What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

Lin Yuan felt helpless, but then his face lit up with elation.

Because the small golden characters under the eyes suddenly refreshed.

[Mysterious Yin Heavenly Dao Foundation Building Method *Incomplete (Cannot be upgraded)]

The runes in his mind that were about to dissipate seemed to be suddenly grabbed by an invisible hand and forcibly pressed onto a piece of white paper, turning into lines of cultivation paths that he could understand.

The panel clearly "translated" these runes directly.

Lin Yuan was secretly pleased, but the word "crippled" made him very unhappy.

He immediately focused his attention, his gaze falling on the second blurry rune. After more than ten breaths, the rune flashed with light and became crystal clear in an instant.

Then the third rune... the tenth rune...

Each time a technique is analyzed, the information on the panel becomes more complete.

Time passed slowly. About an hour later, Lei Zhen let out a scream and was sent flying backward as if struck by lightning, crashing heavily onto the platform, bleeding from his seven orifices.

Clearly, he finally couldn't hold on any longer.

As the void appeared, a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator swayed and took over the spot where Lei Zhen had just been.

Another hour passed, and yet another person couldn't hold on any longer.

Jiang Huaiyue's face also began to turn pale. Since she had broken through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, the pressure from the Nameless Stele had increased exponentially. She turned her head and glanced at Lin Yuan beside her out of the corner of her eye.

Lin Yuan seemed unaffected, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and his breathing steady.

A day passes quickly.

Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

For a fleeting moment, a deep, dark blue hue flashed in his eyes.

The word "remnant" on the panel disappeared. This Heavenly Dao Foundation Building Method lay naked in his mind, like a peeled onion.

This technique cannot be directly improved through attribute points. Instead, Lin Yuan needs to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth or consume pills to break through on his own.

He exhaled a breath of stale air and severed the connection of divine consciousness.

The air around him was oppressive. Lin Yuan turned his head; the five people sitting cross-legged beside him had already been replaced.

He stood up, and instantly a series of extremely imposing gazes focused on him.

There were more than twenty people standing below the stage, all of them Foundation Establishment cultivators.

"He held that position for a full day and night."

The gaunt young man stood below the stage, his gaze filled with surprise and doubt. Yesterday, he had personally witnessed Lei Zhen, a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator, bleed from all seven orifices after only two hours, while Jiang Huaiyue, a late-Foundation Establishment cultivator, had only lasted ten hours.

This kid in the Qi Refining stage has actually managed to sit here until now.

Ignoring the gazes around him, Lin Yuan descended the stone steps to the white jade platform.

Jiang Huaiyue stood beside a broken stone pillar, her hands tucked into her sleeves. Seeing Lin Yuan approach, she immediately stepped forward, falling half a step behind him, and bowed slightly.

"Did it work?" Jiang Huaiyue's lips moved slightly as she transmitted her voice secretly.

Lin Yuan nodded.

Jiang Huaiyue, unfazed, asked, "Where to now?"

"Go and gather a spiritual herb." Lin Yuan continued walking without stopping, heading straight outside.

The place where the Cold Marrow Lotus grows is also the meeting point he and Lin Feilu agreed on before entering the forbidden area.

Most of the inner disciples gathered near the Wordless Stele or the Inheritance Hall, an area that was relatively secluded and perfect for cultivation.

The two flew close to the ground. A strong wind howled across the dark red wasteland.

Three hours later, the terrain gradually sank down. A vast, undulating black stone forest appeared ahead.

Passing through the stone forest, a huge natural cave with a diameter of tens of meters is revealed.

The cave entrance spewed out a chilling, grayish-white vapor. The surrounding area was devoid of vegetation, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of white frost.

Lin Yuan stopped ten feet outside the cave. His divine sense, at the perfect realm, spread forward like a tide, seeping inch by inch into the cave walls and dark corners.

There was no trace of demonic beasts, nor any lingering fluctuations of the array.

Similarly, there was no trace of Lin Feilu.

