CHAPTER 72: CHAPTER 72: THE SECRET OF FOUNDATION ESTABLISHMENT

Years ago, Shen Xuan met her once and didn’t think much of it.

As for Yu Jian City, one hand peeling a spirit fruit, the other holding a wine cup, his mouth opened wide and wouldn’t close, his eyes filled with shock.

Quite normal.

Seeing Qin Yuehan up close for the first time, her breathtaking beauty was suffocating.

"Shen Xuan, long time no see."

Qin Yuehan’s beautiful eyes gently scanned the private room, finally resting on Shen Xuan.

"Oh!"

Qin Yuehan suddenly showed a hint of surprise.

On her icy, frost-like face, there was a slight smile.

Shen Xuan knew that Qin Yuehan saw through his disguise.

On the surface, his cultivation realm was at the Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer.

Thus, even after Zhao Sujin revealed his identity as a Talisman Master, Yu Jian City still ignored him.

"Who are you!"

Lv Zhengying came over from behind Qin Yuehan and yelled angrily at Yu Jian City.

A perfectly good alumni gathering, with outsiders present.

Moreover, he brought a child of six or seven years old!

And boldly sat in the host’s seat!

"I..."

"Elder Lu, I am Zhao Sujin’s husband, Yu Jian City, I want to..."

Before he finished speaking.

Lv Zhengying shouted, "What do you want to do!"

"In the Juxian Tower, is this a place where someone like you can be presumptuous!"

"Wang Fugui!"

Wang Fugui quickly stepped forward.

"Present!"

"I entrusted Juxian Tower to you for management, is this how you manage it?"

"Any cat or dog can sit in the VIP private room of my Juxian Tower!"

"Ruined the reputation of Juxian Tower, can you afford to pay for it?"

Wang Fugui had no choice but to walk up to Yu Jian City.

"Fellow Daoist Yu, I will arrange another private room for you, please move on."

Under the strong and angry pressure of Lv Zhengying, Yu Jian City dared not say a word, obediently taking his young son and leaving.

"Zhao Sujin, you go out and take care of them!" Lv Zhengying said coldly.

Zhao Sujin’s face suddenly turned pale.

Everyone over seventy or eighty years old understood that Lv Zhengying despised them as a couple, directly expelling her from the gathering.

"Immortal Qin..."

Zhao Sujin looked pitifully towards Qin Yuehan.

Qin Yuehan did not speak.

She gently waved her hand.

In the VIP private room.

The table was rearranged.

Wang Fugui gently closed the door and activated the array restrictions.

"Ridiculous!"

Lv Zhengying glared at Wang Fugui, his anger not subsided.

"Forget it!"

Qin Yuehan said softly, her voice like silver bells, melodious and pleasant.

Only then did Lv Zhengying focus on Shen Xuan.

"Huh!"

He was somewhat confused.

With his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense, he actually couldn’t see through Shen Xuan’s cultivation realm.

"Shen Xuan, what’s your cultivation level?"

"Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer."

"That’s not right. You’re cultivating the Divine Hidden Sea Technique given by the sect’s master, right? The cultivators at Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer with this technique in the sect aren’t as strong as you!"

"I’ve also been cultivating the Condensed Water Blade Technique and Water Spirit Gathering Essence Technique of the Bishui Sect."

Shen Xuan explained with a smile.

"Moreover, I seemed to have awakened some hidden bloodline talents, improving my spirit root."

In the private room, Li Chang’an was led away by Wang Fugui on some pretext.

Apart from Shen Xuan, only Qin Yuehan, Lv Zhengying, and Wang Fugui remained.

After consulting a vast collection of cultivation scriptures, Shen Xuan had a deeper understanding of spirit roots and bloodlines.

Not only do demon beasts have bloodline talents, but human cultivators have them too.

And they also can improve their spirit root talent with the awakening of bloodline talents.

However, such human cultivators are relatively few, usually from distinguished families or those whose ancestors were prosperous.

This was the excuse he had prepared beforehand.

"Shen Xuan truly hides his talents well!"

Lv Zhengying did not pursue further inquiries.

"Immortal Qin was worried that your spirit root talent was too poor to advance, so she specially exchanged a Creation Pill for you!"

Shen Xuan was slightly stunned.

He had heard of the Creation Pill.

A Tier One Upper Grade Spirit Pill, it can enhance a cultivator’s spirit root talent.

The lower the realm, the poorer the spirit root, the better the effect.

The first pill is most effective.

