"It's right here. What was recorded in the notes left by the ancestor is indeed correct. There really is a Water Spirit Fruit tree here! It has been more than a hundred years, and I believe the Water Spirit Fruit should have matured." The two Elder Lius behind Liu Tianlong seemed a little excited.
This time, the Liu family mobilized most of the family's combat power and spent a large sum of money to hire three cultivators from nearby Qi-refining families, not just to kill the second-level silver-armored crab monster.
The real purpose of the Liu family's trip was to eliminate the second-level monster that occupied the pond, and then successfully dive to the bottom of the pond to find a second-level water spirit fruit tree recorded in the notes on Liu Tianlong's body.
The note on Liu Tianlong's body was left by a foundation-building ancestor of the Liu family more than a hundred years ago. It recorded that the ancestor of the Liu family once accidentally discovered a second-level water spirit fruit tree in the Floating Cloud Mountains while hunting monsters.
It was thanks to a ripe water spirit fruit on the tree at that time that the ancestor of the Liu family was able to exchange it for a foundation-building pill from the Xiaoyao Sect and then successfully build his foundation.
After the Liu family ancestor established his foundation, he wanted to transplant the water spirit fruit tree to the Liu family's sacred mountain. Unfortunately, there had been no second-level spiritual plant master in the clan, and he did not dare to trust outsiders, so he had to give up temporarily.
The Liu family patriarch kept this matter a secret within the clan, recording it in his own notes. However, he later died unexpectedly outside, leaving the rest of the clan unaware of the incident. It wasn't until decades later that the successor clan leader stumbled upon the notes and sent people to the Floating Cloud Mountains to search for the pool mentioned in the notes.
Finally, after the Liu family had patiently waited for nearly a hundred years, when the Shuiling Fruit was ripe again, Liu Tianlong came here.
Ever since the Liu family lost their only foundation-building cultivator during the monster rebellion in the northern border a hundred years ago, all the cultivators of the Liu family have been thinking about how to restore their former glory as a foundation-building family.
In order to achieve this goal, the Liu family must find a way to cultivate another foundation-building cultivator. Now they are very close to this goal. After years of cultivation, the Liu family has hidden a seed that can build a foundation. Now all they need is a foundation-building pill.
Except for the rare cultivators with natural spiritual roots, ordinary cultivators will encounter a huge bottleneck when breaking through the foundation-building stage, and less than half of the cultivators can successfully break through by force.
Once the breakthrough fails, the surging spiritual energy in the cultivator's meridians will instantly backfire on the fragile meridians, causing injuries that are difficult to recover from.
For cultivators who fail to break through in this way, it will take at least twenty years to fully recover from their injuries, and they will basically miss the opportunity to build a foundation again, and their path of cultivation will come to an end. In serious cases, they will explode and die on the spot after the failure, and all their cultivation will disappear into thin air. The death will also be extremely painful.
This also makes many talented cultivators like Liu Tianlong in the world of immortal cultivation, even if they can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining before the age of sixty, dare not take such a huge risk to forcefully build the foundation.
In order to increase the success rate of more cultivators breaking through the realm, the world of immortal cultivation, after the research and accumulation of many top-level powerful cultivators, gradually developed many kinds of elixirs and spiritual objects to assist cultivators in breaking through the realm. Among them, the most effective and most recognized by cultivators is the Foundation Establishment Pill.
The Foundation Establishment Pill is a second-level pill developed in ancient times by a powerful cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage to assist cultivators in building their foundation. After being meticulously improved and tested by countless generations of high-level alchemists, it has now become an indispensable item for cultivators in building their foundation.
When a cultivator is building his foundation, he needs to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy to liquefy the spiritual power in his body. Taking the foundation-building pill can help him harmonize the large amount of spiritual power that is raging in his body when he breaks through the foundation.
The foundation-building pill can not only greatly improve the success rate of ordinary cultivators in building their foundation, but also protect the cultivator's meridians from too much backlash when a breakthrough fails. In this way, even if the cultivator fails to break through, he will not be seriously injured. He can recover after three to five years and have the opportunity to build his foundation again.
Although the Foundation Establishment Pill is only a top-grade second-level pill, it is very rare in the world of immortal cultivation in Wei State. Apart from the overlord of this place, Xiaoyao Sect, it is occasionally found in the black market near the Floating Cloud Mountains. Its value is far higher than other second-level pills, and even higher than some third-level pills.
Refining the foundation-building pill is very complicated. The main ingredients require two jade azure golden branches and five-element spiritual fruits that are more than 800 years old, as well as more than a dozen auxiliary spiritual medicines that take one to two hundred years to mature.
These mature spiritual herbs are difficult to find in the wild. In the entire Wei State, only the spiritual herb garden of Xiaoyao Sect can supply all kinds of spiritual herbs needed for refining foundation-building pills on a long-term basis.
