The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 1: Failure in building the foundation, crossing between two worlds

The wind is strong and the sky is high, and the autumn is bleak.

Above the Immortal City of Tanyuan, a vortex of spiritual energy shook a few times and suddenly collapsed.

The monks in the Immortal City who looked up at the sky couldn't help but sigh in unison: "Alas..."

In the main hall of the Immortal City, a Taoist wearing a Tai Chi crown shook his head and said, "Another Taoist friend has failed in building his foundation. The path of cultivation is full of twists and turns!"

Another Taoist wearing a lotus crown also had a look of regret on his face: "It's a pity that Daoist Li has gone through decades of hardships to achieve what he has today, but in the end it's all in vain."

He then instructed the maid beside him: "Follow the usual practice and open the cave house in half a month. If Fellow Daoist Li has passed away, return his remains and belongings to his clansmen."

"Yes, sir!" the maid bowed in response.

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Inside a cave in Tanyuan Immortal City that is rented out exclusively for foreign monks.

"Puff--" Li Qing suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and his originally rosy face turned extremely pale.

He hurriedly took out a bottle of pills from his storage bag, poured out three pills and swallowed them into his stomach. After regulating his luck, he finally recovered his breath.

"Practicing is as difficult as ascending to heaven!" Li Qing took a deep breath, "Building a foundation with a mid-grade spiritual root is still too difficult after all."

He looked at a porcelain bottle on the ground with a complicated expression: "Luckily I sold everything I had and secretly bought this foundation-building pill. Otherwise I would have died."

Li Qing is a time traveler. He traveled to this world more than fifty years ago and was reincarnated into a small spiritual family, the Qinghe Valley Li family. At the age of five, he was found to have a medium-grade spiritual root and embarked on the path of spiritual practice.

In this world, everyone has spiritual roots, and the evaluation of aptitude is not based on the number of attributes, but on the quality of the spiritual roots.

Li Qing has a middle-grade wood spiritual root, supplemented by a lower-grade fire spiritual root, and other spiritual roots are negligible. Born in a small family like the Li family, it is considered good to be able to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining when the life span is about to end.

Fortunately, Li Qing was determined, had good comprehension, and had a deep understanding of the cultivation techniques, which made up for some of the gap in the speed of cultivation.

In addition, he had a good talent for spiritual plants and alchemy. With the support of his family, in just over 20 years, he had both skills reached the first-class level, and gained a lot of cultivation resources.

Due to various factors, Li Qing was able to reach the peak of Qi Refining before the end of his sixtieth year of life and had the capital to build a foundation.

Unfortunately, even though he planned secretly and spent all his fortune to buy an inferior foundation-building pill, he was ultimately dragged down by his spiritual root aptitude and failed to successfully build his foundation.

Fortunately, with the support of the foundation-building pill, he was able to save his life and the ninth level of Qi Refining. Unlike those cultivators who built their own foundations, they would die if they failed.

"Oh, great heaven, how can you be so unkind to me!" Li Qing felt the magic power running wild in his dantian and his meridians being damaged and shattered. He sighed and started practicing the "Qingmu Jue".

Building a foundation requires a second-level spiritual vein, which Qinghe Valley does not have at all, so Li Qing can only rent one in Tanyuan Immortal City.

There is still half a month left before the lease expires, and he doesn't want to waste the spirit stones he paid for, so he decides to go into seclusion and regulate his breathing.

"Hey, what is this?" Li Qing suddenly became suspicious.

At this moment, in his dantian, a vague miniature portal appeared at some point, flashing light alternately.

Li Qing tried to touch it lightly with his spiritual sense. The next moment, Li Qing was no longer in the retreat cave.

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The sudden feeling of weightlessness gave Li Qing a start. He quickly made a finger gesture and used the Feather Falling Technique.

A breeze lifted him up and he slowly floated down. He suppressed his emotions and looked around, and found that there was a vast sea and sky around him, and he was falling towards a small island.

What shocked him the most was that the spiritual energy around him was heavy and difficult to mobilize, and he could only rely on his own cultivation to cast spells.

He quickly changed his spell to wind control, accelerated his landing, and soon landed on the island.

Previously, when he was in the air, he had observed the situation of the island.

This island is of moderate size, about the size of a county town in the previous life. There are two villages in the southeast, and hills and jungles in the northwest.

Although the place where he landed was in the jungle, it was not far from the smaller village. It was approaching dusk and there was already wisps of smoke rising from the chimneys.

Li Qing stood still while holding onto a tree, and silently sensed his Dantian, and found that the door-shaped shadow was still glowing.

Somehow, he learned that these were some fragments that were scattered throughout the heavens and worlds after the innate spiritual treasure "Gate of Heaven" was broken, and had been sleeping in his dantian before.

It was not until he built his foundation today and attracted a huge amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth that he activated it and anchored it in the world he is in now.

What worries Li Qing is that it will take half a month for this door to be restarted.

“I hope that Tanyuan Immortal City will abide by the rules and open my cave house halfway despite my failure in building my foundation.”

Li Qing took a long breath and cast his gaze towards the small village in the distance: "I wonder if this world can add some help to my practice."

Considering that this world also has spiritual energy, Li Qing did not approach rashly without knowing the details. "Let's recover from the injury first."

Previously, he had spent almost all of his fortune in order to buy foundation-building pills and rent spiritual vein caves. Now, apart from the alchemy furnace and pills for nourishing the essence and healing injuries, he didn't even have a set of talismans to conceal his body.

As a last resort, he walked some distance deeper into the jungle, found a big tree hole to hide in, and with a flick of his hand, he drove away the snakes, insects, rats and ants. Then he silently circulated the magic power in his body to repair his damaged dantian and meridians.

What surprised him was that underneath the door-shaped phantom, there was actually a pool of green spiritual liquid that expanded and contracted as if it was breathing.

"Is this... true energy?" Li Qing sensed it hesitantly and finally confirmed, "This is really great!"

You should know that the three most important manifestations of being promoted from the Qi Refining Stage to the Foundation Building Stage are: first, the Dantian builds the foundation of the Tao, second, the magic power is liquefied into true essence, and third, the lifespan is increased to three hundred years.

Li Qing failed in building his foundation, so naturally he had no foundation for Taoism. Also, due to the damage to his foundation, he lost twenty to thirty years of his lifespan.

"I've never heard of anyone who failed in building a foundation but still had his true essence?" Li Qingming thought hard, "Could it be the credit of this door-shaped phantom?"

He tried to touch the True Essence with his spiritual sense and found that he could move it at will, just like using an arm: "This way, safety is more guaranteed."

True essence is the foundation for casting foundation-building spells. When Li Qing reached the peak of Qi Refining and could not make any further progress, he also studied several foundation-building spells.

Although the foundation building has failed, he still has the support of the true essence, so he can still use it: "It's just that the amount of this true essence is limited, and I estimate that it can only be used ten times. Without the support of the Tao foundation, the power is similar to that of the second-level talisman, but it can't compare to the power of a proper foundation-building cultivator himself..."

Li Qing shook his head and silently practiced the "Qingmu Jue". Soon, the chaotic magic power in Dantian was sorted out and flowed along the spiritual veins to his limbs and bones.

However, the spiritual energy in this world is too weak. Even though he is in the forest, Li Qing still finds it difficult to draw the spiritual energy into his body, and his progress in healing is very limited.

Helplessly, he took out three more healing pills, raised his head and swallowed them: "Tsk, it feels a bit miserable, huh?"

(End of this chapter)