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

Chapter 275: Return to the Immortal City, Foundation Building Pill Matters (Request for Full Order)
After many years, Li Qing came to the fairy city of Tanyuan which he had not visited for a long time.

The towering fairy city is majestic, and the powerful spiritual energy turns into clouds, lingering in the sky.

At the entrances of the eight city gates, monks were coming and going, and people were streaming in, creating a busy scene.

"With so many cultivators, even the entire Xuefeng Lake area combined cannot fill up this one portal." Li Yu sighed enviously.

Li Qing asked with a smile: "Did you ever encounter any opportunities in Tanyuan Fairy City during the years when you were away for training?"

Li Yu shook his head: "That's not the case. I practice water magic, and the territory of Tanyuan Fairy City is famous for its fire-type spiritual materials. There is not much point in coming here."

Li Qing couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother, please come with me on this trip. I have been here for many years and built my foundation for the first time. I have a few acquaintances here..."

Li Yu laughed: "You are a foundation-building cultivator. If I go with you, maybe I can get some good fortune."

Apart from anything else, in this immortal city, Qi-cultivating cultivators need to queue up to enter and exit, and only those who have completed foundation building can use special passages.

The two chatted as they walked towards the east gate.

Suddenly, a vortex of spiritual energy above the fairy city shook violently and suddenly collapsed.

"Alas, another fellow Taoist has failed in building his foundation!"

Next to him, an old cultivator with white hair and beard sighed, feeling sorry for his fellow cultivators: "When will this cultivation end? It is better to go home, it is better to go home..."

As he spoke, he walked out of the queue and staggered toward the square outside the fairy city where the flying boat was parked.

"Alas, Old Man Yang finally went back." A burly physical cultivator next to him shook his head. "His wife and children are all dead. He has wasted eighty years here. It's time for him to return to his roots."

Another middle-aged cultivator with a hooked nose said disdainfully: "Hey, the Jiazi foundation building is not so easy to break. The last time there was an old man building a foundation was hundreds of years ago..."

Li Yu, who was following Li Qing, couldn't help but pause.

He had also long passed the sixty-year foundation-building threshold, but it was only after he had acquired superior techniques and been nourished by a blessed land, and recovered to his prime, that he began to aspire to build his foundation again.

Li Qing immediately understood his thoughts and hurriedly said, "Brother, why do you have to listen to such idle talk?"

"Back then, I took a low-quality foundation-building pill and failed in my attempt to build my foundation, but I succeeded in building my foundation on my own, didn't I? Everything depends on human effort, it's just a matter of fighting!"

Li Yu calmed down and said, "The arrow has been put on the string and must be shot. Now that I have come this far, why would I retreat? I have laid the foundation for this journey!"

Li Qing then exposed the matter, took him through the foundation-building passage, and entered the Tanyuan Immortal City.

"When I was in Xiancheng, I had several friends besides Seniors Jiang and Zhou. Among them was a second-level alchemist who could refine foundation-building pills. Brother, why not come with me to visit him."

Li Yu was excited when he heard this: "That's great!"

The alchemist that Li Qing was talking about was Liu He, who made the foundation-building pill for him.

Tanyuan Fairy City, relying on the third-order medium-grade spiritual vein below, is divided into three concentric circle areas.

The core is where the master of the immortal city, Jindan Zhenren Tan Yuan, and his disciples live. The most essential part of the third-order spiritual vein is suppressed here.

There is a large oval area outside, with a second-level spiritual vein extending out. Among them, the second-level middle and lower grades are rented out to foundation-building monks for permanent residence.

The second-grade superior quality spiritual veins are separately designated and rented out to cultivators at the peak of Qi training who are aiming to break through.

The spiritual vein cave rented by Liu He is right next to this area.

As a second-level alchemist who can refine foundation-building pills, Liu He's place is always crowded with customers. "Everyone, this furnace of foundation-building pills has been prepared. My master will open the furnace in three days. Please don't be late by then."

"As for the other fellow Taoists, in order not to delay your cultivation, please find another way. My master will not refine the foundation-building pill for another year."

A young monk stood at the door and persuaded the unwilling monks to leave one by one.

Li Qing turned around and told Li Yu: "It is difficult for ordinary cultivators to prepare all the ingredients for rare elixirs like the Foundation Establishment Pill."

"So in the Immortal City, the cultivators will pool together the materials they need for the elixir and ask a second-level alchemist to refine it. Those who contribute more can choose the elixir first."

"Sometimes we are lucky and get several pills, and everyone gets points. If we are unlucky and the number of pills is not enough, the person who selected the pills needs to make some compensation to the others."

Li Yu thought thoughtfully: "You bought that inferior foundation-building pill because you didn't contribute enough money, so you had to settle for the next best thing?"

Li Qing shook his head and smiled bitterly: "That's not the case. I just ran into a great cultivator in the late stage of foundation building who wanted to find pills for his grandson. How could I dare to compete with him at that time? I didn't even dare to ask for compensation."

Li Yu was furious when he heard this: "This is outrageous! That foundation-building cultivator..."

Li Qing smiled and waved his hands: "The law of nature is clear, and retribution will come. I heard later that when the grandfather and grandson were leaving the city, they encountered robbery cultivators and both died."

As for why the robbery cultivator came at such a coincidence, it was naturally because someone tipped him off.

Li Yu didn't know the entanglement behind this, and only said angrily: "I don't know what his descendants are like? If there is a chance..."

While the two were chatting, the young monk had already persuaded the monks surrounding the cave to leave.

"My fellow Taoist, why are you staying here? My master is indeed..."

He walked slowly to Li Qing and was about to persuade him when he suddenly exclaimed, "You, you, you are Senior Li Qing?"

Li Qing looked him up and down and said, "It turns out to be Brother He. I haven't seen him for a few years. He has grown up."

This person is an orphan adopted by Liu He and also the youngest disciple under him. His name is Liu He, which means harmony is the most precious thing in all things.

He first introduced the two parties, then looked into the cave: "How is your master these days?"

Liu He shook his head: "Not very good. After the eldest brother disappeared, the master went out to look for him several times, but to no avail. Recently, I have been having trouble eating."

The eldest senior brother he mentioned was the one who sold the news of Li Qing's private planting of the Jiuxuan fruit tree to Master Liu Yuan.

Li Qing sneered in his heart, but said comfortingly: "Good luck comes naturally to those who are lucky. Maybe your senior brother is lucky enough to have entered some secret realm..."

Liu He did not elaborate on the matter, and led Li Qing and the other man into the cave gate: "Master will be very happy to hear that you are here."

"A few years ago, he heard that you had successfully built your foundation, so he drank three large jars of spirit wine. Even when he was drunk, he still said he was sorry for you..."

Li Qing just smiled and didn't respond.

Inside the cave, hearing the noise outside the door, an old man in a green Taoist robe walked out slowly.

He has a childlike face and white hair, with eyebrows that hang down to his chest, a pair of bright eyes, and a faint fragrance emanating from his whole body.

"Friend Li!" he exclaimed, looking Li Qing up and down, "Looking at your whole demeanor, it's true that you have suddenly unlocked the golden lock and let the dragon go, and from now on you will soar to the sky."

(End of this chapter)