Cultivation Starting from Choosing Augments-Chapter 87 - 85: Celestial Dao Foundation Establishment

Chapter 87: Chapter 85: Celestial Dao Foundation Establishment

After temporarily shaking off his pursuer with the ten-times-faster Vertical Earth Golden Light, Xiao Chen still didn’t dare to relax in the slightest.

He couldn’t guess if his pursuer would lie in wait for him on the eastern plains.

Nor did he know if he would run into them again on the way back to the sect in the West.

So, he abandoned the sect mission and chose to flee south.

To avoid being followed, Xiao Chen deliberately and randomly changed direction several times along the way.

For three days, he took no extra rest aside from short meditation sessions to recover his Magical Power.

In just three days, he had fled a full twelve hundred li.

Finally, he plunged into a vast, dense forest, found a patch of thick grass, and dropped to the ground, using the Sealing Acupoint Concealing Qi Technique to completely hide himself. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

After a brief rest, he found a nearby cave to serve as his temporary site for Foundation Establishment.

Foundation Establishment is the first true bottleneck in cultivation!

Only after establishing one’s foundation can a person truly be set apart from mortals.

Xiao Chen sat cross-legged in meditation, clearing his mind of stray thoughts and striving to stabilize his mental state.

Until the eleventh day, at 5:00 AM.

This was the hour of Wood, and the opportune time had arrived.

He suddenly opened his eyes, feeling that his Essence, Qi, and Spirit had all been adjusted to their peak.

Xiao Chen reached into his Storage Bag and took out a full eight hundred Spirit Stones, arranging them into a bagua diagram according to the positions of Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, and Kun.

Next, he cast a Golden Light Technique to seal the cave entrance.

He then took out the bottle of Cyan Wood Spirit Liquid left over from last time. He uncorked it, heated it with Spiritual Fire, and evaporated it into a large cloud of pale cyan mist.

The Wood Spiritual Qi and the total amount of Spiritual Qi inside the cave were forcibly raised to an extremely high level in a short time.

Though there was no Spirit Vein, he had artificially created a favorable environment.

He took out the Cyan Gourd and summoned two Cyan Wood Divine Generals to guard the entrance against any man-made disasters.

As much as possible, he had assembled the opportune time, a favorable environment, and harmonious support.

’Next up is the most critical step.’

Normally, one would consume a Foundation Establishment Pill at this point.

However, Xiao Chen instead took out five types of Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects in sequence.

The Spirit-Imbued Snow Lotus, the Mutated Lion Heart, the Thousand-Year Sword Bamboo, the Cyan Wood Essence, and the Wuji Spirit Soil.

According to the information he had obtained, the order in which he consumed the Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects was also crucial.

Xiao Chen started by picking up the Fire Spiritual Object, the Mutated Lion Heart, and, opening his mouth wide, swallowed it raw in a few bites.

He immediately felt as if he had swallowed several burning coals.

Scorching Fire Spirit Power radiated from his abdomen, constantly scouring his physical body and burning away impurities. His skin all over began to turn red and hot.

HUUUFF—

A long plume of white smoke escaped as he exhaled.

Xiao Chen quickly grabbed the Wuji Spirit Soil and began to recklessly drain the Earth Spiritual Power from within it.

Doing so would completely destroy the Wuji Spirit Soil, but it would also yield a large amount of exceptionally pure Earth Spiritual Power.

As the Earth Spiritual Power poured into his body, the voids left behind by the scorching Fire Spirit Power were rapidly filled.

Xiao Chen hurriedly circulated his Cultivation Technique, simultaneously absorbing the surrounding Spiritual Qi to help refine his body.

At the same time, because Fire generates Earth, the original Fire Spirit Power also began to convert into Earth Spiritual Power.

By the time all the Fire Spirit Power had finished converting, the Wuji Spirit Soil in his hand had crumbled into a small pile of flowing sand, slipping through his fingers.

Xiao Chen immediately grabbed the Thousand-Year Sword Bamboo and repeated the process.

As he extracted the Gold Spiritual Power, he could clearly feel strands of Sword Qi escaping from it as well.

