of self-protection, so that he could survive safely in this cultivation world. When he first succeeded in Foundation Establishment, his heart was still somewhat confused, and he did not know where his Dao path would go.

But now Song Qingming, even if he is not so sure about his success in forming a Golden Core in the future, his eyes are more determined than when he was back then. Cultivators seeking the Dao are nothing more than fighting for that line of immortal fate of longevity. No matter what difficulties and dangers he will encounter in the future, his heart for seeking the Dao must be firmly followed.

Even if he fails to reach the end, at least he will not regret it in the future.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year.

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