Chapter 173 Restoring the Foundation
When he saw that the medicinal ingredients of several foundation-building pills in the space jade gourd were mature, Ye Chunyang finally felt relieved.
He had been very cautious for the past few months.
At this time, the situation could be said to be worse than when he faced Su Xueyuan in Lingyun Sect. At that time, he could still move freely, but now he was under house arrest in the medicine field. He had no connections in Huaxue Sect. Once the slightest news leaked out, the Fairy Biluo could do something bad to him at any time and let him die before he could resume his foundation-building.
Fortunately, this old witch has not come back since she handed him the "Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Secret" seven months ago, and no one knows what she is planning.
It's good that the more the old witch relaxes her vigilance, the more room he has for improvement.
Now that the medicinal ingredients have been cultivated, he can start to build the foundation again.
So he immediately took the medicine and opened the furnace to prepare to refine the foundation-building pill.
To be on the safe side, he stopped feeding the silver-armored spider before opening the furnace to prevent the beast from absorbing too much medicinal power and falling asleep again.
Then, he carefully sensed the surroundings again, and only felt relieved after he was sure that the old witch Biluo Fairy was not nearby.
When he first offered sacrifices to refine the foundation-building pills, he refined more than ten pills at a time. This time, due to the decline in his cultivation, the foundation-building pills he needed might double, so it would take much longer, so he had to make full preparations before refining.
He had reviewed the prescription of the foundation-building pills for no less than dozens of times during this period, and even studied a new refining method to slightly improve the prescription.
He believed that the medicinal properties of the foundation-building pills refined this time would be much more abundant.
With a "puff", as the earth's core fire ignited the pill furnace, all the medicinal materials were thrown into it one by one.
Since he recovered to the tenth level of Qi Refining, he was no longer as strenuous as before when refining pills, and could easily melt some of the medicinal materials.
However, this time, due to the improved prescription and the increased number of refining, he did not dare to be careless.
Especially when it came to the time of condensing the pill, he used his soul refining skills to control the pill furnace with his spiritual consciousness to ensure that the pill was formed in one furnace, otherwise the fairy Biluo would not give him too much time.
Looking at the medicinal materials gradually condensing in the furnace, Ye Chunyang felt relieved.
With his current alchemy skills, it was not difficult for him to refine the foundation-building pill, but this time it would probably take a lot of time, so all he could do now was to wait.
While waiting for the pill to condense, he also took out the "Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Skill" and practiced according to the method on it.
Although he didn't know what the old witch wanted him to practice this method, in order to gain the other party's trust, he had to start practicing anyway, so as not to be discovered by her that he was fishing in troubled waters, and then the end would be bad.
Fortunately, after practicing according to the method, he didn't feel anything unusual, and he immediately practiced with confidence.
With the protection of the Origin Heavenly Scripture, even if this "Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Skill" was a crooked way, he was confident that he could suppress it.
In the current situation, he can only buy time with Fairy Biluo. As long as he can restore his original cultivation, even if he can't kill the other party, he can still escape from here.
Although "Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Technique" is a magic technique, as this technique is running, Ye Chunyang faintly feels a strange breath wandering in his body, which seems to be positive but not positive, and seems to be evil but not evil, bringing a wave of warm current, making people feel comfortable.
Out of curiosity, he used his spiritual sense to perceive it, but found that this breath seemed to have no effect of increasing spiritual power except warming the meridians.
Ye Chunyang was surprised, but after repeated inspections, he did find that the effect of "Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Technique" in enhancing spiritual power was very small.
After pondering for a while, he simply stopped studying it in depth. Practicing this technique was just to deceive the old witch. As long as it did not cause damage to himself, there was no need to care.
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Time flies, and it passes in a blink of an eye.
Two years later, the magic circle restriction on the medicine field that had been calm for a long time began to fluctuate again, and Fairy Biluo returned as expected.
"My dear, I haven't seen you for three years, but I miss you so much. I wonder how your cultivation is progressing?"
As soon as she landed, Fairy Biluo couldn't help but quicken her pace and walked into the cave, looking like she missed Ye Chunyang very much.
But when she walked in, she saw that the cave was empty.
She looked suspicious and was about to release her spiritual sense to perceive, when a white and clean little fat man slowly walked out of a quiet room, it was Ye Chunyang.
"Greetings, Uncle Master, you are back."
Ye Chunyang had a simple and honest face, and looked humble and polite.
"Yes, come and let Uncle Master check and see how your cultivation is going?"
Fairy Biluo smiled and waved to Ye Chunyang.
Ye Chunyang seemed calm on the surface, and after responding, he quickly walked to Fairy Biluo and stretched out his hand obediently for her to check.
For three years, Fairy Biluo has been looking forward to Ye Chunyang's progress every day, but because she also needs to be prepared, she has not returned until today.
At this moment, she couldn't hold back any longer, and could not wait to release her spiritual sense to explore Ye Chunyang.
After a moment, she was suddenly surprised, but also a little happy, and then became confused, her face changing from gloomy to bright.
After a while, she frowned slightly, said nothing, and flew away directly.
