A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 33

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.

Sometimes, even with spirit stones, he might not be able to buy the desired spiritual herbs, medicines, or even finished pills.

The reason he wasn’t worried about resources this time was entirely due to the Foundation Establishment Pill. It was also thanks to the connections and resources provided by Fairy Hongfu, an elder of her sect, that he was helped, because he had Grandmaster Hongfu behind him.

Without this connection, his money would be useless.

Firstly, no one might sell him finished pills or related spiritual herbs; it wasn’t a matter of money, but rather that resources were limited and people might not be willing to sell. Secondly, he was highly likely to be overcharged or ripped off during transactions. After all, he was just a Qi Refining Level 4 cultivator, too easy to bully. In short, he was fortunate to have Fairy Hongfu as a temporary powerful backer.

However,

a lack of foresight leads to immediate trouble.

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

How many late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators with three spiritual roots, despite having plenty of money to burn , have died in despair due to the lack of such miraculous methods

to improve their Core Formation success rate? As a pseudo-spiritual root cultivator with four elements, his chances of successfully forming a Core in one go are even lower than those with three spiritual roots. Without the Azure Origin Sword Technique’s three-stage Rejuvenation and the Great Evolution Technique’s ability to increase the purity of his mana and the strength of his divine sense, thus boosting his Core Formation success rate, he would essentially have no future

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

As for the resource problem involved?

He can plan carefully for the Crimson Forbidden Land after his cultivation level improves. Foundation Establishment first.

After all, the Crimson Forbidden Land contains many rare spiritual herbs. Helping him form a Core is difficult, but helping him establish a Foundation is something he can strive for.

After establishing a Foundation, he can earn more spirit stones and then trade with veteran Foundation Establishment cultivators in his sect or those powerful cultivation clans. Those people might also have the spiritual herbs and materials he needs. That’s another avenue. He could just overcharge.

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

The ancient teleportation array and the Biling Island mines—any one of these paths to wealth would be enough for him to make a fortune.

Therefore, for him, problems that can be solved with spirit stones aren’t really problems.

…

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

With his entry into the immortal sect, these people shared a fortune.

It was a win-win situation.

…

Time flies, and nearly two years have passed.

Han Li is 18 and a half years old.

At this time, he has already reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.

And he reached this level several months ago.

He has been stuck at the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining for three months.

“Thank you, Grandmaster Hongfu!”

After nearly two years of cultivation, he not only changed his cultivation method, converting all the power of the Changchun Cultivation Technique 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 were naturally not accidental.

On one hand, he was in a spiritual vein treasure land, where every breath he took could draw upon the earth’s spiritual energy to increase his cultivation speed. This was something he couldn’t achieve in the Seven Mysteries Sect, and even countless rogue cultivators in Tiannan couldn’t dream of.

On the other hand, there were spirit stones.

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

Furthermore, there was an abundance of pills.

He took one or two Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills daily without fail.且另外还有成丹品质相比黄龙丹跟金髓丸更加优质一点的丹药辅助。

除了以上两点主要原因，也得益于红拂师祖的偶尔指点。这位曾经也修炼过青元剑诀的前三层，只是后来改修了功法。有这位高屋建瓴的指点，且无需多，只需点在要领上，就足够让他少走许多的弯路、让他受益匪浅了。

“该出关了。”

“算算时间，越国十年一次的【升仙大会】差不多要到来了。”

说到这升仙大会，就不得不说起筑基丹。

在越国乃至周边各大修仙国，筑基丹都被各大仙派垄断。

只有这些大门派的炼丹师才能炼制。

加之上古魔劫的后遗症还在继续，数万年下来，这片天地的灵气持续走低。特别是天南，越来越多的灵脉枯竭，导致原本生长在这片土地上的灵草被环境影响、跟着减产乃至绝迹。

Of course, the decreasing concentration of spiritual energy in the world is also a factor, along with the increasing number of humans and active low-level cultivators who are plundering a large amount of spiritual energy.

