Chapter 579: Theory of Golden Elixir Grades

It has been another three years since the formation of the best golden elixir.

On this day.

Fang Ping in the cave slowly stopped the operation of the Great Sun True Method and ended today's routine practice.

The palm-sized piece of Sky Fire Spirit Crystal in his hand, after continuous absorption and refining in the past few days, is less than 20% of the original.

But the large consumption of this thing has brought Fang Ping's cultivation day by day.

Now, it is not far from the perfect state of foundation building.

Using the divine sense to look into the Dantian, Fang Ping's Taoist platform in the center of the lake of magic power has unknowingly condensed into the eighth layer. Above this, the shadow of the ninth Taoist platform has also been looming.

With his attainments in martial arts, Taoism, and the hundred arts of cultivation, it is enough to truly condense the ninth Taoist platform before the perfect foundation building.

Because of the magic power that has been calcined by the Flame Heart Mantra, and the accumulation of a strong body, the physical body is comparable to the golden elixir. Even though Fang Ping has not yet completed the foundation, he has been throbbing from time to time during cultivation, and there are signs that he will start to impact the elixir on his own.

Fang Ping needs to actively suppress it himself to avoid such accidents.

For a cultivator, this sign is undoubtedly a good thing, which means that he will have a greater chance of forming an elixir in the future.

But for Fang Ping, in addition to being happy, he can't help but feel a little distressed.

This means that a problem that he had previously put aside has come to a point where he must make a decision as soon as possible.

That is: should he follow the steps and condense the Dao Ding anomaly on the top of the Dao platform, and then calcine the golden elixir; or should he directly use the Yuan Ding to replace the Dao Ding!

The former is stable enough and does not require risks.

After all, the existing golden elixir path has been continuously improved and perfected by the Xiuxian world for tens of thousands of years, and it is almost impossible to change it.

Although the latter is very risky and unprecedented, it all depends on Fang Ping's own exploration, but if it succeeds, the benefits are incomparably huge.

This means that Fang Ping will be able to use the Yuan Ding's ability to trace back and trace back part of the process of impacting the golden elixir!

Ordinary cultivators only have one chance to form a golden elixir at most.

With the help of the Yuan Ding, Fang Ping can keep tracing back. With the previous perfect preparation, not only will he almost certainly succeed, but he will also have the opportunity to push the grade of the golden elixir to the extreme!

It should be noted that as the most critical realm in the path of cultivation, the grade of the golden elixir is extremely important to a cultivator.

According to the existing system in the world of immortal cultivation, the lowest grade of the golden elixir is grade nine, and the highest is grade one.

If the golden elixir is unfortunately the lower three grades, that is, the golden elixir of grade nine to grade seven, then after forming the elixir, not only will the mana be scarce and the potential will be exhausted, but the subsequent cultivation will also be ineffective.

If there is no great opportunity and great luck, there is almost no hope of Yuanying in life.

If the elixir can be made into the sixth to fourth grade, which is the so-called middle third grade, then there may be a chance to achieve the Nascent Soul.

If the elixir can be made into the upper third grade, it will be great, and the hope of achieving the Nascent Soul will be much higher.

Not only that, the upper third grade golden elixir will also increase the lifespan after the Nascent Soul.

In this world, generally speaking, except for the cultivators with wood spiritual roots and wood-based skills, the lifespan of other foundation-building cultivators is unified to 200 years, and the lifespan of golden elixir cultivators is unified to about 500 years.

This is because the evolution of the essence of life brought about by the first two major realm upgrades is still limited, so whether it is ordinary foundation-building or perfect foundation-building, it is not enough to affect the most fundamental lifespan.

But from the golden elixir upwards, the lifespan is no longer a fixed number if the realm is upgraded again.

The lifespan of the Nascent Soul cultivators who achieve the golden elixir between the ninth and fourth grades is uniformly increased by 800 years, and the total lifespan is increased to 1,300 years.

But starting from the third-grade golden elixir, every higher grade of the golden elixir can add an extra sixty years to the three-grade and below.

In other words, if you can achieve the first-grade elixir and achieve the Nascent Soul on this basis, you can live up to three sixty years longer than ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, which is a full 180 years!

This is undoubtedly a huge improvement, which is close to the total lifespan of a foundation-building cultivator.

If you take one or two spiritual medicines or natural treasures that increase your lifespan, your total lifespan can break through the 1,500-year mark.

Moreover, the impact of the golden elixir grade is not only reflected in the Nascent Soul stage. When you break through to the subsequent transformation of the spirit and even higher realms, the increase in lifespan will also increase in a corresponding proportion.

It can be said that the gap between the first-grade golden elixir and the third-grade and below golden elixir will only get bigger and bigger, and they will never be able to compare.

Precisely because the grade of the golden elixir is so important, both Yunzhou and Xihuang attach great importance to the elixir formation of the elites and geniuses in the sect.

Unless there is no other choice, only by achieving the third-grade elixir can you get the full support of the sect and continue to impact the Nascent Soul.

"With the best golden elixir and other aids, and the nine-layer Daotai vision, even without the help of the Yuan Ding, I am very confident that I can fight for a third-grade elixir. But whether it is a third-grade elixir or a first-grade elixir, it is hard to say if there is only one chance, because there is a lot of luck involved. And the gap between the two is still very large..."

If there is the help of the Yuan Ding, Fang Ping can go back many times, and the confidence of achieving the first-grade elixir will undoubtedly be much greater.

More importantly...

Compared to Yunzhou, almost no one can achieve perfect foundation building, so many cultivators don't even know that there is such a concept.

In the Western Wilderness, the resources and spiritual energy are more abundant, and there are some Yuanying and even Shenhua sects.

In this place, perfect foundation building is no longer just a legend.

Let’s not talk about anything else. In the two Yuanying sects of the Dali Dynasty, a cultivator with a natural spiritual root from [Haotian Mansion] has the foundation of perfect foundation building.

In the realm of Jindan, above the first-grade Jindan, there is actually a concept corresponding to perfect foundation building.

That is [Flawless Jindan].

What is flawless?

The world is imperfect, and so is the Great Dao.

The Jindan of ordinary Jindan cultivators is not a complete round pill, but has tiny holes on it.

The ninth-grade Jindan has the most serious defects, corresponding to nine holes on it.

The eighth-grade Jindan has eight.

The same is true for the others. When it comes to the first-grade Jindan, there is only one tiny hole.

These holes are not beneficial to the practice itself, but harmful.

Because cultivators live in the world, the spiritual energy they accumulate interacts with the spiritual energy between the world.

In addition to being able to quickly absorb spiritual energy when meditating, at other times, even if no spells are released, their own spiritual energy will slowly dissipate at an extremely small speed. The lower the concentration of spiritual energy in the outside world, the faster the loss rate.

This is also why cultivators who stay in the mortal world with meager spiritual energy for a long time, or who frequently consume mana without sufficient replenishment, are at risk of falling in realm.

The more holes on the golden elixir, the more spiritual energy will be lost inadvertently on weekdays.

The reason why the lower third-grade golden elixir cultivators have no hope of Nascent Soul in their lifetime is undoubtedly closely related to the excessive holes in the golden elixir.

If the elixir can be made into a first-grade elixir, it means that there is only one hole, and most of the spiritual energy for meditation and cultivation can be retained, and the spiritual energy lost is very little, so the efficiency of cultivation is naturally very high.

The so-called [flawless golden elixir] represents the perfection beyond heaven and earth, which is truly flawless and has no even a single hole.