Chapter 10: Foundation Establishment Perfected! Breaking Through to the Violet Palace!

“Another hundred ten-pulls!”

【Continuous ten-pull mode activated!】

The Scripture Pavilion’s doors shook again. Technique slips flew out like dumplings tumbling into a pot: blue, purple, gold!

At first, Lin Yang picked up every epic technique and examined it closely.

【Congratulations! Player has obtained a tier-two epic spell: Great Sun Mountain-Burning Seal!】

【Congratulations! Player has obtained a tier-two epic movement technique: Shadowflow Escape!】

【Congratulations! Player has obtained a tier-two epic sword art: Splitting Sword Shadows Art!】

“Another Splitting Sword Shadows Art?”

He looked over the new golden slip twice, hoping for a different result. It was still the first volume! There was no sign of the middle one he needed.

【The Scripture Pavilion is currently tier two!】

【Tier-three techniques cannot be drawn!】

“Fine. To reunite all three volumes, I’ll have to break through to the Violet Palace Realm and unlock the tier-three Scripture Pavilion.”

The draws continued.

【Congratulations! Player has obtained a tier-two epic body cultivation technique: Myriad Forms Battle Body!】

“I don’t have that one!”

【Congratulations! Player has obtained a tier-two epic spell: Azure Emperor Rejuvenation!】

“Already got it!”

【Congratulations! Player has obtained a tier-two rare spell: Thousand-Vine Binding!】

“That’s the fifth copy!”

At first, a flash of gold had sent him leaping to his feet. Later, he could sit calmly and watch epic techniques enter his system inventory one after another.

When the hundred ten-pulls ended, his inventory held a thousand additional tier-two inheritances. Most were high-grade, over two hundred were rare, and more than a dozen were epic. Unfortunately, more than half of the epics were duplicates. Looking through his inventory, Lin Yang soon found five copies of Little Rain Cloud, six of Chain Fireballs, and a full eight of Thousand-Vine Binding.

“I can’t use so many duplicates myself.”

He thought of Fang Qingyao. She had only just joined the Beast Taming Hall and probably didn’t have any powerful techniques. Besides raising spirit beasts, a beast tamer needed ways to stay alive. Little Rain Cloud, Azure Emperor Rejuvenation, and Spirit Wood Rejuvenation would all suit her.

“System, can I give these duplicates to Qingyao?”

【All shop products are bound to the player!】

【Except for designated gift products, shop products cannot be transferred, traded, or given to others!】

Lin Yang took out a copy of Little Rain Cloud and threw it through the window. Halfway out, the jade slip turned into white light and returned to his inventory.

【Bound items cannot be discarded!】

“Can someone steal them from me?”

【Bound items cannot be used by other players or natives of the Immortal Realm!】

【Even if taken by force, they will automatically return to the player’s inventory!】

He felt better after hearing that. It was a shame he couldn’t give them away, but the anti-theft feature was excellent. Major sects might be willing to give players resources now, but when truly heaven-defying treasures appeared in the shop, someone might get greedy. Binding meant that even if an item fell into another person’s hands, they couldn’t use it.

“All right. Once the gift shop opens, I’ll buy Qingyao something nice.”

He closed the Scripture Pavilion. He had drawn enough techniques for now; raising his realm was more important. He took out the Primal Dao Canon: Foundation Establishment Volume and began to read. His existing foundation helped him master it quickly, converting it into a skill on his panel.

The Foundation Establishment Volume and the Primal Qi Refining Scripture belonged to the same inheritance, and much of their content corresponded. Lin Yang learned it in a little over ten minutes.

【Congratulations! Player has successfully mastered Primal Dao Canon: Foundation Establishment Volume!】

【Current mastery: Beginner!】

【Cultivation technique successfully changed!】

【Current technique: Primal Dao Canon: Foundation Establishment Volume!】

He immediately circulated it, drawing the surrounding spiritual energy into his body. After only a few minutes, he noticed a problem.

Foundation Establishment differed from Qi Refining. In Qi Refining, the main task was to draw energy into the dantian and condense a vortex. In Foundation Establishment, a cultivator not only accumulated true essence but also used it to nourish the Dao foundation and expand the spirit sea. Absorbing ambient spiritual energy alone was far too slow. To speed it up, he needed Foundation Establishment spirit liquid, earth-vein spirit milk, and other treasures that nourished the Dao foundation.

An ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator would spend a great deal of time merely gathering those resources. Lin Yang wasn’t worried. Treasures? The shop had them!

He opened the tier-two shop and searched for “Foundation Establishment.” Products immediately filled the screen.

【Tier-Two Epic Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid!】

【Effect: Accelerates true essence accumulation and nourishes the Dao foundation!】

【Original price: 10,000,000 low-grade spirit stones per bottle!】

【Discounted price: 0.01 low-grade spirit stones!】

…

【Tier-Two Epic Earth-Vein Spirit Milk!】

【Effect: Strengthens the spirit sea and stabilizes the Dao foundation!】

【Original price: 30,000,000 low-grade spirit stones per bottle!】

【Discounted price: 0.03 low-grade spirit stones!】

…

【Tier-Two Epic Mystic Origin Spirit Marrow!】

【Effect: Improves true essence purity and greatly accelerates Foundation Establishment cultivation!】

【Original price: 50,000,000 low-grade spirit stones per bottle!】

【Discounted price: 0.05 low-grade spirit stones!】

Lin Yang examined each one. “They’re all good. Give me a hundred bottles of each!”

【Purchase successful!】

【Total spent: 9 low-grade spirit stones!】

Three hundred jade bottles appeared in the chamber. At their original prices, they were worth nine billion low-grade spirit stones. Even selling the entire Qingyuan Sword Sect probably wouldn’t raise enough to buy resources on that scale, let alone a Foundation Establishment disciple.

Lin Yang opened the bottles and poured them into a bathtub: a hundred bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, a hundred of Earth-Vein Spirit Milk, and a hundred of Mystic Origin Spirit Marrow. Resources worth nine billion spirit stones went straight into the tub.

The water soon turned pale purple. Dense spiritual energy billowed outward, filling the chamber with violet mist. Golden patterns even appeared on the tub’s surface.

“At Qi Refining, I bathed in a hundred million. At Foundation Establishment, it’s nine billion. Even baths get more expensive as your realm goes up!”

He stripped and sat in the tub. Next came acceleration cards. With the tier-two shop unlocked, the highest available card had changed.

【640x Cultivation Acceleration Card!】

【Tier: Two!】

【Quality: Epic!】

【Duration: One hour!】

【Effect: Increases Foundation Establishment cultivation speed six hundred and fortyfold!】

【Original price: 100,000,000 low-grade spirit stones!】

【Discounted price: 0.1 low-grade spirit stones!】

Lin Yang frowned slightly at the discount. “A whole 0.1 spirit stones? That’s much more expensive than the sixty-fourfold card!”

Still, it made sense. The speed was ten times higher, and it worked for Foundation Establishment rather than Qi Refining. A higher price was fair. Besides, he now had purchasing power worth two hundred billion!

“Twenty-four to start!”

【Purchase successful!】

【Total spent: 2.4 low-grade spirit stones!】

He used the first card immediately.

【640x Cultivation Acceleration Card activated!】

【Time remaining: 59 minutes, 59 seconds!】

“Start cultivating!”

As soon as he circulated the Primal Dao Canon: Foundation Establishment Volume, the liquid in the tub boiled violently. Purple spiritual energy flooded through every pore. Beneath his spirit sea, the Primal Dao Foundation blazed with golden light.

【Foundation Establishment cultivation +1280000!】

【Foundation Establishment cultivation +1312000!】

【Foundation Establishment cultivation +1344000!】

Over a million points a minute! Watching the numbers jump made Lin Yang feel wonderful. “Now this is cultivation! If I just sat in the Qingyuan Sword Sect absorbing ambient energy, when would I ever reach Golden Core?”

He closed his eyes and circulated the technique with all his strength. Two hours later, his spirit sea suddenly expanded.

【Congratulations! Player has successfully broken through!】

【Current realm: Second level of Foundation Establishment!】

Five hours later:

【Congratulations! Player has successfully broken through!】

【Current realm: Fourth level of Foundation Establishment!】

Ten hours later, almost all the liquid from the three hundred bottles had been absorbed. Lin Yang bought another three hundred and poured them in.

【Congratulations! Player has successfully broken through!】

【Current realm: Sixth level of Foundation Establishment!】

Whenever a six-hundred-and-fortyfold card expired, he renewed it. Whenever the liquid ran low, he added more. Before he knew it, another day had passed.

Boom!