Lin Yuan's gaze swept over the chilling aura emanating from the cave entrance, but he didn't enter immediately. Instead, he said to Jiang Huaiyue, "I'm going to seclude myself here for several days to break through my bottleneck. You stay outside the cave and protect me. If Senior Sister Lin Fei arrives, have her wait for me at the entrance."

Jiang Huaiyue nodded and disappeared into the shadow of the stalactites at the entrance of the cave.

Lin Yuan stepped into the cave.

The cave was very deep, stretching as far as the eye could see, filled with jagged rocks. Lin Yuan did not venture deeper to search for the Cold Lotus.

Instead, he found a relatively flat piece of bluestone. He took out eight small apricot-yellow flags from his storage bag and tossed them around with a flick of his wrist. The flags grew longer in the wind and disappeared into the stone wall.

A pale golden light barrier rose, completely sealing off this small area. It blocked any attempts to probe and concealed any presence.

After doing all this, Lin Yuan sat down cross-legged.

He closed his eyes, and the cultivation path of the "Mysterious Yin Heavenly Dao Foundation Building Method" automatically appeared in his mind.

For ordinary cultivators to reach the Foundation Establishment stage, they only need to use the medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill to forcibly compress their gaseous mana at the ninth level of Qi Refining Perfection, turning it into a liquid state and letting it sink into their dantian.

But the foundation of Heavenly Dao is different.

This method is extremely domineering. It requires the practitioner to break through the physical limits of the Qi Refining stage. Before the gaseous mana transforms into liquid, it involves three reverse expansions, forcibly enlarging the meridians and dantian by several times, corresponding to the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth levels of Qi Refining respectively.

Each breakthrough requires a large amount of spiritual energy.

Before entering, Lin Yuan had made the necessary preparations, and he patted his waist.

Five white jade porcelain bottles were lined up in front of him. They were all filled with the finest Qi Condensation Pills he had refined.

He swallowed the entire bottle of pills like candy.

The moment the medicinal power surges into the meridians.

Lin Yuan felt his tiny meridians being forcefully penetrated by a powerful surge of spiritual energy.

The meridians were forcibly stretched, and countless tiny cracks appeared in the meridian walls. The excruciating pain felt like countless red-hot steel needles piercing through the entire body.

He clenched his teeth, and in his sea of ​​consciousness, the solidified divine soul suddenly opened its eyes, splitting into hundreds and thousands of hair-thin threads of divine consciousness that precisely wrapped around each meridian on the verge of collapse.

On one side is the rampant destruction caused by the domineering medicinal power, and on the other side is the forced maintenance and repair of the threads of divine consciousness.

It's like trying to mend a wrecked ship on the verge of collapse with thread on the edge of a cliff; the mental and physical strain is extreme.

Within his dantian, a vortex of spiritual energy spun wildly.

A day later, a layer of dark brown impurities seeped from Lin Yuan's body. His bones emitted a series of popping sounds.

Ten levels of Qi Refining, broken.

He didn't stop. He grabbed the jade bottle and swallowed another bottle of pills.

And so it went, seven days later.

Lin Yuan's skin was flushed red, and wisps of white vapor spewed from his pores. His meridians had doubled in size, and his dantian's capacity had increased dramatically. Extremely abundant magical power circulated within his body, producing a dull thud like mercury falling to the ground.

More than fifty jade bottles were scattered haphazardly in front of him, all of them empty.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes.

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and a sliver of light, almost tangible, flashed through the cave. He didn't get up, but simply raised his right hand and made a grasping motion towards a half-person-high blue stone beside him.

Without making a sound, the hard bluestone crumbled from the inside out, turning into fine powder, as if a ball of sand had been squeezed by an invisible giant hand.

The gaseous magical power within his body was now so thick it was almost liquid, and as it flowed, it emitted a muffled sound like the roar of a river.

"Twelve levels of Qi Refining... This is the foundation of the Heavenly Dao." Lin Yuan murmured to himself, his eyes filled with satisfaction.