The Xiaoyao Sect only refines a few batches of Foundation Establishment Pills every ten years, and only twenty to thirty pills can be produced at a time. Most of them are divided up within the sect, and only a small portion is sold to the major immortal cultivation families under its wing. Even the Foundation Establishment Families find it difficult to get this opportunity, let alone the lower-level Qi Refining Families.
Even if there is an opportunity to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill, the price of the Foundation Establishment Pill is still very high. Normally, one Foundation Establishment Pill costs 10,000 spirit stones to buy. Compared with the price of the Foundation Establishment Pill auctioned on the black market, it is already very affordable.
After deducting expenses, the Song family, to which Song Qingming belongs, can only have a few dozen spirit stones left in a year. In years of disaster, they need to take out some to supplement the income. After a hundred years, the treasury has only accumulated two or three thousand spirit stones.
For a low-level Qi-refining family like the Song family, even if a cultivator with excellent spiritual talent appears, they can only send him to the Xiaoyao Sect to have the opportunity to build a foundation.
It is precisely because the Xiaoyao Sect has a firm control over the supply channels of the Weiguo Foundation Establishment Pill that it has been able to absorb a large number of talented cultivators from the major immortal cultivation families under its jurisdiction to continuously enrich the sect's blood.
The water spirit fruit that Liu Tianlong was looking for on this trip was the Five Elements Spirit Fruit, one of the two main ingredients needed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, and it was extremely valuable.
Xiaoyao Sect also purchases various spiritual medicines for refining foundation-building pills on a long-term basis. Anyone who can produce the main ingredients of a foundation-building pill of sufficient age can directly exchange them for a foundation-building pill in Xiaoyao Sect. This is how the Liu family's foundation-building ancestor built his foundation a hundred years ago.
After the three Liu family members walked forward for dozens of steps towards the blue light, they passed through a low cave entrance and the passage suddenly became wider. The source of the blue light was a small green tree in the cave.
Liu Tianlong walked closer and saw that the small tree was five feet in size, almost the same height as him, and exuded a rich spiritual energy. There were five or six blue fruits on the tree. The fruits were crystal clear and emitted bursts of blue light, which was very tempting. The light the three of them had just seen outside was emitted by the fruits on the tree.
"Haha, this should be the Water Spirit Fruit. The time remembered by our ancestor was indeed correct. If we had come a few years earlier, the fruit would probably not be ripe yet." Looking at one of the fruits that was completely transparent, an elder of the Liu family laughed and said.
"Everyone, please be careful and try not to damage the fruit tree. We only need to pick the ripe fruit. When our Liu family trains our own second-level spiritual plant master, we can find a way to transplant this water spirit fruit tree."
The water spirit fruit tree is a second-level spirit tree. If you transplant it hastily without a spirit planter who is at or above the second level, it will easily cause the spirit energy of the spirit tree to be greatly damaged, and it will lose its vitality and slowly die, and the unripe spirit fruits on it will also be lost.
If this water spirit fruit tree can be secretly transplanted to the Liu family's sacred mountain in the future, the Liu family will be able to exchange it for a foundation-building pill every hundred years, and the family will be able to prosper for a long time. This is also the greatest opportunity for all the cultivators in the Liu family to change their destiny.
Liu Tianlong tried to pick the ripe water spirit fruit with his hands, but found that the place where this second-level spirit fruit was connected to the fruit tree was extremely tough and difficult to pick. He could only release a top-grade flying sword and cut off the fruit with one sword.
The elder of the Liu family hurriedly packed the Shuiling Fruit carefully in a jade box that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Liu Tianlong.
Looking at this water spirit fruit that carries the hope of revival of the family, Liu Tianlong couldn't help feeling excited. The Liu family's road to revival had finally taken the first step in his hands.
The three of them had just picked a ripe water spirit fruit and were about to turn around and leave when they suddenly felt a terrifying spiritual pressure emanating from the darkness on one side of the cave. A pair of huge red eyeballs suddenly opened in the darkness and stared at the three tiny humans in front of them.
"This is... How could there be a Level 2 demon beast here? Oh no, run!"
"Chief, hurry up and leave. We will cover your retreat."
Looking at the huge black shadow in front of them, Liu Tianlong and the other two couldn't help but tremble. The spiritual pressure emitted by this second-level monster was much stronger than that of the silver-armored crab before. They had been in the cave for so long and had not noticed it at all.
After the Liu family found this pond twenty years ago, they have sent cultivators to explore the pond many times. Except for the silver-armored crab that has just advanced, they have never seen any other second-level monsters.
Liu Tianlong never imagined that there were two level 2 monsters hiding in this small pond.
At this moment, Liu Tianlong suddenly understood that the monster skeletons in the caves they saw along the way were not eaten by the second-level silver-armored crab, but by another second-level monster in front of them, which exuded an aura more powerful than the silver-armored crab monster.