Chapter 172 Three levels of foundation building
As time goes by, ten years pass by in a flash.

It is November, the 15th year of Wang Yu’s career as a deacon. The weather is: heavy snow!
In the quiet room of Guiling City Lord’s Mansion.

“call—“

A long narrow stream of white air was exhaled from the throat like a sharp sword, leaving a dent in the hard wall. The young man who was sitting naked had a dark dragon tattoo on his back that gradually turned red.

After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes and murmured softly.

“Even without the skills, the secret medicine made from dragon blood made from ‘blood dragon essence’ has helped me reach a higher level. I am now at the peak of the second stage of body refining, which is equivalent to the third stage of foundation building.”

He clenched his fists and put on the dark blue silk crane cloak again.

“But that’s it. Without the corresponding technique, it is impossible to break through from the initial stage to the middle stage of physical training. However, the time for the Jiaolong Force to be placed is still 14 years away.”

Thinking of this, a hint of bitterness appeared on Wang Yu’s lips.

There aren’t enough drop bars!
Blood Dragon Essence is a gem formed from the blood essence of an ancient dragon. Wang Yu spent ten years on it, so it is impossible that he would only get this much.

The improvement of physical training is only incidental.

If you observe closely, the [Yinming Demonic Dragon Spine] formed by the blood and qi on his back can reveal that its image has changed a lot, and it looks more like a pure-blooded dragon!
As a result, the magical “dragon power” of Wang Yu’s body was also greatly enhanced. This is the effect of improving the foundation, even if there are people practicing the same skills as him.

Without the opportunity of the Blood Dragon Essence, his physique would definitely not be as good as his.

Among the body cultivators of the same level, his body can be considered one of the best. The product of the mixture and mutation of the dragon spine, the sky yin blood, and the corpse demon bone has been enhanced to the extreme at this stage.

Even so, he still had half of his blood dragon essence that he hadn’t used, and the secret dragon blood medicine deposited in his body had also reached a limit, so he had to find an opportunity to fight with his physical body.

Stimulate it to absorb all the precipitated medicinal power, but this has to be put aside for now. First, deduce the second-level skills of Jiaolong Jin.

Ten years, and a lot of harvest!
The top-grade escape technique, Frost Moon Wings, was perfected, and the dual soul sound techniques, Mind Controlling Demon Sound, and Ghost Crow Devouring Soul Sound, were both perfected.

He had mastered the Ancient Soul Technique to a small extent, and his spiritual awareness had further increased. He had drained all the evil spirits on the Black Evil Armor, and they all fell into a deep sleep.

The other techniques have also made progress, but they are not as good as these three.

For example, the Ice Wheel Technique, Searching the Mountains for Demons, Heavenly Soul Qi, Wailing Heart-breaking Blade… and other techniques, are roughly at the level of minor success +2, and are still a little short of major success.

After those spells were completed, there was only one vacant spot left.

He arranged for him to learn the secret method of spiritual consciousness [Heavenly Soul Qi]. The sooner he could perfect it, the better the effect of leveraging the power of “Evil Soul Devouring the Body” would be, which would help him to enhance his spiritual consciousness realm.

As for the alchemy, he had already prepared it when the Xuanyin Hand was perfected, but there was a time lag in waiting for the supply of Situ Hongyin’s marrow fluid.

Now we are only a few months away from success and advancement to the second level.

The completion of the Corpse Demon Secret Technique took place in the last two years. As he encountered bottlenecks in comprehending other techniques, he replaced them with this secret technique, one month here and one month there.

Little by little, it adds up to a lot. There are only nearly two years left. The closer it gets, the calmer his mentality becomes. According to the description of the “Yin Blood Pill” in the Corpse Demon Secret Technique, he can try to reshape it once it reaches the second level.

Of course, it is best to go to level three to ensure that there is no risk of error.

However, the strengthening and alienation of his body caused by “Heavenly Yin Blood” and “Corpse Demon Bones” formed a fusion and mutation with the body-refining techniques, and the enhancement of the essence of vitality actually helped him.

