Chapter 11: Insane Cultivation Growth

  Alchemy, for cultivators, can be said to be a compulsory divine ability. Because no matter what realm it is, as long as it is cultivated, it cannot leave the elixir. According to legend, in some ancient books of ancient times, there are also records of immortal elixirs. The immortal elixir appears in the world, and the feathered transformation ascends, which can be seen from the importance of the elixir in the cultivation world.

  Ding Yan was a former elder of a certain sect, with pre-tribulation cultivation and had been cultivating for thousands of years. Although he couldn't compare to the great masters of the alchemy sects, he was still considered above average among ordinary cultivators. To be precise, among tribulation cultivators, he was considered mid-tier. Before his fall, Ding Yan had refined countless elixirs throughout his life, many of which required extremely complex techniques and took decades or even centuries to complete. In comparison, the foundation-establishing pill could only be considered a beginner's elixir.

  As the fragrance of medicine dissipated, Ding Yan stood up, his right hand stretched out, and a ball of green yuan force dissipated from his palm.

  This is the divine power of the wooden attribute talisman.

  Nourish the fire with wood, increasing the chances of successful elixir formation. These are all experiences summarized by Ding Yan from his past life. If a cultivator who has never practiced alchemy before were to attempt to refine the foundation-establishing elixir at the ninth layer of Qi Refining, their failure rate would be one hundred percent.

  The blue yuan force flew out and slowly penetrated into the fire stove below the Dan medicine.

  BOOM!!

  The red flames grew even more violent.

  A wooden table not far from the stove, under the influence of this intense heat, silently turned into a pile of black ash.

  Ding Yan's eyes flashed, and he continuously threw out over a dozen hand seals, which landed on the edge of the stove, compressing the flames into an extremely small range.

  Wu Huo Cheng Dan is the final step in alchemy, and it's also the most exhausting step for one's yuan li. Many cultivators fail at this stage. When the elixir is about to take shape, a massive amount of fire energy is needed, almost violently so, to drive out impurities from the medicinal materials and refine the elixir into its final form at extremely high temperatures.

  The earth fire, a natural source of fire, is extremely difficult to control, but it does not require the alchemist to use their yuan force to stimulate it. Unlike those cultivators who can condense spiritual fire within their bodies, they must make preparations before each alchemy process, otherwise, in the later stages of alchemy, there may be a phenomenon where the yuan force is exhausted and unable to stimulate the martial fire to condense the dan.

  A while later, a rich fragrance wafted out after the dancong tea had been brewed.

  After asking about the fragrance, Ding Yan's mouth corners hooked up a slight arc.

  With a flip of his right hand, he pressed down with his palm facing downwards and left an imprint on the stove.

  A streak of cyan light flashed by, and the originally bright red furnace instantly calmed down. The fierce flames gradually dimmed until the last wisp of flame also retreated back into the furnace.

  After sealing the earth fire, Ding Yan stretched out his left hand and took the dan medicine into his hand.

  Although he knew that refining this elixir had little chance of failure, when the elixir was in his hands, Ding Yan still felt a hint of joy.

  The newly formed Zhuji Dan is dark red in color, the size of a goose egg, warm to the touch, and emits a faint fragrance.

  "The elixir is complete, the foundation is not far off. It's also time for me to witness the heavenly tribulation of this world." He took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve, put the elixir inside, sealed the bottle mouth, and then Ding Yan opened the door and walked out.

  At this time, there was a thread of light on the horizon, and a night had passed.

  He walked into the courtyard, took a deep breath and sat down cross-legged.

  Every day, the time of sunrise and sunset is the moment when the primordial energy between heaven and earth is most abundant, and it is also the best time for practitioners to practice breathing exercises. In his past life, Ding Yan's cultivation method had a clear record.

  The sun and moon alternate, yin and yang intersect, exhaling and inhaling the primordial energy, warming and nourishing oneself.

  Although Ding Yan's cultivation method has changed now, some things will never change, because this is a law, an eternal and unchanging principle.

  In the midst of a long, drawn-out sigh, threads of vital energy flowed into Ding Yan's dantian through his pores. The vital energy he had consumed in one night of alchemy was instantly restored, and there was even a slight improvement.

  Cultivation is a step-by-step accumulation process, and there is no possibility of achieving it overnight.

  It's like becoming an immortal in a hundred years, which is basically impossible. Ding Yan from his previous life was also a genius figure in the cultivation world, and even so, he spent over a thousand years to reach the height of the Tribulation Stage, and in the end, he didn't even dare to charge at the Heavenly Tribulation.

  The state of mind is invisible to cultivators, but it's extremely important. If the state of mind isn't good enough and one only focuses on using elixirs to increase their power and cultivation, they will definitely end up going crazy and losing control.

  However, this situation does not exist for Ding Yan now, because his mental state has already reached the early stage of crossing the tribulation, equivalent to a seven-tribulation loose immortal in this world!

  Does the Seven Calamity Scattered Immortal exist? Ding Yan doesn't know, because in the memories of this body, there is no memory of a person at that level. The most powerful person in his impression is the Taishang Elder of Lianhuagu, a one-calamity scattered immortal who has been hiding in the inner valley!

  Until the sun rises in the east, Ding Yan let out a long sigh and opened his eyes.

  He took out the foundation-building pill he had refined last night from his bosom, and without thinking much, swallowed it in one gulp. He then closed his eyes once again and began to cultivate.

