Chapter 118: Chapter 84: Foundation Establishment_1
Translator: 549690339
Three days later, after having fully recuperated and replenished the Yuan Qi consumed in alchemy, Xu Yang, in his peak condition, prepared another banquet for himself.
A very ordinary banquet.
He didn’t slaughter any spiritual beasts again.
It wasn’t that he had grown sentimental, he still clearly distinguished between companion -type spiritual pets and consumable-type spiritual beasts.
The reason he refrained from killing was that he had just obtained the divine seal, and the Earth Deity Cultivation Method was in its initial stage.
Every spiritual beast could aid his cultivation, enhance the spirit land, and after transformation, could become soldiers and officers like the Clam Ladies and Turtle Ministers. They were extremely precious human resources, capable of helping him nurture more spiritual beasts, cultivate spirit fields, and even straighten out the earth veins and water channels, undertaking various tasks.
This is also one of the reasons why Earth Deities tended to cultivate subordinates—the vast spirit lands solely managed by an Earth Deity would become an unmanageable burden.
A powerful Earth Deity will inevitably have many subjects and vassals, and may even form systematic establishments—like the Heavenly Court, Underworld, and Four Seas Dragon Palace.
For this reason, over the years, Xu Yang rarely consumed cultivated spiritual beasts, eating various types of Spirit Rice and Spirit Fruits instead.
This could also be considered somewhat of a “Cultivator” lifestyle.
After a fulfilling meal, Xu Yang didn’t linger and went straight to the East Coast Fishery.
At the East Coast Fishery, currents of electricity swam about.
Over ten thousand electric eels gathered here, including over a thousand Spirit Monsters, nearly a hundred Demon Monsters, and there was also an Electric Eel King of demon beast level.
The Electric Eel King’s body was golden with thunder patterns all over, with bulges on its head and tumor-like growths on its belly, showing signs of transforming into a Jiao Dragon.
The Beast Taming skill had traits like “Dragon King’s Grace” and “Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate.”
The Earth Deity skill had traits like “Earth Deity Transformation” and “Dragon
Department’s Personal Army.”
These skill traits were particularly friendly towards the Aquatic Clan, especially those containing “dragon bloodlines.”
The electric eels also had dragon bloodlines, and thus benefited greatly and grew rapidly.
The current Electric Eel King, in terms of cultivation, combat power, and bloodline strength, was even superior to the Golden Eagle, making it Xu Yang’s most powerful spiritual beast.
“Wuu wuu!!”
Upon seeing Xu Yang, the Electric Eel King made excited sounds, echoing like the roar of a dragon.
Xu Yang smiled without saying much and dived into the waters.
The gathering of electric eels instantly dispersed, and the ordinary eels all retreated, leaving only the alien beasts behind.
Even so, more than three thousand electric eels remained, showcasing the accomplishments of a decade’s nurturing and transformation.
For these excellent aides in his cultivation, Xu Yang had made a hefty investment, committing far more resources compared to any other fish breed.
As Xu Yang submerged, three thousand electric eels formed a battle formation under the command of the Dragon King.
A real battle formation!
Years ago, in the Blackwater River, when confronting the Giant Turtle, Xu Yang had formed a Water Army and set up a battle formation for encirclement and suppression.
At that time, however, he had not mastered formation arrays—his so-called battle formation was merely a sequential arrangement and lacked special functions.
Now it was different. He had mastered the ways of Array Formation, though only a tier-one Array Formation, but it still possessed mysterious and miraculous powers.
Three thousand electric eels formed a battle formation, all stimulating the electric currents, which instantly caused golden lights to flicker, forming a dragon shadow—a dragon shadow composed of electricity.
The Electric Element Dragon Formation!
Originally the “Mysterious Yuan Dragon-forming Array,” Xu Yang, after mastering Array Formation, replaced the Mysterious Water Power with the Electric Element Power to modify it, enabling the accumulation of the electric element power within the array, triggering a qualitative change through quantitative change to manifest an electric dragon.
Xu Yang sat cross-legged in the water, positioned at the head of the dragon, and took out a Foundation Building Spirit Pill, swallowing it.
Upon entering the stomach, a Tri-element Integration occurred!
Xu Yang concentrated his mind, commanded the Qi with his spirit, and merged the Qi with the essence.
The tri-element was the integration of three brilliances: jade brilliance as the essence, golden brilliance as the Qi, and nine brilliances as the spirit.
