Yin Sha

Fengyang Forest!

Lu Yang's eyes flickered slightly as he looked at the diary. Was it that Feng Yanglin?

The Blood Demon Foundation Building Method, Feng Yang Forest, how many coincidences are there in this world? I never expected that he and Meng Xu would have such an intersection.

Fortunately, he left in time; otherwise, if he had run into Meng Xu, he would have been doomed.

We searched Fengyang Forest for quite a while before finally finding the cave, but it was empty, and we found nothing. Captain Meng Xu roared like a madman, but in the end, we had no choice but to return to the Southern Barbarian Lands.

Because of last year's calamity, the major tribes of the Southern Barbarians had run out of supplies. The high priest of the Southern Barbarians summoned the tribal leaders and decided to send troops to invade across the border and plunder money and grain.

The captain accepted a job from the southern barbarians.

The notes abruptly ended here, but it allowed Lu Yang to sort out many of his thoughts. He was also curious as to why the Southern Barbarians had launched a large-scale military campaign this time. It turned out to be because of the Yin disaster.

As for what the Yin Calamity is, the Taoist temple has mentioned it. In that case, it is not surprising that the Southern Barbarians launched a large-scale invasion.

Putting down the notebook, Lu Yang looked at the other items in the storage bag. To be honest, it was a bit of a waste.

Apart from a dozen or so spirit stones, there were no other useful spiritual items, not even a trace of talismans or pills.

Anyone who steals this storage bag would be considered extremely unlucky.

Fortunately, there are still two magic artifacts. The Blood Demon Blade, a mid-grade magic artifact, is not very popular in the market and is not easy to sell, but it can still be sold for the lowest price, which is one hundred spirit stones.

The same applies to the low-grade magic weapon, the Blood Demon Shield; selling it for twenty spirit stones shouldn't be a problem.

Let's say it adds up to a little over a hundred spirit stones.

Having learned from the poor man's experience, Lu Yang felt uneasy about the other two storage bags.

Sure enough, when the second storage bag was opened, it was exactly the same as the previous poor guy. Apart from the magic artifact that could be sold for some spirit stones, there were only about twenty spirit stones in the entire storage bag, and a Yin Wind Crystal that was just for show.

Yin Wind Crystals are items produced by Yin Calamity. For second-tier Yin Wind Evil, first-tier Yin Wind Crystals can only be used for refining weapons.

Moreover, the value varies depending on the grade. For example, this mid-grade Yin Wind Crystal is probably worth a few spirit stones.

Shaking his head, Lu Yang opened the last storage bag with great disappointment. A field of Yin Wind Crystals appeared before him, which made Lu Yang's eyes light up.

one two Three……

There are over a hundred Yin Wind Crystals! Has this guy found a Yin Wind Crystal mine?

Even high-grade Yin Wind Crystals are here, not bad, finally some gains. Hmm, what is this?

Lu Yang picked up a piece of cloth from a pile of Yin Wind Crystals.

The cloth material was ordinary, but there was a map drawn on it. The level of skill was not very good, but the places that needed to be marked were marked.

The land of the southern barbarians, Mount Chiba.

Lu Yang looked at the map, his eyes sparkling with interest. On the map, a certain place in Thousand Leaf Mountain was marked with the words "Yin Wind Sha".

A chilling wind!

This is a malevolent wind!

This mere Qi Refining Level 5 cultivator actually had the chance to find the Yin Wind Demon!

Yin Wind Sha is a spiritual material for building a mid-grade Dao foundation, and it can be considered a necessity in the cultivation world.

In today's cultivation world, there are three grades of foundation building for cultivators: upper, middle, and lower. Lower-grade foundation building is like the Blood Demon Foundation Building Method that Lu Yang found before. It uses ordinary spiritual materials as the foundation for foundation building. The blood of those Qi Refining stage cultivators is an ordinary spiritual material. Although it is inferior, it can still barely form a foundation.

Such a low-grade Dao Foundation, even if completed, will only lead to the Foundation Establishment stage, but not only will cultivation be slow within the Foundation Establishment stage, but the possibility of advancing to the Golden Core stage will also be completely eliminated.

Then comes the intermediate-grade Dao Foundation. This intermediate-grade Dao Foundation requires taking the Earthly Fiend Qi as its root, connecting with Heaven and Earth, and nurturing the spiritual seed. Yin Wind Fiend is one of them.

In other words, as long as you find the Yin Wind Evil and successfully refine it during the Foundation Establishment process, you can achieve a mid-grade Dao Foundation.

