Chapter 90: Final Formation

Chapter 90: Final Formation

Chapter 90: Final Formation
Tan Tai Lin once said that the blood body should not be allowed to exist alone for more than half a year, otherwise its state will become stable and it will permanently seize the original body's physical body, spiritual power and soul.

If the number of blood bodies is too large it will affect the cultivation. This is why Tan Tai Lin fell from the middle stage of the Nascent Soul to the early stage.

Faced with this situation, the only options are to destroy the blood body or refine it back to the original body.

Destroying it would cause slight injuries to the main body, while refining it would take back all the power and improve the cultivation.

Wei Zhong thought for a moment and then took out the alchemy furnace.

"I never thought that one day I would be used as material for alchemy."

With a sigh, Wei Zhong threw the Yuanshui beads into the bottom of the alchemy furnace.

After a while, Wei Zhong's screams were heard from behind the yard.

Even Tan Tai Lin, who was drinking tea in the courtyard, heard it clearly.

Touching the teacup, Tan Tai Lin couldn't help but sigh:

"As expected of a young man, he is capable of refining his own blood into a pill."

After all, Tan Tai Lin's blood body was not the elixir he made himself, so there were some differences between them.

Wei Zhong, who was inside the aura shield, hit his head with his hands, with an ugly grin on his face.

'The process of refining this blood body into elixir is really not something that ordinary people can endure. No wonder a tough person like Tan Tai Lin screamed loudly when I was refining the elixir for him.'

The pain is so intense compared to being distracted and using the Soul-Shock Stab to fight the enemy, it's simply a world of difference.

The latter is often a matter of a split second, cutting through the Gordian knot and causing only a moment's pain.

But refining elixir with blood body is different, it is like cutting flesh with a blunt knife, which is long and painful.

Especially Wei Zhong had to calm his mind despite the pain so that he could make the elixir, and there could not be any mistakes.

Fortunately, Wei Zhong was mentally strong enough and he managed to hold on through the painful period of alchemy.

Looking at the blood-red elixir that he had personally refined, Wei Zhong took it into his mouth with some disgust, and then closed his eyes to refine it.

Guiyuan Dan is a power that originates from one's own body, and it is effortless to refine.

After refining, Wei Zhong found that his condition was surprisingly good, and even his cultivation level had improved.

Wei Zhong couldn't help but sigh at the weirdness of the Guiyuan Pill. He wondered where Tan Tai Lin got this strange recipe for the pill.

Wei Zhong then took out various spiritual objects that could enhance his cultivation. Now that he had reached the krypton level, Wei Zhong was still some distance away from completing his foundation building. He would need to practice hard for several more years before he could once again reach the stage of forming a pill.

After taking the elixir and wine, Wei Zhong began to practice in seclusion, moving towards the perfect level of foundation building.

Three years later, Ling Ziwei came to this foggy valley.

He heard from Xie Linghua that Wei Zhong was out in seclusion, and combined with the fact that Wei Zhong had entrusted him to refine the spiritual light shield formation, he guessed that Wei Zhong was trying to form a pill here.

Flying into the forest, Ling Ziwei walked to the courtyard where Tan Tai Lin was, bowed and saluted, "Greetings, Senior Tan Tai!"

The latter squinted his eyes and glanced at her, then said:

"The elixir has formed? Not bad, not bad."

"This is all thanks to the secret method of replacing the calamity given by the senior," Ling Ziwei said respectfully, and then added, "I wonder if Fellow Daoist Wei is here?"

Tan Tai Lin pointed to the back of the yard:

"He is still in seclusion. He failed in his previous attempt to form a pill, so he is probably still recovering from his injuries!"

Hearing this, Ling Ziwei showed a hint of worry.

He had long known that Wei Zhong's aptitude was mediocre and it was extremely difficult for him to cultivate to the stage of foundation building. In order to form the elixir, he even spent a huge amount of money to forge an acquired spiritual body to improve his aptitude.

"After all this effort, am I still going to fail at this bottleneck of Jindan?"

Tan Tai Lin saw that he looked unhappy and tried to comfort him:
“Don’t worry about that kid. I think he is still quite confident after failing in forming the elixir.

I think I have figured out the key points, and I think it won’t take long before I can successfully form the elixir.”

Seeing that the Yuanying senior said so, Ling Ziwei naturally did not have any doubts.

"I would like to stay in your courtyard for a while. Please agree."

"No problem, but Wei has taken up the only spiritual eye site, and I don't have any other spiritual sites for you to practice."

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Wei Zhong was completely unaware of Ling Ziwei's arrival. He continued to practice with his eyes closed. His skills were running and his cultivation level was constantly improving.

After experiencing the failure of forming the elixir, this time Wei Zhong only spent more than three years to push his cultivation back to the perfect state of foundation building.

