Chapter 90: Building the Foundation (I)

A cool and wet feeling suddenly hit him.

Yang Che noticed that there was a complex magic array pattern carved under his feet, which covered the entire ground of the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

Right in front of him, a long green stone bridge connected the pavilion to the verdant and red lakeshore.

Walking on the stone bridge, looking around, the lake surface was sparkling.

The lake water was clear, and the fish swam happily among the water plants.

There were large tracts of red taro trees around the lake, and their shadows were reflected on the lake surface, which contrasted with a few points of emerald green.

Not far from this pavilion, there was a small island in the lake full of vitality.

Yang Che smiled when he saw the island, and flew directly to the island on the Star Shuttle.

Although the island was not big, there were towering ancient red taro trees on it, and the cobblestone path was winding.

Walking along this stone path to the end, there were more than a dozen simple and elegant wooden houses.

These wooden houses are arranged in a ‘back’ shape to form a quiet courtyard.

On the plaque at the gate, there are four ancient characters ‘Honglan Secret Realm’ engraved.

Pushing open the gate, a rich spiritual energy immediately hits you.

In the courtyard, a large spring is gurgling upwards, then flowing into the spring pool, over and over again.

“It’s actually a mid-grade spiritual eye spring. This small secret realm of the Qingjian Sect is quite interesting.”

The cold voice of the purple-haired girl Tianxie Ziyin suddenly rang in Yang Che’s mind.

Yang Che smiled and said, "I chose this Honglan Secret Realm because of this spiritual eye spring. In this way, my spiritual soil can finally be truly advanced. And my Tongyou Medicine Garden has been irrigated with this spring water, which will definitely bring me surprises."

"You are not stupid. You chose the right Honglan Secret Realm. But it will not be easy for you to build your foundation next. You should prepare at least 20 foundation-building pills first."

"Well. I will adjust my breath and start to refine the foundation-building pills."

Yang Che said, and chose a room closest to the spiritual spring, tidied it up, and used it as his own living room.

Sitting cross-legged on the futon, Yang Che closed his eyes, sensing the blue sky and clear water around him, the green grass and red trees, listening to the chirping of insects and birds, the gentle breeze, and his heart became more and more calm and indifferent.

After an unknown period of time, Yang Che slowly opened his eyes, and a calm temperament like water appeared on him.

The first thing Yang Che did was to carry a large amount of spiritual spring water, enter the illusory magic stone space, and come to the Tongyou Medicine Garden.

Countless winged fire dragonflies, still evolving, quickly flew over and danced around him intimately.

Yang Che did not drive them away, but took out the spiritual beast food he had obtained from the storage bag of the beast control sect monk and let them share it.

However, Yang Che found that although the winged fire dragonflies also ate this kind of spiritual beast food, they obviously did not like it.

Instead, they preferred to gnaw on the flowers, leaves and fruits of the nine-leaf Moyang fruit.

In recent years, it is precisely because of the existence of the spiritual eye tree and the nine-leaf Moyang fruit that these winged fire dragonflies have been able to grow so fast and even evolve.

Yang Che naturally did not want to expose them now, and let them continue to grow and evolve in this medicine garden.

"You are really generous. You are willing to let them gnaw on the nine-leaf Moyang fruit, a heaven-defying fairy grass."

Tianxie Ziyin, who was sitting cross-legged next to the spiritual eye tree, still had a cold tone.

And around Tianxie Ziyin, those winged fire dragonflies did not dare to approach.

"I have ordered them not to gnaw the rhizomes. As long as the rhizomes are not dead, it's okay to let them eat the flowers, leaves and fruits to evolve."

Yang Che smiled and began to pick the herbs needed to refine the foundation-building pill.

In order to refine enough foundation-building pills, Yang Che had already used up nearly 30% of the spiritual herbs in Tongyou Medicine Garden.

Luckily, he had carried out a predatory seedling excavation in the "Hanging Waterfall Medicine Garden" and experienced the inner sea of ​​the Mist Hidden Sea, so he happened to pick several extremely rare main herbs for refining foundation-building pills. Otherwise, the medicinal materials for this foundation-building pill alone would be enough to give Yang Che a headache for a long time.

