Chapter 145: Foundation Establishment, Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Foundation!

May is also known as Yam Jug Month.

The fifteenth day of May is also referred to as the Day of Supreme Condensation.

As night falls, a new moon is slowly rising.

Inside a Cave Dwelling on the hillside of the core peak at Qingyun Market Town.

“Changsheng.”

Xiao Xiyue looked at Lu Changsheng and called out softly.

She was wearing a moon-white dress.

Her graceful figure was completely concealed by the skirt.

Yet, one could still see her proud demeanor.

Under the skirt, her long jade-like legs were faintly visible.

Her delicate feet were wrapped in embroidered white silk socks, untouched by dust.

At this moment, Xiao Xiyue regained her former cold demeanor.

Her cold and pure temperament was as sacred as the moon in the heavens.

Her face, beautiful enough to captivate a nation, exuded an air of detachment from worldly affairs.

Like ice and snow that hasn’t melted for a thousand years, it was intimidating.

“Let’s begin.”

Lu Changsheng looked at Xiao Xiyue’s demeanor and nodded without saying much.

Xiao Xiyue’s clear, bright eyes watched Lu Changsheng, as bright as the stars and shining with clarity, free of worldly desires.

Deep within her heart, a wave of affection arose.

Her breathing rhythm became somewhat irregular, indicating turmoil in the fairy’s heart.

After a moment of eye contact, her soft, pale hands wrapped around his neck, imprinting her lips upon his.

Time moved on; the sea changed; the water flowed; flowers fell. A symphony of universal harmony began to play.

The two listened to this unspoken music.

Their spirits and bodies began to merge into the music’s rhythm, making it hard to tell them apart.

Outside the cave, the endless night sky, the moon hung high.

A fearsome serpent dragon burst from its depths, roaring at the moon.

Facing the fierce serpent dragon, the cold and pure moon radiated dazzling brilliance.

Yet, under the serpent dragon’s attack, the moon seemed like a fairy frowning. Accompanied by a soft hum, infinite moonlight poured out and merged into the serpent dragon.

The serpent dragon gained the moon’s essence, roared into the sky, and sought to transform from a dragon to a true dragon!

Inside the cave, the entwined pair simultaneously uttered a sound.

“Changsheng!”

Although still in the throes of passion, the spring in Xiao Xiyue’s face was replaced by a noble and sacred glow.

Lu Changsheng did not speak.

As Xiao Xiyue’s Supreme Moon essence flowed into him, his Dan Lake surged like a tsunami, thundering continuously.

This roar was inaudible to others, but Lu Changsheng felt it clearly, resonating like rolling thunder.

He had yet to start the Foundation Establishment, but the seven-colored Dan Lake was already roaring and surging.

It seemed like golden light was about to condense from the Dan Lake.

“If I don’t succeed, heaven can’t tolerate it!”

Feeling the vast power, Lu Changsheng’s eyes were unwavering and bright.

With a wave of his hand, a porcelain bottle from his Storage Bag fell into his hand.

It was the Foundation Establishment Pill.

In his current state, even without the Foundation Establishment Pill, he was 70-80% confident of success.

But.

Even a slight risk was unacceptable to Lu Changsheng.

The Foundation Establishment Pill not only coordinated the three barriers, enhancing the absorption and transformation of spiritual energy from the heavens and earth.

It also ensured that failure in breaking through the Foundation Establishment would not result in backlash.

If the Foundation Establishment failed, at best, one could be injured, and cultivation could regress.

At worst, meridians and dantian could be damaged, leaving one crippled, or even leading to death and the path disappearing.

So even with a 99% chance of success, Lu Changsheng chose to take the Foundation Establishment Pill!

“Boom!”

As the Foundation Establishment Pill entered his stomach, the ‘Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Manual’ operated within Lu Changsheng, and spiritual power surged like a tide toward the dantian, impacting the Foundation Establishment.

At that moment, the spiritual energy within the Cave Dwelling surged toward him like a raging storm, forming a vortex of spiritual energy.

“Rumble!”

At the same time, Lu Changsheng’s vitality surged and roared like a great river.

