Chapter 174 Xu Qiu builds his foundation Time flies so fast, and several years have passed in the blink of an eye. About two years later, Shuican's cultivation broke through to the middle stage of foundation building. Thanks to years of taking blood pills, the water silkworm's blood has become very full, and it has begun to stably produce second-grade medium-quality spiritual silk. It seems that there should be no bottleneck before breaking through the late stage of foundation building. Chu Lingxi's insect breeding skills also improved, and he entered the realm of a second-level upper-grade insect master. There were many happy events this year. First, the Ye family's Star Tower was under construction, and a rare first-level golden lotus was born in the Sea Spirit Field in the Bright Moon Sea Field. At this time, Ye Linyuan stood by the sea, looking at the blazing golden lotus in front of him, a smile couldn't help but appear in his eyes. "Xu Qiu, it seems you can build a foundation." Ye Xuqiu on the side also smiled. Nine years ago at the Seven Regions Conference, Ye Linyuan bought the Nan Chi Li Fire for him. Now, he only needed this rare golden lotus to break through to the foundation building stage. Understanding this, Ye Xuqiu immediately bowed to Ye Linyuan and said, "Without the clan leader's painstaking cultivation, Xuqiu would probably never have the chance to build a foundation in this lifetime." Ye Linyuan nodded. The rare treasures required for the Fire Sea Golden Lotus Technique were extremely rare in the Cangling Sea.

If he hadn't gone in person to help with the search, Ye Xuqiu would probably have had to wait for more than ten years before risking his life to break into the Forbidden Blood Prison on his own. Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan pondered for a long time before saying: "Your Kung Fu has an extraordinary origin, and the road ahead is long and bumpy. There is only so much I can do to help you." "Build your foundation as soon as possible. You still need to walk the road ahead on your own." Having said this, Ye Linyuan did not say anything more, but just picked the golden lotus and handed it to him. Not long after, he arrived deep in Yejia Island, in front of a towering star pagoda on the top of Yejia Mountain. It was a pagoda emitting a hazy Taoist aura, its entire body covered with star Taoist patterns, suppressing the spiritual spring on the top of the mountain. At this time, Ye Xuanheng was at the top of the tower. Seeing Ye Linyuan arrive, he hurried down and said, "Master, the main body of the Star Tower has been completed. Next, you will cap the Star Tower yourself." As he said this, Ye Xuanheng held a precious pearl and carefully handed it to Ye Linyuan. Ye Linyuan took the pearl, and a ripple appeared in his eyes. This item is called the Star Yuan Pearl. It is a top-grade spiritual weapon and one of the most core components of the Star Tower. After getting the Star Yuan Pearl, Ye Linyuan did not hesitate. He took a step into the air and flew to a position level with the top of the Star Tower. Then he placed the Star Yuan Pearl on the top of the Star Tower. "Click——" "Om-" Following a series of seamless sounds, the entire Star Tower suddenly lit up. Lines of star patterns emitted brilliant light, and the brilliant light flowed along the tower body and gathered towards the top of the tower. As the star bead was completely lit up, the star array of the entire Star Lake Seven Islands became completely boiling. The Nine Star Formation lit up completely, sucking the power of the stars in the sky to gather here, and finally merged into the Star Tower. "It's done." Looking at the Star Tower in front of him, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but feel a little certain. The construction of this star tower took nearly ten years, consuming materials worth no less than 200,000 spirit stones. The cost budget was exceeded several times, but it was finally completed.

