Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Chapter 144: Chapter 111: Foundation Establishment Breakthrough is Just Ahead!_2

“Only upon reaching the Golden Core can one truly achieve divine skills and have the chance to form a genuine Thousand-Handed and Thousand-Armed Great Freedom Primordial Spirit Dharma Aspect!”

“And to truly cultivate a Dharma Aspect, like the Asura Dharma Aspect or the Merciful Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect offered by the Great Golden Light Temple, one must have a Nascent Soul, right?”

Su Ping felt the state of fully activating his divine skills and soon felt his mana depleting and his essence, energy, and spirit exhausting.

After maintaining it for five seconds, Su Ping returned to his normal state and slowly landed.

“In full power mode, I can sustain it for five seconds, and then I must drink medicine.”

“Then, since Divine Sense within essence, energy, and spirit cannot recover by drinking medicine, even if I take medicine, it only extends for another five seconds, otherwise, it would harm my Divine Soul and be counterproductive.”

“However… five seconds should be enough!”

“Others use Hundred-Armed Hundred-Handed to simultaneously utilize magic artifacts, talismans, and flying swords.”

“Having Water Blue Star as a logistical base, I can fully coordinate with my own Divine Power Dharma Aspect and prepare modern weapons for these arms to use.”

“The power is not bad, and crucially, it does not require extra mana to activate those magic artifacts, talismans, and flying swords.”

“At least for the Qi Cultivation Foundation Establishment Stage, my setup should hold an advantage!”

“Moreover, this is without having completed foundation establishment. After foundation establishment, my Divine Sense will be further enhanced, and my endurance should also increase!”

“First, set a small goal, let the Divine Power Dharma Aspect sustain for more than one minute!”

Su Ping learned divine skills.

Gradually, through the interaction and change between divine skills and Divine Sense, he gained many new insights into foundation establishment that he had not had before.

In the blink of an eye, another week passed.

After fishing the designated number of times at two spots, and then indulging in several tens of kilograms of Spirit Rice and fake Dragon Blood Fish.

Suddenly, Su Ping felt something and realized that both his Body Refining and Qi Cultivation had reached the ninth layer’s peak, unable to climb any further.

According to the cultivation technique’s description, the thin divine soul membrane that should have loosened at this time did not occur because Su Ping had already acquired Divine Sense.

Still, Su Ping knew that he had reached the Perfection Realm, something unreachable for his peers in the Outer Sect.

For others, what follows would be diligently honing their skills for foundation establishment, even using a powerful Divine Soul to engage in battles to earn Spirit Stones, accumulating experience and merit, and then trying to learn a suitable divine skill.

As long as one can start in divine skills, they are considered among the best in Qi Cultivation Perfection cultivators, with a chance to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill or other spiritual objects for a foundation establishment opportunity.

But these things, Su Ping either already had or… did not need!

The role of a Foundation Establishment Pill is partly to enhance the success rate of foundation establishment, and partly to save one’s life in case of failure.

Without the help of a Foundation Establishment Pill, cultivators in Qi Cultivation Perfection are still capable of attempting foundation establishment on their own.

However, the failure rate remains persistently high.

Especially in today’s Immortal Cultivation World, apart from the very top batch of True Inheritor Seeds, who can guarantee they haven’t eaten problematic demon beast meat and pills throughout their lifetimes.

And this, in turn, affects the breakthrough rate of foundation establishment.

Thus, the result has been that in these thousand years, the notion that one cannot establish their foundation without a Foundation Establishment Pill has virtually become a certain common knowledge among most lower-ranking cultivators.

Only in novels about Immortal Sects do stories of Unparalleled Geniuses successfully self-establishing their foundation appear, eliciting amazement among readers without much questioning.

After all, the founding ancestors of the various major sects documented in their records were all individuals who established their foundation on their own.

Who would dare oppose, they would be questioning the records of the major sects!

Moreover, self-establishing the foundation indeed has its advantages over consuming Foundation Establishment Pills.

It is said the foundation is more solid, and the Divine Soul and body reap more benefits.

Thus, the rumors suggest that almost all the top-tier sects’ True Inheritors are those who established their foundation on their own.

But this rumor has never received any response from any sect.

However, after attaining Divine Sense, Su Ping vaguely felt this must be true.

Self-establishing the foundation could maximize the benefits of a successful foundation establishment!

And relying on Purification Spirit Medicine and Life Spirit Medicine, he was not afraid of the penalties of failing foundation establishment!

So even if the chances were low, he could still rely on multiple attempts to compete.

