96. Chapter 93 – Epiphany (The Third Shift)
Chapter 93 – Epiphany (Third Shift Requests Booking)
“One and a half years, Spiritual Root upgraded by two stars.”
“So it seems that in another year at most, my Spiritual Root, should be able to be upgraded to a five-star medium grade.”
Chen Fan’s heart was filled with anticipation.
With every star upgrade of his Spiritual Root, he was able to feel that he was drawing closer to the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth.
It was impossible to imagine what it would be like when he upgraded his Spiritual Root to the upper grade.
Normally, an Immortal Cultivator with a top-grade Spiritual Root would only need seven or eight years to be able to cultivate to the Perfection of the Qi Practicing Realm.
Whereas someone like Lu Ziying, who possessed a five-star medium grade spiritual root, would need around fifteen years to advance to the great circle of the Qi Practicing Realm.
As for Liu Mingqing, who only possessed a two-star medium-grade spiritual root, he would need nearly twenty years to cultivate to the full circle of Qi cultivation.
The lower grade spiritual roots further down, even the five-star lower grade spiritual roots, might need forty to fifty years, and that was only with a certain supply of spirit pills to reach that level.
And these lower grade spirit root possessors, after upgrading to the great circle of qi cultivation, would often be too old to advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Among these people, only one in a hundred might be able to build the foundation.
“The future is promising!”
Chen Fan chanted.
The only thing he felt worried about now was that the Heaven and Earth Evil Tide was coming.
Before the arrival of the Heaven and Earth Evil Tide, it was obvious that the stronger the strength, the easier it was to save one’s life.
……
“You’re going to the Foundation Building Mound Domain?”
A day later, Chen Fan welcomed Liu Mingqing’s farewell.
“I want to wrestle.”
Liu Mingqing said with a bright smile.
Chen Fan did not advise Liu Mingqing, but asked, “Have you found the team yet?”
Cangwu Mountain made an announcement after the matter of the Foundation Building Mound Domain spread out.
All Cangwu Mountain disciples could travel to the Foundation Building Mound Domain as long as their cultivation reached the fifth level of Qi Practicing.
However, disciples at the fifth level of Qi cultivation and the sixth level of Qi cultivation, in order to travel to the Foundation Building Mound Domain, they had to put together a team of five people.
These five people must be one person each from Heavy Xuan Mountain, Red Peak Mountain, Ancient Sword Abyss, Wanchuan River, and Demon Wood Forest, as well as at least one disciple at the sixth level of Qi cultivation leading the team.
On top of that, before traveling to the Foundation Building Mound Domain, everyone must also learn the Cangwu Five Elements Sword Formation.
“It’s already been found, the leader is a Qi Practicing Sixth Layer senior brother from the Ancient Sword Abyss.”
Liu Mingqing nodded his head, “In addition, I’ve also exchanged the Tianhua Spirit Rising Technique.”
“Tian Hua Spirit Ascension Technique ……”
Chen Fan’s heart moved slightly.
The Heavenly Hua Spirit Ascension Technique was a spell of great reputation in the Immortal Cultivation World.
Using this spell, one could draw on certain heavenly treasures that contained special laws and dao rhythms, thus enhancing one’s spiritual roots.
Only ……
Although the Heavenly Flower Spirit Rising Technique was spread throughout the Immortal Cultivation World, many people knew about this technique and could even afford it, but the heavenly materials and geomaterials that contained special Laws and Dao rhythms were not something that anyone could obtain.
As for the Foundation Building Mound Domain, the reason why it caused a great stir in Cangwu Mountain, in addition to killing those ancient corpses crawling out of the graveyard can obtain the law debris, but also related to the fact that it had once, hundreds of years ago, contained a strange bead.
That bead was contained in the mouth of a corpse that crawled out of the graveyard.
That corpse bone was exceptionally powerful.
After it was killed, the bead was taken into the hands of a Jindan ancestor of the Dan Yun Sect.
Later, it was rumored from the mouth of that Jindan old ancestor that the bead was, quite literally, a heavenly treasure that could be absorbed with the Heavenly Flower Ascension Spirit Technique.
