Nanzhou is a vast land with undulating mountains. The closer you get to Beizhou, the more dangerous the mountains become, while the terrain becomes flatter as you go south toward the sea.

The Baimang Mountains start from the Western Desert and end in the middle of Nanzhou, stretching for tens of thousands of miles across the two places. The mountains are high, the forests are deep, the clouds are shrouded, poisonous insects and beasts are infested, and rare and rare flowers and plants grow in places with sufficient aura.

, attracting many immortal cultivators.

At first, the cultivators of immortality gathered here to keep warm, which was the prototype of the sect. There are also cultivators who took root here, forming one family of cultivators after another. Of course, there are monks coming here from all directions, and the number of casual cultivators is the largest. The conditions for cultivation are

It is also the most difficult.

There is a spiritual mountain about two thousand feet high in Baimang Mountain, called Baiyuan Mountain. Four hundred years ago, it was occupied by Zhang Shilong, a foundation-building casual cultivator.

Family. In the past four hundred years, as the number of Zhang family members increased, the seven spiritual mountains near Baiyuan Mountain were also occupied by the Zhang family.

These seven spiritual mountains are all first-level spiritual mountains, and those practicing on them are all Qi-training monks of the Zhang family, while those practicing on the second-level spiritual mountain of Baiyuan Mountain are two foundation-building monks of the Zhang family.

A Lingshan Blessed Land with abundant spiritual energy is indispensable for immortal cultivators. After cultivating to the Qi training stage, immortal cultivators can control their own Dantian acupoints. In places where ordinary spiritual energy is lacking, their own magic power will not be diffused, but their cultivation level

Progress must be extremely slow.

Of course, there are monks who use spirit stones as the foundation and set up spirit gathering arrays for practice, but there are a few monks in the ordinary Qi training period who are willing to use the few spirit stones in their hands for daily practice.

Every spiritual stone contains pure spiritual energy. When monks are fighting in the Qi training period, if they reach the stalemate stage in terms of magic power, the competition will be about wealth and property. Whoever has more pills and more spiritual stones will have a better chance.

Survive.

Zhang Shiping knew this very well. There were many monks in this Baimang Mountain, and when he was away from home, others would not show mercy just because he was a member of the Zhang family.

In order to eliminate future troubles, monks generally act more decisively against sect monks or family monks, using various methods including destroying corpses, destroying traces, and framing them.

Zhang Shiping is the younger generation of the Zhang family. He is a monk with the three spiritual roots of earth, fire, and wood. He has average qualifications, but fortunately, he possesses the three yang spiritual bodies and is more familiar with fire-based exercises.

The three-yang spirit body has an average constitution among many fire-attributed spirits. If Zhang Shiping is a six-yang spirit body, after he builds the foundation, he will condense the Qingyang fire, which will be of great help in refining weapons and elixirs. And the three-yang spirit body

The chance that the spirit body can condense Qingyang Fire is really very small.

However, there is a chance after all, so the head of the Zhang Family Foundation Establishment Clan specially set aside a cave with excellent spiritual energy for Zhang Shiping to practice in Xiaoyuan Mountain, one of the seven first-level spiritual mountains.

Time is long, from the age of eight to sixteen, Zhang Shiping has practiced for eight years. He has cultivated to the fourth level of "Qingxuan Fire Control Technique", and his cultivation has reached the level of the fourth level of Qi training, although it is far inferior to those of those sects.

Men Tianjiao, but he is already a leader among the younger generation of the Zhang family.

…

At the foot of Xiaoyuan Mountain, there was a middle-aged man in black clothes climbing up the bluestone stairs in the mountain. The middle-aged man's face was very similar to Zhang Shiping's.

This is Zhang Shiping's father, Zhang Tong'an, who is at the ninth level of Qi training and is one step away from reaching the completion of the Qi training period. He is now only forty-nine years old and has the possibility of advancing to the foundation building stage. He is one of the six ninth-level Qi training monks in the Zhang family.

Zhang Tongan's feet were very fast, and he arrived at Zhang Shiping's cave on the mountainside in the blink of an eye. Zhang Shiping's cave was next to a waterfall on a cliff in the mountain. The waterfall on the top of the mountain rumbled down from a high place, making a noisy sound. Therefore, Zhang Shiping's cave was open all year round.

The formation is used to prevent others from accidentally entering while you are practicing, but the most important thing is to isolate the sound.

