Chapter 132 Omens

Inside the secret chamber, Xu Yuanlang sat upright, having spent several years repairing his injuries.

Perhaps it is true that destruction precedes construction; as the damage within his body was gradually repaired, his aura also gradually strengthened.

He spent several more years gradually adjusting his state, refining spiritual energy, and integrating the five magical artifacts into his body.

"Water Dragon Chant governs the storage of water essence and the intake of qi into the kidneys."

"The cloud-blowing tree, which governs the flow of qi and blood, enters the liver."

"Qianzhangli is the master of wood, which transforms water and grains into the spleen."

"The blood in the box governs the metal element and controls respiration, entering the lungs."

"The main fire of the Thousand-Tree Flower has entered the heart, its divine bloodline resonating within!"

The five internal organs have their masters, the six bowels have their spirits, the soul resides above, the dantian is below, the five elements revolve, and all are one.

Each of his natal magical artifacts was integrated into his internal organs. At the same time, he was circulating the Azure Dragon Soaring Technique, where the five elements generated each other, and a continuous stream of spiritual energy began to flow in from all directions of the secret chamber.

However, these spiritual energies contain a great many impurities. In addition to the common five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, there are also rare attributes such as lightning, ice, dark wind, and stone. If these impurities enter the dantian, they will only make the spiritual power in the body become mottled and complicated, making it difficult to control it as one's own arm.

Therefore, the spiritual energy is refined and purified the moment it enters his body, and all the unwanted impurities are removed.

At this moment, his internal organs were refining spiritual energy of a different attribute, and his whole body was faintly glowing with spiritual light.

However, this step is a great test of a cultivator's talent; the more spiritual roots a cultivator has, the more pure spiritual energy they need to separate out.

Cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots only need the spiritual energy of their corresponding attribute; everything else can be discarded, making it simple and quick.

Starting with cultivators with earth-elemental spiritual roots, the process of refining spiritual energy becomes increasingly difficult.

Especially for a cultivator like Xu Yuanlang with five spiritual roots, having all five elements means that he must extract the pure spiritual energy of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth) from his spiritual energy and integrate them into his magical artifact.

The increase in steps was secondary; he also had to divide his attention into five parts, which not only made his cultivation speed extremely slow but also consumed a lot of his energy. Therefore, it took him several years to slowly refine spiritual energy.

Now, the spiritual energy in his dantian is abundant, and the five magical artifacts have reached their limit in terms of the amount of spiritual energy they can hold, with their respective spiritual light faintly leaking out from within his body.

As he had agreed with the clan elders, he should have met with them before his breakthrough, since they had promised before he went into seclusion that the clan would do its best to collect Foundation Establishment Pills.

If one has a Foundation Establishment Pill, even if the breakthrough fails, there is a very high probability of survival, and the heart meridian can be protected.

In this way, it will take several years to fully recover, and then you can rebuild your foundation again. With the experience of failure, the success rate of rebuilding your foundation a second time will be much higher.

He was well aware of his family's consideration for him, and he would have done so before. However, after breaking through to the ninth level of Qi Refining, his companion spirit plant grew its ninth leaf.

Its ability is—"Even if I die nine times, I will not regret it." The effect is extremely domineering. When breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm, this ability can guarantee that you have nine chances to break through. If you fail to break through nine times, it will not affect your state.

However, if one fails to break through nine times, the tenth attempt will undoubtedly result in death.

When he learned of this ability, his first reaction was not joy, but worry.

He knew his own situation best; he was just a cultivator with the worst talent among the five spiritual roots, and without a Foundation Establishment Pill, his success rate in breaking through was less than one in ten thousand, based on general probability.

Nine times? What good is that? However, the subsequent battles, especially the battle with Li Luomao, made him realize how terrifying the Foundation Establishment Realm was, making Xu Yuanlang even more eager to step into the Foundation Establishment Realm.

At the same time, he felt a sense of urgency. The threat from the Li family was like a sharp sword hanging over the Xu family's heads. He had to quickly establish his foundation. Moreover, he was in the right state right now. If he interrupted it at will, he didn't know when he would have such an opportunity again.

"If I fail to break through after nine attempts, then so be it."

Having thought this through, Xu Yuanlang made up his mind. The next moment, his body erupted with a powerful attraction force dozens of times stronger, and the surrounding spiritual energy was completely drained away in an instant.

Moreover, as his thirst for spiritual energy intensified, the spiritual energy throughout Wuliang Mountain began to gather madly towards him.

"Elder, pour all the spiritual energy from the spiritual vein into the secret chamber where Yuan Lang is in seclusion."

Upon noticing the vortex in the sky, the clan leader immediately and discreetly instructed the elder beside him.

"Clan leader, should we interrupt Yuan Lang's breakthrough first? We haven't even reached Foundation Establishment yet..."

The clan chief waved his hand and shook his head decisively.

"No, Yuan Lang is about to break through. Interrupting him will only cause his blood and qi to flow in reverse, which would be extremely dangerous."

Go and make arrangements quickly. If there isn't enough spiritual energy, take out the spirit stones from the family. Remember, you absolutely cannot let Yuan Lang lack spiritual energy.

The clan chief made a decisive decision and arranged things with remarkable speed.

"A ring match?"

"I'll make the arrangements. Right now, Yuen Long is the priority; we can put the rest on hold."

The elder hurriedly nodded. Just then, the clansmen on the mountain also noticed something was wrong, and everyone couldn't help but look up at the vortex in the sky.

"There's nothing to see here. I declare Fatung the winner of first place."

The clan chief quickly announced the results of the competition, which drew everyone's attention back. He did not appear to announce the prizes, but instead rushed to the core of the Wuliang Mountain formation and started operating the mountain-protecting formation.

At the foot of the mountain, Li Zhiwang, who was pretending to be an ordinary rogue cultivator, suddenly saw a huge vortex on Wuliang Mountain in the distance.

The next moment, the protective array on Wuliang Mountain suddenly lit up, causing people to instinctively close their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, the vortex had disappeared, and Wuliang Mountain seemed to be calm and peaceful.

"That's a vortex of spiritual energy. Is someone from the Xu family attempting to establish their foundation?"

"No way, you must be seeing things!"

"My eyesight is perfectly fine. Even the protective array on Wuliang Mountain has been activated, doesn't that prove it's true?"

Listening to the discussions of the many independent cultivators around him, Li Zhiwang put away the spiritual items on his stall, which puzzled the familiar cultivators.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, are you going back so soon?"

"Ah, whether or not someone has actually broken through, once the mountain-protecting formation is activated, no one will come to buy our things, right? I'd better not waste my time and go back to cultivate properly."

Everyone agreed with his reasoning and watched Li Zhiwang leave. Once the surrounding cultivators had thinned out, he hurriedly returned to his residence, closed the door, and quickly took out a piece of paper to write something down.

"It is suspected that someone in the Xu family has achieved foundation building."