At the same time, he also refined the substitute blood body again.

After placing spiritual stones, elixirs and other items around him, Wei Zhong looked determined:

"This time, the pill formation will definitely be successful!"

Wei Zhong picked up a jade bottle and opened the cork, revealing another top-grade Dust-Reducing Pill refined by Wei Zhong.

Wei Zhong was cautious and had already considered the possibility of failure in forming the elixir, so he tried to prepare double or more copies of any items needed for forming the elixir.

After swallowing the pill, Wei Zhong closed his eyes and practiced his skills, and a huge cyclone of spiritual energy rose in the air again.

Ling Ziwei and Tan Tai Lin in the outside world were both alarmed by this strange phenomenon.

"It started again!" Tan Tai Lin was no longer surprised.

However, there was a hint of worry in Ling Ziwei's eyes.

Although he failed once, Wei Zhong was familiar with the first step of the pill-forming process.

A large amount of liquid spiritual power gathered in the dantian. When the first ball of floc-like spiritual power appeared, Wei Zhong immediately took two Haoyuan Pills.

At the same time, he crushed the ten high-quality spirit stones beside him, and operated the "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art" at full speed to absorb spiritual energy and refine it into liquid spiritual power that could be used to form pills for himself.

In an instant, Wei Zhong's body was filled with rich spiritual energy inside and out.

'With such sufficient preparation, there is no reason for failure.'

As Wei Zhong expected, with sufficient supply of spiritual power, the prototype of the true elixir was condensed very smoothly.

And to be on the safe side, Wei Zhong also took Haoyuan Pills continuously to ensure that his body had sufficient spiritual energy and an endless supply of spiritual power.

The prototype of the true elixir continued to absorb liquid spiritual power. It was unknown how long it took before it formed a black true elixir the size of an egg.

At this moment, the real elixir finally reached perfection and no longer absorbed any spiritual power.

It slowly rotated in Wei Zhong's Dantian, its surface was round and shiny, without a single flaw.

"The pill is finally formed. The next step is the second level, the inner demon tribulation."

Wei Zhong suddenly felt his consciousness sinking, and in the blink of an eye he arrived at another place.

Looking at the familiar houses and scenery around him, Wei Zhong murmured:
"Is this the Yan family?"

At this moment, Wei Zhong was in the Lingtian hut where his predecessor had stayed for decades.

"Wei Zhong, you killed members of my Yan family, and you will be paid with blood," there were shouts and pounding on the door outside.

The door panel was blown away by the huge force, and in the blink of an eye several Qi-refining monks rushed towards Wei Zhong.

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The sight turned and they arrived at Black Lake Island again, with Hongxu pinching Wei Zhong's arm.

"In less than a hundred years, a low-grade spiritual root can still build a foundation. You must have a secret."

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During the inner demon calamity, all kinds of chaotic and scattered experiences emerged in Wei Zhong's body.

Most of them were things that made Wei Zhong afraid and worried, such as his secrets being discovered or being betrayed by people around him.

Although these memories had no logic at all, they made Wei Zhong confused and immersed in them.

In the valley, Tan Tai Lin captured Wei Zhong.

Four blood rings bound Wei Zhong's limbs, and even most of the spiritual power in his body was blocked.

Tan Tai Lin held a bloody knife against Wei Zhong's neck and said:
"I didn't expect that after trying so hard to obtain the complete inheritance from Venerable Xue, I unexpectedly encountered the complete inheritance method from Venerable Chunqiu..."

Wei Zhong looked at the bloody knife on his neck, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

It seemed as if he didn't know why he had found himself in such a dangerous situation, even though he was practicing peacefully and adhering to the path of humiliation.

No one knew his secrets during his practice until now, not even to Xie Linghua, who was beside him. Wei Zhong had not revealed a single thing to her.

'How did Tan Tai Lin know this? And why did I come here?'

Wei Zhong closed his eyes and thought hard. He vaguely sensed the irrationality in it, but his memory was a mess and he couldn't remember the slightest reason.

Seeing that Wei Zhong showed no fear of his life hanging by a thread, Tan Tai Lin stabbed his knife into Wei Zhong's chest and abdomen.

In an instant, red blood dripped from his chest, and a trace of pain appeared on Wei Zhong's face.

"Why do you have to endure all this suffering? Just hand over your skills obediently, and I, the old Taoist priest, may be able to spare your life."

Wei Zhong raised his head and gave the other person a cold look.

"Nascent Soul cultivator, maybe when I reach the Core Formation stage, I can use the Dao of Time to fight against him!"

"To form a pill?" "Yes, I came here to form a pill."

A ray of bright light suddenly emerged from Wei Zhong's heart, illuminating his chaotic and vague memories.

"This is during my Jindan Heart Demon Tribulation."

