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Chapter 174 Using the Qi Gathering Pill
night.
It's quiet at night.
Xu Changshou sat cross-legged on the cushion and casually took out the Qi Gathering Pill.
After building his foundation, Xu Changshou had never used the Qi Gathering Pill to practice. Without the use of pills, Xu Changshou felt that his practice speed was as slow as a turtle. If he wanted to practice to the middle stage of foundation building, it would take at least eighty or ninety years, if not a hundred years.
With Xu Changshou's talent, if he didn't use elixirs to practice, there would be no possibility for him to build a foundation in this lifetime, and he might not even be able to enter the late stage of foundation building in his entire life.
There is a watershed in the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment Realm, and that is one hundred years old.
Before the age of one hundred is the golden age. The speed of cultivation will be faster during this age. If one can reach the great perfection of foundation building before the age of one hundred, there will be a chance to form a pill.
After the age of one hundred, the chances are slim, or even non-existent.
Therefore, many foundation-building cultivators, despite their age, are mostly in the early stage of foundation-building, and the middle stage of foundation-building is considered relatively good.
Take Li Datu for example, he missed the golden age for cultivation. Now Li Datu is over two hundred years old, and his cultivation is only in the middle stage of foundation building.
Given his situation, let alone forming a pill, it would probably be impossible for him to even cultivate to the late stage of foundation building.
Therefore, Xu Changshou secretly set a goal for himself: no matter what, he must cultivate to the great perfection of foundation building before he turned one hundred years old.
Now, he is twenty-seven years old, which means he only has seventy-two or seventy-three years left.
If Xu Changshou cannot cultivate to the great perfection of foundation building within seventy-two or seventy-three years, there is no hope for him to form an elixir in this lifetime.
Thinking of this, Xu Changshou couldn't help but smile bitterly. For more than seventy years, without using elixirs, Xu Changshou didn't even have the confidence to break through the middle stage of foundation building. With this calculation, his hope of forming an elixir was not at all.
Forget it, just take it one step at a time.
Xu Changshou sighed, picked up a pill and swallowed it.
As the pill entered his mouth, it transformed into a huge amount of spiritual energy, running around in Xu Changshou's body.
Xu Changshou locked the Zhoushen acupoints to prevent the spiritual energy from escaping, then closed his eyes and carefully refined the elixir.
Cultivation has no time.
After an unknown amount of time, Xu Changshou opened his eyes again. It was already sunset and night was about to fall.
It took almost a day and a night to refine a pill.
After checking his physical condition, Xu Changshou couldn't help but smile.
The speed of cultivation using Qi Gathering Pills is obviously much faster. If you insist on using one Qi Gathering Pill every day, you can break through to the middle stage of foundation building in fifty or sixty years.
Although the speed has increased a lot, Xu Changshou is still not satisfied.
Even if one advances one small realm every fifty years, one still has to cross three small realms from the initial stage of foundation building to the great perfection of foundation building.
At this rate, it will take one hundred and fifty years. After one hundred and fifty years, he will be over one hundred years old and has long passed his golden age.
It is too difficult to cultivate in the foundation-building realm. You know, if you take one second-grade Qi Gathering Pill every day, that means thirty Qi Gathering Pills a month, and thirty Qi Gathering Pills are equivalent to three hundred spirit stones.
The average monthly salary of a foundation-building cultivator is only three to five hundred yuan.
It can be said that many foundation-building cultivators cannot afford the second-grade Qi Gathering Pill.
Take Xu Changshou now for example, all his spirit stones added up to only two thousand yuan.
His current monthly salary is only one hundred spirit stones. If he has no external income, he can only afford to buy Qi Gathering Pills for a year, and all his family property will be used up.
In the past, Xu Changshou felt that he was worth several thousand spirit stones and his family background was very rich. However, after building his foundation, Xu Changshou always felt that he did not have enough money to spend.
Regardless of whether there is enough money or not, the pills must be bought. Since the Qi Gathering Pill is not effective, then use the Spirit Gathering Pill.
Xu Changshou stood up, summoned his flying sword, and flew towards Deacon Peak.
The Deacon Hall of Deacon Peak is divided into two parts, one part is for serving menial disciples, and the other part is for serving foundation-building monks.
Xu Changshou did not go to the deacon hall for the foundation-building cultivators, but went to the service hall for the menial disciples. After entering the hall, Xu Changshou glanced at the counter where Liu Chuansheng was and found that the person in charge of Liu Chuansheng's counter had been replaced by a middle-aged man.
After taking a look at the middle-aged man, who looked unfamiliar and whom he had never seen before, Xu Changshou continued walking inside until he came to the counter where Liu Rushi was.
"It's you, Junior Brother Xu, no, Uncle Master Xu. Disciple Liu Rushi greets Uncle Master Xu."
When she saw Xu Changshou, Liu Rushi was first surprised, then frightened, and finally she hurriedly bowed to Xu Changshou.
Looking at the respectful Liu Rushi, Xu Changshou was filled with emotion.
Thinking back to when he first entered the sect, he was stunned by Liu Rushi's beauty when he first saw her. He felt that she was like an unattainable banished immortal.
Today's Xu Changshou is no longer the cowherd boy who just left the cowshed. With his cultivation in the foundation-building stage, he can easily look down on Liu Rushi.
Looking at Liu Rushi now, she is just a willow-like figure with a charming look between her eyebrows, just like those fairies in Rouge Lane.
"You're welcome, Liu..."
Xu Changshou opened his mouth, but suddenly didn't know how to address her.
Liu Rushi reacted quickly, smiled flatteringly, and said delicately, "Uncle Xu, just call me Rushi."
"I'd better call you Liu Rushi."
"As you please."
Xu Changshou glanced at the first counter and said, "Where is Liu Chuansheng?"
Liu Rushi smiled and said, "Senior Brother Liu has retired and returned home."
"He's returned to secular life so quickly!"
Xu Changshou was stunned for a moment, then reacted.
During those years, Liu Chuansheng kept talking about retiring from the military and returning to secular life. I guess he was almost a hundred years old.
Among the older generation of practitioners, Xu Changshou didn't know many people, and Liu Chuansheng was one of them.
Originally, Xu Changshou planned to attend Liu Chuansheng's retirement ceremony, but unfortunately Liu Chuansheng did not tell him when he retired from the army and returned to secular life.
What he didn't know was.
In Liu Chuansheng's view, Xu Changshou was just a kid and not in his circle of friends, so Xu Changshou was not invited to the retirement ceremony.
Of course, when Liu Chuansheng retired from the army, Xu Changshou had not yet established his foundation. If he had succeeded in establishing his foundation, Liu Chuansheng would definitely have invited him.
"Do you have something to talk to Senior Brother Liu about? Otherwise, I will notify Senior Brother Liu." Liu Ru said.
"It's okay. I was just curious why Senior Brother Liu was gone, so I came to look for you."
"What's the matter with me?"
Xu Changshou said seriously, "I came to you to inquire about some matters concerning elixirs."
Liu Rushi smiled and said, "I know a lot about elixirs. Please tell me."
Xu Changshou nodded, then said, "I'd like to ask where is the best place to buy the second-grade Qi Gathering Pill and the Spirit Gathering Pill at the best price."
Xu Changshou originally planned to ask Ye Shanhu about buying the elixir.
But Ye Shanhu was in seclusion trying to reach the foundation-building stage, so she had no choice but to ask Liu Rushi. Liu Rushi was in charge of selling pills, so it was okay to ask her.