106: Chapter 106 Five Elements Foundation Building, Successful!

Deep within the Spirit-Deprived Desert, in a molten cave a hundred zhang underground.

The Formation's light barrier flickered, completely isolating this place from the outside world without a single trace of aura leaking out.

On the bronze stone platform, Qi Yang sat cross-legged, adjusting his state to the Peak.

Placed before him were three jade bottles, containing the three top-grade foundation establishment pills he had risked his old life to refine.

Beside the jade bottles, five warm jade boxes were lined up in a row.

scarlet flame essence gold, xuanshui true crystal, millennium poison wood heart, xirang residual mud.

The five extreme elemental spiritual materials had all gathered together!

"Success or failure hinges on this one action."

Qi Yang took a deep breath, his gaze turning incomparably sharp.

Without the slightest hesitation, he grabbed a top-grade foundation establishment pill and threw it directly into his mouth, swallowing it with a gulp.

Boom!

The top-grade foundation establishment pill melted upon contact with his mouth, transforming into a torrent of spiritual power that was extreme in its ferocity, rampaging through Qi Yang's Meridians.

However, Qi Yang possessed Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Rootss; his Dantian Qi Sea was several times larger than that of an ordinary Cultivator, and the barrier hindering his Breakthrough was even thicker and heavier like a city wall forged from black iron!

The violent medicinal power frantically battered against the barrier, yet it could only leave faint white marks upon it.

"Break for me!"

Qi Yang clenched his teeth tightly, the veins on his forehead bulging.

It was useless!

Although the medicinal power of the top-grade foundation establishment pill was fierce, facing the barrier of the Mixed Spiritual Roots, it still lacked a fraction of heat.

A ruthless flash crossed Qi Yang's eyes, and then he smacked open the first warm jade box.

scarlet flame essence gold!

This extreme spiritual material, possessing both fire and metal attributes, exuded a scorching and sharp aura.

Qi Yang formed hand seals, drawing upon the earthly spiritual fire to melt the scarlet flame essence gold into a dark red, scalding hot liquid.

"Swallow!"

Qi Yang opened his mouth wide and sucked this pool of liquid directly into his belly!

Chi chi chi!

The violent power of fire and metal entered his body, beginning to tear apart Qi Yang's Meridians.

Excruciating pain! An indescribable, excruciating pain!

Qi Yang felt as if he had been thrown into a meat grinder, his internal organs being burned by blazing fire and cut by sharp blades.

Without crying out, he immediately smacked open the second warm jade box.

xuanshui true crystal!

The freezing cold water-type power entered his body.

A world of ice and fire!

Extreme cold and extreme heat violently clashed within his body, causing Qi Yang's skin to split inch by inch, seeping out startling blood.

"Poison wood heart!"

The dark green poison wood heart was swallowed in one bite by Qi Yang.

A massive surge of vitality erupted, frantically repairing his damaged Meridians, but accompanying it was terrifying Death Qi and potent poison frantically eroding his flesh and blood.

The Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art was driven by Qi Yang to its extreme, firmly protecting his heart meridian.

Finally, the xirang residual mud!

The incomparably heavy power of the earth smashed down like an invisible mountain, forcefully suppressing the four rampaging powers within his Dantian!

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth.

The power of the Five Elements finally gathered within Qi Yang's Dantian!

Yet this was precisely the most dangerous moment.

The powers of the Five Elements refused to yield to one another, forming a terrifying destructive storm inside the Dantian.

Even the slightest loss of control over this storm could blast Qi Yang into a puddle of flesh and mud.

Qi Yang's eyes were blood-red, blood streaming down from the corners of his eyes.

He firmly guarded the last trace of clarity in his spiritual platform, using the Poison Wood Spiritual Power as the core to forcibly guide this destructive storm.

Metal engenders water, water engenders wood, wood engenders fire, fire engenders earth, earth engenders metal!

He wanted to forcibly establish a perfect cycle of mutual generation and restraint of the Five Elements within his Dantian!

This process was simply hellish torture.

One day, two days, three days...

Qi Yang's Physical Body constantly alternated between destruction and Rebirth.

His bones were crushed, only to be reorganized within the vitality.

His Meridians were burned to ashes, only to be reshaped within the water-type power.

He did not give up; there was only his tightly clenched teeth.

Having lived for a hundred years as a Trash with Mixed Spiritual Roots, acting like a grandson for a hundred years, what he waited for was precisely today. No one was going to block his, Qi Yang's, path to longevity!

The seventh day!

The Five Elements Grindstone inside his Dantian was already operating to its limit, emitting unbearable clicking sounds.

The power of the Five Elements finally achieved a perfect balance, transforming into a frantically spinning vortex.

"Shatter!"

Qi Yang let out a hysterical roar in his heart.

Boom!

That mixed spiritual root barrier, thick as a city wall, was shattered into pieces under the terrifying shredding of the Five Elements vortex!

Not only the barrier, but even his original gaseous Dantian collapsed completely!