When he realized it, the scene in front of him suddenly began to shatter, and even Tan Tai Lin's face began to melt and gradually became blurred.

“Say…say…”

The bloody knife stabbed into his chest and abdomen again, but Wei Zhong did not feel the slightest pain.

He closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, what appeared before him was the shattered spirit stone powder on the ground, and the pill bottles that were overturned by the spiritual energy and scattered all over the place.

There was no trace of Tan Tai Lin anywhere.

When his spiritual consciousness probed into his body, he saw a black real pill slowly rotating in his dantian.

Wei Zhong breathed a sigh of relief after finally confirming that this was the real scene.

'The inner demon has passed.'

While controlling his spiritual consciousness, Wei Zhong suddenly discovered that his spiritual consciousness had undergone tremendous changes. Not only had its quality improved, but its quantity had also increased tremendously.

The spiritual consciousness spread out for more than ten miles, and he could see the towering mountains in the distance, as well as Tan Tai Lin and Ling Ziwei in the courtyard.

'When ordinary people are in the Dan stage, their spiritual awareness covers a range of only five miles at the beginning. When I first entered the Dan stage, the range is more than ten miles, which is double the range. Is this the effect of nurturing the spiritual awareness when building the foundation?'

The future Ji greeted the two of them, and a dark cloud had gathered in the sky, with silver snakes dancing wildly in it.

'The most dangerous thunder tribulation of Jindan is coming.'

Wei Zhong took a Haoyuan Pill into his mouth to replenish his spiritual power.

He then used the Black Water Spirit Clothes technique to condense a black armor on his body surface. His natal magic weapon was located on his chest, becoming the core of the spirit clothes.

Under the supply of spiritual power and control of spiritual consciousness in the Jindan period, the armor formed by the Black Water Spirit Clothes appears thicker than before, and its defensive power is greatly increased.

Wei Zhong estimated that the current strength of the spiritual clothes was such that a second-level attack could not hurt it at all, and even ordinary third-level attacks would hardly cause damage to the spiritual clothes.

"Let's use this defensive technique to test the power of this heavenly thunderbolt."

Wei Zhong looked at the nearby houses and buildings.

"This is Senior Tan Tai's courtyard. We can't let the thunder destroy it."

So he flew up and took the initiative to go to mid-air to welcome the thunder.

Ling Ziwei and Tan Tai Lin, who were watching nearby, saw a black armored figure flying up, just as the first bolt of lightning fell.

Wei Zhong saw a flash of lightning in front of his eyes, and he felt a tingling sensation rising from his body. Then he looked at the Black Water Spiritual Robe, and the spiritual light flowing on the surface of the Black Water Spiritual Robe quickly eliminated the heavenly thunder.

"That's it?"

Wei Zhong didn't know whether he was lamenting the shallowness of the power of the heavenly thunder or the powerful defense of the black water spirit robe.

The second bolt of lightning struck Wei Zhong head-on as he was sighing.

Wei Zhong then felt a slight pain, but this little pain did not change his expression at all.

It was not until the third bolt of heavenly thunder fell on Wei Zhong's body that Wei Zhong's expression changed slightly.

After being filtered by the Black Water Spiritual Robe's defense, only a small amount of the power of the thunder fell on Wei Zhong's body. But just the third thunder tribulation was enough to cause Wei Zhong intense pain.

'At this moment, only one third of the thunder tribulation has passed. There are still six more violent thunder tribulations to come. We cannot be careless.'

Wei Zhong took out a precious umbrella, which was the colorful golden bamboo umbrella prepared to deal with thunder disasters.

This umbrella is of lower grade third rank, so it can easily withstand three thunder tribulations.

The two people below saw that Wei Zhong dealt with the thunder tribulation with ease and started talking about it.

"This kid is really well prepared for a third-level magic weapon that can ward off lightning," said Tan Tai Lin.

Ling Ziwei continued:
"Senior, are you interested in this magic weapon? I happen to have the method to refine it. However, this umbrella can only be refined to the fourth level at most. I'm afraid it won't be of much help to you in your transformation to the spirit realm."

As she spoke, Ling Ziwei took out a jade slip. Tan Tai Lin took it, glanced at it with his spiritual sense, and nodded.

"Yes, although this treasure is not very useful in the divine transformation thunder tribulation, it is also a powerful weapon for fighting."

Then he took out a few spirit stones and gave them to Ling Ziwei.

The latter wanted to refuse, but seeing that it was a top-grade spirit stone, he took it. For Jindan cultivators, top-grade spirit stones were also very precious resources.

The two continued to look up at the sky, and Wei Zhong had successfully survived the six heavenly thunder disasters.

As the seventh thunderbolt fell, the colorful golden bamboo umbrella was destroyed.

Tan Tai Lin was just about to see what other tricks Wei Zhong could use, when he saw Wei Zhong take out another precious umbrella, the grade of which seemed to be several points higher than the previously damaged one.