Such a star tower is extremely useful. It has four main uses, namely, star casting, star observation, star formation, and star storage. Among them, Star Forging refers to the fact that when breaking through the foundation in the Star Tower, it can attract the nine-day starlight to condense the cultivator's true essence, so that the quality of the cultivator's true energy can be temporarily improved to a higher level, thereby increasing the success rate of foundation building a little. Stargazing refers to the practice of stargazing here. The power of stargazing will be blessed by the power of the stars, and thus obtain clearer information. Among the four arts of heavenly secrets, divination and stargazing have different focuses. The information obtained by divination will be very vague, especially when there is not enough information. However, divination can predict good or bad luck, and can help people know what to do and what to retreat in critical moments, allowing them to make the most accurate choice. Astrology can often provide more accurate information by observing the stars and the laws of the sky. It is more suitable for planning and scheming against others, and is often the best choice for killing powerful enemies. But astrology also has its disadvantages, which is that it is very likely to be misled by more advanced astronomical techniques and thus get completely opposite wrong information. Ye Linyuan always believed that the combination of divination and astrology was the true meaning of the art of deduction, so that even if one was misled, one could still keenly perceive danger. Let's get back to the point. In addition to star-casting and star-gazing, the rest of the star array and star-storing essence are also extraordinary. The former can use the power of the great formation to resist strong enemies and can temporarily withstand the attack of the great perfection of foundation building. The latter can attract the power of stars and store it in the Star Tower. It can be said that a Star Tower is a super spirit storage pool, which can store at most the mana equivalent to that of a fake elixir monk. If he could build nine star towers, Ye Linyuan would have the spiritual energy reserves of nine fake elixir masters. When he breaks through to the golden elixir stage, he could completely drain the spiritual energy from the nine spiritual springs. However, the formation of the Seven Islands of Star Lake can still exert its full power by relying on the energy supply of the nine star towers. In addition, the Star Tower is equivalent to a super spirit gathering formation, which can greatly absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, thereby increasing the spiritual energy concentration of the entire Star Lake Seven Islands and even the Star Lake Islands. "With this spiritual building star tower, my magic of heavenly secrets may be able to go a step further." Ye Linyuan's mind was floating, and then he looked at Ye Xuqiu and said, "You have accumulated enough, go in and see if the blessing of this Star Tower is useful." Ye Xuqiu nodded, and immediately stepped in to begin his retreat and breakthrough. Ye Xuqiu's breakthrough was very smooth, and soon he successfully cultivated the superior Taoist foundation, the Fire Sea Golden Lotus. As a person with dual spiritual roots of gold and fire, Ye Xuqiu had extremely amazing combat power after his breakthrough, and directly stepped into the middle stage of foundation building. He was even more powerful than Ye Linyuan when he was building his foundation. "With the Fire Sea Golden Lotus Technique and the Golden Eyes that can break illusions, Ye Xuqiu's strength may be even stronger than I expected. He is even stronger than me in my previous life when I was the same age." Ye Linyuan pondered in his heart and couldn't help showing a look of satisfaction. In his previous life, Ye Linyuan exerted his strength in the later period, especially after he created the Wanhua Sword Technique and survived the golden elixir catastrophe, he displayed invincible combat power among those at the same level. Before the late stage of foundation building, he could only be considered the top of the same level, and he dared not say that he could sweep away all opponents of the same level. Of course, in addition to Ye Xuqiu, the magical effect of the Star Tower also made him very satisfied, because this time the vision of Ye Xuqiu's breakthrough was actually suppressed by the Star Tower. In this way, in the eyes of the outside world, Ye Xuqiu, who had hidden the true teachings, was just an ordinary newcomer to the foundation-building stage, which was considered a trump card left for Ye Linyuan. "You are quite good. Go into seclusion first to consolidate your cultivation." Patting Ye Xuqiu on the shoulder, Ye Linyuan asked him to practice first. Then he looked at Ye Xuanjin again, and couldn't help but said with a smile: "Your injuries have almost recovered. Can you enter and break through now?" Ye Xuanjin had expected this, and said decisively: "During the second foundation building, Xuanjin will definitely not let the clan leader down."

Ye Linyuan nodded, gave him a foundation-building pill and let him go to break through. Ye Xuanjin was just one step away from success last time, so he naturally had a great chance of breaking through this time. After he stepped into the Star Tower, he successfully broke through to the foundation-building stage in just half a day. (End of this chapter)