His spirit sea had expanded to a terrifying size. Waves of pale purple true essence surged across it. The purple-gold Primal Dao Foundation hovered in the center, illuminating his entire dantian.

【Congratulations! Player has successfully broken through!】

【Current realm: Tenth level of Foundation Establishment!】

【Current state: Foundation Establishment perfected!】

Lin Yang opened his eyes. True essence spread from his body, shaking the entire chamber.

“Foundation Establishment perfected! Not bad—one major realm a day! At this speed, Golden Core in seven days isn’t a dream!”

He opened his player panel.

【Strength: 42680!】

【Physique: 33860!】

【Agility: 39120!】

【Soul: 34790!】

【True essence: 9800000!】

【Realm: Tenth level of Foundation Establishment!】

His true essence was approaching ten million, and his other basic attributes had all passed thirty thousand. He was very satisfied.

Next, he would open his Violet Palace! But just as he prepared to break through, a red notification appeared.

【Player cannot currently break through to the Violet Palace Realm!】

【The Primal Dao Foundation is too powerful. The player’s current body and soul cannot withstand the force generated by opening a Violet Palace!】

【Breakthrough requirements:】

【Physique: 100000!】

【Soul: 100000!】

Lin Yang stared at the two numbers. “Do normal people need attributes that high to break through?”

【For an ordinary Dao foundation, 10000 physique and 10000 soul are sufficient to break through to the Violet Palace Realm!】

【Player has condensed an epic Primal Dao Foundation!】

【The scale, strength, and potential of the Violet Palace you open will far exceed those of an ordinary cultivator!】

【Therefore, the player requires a stronger body and soul to support it!】

Lin Yang understood. It was the usual cultivation-novel formula: someone with an exceptional physique needed more resources, but could fight far above others at the same stage, even opponents of higher realms. Reading such stories before, he would have cursed the author for holding the protagonist’s realm back. Now that it was happening to him, he didn’t mind. The more demanding, the better; his shop had limitless supplies. As long as it made him strong enough, resources weren’t a problem.

Ten times harder to break through? Then the Violet Palace he opened should be ten, perhaps even a hundred times stronger than anyone else’s. That would satisfy him.

“High requirements are fine. I’m not aiming to be an ordinary cultivator anyway.”

He checked his attributes. His physique was around thirty-three thousand, his soul around thirty-four thousand. Each was more than sixty thousand short of one hundred thousand. To improve his body, he needed to cultivate the Mountain-and-Sea Prison-Subduing Body. To strengthen his soul, he needed the Supreme Yin Spirit-Refining Scripture. He had drawn both epic techniques earlier.

He took out the body technique first and sent his spiritual sense into the jade slip. In less than half a minute, his head began to ache.

【Player’s current comprehension is insufficient!】

【Mountain-and-Sea Prison-Subduing Body requirement: 30000 comprehension!】

【Player’s current comprehension: 3012!】

He took out the Supreme Yin Spirit-Refining Scripture.

【Player’s current comprehension is severely insufficient!】

【Supreme Yin Spirit-Refining Scripture requirement: 50000 comprehension!】

【Player’s current comprehension: 3012!】

Finally, he checked the Splitting Sword Shadows Art.

【Current cultivation requirement: 20000 comprehension!】

Three epic techniques, and he couldn’t learn any of them! For the first time, his three thousand-plus comprehension looked rather paltry.

“Looks like three thousand comprehension can’t keep up with my realm anymore. If it’s not enough, I’ll add more!”

He opened the shop and found the epic Enlightenment Pill again.

【Epic Enlightenment Pill!】

【Effect: Increases comprehension by 100 points!】

【Original price: 1,000,000 low-grade spirit stones!】

【Discounted price: 0.001 low-grade spirit stones!】

This time he couldn’t be bothered buying ten or twenty. If the Supreme Yin Spirit-Refining Scripture required fifty thousand comprehension, future tier-three and tier-four epic techniques would demand even more. Instead of buying more whenever he fell short, he’d take care of it all at once!

“One thousand pills! Raise my comprehension straight to a hundred thousand!”

【Purchase successful!】

【Total spent: 1 low-grade spirit stone!】

One thousand purple pills appeared in the chamber, quickly forming a small mountain. Lin Yang looked at the pile, then rubbed his stomach. Last time, thirty pills had already left him a little full. This time there were a thousand.

“The thing stopping me from getting stronger is my fucking appetite again!”