Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 839: Chapter 344: Core Formation Today!!!

When facing outsiders, Mu Xueyao really wasn’t easy to talk to, even giving off a somewhat aggressive air.

“You don’t understand my Brother Ji’s temperament. It’s fine.”

Seeing that no one else was coming over, Liu Yuan finally smiled and replied via voice transmission.

“Heh.”

Mu Xueyao let out a cold snort and turned her face away.

Looking at her like this, then raising his head to glance toward the mountaintop, Liu Yuan couldn’t help asking curiously:

“Miss Mu, you clearly know Brother Ji is not that Old Demon Ji you knew, so why are you still following him all this time?”

“What exactly did you two talk about between you?”

They were all Loose Cultivators who had managed to cultivate to the Core Formation Stage, so there was no need to keep pretending to be some silly, innocent girl.

Mu Xueyao knew this Old Demon Ji was fake, and Ji Yuan also knew that Mu Xueyao knew he was fake.

Liu Yuan had brought this up before to remind Ji Yuan, but back then Ji Yuan had said he’d already talked it over with Mu Xueyao, so there was no need to worry.

Since Ji Yuan wouldn’t say, Liu Yuan was curious.

So he could only ask Mu Xueyao.

Hearing this question, Mu Xueyao instantly clenched the hem of her skirt with both hands, and hurriedly replied via voice transmission:

“I…I don’t care, he is my Brother Ji!”

Just thinking of what happened that night made Mu Xueyao’s little face heat up.

Seeing this, Liu Yuan knew there was most likely some story between the two of them, and he couldn’t help becoming even more curious.

But in the end, he could only let out a sigh.

“…”

Inside Cave Mansion No. 73, the moment Ji Yuan, holding the Token, stepped in, he was shocked by the rush of dense Spiritual Qi that hit him in the face.

“If a Foundation Establishment Cultivator stayed in here, even if he did nothing all day and just breathed, his cultivation would rise, wouldn’t it? No wonder the fee is so expensive.”

While sighing inwardly, Ji Yuan also released his Divine Sense to inspect the entire Cave Mansion.

There was definitely nothing wrong with it; he was only doing this to take a look at the layout inside the Cave Mansion.

There was a spacious stone chamber, and unsurprisingly, that was where the Spiritual Qi was the most abundant.

There were futons placed on the ground, and also sandalwood incense for calming the mind and spirit.

In addition, there were several slightly smaller caves that could be used for Alchemy, Talisman Making, and sleeping and resting.

Aside from that, in another stone chamber there were actually pots, bowls, and pans set out.

It was quite clearly a kitchen.

“This Secluded Cave Mansion is rather peculiar. Could it be that someone coming here for closed-door Core Formation still needs to split their attention to stir-fry a few dishes?”

Ji Yuan shook his head. After inspecting all the stone chambers, he came to the central stone chamber.

“The Spiritual Qi in here is already this dense. I wonder, once I enter the ’Cave Mansion’, then enter the ’Spirit Vein’ and activate the building effects, just how terrifying the Qi will be with all these Spirit Effects stacked together.”

With that thought, Ji Yuan released the Mountain of Mind and Heart from his Dantian. His figure flashed and entered it, while this Lifebound Magical Treasure turned into a speck of dust and fell.

Ji Yuan took one step into the ’Cave Mansion’, and a second step into the ’Spirit Vein’.

The Level 3 ’Cave Mansion’ added 20% Spiritual Qi, and the Level 3 ’Spirit Vein’ added 200% Spiritual Qi.

So when Ji Yuan arrived inside the ’Spirit Vein’ and sensed the almost viscous Spiritual Qi there, he was still somewhat shocked.

“With this Spiritual Qi, plus three Pill Essence Fruits, if I still can’t form a core, I’ll just kill myself here.”

Holding onto a mindset of staking everything on this one attempt, Ji Yuan slowly sat down.

He calmed his mind and gathered his Qi.

His mind sank into his Dantian.

He inwardly observed his own body.

In Ji Yuan’s field of vision, a huge ice-blue Spirit Pill immediately appeared. At first glance it seemed very solid, but on closer look one could see that this Golden Core was still somewhat illusory.

Apart from that, beneath this Golden Core there was still a pool of Spirit Liquid.

Or to be more precise, it was a Spiritual Energy Wilderness.

In the end, he was still a Fake Pill Cultivator.

While sighing inwardly, Ji Yuan immediately circulated his Cultivation Technique, enveloping his entire Dantian.

Within just a few breaths, that Spiritual Energy Wilderness in his Dantian began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It truly transformed into a pool of Spirit Liquid.

And just at the instant it turned into Spirit Liquid, a wave of swelling pain came from his Dantian.

Although his Dantian looked empty at this moment, in reality, because the Fake Pill had stored too much Mana without truly condensing into a Solid Pill, Ji Yuan was merely relying on his cultivation and technique to forcefully stabilize it.

“It can’t disperse, it can’t disperse. If it scatters now, my Dantian will definitely explode completely!”

Sensing the intense swelling pain from his Dantian, Ji Yuan did not dare delay in the slightest. He immediately took out a Pill Essence Fruit from his Storage Bag.

He swallowed it in one bite.

With a mouthful of Spirit Fruit entering his belly, Ji Yuan’s originally swelling, aching Dantian immediately returned to normal, and the churning Spirit Liquid at the bottom of his Dantian gradually calmed down.

Ji Yuan didn’t dare waste even a moment, and immediately circulated the Sword Manual.

At once, the Fake Pill in his Dantian began to slowly rotate, driving the Spirit Liquid beneath it to start rotating as well.

The nearly viscous Spiritual Qi around Ji Yuan’s body was also drawn by his circulating Cultivation Technique and absorbed into his body.

After a few breaths, four whirlpools appeared in the pool of Spirit Liquid at the bottom of his Dantian.

The whirlpools swept up the surrounding Spirit Liquid, but did not devour it. Instead, they turned that Spirit Liquid into four pillars of light, like four streams of silk. After circling once in his Dantian, they poured into the Fake Pill in the center.

The original Fake Pill had only an outer shell, but as this Spirit Liquid Mana was injected, the Fake Pill gradually began to show signs of condensing into a Solid Pill.

Seeing this, Ji Yuan’s originally tense mood finally relaxed slightly.

“Fortunately, I prepared long enough beforehand so that my own cultivation, mana, and comprehension all reached a harmonious state. Otherwise, just to reach this state of imminent breakthrough, I’d probably have to cultivate here for a few months first.”