Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 120: Travels of the Incarnation
Lingtian cabin.

The original magic weapon hut had been reduced to ashes by the previous explosion of spiritual power. At this moment, Gu Mo could only temporarily build a small wooden roof as a substitute, and then buy a new magic weapon hut when he had time.

Concentrating his mind and calming his breath, Gu Mo sat cross-legged in the cabin, practicing the foundation-building method that he was very familiar with. Not surprisingly, Gu Mo himself and his incarnation encountered the situation where the liquid spiritual power could not be compressed any further, causing the progress to be stuck.

However, this time Gu Mo already had a solution. Instead of using the viscous liquid spiritual power initially obtained from the incarnation's dantian, Gu Mo directly used a trace of fake elixir power to push the foundation-building method forward.

After passing this level, everything went very smoothly afterwards. After completing the foundation-building method once more, Gu Mo felt a sense of fulfillment.

Although Gu Mo already possessed everything a foundation-building cultivator should have, that was obtained by skipping classes, and he had not experienced a normal breakthrough in cultivation.

The cultivation system in the world of immortal cultivation has been continued for countless years and has its own rules. It is not so easy to change it at will.

"Unfortunately, there is no breakthrough reward." Gu Mo opened his eyes. After running the foundation-building method once, Gu Mo did not get the reward for breaking through the foundation-building method. Or it could be said that this reward had been given before, and now Gu Mo was getting a make-up ticket.

It’s just that the reward given before was stopped halfway, which made Gu Mo lose half of his accumulated foundation. But he got 6 drops of initial liquid spiritual power, which doesn’t seem to be a big loss.

Gu Mo can continue to accumulate foundation, but treasures containing original power are rare treasures.

Having filled the ticket to enter the foundation-building period, the next thing Gu Mo had to do was naturally to condense the incarnation. Taking out a drop of initial liquid spiritual power and a drop of his own blood, Gu Mo activated his extracorporeal body magical power, and soon a brand new incarnation was born.

After the incarnation is born, it is just a blank slate. Gu Mo will need to spend time to improve the incarnation's strength. This is also a shortcoming of the magical power of the external body.

Not only does the incarnation's cultivation need to be improved, but the original body also needs to improve its cultivation after officially becoming a foundation-building cultivator. In addition, both the original body and the incarnation need to use the power of fake elixirs and use the Spirit Forging Technique to temper their bodies.

Especially for the incarnation, Gu Mo needs to improve the incarnation's cultivation and physique to the middle stage of foundation building, so that the incarnation can sacrifice the fake elixir and become a fake elixir cultivator.

With an incarnation of the fake elixir level, Gu Mo would not be afraid even if He Shaogang sent someone to assassinate him again, unless He Shaogang sent a strong man of the golden elixir level, but the possibility of this is not high.

Not to mention that the Jindan cultivator had to pass through the territory of a level 3 monster, which would cause the monster to attack. The strength that Gu Mo showed now was not enough to make the Jindan cultivator take action.

It's like an ant, which can be killed with a slap or by a nuclear bomb. Anyone with a normal mind would choose to kill it with a slap.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that He Shaogang might suddenly have a brain spasm, so Gu Mo still needs to be fully prepared, such as making a second-grade top-grade cherry bomb. With the power of the cherry bomb, it should be able to deter Jindan-level cultivators.

As for why they didn't upgrade the cherry bomb directly to level 3, it was naturally because they were discouraged by the massive amount of solar essence required to upgrade the cherry bomb to level 3.

If he really wanted to force an upgrade, Gu Mo would need to at least fill the spiritual field with all the solar essence in the past few years. If he hadn't obtained the fake pill before, Gu Mo might have gritted his teeth, saved money, and spent several years to make a level 3 cherry bomb.

It is definitely worth spending several years to obtain a powerful weapon that can kill Jindan cultivators.

But now that he has the fake pill and the incarnation, Gu Mo feels that upgrading the incarnation is more cost-effective. Although the cherry bomb is powerful, it can only hit once.

If this attack missed, Gu Mo would completely lose the power to resist. Although the fake elixir incarnation was not as powerful as the real golden elixir, it would take time for a golden elixir cultivator to kill a fake elixir cultivator.

This time is enough for Gu Mo to escape, or to counterattack with a level 2 top-grade cherry bomb to force the enemy back.

Therefore, Gu Mo's next plan is to prioritize improving the incarnation's cultivation and physique, at least to let it enter the middle stage of foundation building and reach the minimum requirements for refining fake pills. Then the upgrade of the 2nd-level top-grade cherry bomb will follow.

If conditions permit, Gu Mo will upgrade the sunflowers, pea shooters, potato mines, and nuts to the second-level best quality.