Rebuilding the left arm… not far away!

Finally, there is the change in cultivation.

Strictly speaking, it is ten years and five months of growth.

The placement bar increased his cultivation by 187.5 drops of true essence, his own practice increased by 25 drops of true essence, and with the original 132 drops of true essence, his total accumulated true essence limit exceeded 344.5 drops.

More than two years ago.

He successfully broke through to the third level of foundation building!
In another eight to ten years, he would be able to accumulate five hundred drops of true essence and reach the threshold of the first condensation of essence. This speed was quite fast.

Once he breaks through the middle stage of foundation building, his Unit 6 should be in place. This will be a real big improvement for him!
After these years of operation, Guiling City’s new interest alliance has become incredibly stable, with revenue growing at a rate of 4% to 5% each year, a very healthy curve.

Moreover, Wang Yu had developed his own set of relationships at the Guiling branch of Jinmanlou, and could use the vast resources of this business to find the most suitable cultivation resources for him.

After all, compared with the ascetic monk, all he had over the years was an environment with abundant spiritual energy, and he had not yet reached the current maximum speed of cultivation.

At this time, he estimated that the top-grade ice-attribute materials he had commissioned to find should have arrived. Wang Yu always liked to plan ahead, and he was not used to buying the pills he took from other places.

Even though Jin Manlou had an excellent reputation, he was still not at ease.

But preparing the third-level treasures in advance is something he can do.

After a normal cultivator breaks through to the Jindan stage, his wealth will be exhausted.

It often takes more than ten years of travel to have the opportunity to gather all the materials for refining one’s own magical weapon. He is wealthy and has determined his future path. If he collects the materials in advance, he can transform into a complete Jindan cultivator in one go.

Whether or not one has a natal magic weapon is the sign of whether the Jindan period is complete. As for the other natal magical power that needs to be cultivated, Wang Yu does not know enough about it.

It is still secret knowledge to him now. He can exchange related books from the sect only after he breaks through to the late stage of foundation building.

Currently, he already has two third-level Yin-attribute treasures in his hands, plus the [Soul-Growing Blood Gold] he obtained before. Let alone refining his own magic weapon, refining the second one is also a piece of cake.

It is not a loss to invest spirit stones in one place. After all, this thing is valuable only when it is spent.

The underground spiritual veins of Guiling City also produce spiritual stones.

However, after years of excavation, the limit has been reached. Further excavation will destroy the integrity of the spiritual vein, so it will only be mined again every ten to twenty years.

Spiritual veins are formed by the gathering of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and are extremely similar to earth veins. It can even be said that they were originally earth veins, merely undergoing spiritual mutations.

As time goes by, the accompanying spiritual stone mines will naturally continue to grow, and after each recovery cycle, a large amount of spiritual stones will be produced. This third-level medium-grade spiritual vein in Guiling City has a chance to produce high-grade spiritual stones, which are hard currency among high-level cultivators.

It is said that for Nascent Soul cultivators, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is not as pure as the magic power in their bodies. It usually needs to be refined outside the body before it can be taken into the body for repeated refining.

If you have high-quality spirit stones to arrange the [Multiple Spirit Gathering Array], you won’t need to go through so much trouble. The higher you advance in your practice, the more difficult it becomes. In the end, even the heaven and earth will become obstacles that restrict your progress.

Saving more now will only benefit your future.

Wang Yu checked the records of previous years.

After the recuperation period, the output of high-quality spirit stones should be between 500 and 1000 pieces, and he will have sovereignty over Guiling City for a full three hundred years.

Even if he digs once every twenty years, he can accumulate 7500 to 15000 high-quality spirit stones, which is a huge sum of money.

The middle-grade and low-grade spirit stones derived each time are actually a small part, with a total value of about one million low-grade spirit stones, which are all considered his own income.

The current Guiling City.

Calculated based on a five-year cycle, after deducting the cost of maintaining the city and personnel expenditures, and paying a million spirit stones, the net profit he can get is about 600,000.

