Chapter 417

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

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

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

"Senior, this is the restriction token for the No. 11 cave dwelling you selected. This item will automatically expire after half a year. If you want to continue renting at that time, just come here to find me to help you handle the renewal."

After Song Qingming took the token, he smiled and nodded, 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 stayed here in Yangshan Market to perform tasks, although it is relatively safe, compared to other dangerous task sects, the merit and spirit stone rewards obtained are naturally relatively small. If there were a few more guests like Song Qingming in a day, their lives would be much better.

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

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

"Spending more than a dozen spirit stones, the treatment is different. With such sufficient spiritual energy, there is no need to set up a Spirit Gathering Array. If it still doesn't work this time, it is really unfair to me by God."

Before on Mount Funiu, Song Qingming had already tried to break through several times. Although he failed, he had laid a certain foundation. Coupled with the assistance of the Moon-Gazing Pill for this close-door breakthrough, Song Qingming's confidence in breaking through successfully was still very high.

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 elixirs, the breakthrough is still very easy to fail.

After muttering to himself, Song Qingming took a deep breath, lit a stick of calming incense, slowly calmed his mind, sat down on the spot, and began to adjust his cultivation state with the yellow talisman in his hand.

This yellow talisman, which doesn't look very conspicuous, is the Heart-Clearing Talisman that Song Qingming has been using for a long time. After cultivating the Dao for so many years, Song Qingming also cherishes this talisman very much. No matter when or where, he will basically prepare a few on his body.

Although the Heart-Clearing Talisman is not high in grade and is only a first-grade talisman, Song Qingming doesn't know if it's because he is used to it. Every time he closes-door to break through, or needs to stabilize his mind when practicing new techniques, he still feels that the Heart-Clearing Talisman in his hand is the best to use.

After a stick of incense, Song Qingming, who had his eyes closed, felt that his state was almost adjusted, and began to pinch the formula with both hands to run the Yuxuan Sutra he practiced.

As a cyan light began to wrap around his whole body, the aura on Song Qingming's body suddenly felt like a calm lake, and began 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 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 has increased by four or five times compared to when he first broke through Foundation Establishment.

After the magic power in his body washed over all the acupoints and returned to the dantian, Song Qingming ran the Yuxuan Sutra again to gradually stabilize the magic power, and then took out the Moon-Gazing Pill he had obtained not long ago.

Song Qingming failed to impact the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment several times before, 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, and failed to stabilize his cultivation, which led to his cultivation falling back again not long after.

The effect of the Moon-Gazing Pill is precisely the elixir that helps 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, he successfully broke through the realm in one close-door by taking the Moon-Gazing Pill.

After the cultivation reached the late Foundation Establishment stage, the difficulty of breaking through each layer of the realm increased a lot compared to before. If there is no assistance from elixirs, Song Qingming is afraid that he is still like most cultivators, his cultivation stays in the middle Foundation Establishment stage, and even the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment is difficult to break through.

After swallowing the Moon-Gazing Pill in one gulp, the spiritual energy contained in the elixir 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 effect of the Moon-Gazing Pill had begun to appear, Song Qingming no longer hesitated, closed his eyes and focused on lifting the magic power in his body, and began to impact the last bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment realm.

A few months later, a white spiritual light suddenly lit up at the entrance of Song Qingming's cave dwelling, which was full of fallen leaves. 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 of it with big strides.

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

This time, the close-door breakthrough to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment, although it took a few months, was 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 a hundred years of cultivating the Dao, he has finally broken through the last layer of the Foundation Establishment stage and reached the step of Core Formation.

Recalling when he was weak, 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, he was still a bit confused in his heart, and he didn't know where his Dao path would go.

But now Song Qingming, even if he doesn't have much confidence in succeeding in forming a core in the future, his eyes are more firm than when he was back then. Cultivators seeking the Dao are nothing more than fighting for that thread of immortal affinity for longevity. No matter what difficulties and dangers he encounters in the future, his heart for seeking the Dao must go on firmly.

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

I wish everyone a Happy New Year