Chapter 48: Advancement to the Foundation Establishment Realm

  What's the hurry? Drink my fine wine, one hundred coins a cup. Where are you off to? Listen to him lay out the Dragon Gate formation, and have three more cups.

  At noon, Yan Zhen walked into the Xiaohua Wine House: "Waiter, bring half a catty of Huangfeng Qu Nian wine, and also bring a water-boiled snake meat dish, a roasted snake meat dish, a Dragon-Tiger Fight dish, and a Snake Leaf Soup." The Dragon-Tiger Fight dish is simply snake meat and leopard meat placed on the same plate, arranged in a decorative pattern.

  Yan Zhen ordered four dishes this time, all of which were snake meat. His grandmother was so annoyed every day by the electric snakes that she had to endure for the sake of expanding her spiritual channels and laying a solid foundation for future cultivation, so she specifically ate snake meat to vent her anger.

  "Alright." Although Xiao Er found it strange that Yan Zhen had ordered this time, the customer was always right. After a short while, all four dishes and wine were served.

  Yan Zhen was eating snake meat with chopsticks fiercely, as if dealing with an enemy, while drinking fine wine.

  Where is the news spread, except for the intelligence agencies of various immortal doors and forces? The place with the most extensive information is undoubtedly the three major areas of wine towers, tea houses, and green buildings. These places are mixed with fish and dragons, and now there are several outer door disciples discussing downstairs.

  "It was great when the outer door disciples had a big competition some time ago, Yan Zhen alone defeated the three top masters of the original outer door, Song Ting, Yang Hu Xing and Fang Jing Tao, really showing off their skills."

  "Yes, it was a great fight, Yan Zhen is really too strong." Another outer sect disciple said.

  "But if I had to say who might be the most likely to break through the foundation boundary recently, I don't think it's Yan Zhen." said a outer sect disciple with a sword scar on his face.

  "Oh, what's going on?" Another outer sect disciple curiously asked.

  "It's simple, because Yan Zhen really hasn't accumulated enough. To advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, accumulation is crucial, and compared to them, Fang Jingtao, Yang Huoxing, and Song Ting have already accumulated for two or three years in the Qi Refining stage. Their accumulation is almost sufficient, but Yan Zhen is still a bit tender." The man with the sword scar on his face said: "So, I think more highly of these three senior brothers, Song Ting, Fang Jingtao, and Yang Huoxing."

  "It's reasonable to say so." Others who have gone through this analysis also think that the person with a sword scar on his face is right.

  Yan Zhen listened and also secretly thought in her heart, analyzing it to be very reasonable. Normally, that's indeed the case. Unfortunately, she had obtained the secret art of Rapid Impact Foundation Establishment, so she was just waiting for the chance to slap them in the face.

  ……

  On April 11th, Yan truly sat in the Qing She, today is the last day of practicing the secret technique, Yan Zhen began his final practice.

  First, he tied the electric snake's tail to his hands, letting it release bursts of electricity that continuously shocked him. Although it was already the 15th day of being electrocuted, receiving continuous shocks was absolutely not a pleasant thing. After being electrocuted for an hour, Yan Zhen started brewing a soup, specifically the "Thirteen Return to One" soup. He added white ginseng, yellow ginseng, angelica, astragalus, heavenly rush, bitter bamboo shoots, green bamboo shoots, two kinds of bamboo peel, coptis chinensis, moonlight grass, sunflower, snake gourd, three-leaf poison ivy, and lunar fruit - 13 medicinal herbs in a specific proportion to brew the soup. After brewing the soup, he drank all the herbs in one breath while they were still scalding hot.

  In an instant, a warm feeling rose up from his abdomen.

  Then, the medicinal properties continuously attack and stimulate the Baihui acupoint. The electric current is also affected by the medicinal properties, continuously stimulating the Baihui acupoint, forming a double stimulation on the Baihui acupoint.

  Yan Zhen himself also started to exert his magical powers and heavily struck the Baihui acupoint.

  At this moment, Yan Zhen's magic power is flowing in the meridians, just like the river water in the riverbed. The Baihui acupoint is like a huge dam. The river water keeps hitting the big dam, but the big dam stands firm. At this time, there is no other way, only to keep grinding the big dam, bit by bit grinding away the foundation of the big dam. After a long time, the big dam was also hit by the constantly impacting river water, shaking and becoming more and more precarious. Then another huge and wide river water hits the big dam, with a loud crash, the big dam suddenly collapses, and the river water flows over the dam.

  It's done! The blockage of the Baihui acupoint has been cleared. At this moment, Yan Zhen only felt a surge of heavenly energy flowing into his body through the Baihui acupoint on top of his head, and this feeling was incredibly wonderful, just like the saying "ambrosia poured into one's head".

  At this time, Yan Zhen was refreshed and spirited. He had finally advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage, which was completely different from his previous Qi Refining stage.