When the tri-element united, the three brilliances converged at the crown— the essence, Qi, and spirit merged as one!
This was the ancient method of Qi Cultivation, currently referred to as the body, divine soul, and mana.
Sitting cross-legged in the water, with the spirit pill in his stomach, Xu Yang immediately transformed it into primordial creation force. Three streams diverged: one for the body, one for the divine soul, and one for the mana.
These three forces, originally from the same source, attracted each other after divergence, promoting the unity of the three—this was the effect of the Supreme Grade Spirit Pill for Foundation Establishment.
“Crackle!!!”
At this moment, the Electric Element Dragon Formation also began to exert strength, the electric dragon raising its head with golden lights flickering, channeling the vast electric currents into Xu Yang’s body. With many forces converging, Xu Yang sat calmly in the water.
After an indeterminate period…
Finally, he opened his eyes.
A flash of electric light in his eyes before returning to tranquility.
Conversely, the energy within Xu Yang’s body continued to climb, quickly breaking through the limits of Qi Cultivation.
After exceeding the limits of Qi Cultivation, its momentum did not stop but kept climbing.
Qi Cultivation perfected, achieving Foundation Establishment!
Early-stage of Foundation Establishment, surpassing the limit!
Mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, also reaching the peak!
He had actually broken through in one go, reaching the peak realm of the mid-stage Foundation Establishment.
The three brilliances converged at the crown, the Mysterious Pass One Mystery achieved!
The tri-element combined, internal and external as one!
The foundation of the Immortal Path, thus established!
Smooth, exceedingly smooth, without any difficulties or obstacles.
That easy?
Indeed, that easy!
With ten years of accumulation and ten years of refinement, and traits such as “Heaven rewards hard work,” breakthroughs for Xu Yang were just a matter of course.
In fact, even without taking this Supreme Grade Foundation Building Pill, his chance of success in Foundation Establishment on his own was as high as ninety percent.
But being naturally cautious, especially since this matter concerned his life, he did everything possible to ensure a complete certainty.
However, the power of the Supreme Grade Foundation Building Pill was not wasted. Along with the tempering and body conditioning effects of the Electric Element Dragon Formation Array, it pushed his cultivation from the initial entry of Foundation Establishment directly to the mid-stage.
“Whoo-whoo!!!”
Xu Yang had just achieved a breakthrough when a humming sound emerged. The Electric Eel King swam excitedly towards him, its several Zhang long eel dragon body coiling and intertwining, rubbing its big head against Xu Yang’s shoulder and cheek, revealing a longing desire.
Seeing this, Xu Yang wrinkled his brow, but seeing how eagerly the Electric Eel
King craved it, he still nodded in agreement, “Alright then!”
With that, he pointed a finger between its eyes and took out a bottle of Beast Blood Pill from his storage bag.
Beast Blood Pill, a second-tier Spirit Pill, was something he could not yet concoct himself; this bottle was purchased from the market.
Xu Yang expended his cultivation energy to perform the transformation once again and tossed the bottle of Beast Blood Pill into the mouth of the Electric Eel King.
“Whoo!!!”
The Electric Eel King let out a long cry, swallowed the Spirit Pill, and then swam towards the surface of the lake.
Xu Yang sat in the water without chasing after it, merely watching as the Electric Eel King burst from the water and soared into the clouds.
It was about to breakthrough!
Perhaps it was stimulated by Xu Yang’s aura, or maybe it was the enhancement of the breeding and Earth Deity’s traits after Xu Yang’s own breakthrough, which affected the Electric Eel King at the very limit of the “Demon Beast” stage; either way, it had the idea of breaking through.
This thought, this desire, was incredibly strong — an instinctual impulse of life.
This disrupted Xu Yang’s plans. He had originally intended to make a second Foundation Building Pill to guarantee a fail-safe breakthrough for the Electric Eel King.
But plans cannot keep up with changes, and with such a stimulus, it was a natural instinct for the Electric Eel King to breakthrough. Forcibly suppressing it would not only be unsightly but could also possibly leave lifelong regrets and affect future progress.
Therefore, after much thought, Xu Yang still nodded in assent.
The moment the Electric Eel King emerged from the water, it soared between the clouds of Dongting, its body flickering with lightning, like gold snakes dancing wildly, yet it seemed blissfully untroubled by any pain.
