Cultivating Immortality in a World of Chaos - Chapter 225

[Chapter 224 Breakthrough Failure (Subscription Request)]

Spring goes and autumn comes.

The evil-spirited products of the Dragon Fish Island’s lake have attracted the hearts of countless Qi-refining practitioners.

But Fang Xi still maintained his mysterious and otaku attributes, and did not leave the island easily.

To outsiders, with a second-level formation and foundation-building monks guarding it, Dragon Fish Island is as stable as Mount Tai.

Before he knew it, several years had passed, and Fang Xi had quietly celebrated his 130th birthday.

In the retreat room.

The green light around Fang Xi suddenly increased, illuminating the retreat room with varying degrees of brightness.

Just today, the liquid mana in his body finally accumulated to 120 drops, and he cultivated to the limit of the middle stage of the foundation building of the Qingmu Changsheng Gong!
This was also thanks to his giving up the cultivation of the Qinghe Sword and practicing the Changsheng Technique. His mana progress has also accelerated in the past few years.

After the Dantian Qi Sea expanded to its limit, Fang Xi naturally decided to try to break through the late stage of foundation building!
As the green light continued to swallow and spit, an unknown amount of time passed.

Sudden!

Fang Xi’s expression changed slightly. He covered his Dantian with his hands, feeling as if countless knives were stabbing into his Dantian. A look of pain appeared on his face.

Puff!
The next moment, his magic power spread out and he opened his mouth to spray out a dark red blood mist.

“I failed…”

Fang Xi’s face turned pale. He took out a second-level healing pill from his storage bag, swallowed it, and then closed his eyes to refine it.

After several hours, he looked better. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said helplessly, “I failed to break through the late stage of foundation building. I have reached a bottleneck…”

When a cultivator practices, it is not certain that he will be able to break through successfully once he reaches the limit of a certain realm.

The last time Fang Xi successfully broke through the early stage of foundation building, it could only be attributed to chance and his own good spiritual talent.

“My spiritual roots are only of the lower grade. With the help of the Green Wood Spiritual Body, I can be compared with ordinary upper grade spiritual roots… But even among the foundation-building cultivators with upper grade spiritual roots, not every one can break through to the late stage of foundation-building. It is normal to encounter bottlenecks and be stuck.”

After all, after breaking through the late stage of foundation building, cultivating to the perfection of foundation building is just the accumulation of mana, and there are no more bottlenecks or levels.

And how many cultivators in the entire Yue Kingdom have completed their foundation building and have the opportunity to form a pill?

Even the Song family is just one ancestor of the Song family!

Fang Xi closed his eyes and looked inward, and found that he did not force a breakthrough this time. He received timely treatment after the failure. The backlash caused by the failure of the breakthrough was not serious. With the help of healing elixirs, he would be fine after recuperation for a period of time.

“It’s just that it’s a bit difficult to break through the bottleneck.”

Historically, when cultivators encountered bottlenecks during their attempts to break through a realm, there were only a few ways to deal with them.

Or swallow the pills that can help you break through!

Either travel or fight, looking for opportunities for enlightenment!

In the end, it all depends on time!

“The elixir that can help a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building break through to the late stage is too precious… I am currently trapped on Dragon Fish Island and cannot get it.”

“Traveling and fighting are impossible. Do I have to rely on time to slowly hone my skills?”

Fang Xi fell into deep thought.

Even if he continued to meditate and practice every day, the limit of 120 drops of liquid mana would not be broken. There was no further mana could be gained, and he had to break through a higher realm before he could continue to accumulate it.

Basically, except for those with heavenly spiritual roots, every foundation-building cultivator will encounter bottlenecks, and some will even be stuck like this for their entire lives.

“Fortunately… I still have a way out!”

Fang Xi slowly exhaled a long breath: “There is no bottleneck in the foundation-building period for cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots, because their talents are good enough! I am now stuck at a bottleneck, but it is only because of my lack of talent… After improving my talent, it will probably be easy to break through to the later stage.”

In fact, he felt that his own Qingmu spirit body was full of vitality, which was very helpful for healing.

In this case, as long as he waits until he has recovered from his injuries and tries to break through a few more times, he will probably be able to break through the bottleneck of the late stage of foundation building.

But Fang Xi has a better way!

“Within ten years, my Yimu Dharmakaya will be accomplished!”

“With the aptitude of Yimu Dharmakaya, I can directly break through this bottleneck of the late stage of foundation building…”

Fang Xi cast a cleansing spell on himself, and the green robe on his body instantly looked brand new.

Thanks to the good recovery effect of Qingmu’s spiritual body, his complexion now returned to normal. He immediately stood up and walked out of the retreat room.

Before coming out of seclusion, Fang Xi thought about it and lifted some of the effects of the ‘Breath-Containing Technique’, raising his cultivation to the initial stage of the middle stage of foundation building.

After all, the purpose of his retreat this time was to announce to the outside world that he would try to break through the mid-term bottleneck.

It took him more than seventy years to build up his foundation before he could finally break through the bottleneck in the middle stage. To outsiders, it seemed like he had already lost hope of achieving the Golden Elixir.

But at least it can scare away some of the Foundation Establishment cultivators who are ready to make a move.

The news in the past few years has not been good. The news coming from Yan Changkong is that Bai Ze Immortal City is in turmoil, and Ouyang Zhen is unable to control the situation, which leads to the 29 disciples of the Baifeng Mountain lineage being robbed and killed by wandering cultivators!

Wandao Lake was calm for a while after the Grand Elder of Youyue Sect massacred the Three Branches, but soon it was in turmoil again.

