8: Foundation Building Elixir

The Spiritual Qi that surged from the depths of the Earth's Veins was so immense that it exceeded Shen Yuanmo's understanding.

This Spiritual Qi was mixed with the vast meaning of accumulated years; it was violent, ancient, and with an unreasonable posture, it followed his Crimson Sun magic power, which served as a catalyst, and brazenly poured into his Meridians.

"Yuan Mo!"

Lin Tianhong Shen Qiming and Shen Qifa cried out in alarm at the same time, their faces turning pale.

With such terrifying Spiritual Qi pouring back into the body, for a Qi Refining Cultivator, there was only one outcome: their body would explode and they would die!

However, the expected scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere did not occur.

The moment that violent Spiritual Qi flooded into Shen Yuanmo's body, instead of tearing his Meridians apart, it produced a strange resonance with the pure and overbearing Crimson Sun Glazed magic power in his Dantian Sea of Qi.

Water and fire, Yin and Yang—two completely opposite attributes not only failed to conflict at this moment but instead formed a perfect cycle.

Shen Yuanmo's body became a bridge.

His consciousness was suddenly pulled high by this power, instantly breaking free from the shackles of his physical body and entering a mysterious and profound state.

Unity of Heaven and Man!

Everything around him changed.

The Courtyard Protection Formation beneath his feet was no longer just lines of energy, but a living entity that breathed.

The attacks of the Lin Family members and the panic of the Shen Family clansmen all turned into the most primal flow of information, flooding into his perception.

In this state, his understanding of Formations deepened at a terrifying speed.

At the same time, deep in his mind, those knowledge fragments that had been analyzed by [Insight into Origin] began to churn and collide uncontrollably.

[qi gathering powder Pill Formula... auxiliary medicine halved, main ingredient placed later... the pharmacological core lies in Spiritual Qi neutralization...]

[foundation establishment pill auxiliary medicine... Dragon Blood Sunflower... Black market Cultivators say this item is the key to Foundation Establishment, indispensable...]

His thoughts were cluttered, yet incredibly clear.

An absurd yet incredibly reasonable idea suddenly exploded in his mind.

Formations—why can they only be used for defense?

This Mystic Water Tortoise Shell Array's essence is to gather and refine the water-element Spiritual Qi from the Earth's Veins; isn't this itself a natural, giant Pill Furnace?

A stroke of inspiration!

Shen Yuanmo had a stroke of inspiration and no longer hesitated in the slightest.

Using this massive power of the Earth's Veins and this once-in-a-thousand-years state of Unity of Heaven and Man, he brazenly activated [Perfect Deduction]!

Target: Deduce the perfect Pill Formula for the foundation establishment pill!

Buzz!

His brain seemed to turn into a machine operating at high speed.

The incomplete alchemy Jade Slip in the Family's Scripture Pavilion, the snippets of conversation heard in the Ghost Willow Alley Tea House, the optimization experience accumulated while improving qi gathering powder, the fire-element true meaning of the Crimson Sun Glazed Scripture, the water-element Spiritual Qi of the Mystic Water Tortoise Shell Array beneath his feet...

Countless seemingly unrelated fragments of knowledge were forcibly connected, reorganized, collided, and evolved by an invisible force at this moment!

The core of the deduction pointed directly to the main ingredient of the foundation establishment pill, the Dragon Blood Sunflower!

The Immortal Dynasty's Alchemy Canon recorded that the reason the Dragon Blood Sunflower was precious was that it contained a unique Spiritual Opportunity that could help Cultivators break through their own shackles and achieve a leap in their life level when impacting a Bottleneck.

This was a transformation of breaking and then establishing!

However, as the deduction deepened, Shen Yuanmo's consciousness suddenly shuddered.

He "saw" the truth, a truth that had been deliberately covered up by high-level powers for thousands of years!

The standard Pill Formula circulated by the Immortal Dynasty was fake! Or rather, it was incomplete.