The first barrier of the Foundation Establishment—Vitality Barrier!

In this stage, the overwhelming spiritual energy from the heavens and earth flooded into the meridians and dantian.

If the body couldn’t withstand it during this stage, the Foundation Establishment would fail.

This is why cultivators over sixty, with aging bodies, weakened vitality, or hidden injuries, almost have no hope of Foundation Establishment.

They simply can’t endure such vast spiritual energy washing over.

Lu Changsheng practiced the Hundred Refined Body Technique, and his body was comparable to a superior Artifact.

Facing the wind and waves of overwhelming spiritual energy, his entire body, like an ancient mountain, stands firm and unmoved.

The second barrier of Foundation Establishment—Spiritual Energy Barrier!

During the Qi Refining period, the spiritual energy from the heavens and earth is refined into one’s spiritual power.

The transition to Foundation Establishment involves transforming this spiritual power into magical power, turning from gaseous to liquid state.

The purer and thicker the spiritual power, the easier it becomes to liquefy and transform into magical power.

If someone relies too much on pills or uses methods like Essence Absorption for advancement, it can lead to an unstable foundation and impure magical power, making it hard to condense the Dao platform.

Lu Changsheng practiced a proper technique, the ‘Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Manual,’ so his spiritual power was naturally extremely pure.

Although he relied on pills frequently and often practiced dual cultivation with others.

The Seven-star Sword Qi can refine pill toxins.

His dual cultivation was done tastefully, just as a couple would enjoy each other, and not to advance cultivation.

So his spiritual power foundation was solid without any instability.

Moreover, the golden crow pill’s essence of the sun and Xiao Xiyue’s Supreme Moon essence allowed him to see in his Dan Lake, the essence of the sun and moon forming a Yin-Yang fish, helping him refine and transform the spiritual energy.

This caused the gaseous spiritual energy in his Dan Lake to continuously compress and turn into a liquid state, turning the Dan Lake into a real lake.

The third barrier—Divine Sense Barrier.

Under Xiao Xiyue’s guidance and the help of the Purple Mansion Divine Nourishing Technique and Jade Soul Flower, he had already developed divine sense.

It was only a yard of divine sense, but it was still divine sense.

Thus, this barrier didn’t exist for him.

“Now, it’s about transforming the Dan Lake into a real lake, and condensing the Dao platform!”

After spending so much time with Xiao Xiyue, Lu Changsheng was quite familiar with the Foundation Establishment process.

He knew after crossing the three barriers, the most important step would follow.

Controlling the body and magical power through precise divine sense.

Transforming all gaseous spiritual power in his Qi Sea and dantian into liquid magical power.

Thus turning the Dan Lake into a real lake to support the Dao platform, shedding the mortal body.

This step requires both excellent spiritual root aptitude and a suitable external environment.

If the spiritual root aptitude is too poor, the absorption and transformation of spiritual energy will be slow, and the liquid magical power transformed will not be enough, resulting in failure to condense the Dao platform and Foundation Establishment failure.

This is also why most cultivators need to rely on Foundation Establishment Pills to succeed.

Only those with Earthly Spirit Roots and Heavenly Spirit Roots, and possibly High-Tier Spirit Roots, have a chance of successful Foundation Establishment by absorbing and transforming spiritual energy.

Lu Changsheng’s Fifth-Tier Spirit Root wasn’t outstanding, but it wasn’t holding him back.

He also had half of a Metal-attribute spiritual body.

Furthermore, he wasn’t only aided by the Foundation Establishment Pill.

He also benefited from the golden crow pill’s essence of the sun and Xiao Xiyue’s Supreme Moon essence.

“Boom, boom, boom!”

Raging spiritual energy surged toward Lu Changsheng, forming a vast spiritual energy vortex several yards wide.

Within him, it roared like a landslide and tsunami.

The gaseous spiritual energy continually vaporized and liquefied, transforming into sparkling seven-colored magical power.

Each drop of magical power contained a strength far greater than his river-like spiritual power.

This is a qualitative difference!