“Crack! ”
“Pop!”
Swimming amidst the crackling sounds suddenly came the explosion of the lumps on its chest and abdomen, splattering a huge amount of vivid red blood.
But it seemed to disregard this, still joyfully swimming among the clouds, issuing a series of satisfying cries.
“WhOO! ! !
Amidst the long cries, flesh fell away, revealing a pair of golden claws exploring outward, and the electricity shimmering around its body grew even more intense.
“Crack! ”
Another strange noise exploded—it was the lump on its head bursting open, scattering flesh and blood, with a glimmer of gold light barely visible within.
That was… a horn, a small horn not even three inches tall!
As a Demon Beast, the Electric Eel King’s body had already reached several Zhang, making this small horn seem almost insignificant in comparison to its massive body, comically undersized.
But no matter how small, it was still a horn.
A horn emerged on its head, and with a pair of claws on its chest and abdomen, it had achieved a “half-Jiao” body.
A Jiao Dragon, known for having at most one horn, four claws and three toes!
Now that the Electric Eel King had a small beginning horn and exploring claws, it couldn’t be called a Jiao Dragon yet, only a “half-Jiao!”
The breakthrough was successful, achieving a half-Jiao Demon Body!
“Roar!!!”
Upon achieving the half-Jiao Demon Body, its whining turned into a dragon’s roar. The Electric Eel King, excited, surged into the sky. It spun and swam in the sea of clouds of Dongting, with lightning crisscrossing around its body and thunder roaring, as if to announce its rebirth of shedding the old for the new.
“Screech!! ! ”
Even a Golden Eagle was attracted by this sight, watching the Thunder Jiao Electric Dragon amidst the sea of clouds, feeling a mix of shock, anger and disbelief.
“Well, in some time, there will be those seeking fortunes from immortals Imocking on my door again,” muttered Xu Yang, shaking his head resignedly as he watched his spirited spiritual pet frolic. He also summoned his Attribute
Panel.
Xu
Lifespan: 70/800
Cultivation: Embracing Core and Co-Dao, External Body Cultivation of True
Body (Five Barriers realm, Mid- Stage Foundation Establishment)
Skills: Eating, Sleeping, Breathing, Cooking, Fishing, Boating, Disguise, Knife
Sharpening, Throwing Weapons, Swimming, Slaughtering, Walking, Archery,
Reading, Martial Training, Taoist Skills, Medicine, Dreaming, Beast Taming, Formation, Spirit Plant Cultivation, Artifact Refining, Alchemy, Talisman Drawing, Earth Deity.
Martial Arts: Martial Arts Scripture.
Special Talent: Thunder Commanding Power.
Martial Cultivation Five Realms, Embracing Core and Co-Dao!
Body Cultivation Five Realms, External Cultivation of True Body!
Tri-Element Integration, Inner and Outer as One, Cultivating True Foundation Establishment!
Breakthrough successful!
The most significant increase after the breakthrough into the Foundation Establishment Realm was lifespan.
It increased dramatically to eight hundred years!
Eight hundred years of lifespan has now surpassed that of Foundation Establishment, even surpassed that of the Golden Core, and is catching up to the Nascent Soul elite!
A Nascent Soul Cultivator, a possessor of Great Divine Power, would only have a lifespan of a thousand years.
He has hardly entered Foundation Establishment yet has obtained eight hundred years of lifespan. If such a thing were to spread, it would drive countless cultivators mad.
“At this rate, reaching the Golden Core Realm might grant me two thousand years of lifespan, comparable to a Deity Transformation Venerable!”
“Regarding cultivation techniques, although the Martial Arts Scripture is wonderful, it still falls far behind the top-notch methods of this world.”
“My extension of lifespan to eight hundred years is still thanks to the Attribute Panel and Skill Traits, breaking through the restrictions of this world on cultivators and enhancing the longevity effect of the Martial Arts Scripture.”
“Although my lifespan is extended, it only means extended lifespan and nothing more. My combat capabilities have not been elevated to surpass the Golden Core or match the Nascent Soul.”
“The method of longevity, and the art of Dao protection — while I see hope in the former, the latter still has many deficiencies!”
Xu Yang murmured to himself, his understanding of his own situation clear as day.
“Thus, I must venture through the dream once more, both to supplement the art of longevity and to cultivate the art of Dao protection!”
“To verify the Dao within dreams is just like this!”