However, there was no explosion.

The collapsed Dantian transformed into countless brilliant specks of spiritual light, frantically collapsing inward under the compression of the Five Elements power.

One.

Two.

Three.

Profound and vast spiritual power crystals emitting multicolored lights began to gather at the bottom of the Dantian.

This was no longer the half-baked liquid spiritual power of the Qi Refining Stage, but true Foundation Establishment Stage spiritual crystals!

As more and more spiritual crystals appeared, the entire Dantian underwent a heaven-and-earth qualitative change.

His original Qi Sea transformed into a turbulent sea of liquid spiritual crystals!

The spiritual crystal sea was formed!

Foundation Establishment, it was a success!

The instant the spiritual crystal sea formed, Qi Yang abruptly opened his eyes, two streams of multicolored spiritual light akin to substance directly piercing through the darkness of the underground molten cave.

Yet at this very moment, a terrifying heavenly might that made one's heart palpitate suddenly descended from above his head with a boom.

The Spirit-Deprived Desert, this barren death zone without even a shred of Spiritual Qi, the sky unexpectedly darkened rapidly.

The violent wind suddenly stopped, and the yellow sand fell to the ground.

Heavy dark clouds frantically gathered above the desert, and within the cloud layer, silver thunder snakes rolled and roared.

Heavenly Tribulation!

Common sense in the Cultivation World dictated that Cultivators acting against the heavens would only attract Lightning Tribulation to undergo baptism when breaking through to the Core Formation Stage.

However, Qi Yang possessed Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Rootss!

This Physique stamped with the Trash seal by the heavens should have been trapped in the Qi Refining Stage for a lifetime, turning into a patch of loess.

He had forcibly broken the shackles of heaven and earth, defying fate and changing his destiny by using the green liquid inside the mysterious black gourd and the extreme spiritual materials of the Five Elements he had acquired, angering the Laws of heaven and earth and directly drawing backlash!

Although this was merely a small, weak thundercloud, it was still enough to blast an ordinary Early Foundation Establishment Cultivator into ashes.

Qi Yang did not panic; instead, he laughed up to the heavens.

"Old heavens, you want to claim me? Too late!"

His figure flashed, transforming into an afterimage as he directly broke through a hundred-zhang-thick layer of hard rock, soaring into the sky and steadily landing on a desert sand dune.

Qi Yang looked up at the thundercloud in the sky, his eyes full of defiance and madness.

Boom!

The first bolt of thunder crashed down violently.

A silver flash the thickness of a thumb carried a terrifying aura, heading straight for Qi Yang's crown.

Qi Yang did not summon any Magical Artifact, not even taking out that tattered five elements ring.

He was going to use his Physical Body to resist it head-on!

Through the Five Elements Foundation Establishment, his Physical Body had long since been repeatedly reshaped by the extreme spiritual materials of the Five Elements, growing to an unimaginable degree of toughness comparable to a low-grade-tier-two Magical Artifact!

Bang!

The thunder fiercely struck Qi Yang's body, scattering electricity everywhere.

Qi Yang let out a muffled grunt, his clothes directly turning to flyash as his skin turned pitch black.

Yet his hunched spine now stood straight, like a long spear piercing the firmament!

The power of the thunder burrowed into his body, and far from destroying his vitality, it blasted the very last Impurities deep within his Meridians and bones into smithereens!

"Awesome! Come again!"

Qi Yang shouted loudly, his voice like a massive bell.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The thundercloud seemed angered, consecutively crashing down three even thicker bolts of thunder.

Qi Yang was split open, dripping with blood, but the light in his eyes grew increasingly bright.

With every lightning strike, his Physical Body grew purer, and the Five Elements spiritual crystal sea within his body grew steadier.

When the last bolt of thunder dissipated and the dark clouds slowly receded, a ray of sunlight once again sprinkled over the desert.

The Spirit-Deprived Desert returned to its dead silence once more.

Standing upon the sand dune, the pitch-black, dead skin on Qi Yang's body began to peel off in large flakes, revealing the resilient skin underneath akin to a newborn baby's.

He slowly clenched his fist.

Bang!

The air in his palm was directly crushed, emitting a deafening sonic boom.

"Is this the power of the Foundation Establishment Stage?"

Qi Yang took a deep breath, feeling unprecedentedly powerful.

The spiritual sense that had already been born pierced out of his body, instantly covering a radius of dozens of miles.

The trajectory of the wind blowing across the sand dune and the crawling of poisonous insects deep underground were all clearly visible in his mind.

The spiritual crystal sea inside his Dantian surged violently; casually mobilizing even a shred of spiritual crystal power unleashed a might more than ten times stronger than his Peak Qi Condensation 12th Layer state!

More importantly, his Lifespan!

Qi Yang could clearly sense that his originally withered vitality had received a massive replenishment.

A Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator could live up to three hundred years.

He was now a little over a hundred years old, meaning he still had nearly two hundred years to advance further!