Tian Yuan War Chronicles: The Path of Artifacts to Ascension – Chapter 29

Ch 29: The Difficulty of Foundation Establishment

After returning from Great Zhou, it was just the end of the First Month, which seemed to have become a tradition. As long as there was a major breakthrough in cultivation, they would return to Great Zhou once at the end of the year.

After returning, the group found that the Sect had rebuilt the White Lotus Residence according to its previous shape.

Old Ancestor Lin Lian also released the Azure Ox into its original territory in the Great Wilderness as promised. Of course, the territory had already been occupied by other powerful Demon Beasts, so whether the little ox could survive depended on the will of heaven.

Watching the little ox rush into the deep forest of the Great Wilderness without looking back, Old Ancestor Lin Lian didn’t say much, turned around and retreated, quickly returning to the Tian Yuan Sect to attend her Golden Core Ascension Banquet.

The Ascension Banquet was very lively. Fellow Cultivators of the same rank, both familiar and unfamiliar within the Sect, came to participate, and Ancestor Xingzhou also came to send gifts.

After the Ascension Banquet, Lin Yu and Hua Kong were specially kept behind, and Old Ancestor Lin Lian gave them a lecture.

“Boy Yu has done well these years, and has been of great help to Xiao Lan. His cultivation has also reached the Foundation Establishment Stage. Although he is a little older, it is not too late.”

“Thank you for your praise, Old Ancestor!” Lin Yu replied modestly.

“I haven’t finished yet. But with your three Spiritual Roots aptitude, the difficulty of Foundation Establishment is still much greater. You will need at least five Foundation Establishment Pills. It is not difficult for me to take out these Elixirs now!

But the path of cultivation is not like this. You must face difficulties head-on. You must have firm courage and will, otherwise, helping you indiscriminately will only harm you.

The Seven Sun Sect’s new trial is still seven years away. During this time, you can go to the Great Wilderness to hunt low-level Demon Beasts and exchange the Demon Crystals for Spirit Stones to compete for Foundation Establishment Pills at the auction.

When the Seven Sun Sect trial begins, with your strength of three Spiritual Roots, I don’t believe other Qi Refining Cultivators can compete with you. If you are really unlucky, I can make up for the lacking Foundation Establishment Pills.

If you succeed in Foundation Establishment, I can lift the servant Soul Imprint between you and Xiao Lan and accept you as an Outer Sect Disciple under my command! But you still have to stay by Xiao Lan’s side to take care of her!” Old Ancestor Lin Lian said.

“Thank you for your guidance, Old Ancestor! Thank you for your kindness, Old Ancestor!” Lin Yu sincerely knelt down to thank her.

“Get up!”

“Boy Kong!” Old Ancestor Lin Lian looked at Hua Kong again.

“Old Ancestor!” Hua Kong quickly knelt down.

“You have also done well these years. What I just said to Xiao Yu is equally useful to you. When you have finished cultivating the Five Elements Spiritual Roots, I will ask Ancestor Xingzhou for help!

See if you can find a cultivation method for your unknown attribute Exotic Spiritual Root, that would be your luck! I will also help you with Foundation Establishment. If you can’t find it, I will let you return to Great Zhou to be an ordinary person and end your life!” Old Ancestor Lin Lan said lightly.

“Thank you for your kindness, Old Ancestor!” Hua Kong quickly thanked her, but his heart was in turmoil, fearing that one day he would discover that he had a strange Spiritual Root that could not be cultivated.

Lin Yu and Hua Kong returned to the Small Courtyard with complicated feelings, told Lin Lan what Old Ancestor Lin Lian had said, and Lin Lan said a few words of encouragement before returning to her cultivation.

After entering the Foundation Establishment Stage, Lin Lan had already begun a long period of Bigu, and basically no longer ate or drank except in special circumstances. She really didn’t need the two of them to take care of her anymore. Now, most of the time, everyone was just cultivating in their respective rooms for a long time.