It was for this reason that the Foundation Building Mound Domain opened once every hundred years, and every time it opened, a large number of Immortal Cultivators went there.
It was just a pity that the Foundation Building Mound Domain was opened several times later, and no one had ever obtained a similar Heavenly Material Treasure again.
But even so, to this day, there are still Immortal Cultivators who have extravagant hopes for it.
Liu Mingqing was obviously in the same situation.
He was a mid-grade two-star medium-grade spiritual root, and with a spiritual root of this quality, the chances of successfully building a foundation were only one in ten.
“I wish you …… that if you encounter danger in the Foundation Building Mound Domain, you can turn misfortune into good fortune.”
Chen Fan patted Liu Mingqing’s shoulder.
“Haha, my Dao name is Tian Yunzi, how could I possibly encounter danger.”
Liu Mingqing laughed.
Chen Fan did not say anything.
He used up a small wish.
But there was no need to tell Liu Mingqing about it.
Besides, it was just a small wish, and it might not do anything.
The day after Liu Mingqing said goodbye to him, he departed.
On the third day, Meng Shan also left.
He similarly chose to enter the Foundation Building Mound Domain.
Chen Fan blessed him the same as usual.
“Senior Sister Lu you want to go too?”
Chen Fan looked at Lv Ziying.
Previously, his cultivation level was lower than Lv Ziying’s and he called Lv Ziying Senior Sister, but later, his cultivation level was higher, but because he was used to it, he didn’t change it.
“Let’s wait until I break through to the sixth level of Qi cultivation.” Lv Ziying shook her head.
She had the highest spirit root qualification out of everyone.
With her five-star mid-grade spirit root qualification, there was at least a fifty percent chance that she could advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
However, ……
After she advanced to Foundation Establishment, the chances of her advancing to Jindan would be slim.
Right now, nine out of ten of the five southern sects of the Heaven Intercepting Mountain Range, one by one, had Jindan ancestors, all of whom had upper-grade spiritual roots.
In this world, who didn’t want to become immortal and achieve the Dao, who didn’t want to live forever?
“Foundation Building Dao Mound ……” Chen Fan shook his head.
This time, when the Foundation Building Dao Mound was opened, the impact on the Qi Refining Stage Immortal Cultivators was too great.
The entire Cangwu Mountain disciple exchange board was mostly talking about the Foundation Building Dao Mound.
The remaining small portion was discussing the Heaven and Earth Evil Tide.
After all, the Heaven and Earth Evil Tide hadn’t arrived yet.
“Senior Brother Luo you’re also going to the Foundation Building Mound Domain?”
After another ten days, Luo Zhiwen, who had long since left the Demon Wood Forest and traveled to the Ten Thousand Souls Cave, hurriedly rushed back.
“There are ancient corpses in the Foundation Building Dao Mound ah, senior brother I want to go touch a few.”
Luo Zhiwen sent a message to Chen Fan through his identity token, “Also it’s not just me, I’ve asked around, Senior Sister Ruan is also planning to go.”
Cangwu Mountain’s disciple token had a messaging function.
This function, however, could only be used within Cangwu Mountain, and would not work after leaving Cangwu Mountain.
“Where is Senior Sister Ding? There hasn’t been any news from her for a while.”
Chen Fan asked Ding Fengqun.
“Ha, she went to the Heavenly Demon Valley, a blessed land mastered by our Tiannan Five Sect, saying that she wanted to see if she could advance that white tiger of hers.”
Luo Jiwen said with Chen Fan.
Time passed.
One month later.
A huge flying boat took off from Cangwu Mountain and flew straight to the depths of the Heaven Interceptor Mountain Range.
The flying boat carried none other than Ruan Wenzhuan, Luo Zhiwen, Liu Mingqing, and Meng Shan and other Cangwu Mountain Qi Practicing Stage disciples.
Of course, this was only the ones he was familiar with.
There were many more that he wasn’t familiar with.
