The Path to Immortality

"In that case, I'll trouble Deacon Gu."

Seeing that this Zhengyang Hall deacon was so capable, Fang Ping nodded with satisfaction.

For Deacon Gu, being able to satisfy Uncle Foundation Building was the greatest compliment to him.

With a smile on his face, he asked, "How does Uncle Fang want to organize it? Should it be grand and lively, or simple and casual? How many Taoist friends and guests do you need to invite?"

Fang Ping had already thought that the foundation building ceremony would not be a big deal.

He immediately said, "Just organize it simply. There won't be many guests, no more than ten at most."

Deacon Gu was slightly stunned when he heard this, and said cautiously, "After all, it is a foundation building ceremony. Isn't this too few guests? If Uncle Fang usually practices hard behind closed doors and has few friends in the sect, Gu can call some Taoist friends to celebrate for Uncle Fang."

"No need to do that."

Fang Ping waved his hand and rejected his proposal very straightforwardly.

Then he took out a sum of spirit stones and handed them to Deacon Gu, which was considered the expenses needed to prepare for the foundation building ceremony.

Seeing Fang Ping's firm attitude, Deacon Gu said no more, took the spirit stone, retreated, and began to consider how to organize the ceremony for the new uncle.

If you want to make it grand and lively, it would be easier, just try to make it a big scene.

But there are less than ten guests coming, so if you want to do it well, you need to spend more time on the details.

………

There are still three days before the tentative date of the foundation-building ceremony.

During this period, Fang Ping will naturally not waste it.

He never forgot that the success of the foundation-building does not mean that everything is fine and you can relax and enjoy yourself.

On the contrary, it only means a brand new beginning.

Building the foundation at the age of fifty-four has won him a perfect start for the foundation-building, but it also means that the time left for him to advance to the Golden Core realm will be shorter than other foundation-building cultivators.

This requires him not to relax for a moment and must start preparing for the practice after the foundation-building as soon as possible.

The next morning.

After feeding Dahei, Fang Ping drove the escape light and went straight to the inner gate Sutra Pavilion.

Seeing the escape light of the foundation-building cultivator from afar, all the Qi-training disciples they met on the way took the initiative to avoid it and saluted respectfully.

Occasionally, when they met cultivators who were also foundation-building, even if they didn't know each other, they mostly nodded in greeting in a friendly manner.

There was no longer the indifference and majesty that they had when they were still practicing Qi.

This made Fang Ping truly feel that with the improvement of his realm, the experiences and scenery he saw had also changed a lot.

A moment later.

The escape light fell in front of the inner gate scripture pavilion.

Qi-training disciples can only browse the first two layers of classics, and foundation-building cultivators naturally have no such restrictions.

Compared with the first two layers, the bookshelves on the third layer are much fewer, but the level and overall quality of the classics collected are more than a level higher.

Fang Ping just walked past a few bookshelves casually and saw several classics and Taoist books that were quite valuable to him.

However, the most urgent task was to get the cultivation method first.

Fang Ping didn't get distracted and went straight to the bookshelf where the four skills of the setting sun were collected.

"The Evergreen Art of Ten Thousand Trees, the Black Tortoise Chaoyuan Art... the Purple Yang Sutra! Found it!"

Looking at the jade slip on the bookshelf, Fang Ping paused and reached out to touch the jade slip.

The restriction on the bookshelf swept across the foundation-building identity token hanging on his waist, and it flashed slightly. There was nothing abnormal, allowing Fang Ping to take out the jade slip.

However, after just a few breaths of browsing, Fang Ping's face looked a little unhappy.

The jade slip of the third floor of the Sutra Pavilion did include the full version of the Purple Yang Sutra.

But it is not so easy to exchange for the exercises after the Qi Training Chapter. It requires a full 6,000 sect contributions!

Just looking at this condition itself, it doesn't seem too harsh.

But don't forget that in order to build a foundation, sect disciples must spend a lot of sect contributions to exchange for foundation-building pills and foundation-building spiritual objects.

Unless they are cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots, they can build a foundation without foundation-building pills. For other disciples, even if they have accumulated more contributions during the Qi training period, they will basically spend them all after the foundation building period, and there will be no surplus to exchange for the subsequent content of the Golden Core Technique.

Even if there are 2,000 sect contributions awarded by the sect after the foundation building is successful, it is still far from enough.

Of course, since the sect has set this condition, it naturally has its considerations.

It doesn’t matter if the newly promoted foundation building cultivators can’t make so many contributions at once. The sect is very considerate and provides another free exchange method.

That is: make a Taoist oath, and after obtaining this technique, you will unconditionally serve the sect for 30 years!

The annotation also states that the sect will not send disciples to perform tasks such as sending them to die, and during this period, the foundation building cultivators will be given the treatment they deserve.

"Sure enough, I knew that it would not be so easy to get the Golden Core Technique of the Qi training chapter that can be exchanged for free just after entering the inner sect!"

Fang Ping thought to himself while putting the jade slip back.

Six thousand sect contributions are definitely not a small number.

Fang Ping now has a total of more than 2,000 contributions, including the 2,000 rewards after building the foundation.

In other words, if you want to exchange for cultivation techniques by accumulating sect contributions, you must be prepared to not be able to improve your cultivation within 10 to 20 years.

Although the strength of foundation-building cultivators far exceeds that of Qi-training cultivators, and the efficiency of obtaining sect contributions is also higher, ordinary menial tasks in the sect do not require foundation-building cultivators to take action, and Qi-training disciples can complete them.

And the tasks that require foundation-building cultivators to take action are often more difficult and will be assigned by the sect individually according to the specific situation.

Even if you try every means to take the initiative to accept it, it is impossible for there to be suitable and rewarding tasks waiting for you to complete every time.

In this case, it is relatively efficient to gather the required contributions within 10 to 20 years.

But Fang Ping obviously cannot accept such a long time.

"However, compared with consuming the sect's contributions to exchange, unconditional service for 30 years seems to be more difficult to accept..."

Although the sect will not let you die, what if it is a mission with extremely high risk and only a glimmer of hope?

This kind of mission is probably impossible to refuse.

Not to mention, in recent years, the Phantom Demon Sect of the Chen Kingdom in the north has become more and more powerful. Seeing the trend of the rise of demons and the decline of Taoism, the situation in the surrounding Yue Kingdom, Liang Kingdom and other countries has also become turbulent.

In 30 years, God knows what will happen during this period.

If the Phantom Demon Sect really sweeps across the Chen Kingdom and has the ambition to annex the entire Yunzhou and launch a war between immortals and demons, then unconditional service for 30 years is really no different from seeking death.

Fang Ping does not want to be forced to go to the front line to fight against the magic cultivators of the Phantom Demon Sect just a few years after building his foundation because of a technique.

But if you don't want to choose either of these two options, what should you do?

Giving up the Jindan technique is definitely impossible.

Unless you go to the market, the fairy city and other places to try your luck and see if you can auction a good technique.

"But, the uncertainty of this way is too high."

Fang Ping frowned slightly, feeling a little solemn.

He thought for a moment, and took out the three Jindan techniques: Wanmu Changqing Jue, Xuanwu Chaoyuan Gong, and Taiyin Youming Heavy Water Gong.

The results are similar.

Although the sect contributions required for exchange are slightly different, they are all numbers that a newly promoted foundation-building cultivator cannot make up in a short period of time, and they all provide the option of unconditionally serving the sect to exchange for the technique.