So, Lin Yu and Hua Kong borrowed Lin Lan’s Flying Boat and flew towards the Great Wilderness.

The two entered the Great Wilderness and began to hunt Level 1 Demon Beasts in different areas of the Great Wilderness. Sometimes, with the help of Hua Kong’s new Bird Shooting Tube, they could even capture some Level 2 Demon Beasts.

This made the two of them very excited, because the Demon Crystals of Level 2 Demon Beasts could almost be exchanged for Foundation Establishment Pills.

So, during these seven years, the three of them not only hunted a large number of Level 1 Demon Beasts in exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill, but also hunted more than a dozen Level 2 Demon Beasts. Not only did they each exchange for two more Foundation Establishment Pills, but they also retained enough Demon Crystals for Foundation Establishment.

As a result, when the new Seven Sun Sect trial period arrived, the two of them began to wonder whether they should participate, but in the end, after weighing it, they decided to go.

Because recently, during the hunting process, the two of them accidentally ran into a Level 5 Demon Beast. Although the two of them scrapped more than a dozen large Bird Shooting Tubes, they finally injured it and scared it away.

But in the end, this guy began to drive some low-level Level 3 and Level 4 Demon Beasts to hunt them down. After discovering the signs, the two of them scrapped several more Bird Shooting Tubes, injured a Level 4 Demon Beast, and temporarily scared them away.

But the two of them also felt that they were being targeted, so they withdrew from the Great Wilderness and prepared to enter the Seven Sun Sect trial.

When they set off, the two of them were secretly taken by Old Ancestor Lin Lian on the Flying Boat flying to the Seven Sun Sect, found a vacant room to settle down, and also gave them a Token to facilitate boarding the Flying Boat when they returned.

Based on their previous experience, the two of them effortlessly obtained the Seven Yang Grass for the quota of two Foundation Establishment Pills each.

Originally, the two of them could have obtained more, but they did not do so, because they knew the difficulty of other Cultivators in obtaining resources.

At this point, the resources required for Lin Yu’s Foundation Establishment had been basically prepared, and the two of them wandered around the vast area of the Seven Sun Sect to see if they could get other benefits.

When the two of them walked to the old site of the Artifact Hall of the Seven Sun Sect, Hua Kong suddenly felt something, so he asked Lin Yu to land the Flying Boat.

“Xiao Kong, what did you find?” Lin Yu asked in confusion after landing on the ground.

“It’s not a discovery, it’s a feeling,” Hua Kong replied.

“Then what did you sense?” Lin Yu asked again.

“It’s hard to say, it seems to be related to a kind of stone I encountered before,” Hua Kong was also uncertain.

“Stone?” Lin Yu was even more puzzled.

“Let’s look for it,” Hua Kong entered a dilapidated Small Building and, according to his senses, finally came to a room with many empty shelves overturned. Obviously, a large number of tools and materials for making artifacts had been stored here before, but they had already been searched empty.

“There’s nothing in this room!” Lin Yu said, looking at the messy room.

“No! It’s right here! The feeling is strongest here!” Hua Kong moved away the empty shelves and said, pointing to a spot.

“But there’s nothing there!” Lin Yu said after checking around the attachment, he even checked the stone bricks on the floor.

“It’s right here,” the two of them checked the spot again, even turning over the stone bricks, but still found nothing.

“Where is it?” The two of them turned around again, and suddenly noticed the huge refined iron chandelier above their heads. Although there was no light anymore, the lamp stand was still hanging there, not knowing how long it had been.

“Let me see! There’s a wooden box!” Hua Kong helped up an empty shelf and climbed up. A wooden box about a foot in size was placed in the middle of the lamp stand’s iron plate. It was impossible to find it without coming up. Who put it here? And how long has it been here?

“What did you find? If you found a treasure, everyone gets a share!” Lin Yu asked curiously.