Ultimately, the early stages of a cultivator's practice involve continuously strengthening their spiritual energy and nurturing the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit.

The foundation for cultivating the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit lies in spiritual cultivation.

Cultivators refine spiritual seeds, build foundations for the Dao, and form golden cores. Whether it is a spiritual seed, a Dao foundation, or a golden core, they are all places to contain spiritual energy.

If your foundation is weak, even if you use the best elixirs and countless spiritual energies to enter your body, the only outcome will be the destruction of your foundation. How can you talk about the future then?

Therefore, Foundation Establishment is the key to a cultivator's early cultivation and cannot be done half-heartedly. If one wants to form a Core, one must at least establish a mid-grade Dao Foundation. Whether it is Yin Wind Sha, Yin Fire Sha, Yin Water Sha, or Yin Earth Sha, as long as one of them is obtained, one can barely establish a mid-grade Dao Foundation and leave hope for the future.

But that's just hope. If you really want to form a core, you'll need to use the other three types of evil energy to complete your foundation.

Simply put, building a mid-grade Dao foundation and refining a wisp of evil energy is merely leaving you with a sliver of hope for refining other evil energies and building your Dao foundation in the future.

However, if one only refines one type of evil energy during the Foundation Establishment stage, it will be extremely difficult to refine other types of evil energy later on. To this day, it seems that there are not many cultivators who have been able to truly establish their foundation with one type of evil energy, supplement it with four types of evil energy, and break through to the Golden Core stage.

Therefore, cultivators who aspire to the Golden Core stage should refine two more streams of malevolent energy during the Foundation Establishment phase.

Most Foundation Establishment cultivators within sects establish their foundations using the Three Fiends, and while it is still very difficult to add a final Fiend Qi, it is not so unattainable, greatly increasing their chances of achieving the Golden Core stage.

However, if one can gather the four evil elements of earth, fire, water, and wind during the foundation building process, then one can directly build a superior Dao foundation.

After cultivating a superior Dao foundation, not only will the path of cultivation be smooth during the Foundation Establishment stage, but the chance of condensing a golden core will also be three times greater than that of a cultivator who has cultivated a mid-grade Dao foundation.

However, achieving a superior Dao foundation is extremely difficult. Not to mention that the four evil elements of earth, fire, water, and wind are not easy to find and are of great value, even if you find them all, refining them is extremely difficult.

Although the Dao Academy didn't go into detail about the various key points, Lu Yang could understand the difficulty of Foundation Establishment just by hearing the general idea. Otherwise, after five hundred years of accumulation, the Lu family wouldn't only have three Foundation Establishment ancestors in this generation.

However, those things are still far from Lu Yang's reach. For Lu Yang now, the main focus is still on improving his cultivation level, and incidentally, searching for the evil energy.

Lu Yang originally planned to wait until he reached the late stage or even the peak of Qi Refining before looking for evil energy. After all, evil energy is hard to find and has a high value. Even if he encountered it, he might not be able to afford it. If it was wild evil energy, it would be difficult to collect it without the cultivation level of the late stage of Qi Refining.

But as fate would have it, Lu Yang unexpectedly obtained information about Yin Feng Sha from this fifth-level Qi Refining demonic cultivator.

Moreover, judging from these hundred or so Yin Wind Crystals, the Yin Wind Fiend's share is probably not small.

Thinking of this, Lu Yang's heart was even more excited. Perhaps after breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining, he could set off to the Southern Barbarian Lands to collect the Yin Wind Evil, lest things get complicated.

Lu Yang carefully put away the map, cleaned up any remaining traces, and then went to Lu Yunchang's door.

dong dong dong...

"Aunt Yun Chang, are you there? It's me, Xuan Yang."

"Come in."

Upon hearing the news from inside, Lu Yang immediately pushed open the door and went in. Lu Yunchang, whom he saw, was clearly not yet recovered. Her face was pale, her hair was disheveled, and her eyes were filled with confusion. She looked somewhat dejected.

Ugh!

Lu Yang sighed silently. He could understand Lu Yunchang's feelings. Although Lu Yunchang seemed to be almost thirty years old, she was an alchemist. In the clan, alchemists did not need to go out to perform missions. Their daily routine was to collect herbs and refine pills. In the past thirty years, Lu Yunchang had probably only gone down the mountain a limited number of times.

She has only been down the mountain a limited number of times, so her experiences are naturally few. Now that she has suddenly come out, an elder of the clan has died because of her. This knot in her heart will probably not be easy to untie in a while.