Eternal Life: I Can Control My Essence Qi-Chapter 137 - 126: The Path of Foundation Establishment, Six True Bloods

Chapter 137: Chapter 126: The Path of Foundation Establishment, Six True Bloods

"Hahaha..."

Lord Haihe laughed heartily and said:

"We are family, after all. It’s just a few cultivation techniques; there’s no need for collateral."

"You can owe the contribution points for now. I’ll personally vouch for you, and you can pay back once you’ve saved up enough in the future."

Hearing this, Zhang Yao immediately showed a hint of gratitude and said repeatedly:

"Thank you, Association Leader, thank you..."

"No need."

Lord Haihe waved his hand and asked:

"Which cultivation techniques do you need?"

Zhang Yao had already made a plan and said:

"I am practicing earth attribute techniques. Previously, during the Qi Refining Stage, I had already purchased a few corresponding Foundation Establishment techniques as a reference."

"However, I found in the treasure vault inventory that there are top-level techniques available for exchange, which sparked the thought of further advancement."

"I want to exchange for all five top-level techniques. Although the attributes differ, since they are all top-tier divine skills, they can be used to draw analogies, broaden my horizons and thoughts, and serve as excellent references."

"Yes, that reasoning makes sense."

Lord Haihe nodded and said:

"As the saying goes, aim high to achieve middle, aim middle to achieve low. Having top-level techniques as reference goals can also help you go further in the future."

"Moreover, each top-level technique can be regarded as being of towering stature and unique style, which can indeed be of great help in creating your own techniques."

After pondering for a moment, he smiled and said:

"Let’s do it this way."

"Each of the five top-level techniques in the treasure vault requires five thousand contribution points."

"Since you want all five, I’ll give you a discount. In total, you’ll only need to pay twenty thousand contribution points. How about that?"

Zhang Yao was quite delighted and immediately stood up, repeatedly expressing his gratitude, which Lord Haihe accepted with equanimity.

"Buzz!"

Lord Haihe took out a Sound Transmission Talisman, moved his lips to say something while injecting a strand of magical power into it, forming a temporary magic ban.

Once a faint light flashed across the Talisman, Lord Haihe handed it to Zhang Yao, instructing:

"Give this token to Lord Baihe, and he will naturally fetch the five techniques from the treasure vault for you."

"Okay, thank you, Association Leader."

After expressing his gratitude once more, Zhang Yao took his leave.

After two quarter hours, he found Lord Baihe in the Water Mansion, explained the situation, and gave him the Sound Transmission Talisman from Lord Haihe.

"Hmm... it is indeed the transmission decree from Master."

After verifying, Lord Baihe put away the Talisman and smiled slightly:

"Fellow Daoist Qingxu, please wait a moment. I will go to the treasure vault to fetch those five techniques for you."

"Alright."

Zhang Yao nodded and patiently waited.

Lord Baihe returned half an hour later, holding five jade scrolls in his hands.

"Fellow Daoist Qingxu, here are the items you’ve requested."

"These are the ’Nine Seas and Myriad Rivers Scripture,’ ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature,’ ’Benefiting All Living Beings Great Technique,’ ’Taiyi Mingguang True Record,’ and ’Record of the Birth of Prince Shenwei.’"

As he spoke, he handed the five jade scrolls to Zhang Yao and added:

"These five techniques, the Lord should comprehend them yourself, and be sure not to pass them on, or it might lead to a great calamity."

"As for the contribution points you owe, my master says there is no rush. He didn’t set a time limit, so you can repay them whenever you’ve accumulated enough in the future at your convenience."

"Alright, Qingxu gives thanks here."

After giving a formal bow, Zhang Yao took the five jade scrolls and put them away.

After a brief chat, Zhang Yao got up to take his leave, and Lord Baihe escorted him out of the pavilion.

A moment later.

"Finally got them!"

Zhang Yao returned to his own cave abode, a genuine smile of joy on his face.

The smoothness of the affair was somewhat beyond his expectations, especially the proactive help from Lord Haihe, which deeply moved him.

"Phew..."

After taking several deep breaths to adjust his mental state, he took out the cultivation technique jade scrolls and began carefully examining them.

The ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature,’ upon entering the Foundation Establishment Stage, the cultivation techniques become increasingly profound, emphasizing ’Array Guided Spirit’ and ’Refining Spirit and Controlling Qi,’ gradually diverging from the orthodox Immortal Dao path.

At the same time, cultivators also need to engrave two new grand arrays - ’Array of the Six Harmonies and the Profound Abyss’ and ’Array of Ten Thousand Souls’ Thoughts.’

The former aligns the six viscera and augments the five organs, carving a new path of enhancement;

The latter imprints the marrow sea, strengthens the divine soul, compensating for the last weakness in mastering invincibility of the same rank.

"Hmm..."

Zhang Yao finished reading the contents of the jade scroll, pondering silently, thoughts flashing quickly in his mind.

The two grand arrays of the Foundation Establishment Stage, still in the mid to late stages of the Engraving Stage in the Foundation Establishment Realm, don’t require immediate attention, but the corresponding materials need to be collected early.

The Array of the Six Harmonies and the Profound Abyss originates from the inheritance of the Ancient Demon Race, specifically from the Dragon Race deep within the East Sea.

Deep within the East Sea lie the Nine Great Sea Apertures, each containing supreme power, serving as the core hubs of the infinite ocean, playing a crucial role in renewing the old, integrating the water veins of the world.