There are even rumors that the ‘Long Family’, one of the seven great foundation-building families of the Yue Kingdom, is planning to migrate to Wandao Lake.

In such a precarious situation, Fang Xi felt that he needed to show his strength to intimidate the villains.

“Young Master?!”

Outside the retreat room, Xiahou Ying, Zhong Hongyu, and Yan Hongxiu, who were waiting anxiously, felt Fang Xi’s magical power fluctuations, which were even stronger than before. They couldn’t help but show joy on their faces: “Congratulations, young master, for your successful breakthrough!”

“Alas… I have been practicing hard for more than sixty years and have barely broken through to the middle stage of foundation building. I will have no regrets if I can just see the scenery of the late stage of foundation building in this life.”

Fang Xi shook his head and smiled bitterly.

“The island master has broken through to the middle stage of foundation building without relying on the help of elixirs. He can be said to have a solid foundation… If there is an opportunity in the future, it may not be difficult to achieve the great path.”

Zhong Hongyu hurried to comfort her.

She has now made another breakthrough in her cultivation, reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining, and has caught up with Yan Hongxiu.

As for Xiahou Ying?
This woman didn’t have any obsession to break through, and she seemed to have hit a bottleneck. Her cultivation had been stagnant at the seventh level of Qi Refining, but it was still pretty good.

Looking at Longyu Island and even Wandao Lake, he can be considered a master.

“Well, that’s right. Today is a great day, we should have a banquet to celebrate…Send someone to Old Zhong to catch a few more little blue dragons…”

Thinking of how delicious the little blue dragon was, Fang Xi couldn’t help but feel hungry.

At this time, Xiahou Ying exchanged glances with Yan Hongxiu, bowed and said, “My lord… Zhong Qi has passed away.”

“Oh? When did it happen?”

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Fang Xi was slightly startled.

“When the young master was in seclusion, he was said to be fine two days ago, and even went fishing… But suddenly he couldn’t get up, and he stayed in bed for two days before he passed away…”

Yan Hongxiu reported: “Because the young master was in seclusion at that time, we dare not report it. Please forgive me…”

“That’s all…”

Judging from his age, Old Zhong has lived several years longer than Wei Yixi. What else can Fang Xi say?

But after all, he had raised fish for half his life, so he said, “Let me go to his grave and ask the people around him what his last wish was. If it can be solved, then I will solve it…”

…

Fish farm.

The green-horned ichthyosaur, which had always been very active, looked a little listless and lay at the bottom of the lake.

Fang Xi came to the edge of the lake and saw a grave in a reed field.

Around him, there were several fishermen, all of whom were in the early to middle stages of Qi Refining, serving him carefully.

One of the middle-aged fishermen who was at the sixth level of Qi Refining bowed and said, “My lord, Master Zhong had no children in his life. Now that he has passed away, he has not left any relics…”

“impossible……”

Fang Xi shook his head. He treated his workers quite well. They were rewarded with spirit stones every year and were allowed to take some spirit fish and spirit rice occasionally. How could he not have an inheritance?

Could it be…that it was embezzled by these people?

Thinking of this, his expression became somewhat dangerous.

The middle-aged fisherman was startled and knelt on the ground quickly: “Island Master, here is the letter from Mr. Zhong. You will know it after reading it…”

“oh?”

Fang Xi took over a stack of letters. The first few were still on paper, already yellowed and bearing traces of age.

He was sensitive enough to know it was not fake.

After taking out a picture and looking at it, he was a little surprised: “This old Zhong… is still funding the exhibition?!”

He read the letter from Old Zhong and found that this man had been in contact with Zhan Tu. From time to time, he asked people to send some spiritual objects to Zhan Tu who was practicing in Xuantian Sect.

“At first, I just sent this person to send the exhibition map to Xuantian Sect, but I didn’t expect that we would become friends…”

“It is even possible that Zhong Qi has placed his entire path on Zhan Tu…”

Fang Xi did not understand this behavior, but it did not stop him from expressing his admiration: “He is truly an old horse waiting in the stable, working hard and with all his heart…”

“Someone come!”

He shouted softly, and the middle-aged fisherman immediately said, “I’m here!”

“Send a letter to Xuantian Sect’s exhibition to announce the death!”

Fang Xi said calmly, then looked at the middle-aged fisherman: “What’s your name?”

“Your Excellency, the island master, I am Zhong Lu, one of the first batch of immortal seedlings after the island master took over Dragon Fish Island…”

Zhong Lu replied.

“Oh, I have some impression…”

Fang Xi answered without any objection, but he was at least a vested interest of his own side. Moreover, he scanned the fish farm with his spiritual sense and found that this man had the highest cultivation among the fishermen in the fish farm, so he said: “Then you can take over Zhong Qi’s position and be the manager of the fish farm…”

“Thank you, Island Master. I will do my best to get things done.”

A hint of joy appeared on Zhong Lu’s face.

Being able to be the manager of a fish farm is already the highest aspiration of the male immortal seedlings of Dragon Fish Island. After all, they are not beautiful women and cannot be selected into the Changqing Pavilion.

Moreover, the island master is very generous in rewarding all the managers. You can get an idea from how well-off Zhong Qi is and how he can even support the cultivation of a Qi-refining disciple of the sect.

“Hmph… I won’t support outsiders. If I have to choose, I will choose the immortal seedlings of my Zhong family.”

Zhong Lu thought secretly that although he was just a fish farmer, he had more than a dozen wives in the mortal world and had many children, so he was looking forward to having spiritual roots.

The other three monks such as Taishu are all like this!
(End of this chapter)