Like impure iron compared to hundred-refined steel!

As the gaseous Dan Lake gradually turned into a liquid Dan Lake, the magical power surged, and a seven-colored jade disc gradually formed.

It was the Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation from the Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Manual!

However, suddenly at this moment.

Lu Changsheng saw a wisp of Spirit-Connecting Essence suddenly burst into his Dan Lake.

Allowing the essence of the sun and moon, akin to a Yin-Yang fish, to perfectly merge together, rushing into the seven-colored jade disc.

“Someone is breaking through Foundation Establishment!”

“Hiss, what terrifying spiritual energy vortex! It seems like it’s not an ordinary person trying for Foundation Establishment!”

“It should be a prodigy of the Azure Cloud Sect.”

“From the looks of it, they’ve reached the critical point of the Foundation Establishment!”

The abnormal spiritual energy caused by Lu Changsheng’s Foundation Establishment was noticed by several people within and outside the core peak.

They realized someone was attempting Foundation Establishment.

They judged from the vortex’s size and motion that the person was extraordinary.

“Tsk tsk, this spiritual energy vortex is rarely seen.”

“Is this the Xiyue Fairy attempting Foundation Establishment or her companion?”

Manager Han saw the vortex and immediately guessed it originated from Xiao Xiyue’s cave.

While people at Qingyun Market Town attempted Foundation Establishment occasionally, the number isn’t large.

Furthermore, such a grand vortex clearly indicated a genius in Foundation Establishment.

“Hmm? Is Junior Sister Xiyue attempting Foundation Establishment? I should go congratulate her.”

At a cave marked with the Chinese character B, a young man with extraordinary bearing and vigor opened his eyes and walked out, seeing the spiritual energy vortex and murmuring.

Inside the cave.

The fairy Xiao Xiyue, with her jade-like body, resembled a pure, moonlit beauty with a sacred light, was indescribably beautiful.

Watching Lu Changsheng making progress, she suddenly began to softly chant.

“Affections and troubles of the mundane world, the moon shines on my true heart.”

“In the Supreme Emotionless dream, only the Great Dao remains in my heart.”

Her holy face showed a hint of complex emotions.

Soon, her expression turned serene, cool, and quiet, as if liberated, as if relieved.

The Supreme Forgetting Emotions Technique, which eluded her understanding and troubled her for so long, dissolved like melting ice and snow with her sense of relief.

Her aura changed, and a vortex of spiritual energy gathered around her, beginning her Foundation Establishment.

As Xiao Xiyue began her Foundation Establishment.

“Hmm, what’s happening?”

Lu Changsheng eyed the Yin-Yang fish intertwining within his Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation.

He could feel how previously incompatible the essence of the sun and the moon now found perfect balance under the Spirit-Connecting Essence.

Moreover, there was an added inexplicable force.

These three forces united, forming a Tai Chi Yin-Yang fish within the Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation.

In the jade disc-shaped Dao Foundation, the solar and lunar energies were constantly absorbed by the Tai Chi Yin-Yang fish.

This caused Lu Changsheng’s Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation to tremble, resonating with a ‘buzz’ as it began to reconsolidate.

“Could this wisp, like the essence of the sun and the moon, enhance the Dao Foundation’s quality?”

Lu Changsheng observed the changes in his Dao Foundation with some doubt.

Regarding the merger of the essence of the sun and the moon into the Dao platform, he was not surprised.

Xiao Xiyue had previously informed him that the essence of the sun was a heavenly treasure.

It made one’s foundation firmer.

It could even elevate the Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation.

And her essence of the moon was akin.

But he hadn’t expected the Spirit-Connecting Essence, initially left behind within him by a Core Formation female cultivator, to emerge at this moment.

This Spirit-Connecting Essence provided minimal nurturing effects in the beginning.

Eventually, it seemed to have no effect.

He had spent some time researching and flipping through various books to discern its identity.

But after searching extensively, he found no relevant information and was left puzzled.

Seeing it posed no harm and being unable to deal with it, he chose to ignore and gradually forgot it.

