A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 53

Chapter 53 We’ll see

This woman, using five Foundation Establishment Pills to establish her foundation, had a success rate that, while not 100%, was still as high as 99%.

After all, in the original timeline, she didn’t receive her first Foundation Establishment Pill, the one represented by the Ascension Token.

However, this Senior Sister Xuan’er still successfully established her foundation with three of the remaining four.

It’s just that the process was somewhat bumpy, with the intervention of Fairy Hong Fu after her seclusion.

Now, with five as a starting point, failing before reaching the bottom is

understandable, isn’t it? The only two shortcomings are that when she first attempted foundation establishment, her cultivation had reached the twelfth or thirteenth level of Qi Refining, and she also had various auxiliary medicines.

Currently, she’s only at the eleventh level of Qi Refining, and she doesn’t have the other auxiliary medicines bestowed by Fairy Hong Fu.

“Not a big impact.”

“The two extra Foundation Establishment Pills are enough to make up for the gap.”

Han Li thought to himself:

“Besides, I still have one…”

the one he obtained at the Ascension Conference.

If he gets angry, he can simply give this Foundation Establishment Pill to Dong Xuan’er to help her establish her foundation and reach the other side.

Anyway, Fairy Hongfu wouldn’t let him suffer after she came out of seclusion.

“Senior Sister, let’s have a competition to see who can establish their foundation first, shall we?” After returning to Red Tassel Mountain, Han Li suddenly said this.

This was adding fuel to the fire,

lest the water cool down before it even boils.

“You want to compete with me?”

The girl pointed to herself, thinking she had misheard.

Han Li nodded, his expression solemn and certain:

“Yes, let’s compete to see who is faster.”

“Where do you get your confidence?”

Dong Xuan’er laughed. She

was amused.

She didn’t want to discourage this junior brother too much.

A mere pseudo-spiritual root, his current cultivation level was only barely at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

The key point was that he only had one Foundation Establishment Pill.

In what way was he stronger than her?

What made him think he could compete with her?

Besides, given Han Li’s situation, the probability of establishing his foundation with one Foundation Establishment Pill was less than one percent. If he could overtake her by taking a shortcut, she might as well find a block of tofu and kill herself.

“What, Senior Sister, are you afraid?”

The boy provoked her with a strange look on his face.

“Hmph, stop trying to provoke me, let’s compete then.” Dong Xuan’er snorted, feeling looked down upon.

She had obviously seen through the clumsy attempt at provocation, but she was more concerned about being underestimated by this seemingly ordinary junior brother with a pseudo-spiritual root.

How dare he look down on her?

“By the way, what should we compete in? There has to be a prize, right?”

“This…” Han Li hesitated.

He only wanted to get something for nothing. He

didn’t want to actually give anything.

“How about this, the loser gives a small gift as a congratulatory present for the other’s successful Foundation Establishment, or does something within their ability to celebrate?”

Han Li really didn’t want to gamble.

He knew that if Dong Xuan’er was determined to use five Foundation Establishment Pills to establish her foundation, her chances of success were very high.

He would definitely lose.

But things had come to this point, and if he didn’t gamble, he felt this girl would cause some trouble.

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 progress is incredibly fast,” the girl said, half-smugly, half-reminder, her words genuinely containing a hint of goodwill.

“Don’t worry, I won’t let reality shake my confidence,” Han Li replied confidently, a confidence that came from the bottom of his heart. “But you… if you lose, you might not be able to handle it…”

“I’ll lose?”

Can’t handle it?

“You, Han Li, we’ll see.”

We’ll see then.

…

From then on, within Red Tassel Mountain, the girl who used to love causing trouble became quiet and well-behaved again.

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

Han Li took out several cultivation supplies.

He only had two bottles of Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills left; there were none more. Moreover, he now looked down on the “slow” progress brought by these two low-grade pills. Eating candy every day would get boring, not to mention the issue of drug resistance.

He had already switched to [Red Jade Pills] for his daily use.

One pill is equivalent to about one and a half Huanglong Dan or Jin Sui Wan.

The remaining amount is barely enough for him for the next two years.

This is one of the main reasons why his magical power has improved so much faster.

Furthermore, his extravagant daily consumption of a low-grade spirit stone further enhanced his cultivation efficiency.

In addition,

he had more than three bottles of [Spirit Marrow Pills] remaining.

Their effects were several times better than the Red Jade Pills.

Next were two [Essence Refining Pills], which could assist in breaking through bottlenecks. He

originally had three left, but used one a month ago when he was attempting to break through the bottleneck of the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Finally, he had twenty-six [Mid-grade Spirit Stones] and over two hundred low-grade spirit stones.