Moreover, Su Ping silently assessed his advantages: Divine Sense not inferior to those establishing foundations, one-third of the Ten Directions Annihilation Body, and his divine skills that had just started.

Another crucial point was that he had consumed Purification Spirit Medicine, which had completely purified the Evil Qi and physical defects accumulated from pills and food.

In terms of body purity, he was probably a bit better than even those True Inheritors!

After all, under their daily accumulation of cultivation, their bodies would still have some nearly imperceptible internal injuries.

These are not preventable just by not consuming any sub-top grade pills.

Thus, other than Spirit Root and Heart Realm, Su Ping felt he far surpassed his peers in all other aspects.

If he still couldn’t succeed in self-establishing his foundation, that would be too unbecoming of an Immortal Cultivator!

Su Ping went to Water Blue Star and spent three days visiting over a hundred famous mountains and great rivers.

Eventually, he reached the ends of the earth, where he watched a sunset dip below the horizon.

Feeling inspired, Su Ping returned to the Immortal Cultivation World.

Then, transforming into the appearance of White Crane Child, he headed straight for Cloud Mountain Workshop.

There, he prepared to undertake the Foundation Establishment in order to create a new image of a Loose Cultivator successfully establishing his foundation alone.

After all, a Loose Cultivator seen succeeding at Foundation Establishment and an outsider suddenly appearing to establish his foundation were viewed quite differently by the surrounding powers, big and small!

Spending Spirit Stones, he requested the best cave mansion available for rent in Cloud Mountain Workshop.

Su Ping then moved in and activated a series of formations to shield any external detection of his aura.

Outside the cave mansion.

A number of cultivators heard about someone going into seclusion.

At first, no one minded; ever since the Artifact Heart Sect took over the administration, more and more foreign cultivators had been coming to Cloud Mountain Workshop.

It was normal for someone suddenly inspired to enter seclusion for enlightenment.

But then!

As time gradually passed,

The aura from Su Ping’s cave mansion, which somehow harmonized with the heavens and the earth, could no longer be concealed by the formations.

They deduced that here was someone who has achieved Qi Cultivation Perfection and was now preparing for Foundation Establishment!

Instantly, it caught the attention of many people in Cloud Mountain Workshop.

After all, cultivators who attended workshop for Foundation Establishment without the assistance of a sect, although not unheard of, were exceedingly rare.

And most such cultivators ended in failure.

“No records, not someone from the Chi Yuan Immortal Realm or those Immortal Cultivation Families.”

“Nor is he a named cultivator from any renowned sect.”

“Interesting, could he be one of those Qi Cultivation Perfect cultivators from an obscure small sect?”

“Recently, the realm has not been peaceful; perhaps he is one of the remnants who fled from Southern Desolate after his sect was destroyed.”

“This is indeed likely! I heard that the Water Moon Sect, which had Foundation Establishment cultivators, was destroyed; we even received a notice offering a reward for the remnants.”

“Smaller sects facing annihilation by Evil Spirits in recent times aren’t few either.”

“Yes, lately there has been a surge in Evil Spirits…”

Speaking of Evil Spirits, the representatives from the families operating stores in Cloud Mountain Workshop grew somber.

They then looked towards Su Ping’s cave mansion with a sliver of hope.

At such a time, having an extra unaffiliated Foundation Establishment cultivator to lend a hand was always better.

But… even if they happened to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill or Spiritual Objects, the chances of a cultivator without a sect’s protection and assistance achieving Foundation Establishment remained extremely low!

Even some families with solid foundations secretly thought he was being unwise.

With Qi Cultivation Perfection and no sect affiliations, why not seek help from their major families?

The most they would ask of him was to marry two or three women from their family and have two or three children in return; then, they would offer manpower and resources to aid his Foundation Establishment.

Would that not be better than his current situation?

Inside the cave mansion.

“This is the third time!”

Su Ping ingested Purification Spirit Medicine to remove the aftereffects of his failed Foundation Establishment.

During his previous two attempts at Foundation Establishment, Su Ping had failed, but he found that perhaps because of his Ten Directions Annihilation Body and his body being cleansed, the injuries he suffered weren’t severe.

Normally, even without taking medicine, he could gradually heal.

However, Su Ping didn’t have time to recover slowly, so he decided to take medicine to address it and to capitalize on the lessons from his failures to make another attempt.

“However, I have a feeling that this time… there will be no more mishaps!”

As Su Ping adeptly entered into his third attempt at Foundation Establishment,

Su Ping found his heart becoming exceptionally calm.

Then, as if he had received some kind of revelation,

Su Ping knew the time had come!

A breakthrough in Foundation Establishment was imminent!