Zhang Tongan patted the gray storage bag on his waist, and a transmission talisman written on yellow paper with cinnabar was suspended in front of him. His lips moved slightly up and down, and the transmission talisman turned into a ball of red light and merged into the formation.

There are layers of ripples in the French cyan mask.

Zhang Shiping, who was meditating in the cave's quiet room, opened his eyes, and his eyes were bright. He didn't get up directly. The technique had only been running for more than half a week. The absorbed spiritual energy was flowing in the meridians, but it had not been refined into magic power by him and flowed into the Dantian.

At this time, half a week's effort in getting up and doing the exercises was in vain.

After half a cup of tea, Zhang Shiping stopped his work and stood up, strode out of the quiet room, recited the incantation, waved his right sleeve, and the green light shield of the cave's stone door changed and twisted, dispersed, and the stone door opened with a bang.

Zhang Shiping walked out of the stone gate, bowed and saluted: "Shiping pays homage to my father. Please forgive me for keeping him waiting for so long."

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Tong'an said, he stepped into the cave, Zhang Shiping followed behind, and then closed the stone door, the cave formation was restored, and the cyan light mask was shrouded again.

Zhang Tongan was very familiar with the layout of Zhang Shiping's cave, so he sat directly at the top. Zhang Shiping was about to make tea when his father called him over, "Shiping, come and sit, don't bother."

"yes."

Zhang Tong'an said: "My father's heart is surging. I will retreat in three days. This time, I will either achieve foundation building or die." Zhang Tong'an's tone was unhurried, as if he was not the one who was in retreat, "It's just that I

The only ones who are worried here are you and your second brother. Your second brother’s pseudo-spiritual qualifications are basically hopeless in building a foundation in this life. Being a steward in the family and spending his life peacefully is a good choice."

Zhang Tongan paused for a moment, looked at his worried son and smiled and said: "Shiping, your qualifications are average. If you practice in the family, it will take another 20 to 30 years of hard work to reach the ninth level of Qi training. The Foundation Establishment Pill is even more difficult."

There is no need to think about it. I can only live in seclusion like a father and fight for the slim chance. In half a month, the Jiaozuo Sect will open its gate to accept disciples. Do you want to go? I have a good friend there who can take care of you.

point."

Zhang Shiping lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "I do." He is cultivating immortality for himself, and he is fighting for his life. Zhang Shiping has a rule in his heart. If his father doesn't mention it today, he will wait until he can practice Qi in a year or two.

On the fifth floor, he also wanted to travel, but now he is ahead of schedule.

When Zhang Tongan heard that his child agreed, he took out a letter and a transmission note and gave them to Zhang Shiping. His good friend in Jiaozuo Sect was named Chen Wenguang.

As long as a monk does not have pseudo-spiritual roots like the Four Spiritual Roots and Five Spiritual Roots, and relies on water to sharpen his kung fu during the qi-training period, it is normal for a monk to be able to reach the sixth or seventh level of qi-training in fifty or sixty years.

, that is, after the seventh level, it takes a lot of effort to break through each level.

People with insufficient talent either rely on formations or take elixirs to try to store more mana in their Dantian, so that the gaseous mana can condense into liquid in the Dantian and reach the realm of foundation building.

After foundation building is the early stage of foundation building, after refining evil spirits is the middle stage of foundation building, and Cheng Gang is the late stage of foundation building. Take it one step at a time and don't be careless at all.

There are so many Qi-training monks in the world, but not even one among dozens or hundreds of them can successfully build a foundation. This situation is more common among casual cultivators or small cultivating families, and the reason is the lack of foundation-building pills.

A monk who has perfected his qi training can only succeed in building a foundation without the help of a foundation-building pill. Otherwise, at worst, his Dantian will decay and all his magic power will be lost, or at worst, he will die on the spot.

The Foundation Establishment Pill can increase the probability of foundation establishment, and more importantly, it can protect the Qi Practitioner who breaks through the realm. Even if it fails, it will only be a serious injury. After three to five years of training, there is still a chance to re-establish the foundation.

Most of the medicinal materials required for the Foundation Establishment Pill take hundreds of years. Most of these medicinal materials now grow in secret realms, and the entrances to these discovered secret realms have long been competed for by various sects. How can they be left to the masses?

build!

Zhang Tongan can't worry about his son. The Zhang family is too small. Now there are only two foundation-building monks, the patriarch and the great elder. Both of them succeeded by luck without the foundation-building pill. His retreat this time is not very big.

Sure, but if you don't try it while you are still strong, your chances will be even slimmer when you get older.
Chapter completed!