In Ancient Times:

The Dragon Race occupied the Nine Great Sea Apertures, with their ancestors observing the ebb and flow of immeasurable seawater daily, understanding the true meaning of renewal, perpetual cycles, and ruling over the vast ocean, creating numerous technique formulas, secret techniques, and arrays.

The Array of the Six Harmonies and the Profound Abyss mimics the wondrous uses of the sea apertures through the True Power of the Demon Race, allowing discarded elixir pills, magical treasure fragments, broken treasures, and similar items to be all thrown into the grand array.

These discarded items containing spiritual qi undergo crushing, refining, regrouping, and combination within the array through complex procedures, producing spiritual essence of varying grades, which is excellent material for alchemy, controlling qi, and array formation.

Sitting on riches from the Four Seas and being the wealthiest under the heavens, the Dragon Race flourished with this array, once becoming the leader of all demon races.

The creator of the Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature acquired this dragon race secret grand array from some unknown source, extracting its essence and mysteries for personal use, constructing it within one’s six viscera for incredible effects.

Simply put—

Once the ’Array of the Six Harmonies and the Profound Abyss’ is successfully constructed within the six viscera, the cultivator can devour various rare flowers, spiritual gold treasure materials, or even waste pills during furnace openings, broken magical artifacts, spiritual artifacts, and the like, refining them using the power of the grand array to strengthen oneself.

Different spiritual objects and materials have different effects, including enhancing magical power, elevating cultivation, expanding the divine soul, fortifying the physique, even prolonging lifespan, healing injuries... and so on.

"This grand array, though its effectiveness seems weak initially, is truly of limitless potential!"

"The longer one cultivates with it and the more one devours, the greater the effects, eventually even becoming the core source of one’s battle strength..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao felt a rush of excitement but also a headache.

"It’s just that the materials corresponding to the grand array are extremely difficult to collect."

The construction of the Array of the Six Harmonies and the Profound Abyss requires ’Six-sided True Blood,’ which means the essence blood of six different Foundation Establishment Stage demon beasts or demon cultivators of the same realm.

The corresponding demon beasts or demon cultivators preferably should have Dragon Seed Bloodline, at least be water-attribute demon beasts or sea demon beasts.

If in the East Sea or North Sea, such requirements are not difficult, but within the territories of the Hundred Countries of Central Plains, it is hundreds of times harder.

"Being part of the Haihe Association offers a channel though..."

Zhang Yao felt somewhat fortunate to have joined the Haihe Association at this moment.

The Haihe Association occupies the Cangjiang Water Vein, the most likely place to discover Foundation Establishment Stage water-attribute demon beasts, and they have the backing of the Fuhai Sect.

"In the Hundred Countries of Central Plains, Foundation Establishment Stage demon beasts that operate openly are basically spirit beasts of the various great cultivators."

"Foundation Establishment Stage spirit beasts are already rare, not to mention the requirement of being water-attribute or from the Sea Race, ideally with Dragon Seed Bloodline... where can I find six Foundation Establishment Spirit Beasts with True Dragon Bloodline?"

"As for demon cultivators, it seems slightly easier, but a corresponding channel is still needed..."

Zhang Yao considered for a moment, gradually furrowing his brow.

Finding a Foundation Establishment Stage water-attribute spirit beast is not difficult as they belong to renowned powerful cultivators, but requesting essence blood from them is quite hard.

Regarding demon cultivators, they are human cultivators practicing demon race techniques, although openly regarded as enemies of cultivators, their actual situation differs from demon cultivators.

Despite the various downsides and defects of cultivating demon techniques in human form, there is one huge benefit—it extends life!

The lifespan of demon races far exceeds that of the human race, demon cultivators often have lifespans two or three times those of cultivators in the same realm, which is an immense temptation for most cultivators.

While demon cultivators are thoroughly inhumane, never spared by any cultivator who is capable, attitudes towards demon cultivators are quite ambiguous for many.

"In any cultivation realm, there are almost always large numbers of hidden demon cultivators."

"But these demon cultivators have fixed circles and channels, outsiders can almost never infiltrate them..."

Demon cultivators have existed for tens of thousands of years and have long developed a comprehensive set of concealment methods.

Demonization traits, demon race skills, personal demon qi... etc., can all be concealed, fully capable of long-term disguise to avoid exposure unless an accident occurs.

"Ah..."

After thinking for a long time, Zhang Yao could not come up with a feasible plan, shaking his head helplessly and sighing:

"There’s no way at present, I’ll have to consider it over the long term."

"For now, steadily elevate cultivation to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and look for opportunities during this period..."

The Foundation Establishment Stage is divided into early, middle, late, and Perfection four minor realms, but the difficulty of cultivation is far beyond Qi Refining Stage.

For instance, a Celestial Spirit Root cultivator, cultivated diligently by a major sect, often achieves Foundation Establishment by thirty or forty, but requires about a hundred years to attempt a breakthrough to the Golden Core.

On average, Celestial Spirit Root cultivators with abundant resources take about twenty years to break a minor realm within the Foundation Establishment period;

For normal Foundation Establishment cultivators, breaking one minor realm in fifty or sixty years is already worthy of great thanks.

Zhang Yao estimated that, without relying on elixir pills or spiritual objects, it would take him at least thirty or forty years to break through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

"Lord Qingxu!"

At this moment, a clear, pleasant voice entered the cave abode.

"Hmm?"

Zhang Yao raised his eyebrows, recognizing the owner of the voice, and said:

"Fairy Lichen?"

"Yes, it’s me."

Fairy Lichen chuckled, deliberately enticing:

"Fellow Daoist Qingxu, hurry and open the door."

"I have good news for you..."