Immortal Venerable of the Beast Race
Chapter 90 - 90 Foundation Establishment Revision of Techniques_1

90: Foundation Establishment, Revision of Techniques_1 90: Foundation Establishment, Revision of Techniques_1 As seasons passed, two years had gone by.

At Spirit Que Hall, the door of the thirty-seventh practice room opened, and Shen Long emerged, still at the ninth level of Qi Refinement, having spent these two years polishing his mana.

There are three major challenges in reaching Foundation Establishment: the refinement of mana, the cultivation of divine sense, and the strengthening of the physical body.

Generally, the mana phase is overcome with Foundation Establishment Pills, while the body and divine sense phases are usually passed by consuming miracle elixirs.

Shen Long was preparing to make his attempt at reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage.

He already had the Foundation Establishment Pill, but he still needed to purchase elixirs to strengthen his body and divine sense.

After leaving Spirit Que Hall, Shen Long brought out a flying artifact and made his way to Free Trade Valley.

After strolling around the streets, he arrived at the Golden Cicada Building.

Approaching a counter, Shen Long said to a green-robed attendant, “Junior Brother, is your Executor here?

I’d like to buy some items and would prefer to speak with him privately.”

The green-robed attendant nodded, summoning a blue-robed man in his forties.

The man led Shen Long into a side hall.

“I’m looking to purchase first-grade elixirs for strengthening the body and divine sense.

Do you have any good recommendations?” Shen Long asked.

He had previously consulted the relevant texts and knew which miracle elixirs to buy.

“For strengthening the body with a first-grade elixir, we have the Blood Ginseng Pill, Bone Tempering Pill, and Gold Sand Pill.

For the divine sense, there is the Green Lotus Pill and Spirit Nurturing Pill.

Here’s the price list for your review, Junior Brother,” said the blue-robed man.

The blue-robed man retrieved a blue Law Disk and handed it to Shen Long.

Shen Long looked it over and bought a bottle each of Blood Ginseng Pill and Green Lotus Pill, spending a total of eight hundred Spirit Stones.

The Blood Ginseng Pills cost thirty Spirit Stones each, while the Green Lotus Pills were fifty Spirit Stones apiece.

Upon leaving the Golden Cicada Building, Shen Long casually roamed the Free Trade Valley.

After visiting two more shops, he acquired a bottle of Bone Tempering Pill, a bottle of Spirit Nurturing Pill, two bottles of Spirit Feeding Pills, and the corpse of a late-stage, first-grade Twin-Tailed Scorpion before leaving the valley.

Shen Long headed to the Scripture Pavilion, seeking the insight of predecessors who had attempted the Foundation Establishment Stage, to gather more references.

Half a day later, Shen Long left the Scripture Pavilion and returned to Spirit Que Hall.

Arriving in front of practice room number thirty-seven, he used his token to open the door and stepped inside.

After shutting the door, Shen Long patted a spirit beast pouch on his waist, and an Iron Tail Scorpion flew out.

It had already advanced to the late first grade but had yet to mutate.

Shen Long took out the Twin-Tailed Scorpion corpse he had bought and let the Iron Tail Scorpion devour it.

He also fed it two stalks of twenty-year Ink Mustard Grass before putting it back into the spirit beast pouch.

He sat down on the stone bed and began meditating for a tune-up.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Long opened his eyes.

He first consumed a Fasting Pill, then took out a blue porcelain bottle and poured out a blood-red pill.

On the surface of the elixir, there were three pill patterns.

It was a lower-grade Blood Ginseng Pill, which had the effect of boosting qi and blood and strengthening the body.

A middle-grade Blood Ginseng Pill would cost more, but for attempting Foundation Establishment, it wasn’t necessary to consume body tempering elixirs with overly potent effects, a common understanding among Spirit Control Sect disciples.

Placing the Blood Ginseng Pill in his mouth, it melted instantly upon entering.

Before long, he felt a slight warmth in his abdomen and a turbulent flow of qi and blood, accompanied by a feeling of hotness throughout his body.

Shen Long quickly started cultivating, metabolizing the medicinal power.

…

At Golden Cicada Peak, in an expansive estate complete with pavilions, towers, windmills, and long corridors,

Xu Feng and a slender blue-robed matron were sitting in a stone pavilion, enjoying tea and a chat.

“Senior Sister Chen, are there no other spiritual liquids available?” Xu Feng asked with a frown.

Two years earlier, he had bought four eggs of the Hundred Eyes Cicada, but despite using all kinds of methods, he had failed to hatch them.

“There is the Spirit-Nurturing Jade Liquid, but that’s a third-grade spiritual object.

I can’t obtain it for you.

Those four eggs have a very weak life force; you might as well give up.

There’s no need to waste too many Spirit Stones and efforts on them,” the blue-robed matron advised.

Xu Feng, famously passionate about spirit insects, naturally wanted to hatch the eggs of the Hundred Eyes Cicada.

“Thank you for the reminder, Senior Sister Chen.

I will think of other solutions.

If there’s anything that could help hatch the Hundred Eyes Cicada, please keep an eye out for me,” Xu Feng said politely.

The blue-robed matron nodded, agreeing to his request.

…

Five months quickly elapsed at Spirit Que Hall.

In practice room number thirty-seven, Shen Long sat cross-legged on a blue stone bed.

Several porcelain bottles were arranged in front of him, and his presence was significantly more powerful than before.

After taking body tempering and divine sense growth elixirs, Shen Long had strengthened his body and divine sense.

He then took the Foundation Establishment Pill.

As the conditions were right, he successfully advanced into the Foundation Establishment Stage.

“So this is Foundation Establishment!” Shen Long muttered to himself.

He could clearly feel that his divine sense had increased considerably and that the mana in his dantian had changed from a gaseous state to a liquid state.

A layer of black impurities covered Shen Long’s skin, emitting an unbearable, fishy stench.

These were the impurities expelled from his body during the Foundation Establishment attempt.

He cast a Dust Purification Spell, and the impurities sloughed off his body.

One of the spirit beast pouches at Shen Long’s waist wobbled, and he gave it a pat.

The Iron Tail Scorpion flew out, its stinger glossy and ebony.

“It has mutated!” Shen Long exclaimed in surprise.

He had fed the Iron Tail Scorpion with a corpse of the first-grade Twin-Tailed Scorpion and Ink Mustard Grass for less than three years, and the scorpion had unexpectedly mutated.

According to the experiences of past Spirit Control Sect disciples in cultivating mutated spirit insects, even the least of them required eight to ten years and the exertion of higher-grade spiritual objects for a chance of mutation.

Shen Long gave the Iron Tail Scorpion an order to attack him.

His body shimmered with a blue light, revealing a thick blue water screen that shielded his whole body.

The Iron Tail Scorpion spat out a pungent yellow poison mist that hit the blue water screen, causing green smoke to rise and dimming the spiritual light of the screen.

With a flick of its tail, the scorpion struck the blue water screen, which burst like a bubble.