The Path to Immortality

Before this, Fang Ping still used the Peiyuan Dan, which is suitable for the late stage of Qi training, and the Yangji Dan, a spiritual pill that is compatible with the practice.

The latter naturally does not need to be changed, but the Peiyuan Dan is different.

The efficacy of this spiritual pill is enough for the ninth-level Qi training cultivator.

Fang Ping originally thought that since he was not far from the foundation building stage, he would use the Peiyuan Dan to make do with the foundation building stage first, and then change to the better [Shengyuan Dan] after the foundation building stage.

But if he wants to impact the twelfth level of Qi training, he can't use the Peiyuan Dan anymore.

He has to find a way to refine a better pill.

As for why he didn't do it all at once and directly refine the Shengyuan Dan, it was because this real first-level spiritual pill required a hundred-year-old spiritual medicine as the main material.

For the foundation building cultivator, it is relatively easy to get a hundred-year-old spiritual medicine.

But for the Qi training cultivator, it is a bit difficult. Moreover, taking a first-level spiritual pill with too strong a medicinal effect too early may not be a good thing in the long run.

Fortunately, in the alchemy inheritance obtained from the Sun family, there is a record of a medicine called [Yi Yi Dan].

This elixir is simplified from the recipe of a certain first-level elixir. Its refining difficulty is between the top-grade basic elixir and the first-level low-grade elixir.

Its characteristics are that the efficacy is better than Pei Yuan Dan, and the spiritual medicine required for refining is easier to collect than the real first-level elixir.

It is just right for Fang Ping's current needs.

In addition to elixirs, there is another way to speed up the cultivation speed as much as possible.

That is the top-grade basic formation [Small Gathering Spirit Formation] that Fang Ping began to figure out as early as during his time in Luoyuefang.

Because this formation is difficult to comprehend, and the foundation is not far away, Fang Ping originally thought that he would have to wait until the foundation is successfully built and he has divine consciousness before he can completely master this formation.

But now it seems that it is also necessary to arrange this formation in advance.

In this way, with the spiritual energy of the Yunyang Peak Cave, plus the help of Yi Qi Dan and the Small Gathering Spirit Formation, I believe that it should not be a problem to cultivate to the twelfth level of Qi training within ten years.

After thinking it through, Fang Ping no longer had any doubts about the road ahead for the next ten years before building his foundation.

After leaving the Sutra Library and returning to his cave, he took out the recipe for the Yiqi Pill and studied it with concentration.

………

In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

This day.

Sitting in the cave, Fang Ping, with the help of the pill, was running the Ziyang Sutra with all his strength.

As a first-level alchemist, he tried to refine the [Yiqi Pill], which was less difficult than the first level. It was not easy, but at least it was not difficult.

In less than ten days, he successfully refined this pill that could improve his cultivation and was much better than the Peiyuan Pill.

At this moment, with the help of the Yiqi Pill, Fang Ping was constantly refining the pure spiritual energy contained in the medicinal power into the Ziyang Sutra mana, and attacking the bottleneck of the ninth to tenth level of Qi training.

After about dozens of cycles, Fang Ping's body trembled slightly, and the invisible bottleneck was about to fall.

In the dark, Fang Ping had a premonition that he was about to break through to the tenth level of Qi training.

His heart was calm, and he accelerated the operation of the technique, launching the final attack on the loose bottleneck.

A moment later, the barrier between the ninth and tenth levels of Qi training was forcibly penetrated by the strong mana.

Fang Ping's cultivation began to improve rapidly.

After a full quarter of an hour, his breath gradually stabilized.

Compared with the ninth level of Qi training, the mana at this moment has increased by more than 30%.

Fang Ping, who has already improved his small realm many times, is no longer as excited as before.

For him, the improvement of mana is only secondary. The most important thing is that after this breakthrough, he has vaguely touched the threshold of foundation building.

That threshold is invisible and intangible, but the spiritual perception of the cultivator can really feel it.

It is mysterious and cannot be described in words!

After all, Fang Ping is practicing the Golden Elixir technique, and his physique and soul are strong enough. Compared with ordinary cultivators of the tenth level of Qi training, his accumulation is enough.

He had a hunch that if he wanted to, he could try to break through the foundation now!

"If I didn't know about the twelfth level of Qi training, maybe I would really consider starting the foundation as soon as possible. But now that I know there are higher realms, how can I be short-sighted and eager for success?"

He sighed, continued to practice the skills, stabilized his realm a little, then got up from the cushion, came to the desk, and continued to ponder the [Small Gathering Spirit Array].

In the past six months, he has increased the energy and time spent on the array.

With the help of the similarities between the ancient Taoist texts and the array, Fang Ping's research on the small gathering spirit array has become more and more in-depth.

There is only one step away from complete mastery.

Unknowingly, the night deepened.

Fang Ping held the carving knife, his expression was focused, and he used his magic power to carve the last array pattern on the ban.

The small gathering spirit array uses two or three hundred array patterns, which is far more difficult than the maze array, the falling stone array, the small phantom array and other arrays.

Even though Fang Ping had been pondering for several years and had the complete second-level array inheritance of Tianfeng Patriarch to learn from, he still encountered many setbacks.

Before this attempt, he had tried seven times, and all of them ended in failure.

However, the previous failures also gave him enough experience.

This time, he was particularly focused and was more meticulous in the use of magic power. Finally, under the outline of the magic knife, he completed the last stroke of the array pattern.

"Finally succeeded!"

Fang Ping looked at the array flag in front of him with the rhyme of Tao, and his heart was very uneasy.

For this array, he didn't know how much energy he had put in, and now it was time to reap the rewards.

After collecting all five flags used in the small gathering spirit formation, Fang Ping returned to the stone chamber for cultivation. He urged his magic power to hit the flags in the corresponding positions one by one.

Because the purpose of this formation is to assist cultivation, Fang Ping obviously cannot be distracted to preside over the formation, so he can only choose to use spirit stones to drive it.

After investing five low-grade spirit stones in one breath, Fang Ping estimated that it should be able to support it for a while, and then he looked solemn and pinched the magic formula.

"Start!"

The next moment, the flags lit up faintly, resonating with each other, stirring up the power of heaven and earth, and slowly started to operate.

Under the influence of invisible suction, the surrounding spiritual energy began to slowly gather into the formation.

After a moment, the concentration of spiritual energy in the small gathering spirit formation was more than 50% higher than that outside, and it continued to increase at a slow speed.

Under the control of the formation, the fire spiritual energy was particularly rich, which would undoubtedly be of greater help to Fang Ping in practicing the Ziyang Sutra.

Perhaps it is not enough to compare with the cave of the foundation-building cultivators on the hillside of Luo Yunfeng, but it is already the ultimate that the Qi training disciples can enjoy.

"Success!"

Shut back and forth in and out of the formation several times, feeling the changes in the concentration of spiritual energy on both sides, Fang Ping's heart was full of joy.

The Qi-enhancing Pill has been in place for a long time, and now there is also a small gathering spirit formation, which can be said to be ready.

He can't wait to launch an attack on the twelfth level of Qi training.

"But, I'm afraid it won't work in the next two days."

Temporarily shutting down the small gathering spirit formation, Fang Ping stood up and came to the door of the cave, and summoned two communication talismans that were blocked by the cave's restrictions.

These two communication talismans were sent on the same day by coincidence, from Liu Wuchen and Jiang Yucheng respectively.

"Two senior brothers, you have to take this step after all!"

Looking at the roughly similar contents in the communication talismans, Fang Ping sighed softly.