  The pill melted quickly after entering the body.

  The medicinal power merged into Ding Yan's seven meridians and eight vessels, a scorching hot sensation burst out from his dantian.

  Inside the body, like a fierce fire burning, this is the first step after taking Zhuji Dan, the medicine power drives out the impurities in the body.

  Ordinary people throughout their lives eat grains and mixed cereals, breathe in turbid air, and have many impurities inside their bodies.

  Ding Yan's physical body, although having undergone short-term cultivation, still had impurities within that hadn't been completely cleansed. Many of these impurities hid in the apertures and couldn't be eliminated until a certain realm was reached.

  The process of refining impurities is like putting one's physical body in a fierce fire and burning it, which is unbearable for ordinary people.

  At this moment, Ding Yan's expression didn't change in the slightest, as if he couldn't feel the pain at all. In the path of cultivation, mental strength was also extremely important. Building his foundation was something that Ding Yan had experienced before in his past life, and now it was just a matter of going through it again.

  As time passed, the medicinal effects of Chikidou thoroughly burst forth.

  Many impurities hidden in the body were burned one by one, and the impurities that originally needed to reach the tenth, eleventh, or even twelfth layer of Qi Refining to be refined were now being refined one by one by the medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

  A subtle, indescribable clear stream surged up in his mind. Around Ding Yan, a hollow vortex appeared, and the usually imperceptible yuan force suddenly became worthless, frantically pouring into Ding Yan's body.

  Zhū jī dān, as its name suggests, is a medicinal pill for building the foundation of the Tao for cultivators.

  After the impurities in the body were refined, the heavenly and earthly primordial energy spontaneously gathered to make up for the deficiency in Ding Yan's physical body. Due to the insufficiency brought about by the refinement of impurities, a feeling that was difficult to put into words was born from his soul.

  Ding Yan opened his eyes, and a hint of sharpness flashed in them.

  Laying the foundation, it has begun!

  With Xin's mental state cultivation, one Zhu Ji Dan is enough to successfully establish the foundation.

  For ordinary cultivators, building the foundation is a barrier, and many cultivators spend their entire lives without being able to cross it. When Ding Yan built his foundation in his previous life, he also took nearly ten foundation-building pills before finding the key to building the foundation, thus successfully building the foundation. Now that he's building the foundation again, it's naturally a familiar path, and he's avoided many detours.

  At this time, the medicinal effect of Zhuji Dan began to merge into his physical body. Ding Yan felt that his soul had entered a new level. This was the beginning of building his foundation. With his past experience in building his foundation, Ding Yan understood it more clearly than anyone else.

  The soul's ascension, Ding Yan's stagnant cultivation begins to rise.

  At this time, the physical body has been completely filled with the surging yuan force. As time passes, the yuan force continues to melt into the physical body. Ding Yan clearly feels that his physical body is getting lighter and lighter, a refreshing aura emanating from all the orifices.

  His own cultivation directly broke through the nine layers of Qi Refining and reached the tenth layer of Qi Refining, but this was not the end.

  Refining Qi for the First Time in Ten Layers.

  Refining Qi, mid-10th layer.

  After refining the air in ten layers

  Refining Qi to the Pinnacle of Ten Layers

  Refining Qi Eleven Layers...

  In a short moment of dinner time, Ding Yan's cultivation directly crossed several major boundaries and entered the height of Lian Qi Twelve Layers.

  It wasn't until he reached this realm that Ding Yan's cultivation speed finally slowed down.

  At this time, the medicinal effect of Zhuji Dan had already begun to weaken. In the end, Ding Yan's cultivation stopped at the peak of Lianqi 12th layer, only one layer away from achieving the rank of Dispersed Immortal!

  Opening her eyes, Ting Yan slightly furrowed her brow.

  "How could it have failed?" Ting Yan was shocked and puzzled by his actual failure.

  Every step he cultivated was based on his past life's experience. Now that he couldn't succeed in building the foundation, there could only be one explanation - heavenly tribulation!

  This is a world of scattered immortals, if you want to break through, you must go through heavenly tribulations!

  "Even if I need to go through a catastrophe, with my current cultivation, I should be able to stir it up now, shouldn't I...?"

  He raised his head and looked up at the sky. Ding Yan's eyes seemed to see the power of heaven and earth gathering silently from the vast expanse.

  "This can isolate the breath of air, and even reached the point of deceiving heaven's calamity!!! What exactly exists in this small village!!!"

  Recalling the withered voice he heard when he first entered the village, Ding Yan's heart was stirred up once again.

  "Could this be the secluded retreat of some powerful being?!"

  In the past, I had also met some hidden old monsters in some places. Those old monsters were all cultivated to communicate with heaven, but they were unknown in the cultivation world. Because after reaching their realm, there was nothing else in their eyes except for becoming an immortal, and fame and other things had long been looked down upon. There were even some old demons who had forgotten their own names, and such existences were all those who communicated with heaven and earth.

  Thinking of this, Ding Yan withdrew his breath and stood up.

  Looking up at the sky, I found it was already noon.

  "It's time to leave this place......" Originally, Dīng Yán came to this island just to borrow the earth fire to refine the elixir and improve his cultivation. Now that the elixir has been successfully refined and his cultivation has broken through to the peak of Lianqi, it's naturally time for him to leave.

  Moreover, thinking that there might still be some old monster hiding on this island, Ding Yan's heart felt a sense of unease.

  I hope it's not the Overlord of Demons...

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