Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

An hour later, he gazed at a solitary peak a hundred zhang tall in the distance.

This was Violet Sun Peak.

Located in the eastern part of the Hao Yang mountain range, Zhang Ling took out the blue jade token given to him by Wei Shen and headed straight towards the peak.

As he walked on the mountain, there was not a single person in sight, and the surroundings were covered with a strange purplish-blue bamboo.

For the disciples of the Hao Yuan Sect, as long as you established your foundation, the sect would provide some assistance, one of which was help with spirit veins. Any Qi Refining disciple who established their foundation could apply for a good spirit vein as a place to break through.

However, a middle-grade spirit vein was not comparable to a low-grade spirit vein. In the Hao Yuan Sect, only Golden Core stage elders were qualified to enjoy them.

Violet Cloud Peak was a special place. It was a solitary mountain with a small area, containing a tiny middle-grade spirit vein that the Golden Core cultivators of the sect looked down upon, and therefore it was open to the sect's disciples.

But it was not free. It could only be rented with sect contribution points, with a minimum rental of five hundred contribution points per time.

Ordinary Qi Refining disciples could not afford it. Only disciples with a lineage would rent it to give their juniors more certainty in establishing their foundation.

With the jade token in hand, Zhang Ling was directly led by a deacon disciple to a stone cave in the mountainside.

The stone cave was not large, only five or six zhang wide, like a natural cave. In the center was a green stone platform with only a yellow futon on it.

What rich spiritual power! It's several times richer than the medicine field courtyard in Azure Mist Valley.

Looking at the light white mist floating around, Zhang Ling sighed. This was not ordinary white mist, but a light mist formed due to the rich spiritual power of this place.

It is said that a middle-grade spirit vein can increase the chance of establishing a foundation by a little bit. I wonder if it's true.

Then he used the jade token to close the stone cave. Immediately, a layer of white light罩 appeared on the surrounding stone walls.

This was the restriction of this place. It was said that it could withstand two or three attacks from Golden Core cultivators. It was absolutely impossible for ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators to break through this restriction. Establishing a foundation here would not be disturbed by others.

With a wave of his hand, a small incense burner was placed on the ground, and he lit the Spirit Concentration Incense inside. Then, with a flip of his hand, he took out a yellow jade slip.

This jade slip contained the experiences of several disciples establishing their foundation. This was also one of the benefits of the sect.

After carefully reading the information, Zhang Ling also had a detailed understanding of the process of establishing a foundation. Then he sat on the futon and began to meditate.

Two hours later, he opened his eyes.

At this time, both the spiritual power and divine sense in his body were adjusted to the best state. With a pat of his storage bag, he took out the Foundation Establishment Pill issued by the sect.

Foundation Establishment stage, a realm that every Qi Refining cultivator yearns for.

Zhang Ling muttered in his heart, opened his mouth, and swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill. He activated his cultivation method and began to refine it.

A quarter of an hour later, the medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill took effect.

He felt a ball of flame in his dantian Qi Sea burning brighter and brighter, gradually spreading throughout his body.

For a time, he felt hot all over and extremely uncomfortable. At the same time, the cyan-green vines on his left arm were also swaying strangely, sometimes lengthening and sometimes shrinking.

This state lasted for more than three hours. The heat in his dantian suddenly disappeared without a trace, which made him a little surprised, but thinking of the Foundation Establishment process recorded in the classics, he still remained still and focused on circulating his cultivation method.

After a while, suddenly his whole body trembled. A violent spiritual power appeared in his meridians. This spiritual power was majestic and heavy, and it frantically scurried through his meridians.

Zhang Ling's mind sank, and he quickly mobilized all his mind to guide this majestic spiritual power.

Under his control, this spiritual power was constantly guided by his cultivation method and eventually injected into his dantian Qi Sea.

Immediately, a strange sense of expansion came from his dantian. The earth-attribute spiritual power he had cultivated originally occupied the entire dantian.

But under the impact of this spiritual power, it began to rotate, and the two groups of spiritual power intertwined and stirred. The other much smaller wood-attribute spiritual power in his dantian was directly squeezed into the vines in his left arm.

In an instant, a emerald green vine five or six zhang long grew out, wrapping his entire body in it.

Zhang Ling did not know this scene. At this moment, his face was extremely pale, and sweat beads the size of soybeans dripped down his face, accompanied by the severe pain that made his face turn blue and white.

As the spiritual power erupting from the Foundation Establishment Pill rushed into the dantian Qi Sea, the earth-attribute spiritual power was also rapidly compressed.

The violent spiritual power turned into countless streams of heat, spreading throughout his body along the meridians, and even seeping into his blood and bone marrow.

After an unknown amount of time, the heat flow in his body became extremely itchy, like countless small bugs scurrying around his body. This feeling was even more unbearable than pain.

At this moment, Zhang Ling had long been unable to maintain his sitting posture, and he squirmed on the ground with his body arched.

This feeling gradually subsided after a long time.

Zhang Ling took a long time to barely stand up. At this time, he was covered in sweat, and his whole body was covered with a layer of grayish-black substance, exuding an unspeakable strange smell.

Zhang Ling ignored these and quickly looked inward to check the condition of his body. At this moment, there was a light blue, cool spiritual power in his meridians, warming his meridians and dantian.

In the dantian, the earth-attribute spiritual power he cultivated had also become much thicker. Although he was still at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, the quality of his spiritual power had increased by more than half compared to before.

Obviously, the Foundation Establishment Pill did not allow him to break through, but it also improved his physique and allowed his body to undergo marrow washing and tendon transformation.

The cool spiritual power in the meridians and dantian was another medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill, which could protect the cultivator's meridians and dantian. Otherwise, under the violent medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill, he would have been seriously injured long ago.

Zhang Ling remained still and continued to refine the remaining medicinal power. This step took three months.

After the remaining medicinal power was refined by him, the spiritual power in his body increased by another three points. This was also an effect of the Foundation Establishment Pill. Even if he did not break through, his spiritual power would increase a lot.

Then he stopped practicing. After resting for several days, he once again adjusted his whole body to its best state.

Then, with a pat of his storage bag, he took out a jade bottle containing the Foundation Establishment Pill he had refined himself.

Without hesitation, Zhang Ling took out one and swallowed it directly. The same feeling, this time it was slightly lighter than the last time.

At the same time, fewer impurities were discharged from his body. It seemed that the marrow washing effect of the Foundation Establishment Pill was also gradually weakening.

It was a long time to refine the medicinal power again. This time Zhang Ling still did not break through the Foundation Establishment.

However, under the powerful effect of the medicinal power, the spiritual power in the dantian became viscous and showed a tendency to transform into a liquid state.

The spiritual power in this state was already two or three times stronger than before.

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Thus, two months later.

Zhang Ling in the quiet room was surrounded by spiritual energy, and he had reached the most critical moment!

After taking the third Foundation Establishment Pill, the misty spiritual power in the dantian finally underwent a qualitative change.

At this moment, the vortex formed by spiritual power in his dantian continued to rotate, and the misty spiritual power had become viscous. At a certain moment, the Qi Sea suddenly trembled, and a drop of liquid dripped from the spiritual energy mass.

What followed was drop after drop of liquid spiritual power falling. In the blink of an eye, a small patch gathered in a corner of the dantian.

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