Afterward, there’s resistance, reducing the effect significantly, even making it ineffective.

"It seems it’s not necessary now!"

Lv Zhengying appeared rather regretful.

"How many spirit stones?"

Shen Xuan felt a flicker in his heart and inquired.

"Five hundred sect contribution points. That translates to a thousand spirit stones!"

"Too expensive, it’s not something someone like me can afford." Shen Xuan sighed as he spoke.

If you add a bit more to a thousand spirit stones, you could purchase the essence blood of an upper-grade demon beast.

With that money, buying a Creation Pill would be better spent on seizing the bloodline talent of a demon beast to improve spirit root talent.

"A Tier One Upper Grade Spirit Pill! I gritted my teeth to consume one! Only then did I risk to establish my Dao Foundation!"

"By the way, Elder Lu, how is Foundation Establishment..."

The four ate and chatted.

As if they returned to their school days, exchanging ideas with sincerity and friendliness.

This gathering, without Zhao Sujin and Li Chang’an, included only the four of them, with a harmonious atmosphere.

Wang Fugui juggled little jokes to enliven the mood.

Most of the time, it was Shen Xuan asking questions, with Lv Zhengying answering.

Wang Fugui had long lost interest in cultivation.

He had a lower-grade spirit root.

Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer was his peak.

As for the Creation Pill.

Forget about not being able to buy it.

Even if he could, he wouldn’t bear to use it.

No one can guarantee that after taking a Creation Pill, he can break through to the late stage of Qi Cultivation.

Qin Yuehan, as the central figure among alumni and holding the highest position, naturally centered conversations around her.

Through casual chat, Shen Xuan learned many unwritten rules of the sect in the cultivation realm, barriers that lower-level cultivators struggle to reach.

"Cyan Cloud Sect will not sell Foundation Establishment Pills externally."

Qin Yuehan roughly explained the Cyan Cloud Sect’s contribution point system.

"Those Foundation Establishment clans participating in pioneering efforts go through a lot to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill and will not sell it externally."

"Shen Xuan, if you truly wish to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill, there’s another way."

"Which is to collect Foundation Establishment materials yourself, and with me and Lv Zhengying vouching for you, find a sect Pill Master to refine it for you."

Shen Xuan’s eyes lit up.

This was indeed a good method.

With Qin Yuehan and Lv Zhengying as guarantors, he wouldn’t fear the Cyan Cloud Sect’s Pill Master embezzling his Foundation Establishment materials.

"However, the three main and eight auxiliary ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill are not cheap."

"Average cultivators find it hard to collect them all. I have some extra materials that may be cheap for you."

Qin Yuehan explained the composition of the Foundation Establishment Pill’s formula in detail.

The most important main materials are the Creation Fruit, Purple Spirit Flower, and Jade Spirit Grass, each over three hundred years old.

Among them, the Creation Fruit is the rarest.

Therefore, some Pill Masters seek alternatives, using high-grade demon cores to replace the Creation Fruit.

Only Tier Two demon beasts produce demon cores, which are precursors to demon beast inner cores.

The demon core that can replace the Creation Fruit requires that the higher the demon beast’s bloodline and grade, the more pure the demon power, the better it can be harmonized and adjusted with other medicinal materials.

The demon beasts possessing suitable demon cores have formidable strength, beyond the capability of ordinary Foundation Establishment.

Creation Fruit and high-quality demon cores are essential, whether refining Foundation Establishment Pills of any attribute or having one.

During Qin Yuehan’s explanation of the Foundation Establishment Pill formula, Lv Zhengying and Wang Fugui listened silently.

Both looked at Shen Xuan, a hint of surprise in their eyes unsaid.

One speaking detailed, one listening earnestly.

Even a fool could see that Shen Xuan was serious about obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill, in an attempt to establish his foundation.

But he was already seventy-five years old!

Common knowledge in the cultivation realm is that Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators begin experiencing a decline in energy and blood at sixty years old.

Thus, the best age for Foundation Establishment is before sixty.

Lv Zhengying, being a few years late, was quite anxious about it.

Achieving Foundation Establishment requires wealth, companions, land, and methods; none can be lacking.

Spirit stones, spirit pills, Foundation Establishment techniques, Foundation Establishment Dao fields, personal cultivation techniques—if any link fails, success is impossible!

"Shen Xuan, if you reach Qi Cultivation Perfection and gather the right Foundation Establishment Pill materials, why not come to Cyan Cloud Sect to find me, and perhaps I can lend you a hand."