Finally, it is the improvement of Gu Mo's own cultivation and physique. First, complete the means of protecting the way, and then improve the body, so as to avoid the body from sudden death in danger.

As for doing one's utmost to enhance one's own strength, when one's own strength becomes strong, there will be no need for any means of protection. This is indeed a method, and a very wise method.

No matter how strong the external objects are, they are not as strong as oneself. But the problem is that as long as the incarnation cultivates to the middle stage of foundation building, it can sacrifice fake pills and have the combat power of fake pill monks. Cherry bombs, pea shooters, potato mines, and nuts can be quickly upgraded to level 2 extreme as long as there is enough solar essence.

As for Gu Mo himself, if he wants to improve his cultivation to the great perfection of foundation building, it is unknown how many years it will take. This speed is far slower than the upgrade speed of his incarnation and plants.

After deciding on the next training plan, time began to pass quickly without anyone noticing.

"Huh~~Finally I've reached the middle stage of foundation building."

Gu Mo's incarnation slowly opened his eyes, and with the investment of all resources, Gu Mo successfully raised the incarnation's cultivation to the middle stage of foundation building.

To this end, Gu Mo spent two years. It took him one year to go from blank slate to the third level of foundation building, and the remaining year was spent on breaking through the bottleneck of the middle stage of foundation building.

Compared to the bottleneck of the Qi Refining Period, it is much more difficult to break through the bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment Period. Of course, this is also related to the fact that Gu Mo's incarnation and his original body have inferior spiritual roots.

But even so, it only took Gu Mo one year to break through. This speed was not what a cultivator with inferior spiritual roots should be able to achieve. Even for cultivators with superior spiritual roots, it would be impossible for them to break through to the middle stage of foundation building so quickly.

The breakthrough speed of those monks with superior spiritual roots was not as fast as Gu Mo's because they did not have a false elixir monk with the same power as them to lead them.

Gu Mo was able to reach the middle stage of foundation building within a year with his inferior spiritual roots, all by relying on the power of the fake elixir. As for whether this rough way of breakthrough would have any consequences, Gu Mo was not worried at all. After all, this was just an incarnation.

One of the tasks of the incarnation is to pave the way for the original body. With the help of the incarnation, Gu Mo personally experienced the feeling of breaking through the middle stage of foundation building. When the original body breaks through, he will have experience. Then he can take it step by step to build a perfect foundation.

The incarnation successfully entered the middle stage of foundation building. Next, Gu Mo can use the external alchemy technique to refine the fake pill and make the incarnation a fake pill cultivator.

However, Gu Mo soon discovered a problem. It seemed that he did not have the method to practice the art of external alchemy. After all, Gu Mo did not expect that he would get a fake pill that he had condensed by himself by accident.

The sect's library should have the art of external alchemy, but the problem is that the sect was completely sealed off a few years ago, and is now concentrating on refining the Infant Condensation Pill. Before the pill is refined, Gu Mo has no way to enter the sect, and the sect's people can't get out either.

"It seems that I can only go to the nearby market to have a look." Gu Mo thought to himself, not wanting to wait any longer. The external alchemy technique is not a rare method of cultivation, and it should be found in some large markets. If it is not available in the market, then Gu Mo can only go to the Immortal City to look for it.

However, the Immortal City is very far away from here. At Gu Mo's speed, it will probably take several months to arrive.

Taking out a storage bag that he had seized from killing the enemy last time, Gu Mo took out a large amount of spirit stones, pills and magic tools from the black fog space and put them all into the storage bag.

These were the spoils that Gu Mo captured when he killed those assassins a few years ago. Gu Mo didn't have much use for these things, so he just took them to the market to sell them this time.

Finally, Gu Mo took out a level 2 top-grade cherry bomb and put it in.

In the year when the incarnation used the power of Dan to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage of foundation building, Gu Mo used all the solar essence he harvested to upgrade the cherry bomb. Because it was only upgraded to the second-grade top-quality, the amount of solar essence consumed was barely acceptable. In one year, Gu Mo harvested 2 second-grade top-quality cherry bombs.

Now give one to the incarnation to use as a trump card. After all, the current incarnation has not yet sacrificed the fake pill, and its combat power is only at the middle stage of foundation building.

I handed the storage bag full of supplies to the incarnation. The original body had a black fog space and did not need any storage bag, but the incarnation did not have such a convenient thing.

I brought a lot of things this time, so it's obviously not appropriate to use the small suit in my sleeves.

"I'm leaving."

The incarnation Gu Mo greeted the original body. This was Gu Mo's first time traveling outside after condensing his incarnation. To be honest, Gu Mo was still very much looking forward to it.

Without alarming anyone else, Gu Mo's incarnation quietly left the resource point.