“Empty Scripture!” Hua Kong came down from the shelf, opened the ineffective sealing Talisman, and a brown book came into view.

“Let me see!” Lin Yu quickly snatched it over and started flipping through it.

“Give it back to me! I found it,” Hua Kong quickly snatched it back.

“Here you go, you stingy ghost! There are also a few stones!” Lin Yu returned the book to Hua Kong, and then discovered the gray stones in the box, taking out one to play with.

“According to the book, this should be Void Stone!” Hua Kong flipped through it.

“Void Stone! Never heard of it! Let’s go back and ask the Old Ancestor!” Lin Yu said with interest.

“This!” Hua Kong picked up a stone, and Hua Kong was immediately shocked. It actually had a strong connection with his Spiritual Root that had no attributes. Sure enough, this kind of stone attracted him here. But he had passed by here when he came last time, so why didn’t he sense it?

“What’s wrong?” Lin Yu was startled by Hua Kong.

“This stone is useful to me!” Combining the Empty Scripture and the Void Stone, Hua Kong suddenly thought of something, and with a wave of his hand, he snatched the Void Stone back from Lin Yu’s hand.

“Hey! Don’t you have a few more? Leave one for me to play with!” Lin Yu refused to give up.

“No! This is really useful to me!” Hua Kong disagreed.

“Stingy ghost!” Lin Yu was helpless and had to give up.

Hua Kong put away the wooden box, and the two of them exited the precarious building.

For the rest of the time, the two of them drove the Flying Boat around the old site of the Seven Sun Sect. If they found Tian Yuan Sect Cultivators being attacked, they would lend a hand. Soon, the one-month trial period ended.

The two of them returned from the Trial Grounds, and Lin Lan went to hand in the Seven Yang Grass for Lin Yu and exchanged it for two Foundation Establishment Pills. Lin Yu then began his closed-door cultivation to carry out Foundation Establishment.

At this time, Hua Kong had cultivated all five elements Spiritual Roots of Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth to the Twelfth Level of Great Perfection. Old Ancestor Lin Lian, as expected, found a Exotic Spiritual Root Measuring Disk through Ancestor Xingzhou’s connections.

What made Old Ancestor Lin Lian overjoyed was that Hua Kong’s Spiritual Root with unknown attributes was actually the very, very rare Void Spiritual Root.

The so-called Void Spiritual Root is the Space Spiritual Root. People with this Spiritual Root can cultivate very powerful Space System Techniques.

They can also make Space Magical Items, such as Storage Bracelets, Storage Rings, and Flying Boats that cross Space Cracks of different levels of worlds, and even Starships that cross Star Fields.

They are very rare and precious Cultivators, and even Ancestor Xingzhou was alarmed.

This discovery stunned Hua Kong all of a sudden. A Miscellaneous Spiritual Root Cultivator who was worthless before suddenly became a rare Cultivator with a Void Spiritual Root. It took Hua Kong many days to gradually accept this fact.

In the end, the news of the discovery of the Void Spiritual Root Cultivator alarmed the Tian Yuan Sect’s Mid-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator ━ Gao Yunxian, the Sword God Hall Master and Lin Xingzhou’s Master Liu Qianwu, as well as the Artifact Refining Hall Master, Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator Zhu Feng.

The two came together, causing Hua Kong, who had gradually calmed down, to have a blank mind for a while.

Finally, after learning that Hua Kong and Lin Lan actually had a Master-Servant Soul Imprint, Zhu Feng brought Hua Kong under his command after paying some Magical Artifacts and priority in Flying Boat repairs.

So Old Ancestor Lin Lian lifted the Master-Servant Soul Imprint on Hua Kong’s soul, but in the future, if Lin Lian and Lin Lan needed anything, Hua Kong guaranteed that he would still do his best to cooperate.

So, before Hua Kong could turn his mind around, he had already been taken by Flying Boat to the Void Division of the Artifact Refining Hall.