A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu Transmigrates into a Book, the Dao Ancestor of Rein

Chapter 33 Eighteen and a Half
Admittedly, without the Heavenly Bottle, it would be difficult for him to secure sufficient cultivation resources in the Tiannan region.

Because sometimes, even with spirit stones, you may not be able to buy the spirit herbs, medicines, or even finished pills you want.

The reason he wasn't worried about resources this time was entirely due to the Foundation Establishment Pill. Furthermore, it was because Fairy Hong Fu used her position as a sect elder to help him, since he had Grandmaster Hong Fu standing behind him.

If he breaks free from this relationship, his money will be useless.

Firstly, it's unlikely anyone would sell him finished pills and related spiritual herbs. It's not a matter of money; resources are limited, and people might not be willing to sell. Secondly, there's a high chance he'll be overcharged or ripped off during the transaction. After all, he's just a lowly cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining, too easy to bully. In short, he's fortunate to have Fairy Hong Fu as his temporary backer.

but.

People without thought, he must worry about.

The Azure Origin Sword Technique is indeed resource-intensive, but it helps with Core Formation.

Many wealthy cultivators with three spiritual roots who were in the late stages of Foundation Establishment suffered from the lack of such miraculous methods to improve their success rate in Core Formation and died in despair.

As a pseudo-spiritual root cultivator with four elements, his chances of successfully forming a core in one go are even lower than those of a cultivator with three elements. If it weren't for the three-stage rebirth of the Azure Origin Sword Technique and the Great Evolution Technique to improve the purity of his mana and the strength of his divine sense, thus increasing his success rate in forming a core, he would basically have no chance in this lifetime.

He knew clearly which choice to make: 100% failure or 99% success.

As for the resource challenges involved?
He could have planned his strategy for the Crimson Forbidden Land properly after improving his cultivation level. He should focus on Foundation Establishment first.

After all, there are many rare spiritual herbs in the Crimson Forbidden Land. It would be difficult to help him form his core, but it would be possible to help him establish his foundation.

Once he reaches Foundation Establishment, he can earn more spirit stones and then trade with veteran Foundation Establishment cultivators in his sect or with powerful cultivation clans. Those people might have the spiritual herbs and materials he needs. This is another avenue. He can always raise the price a bit.

Moreover, in the future, after he goes to the Chaotic Star Sea, he may not lack spirit stones.

The ancient teleportation array and the Biling Island mines—either one path to wealth would be enough for him to make a fortune.

Therefore, for him, a problem that can be solved with spirit stones is not a problem.

...

Speaking of which, when he saw off the woodcutters and hunters before entering the gate, he gave them all of his thousand taels of silver.

When he entered the immortal sect, these people divided up an enormous fortune.

In this way, everyone gets what they need.

...

Time flies, and nearly two years have passed.

Han Li is 18 and a half years old.

At this point, he had already reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.

And this level of cultivation was achieved several months ago.

I've been stuck at the bottleneck of the seventh level of Qi Refining for three months.

"Thank you, Grandmaster Hongfu!"

After nearly two years of practice, he not only revised his cultivation method, transforming all the power of the Changchun Gongfa (Changchun Gongfa) at the fourth level of Qi Refining into the power of the Qingyuan Sword Art, but also made significant progress on this basis.

His achievements are certainly not accidental.

On one hand, he was in a sacred spiritual land, where every breath he took could draw upon the earth's spiritual energy to accelerate his cultivation. This was something he couldn't achieve in the Seven Mysteries Sect, and even something countless rogue cultivators in the Southern Heaven could only dream of.

On the other hand, there are spirit stones.

Absorbing the spiritual energy within spirit stones to enhance cultivation is more effective for low-level cultivators than possessing a spiritual vein. This is because spirit stones are crystallized spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy within them is usually purer than that in a spiritual vein. Moreover, Han Li absorbed not only a hundred or so low-grade spirit stones, but also two mid-grade spirit stones.

Furthermore, there's plenty of elixirs.

I take one or two Huanglong Dan and Jinsui Wan daily without fail. In addition, I also have other pills of slightly higher quality than Huanglong Dan and Jinsui Wan to assist me in achieving this.

Besides the two main reasons mentioned above, he also benefited from the occasional guidance of his grandmaster, Hong Fu. Hong Fu had once cultivated the first three levels of the Qingyuan Sword Technique, but later switched to another method. With her insightful guidance, even if it was only a few key points, it was enough to save him from many detours and greatly benefit him.

"It's time to get out of seclusion."

"Judging by the time, the Yue Kingdom's once-every-ten-year Ascension Ceremony is almost here."

Speaking of the Ascension Ceremony, we must mention the Foundation Establishment Pill.

In the Yue Kingdom and even in the surrounding major cultivation kingdoms, Foundation Establishment Pills are monopolized by various immortal sects.

Only alchemists from these major sects can refine it.