Qinglu Sect.

The current Qinglu Sect had completely sealed off the mountain gate two years ago and began to concentrate on refining the Nascent Soul Pill. Naturally, a large Nascent Soul sect suddenly sealing off the mountain gate attracted the attention of countless people.

Later, the news about Qinglu Sect refining the Nascent Soul was revealed. Qinglu Sect knew that it could not keep the matter secret for too long, but now the mountain gate was blocked, and it was too late for other sects to know about it.

However, those sects did not reduce their attention to the Qinglu Sect. Whether the Qinglu Sect could successfully refine the Ningying Pill would directly affect the pattern of the immortal cultivation world for the next few hundred years.

However, the Qinglu Sect's mountain gate was tightly closed, making it difficult to obtain detailed intelligence. Even if there were spies from other sects, they would not be able to pass on the information when the mountain gate was closed.

However, no matter how hard the Qinglu Sect defended itself, it could not resist the appearance of a traitor within the sect, especially this traitor who held great power in the sect.

Without anyone knowing, one cultivator after another concealed their auras, quietly passed through the sect's mountain protection formation, and sneaked into the Qinglu Sect.

However, after these people sneaked in, they did not take action, but chose to hide, because there were not enough people sneaking in at the moment, and those real strong ones had not come in yet.

Although He Shaogang used his authority as acting sect master to open a back door in the mountain protection formation to allow people to sneak in quietly, the formation would still sense it if the intruder was too strong. Therefore, only when the real action was to be taken would He Shaogang completely open up the authority and let the strong men of his sect to charge in.

As for now, it is at most the preparation before taking action. He Shaogang is waiting for the Qinglu Sect to fail in refining the Nascent Soul Pill. By then, Sect Master Gao Yunrui will have only one option, which is to forcibly break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is a life-or-death situation to forcibly reach the Nascent Soul stage without using any elixirs. As long as Gao Yunrui fails in his attempt to reach the Nascent Soul stage and dies, that will be the moment to truly seize Qinglu Sect's 4th-level spiritual land.

As for Zhuo Suzhu, the most powerful elder of the Law Enforcement Hall of Qinglu Sect, he is a threat, but not a very important one, because once he makes a move, he will quickly be eroded by the heart fire. At that time, you just need to avoid fighting him head-on.

Without Gao Yunrui and Zhuo Suzhu, the remaining Jindan elders of Qinglu Sect would not be such a big threat.

Of course, it is not too much to be cautious when seizing a mountain gate of a former Nascent Soul Sect. Therefore, in addition to the external attack, internal coordination is also essential.

He Shaogang's biggest mission after infiltrating Qinglu Sect is to disintegrate it from within. Now He Shaogang has successfully instigated many disciples of the sect to defect, including several true disciples.

With the cooperation of these people, those who sneaked in from outside successfully avoided the sect’s patrol.

Unfortunately, He Shaogang has never found an opportunity to persuade Yuan Niya, the second true disciple, to defect. He Shaogang has two modes of persuasion. One is bribery, which works well for ordinary disciples of the sect. As long as they are given enough benefits, they will naturally be very happy to do things for He Shaogang.

But for the true disciples, bribery has no effect. Anyone who can become a true disciple has been vigorously cultivated by the sect, and their loyalty to the sect is unquestionable.

Therefore, He Shaogang would use the second mode of instigation for those true disciples, using special means to forcibly control them.

He Shaogang called the person over in the name of acting sect leader, and then took control of the person by surprise, planted restrictions on him, and controlled his life and death.

This trick works almost every time, except for Yuan Niya, because Yuan Niya simply did not listen to He Shaogang's call and always kept a distance from him.

Yuan Niya's reaction made He Shaogang a little alert. He thought that Yuan Niya had discovered something. After all, Yuan Niya and Gu Mo were quite close. Maybe she had heard some news from Gu Mo.

But after careful investigation, He Shaogang felt that it was not the case. If Yuan Niya really knew something, she could tell her master about it. Once the elders of the Law Enforcement Hall paid attention to him, it would definitely be a very troublesome thing.

After confirming that Yuan Niya did not doubt his origins, He Shaogang gave up his plan to take action against Yuan Niya. If Yuan Niya really wanted to report him, He Shaogang would have to take the risk to get rid of Yuan Niya.

Since Yuan Niya was unaware of the situation and was simply hostile to him, He Shaogang naturally did not take unnecessary risks and got rid of Yuan Niya now.

This is also the reason why Gu Mo only asked Yuan Niya to be careful of He Shaogang but did not tell her the truth. His purpose was not to let Yuan Niya face He Shaogang directly. With Yuan Niya's scheming, she could not beat He Shaogang.

　A bit stuck, the update is a bit late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)