I have collected income twice in ten years, plus the fixed extra income from the Lingshi mine this time, it is more than what I had after I got rich ten years ago, and this also includes the consumption in recent years.

In addition, there are three more monks in the early stage of foundation building in the worship hall.

Wang Yu arranged for them to serve as temporary commanders of the City Guards and Patrol Army. Once the people he trained were born and had established their foundation, they would return to the City Lord’s Mansion.

According to his orders, each person has to be given a lot of spirit stones to build the foundation for five years, and the expenditure is increasing year by year.

“It’s time to generate income, Xueyu!”

The three-tailed snow fox had undergone slightly smaller changes. Although it would take some time for Wang Yu’s alchemy skills to be fully developed, he had already been able to refine second-level pills.

It’s just that he couldn’t refine the best quality. After ten years, even the second-level elixir [Snow Fox Pill] that he refined himself had just broken through the second level of foundation building.

His cultivation speed is much slower than his. Snow Fox Pill is an advanced version of Beast Feeding Pill, and Wang Yu can often refine high-quality ones.

The recipes and herbs were purchased from Jin Man Lou and are said to have been passed down to the outside world from the most mysterious force in this world, the Zhenbei Tower.

Specially developed for the snow beast tribe in the Arctic ice field.

After his improvement, it became a Snow Fox Pill tailor-made for Xue Yu. The effect will be even better and it can continuously activate the potential in its blood.

The accumulation over time is the foundation. In the future, if one can obtain a rare and unique place in the world like the ‘Spiritual Spring Cold Pool’ as an opportunity for blood baptism, there is a small chance that one can continue to evolve.

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Haven’t been out for a long time.

Heavy snow was falling from the sky and the temperature was only a few degrees.

Standing at the entrance of the main hall of the City Lord’s Mansion, Wang Yu could naturally overlook the entire Guiling City. During this period of time, he encountered many small troubles, but he was able to solve them all.

Occasionally, one would encounter Jindan cultivators, who would be ostracized by the three sects outside the city. Unless they were independent cultivators, they would be treated warmly by everyone and even given an exhibition.

If a Jindan cultivator belongs to any powerful faction, he will basically not be welcomed.

God knows what they are planning.

Over the years, Wang Yu had only encountered it once. It was said to be a Jindan sect from the north, near the Luan Gu Sea, called the [Fu Hai Sect]!
This time we passed by Guiling City just to buy some supplies. Our real goal was to go to the Yama Ghost Market south of the 3,000-mile Reed Pond.

At this stage, the cooperation has entered an ambiguous period.

Wang Yu would occasionally go out of the city, but he would never go too far. For him, the Guiling City Lord’s Mansion was the safest place and very few people could break into it.

Just as he was thinking about how to make a bigger cake.

Two streams of fragrant breeze blew in from the side. They were the sisters Guan Yingdong and Guan Yingxue who had grown up to be young girls. They had been beauties since childhood and they were still beautiful ladies when they grew up.

If Wang Yu is happy, he will grant you a first-grade top-grade elixir for cultivation.

As a result, they and the two members of the Jiang family have reached the sixth level of Qi training. This speed is several times faster than their three spiritual roots’ talents.

At around sixty to seventy years old, one may be able to touch the threshold of foundation building. There are two chances to impact the foundation, so the chance of success is relatively high.

They came here to report something. The elder sister Guan Yingdong said calmly, “Master, there is a senior from Shui Mo Sect who I have never met before who is here to visit. He has been sent to the reception room.”

“Water Ink Sect? I see.”

Wang Yu nodded and said nothing more.

Seeing this, Guan Yingxue raised her mouth cautiously.

“Master, the other party should be here for the ancient ruins. There has been a lot of news from there recently. It is said that another ancient ruins community has been discovered.

“Other forces may come in the next few days.”

“Well, let’s go and have a look.”

He rubbed Yingxue’s head. This girl was smarter than her sister and had stronger initiative, and she often received rewards from Wang Yu.

(End of this chapter)