In That Distant Dark Room

在那遥远的小黑屋

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Foundation Establishment Part 2

Zhang Jingmo asked, &quot;When do you want to start?&quot;



 Lu Guijiu replied, &quot;I can start now.&quot;



 Zhang Jingmo nodded and took out a bottle of pills from his sleeve, handing it to Lu Guijiu.



 Lu Guijiu took it, opened the bottle, and discovered that it was actually a bottle of top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills. There were more than twenty of them at a rough count. Who knew when Zhang Jingmo had refined them?



 Zhang Jingmo said, &quot;The spiritual energy in this spiritual vein is inexhaustible. Even if a Golden Core cultivator were to break through here, there would be no shortage of spiritual energy. These Foundation Establishment Pills were prepared by your master long ago. If one is not enough, just add another one.&quot;



 Each top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill was an object that cultivators would frantically pursue. Only Zhang Jingmo could speak of them so nonchalantly.



 These twenty-plus Foundation Establishment Pills had cost Zhang Jingmo quite a bit of effort to obtain from the sect master. If he hadn&#x27;t promised to return double the amount later, the sect master probably wouldn&#x27;t have agreed no matter what.



 Zhang Jingmo had too little time. If he had enough time, he might have personally refined these pills himself.



 Lu Guijiu tightly grasped the object in his hand without saying a word. Even if he lacked experience, he should know how precious the things Zhang Jingmo had provided for him were. Perhaps Zhang Jingmo had already exhausted all his resources.



 Zhang Jingmo calmly said, &quot;Guijiu, don&#x27;t disappoint your master.&quot;



 Lu Guijiu nodded heavily, accepting Zhang Jingmo&#x27;s words.



 Lu Shu, seeing Zhang Jingmo&#x27;s grand gesture, had almost gotten used to being surprised. He sighed, &quot;I&#x27;m even starting to envy you for having such a master...&quot;



 Lu Guijiu ignored Lu Shu.



 Lu Shu continued, &quot;Perhaps your great fortune might even surpass your master&#x27;s...&quot;



 Lu Guijiu said, &quot;I&#x27;m going to start my closed-door cultivation.&quot; The implication was... you can shut up now.



 Lu Shu: &quot;...&quot;



 Seeing that Lu Guijiu had fallen silent again, Zhang Jingmo frowned and said, &quot;Guijiu, I&#x27;ve noticed that you often space out lately. Have you encountered something you can&#x27;t figure out?&quot;



 Lu Guijiu directly sealed Lu Shu and said, &quot;Your disciple is just feeling grateful to you, Master...&quot;



 Zhang Jingmo had only listened to half of it before impatiently interrupting, &quot;Alright, alright, don&#x27;t say those empty words. Since you&#x27;re already prepared, start building your foundation in the next few days.&quot;



 Lu Guijiu agreed.



 This master and disciple pair always acted swiftly and decisively. On the first day, they talked about building the foundation. On the second day, Lu Guijiu found a place a little farther from the source of the spiritual vein, swallowed a Foundation Establishment Pill, and sat down to begin his closed-door cultivation.



 Zhang Jingmo protected Lu Guijiu just as he had protected Ji Jinglun back then.



 After swallowing the Foundation Establishment Pill, the originally abundant spiritual energy in Lu Guijiu&#x27;s dantian surged violently.



 Compared to Ji Jinglun&#x27;s efficiency of building his foundation in a month, Lu Guijiu was much slower. However, his speed of absorbing spiritual energy was not slow at all. Zhang Jingmo could only sigh, fortunately they were building the foundation within this spiritual vein, otherwise he would probably have to spend thousands of high-grade spirit stones to meet Lu Guijiu&#x27;s needs.



 Lu Guijiu sat there for a whole year.



 Zhang Jingmo had no anxious feelings in his heart, because since Lu Guijiu&#x27;s speed of absorbing spiritual energy had not slowed down, it meant that Lu Guijiu still had strength to spare.



 After a year, Lu Guijiu woke up for a moment and put another Foundation Establishment Pill into his mouth.



 With this Foundation Establishment Pill entering his mouth, Lu Guijiu&#x27;s speed of absorbing spiritual power became even more frantic. Within a dozen days, the spiritual vein where he was located began to shrink at a visible speed.



