Chapter 26: 【Qi Refining Late-Stage, Making Up for the Foundation】 (Seeking recommendation votes)

He didn't rush to use the fourth batch of materials.

The top priority was to eat the pills first to help himself enter the Qi Refining seventh layer.

He had stayed at the Qi Refining sixth layer for quite a period of time; entering the Qi Refining seventh layer meant reaching the Qi Refining late-stage, his spirit power application would be smoother, and refining pills would naturally increase his success rate.

Preparing the spirit stones, Lu Chengtong came under a Baiyuan Fruit tree and first refined four low-grade spirit stones.

There were two ways to use spirit stones: one was slow absorption to assist in cultivation; the other was high-speed absorption to supplement spirit Qi or accumulate spirit Qi to seek a breakthrough.

The latter method wasted a lot, especially for those with poor spirit root aptitude; the worse the aptitude, the worse the absorption and consumption, and the more waste there was.

After accumulating enough spirit Qi, Lu Chengtong took out a Star Spirit Pill, swallowed it, refined it, and the rushing of spirit began!

The pill entered his mouth and then turned into a stream of water that surged through his whole body.

In an instant, the originally calm lake surface stirred up huge waves, and a huge water tornado formed, launching an impact at a certain place.

The violent spirit power impact made his body unstable, and it indeed caused damage to his spirit root.

The cultivation bottleneck was not broken, but it had loosened a lot; if there were no accidents, he could break through after a year of grinding.

Lu Chengtong didn't have the heart to care about breaking through the realm; he looked inside his spirit root and unleashed the 【Fetal Transformation】 supernatural power.

This supernatural power could change all things in heaven and earth after it became profound, and it possessed the ability of creation and transformation.

The supernatural power took effect, and the spirit root recovered, without any appearance of damage at all.

Today he could recover the damage to the spirit root; maybe tomorrow he could improve the spirit root aptitude. Lu Chengtong felt that this supernatural power still had great prospects!

Now he could be sure that he could ignore the side effects of the Star Spirit Pill.

Then there was no need to hesitate; taking advantage of the sufficient spirit Qi, he picked up another pill and swallowed it.

This time, there were no accidents, the same process, but the result was different.

He completed the breakthrough and became a Qi Refining seventh-layer cultivator, entering the Qi Refining late-stage.

His soul power had a small increase; compared to the Foundation Establishment mid-stage soul power he already possessed, it was indeed a very small amplitude.

This experiment was successful, and the result was gratifying; the path of the Qi Refining Realm was already very clear.

He only needed to accumulate spirit Qi, and then wait for his cultivation to reach the perfection of a small realm, and then use the Spirit-Nurturing Pill to break through.

Before long, he would be able to enter the Qi Refining perfection and start preparing for Foundation Establishment.

Thinking about how he possessed so many powerful supernatural powers, yet increasing his cultivation was still so difficult and consumed so much, and then thinking about others, or his former self, who struggled for a year without saving a few spirit stones, and cultivation advancement was just a luxury.

He couldn't help but sigh at how difficult the path of cultivation was!

Thinking back to the three generations of Lu family heads opening up the path ahead, working hard, only by being more diligent and hardworking could he not live up to the hard work of his predecessors.

He still remembered that the first ancestral instruction of the Lu family was "Wait until the day of achieving the Dao, resurrect Ancestor Lu Yuantu"; wasn't this a kind of encouragement from the ancestor to the descendants?

Lu Chengtong felt that resurrection and such things were ethereal; the ancestor said so to encourage the descendants to keep forging ahead, and only after having a clear goal could they be more diligent and focused.

Yes, it must be like this.

His cultivation had entered the Qi Refining late-stage, and his alchemy had also made small progress. Lu Chengtong felt that it was time for him to start shifting more attention to the investigation of the Lu family's extermination.

After this period of investigation, he had already confirmed several of the former residences of the Lu family disciples and the specific times of their deaths; it was therefore possible to use his supernatural power to see the murderer who killed them.

Although it was said that disciples died in the sect almost every year, those Lu family members, a considerable number died in the sect, and another part disappeared in the sect, which made other disciples very panicked.

There was a large array in the Immortal Sect, and it could not be intruded upon by anyone other than Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

All along, such a serious incident had not happened in the Immortal Sect.

And after those Lu family disciples disappeared, the Immortal Sect gave an answer, saying that the demonic cultivators who invaded the Immortal Sect had been killed.

This matter just passed like this, and no one mentioned it again.

Although there was something suspicious, most of them held the mentality of "more things are worse than less, anyway it has nothing to do with me"; the incident ended, and they were at ease.

Whether it was demonic cultivators causing trouble or not, for them, it didn't matter.

Most of the Lu family members remaining in the sect were Inner Sect Disciples, and Outer Sect Disciples could not enter the Inner Sect area, so his investigation target in the sect was limited.

The first target he chose to investigate was Lu Guanfei.

Because during this period of time he came into contact with a person named "Hou Zhao," who was an Outer Sect Disciple of "Danquan Peak," and he entered with Lu Guanfei; between the two, there seemed to be an unusual relationship.

Lu Guanfei was Lu Chengtong's cousin, ten years older than him, with three spirit roots, superior wood attribute, and became an alchemist.

For this cousin, Lu Chengtong still had a relatively clear impression.

His cousin had good aptitude, received more resources in the clan, and had always been the person he envied.

She was very kind, gave Lu Chengtong a lot of spirit stones, and treated everyone with a smile.

For her death, Lu Chengtong was very sad and even more angry.

Hou Zhao was a Qi Refining sixth-layer alchemist who had come to find Lu Chengtong once before to privately buy Baiyuan Fruit.

Within the sect, or rather, within the range governed by the entire Ziyao Immortal Sect, the price of spirit herbs was monopolized.

Trading in private, the price was a little cheaper.

Although it was only a small price difference, for Qi Refining Realm cultivators, that was a part of the financial resources that could not be lacking in the struggle for the Dao.

Since he had had one contact with this Hou Zhao, he could start investigating from him.

Baiyuan Fruit matured once a year, but different fruit trees matured at different stages, so the specific time of fruit maturation also differed.

Last time Hou Zhao said that if there was a surplus of Baiyuan Fruit, he could contact him, and he would come to buy it.

Lu Chengtong himself had some Baiyuan Fruit, and with the Baiyuan Fruit in the Herb Garden maturing, he had accumulated quite a lot.

Just right, use it to trade with Hou Zhao.

He came to Danquan Peak.

Like other peaks, Outer Sect Disciples could only live at the foot of the mountain.

But this kind of place like Danquan Peak was very different from other peaks; after all, it was a huge and wealthy mountain peak, and even the place where Outer Sect Disciples lived had richer spirit Qi than other peaks.

Moreover, unlike other mountain peaks where many disciples lived in terraced multi-story wooden houses, every alchemy disciple had their own detached courtyard, which were quite far apart.

Doing this was mainly to prevent someone from exploding the furnace while refining pills and hurting others.

At the same time, it also reflected the superiority of alchemists.

According to the address left by Hou Zhao, Lu Chengtong found his house.

Knocked on the door, waited for a while, and before long, a young man wearing a green shirt, looking quite delicate, but dusty because of the dust, opened the door.

Seeing Lu Chengtong in front of him, his eyes lit up, and he greeted:

"Brother Cheng, you're here, come into the house and sit!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 27 =====