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

Top-tier resources are scarce!

These thieves not only steal a large amount of pure spiritual energy from this world but also consume many rare and precious spiritual herbs and medicines. Some major battles even damaged precious spiritual veins, along with countless spiritual items from this world!

Their ascension is essentially just embezzlement and escape!

Under these various factors, the spiritual herbs needed to refine various Foundation Establishment Pills are becoming increasingly scarce. Consequently,

the number of finished Foundation Establishment Pills is also decreasing.

Now, every ten years, the seven major sects of Yue Kingdom can only produce a limited number of cauldrons, at most a little over a thousand pills. The

seven sects split the profits, each receiving one or two hundred pills.

Considering the large size of the seven sects, each often has over ten thousand Qi Refining disciples.

Together, the seven sects have as many as one hundred thousand Qi Refining disciples.

Of the 100,000 people, at least 30,000, perhaps even 40,000 or 50,000, have reached the seventh level of Qi Refining and are eligible to use Foundation Establishment Pills to attempt Foundation Establishment. With tens of thousands

vying for a mere thousand Foundation Establishment Pills, the competition is fierce; there’s virtually no chance of any extra pills escaping.

However,

the entire Yue Kingdom’s cultivation world

still has many cultivators who have reached the seventh level of Qi Refining or higher.

These individuals also desperately need Foundation Establishment Pills to break through bottlenecks and reach higher realms.

This creates a conflict.

Cultivation sects occupy the major spiritual veins, while cultivation families control the remaining smaller ones. The former even monopolize all Foundation Establishment Pills, leaving independent cultivators with virtually none available on the market.

It’s said that cutting off someone’s livelihood is like killing their parents—

an irreconcilable enmity.

This kind of obstruction of one’s path to immortality is even more hated and resented.

Once this long-suppressed discontent erupts, who knows what chaos will ensue in Yue Kingdom?

The seven major sects naturally sensed this ominous trend.

A clever person devised a plan: whenever Foundation Establishment Pills were produced, select some exceptionally talented rogue cultivators and let them join any of the seven major immortal sects. Each of these individuals would then receive a Foundation Establishment Pill from the seven sects of Yue Kingdom.

This ensured that the Foundation Establishment Pills wouldn’t flow out of the country, keeping the benefits within the sect. It also eliminated the discontent of the rogue cultivators, as who wouldn’t be happy to join one of the seven major immortal sects? Crucially, it allowed for the selection of disciples with outstanding spiritual roots or exceptional combat abilities from among the large number of rogue cultivators. It was a win-win-win situation.

Thus,

the Ascension Tournament was born.

Each of the seven major sects offered ten disciple slots and ten Foundation Establishment Pills as a reward to the winner.

Participating rogue cultivators had to be under forty years old.

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

For rogue cultivators with ordinary three spiritual roots, the Ascension Tournament adopted the classic arena competition format. This survival-of-the-fittest approach, where strength speaks for itself, is the most convincing and unlikely to cause controversy or backfire.

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

However, unlike the former, the latter don’t receive Foundation Establishment Pills upon entry and won’t occupy a limited number of entry slots.

Unless their cultivation level is exceptionally high and they win the arena battles, they’ll be eligible.

“This time, going to the Heavenly Mist Platform with the team, I should first participate in the Tai Nan Small Gathering at the Tai Nan Valley Market…”

She wanted to meet the little sister Han Yunzhi. She wanted

to establish goodwill first.

Furthermore, she wanted the silk handkerchief—a fragment of a magical artifact—that a burly man had at the Tai Nan Small Gathering. This was the perfect opportunity to snag a bargain.

Once she had that fragmented magical artifact handkerchief, she could do many things after leaving the Blood Forbidden Land.

Then, Li Huayuan wouldn’t be able to take advantage of her.

(End of Chapter)