 Seeing this, Zhang Jingmo also had an expectation in his heart.



 Next, the frequency of Lu Guijiu opening his eyes became faster. He ate the third Foundation Establishment Pill after three months, and then ate the fourth Foundation Establishment Pill after another month.



 The original spiritual vein near Lu Guijiu was visibly running out, and Lu Guijiu&#x27;s spiritual energy had also reached saturation after such a long accumulation.



 Zhang Jingmo knew that this matter had reached a critical point, so he became even more solemn, not even daring to blink his eyes a few more times.



 During Lu Guijiu&#x27;s foundation building, the Zhu Yan came back again. It had a full meal in the spiritual vein and flew to Zhang Jingmo&#x27;s shoulder, wanting to act coquettishly, but was scolded by Zhang Jingmo in a low voice and called away.



 Zhu Yan was a little unhappy, but was quickly attracted by the Mirage Beast that had been obediently staying by Lu Guijiu&#x27;s side. Seeing this, Zhang Jingmo directly told the Mirage Beast to lead Zhu Yan away.



 The Mirage Beast chirped, obviously a little unhappy, but had no choice but to reluctantly lead Zhu Yan away to play elsewhere due to its Mirage Beast Pearl still being in the hands of these two people. It originally wanted to take advantage of Lu Guijiu&#x27;s foundation building to gain some benefits.



 Zhang Jingmo was deep underground, naturally unable to see the clouds gathering in the sky above where they were at this time. There was lightning surrounding those dark clouds, obviously a tribulation was approaching.



 Usually, only when condensing the golden core would one encounter lightning tribulation, but Lu Guijiu&#x27;s foundation building was obviously an exception, and it also attracted heavenly lightning.



 Zhang Jingmo had never seen a tenth-grade Foundation, so he didn&#x27;t expect this at all, but he quickly noticed the abnormality and began to set up some formations around Lu Guijiu.



 Lu Guijiu&#x27;s face was as calm as water, with purple flames flashing around him. The originally calm spiritual liquid in the surrounding spiritual veins was affected by him and actually began to flow slowly.



 Although Zhang Jingmo was already mentally prepared, he was still slightly shocked by the strange phenomenon of Lu Guijiu&#x27;s foundation building. When he had successfully built his foundation, only a few auspicious clouds had floated down harmlessly from the sky.



 Comparing himself to his disciple... it was enough to anger a person to death.



 The strange phenomenon appeared, and the foundation should be completed. However, before Lu Guijiu successfully built his foundation, the heavenly lightning struck down. Zhang Jingmo had no choice but to take action to block the lightning tribulation descending from the sky for Lu Guijiu.



 Cultivating immortality was going against the heavens in the first place. The higher the cultivation, the more unacceptable it was to the Dao of Heaven.



 Lu Guijiu&#x27;s tenth-grade Foundation obviously angered the Dao of Heaven, and the descending lightning tribulation could easily kill a cultivator who had just successfully built their foundation.



 However, although this lightning tribulation would have been fatal to Lu Guijiu, it was a simple matter for Zhang Jingmo. He easily blocked more than a dozen lightning strikes from the tribulation using the formations he had just set up.



 After the lightning tribulation dissipated, Zhang Jingmo looked at Lu Guijiu again and actually found that the purple flames originally surrounding his body had spread to the entire spiritual vein, instantly drying up the golden spiritual liquid.



 However, once the spiritual liquid was dried up, the spiritual energy it released was drawn into the flames.



 Zhang Jingmo watched with amazement. Just then, a huge bang suddenly sounded in Zhang Jingmo&#x27;s ears. The sound was so loud, like metal and stone colliding, that it almost made Zhang Jingmo lose his Dao heart.



 Hearing this sound, the first thing that came to Zhang Jingmo&#x27;s mind was the action of Pangu wielding his giant axe to split open the chaos when he opened up the universe.



 Logically, after this loud bang, Lu Guijiu should have successfully built his foundation, but he did not open his eyes, and the surrounding spiritual energy rushed towards him even more frantically. Obviously, Lu Guijiu&#x27;s foundation building was not completely finished yet.

Foundation Establishment Part 2

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