The next second, 10000/10000.
Foundation Establishment!
There was no indescribable bottleneck, nor was there any need for a Foundation Establishment Pill. He simply achieved Foundation Establishment just like that, without any fanfare.
Instantly, all the spiritual energy in the cultivation room surged toward him.
After absorbing the spiritual energy and circulating it through a major cycle within his body, it all gathered in his dantian, condensing into liquid and filling it to the brim.
Then, Lin Xiao saw the cultivation base on his data panel change.
Host: Lin Xiao (Idle Cultivation Activated)
Aptitude: Dragon Among Men
Gender: Male
Bone Age: 12 years old
Cultivation Base: 10001/100000 (Early Foundation Establishment - Mid Foundation Establishment)
Mental Mantra: Origin Heart Sutra (Comprehension 100/10000), Peach Blossom Myriad Void Art (Comprehension 24/100)
Cultivation Method: None
Spells: Purification Spell, Beast Speech, Immobilization Spell, Soaring Cloud Spell, Inescapable Net...
The system's voice rang out at this moment:
Ding—Congratulations to the Host for successfully advancing to the Early Foundation Establishment stage. Gentle reminder: Idle Cultivation has automatically entered Foundation Establishment mode. The daily cost of spirit stones will increase from one to five.
It actually required five spirit stones now!
Lin Xiao felt like his wallet was going to bleed dry.
It seemed that until he owned a spirit stone mine, he couldn't just idle every day like before; he would have to put in the effort to cultivate himself. Sigh.
Furthermore, looking at his panel, he realized that his Cultivation Method column had always been in a state of 'None'.
Could this thing be created?
Ding—Congratulations to the Host for successfully unlocking the Cultivation Method Creation function.
Do you wish to start creating a Cultivation Method?
Lin Xiao immediately selected 'Yes', then opened his eyes in satisfaction.
He saw four slots appear before him, just like when creating a spell.
The first two were familiar old friends: paper materials and ink. The third was a spirit stone, and the fourth was the concept for the cultivation method.
Lin Xiao pondered for a moment before tossing the first three items in.
For the fourth slot, the concept, he directly inputted something he had wanted for a long time.
A moment later...
Ding—Cloud Sword Art has been successfully created and distributed to your private inventory. Please check it.
It worked!
Where the sword points, the heart follows!
Just like with spells, Lin Xiao was exempt from the actual training process and learned the cultivation method instantly.
Liao Pantu, who had been sitting properly to the side, naturally noticed this series of strange actions—Lin Xiao suddenly opening his eyes and tossing several items into the empty air in front of him. However, he didn't ask any questions and just waited quietly.
Only when Lin Xiao looked like he was finally done did he speak up:
"Kid, I have something that might help you."
Hearing this, Lin Xiao turned to look at him, confused:
"I wonder what Senior means by this?"
Liao Pantu directly handed him the talisman he was holding and said:
"This evil aura... I sense a trace of weakness within it. Its current level of strength is below the Nascent Soul stage. It must have suffered severe damage to its vitality and is healing here for some unknown reason. It likely awakened only because it suddenly sensed the spiritual energy from your side."
As Lin Xiao took the talisman, Liao Pantu looked at it and continued:
"This is a talisman I made in the past; it contains my Nascent Soul pressure. If you activate it near the entity, it will definitely sense it. This might temporarily scare it off. If that thing senses the presence of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it will surely choose to lay low and recover first. This way, you'll buy some time to prepare."
Holding the talisman, Lin Xiao listened earnestly to Liao Pantu's words.
In his heart, however, he thought: there was no way the senior just 'forgot' to bring this up earlier.
His previous pretense of ignorance was definitely because he couldn't be bothered to intervene.
Did he only step in now because he finally truly acknowledged their sect? He just didn't know what had caused this change of heart...
But regardless of what Liao Pantu thought before, he was helping now.
Liao Pantu stroked his beard and finally said:
"Now that you've reached Foundation Establishment, finding the general direction of that evil aura shouldn't be difficult for you."
Lin Xiao put away the talisman and said:
"Thank you for your help, Senior. I'll go find the source of that evil aura right now!"
With that, he stood up and walked outside.
The moment Lin Xiao came out of his cultivation state earlier, he had immediately checked if there were any auras of the villagers inside the sect.
Fortunately, there were none yet, which meant the village should be safe and sound.
It was already evening. The outside was no longer just blowing with gloomy gusts of wind; heavy, goose-feather-like snow had begun to fall.
A finger-thick layer of white snow already covered the ground.
Now at the Early Foundation Establishment stage, Lin Xiao felt that the evil aura in the air had grown much thicker.
He sensed it carefully for a moment and found the general direction from which the evil aura was flowing.
He immediately leaped toward that direction, moving like a swift shadow, leaving no traces on the snow.
On the way, Lin Xiao casually placed the talisman into his private inventory to appraise it.
After all, Liao Pantu had been a bit vague earlier. What if the talisman he gave him was some kind of highly destructive attack talisman?
If he accidentally blew himself up while using it, who could he complain to?
Therefore, Appraise!
Nascent Soul Pressure Talisman: Stores a burst of Nascent Soul pressure from the Mid Nascent Soul cultivator Liao Pantu. Originally created by Liao Pantu to back up his future disciple when he wasn't around.
Lin Xiao: ...Good heavens.
Fortunately, it really was just a pressure talisman. He could use it with peace of mind.
Following the direction he sensed, Lin Xiao arrived at a lakeside not far from Graveyard Mountain.
This area could be considered the lower reaches of the mountain stream.
The stream had opened a gap on the side, and a portion of the water flowed through it, gathering here to form a small lake.
This place wasn't too far from Graveyard Mountain. It was just that the area was surrounded by dense forests and lacked nearby farmland, making it quite desolate and rarely visited.
Because it was a certain distance from the village, and the forest products at the foot of the North Mountain were generally enough for the villagers' daily needs, very few people ever came here.
Even Lin Xiao and the other typical village loafers hadn't really come here when they were kids.
So Lin Xiao hadn't even known there was a small lake over here.
Behind the lake was a mountain with a very strange shape.
The mountain wasn't particularly large, but its appearance was quite bizarre.
It had no peak. Looking up from the bottom, its top was flat, somewhat resembling a volcanic crater.
The edges of the crater were uneven and jagged.
The most eerie part was that the entire mountain was pitch black. The trees on it looked as if they had died long ago; the rotting timber was reduced to weathered trunks that seemed like they would collapse at the slightest touch. As for grass, there wasn't a single blade.
Even the mud at the foot of the mountain was covered in a layer of pitch black.
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