Unexpectedly, at the crucial moment of his Foundation Establishment, this Spirit-Connecting Essence emerged, harmonizing the essence of the sun and moon perfectly.

He could feel that previously, the essence of the sun and moon weren’t truly compatible and couldn’t achieve balance.

It was due to this Spirit-Connecting Essence that balance was possible.

He even had a faint sense that this Spirit-Connecting Essence was mightier than the essence of the sun, perhaps even surpassing Xiao Xiyue’s Supreme Moon essence.

“I wonder what form my Dao Foundation will transform into under this force?”

Lu Changsheng observed his resonance-filled Dan Lake, where the Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation was reconsolidating.

As for transforming the original Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation into another form, Lu Changsheng was unsure.

After all, Xiao Xiyue had only given him a brief overview of several types of Dao Foundations.

But Dao Foundations, even of the same kind, vary from person to person based on their techniques and circumstances.

It’s impossible to generalize.

But Lu Changsheng knew he now needed abundant spiritual energy to support the recombination of his Dao platform.

Immediately, like a black hole, he wholeheartedly absorbed spiritual energy from all directions, refining it and consolidating it into his Dao platform.

“Rumble!”

In the Dan Lake, the jade disc-like Dao platform grew brighter and more brilliant.

During this process, his Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation, due to the solar and lunar energies being absorbed by the Yin-Yang fish, turned from a seven-colored hue into five colors.

Once the Yin-Yang fish, having absorbed much from the sun and moon, grew stronger, it swam out from the jade disc, circling and rotating around.

At this moment, a new Dao Foundation gradually began to take shape.

With a mysterious Yin-Yang Five Elements glow, it slowly rose from the Dan Lake.

“Bang, bang, bang—”

As the Dao platform rose, Lu Changsheng’s heart beat faster.

His veins expanded, bones crackled, and blood surged like great rivers.

Each heartbeat invigorated him, strengthening his aura from inside out.

“Boom!”

Finally, Lu Changsheng’s Dao platform rose from the Dan Lake, spiraling in the Qi Sea dantian.

The Dao platform was five-colored, enveloped by Yin-Yang Dual Qi.

In an instant, a flood of light erupted from the Dao platform, almost penetrating his body.

Accompanied by this brilliant light, an indescribable amount of magical power expanded, causing Lu Changsheng’s hair to move without wind.

Raising the Dao platform, shedding the mortal body!

This vast power of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements flowed through Lu Changsheng.

Cleansing every inch of his flesh and bone.

With the Hundred Refined Body Technique, Lu Changsheng’s body was flawless, yet at this moment, an abundance of impurities emerged.

It was unclear how much time had passed.

As the light within faded and the transformation concluded, Lu Changsheng opened his eyes.

“Foundation Establishment… complete!”

His pupils seemed to flow with Yin-Yang, radiating a blinding light.

The impurities on his body vanished, leaving a refreshing fragrance.

“Is this Foundation Establishment?”

Lu Changsheng looked at his alabaster, reborn body.

Feeling the power coursing through him, he smiled contentedly.

Foundation Establishment had been his small but persistent goal.

He had taken that step at last.

In this world, he now had a modicum of self-defense.

“Now, I think one slap could crush my former self.”

Feeling the vast power inside, Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, he felt that his magical power had increased more than tenfold.

Moreover, at the moment he broke through, the Xuan Yuan Pearl inside him began operating intensely, consuming spiritual energy.

Gradually converting its stored spiritual power into magical power.

Bolstering his magical power nearly threefold beyond its initial foundation.

At this moment, Lu Changsheng felt unprecedented confidence.

Even facing the Red-Robed Youth back then, he could put up a fight.

Though killing him was uncertain.

He knew the Red-Robed Youth had contingency plans.

Having just reached Foundation Establishment, he lacked the relevant arsenal.

“My divine sense spans about eighteen yards.”

“This is my one weak point.”

Lu Changsheng checked his divine sense.

Ordinary cultivators just breaking through to Foundation Establishment span about ten yards in divine sense.

His eighteen yards greatly exceed the average but fell short compared to physical and magical prowess.