  Building a strong foundation is truly the beginning of the immortal path, leaving behind one's mortal identity, and finally reaching this stage!

  Now Yan Zhen only wants to sing and drink! Only wants to be heroic in song! Only wants to ride horses in the daytime! Only wants to tread all over Chang'an flowers in one day! Only doesn't want the golden cup to be empty against the moon! Only wants to buy worthless things with money! Only wants to drink at Beihai, and sit cross-legged on Mount Nan! Only wants to have wine, no need for children's help! Only wants to get drunk in the spring breeze, and leave a name as a drinker! Only wants to fight for ten thousand cups of wine! Only wants that life's joys must come when young, white-haired and laughing at oneself! Only wants that life's joys are not something gods can learn! This feeling is really too great!

  Building foundation! I've upgraded to building foundation myself!

  Yan Zhen took out a jar of wine from the cabinet, gurgling and drinking it up, first to get drunk. The wine spilled onto Yan Zhen's clothes, but he didn't mind at all, haha! Anyway, today is a happy day!

  Yan Zhen's mind turned over the descriptions of the foundation-building realm.

  Building the foundation, is building the foundation of the Great Way, the foundation of cultivating immortality. This realm requires the combination of the primordial energy of heaven and earth with one's own primordial essence. It transforms into a light, clear, and formless refined energy that can then follow the rotation of the celestial wheel, transforming the five elements, five viscera, and five energies into a dan fetus, preparing for the formation of the elixir.

  The foundation period is also divided into nine layers.

  The first heavy foundation is built, which is the opening of Baihui acupoint. This is exactly the current state and realm of Yan Zhen.

  The second stage of foundation building is the inner vision realm. At this boundary, the body and mind will withdraw the light from both eyes, as if observing but not observing, stopping in front of the ancestral aperture - neither inside nor outside the body, but at a position about one to two inches in front of the eyes. When the time comes, a faint glow can be seen in the void, this glow is both existent and non-existent, and when this glow becomes stronger through practice, it can be used for inner vision to examine the body. At that time, all five organs and six viscera, blood vessels, and meridians of the body can be clearly seen internally. The technique of inner vision arises from this boundary. For cultivators, the technique of inner vision is very important, checking whether one's practice has gone wrong, checking for any other diseases in the body, all rely on this.

  Third stage of foundation building, that is the realm of green wood. At this time, it attracts the heavenly and earthly wood element primordial energy, enters its own body into the liver, uses the green wood energy to transform the liver in the cultivator's body, making the liver full of vigorous vitality.

  Fourth stage of foundation building, that is the yellow earth boundary. Attracting the earthly Qi between heaven and earth, entering the spleen in the body, transforming the spleen with the thick and rich yellow earth Qi, thickening the virtue of the earth element.

  The fifth layer of the foundation period is the White Gold Realm. In this realm, one attracts the White Emperor Golden Energy between heaven and earth, leading it into the lungs within the body to transform the lungs of the cultivator.

  The sixth layer of the foundation period is the Black Water Realm. In this realm, one absorbs the black water energy between heaven and earth, leading it into the kidney area within the body. The kidneys store water, thereby transforming the kidneys of the cultivator.

  The seventh layer of the foundation period is the Scarlet Fire Realm. In this realm, one needs to absorb the scarlet emperor fire energy between heaven and earth, leading it into the heart of the cultivator, storing fire in the heart.

  The eighth layer of the foundation period, the five elements pay homage to the origin. In this realm, the green wood energy, yellow earth energy, white metal energy, black water energy, and red fire energy are transformed into a single entity, concentrated in the lower dantian three inches below the navel. The five elements are balanced, and the five energies are harmonized. At the time of the Five Elements paying homage to the origin, one will enter a state of forgetting both self and external objects. Meanwhile, the Baihui acupoint will pour in a large amount of heavenly energy from the origin into the lower dantian, greatly increasing the cultivator's magical powers.

  The ninth layer of the foundation period is called the Dan Tai realm. At the time of the eighth layer, the five elements in the lower abdomen had already transformed into a balance, and at this stage, the five elements gradually combined with the original essence to form the five-element primordial energy. The five-element primordial energy also gradually began to transform into an integrated whole, no longer divided into metal, wood, water, fire, or earth. This integrated whole is neither gold nor jade nor earth nor wood, but contains the hidden great Tao of the prenatal state, and is called Dan Tai. This Dan Tai is not an ordinary thing; once it matures, it can transform and nurture yin and yang, display three flowers, and give rise to the virtual elixir. However, transforming and nurturing yin and yang, displaying three flowers, and giving rise to the virtual elixir are all part of the third realm of the cultivator's practice, the "forming the elixir" realm, and not part of the second realm, the "building the foundation" realm.

  Ninefold foundation, each fold stronger than the last, ultimately condensing into a Dan embryo, not ordinary.

  Yan Zhen is now stepping into the first heavy hundred will hole in the foundation building realm.