"Hiss... so painful!"

This Sword Qi flowed through his Meridians along with his Magical Power, causing immense pain even as it cleared them.

It was as if many Small Swords were stabbing wildly inside his body.

Although the protection of the Earth Spiritual Power prevented any real injury, the pain was no less severe.

In fact, as the Earth-generating-Metal conversion continued, the pain grew even more intense.

Xiao Chen timed it perfectly. The instant the conversion was complete, he dropped the withered Sword Bamboo and swallowed the entire Spirit-Imbued Snow Lotus.

The Spirit-Imbued Snow Lotus dissolved the moment it entered his mouth, flowing like a clear spring through his organs, limbs, and bones.

Wherever it passed, it greatly soothed the piercing pain of the Gold Spiritual Power.

It also effectively nourished Xiao Chen’s Magical Power, causing the total amount in his Dantian to completely surpass the limits of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

This Magical Power, in turn, began to help him undergo an even more effective Marrow Washing.

Metal generates Water. All the Gold Spiritual Power was converted into Water Spiritual Power, and the Magical Power in his Dantian gathered in ever-increasing amounts.

DRIP!

Suddenly, the sound of a water droplet seemed to echo in Xiao Chen’s ears.

He quickly looked inward at his Dantian and saw droplets of Liquid Magical Power falling like raindrops.

Xiao Chen was first stunned, then overjoyed.

Normally, a Cultivator could only manage to turn their Magical Power into mist at this stage.

To condense it into a liquid state, one either needed extremely high talent—for example, a Celestial Spirit Root would allow for full condensation, while a Dual Spirit Root could manage half—

or one had to spend a year or two after Foundation Establishment, slowly grinding it out through painstaking effort.

He originally thought that with his low-grade Spiritual Root, he would surely need to spend time making up for this deficit.

’I never expected that Celestial Dao Foundation Establishment would have such an effect, directly helping me convert all my Magical Power into a liquid state, making it comparable to that of a Celestial Spirit Root.’

Seeing that the Magical Power conversion was complete, Xiao Chen picked up the Cyan Flower Jade Purification Bottle and downed the last item, the Cyan Wood Essence, in one gulp.

The Water Spiritual Power in his body was currently at its peak. Upon encountering the Cyan Wood Essence, it instantly merged with it.

The Water Spiritual Power, already spread throughout his body, completely diluted the Cyan Wood Essence and distributed it everywhere within seconds.

Next, Water generated Wood.

All the Water Spiritual Power began to simultaneously convert into Wood Spiritual Power.

With the Five Elements Mutual Generation, this kind of conversion had no loss from the very beginning. Instead, it produced an effect where the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.

By the final step, having gone through four cumulative transformations, the effect had compounded several times over.

The immense Wood Spiritual Power brought with it immense life force, causing him to undergo a complete metamorphosis.

The most direct manifestation was that Xiao Chen’s hair instantly grew three inches longer, and his skin became as fair and tender as a baby’s.

An invisible ripple suddenly spread out from his Sea of Consciousness.

Xiao Chen suddenly saw a passing wild rabbit at the cave entrance, looking around curiously.

He saw a sparrow land on the treetop of a nearby tree.

He saw a large colony of ants building their home on the rock wall above his head.

None of these things were within his line of sight, yet they were now reflected in his Sea of Consciousness as clearly as if he were seeing them with his own eyes.

This was the external projection of a Cultivator’s Divine Sense!

’The leaves are rustling. Oh, there must be wind.’

Xiao Chen simply closed his eyes and observed everything around him as if his spirit were roaming the heavens.

As he observed intentionally, his Divine Sense began to spread farther, completely covering everything within a two-hundred-zhang radius.

’Huh? How can it reach so far?’

After a Cultivator achieves Foundation Establishment, they would normally gain a Divine Sense with a range of one hundred zhang.

But now, the range of his Divine Sense had shockingly doubled, and its area of coverage had therefore increased by a full four times!

’Could this also be a benefit of Celestial Dao Foundation Establishment?’