After picking the herbs, Yang Che immediately took out the spiritual spring water to irrigate the spiritual soil thoroughly, and then continued to irrigate the rest of the medicine garden.

"It would be great if this spiritual soil could be several times larger." Yang Che thought a little "greedily".

"Are you going to refine the foundation-building pill here?" Tianxie Ziyin suddenly asked.

"What? Can't I refine pills here?" Yang Che said in surprise.

"Of course. But I have to remind you that it takes a long time to refine the pill or build the foundation. If you stay here all the time, the fourth peak master will come here to find you, but you are not here at all..."

Yang Che immediately understood what the purple-haired girl meant.

If he stayed here all the time, there would be a great risk that the Void Magic Stone would be exposed.

The purple-haired girl had previously reminded him seriously that the Void Magic Stone must not be exposed at any time or place.

Yang Che left the magic stone space and reappeared in the courtyard of the Honglan Secret Realm.

Take out the pill furnace, and the Nine Heart Thunder Flame immediately surged out.

Yang Che quickly entered the refining of the foundation pill without distraction.

The pill recipe clearly explains the proportion of medicinal materials, the order of input and the steps.

The key and difficult points that Yang Che has to grasp are the control of the fire and the timing of opening the furnace.

Having the experience of refining a large number of Eight Treasure Pills, Yang Yuan Pills, and Pseudo Tyrant Pills, Yang Che is still very confident about this.

...

Seven days later.

Yang Che's face showed bitterness.

It seemed that every time he refined a new pill, the failure rate was very high.

The amount of medicinal materials Yang Che prepared was enough to refine more than 40 foundation-building pills.

However, in the end, he only got eighteen finished Foundation Establishment Pills, and the rest failed.

Fortunately, he originally had four pills, and with these eighteen pills, there were twenty-two Foundation Establishment Pills.

"Don't be so gloomy. You already have a 40% elixir success rate. You have one of the three ancient divine flames, Nine-Hearted Thunder Flame. If your elixir furnace hadn't been so rubbish, it would be no problem to increase it by another 20%."

Tianxie Ziyin looked at Yang Che's expression of pain and sorrow, and actually had the urge to rush out and beat him.

But then I thought about it, I am afraid that this boy does not have a clear and specific understanding of the talent of alchemy and the level of an alchemist.

"Is it because of the alchemy furnace?"

Yang Che thought for a while and quickly returned to normal.

But I felt a little excited in my heart.

It's finally time to start building the foundation.

Possessing the mutated double immortal roots, he had consulted numerous classics and scrolls, and without exception they all pointed to the same result: unable to build a foundation.

Until I met this purple-haired girl, Tianxie Ziyin.

This opened up the Zhongdantian, and he really saw hope.

No one knows how heavy the shackles he is carrying deep in his heart.

The ultimate ambition of immortality has always been buried deep in my heart.

If you can't even cross the foundation, then where can everything start?

At this moment, Yang Che suddenly started to worry about gains and losses.

There were signs of instability in his state of mind.

Fear, anxiety, restlessness, boredom.

Along with an indescribable manic mood, he felt that the energy and blood in his body began to boil, and the magic power in his body was about to move. There seemed to be a strange voice in his head that kept shouting something repeatedly, which made him more and more upset.

"Yang Che, Yang Che..."

As if from an infinite distance, a woman's voice suddenly came calling, which shocked Yang Che's heart.

Immediately afterwards, the power of the ancient god seemed to be activated, and it quickly traveled through his limbs and bones repeatedly.

Gradually, Yang Che finally calmed down, the magic power in his body returned to his Dantian, and his mind gradually became clear.

"What's wrong with me?"

Yang Che couldn't help but feel frightened when he recalled all the events just now, and found that all his clothes were wet with cold sweat.

"You almost went crazy just now."

Tianxie Ziyin's always cold voice actually had a different tone at this moment.