Furthermore, the aftereffects of the ancient demonic calamity continue, and over tens of thousands of years, the spiritual energy of this land has steadily declined. Especially in the southern region, more and more spiritual veins have dried up, causing the spiritual herbs that originally grew on this land to suffer environmental damage, leading to reduced production and even extinction. Of course, the continuous decrease in the concentration of spiritual energy in the world is also due to the increasing number of humans, especially active low-level cultivators, who have been siphoning off a large amount of the spiritual energy from the land.

Furthermore, before ascending to the Spirit Realm, cultivators in this world who have reached the Nascent Soul stage always conduct a thorough search of the entire map!

Top-tier resources are limited!

Those great thieves not only stole a large amount of pure spiritual energy from this world, but also consumed many rare and precious spiritual herbs and medicines. Some of the great battles even destroyed precious spiritual veins, and along with them, they took away countless spiritual items from this world!
They call it ascension, but it's really just embezzling funds and running away!
Due to various factors, the spiritual herbs needed to refine various Foundation Establishment Pills are becoming increasingly scarce.

As a result, the number of finished Foundation Building Pills is decreasing.

Now, only a limited number of cauldrons can be produced by the seven major schools of Yue every ten years, totaling a little over a thousand at most.

The profits are split among seven factions, with each faction receiving one or two hundred pieces.

Considering the vast size and influence of the seven major sects, each sect typically has over ten thousand disciples at the Qi Refining stage.

When the seven families came together, the number of people in the Qi Refining stage reached as many as 100,000.

Of the 100,000 people, at least 30,000 have reached the seventh level of Qi Refining and are eligible to take Foundation Establishment Pills to attempt Foundation Establishment. It's even possible that 40,000, 50,000, or 60,000.

With tens of thousands of people vying for just over a thousand Foundation Establishment Pills, you can imagine how fierce the competition was; there simply wasn't any extra Foundation Establishment Pills that could have ended up outside.

but.

The entire cultivation world of the Yue Kingdom.

There are still many cultivators who have cultivated their basic techniques to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

These people also urgently need the Foundation Building Pill to break through their bottlenecks and see the scenery from higher places.

This is how the conflict arose.

Cultivation sects occupy the main spiritual veins and treasure lands, while cultivation families occupy the remaining smaller spiritual veins. The former even controls all the Foundation Establishment Pills, making it impossible for independent cultivators to find even a single Foundation Establishment Pill on the market.

They say that killing someone's wealth is like killing their parents.

They were sworn enemies.

Those who cut off the path to immortality are even more despised and hated.

Once the long-suppressed discontent erupts, who knows how chaotic Vietnam will become?

The members of the seven major factions naturally noticed this ominous trend.

A clever person came up with a solution: whenever a Foundation Establishment Pill was produced, select some exceptionally talented rogue cultivators and let them join any of the seven major immortal sects according to their own choices. The seven sects of Yue Kingdom would then distribute a Foundation Establishment Pill to each of these individuals.

This way, the Foundation Establishment Pills can be kept within the family, ensuring that resources don't go to outsiders. It also eliminates the discontent of the independent cultivators, since who wouldn't be happy to join one of the seven major immortal sects? Crucially, it allows for the selection of disciples with excellent spiritual roots or outstanding combat abilities from among the large number of independent cultivators. It's a win-win-win situation.

then.

And so the Ascension Ceremony came into being.

Each of the seven major sects will award ten disciple slots and ten Foundation Establishment Pills to the winner.

Individuals participating in the activity must be under forty years of age.

Over the years, this activity has become a unique feature of the Yue Kingdom.

For independent cultivators with ordinary spiritual root aptitude (three spiritual roots), the Ascension Conference adopts the classic arena-style competition. This survival-of-the-fittest approach, where strength speaks for itself, is the most convincing and unlikely to leave room for criticism or backlash.

For geniuses with superior spiritual root aptitude, such as those with dual spiritual roots, heterogeneous spiritual roots, special physiques, or even single spiritual roots (also known as heavenly spiritual roots), there is no need for arena battles; they can directly enter the sect.

However, unlike the former, the latter does not offer Foundation Establishment Pills as an entry requirement, nor does it occupy a limited number of entry slots.

Unless one possesses exceptional cultivation and strength, they will still be able to win in the arena.

"Since I'm going to Tianwutai with the team, I should first attend the Tainan Small Gathering in Tainan Valley Market..."

She wants to meet little sister Han Yunzhi.

Let's start by establishing a good relationship.

Furthermore, there was a silk handkerchief in the hand of a burly man at the Tainan gathering; he wanted the incomplete magical artifact. This was the perfect opportunity to snag a bargain.

Once he has that fragment of the magical artifact, the silk handkerchief, he will be able to do many things when he comes out of the Crimson Forbidden Land.

At that time, Li Huayuan will not be able to take advantage of him.

(End of this chapter)