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

Chapter 53 Let’s wait and see

This woman used five Foundation Establishment Pills to establish her foundation, and while the success rate wasn't 100%, it was still as high as 99%.

After all, this person didn't get his first one in the original timeline, the one represented by the Ascension Token.

However, this Senior Sister Xuan'er still managed to successfully establish her foundation with three of the remaining four Foundation Establishment Pills.

It's just that the process was a bit bumpy, with the intervention of the Fairy Hongfu after she emerged from seclusion.

Now, with five stones as the base, failing to reach the bottom actually results in failure, right?
The only two shortcomings are that when this woman attempted to establish her foundation, her cultivation level had reached the twelfth or thirteenth level of Qi Refining, and she also had various auxiliary medicines.

Currently, he only has the eleventh level of Qi Refining and does not have the other auxiliary medicines bestowed by Fairy Hong Fu.

"Has little effect."

"The extra two Foundation Establishment Pills are enough to make up for the gap in between."

Han Li thought to himself:

"Besides, I have another one..."

The one obtained at the Ascension Ceremony.

If you anger him, you can just give this Foundation Establishment Pill to Dong Xuan'er to help her establish her foundation and eventually reach the other side.

Anyway, once Fairy Hong Fu emerges from seclusion, she will definitely not let him suffer any losses.

"Senior sister, let's have a competition and see who can establish their foundation first?" Han Li suddenly said this after returning to Red Tassel Mountain.

This really needs to be added fuel to the fire.

To prevent the water from cooling down before it boils.

"You want to compete with me?"

The girl pointed to herself, thinking she had misheard.

Han Li nodded, his expression solemn and affirmative:
"Yes, let's see who's faster."

Where does your confidence come from?

Dong Xuan'er smiled.

Being amused.

She didn't want to discourage her junior brother too much.

With only a pseudo-spiritual root, his current cultivation level is barely at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

The key point is that there is only one Foundation Establishment Pill.

In what way is he better than her?
What makes you think you can compare to her?

Besides, given Han Li's situation, the probability of him achieving Foundation Establishment with just one Foundation Establishment Pill is less than one percent. If he could overtake her by doing that, she might as well find a block of tofu and smash her head against it.

"What, Senior Sister, are you afraid?"

The boy, with a strange look on his face, wentaded him.

"Hmph, stop trying to provoke me. Let's compete then." Feeling looked down upon, Dong Xuan'er snorted coldly.

She naturally saw through the clumsy attempt to provoke him, but what bothered her more was being underestimated by this unremarkable junior brother with a pseudo-spiritual root.

How dare you look down on her?
"By the way, what should we compete in? There should be a prize, right?"

"This..." Han Li was a little embarrassed.

He just wanted to get something for nothing.

But I never expected to actually give anything in return.

"How about this, the loser gives a small gift as a congratulatory present for the other's successful foundation building, or does something within their ability to celebrate?"

Han Li really didn't want to gamble.

Because he knew that as long as Dong Xuan'er was determined to use five Foundation Establishment Pills to establish her foundation, the chances of success would be very high.

He was bound to lose.

But since things have come to this point, if we don't gamble, it feels like this woman is going to cause some trouble again.

Oh well, a small loss is fine.

"Okay, the prize will be as you suggested, Senior Sister."

Han Li nodded.

"Hey, Junior Brother Han, don't let reality dampen your confidence. When I get serious, my cultivation progresses very quickly," the girl said, half-smugly and half-reminding, though there was a genuine hint of goodwill in her words.

"Don't worry, my confidence won't be shaken." Han Li was even more confident, a confidence that came from the bottom of his heart: "But you... if you lose, I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it..."

"Will I lose?"

Can't accept defeat?

"You bastard Han Li, we'll see about that."

Just wait and see.

...

From then on, a girl who used to love going out and causing trouble in Hongying Mountain became well-behaved and quiet again.

Meanwhile, in a secret cave at the end of Red Tassel Mountain.

Han Li took out several sets of cultivation supplies.

He only had two bottles of Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills left; there weren't any more. Besides, he was now somewhat dismissive of the "slow" progress brought by these two low-level pills. He'd get tired of eating candy every day, not to mention the issue of drug resistance.

He had long since switched to taking the [Red Jade Pill].

One pill has the same effect as one and a half Huanglongdan or Jinsuiwan pills.

The remaining amount was barely enough for his needs for the next two years.

This is one of the main reasons why his magical power improved so quickly. In addition, his extravagant daily consumption of a low-grade spirit stone further enhanced his cultivation efficiency.

Also.

There are more than three bottles of [Spiritual Marrow Pill] remaining.

Its efficacy is several times better than that of Hongyudan.

Next are two Refining Pills, which can help break through bottlenecks.

He originally had three left, but he used one of them a month ago when he was breaking through the bottleneck of the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Finally, there were twenty-six mid-grade spirit stones and over two hundred low-grade spirit stones.

After rationally planning and allocating his resources, he also began his secluded cultivation.

