Taoist cultivation begins with being a miner

A day passed in the blink of an eye, and after revisiting the place, Lu Yan quietly waited for the night to come.

Once the middle of the month arrives at midnight (11 PM to 1 AM), press the "Demon" wheel again.

Ever since his divine soul source offered him little help, Lu Yan had been spinning the Demon Character Wheel.

Unfortunately, due to prolonged consumption of the Bloodline Fruit, it gradually lost its effects, just like the essence of the soul.

Lu Yan had specifically researched spiritual roots.

Putting aside the rare unique spiritual roots, a single spiritual root almost always indicates the most outstanding aptitude among cultivators.

If we compare aptitude to a perfect score, then a single spiritual root is a perfect attribute.

The road ahead will be almost entirely smooth sailing. Before reaching the Golden Core stage, including the Golden Core stage itself, everything will go smoothly without encountering any major bottlenecks.

As long as you don't perish halfway, the Nascent Soul stage is beckoning you.

Therefore, cultivators with a single spiritual root are highly sought after by various sects as soon as they appear, and are cultivated as the future of their sects.

Then there's dual spiritual roots, aiming for a score of 75.

It cannot be compared to a single spiritual root.

Even so, having dual spiritual roots is still a rare and valuable spiritual root, and its proportion among cultivators is equally scarce.

Moreover, there is a high probability that they will break through to the Golden Core stage, and if the opportunity arises, the Nascent Soul stage is also possible.

They were also highly regarded by their sects and became core disciples of their respective branches, destined to be the successors of those branches in the future.

Next are those with three spiritual roots, scoring fifty points, who are also the backbone of major sects.

The chances of cultivators with three spiritual roots reaching Foundation Establishment are very high, and with some effort, they have a good chance of forming their Core. These cultivators will also be an important force in the sect in the future, working in various levels of management.

Unless someone is extremely foolish, they are basically an inner disciple within the sect.

Next are the four spiritual roots.

Twenty-five points, far below the passing score.

Their goal is to achieve Foundation Establishment, and without taking Foundation Establishment Pills, their success rate in achieving Foundation Establishment is around 30%.

The sect designated them as outer disciples, or to put it bluntly, cannon fodder.

They were always the first to go into battle or attack monsters.

They also did the basic tasks within the sect.

They are arguably the busiest cultivators in the sect; without them, the sect might not be able to function at all.

Finally, there are the five elements and their spiritual roots.

It contains all five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

A perfect 10, absolutely terrible.

But this is also the most common spiritual root.

In the cultivation world, the number of five elemental spiritual roots is several times that of the other four combined.

They are scattered throughout every corner of the cultivation world, and are also the cornerstone of the cultivation world.

My greatest wish in this life is to become a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but the probability of breaking through to Foundation Establishment without taking Foundation Establishment Pills is less than 10%. I would be very lucky if I could break through to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Because most cultivators with mixed spiritual roots of the five elements spend their entire lives hovering around the early or middle stages of Qi Refining.

In the eyes of major sects, they are only slightly better than ordinary people, not even qualified to be cannon fodder, and can only become menial disciples to be used as cattle and horses.

Do the hardest and most tiring work, and get the lowest pay.

Life is worthless, because it can be replaced at any time.

Lu Yan was in this situation before.

However, due to consuming the Bloodline Fruit for a long time, his aptitude has improved considerably.

Currently, each of Lu Yan's spiritual roots has reached a score of twenty-five.

The higher the qualifications, the more difficult it becomes.

A ten-year bloodline fruit can only raise one's aptitude to a maximum of twenty-five points.

Currently, Lu Yan's success rate in Foundation Establishment is around 30%, while the failure rate remains high.

Moreover, once the foundation building fails, it will damage the source, making it even more difficult to build a foundation again in the future.

With the attitude of accumulating little by little, Lu Yan began to wait for the results.

But God gave me a huge surprise.

This time, I actually got a Fortune Fruit.

This thing is so much better than the Fate Coin.

The Fate Coins only grant you unparalleled good fortune, while the Fortune Fruits can temporarily increase your Heavenly Fortune.

The two are not even in the same league.

Lu Yan didn't rush to eat it; he planned to save it for a crucial moment.

Over the next few days, Lu Yan refined all nine bloodline fruits and then began to inquire about various matters related to the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Foundation Establishment Pill is a top-tier second-order pill, but due to its special effects, its price is extremely high, and the competition for it is fierce.

Foundation Establishment Pills are rarely seen in Worry-Free City. They are not available at auctions and only circulate among the upper echelons, since they themselves don't have enough.

If you want to buy them, you have to go to Fuyue City, where some are auctioned off every year.

So Lu Yan left Wuyou City and rushed to Fuyue City without stopping.

……

a few days later.

Lu Yan received accurate information.

There are four ways to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills. One way is to buy them from the Treasure Market at a high price, but the quality of the pills is hard to guarantee, and there is a high possibility of being scammed, so this method is not considered.

The second method is to join a powerful force and serve them for ten or twenty years. In return, that powerful force will reward you with Foundation Establishment Pills.

However, the problem was that the waiting time was too long, so Lu Yan didn't consider it.

The third method is to find the elixir needed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, and then ask an alchemist to refine it.

The formula for the Foundation Establishment Pill wasn't a secret; Lu Yan obtained it by spending some mid-grade spirit stones.

After checking the recipe, Lu Yan immediately gave up. None of the dozen or so medicinal herbs were less than three hundred years old, and the most important one, the Foundation Building Grass, had to be eight hundred years old.

You can't buy them on the market at all; you have to go to Qiongyi Ridge to find them, and they're located in the areas where second-tier monsters roost.

With my current skills, all I can do is deliver food.

This is not even worth considering.

That leaves only one option: the grand auction in Fuyue City.

Fuyue City holds a large-scale auction every year, which not only features various treasures, cultivation techniques, and secret arts, but also auctions third-tier pills.

Because Liu Fuyue, the city lord of Fuyue City, is the only third-level alchemist in the city.

Foundation Building Pills are naturally included among them.

There will definitely be countless cultivators vying for it at that time.

According to the information I received, the next major auction is in two months, and my current savings are not much.

I need to accumulate as many spirit stones as possible during this month.

So Lu Yan rented a courtyard in Fuyue City and began his relentless alchemy journey.

All the pills refined were top-grade, first-tier pills.

Even in Fuyue City, where alchemists are abundant, pills of this quality would not lack a market.

Buy medicinal herbs, refine elixirs, and sell them—a repetitive cycle.

After a month of hard work, Lu Yan has earned nearly three thousand low-grade spirit stones. Adding the spirit stones he had accumulated before, he now has more than twenty thousand.

These spirit stones should be enough to acquire Foundation Establishment Pills, and there should be some left over.

With the grand auction approaching, Fuyue City is now overflowing with people.

Foundation Establishment cultivators, who were once a rare sight, are now commonplace on the streets, and one can even occasionally spot Golden Core cultivators.