Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 479: Chapter 230: Breakthrough, Late-stage Foundation Establishment!

”During the coming period, I should be staying in Lanshan City. When you head back, feel free to drop by to visit me.”

After inspecting the courtyard and ensuring there were no issues, Ran Kui finally said with reassurance.

”Alright, will do.”

Ji Yuan nodded, ”When is Senior Brother returning to the sect?”

”I should return for a visit after matters in Lanshan City are settled, to see our master.”

”Great, you refer to Master as old. I’ll report this when I go back.”

Upon hearing this, Ran Kui laughed heartily, ”You? I’d dare say it right in front of Master.”

Ji Yuan, feeling helpless, surrendered.

”Alright, since there’s nothing else, I’ll head back first. You should focus on your cultivation here.”

After speaking, Ran Kui approached and gently patted Ji Yuan on the shoulder. Then he summoned the flying boat, rose into the sky, and flew straight south.

With Senior Brother gone, the smile on Ji Yuan’s face faded.

In the following days, he didn’t rush to forge a flying sword. Instead, he started by strolling around Mirror Lake, appreciating the scenery before returning home to begin his seclusion for cultivation.

During this time, he saw something that would be a perfect gift for Hua Yaoyue, and he purchased it on a whim.

Since he was going into seclusion, Ji Yuan naturally activated the Star Spiral Cloud Barrier formation inherent in the Cave Mansion, and then headed into the Enlightenment Room inside.

This time in seclusion, simply absorbing the water transport from Mirror Lake to condense the ”Stream Firefly Sword”, Ji Yuan’s cultivation was destined to naturally break through to late-stage Foundation Establishment.

His enlightenment and cultivation had also significantly improved through dual cultivation with Dong Qian.

Therefore, this seclusion posed no difficulty for him.

On this day.

Once Ji Yuan was all set, he entered the Enlightenment Room, calmly concentrating his energy, and started to perceive the water transport around him.

Ji Yuan had done this plenty of times before and was quite adept at it.

It was just like absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, finding the water transport contained within the air.

And Mirror Lake was different from the Blood River at the Ancient Battlefield.

The Blood River barely contained any water transport and was excessively fierce; Ji Yuan found it extremely difficult to separate the water transport from Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi there.

However, Mirror Lake was different, being a genuine body of water.

It took Ji Yuan less than five days to separate the water transport from Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

With a thought, the water transport of the universe gathered.

Instantly, Ji Yuan could clearly feel the water transport between Heaven and Earth, mixed with spiritual energy, flooding into his body crazily.

Entering through the surface of his body, it then traveled through his meridians, completing a large circulation around his body, ultimately all gathering into his Dantian.

The spiritual energy immediately sank into the depths of his Dantian, transforming into liquid Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

As for the water transport from Mirror Lake, it hovered above his Dantian, being slowly rotated by the four other sword embryos.

The next step was simple: repeatedly absorbing the wandering water transport from the universe, whereas Ji Yuan didn’t absorb much spiritual energy.

Because the major event was the breakthrough.

He had already prepared the Spirit Stones needed for the breakthrough.

Thus, after continuously absorbing water transport for over ten days, Ji Yuan found that the water transport above his Dantian had condensed into substance, gradually forming the shape of a sword embryo under the guidance and compression of the Sword Manual...

Another four or five days passed.

Ji Yuan’s fifth sword embryo—the Stream Firefly Sword, finally formed.

Ji Yuan inspected his Dantian internally and saw five sword embryos suspended upright, all aimed downward, pointing at the Dantian as they slowly rotated, exuding a sense of mighty dominance.

Moreover, he could feel that these five sword embryos seemed to have formed a small sword array within his Dantian.

Slowly nurturing the spiritual energy within the Dantian, adding a layer of sword qi effect.

Thus, the magic Ji Yuan currently applied was somewhat stronger than before.

Such is the benefit brought by advanced cultivation techniques.

If practicing an ordinary Foundation Establishment technique, not to mention these additional effects, merely achieving cultivation at the peak of Foundation Establishment would already be quite impressive.

Ji Yuan took one last look at the five sword embryos in his Dantian.

Now that the sword embryos were formed, it was time to start the breakthrough.

With a thought, Ji Yuan retrieved boxes of Spirit Stones from his Storage Bag, each box containing 100 mid-grade Spirit Stones—he took out 10 boxes in one go.

He’s not sure if it’s enough, but if not, he’ll simply continue.

Even if it requires thousands of mid-grade Spirit Stones, he also has 100 upper-grade Spirit Stones.

Well... finally, a thanks to Celestial Silkworm Zhenren for this gift.

After expressing thanks, Ji Yuan started operating the Sword Manual again, attempting to break through to late-stage Foundation Establishment. But it’s not quite attempting, since this breakthrough is naturally destined to happen.

The spiritual energy from the surrounding Spirit Stones was drawn into Ji Yuan’s body like a whale swallowing the sea, it still rotated a large circulation around his body and gathered into his Dantian.

”Drip—”

A sound from the void rang out, and another drop of liquid spiritual energy was formed.

In mere seconds, a spiritual energy vortex centered around Ji Yuan formed.

The spiritual energy gathered into his body... became even more.

Time flew by quickly, and after a month, Ji Yuan had absorbed a full 2,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones, causing the spiritual energy in his Dantian to finally reach maximum.

This signifies that not only has his cultivation reached late-stage Foundation Establishment.

But he has firmly settled into late-stage Foundation Establishment.

This way, even with the Concealing Breath Spell concealing, Ji Yuan’s external cultivation is perceived as mid-stage Foundation Establishment... He wonders if his master might have an advanced version of the Concealing Breath Spell, which could hide an entire realm of cultivation.

With this hopeful thought, Ji Yuan stood up and stretched.

Yet in a moment of trance, he seemed to have perceived something amiss.

Because the surroundings... were unusually quiet, so quiet it made him uneasy.

In an instant, he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end, his entire body tense like a bristling cat, and he whirled around sharply.

Unbeknownst to him, a young man in white robes, with a jade pendant at his waist, was already sitting behind him. This young man even held a cup of tea in his hand.

The tea was quite hot, so he gently stirred it with the lid, blowing on it softly with his breath.

As if only now realizing Ji Yuan had turned around, the young man lifted his head and smiled slightly, ”It seems we are truly destined, Brother Ji Yuan, wouldn’t you agree?”

Looking at this Nascent Soul elder... old ancestor he had met once before, Ji Yuan took a deep breath, and first had his divine sense guide a fixed-point teleportation order from his Storage Bag. Then he bowed and said formally:

”Destiny, drifting aimlessly half a lifetime, only lament that I never encountered a renowned sect.”

”If you don’t mind, elder, I am willing to join... Shang Court.”