The Path to Immortality

Backstage of the auction.

The manager of Duobao Pavilion, who was in charge of delivering the auction items, was also a foundation-building cultivator.

He scanned Fang Ping with his spiritual sense, and immediately understood.

It was impossible for an ordinary cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training to take out such a large amount of spiritual stones to buy a barrier-breaking pill and a foundation-building spiritual item at the same time.

If it was not wrong, this person should be a member of a cultivator family, and was pushed to the surface to attract people's attention.

But this had nothing to do with him.

After routinely inspecting the spiritual stones that Fang Ping poured out of the storage bag and piled up like a small mountain, the manager of Duobao Pavilion handed him two jade bottles.

With the reputation of Duobao Pavilion, it would not do anything to such items.

But out of a responsible attitude, Fang Ping still lifted the restrictions on the two jade bottles in person and roughly identified them.

With his level of alchemy, he could naturally confirm that both the Jade Barrier-Breaking Pill and the Yingyang True Water were of superior quality and there was no problem.

Then, he put away the two jade bottles and turned to leave.

He was not even in the late stage of Qi training, so his strength was too weak, and it was hard to guarantee that he would not attract the attention of others. For safety reasons, he had to leave the auction immediately after taking the auction items.

The four passages arranged by Duobao Pavilion in the venue were all tortuous and deep, and there were several additional exits in the middle of each passage.

This arrangement maximized the secrecy and greatly increased the difficulty for some cultivators with ulterior motives to track down the buyers.

Walking along the tortuous passage for hundreds of steps, Fang Ping changed his clothes and disguise techniques on the way, and changed his cultivation level with the Condensation Technique.

When he returned to the market from a randomly selected exit, he looked like a different person.

However, Fang Ping was not in a hurry to leave the market.

The foundation-building spiritual objects worth more than 6,000 spirit stones were too tempting.

When Fang Ping stood up earlier, he saw from the corner of his eye that many cultivators in the auction hall followed him up.

Although it is not ruled out that they saw the auction entering the final stage and were ready to leave normally, there must be some people with ulterior motives who wanted to intercept him outside the market.

So, Fang Ping had to do the opposite!

Normal people would definitely think that Fang Ping would leave the market as soon as possible after taking the items to avoid danger.

Fang Ping took advantage of this idea and deliberately pretended to leave as soon as possible, but in fact he was ready to rent a cave in the market and live there for a month or two before leaving.

No matter how patient the robbery cultivator was, he would never have thought that he was so blind!

………

Fang Ping spent ten spirit stones and rented a second-class cave in the inn of Luoyunfang.

Afterwards, he treated this place as a sect, staying at the main gate and the second gate every day, and practicing peacefully.

The robbery cultivators who were unwilling to leave outside the market? What does it have to do with him!

Perhaps thanks to this calm mentality, Fang Ping's cultivation level improved a little faster than expected. Before the two-month lease was up, he had already touched the threshold of the seventh level of Qi training.

That day.

After the mana in Fang Ping's body circulated along the Zi Yang Sutra for more than ten big cycles, there was no further improvement.

After trying to run the technique with all his strength for four or five days in a row, there was still no sign of breaking through to the seventh level of Qi training. Fang Ping finally determined that he had encountered the legendary small bottleneck from the middle to the late stage of Qi training!

"This poor four-spiritual root qualification is really not immune?"

Standing up from the spiritual grass cushion, Fang Ping's face was not surprised or disappointed.

Many cultivators with three-spiritual root qualifications are still stuck at this bottleneck for several years.

Those with bad luck are not uncommon to be stuck for ten or twenty years.

It is rare for a person with his qualifications to not encounter a bottleneck.

Generally speaking, there are several ways for cultivators to deal with this small bottleneck.

The first is to continue to practice step by step and grind it with hard work.

The second is to travel. Maybe one day, when the opportunity comes, it will come naturally and you will achieve a breakthrough.

However, traveling is too uncertain; grinding is too time-consuming.

By the time you grind through, the best age for building the foundation will have long passed.

As for the last and most convenient way, it is to rely on elixirs that assist in breaking through the realm.

This is also the method Fang Ping prepared for himself.

Compared with the previous two, the only disadvantage is that it is expensive!

"Fortunately, the previous auction was smart enough to bid for a Jade Barrier Breaking Pill in advance."

Fang Ping couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself for his foresight.

Now is the time for this elixir to play a role.

However, Fang Ping had a little bit of resentment in his heart when he had the Yuan Ding, a treasure of the alchemy, but he still had to spend a lot of spirit stones to buy the realm-breaking elixir from other places.

"That is, without a complete first-level alchemy inheritance, he couldn't get the recipe of the Jade Barrier Breaking Pill, otherwise..."

He secretly made a note of this, hoping that there would be no second similar experience in the future!

………

Three days later

Fang Ping, who had specially bathed and changed his clothes to adjust himself to the best state, lit a meditation incense stick, sat on the futon, concentrated his mind, and kept practicing the Ziyang Sutra.

The formula of the exercise that he had already memorized emerged in his mind as the process progressed.

After several hours, Fang Ping felt that his state was adjusted to the best. He no longer hesitated, quickly picked up the jade bottle in front of him, and put the emerald green elixir that looked like it was carved from jasper into his mouth.

The Jade Barrier Breaking Pill went down his throat and quickly turned into a cool and pure medicinal power that circulated throughout his body.

Under the influence of the medicinal power, the flow of the mana in Fang Ping's body suddenly accelerated, running rapidly at a speed far exceeding the past.

Feeling this surging medicinal power and the greatly accelerated running of the mana, Fang Ping was not in a hurry, but guided it calmly, following the existing route and the key points of the Purple Yang Sutra, and launched an attack on the bottleneck of the seventh level of Qi training.

Under this continuous attack, the invisible bottleneck that troubled Fang Ping soon showed signs of loosening.

"The effect of the first-level lower-grade elixir is indeed extraordinary!"

Fang Ping was delighted, and then mobilized all his mana to increase the impact.

After a full cup of tea, the bottleneck from the middle to the late stage of Qi training had loosened visibly.

The mana in Fang Ping's body was running a little faster, and it seemed that he was about to step over that threshold!

But when he reached the last stage, the barrier that was clearly on the verge of collapse blocked Fang Ping's last four or five waves of attack.

Until the medicinal power of the Jade Barrier Breaking Pill was almost exhausted and began to slowly decline, even Fang Ping's meridians were slightly swollen and painful due to repeated attacks, he was unable to break through the last threshold in one fell swoop and step into the realm of Qi training level 7!

"Failed!"

Fang Ping suddenly opened his eyes, with disappointment that could not be concealed on his face.

Since he traveled through time and discovered the use of the Yuan Ding, he went all the way from the early stage of Qi training to the middle stage of Qi training, and then to the threshold of the late stage of Qi training. It can't be said that everything went smoothly, but at least he didn't encounter any obvious setbacks.

But this time, he made careful preparations and used more than 800 spirit stones to buy the Jade Barrier Breaking Pill. He had made all the preparations he could, but in the end he still encountered failure.

This had to make him a little frustrated.