Shennong Sequence

In the private room of Ziqi Restaurant, everyone sat down. Whether they were chatting casually before the meal or waiting for the steaming dishes to be laid out on the table and everyone to raise their glasses to eat, Zhao Yun and Xin Ruyin never mentioned the innate jade, let alone the important matter of building a foundation for the Great Dao!

They just chatted about everyday things, asking if his cultivation was going smoothly, talking about the latest interesting news in Yudao Immortal City, and occasionally mentioning some trivial matters in the sect. Their tone was as relaxed as if they were having a casual meal with friends.

In any case, Zhao Yun and Xin Ruyin already had a plan in mind:

The value of innate jade can never compare to the 'Five Primordial Elements' needed to forge the foundation of the Great Dao!
Moreover, neither of them possessed the Five Primordial Sources of Heaven.

So, lacking the five innate elements, one still desires to establish a foundation for the Great Dao?

This is pure fantasy and a wildly imaginative act.

So what can a piece of natural jade do?
It cannot be compared to even a tiny bit of the innate Five Primordial Sources!

That is why the idea of ​​"helping ten people achieve the foundation of the Great Dao" proposed by Gongshu Tianming and his group was unreliable!
Zhao Yun and Xin Ruyin already had a plan in mind: this initial discussion would most likely not yield any results!
Since that's the case, we might as well eat when we're supposed to eat, drink when we're supposed to drink, and chat when we're supposed to chat, and enjoy ourselves. Anyway, we'll never bring up serious matters to avoid creating trouble for ourselves.

So, in this small private room, a particularly interesting scene gradually emerged:

Whenever Gongshu Tianming or someone around him tried to bring up cultivation or steer the conversation toward the topic of innate jade, Zhao Yun would always chat with Xin Ruyin about this fish, that it was some kind of spirit fish, or that it was the meat of some kind of spirit beast, and so on.

Xin Ruyin would then add her comments from the side, sometimes talking about the difficulty of catching spirit carp, sometimes about leopard meat, always keeping the conversation around the dishes on the table and never letting the topic veer off course.

In short, let's change the subject and first show the current state of this group of people.

After all, Zhao Yun had figured it out and no longer had the same urgent desire for this innate substance as he had initially.

He is only thinking about advancing his cultivation to the Golden Core Realm as soon as possible, so that the transformation range of the Material Transformation Method can be wider. When that time comes, it will be enough to bring this Great Dao Method back to the future and be able to use it normally.

After all, the foundation for future cultivation will ultimately be based on the new sequence of methods; the old method system of this ancient era is simply not suitable for cultivation!
Naturally, there is no need to be fixated on the perfect foundation of the Dao, which is "without regrets," nor is there any need to force oneself for a piece of innate jade.

Even though Zhao Yun and Xin Ruyin discussed each dish on the table in detail, from the source of the ingredients to the cooking methods, and even the proportion of spiritual plants in the dipping sauce, the group led by Gongshu Tianming still showed no sign of giving up!
Perhaps they also vaguely realized that the previously proposed request to "help ten people build the foundation for the Great Dao" was too outrageous?

So even when Zhao Yun kept interrupting him with irrelevant remarks, he refused to give up and was determined to get the conversation back on track and restart the negotiations...

Finally, Gongshu Tianming put down his jade chopsticks, his gaze falling on Zhao Yun and Xin Ruyin, his tone carrying a hint of frankness and bluntness:

“Brother Zhao, Miss Xin, let’s stop hiding it and be frank today. We do indeed have a piece of innate jade, and that’s no exaggeration.”

Then he added:

"Moreover, we have also confirmed with others that the two of you have both achieved the Foundation Establishment of the Great Dao. Among us, who have traveled from the future, you are the only two people who have achieved the Foundation Establishment of the Great Dao!"
With such formidable strength, no one is more suited to lend a hand than you!

"So what exactly is so special about Foundation Establishment of the Great Dao? Please, both of you, explain." Gongshu Tianming then leaned forward further, his eyes full of expectation, his tone earnest:

"If you two are willing to help us achieve the foundation of the Great Dao, then in the future, in this vast Wanling Yudao Immortal Sect, we can help each other and look out for one another."

"Even if we take a step back, once our group's overall strength grows, we might be able to find a way to return to the future. That would be much better than wasting our time in this ancient era that doesn't belong to us!"

Zhao Yun put down his jade chopsticks, and also let go of the morally blackmailing situation he was about to be in.
His gaze swept over the few weak cultivators beside Gongshu Tianming, his tone tinged with doubt:

"There is one thing I don't understand."

"Your cultivation levels are either in body refinement or have just entered the Qi Refining stage; you haven't even touched the threshold of Foundation Establishment. Who told you that you should start thinking about condensing the Great Dao and establishing your foundation now?"

As soon as Zhao Yun finished speaking, he changed the subject again, staring at Gongshu Tianming and continuing to press him for answers:

"Furthermore, innate jade is an extremely valuable resource, and ordinary cultivators rarely even see it. Since you have obtained such a treasure, why don't you have more resources to help you quickly improve your cultivation level in the early stages?"

Zhao Yun's rapid-fire questions were not unfounded.

When Gongshu Tianming ignored his attempts to change the subject and spoke frankly about the important matter, he vaguely sensed something amiss:
These people are only at the early stage of Qi Refining, and haven't even broken through the twelfth level of Qi Refining. Why would they be thinking of trying to break through to the Great Dao Foundation Establishment now?
Having aspirations is fine, but this step is too big and completely goes against the common sense of spiritual practice.

Moreover, although he himself was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he had never made this identity public. He usually either studied material analysis in the treasure mine or secluded himself in a secret room with Xin Ruyin, and basically did not have contact with outsiders. Under such circumstances, information about his Foundation Establishment should not have reached the ears of these Qi Refining cultivators.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yun suddenly remembered those sycophants from aristocratic families, like Xin Ruyin, who had always tried to trip him up but had repeatedly failed. Recently, these people seemed to have indeed become much quieter.

They neither came to the treasure mine to cause him trouble again, nor did they spread rumors about him within the sect.

This unusual quiet inevitably aroused suspicion.

Could it be that Gongshu Tianming and his group knew about "foundation building of the Great Dao" and even dared to make such a request using "innate jade"? Were there any powerful families behind them pushing them forward?

"We obtained this innate jade by chance in an abandoned mine; it was purely by luck."

Gongshu Tianming's eyes flickered, his tone somewhat ambiguous, before he straightened his back and his tone became more firm:

"As for the Great Dao Foundation Establishment—among the hundreds of millions of Qi Refining cultivators in the entire Wanling Yudao Immortal Sect, which one doesn't regard it as the ultimate goal?"
Even if our cultivation is weak, we still aspire to pursue the Great Dao. Naturally, we want to understand what this so-called Foundation Establishment of the Great Dao entails, and what difficulties it presents. Isn't this the pursuit that every cultivator should have?

These words sounded impeccable, but Zhao Yun still felt something was amiss! (End of Chapter)