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

“Although I don’t have a chance to surpass Dong Xuan’er, I can’t fall too far behind…”

Dong Xuan’er’s cultivation speed had always been slow, seemingly ordinary—only reaching the eleventh level of Qi Refining at eighteen. But in reality, it wasn’t much slower than those with dual spiritual roots and special physiques who hadn’t used d*rugs.

Moreover, Dong Xuan’er’s slow progress wasn’t due to a lack of low-level cultivation resources, but rather because Fairy Hong Fu had set a barrier.

On one hand, she didn’t want this girl to rely too much on the effects of d*rugs, thus weakening her willpower for arduous and solitary cultivation. As the saying goes, it’s easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Throughout her journey, Fairy Hongfu has been very careful to protect her disciple’s pursuit of the Dao.

On the other hand, she also wanted to avoid the early development of drug resistance.

Excessive consumption of low-grade pills leading to various forms of drug resistance is simply not worthwhile.

After all, pills for the Foundation Establishment stage are undoubtedly much harder to obtain and more precious. If drug resistance developed during the Qi Refining stage affects certain medications used during the Foundation Establishment stage, causing reduced efficacy and forcing the waste of even more pills, the losses would be even greater.

It would be too late for regrets.

Considering all these factors, Fairy Hongfu didn’t allow Dong Xuan’er to take pills too early.

Moreover, most of the other talented individuals in the sect with excellent spiritual roots were in the same situation, only resorting to medication when they encountered a bottleneck that was truly difficult to break through.

In other words, it wasn’t that they weren’t allowed to take pills, but rather that it was a matter of cost-effectiveness, and depended on the individual’s future plans and prospects.

Now, Dong Xuan’er has started taking pills, and they’re even taking Foundation Establishment pills!

If he doesn’t speed up his pace to keep up, he’ll not only lose, but lose badly.

“Clang…”

The cave gate slammed shut.

The room door slammed shut.

The formation activated, isolating the inside from the outside.

“Seclusion!”

From then on, the two never left Red Tassel Mountain again.

He would at most stroll through the herb garden, tending to the medicinal fields and herbs, no longer bothered by any outside troubles. Dong Xuan’er began a long period of seclusion.

…

It’s worth mentioning that

not long after the two went into seclusion,

the Seven Sects held their ten-year grand event.

Once every ten years, they would open their gates wide, recruiting novice disciples with excellent spiritual roots.

Huangfeng Valley was open to hundreds of large and small cultivation families within Jianzhou and surrounding states.

Anyone of suitable age with three spiritual roots could enter.

Geniuses with dual spiritual roots, unique spiritual roots, or special physiques were especially sought after.

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

Their unique spiritual roots were both known for their destructive power—the “Thunder Spiritual Root.” The appearance of the two directly alarmed Lei Wanhe, one of the eight Core Formation stage cultivators of Huangfeng Valley, simply because this mid-Core Formation elder was also a cultivator with a lightning spiritual root. Lei Wanhe immediately took a liking to the two young men from the Murong family.

Another example is the boy from the small cultivation family, the Li family.

At only eleven years old, he had never taken any pills to accelerate his growth, yet 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 cultivators with unusual spiritual roots, and even twice as fast as a nineteen-year-old with a wind spiritual root who had only reached the eleventh level of Qi Refining.

The Li family boy was also accepted as a disciple by the sect’s Core Formation elder.

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

This child was not only a direct descendant of the Wang family, a major cultivation clan in the Yue Kingdom, but also possessed the innate “Mysterious Yin Eye,” capable of cultivating the legendary “Bright Eye Divine Light,” which could subdue all the ghosts and monsters in the world. If it weren’t for the fact that the cultivation method of Chi Mu Shen Guang had been lost for hundreds of years, and that the Wang family child was still young, those Core Formation experts would have been vying to take him in.

Furthermore, there

were quite a few young geniuses with dual spiritual roots and other special physiques,

more than ten in total.

It was a great harvest.

The addition of these young geniuses greatly supplemented the future potential of Huangfeng Valley.

However, these so-called young geniuses paled in comparison to the Yan surnamed genius with a Heavenly Spiritual Root recruited by the Yanyue Sect. While

the cultivation paths of young geniuses with special physiques, unusual spiritual roots, and dual spiritual roots were certainly much easier than those with three or pseudo-spiritual roots, they were ultimately a level below the Heavenly Spiritual Root geniuses who had no bottlenecks in Core Formation and whose Nascent Soul Formation would be much easier.

As for the other five sects, each had recruited quite a few young geniuses, some with more than ten, others with seven or eight.

None of them could compare to the Yanyue Sect.

…

Spring came and autumn went, rain and snow fell, and everything on Hongying Mountain remained the same.

On this day, the stone gate, sealed for half a month, opened.

A young man stepped out.

(End of Chapter)