Of course, for starving beggars, the most important thing was how to fill their stomachs, not whether they would have high blood pressure or high blood sugar in the future!
The disadvantage was that the time needed to wait for this point was so far away that there was no way to predict it at all.
Lou Xiaoyi had a Foundation Establishment Pill from Liang Kuangren's corpse. After years of pondering, he finally figured out the use of this pill. It wasn't a Marrow Cleansing Pill, nor was it a Life Prolonging Pill. It was the Foundation Establishment Pill that all rogue cultivators yearned for even in their dreams.
Regarding this, he was secretly delighted. The things that many Loose Cultivators couldn't obtain even after working their entire lives were obtained by him without any effort. He was very satisfied!
He also didn't want to try the ancient method of Foundation Establishment. He didn't have any plans for the future. Taking one step at a time was the attitude of a lazy person like him.
There were very few examples of the ancient method of Foundation Establishment, so it was only briefly mentioned in his experience. However, regarding the Foundation Establishment Pill, this senior described it very carefully. He even introduced the ingredients and effects of the Foundation Establishment Pill clearly. He was also a tireless teacher.
Lou Xiaoyi knew that Foundation Establishment Pills were divided into several grades. It wasn't absolute. Some said it was divided into three grades, while others said it was divided into five and nine grades. It was just like the schools in his previous life. There were vocational schools, ordinary universities, provincial key schools, 21/11, 95/85 … However, what Lou Xiaoyi didn't know was that Foundation Establishment Pills were also divided into different grades!
There were only two grades — finished product and waste!
The finished product was easy to understand. It was the success of Foundation Establishment. All the spiritual energy turned into liquid. As for its potential, there was no standard in the current cultivation world that could measure it.
There was also a type of waste, which was between success and failure! If you said it was a failure, it would start to turn into liquid. But if you said it was a success, it wouldn't completely turn into liquid!
In other words, a cycle had been formed in the dantian. The spiritual vigor in the gaseous state and the liquid state were equally divided. It was just like in the natural world, when water vapor rose from a lake under the sun, it would form clouds. Then, the clouds would rain and return to the lake. This was an awkward cycle. The gas was neither gas nor liquid. It had part of the abilities of a Building Foundation Stage cultivator, but it could not be fully utilized. It was a waste foundation!
There were a lot of methods from the sect on how to avoid destroying one's foundation. Some were related to the circulation of cultivation methods, and some were related to external help. This was especially important for rogue cultivators. This was because most rogue cultivators had destroyed their foundation. If it was a disciple of a sect, they would rather destroy their foundation and start all over again than allow their disciple to fall into such an endless cycle!
Lou Xiaoyi clicked his tongue. Thinking about the scene of his Dantian being half lake water and half clouds, he couldn't help but wonder how much it would affect a cultivator's lifespan.
After imagining the scene of Foundation Establishment, he still had to return to reality and continue to look between the lines for questions on how to increase the accumulation of spiritual power. Perhaps this senior wouldn't specifically talk about this issue, but there must be a connection!
Three days later, he finally had an answer after reading through the entire experience several times.
He found two paths!
The first one was that he needed to refine the quality of his existing spiritual power. The more refined the spiritual power, the more spiritual power could be contained in the Dantian of the same volume. Only then would it be able to induce rain from Qi. Just like the clouds, some could rain heavily, while some could only rain from the sun. It wasn't just a matter of the thickness of the clouds, it was also a matter of the density of the water vapor in the clouds.
This wasn't just a simple compression, it was a process of removing impurities and preserving essence, refining and refining. To do this, he didn't need a specialized refining cultivation method. He only needed to circulate the foundation cultivation method. To him, it was to circulate the Jade Clear Central Imperial Edict intermittently, repeatedly polishing, removing impurities, and leaving behind the essence.
This was also a function that every foundation cultivation method had to have. For the widely circulated Jade Clear Central Imperial Edict that had undergone the test of time, there wasn't any problem. It was just that Lou Xiaoyi had blindly pursued the quantity of spiritual power in his previous cultivation and neglected the investment in this aspect.
The second path was the problem of having a single source of spiritual power!
If it was in the upper cultivation world, this wouldn't be a problem! This was because the spiritual power from nature was always the source of a cultivator's power. It was the right path. Therefore, the cultivators of the upper realm didn't have the problem of having a single source of spiritual power. It was precisely because they only absorbed spiritual power from nature that they became stronger.
This was a problem unique to the lower cultivation world. As the spiritual power from nature was thin, the cultivators were forced to look for various substitutes, such as pills, spiritual items, or the use of biological spiritual power like Lou Xiaoyi. These substitutes didn't have the same universal effect as the spiritual power from nature. Therefore, it was like a mortal taking medicine. After taking too much of it, they would develop antibodies to certain medicines and develop a tolerance. The result was that the medicine's efficacy would become lower and lower!
The solution was also very simple, change the medicine!
No longer using the Red Thread Worm to absorb the spiritual power. Instead, change it to something else, such as pills, spiritual stones, spiritual gathering formations, or the spiritual power carried in the bodies of other living beings.
In this regard, the senior who had left behind his insights gave a very pertinent suggestion. He believed that if one had the ability to obtain resources to exchange for other spiritual items, it would be better to solve the problem once and for all — use spiritual stones to set up formations and directly absorb the spiritual power from nature!
The reason was very simple. Only the spiritual power from nature was truly harmless and didn't require time to detoxify. Refining it was the easiest, as long as one could support the consumption of spiritual stones to set up formations!
This could also prevent the absorption of spiritual items after a period of time and prevent them from continuing to change.
There were two basic methods of absorbing spiritual power through formations. Apart from the upgraded, enlarged, and ultimate versions, there were only the Spiritual Gathering Formation and the Spiritual Guiding Formation. Lou Xiaoyi had a rough understanding of these things after years of contact.
The core of the Spiritual Gathering Formation was the spiritual power from the spiritual stones that were used to set up the formation. In fact, it was no different from holding a spiritual stone in one's hand. However, the effect was much better and the absorption speed was faster. Of course, the consumption of spiritual stones was also much faster.
The Spiritual Guiding Formation was different. It used the formation to gather the spiritual power from the surrounding space to increase the intensity of the spiritual power in a specific space within the formation. In essence, the spiritual power that the cultivator absorbed was the spiritual power of nature, not the spiritual power from the spiritual stones themselves.
It was needless to say which one to choose. Even the disciples of a sect would find it difficult to withstand the consumption of spiritual power from the Spiritual Gathering Formation.
To achieve this, not only did he need to learn about formations, he also needed to convert spirit stones. Fortunately, he had brought almost all of the red thread worms with him on this trip. It wasn't that he was far-sighted, but that he had simply used them as grenades in a fight!
This was his final trump card, which was equivalent to throwing away all the resources he had!
Lou Xiaoyi was relieved that he had solved the problem of his slow cultivation progress. After some careful calculation, he realized that he had gained a lot from this trip to Nightly City. He had obtained some information that he might not necessarily use. He had a deeper understanding of the floating luck in his sea of consciousness. Now, he had found the root cause of his slow cultivation progress. It was worth it and there was nothing to be dissatisfied about.
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