Chapter 478 - Late Stage of Foundation Building

  "Congratulations, Junior Brother Lu, for learning the recipe for the Foundation Building Pill."

  Guan Wan's tone became more cordial after Lu Xuan became the core alchemist of the Alchemy Palace.

  "I wonder if Junior Brother is still willing to cultivate spiritual plants for the Alchemy Palace?"

  "With pleasure."

  How could Lu Xuan not be willing to do so when he could get the Light Ball for free?

  Moreover, the probability of the spiritual plants entrusted to him by the Alchemy Palace to produce the recipe was not low, which was perfect for him who was determined to make pills.

  "Okay, then I'll have to trouble you again, Junior Brother."

  "In a few days, I'll go to the Sinong Palace again and send the Jade Dew Fruit Spirit Seeds to Junior Brother's Cave."

  Guan Wan's smile widened when she heard this.

  It's not easy to find a high-level spiritual plant master like Lu Xuan. The spiritual plants he cultivated have a 100% survival rate, and he can also get a lot of high-quality spiritual plants and spiritual fruits. It's natural that he is welcomed by the Alchemy Palace.

  Lu Xuan returned to the cave with the jade slip containing the recipe.

  He placed the jade slip against his forehead, letting his spiritual consciousness seep into it. The large amount of information about refining the foundation-building pill in the jade slip poured into his sea of ​​consciousness.

  "It can be considered as reviewing the old to learn the new, but it's

  a pity that I can't increase my experience in refining pills like the pill recipe prescribed by the light ball." Lu Xuan sighed.

  Three days later, when he was using the Spirit Rain Technique to water the water fireflies, Huo Lin'er came to the cave.

  "Brother Huo, I heard that something strange happened in the Black Demon Abyss Secret Realm this time. Are you and the brothers who went with you okay?"

  Lu Xuan asked softly.

  "Two brothers were seriously injured and their vitality was greatly damaged. They may need to rest for several years to recover. Fortunately, no one died among the group."

  "However, many casual cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation building, and even cultivators from major sects, were killed and disappeared."

  Huo Lin'er's face was as gloomy as water, and he sighed.

  "What exactly is going on? Senior Brother, do you know the reason?"

  "Inside the mysterious restriction at the center of the secret realm are many powerful evil spirits, including some disaster-level evil spirits with Jindan strength. After the restriction is broken, they will be released to wreak havoc on the entire Black Demon Abyss."

  "Junior Brother Lu, it's a good thing you didn't go with me to explore the secret realm last time, otherwise, under the impact of a large number of evil spirits, you might not be able to be protected."

  Huo Lin'er said frankly.

  "Senior Brother, you worry too much. With your ability, there will definitely be no problem."

  "However, how should we deal with so many evil spirits in the secret realm?"

  Lu Xuan flattered him lightly and asked.

  "The nearby major sects should unite to eliminate them, so as not to release them to wreak havoc on the cultivation world."

  "In addition, the center of the secret realm may contain rare treasures. As far as I know, some Jindan real people have intended to enter it. At that time, it will be another bloody storm."

  Huo Lin'er's young face showed a trace of maturity, and he sighed.

  He just passed by Lu Xuan's cave and left after not staying for long.

  Lu Xuan's heart was calm.

  Whether there were powerful cultivators who died in the secret realm or rare treasures hidden in the secret realm, it had nothing to do with him. He just needed to stay in the sect honestly and farm peacefully.

  In the next three months, he only went to the underworld courtyard and the incomplete secret realm once to plant the Youquan flower and check the condition of the spiritual plants in the two spiritual fields.

  The rest of the time he stayed in the sect, cultivating spiritual plants, raising spiritual beasts, practicing skills, and refining elixirs in his spare time. His life was calm, simple and fulfilling.   

  During this period, Guan Wan from the Dan Palace sent the Jade Dew Fruit Spiritual Seeds to his cave.

  Perhaps because the cultivation effect was good last time, the newly sent spiritual seeds were twice as many as the last time, with 20 seeds.

  Jade Dew Fruit is a third-grade spiritual plant, valuable and precious. The fact that 20 seeds can be taken out at a time shows the Dan Palace's trust in Lu Xuan's spiritual plant level.

  The Water Firefly Grass Spiritual Seeds used for induction and stimulation before, under the continuous nourishment of the Hundred Years of Ice Soul, after rounds of screening, finally appeared with a mutated spiritual seed with special features. The

  spiritual seed contains a trace of slight icy power, but it has not crossed the grade and is still a second-grade spiritual plant.

  Lu Xuan is not in a hurry about this. The improvement of spiritual seeds is not a matter of one day or one night. It requires the patience of the spiritual plant master to induce the spiritual seeds again and again, and then cultivate them to observe the characteristics of the spiritual plants, and so on. Because

  he can check the status of the spiritual seeds and spiritual plants at any time, he can stop the loss in time and cultivate them in a targeted manner, which shortens a lot of time and saves countless energy compared to the ordinary improvement process.

  There is still a long way to go before he can break through to the stage of forming a pill. He can still get a lot of cultivation rewards from the water firefly grass. He just needs to improve it in the meantime.

  In the spiritual field, all the spiritual plants are growing well under his careful care. The fourth-grade Jian Qianxiao and Mayfly Grass have entered the mature stage. Lu Xuan is looking forward to the light ball reward after harvesting the two spiritual plants.

  "The water firefly grass is beginning to mature."

  The slender leaves of two hundred water fireflies are close together, forming a deep blue area, with countless fluorescent lights flickering inside, like thousands of stars in the night sky.

  Lu Xuan carefully checked and found that four of them were fully mature. The

  light blue light ball in his dantian rotated slightly, and a trace of light blue spiritual energy full of vitality flowed out of his body and penetrated into the water firefly grass that was about to mature.

  The water firefly grass is only a second-grade spiritual plant, and it has entered the mature stage. Even if the number of plants is a little more, the consumption of Qingmu Yuanqi is not much, and it can be replenished by absorbing half a soul-gathering grass bead.

  "It's too troublesome to open the light balls one by one. I want to open them all at once!"

  Lu Xuan thought, picking 150 water fireflies and using the remaining 50 for seed formation.

  Perhaps because of the meticulous care during this period, the quality of the water fireflies was very good, mainly good, followed by superior, and the number of ordinary quality was the least. The

  150 white light balls flickered slightly, making Lu Xuan feel that he couldn't keep up.

  He touched the light balls one by one, and many of them exploded one after another, turning into countless tiny light points, pouring into his body.

  Thoughts flashed through his mind.

  [Harvest one water firefly grass and gain one year of cultivation.]

  [Harvest one water firefly grass...]

  ...

  Waves of surging spiritual power appeared out of thin air and raged through Lu Xuan's meridians.

  He used all his strength to operate the skills, compressing and refining the vast amount of spiritual power, turning it into drops of spiritual liquid, and storing it in his dantian.

  After absorbing all of it, the extremely pure spiritual liquid in his dantian surged up, and the aura in his body suddenly rose a lot.

  "I have reached the late stage of foundation building."

  Lu Xuan's heart was filled with a feeling.

  Among the 150 light balls, nearly 20 contained cultivation rewards, which brought Lu Xuan more than 30 years of cultivation, allowing him to break through to the late stage of foundation building in one fell swoop.

  "After more than 20 years in the sect, I finally broke through to the late stage of foundation building. All this is due to my hard work and the help of the light balls."

  Lu Xuan stood there, experiencing the various changes in his body, and felt like a dream.

  When he was still a small casual cultivator of Qi training, he would never have thought that one day he would have the cultivation of the late stage of foundation building.

  (End of this chapter)