Then, Lu Changsheng turned to his Dao platform in his Qi Sea and dantian.

The Dao platform, jade disc-like and five-colored, was enveloped by Yin-Yang Dual Qi.

“Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Foundation; so this is my Dao Foundation!”

Gazing at the Dao platform, Lu Changsheng’s face displayed a peculiar expression.

As he beheld the Dao Foundation, instinctively, he knew its information.

Initially potent with the Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation, his power became even more vigorous after the transformation into the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Foundation.

The solar and lunar energies, under the merging of the essence of the sun, Supreme Moon essence, and Spirit-Connecting Essence, turned into Yin-Yang Dual Qi.

Yin-Yang Dual Qi had two effects.

First, it doubled his dual cultivation efficacy.

Secondly, it could, by consuming his Yin-Yang Dual Qi through dual cultivation, repair and refine others’ Dao Foundations.

Dao Foundations are classified as shattered, flawed, flawless, and perfect.

His Yin-Yang Dual Qi could repair the cracks or flaws in shattered or flawed Dao Foundations, refining them to flawless.

This effect was incredibly formidable.

Even with his limited understanding, Lu Changsheng knew of the rarity and preciousness of the treasures capable of repairing Dao Foundation flaws.

But consuming his Yin-Yang Dual Qi could mend flaws or cracks, even refining to a flawless Dao Foundation, something extraordinary.

“This Dao Foundation effect is tempting me to switch my technique!”

Lu Changsheng glanced at the swirling Yin-Yang Dual Qi on his Dao platform, feeling conflicted.

Recalling he owned a Yin-Yang Harmonization Technique.

A technique focused on dual cultivation.

Switching to it, utilizing the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Foundation’s effects, would certainly lead to quick progress.

But it remained a thought.

Yin-Yang Harmonization Technique was vastly inferior to the Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Manual.

Although faster to train, the foundation was weaker.

And having just reached Foundation Establishment, switching techniques was a hassle.

In transferring, his cultivation might lose thirty to fifty percent.

However, the second effect of Yin-Yang Dual Qi seemed beneficial to Lu Changsheng.

He knew well that his current wives and concubines mostly lacked Foundation Establishment potential.

Only Lu Miaoge likely had a chancee

Even under success, it was probably a flawed Dao Foundation.

Achieving a flawless Dao Foundation was difficult.

In such situations, his Dao Foundation’s effect was advantageous.

If they could forcibly undergo Foundation Establishment, even a shattered one, he could support them.

“If I announced this effect, countless female cultivators would come, even willing to have children.”

“Being able to refine and repair Dao Foundations is akin to a chance at Core Formation.”

“Of course, I mustn’t reveal this.”

“Otherwise, I might end up as a tool for some old monster.”

Lu Changsheng mused silently.

He knew such things shouldn’t be easily disclosed.

“Having achieved Foundation Establishment, is it time for a celebratory poem?”

After assessing his situation, the thought crossed Lu Changsheng’s mind.

As he racked his brain for a poem, he sensed something unusual about Xiao Xiyue beside him.

“Hmm?”

Lu Changsheng looked at Xiao Xiyue, the icy, pure, moonlike fairy beside him.

He saw she was attempting Foundation Establishment.

She had already reached the stage of consolidating the Dao Foundation.

However, her situation seemed problematic, like something was amiss.

“Insufficient spiritual energy!”

Lu Changsheng immediately identified the issue.

In theory, a second-tier superior cave should suffice for both to succeed in Foundation Establishment.

But he had just depleted a lot of spiritual energy during his own transformation and re-consolidation of the Seven Luminaries Dao Foundation into the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Foundation.

Simultaneously, the Xuan Yuan Pearl inside him was absorbing a great deal of spiritual energy.

Nearly half of the cave’s spiritual energy was consumed.

And at this point, Xiao Xiyue began her Foundation Establishment.

She was also forming a flawless Dao Foundation, requiring far more spiritual energy than ordinary cases.

Under these circumstances, the cave’s spiritual energy was insufficient to support her consolidation smoothly.