"Although we don't have a chance to overtake Dong Xuan'er, we can't fall too far behind..."

Dong Xuan'er's cultivation speed has always been slow, which seems quite ordinary—she's only at the eleventh level of Qi Refining at eighteen. But in reality, it's not much slower than those with dual spiritual roots or special physiques who haven't used any drugs.

Moreover, Dong Xuan'er's inability to speed up was not due to a lack of low-level cultivation resources, but rather because Fairy Hong Fu had set up an obstacle.

On one hand, she didn't want the woman to become too reliant on the medicine, thus weakening her willpower to cultivate diligently and austerely. As the saying goes, it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Throughout this journey, Fairy Hongfu had been very careful to protect her disciple's heart in seeking the Dao.

On the other hand, it is to avoid the early development of drug resistance.

It's really not worth it to develop drug resistance in various ways from taking too many low-level pills.

After all, pills for the Foundation Establishment stage are undoubtedly more difficult to obtain and more precious. If drug resistance developed during the Qi Refining stage affects certain medications used during the Foundation Establishment stage, leading to reduced efficacy and unsatisfactory results, more pills will have to be wasted. In that case, the losses will undoubtedly be greater.

It's too late to regret it.

After careful consideration, Fairy Hongfu decided not to let Dong Xuan'er take the drug too early.

Moreover, most of the other geniuses with excellent spiritual roots in the sect are in the same situation, unless they encounter a bottleneck that is really difficult to break through, in which case they will slightly rely on the power of medicine.

In other words, it's not about banning drug use altogether, but rather about considering the cost-effectiveness and an individual's plans and vision for the future.

Now, Dong Xuan'er has started taking drugs, specifically Foundation Building Pills!

If he doesn't speed up his pace and try to keep up, he will not only lose, but he will lose badly.

"Clang..."

The cave entrance was tightly closed.

The door is closed.

The formation was activated, isolating the inside from the outside.

"Retreat!"

From then on, the two never left Hongying Mountain again.

At most, he would stroll through the herb garden and tend to the medicinal plants, no longer bothering with any outside troubles. Dong Xuan'er, on the other hand, began a long period of seclusion.

...

It is worth mentioning that.

Not long after the two went into seclusion.

It coincided with the ten-year grand event of the Seven Schools.

Once every ten years, the mountain gates are opened wide to recruit promising new disciples with outstanding spiritual roots.

Huangfeng Valley is home to hundreds of large and small cultivation families within Jianzhou and surrounding states.

Anyone with the right age and three spiritual roots can begin learning.

Geniuses with dual spiritual roots, unique spiritual roots, or special physiques are even more sought after.

For example, the two twins from the Murong family with the same unique spiritual root.

The two possessed "lightning spiritual roots," renowned for their destructive power. Their appearance immediately alarmed Lei Wanhe, one of the eight Core Formation stage cultivators of Yellow Maple Valley, simply because this mid-Core Formation elder was also a lightning spiritual root cultivator. Lei Wanhe immediately took a liking to the two young members of the Murong family.

For example, the young man from the Li family, a small family of cultivators.

At just over eleven years old, and without ever taking any elixirs to accelerate his growth, he had already cultivated the basic techniques to the peak of the ninth level. His progress was astonishingly rapid, his cultivation speed in no way inferior to that of cultivators with extraordinary spiritual roots, and even twice as fast as a certain nineteen-year-old with a wind spiritual root who had only reached the eleventh level of Qi Refining.

The young man from the Li family was also accepted as a disciple by the sect's Core Formation elder.

Furthermore, it was a seven or eight-year-old child surnamed Wang.

This child is not only a direct descendant of the Wang family, a powerful clan of cultivators in the Yue Kingdom, but also possesses the innate "Mysterious Yin Eye," enabling him to cultivate the legendary "Chimu Divine Light," which subdues all evil spirits and monsters in the world. If the cultivation method of the Chimu Divine Light had not been lost for hundreds of years, and if the Wang family child were not still so young, even those Core Formation experts would be vying to take him in.

Also.

There are also quite a few young geniuses with dual spiritual roots and special physiques.

More than ten people.

It can be said to be a great harvest.

The addition of these young geniuses has greatly enhanced the future potential of Maple Valley.

However, these so-called little geniuses paled in comparison to the Yan family's Heavenly Spirit Root genius recruited by the Hidden Moon Sect.

Those with special physiques, unique spiritual roots, or dual spiritual roots have a much easier path in cultivation than those with three or pseudo-spiritual roots. However, compared to geniuses with celestial spiritual roots who have no bottlenecks in Core Formation and find Nascent Soul Formation much easier, they are ultimately a level below.

As for the other five factions, each of them recruited quite a few young geniuses, some with more than ten and others with seven or eight.

None of them can compare to the Hidden Moon Sect.

...

Spring goes and autumn comes, rain and snow fall, but everything on Hongying Mountain remains the same.

On this day, the stone gate, which had been sealed for half a month, was opened.

A young man stepped out from there.

(End of this chapter)