Chapter 128: 081: When Will the Day Come to Establish the Foundation and Transform into a Dragon, Only Then will the Immortal Sect’s Mystical Law be Heard (Big Chapter Asking for Monthly Tickets)_4 Chapter 128: 081: When Will the Day Come to Establish the Foundation and Transform into a Dragon, Only Then will the Immortal Sect’s Mystical Law be Heard (Big Chapter Asking for Monthly Tickets)_4 Even though the cultivation conditions have improved, the speed of his cultivation is still limited by his technique, and he hasn’t made much progress — this is a waste of both resources and time.
Only by joining a major sect will he be free to learn more advanced Daoism and continue to extend his life.
As it stands, he is already at the ninth level of Qi Cultivation, yet he hasn’t been able to master a single skill at the eighth or ninth rankings.
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“Dear Friend Gao, I’m sorry, but our shop does not have the type of cultivation techniques you’re looking for, but we do have a testing artifact.
Would you like to buy it outright or test it first?”
In a shop, a proprietor received Chen Dengming personally, observing him secretly while being polite and smiling.
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Chen Dengming flatly refused with an expressionless face, “No, thank you!
I would like to buy an artifact directly.”
The proprietor smiled, understanding instantly.
He sent a servant to bring over an artifact shaped like a syringe, then handed over a black invitation while laughing.
“Friend Gao, as a privileged member of the Business League, I’ll give you a good deal in hope of your future patronage.
This is an entry ticket for Qile Auction House’s Dark Market.
It will open in a few days, perhaps the artifact you seek can be found there.”
Chen Dengming’s eyes brightened; he accepted the invitation with a solemn demeanor.
A hint of a smile formed on his lips, “Thank you, shopkeeper!”
“Oh, not at all, Friend Gao.
You’re too kind…”
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“F-friend, there’s no one around.
Y-you can start now.”
A tea-time later.
In a deserted alley, the Mini Array Spirit stuttered as it reminded Chen Dengming.
Chen Dengming nodded slightly, operating the Bone Age Measuring Instrument shaped like a syringe.
He rubbed the artifact against his arm and watched nervously as the faint light on the artifact’s surface fluctuated.
This Bone Age Measuring Instrument could measure up to 400 years of bone age, and would express it in rainbow colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet in ascending order.
Red indicated the youngest age, under fifty.
The colors changed with increasing age.
After a quick fluctuation, the light on the artifact finally settled in the green area.
Although it was light green, it still indicated a bone age of two hundred years.
Chen Dengming’s face immediately fell.
He glanced at the panel.
“Life: 83/238/397”
“Even though I appear to be in my early eighties, cultivation using the Life-Shortening Cultivation Enhancement Skill has significantly depleted my Essence, Qi, and Spirit.”
“My actual bone age, although it might seem young because of my extended lifespan, is still two hundred years…
in this state, I definitely wouldn’t be able to join any major sects that require a bone age test.”
Chen Dengming frowned, removed the syringe-like artifact, and his eyes flickered with a cold glimmer.
“If indeed there’s no solution, I may have no choice but to cultivate on my own until I reach the tenth level of Qi Cultivation, then try to make a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage myself…
after reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, whether by purchasing or joining a smaller sect, I can easily obtain better Cultivation Techniques.”
It would be impossible for a Qi cultivator, even one at the tenth level, to comfortably join a smaller sect and directly obtain better techniques.
But it’s different for Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators.
Most smaller sects would be overjoyed and welcoming to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator who voluntarily asks to join.
They would definitely present some non-core techniques as a welfare gift and wouldn’t scrutinize him too much, mainly trying indirectly to probe and observe him.
However, whether he will receive such favorable treatment depends on whether he, as a Loose Cultivator, can break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage on his own power.
Difficult!
Extremely difficult!
Everything is hard for a Loose Cultivator to achieve!
Establishing a foundation is akin to reaching for the sky!
Chen Dengming isn’t clear whether, given that he has no bottlenecks in his routine practice, he will be bottleneck-free when trying to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
After all, he wasn’t born with Innate capabilities and breaking through from Innate to Qi Cultivation carried some risks.
If there are risks in breaking through to Foundation Establishment too, even if the risks are small, Chen Dengming wouldn’t want to gamble his future.
He still needs to prepare the Foundation Establishment Pill…
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