To achieve a monopoly on knowledge, the Pill Formula deliberately exaggerated the irreplaceable nature of the Dragon Blood Sunflower, mythologizing it, and intentionally hiding several cheap herbal formulas that could be combined to produce a similar effect of breaking and then establishing.

Breaking requires a violent, burning Yang power.

Establishing requires a nourishing, reborn Yin power.

Why is the Dragon Blood Sunflower even needed?

The Crimson Sun Glazed Scripture he Cultivated was a peak Yang and peak rigid fire-element Cultivation Technique!

The power of the Earth's Veins absorbed by the Formation beneath his feet was the peak Yin and peak soft water-element essence!

One thought became clear, and thousands of principles became transparent.

Within a few breaths, a brand-new, flawless Pill Formula was completely formed in his mind!

[Deduction Complete]

[Obtained New Pill Formula: Tier 2 High Grade · Crimson Sun Foundation Establishment Pill]

[Pill Formula: three sun grass (Main Ingredient), mystic water essence (Main Ingredient), supplemented by...]

It's done!

This Pill Formula not only greatly reduced the difficulty of refinement and increased the success rate to the limit, but most importantly, it used two Materials to perfectly replace the priceless Dragon Blood Sunflower.

three sun grass is the most common Tier 1 fire-attribute Spiritual Plant in the Yao Beast Mountain Range outside Linjiang City; ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones can buy a large bundle.

mystic water essence only needs to be extracted from the water source of a Tier 2 Spiritual Vein using a special technique, costing almost nothing!

The total cost of the two Materials combined was less than one percent of a Dragon Blood Sunflower's!

This wasn't a simple improvement; it was a subversion!

This was a grand path that could allow the Shen Family to break free from resource constraints and soar straight into the clouds!

Shen Yuanmo suddenly emerged from that mysterious state of Epiphany, and an unprecedented light erupted from his eyes.

Outside.

Only a dozen or so breaths of time had passed.

Lin Tianhong's patience had completely worn thin.

He looked at Shen Yuanmo standing motionless on the Watchtower and felt that his majesty had been greatly provoked.

"Little Beast, playing tricks!"

He felt like he was being played.

Pleading for mercy, bargaining—it was all just a tactic to stall for time!

"Everyone, hear my command!"

Lin Tianhong's face became completely distorted. He raised his hand and suddenly waved it forward, issuing the final order.

"Attack with all your strength and shatter this tortoise shell! Trample the Shen Family; leave not even a chicken or dog behind!"

"Kill!"

Dozens of Lin Family Cultivators, along with the three Guest Elders, pushed their internal magic power to the limit.

For a moment, magical light soared into the sky, and dozens of Magical Artifacts gathered into a destructive flood, carrying the momentum to tear everything apart as they smashed fiercely toward the Shen Family's already crack-filled barrier!

On the Watchtower, the Shen Family clansmen' faces were ashen, and they fell into complete despair.

Just as the destructive attack was about to land on the broken light screen,

Shen Yuanmo formed an ancient hand seal in front of him and pressed it fiercely against the Formation's center beneath his feet.

From his mouth, four words were uttered.

"Formation rise, Crimson Sun Burning Heavens!"

Buzz—

A roar that seemed to come from ancient times rang out.

The pale blue light screen of the Mystic Water Tortoise Shell Array that originally covered the Shen Family residence was, at this moment, dyed a piercing crimson glazed color!

A scorching, overbearing, and terrifying aura that seemed capable of incinerating all things surged into the sky from beneath the Shen Family residence.

A giant Black Tortoise phantom made of pure fire rose from the ground, enveloping the entire Shen Family within it.

Then, the Black Tortoise phantom suddenly expanded outward!

The Lin Family members, who were originally the attackers, were horrified to find that they, along with the surrounding streets, were all enveloped within a brand-new crimson Formation that exuded endless killing intent!