Ye Chunyang lowered his head slightly, his eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't show any surprise.
After seeing Fairy Biluo leave, he didn't leave, but stayed there waiting for something.
About an incense stick later, Fairy Biluo flew back to the cave again.
After falling back to her original position, she had a slight smile on her face, holding a cloth bag in her hand, which was full of spiritual energy and occasionally emitted a strong medicinal fragrance.
Ye Chunyang glanced at it with his peripheral vision, guessing that the cloth bag was mostly filled with medicinal materials and other items, and he didn't know what the old witch wanted to do?
After hesitating for a moment, he asked tentatively: "I wonder what is in the bag, uncle?"
"Of course it's a good thing."
The Fairy Biluo chuckled, cast a spell to summon a bath medicine bucket, and then untied the cloth bag, pouring countless medicinal materials into it.
Then she cast a spell again, and a water-attributed spell was cast into it, and the bathtub was immediately filled with water vapor and boiling.
Ye Chunyang frowned slightly and said in surprise: "Uncle Master, what is this..."
At this time, the charming face of the Fairy Biluo was a little gloomy, and she said: "I just checked and found that you have advanced to the eighth level of Qi Refining in the past three years, which is not disappointing my expectations. However, the 'Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Technique' I taught you does not seem to have made much progress. This technique has a total of six levels. At present, you have only cultivated the first level, and several meridians have not been opened, so Uncle Master decided to personally guide you to practice and let you achieve something as soon as possible."
"This old witch actually wants to supervise my practice in person?"
Ye Chunyang's heart trembled, and his thoughts turned rapidly in an instant.
At this time, he couldn't help but recall the experience of retreating for the past two years.
In order to refine the foundation-building pill that day, he spent more than a year. Fortunately, the pill was not only successfully completed, but also condensed into a total of thirty pills.
With his previous accumulation, even if the spiritual energy demand was great, after taking thirty foundation-building pills in succession, he naturally recovered the foundation-building. In addition to the consolidation of half a year later, he is now stable in the early stage of foundation-building.
I thought I could buy some more time and continue to work hard to return to my peak.
As long as I can return to the middle stage of foundation building, with ancient treasures such as the floating beads and the golden mace, and the help of the silver-armored spider, I have great confidence that I can fight against the old witch. Even if I can't kill her, it is not difficult to escape.
But man's plans are not as good as God's plans. The three-year period came as promised, but he failed to completely recover his cultivation.
Today, the old witch also returned to the cave. As a last resort, he had to suspend his cultivation and paralyze the other party with a false appearance, hoping to buy more time.
In fact, he has cultivated the "Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Art" to the second level. The strange breath at the beginning is now the size of a fist, quietly dormant in his dantian.
But in order to prevent the old witch from doing him harm, he suppressed it a little, showing the effect of the first level of this art, and his own cultivation is about the eighth level of Qi Refining.
He thought that as long as he didn't reveal his true progress in cultivation, the old witch would give him time to practice again. He never thought that after checking his cultivation, the old witch felt that his progress in the art was slow and wanted to supervise his cultivation in person. The result was beyond his expectation.
Ye Chunyang became serious for a moment.
This old witch was very smart. She had imprisoned him in the cave before, and he could freely practice his fists and feet when no one was around. If she was asked to supervise him every day, how could he improve his cultivation under her nose?
If it goes on for a long time, it will inevitably be exposed.
Fairy Biluo naturally didn't know what Ye Chunyang was thinking. She pointed to the medicine bath bucket in front of her with a smile and said, "These medicinal herbs are not comparable to the spiritual herbs in the Huaxue Sect's medicine field. They are what this fairy has collected in the Chaos Demon Realm in recent years. In order to obtain these spiritual herbs, this fairy has spent a lot of money. From now on, as long as you soak for three hours every day, I believe that the remaining meridians will be opened within a year."
Ye Chunyang looked at the medicine bath bucket and secretly despised it in his heart.
These medicinal herbs do look precious, but compared with the spiritual herbs he irrigated with a spiritual spoon, they are not a little bit worse.
In these years of cultivation, Ye Chunyang almost ate century-old spiritual herbs as food every day. How could these miscellaneous things be in his eyes?
And he knew that the old witch was so troubled just to speed up the progress of her cultivation of the "Spiritual Acupoint Treasure Technique".
However, in order to eliminate the other party's suspicion, he pretended to thank her on the surface.
Judging from the old witch's many performances, this "Spiritual Secret Treasure" is indeed very important to her. Ye Chunyang knows very well in his heart that the faster he practices this secret, the sooner he will die.
So it is more important to deal with her to buy time for himself to recover to the middle stage of foundation building.
Now he is only one step away from success, he still needs to be patient and must not let the other party see the flaw.
While speaking, he secretly observed the old witch's expression, seeing that her face was full of eagerness and expectation, and she did not seem to doubt him, which made him feel a little relieved.
While his thoughts were flashing, the Fairy Biluo also looked at him, blinked seductively, and giggled: "Okay, little guy, this medicinal bath uncle has prepared it for you, do you want to let the uncle take off your clothes and bathe for you?"