Holding an umbrella to greet him, Wei Zhong had blood oozing from the corner of his mouth under the umbrella.

The seven thunder tribulations had already caused serious injuries to Wei Zhong's body. Putting all his strength into the protection of the Black Water Spiritual Robe had consumed most of Wei Zhong's spiritual power.

"Fortunately, I have the secret technique of replacing the calamity to back me up, so I only need to deal with the eighth thunder calamity."

The Jindan spiritual power surged towards the colorful golden bamboo umbrella, and the spirit fish and green lotus on the fan suddenly came to life driven by Wei Zhong's spiritual power.

"Boom!"

The thunder from the sky fell, the green lotus stood up to block the lightning, and the spirit fish opened its mouth to swallow the scattered thunder.

The remaining power of thunder and lightning was injected into the ribs of the umbrella. The umbrella handle made of thousand-year-old golden thunder bamboo shone with green and yellow lightning, which counteracted the silver sky thunder.

In the end, the heavenly thunder was powerful enough to break through the defense of the colorful golden bamboo umbrella and hit the black water spirit clothes outside Wei Zhong's body.

Then the spiritual light flowed on the spiritual clothes, weakening it by 10%, and the remaining 40% of the power descended on Wei Zhong's body.

His body trembled, and Wei Zhong suddenly smelled a burnt smell.

The thunder from the sky burned Wei Zhong's hair and part of his body.

After several thunderbolts accumulated, Wei Zhong's minor injury finally turned into a serious one. His body was damaged, his spiritual power was reduced to one tenth, and even his consciousness became weak.

Fortunately, the eighth heavenly thunder was safely passed.

Wei Zhong looked up and saw that the black clouds in the sky had become thicker. He knew that the most ferocious thunder was about to come.

Wei Zhong took out the substitute blood body and felt the vague connection between it and himself.

He cut his fingertips and dripped a little bit of Dan essence blood onto his forehead. In an instant, the blurry facial features on the surface of the blood body became clear, and Wei Zhong's appearance could barely be seen. Even the confused consciousness in the blood body was awakened for a moment.

The connection became closer. Wei Zhong kept it in the air, and then landed on a wasteland on the ground with the umbrella.

Despite his bloody body, Wei Zhong still held the umbrella handle tightly in his hand, and did not remove the protection of the Black Water Spirit Clothes. At the same time, he held a magic pill in his mouth to replenish his magic power and recover from his injuries.

This is to prevent the substitute blood body from becoming ineffective, and to be prepared to deal with the last thunder tribulation on one's own.

"Boom, boom!"

There was constant thunder in the clouds, and wild snakes of lightning were dancing in them.

Before the ninth heavenly thunder arrived, the might of heaven that spread down made everyone present feel suffocated.

A trace of nostalgia flashed across Tan Tai Lin's eyes, and it was unknown what past event he was recalling.

There was a hint of fear and worry in Ling Ziwei's eyes.

Wei Zhong's face was solemn, and he stared at the thunder for a long time.

The lightning snakes intertwined and merged, eventually forming a thunder dragon several feet wide. It fell from the black cloud, heading straight for the blood body of the substitute in mid-air.

The violent force of thunder and lightning instantly enveloped it.

The lightning was blinding, and Wei Zhong's eyes turned white. Even his spiritual sense could not get close to the area covered by the thunder.

When I saw the scene in front of me, the thunder was still there, but there was no sign of a bloody body.

Tan Tai Lin, who was watching from the side, had a changed expression:
"Not good, this boy's thunder tribulation is too strong, a blood body is not enough to cover the heavenly tribulation," and then shouted to Wei Zhong, "Wei boy, be careful, the thunder tribulation is not over yet."

Without Tan Tai Lin's reminder, Wei Zhong also realized that something was wrong.

After the blood body of the thunder dragon was destroyed, it did not dissipate because it destroyed the "person who was undergoing the tribulation".

Instead, it kept wandering in the air, as if looking for a new target.

After a few breaths, the white thunder dragon seemed to have found its direction and flew towards Wei Zhong rapidly.

Wei Zhong tightly grasped the colorful golden bamboo umbrella and poured all his spiritual power into it and the black water spiritual clothes.

There was only a loud "boom".

Wei Zhong was struck by the thunder and flew away, falling into the nearby forest. The surrounding trees were all charred by the thunder.

As for Wei Zhong, the precious umbrella in his hand was broken, and the magic of the Black Water Spirit Robe was also broken. A crack appeared on his lifeblood magic weapon, the Yuan Water Bead, and it rolled to the side.

Wei Zhong felt severe pain in his body and was unable to move. He just stared at the air. When he saw the thunder dragon dissipate, he closed his eyes as if exhausted and fainted.

(End of this chapter)