Among them was Xie Gucheng, that Upper Grade Spiritual Root Possessor, the current number one Cangwu Mountain Qi Practicing Realm disciple.
At the same time, he was also the leader of this trip to the Foundation Establishment Dao Mound.
For these unfamiliar people, Chen Fan did nothing.
But for those he was familiar with and had a better relationship with, he sent a small blessing.
There were four small wishes in total.
It didn’t affect him much.
But perhaps it would be enough to allow these few friends, who were on good terms with him, to save their lives.
“Something’s happened to the Foundation Building Dao Mound!”
Five days later, a big bright red word appeared on the disciple exchange board.
Chen Fan was startled.
As a result, when he clicked in, he realized that it was a title party.
Something had indeed happened to the Foundation Building Dao Mound.
But it was a good thing.
According to the speculation of several Jindan stage Immortal cultivators who had opened the Foundation Building Dao Mound, this time the Foundation Building Dao Mound would be opened for five years instead of the original three years.
This also meant that many Immortal cultivators who were originally too late to make it to the Foundation Building Dao Mound due to their lack of cultivation, or other reasons, would also have the opportunity to enter it.
“If you can’t speak, don’t say it, it’s horsey, scaring the old man!”
Immediately following, Chen Fan swept his eyes at the message below this speech and silently nodded in his heart.
Then after a while, when Chen Fan looked at this speech again, he realized that this speech had already been deleted.
At the same time, the administrator of the disciple exchange board had also canceled this disciple’s right to speak for a month.
“There are less and less familiar people.”
After reading the information on the exchange board, Chen Fan sighed.
The few friends he was familiar with, except for Lv Ziying, had basically gone to the Foundation Building Dao Mound.
Lv Ziying also seemed to have been affected because of the matter of the Foundation Building Taoist Mound, and for three months in a row, she was unable to break through to the sixth level of Qi Practicing.
According to her Spiritual Root Qualification, this was absolutely not desirable.
“Whew!”
Another month later, in the Demon Wood Forest, Chen Fan made a move with his hand, and a cloud of water mist with a diameter of seven or eight meters came together around him, hiding his figure inside.
These water mists were all made up of densely packed extremely tiny water droplets.
When Chen Fan was in it, he only felt a fresh and moist breath coming over him, making him feel indescribably comfortable.
In a trance, he seemed to have entered some kind of strange state, slightly closing his eyes, one of his hands lifted up and danced lightly, as if he was manipulating the water mist around him.
Under his manipulation, these water mists, as if they were alive, began to slowly flow and rotate, forming a strange trajectory.
During this process, the aura emanating from his body also became more and more esoteric, as if it had fused with the surrounding water mist.
His heart was tranquil, as if he had entered a realm of forgetfulness.
Only the flow of the water mist, and the sound of his own breathing, echoed softly in his ears.
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Fan suddenly opened his eyes and raised one hand violently.
Instantly, the water mist around him then instantly contracted, transforming into a long dragon of mist with an eerie cold aura, whistling and rushing towards the depths of the Demon Wood Forest.
This long dragon of mist, under Chen Fan’s control, sometimes tumbled and sometimes circled, coloring the trees, flowers and grasses along the way with a layer of crystalline frost.
Everything seemed to be frozen by this fog dragon.
“Spell – Frost Mist Dragon Art!”
Chen Fan opened his eyes and gave a name to the spell that he had come up with in a flash of inspiration and epiphany.
This was the first spell that he had come to an epiphany after entering the Immortal Cultivation World.
Spells that were thus epiphanized by the Immortal Cultivator himself were usually the most suitable for him or her as well, and would generally be much stronger than ordinary spells.
Then, with a thought, Chen Fan looked into his dantian.
As he had epiphanized this Frost Mist Dragon Art, there were also some more Laws and Mysteries formed in his Dantian, which were branded on the inner wall of his Dantian.
And such a branding actually caused his dantian to, vaguely, expand a bit.
PS: Today is really too busy, I should still be able to write a chapter, but it will be very late, you can read it in the morning!
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