“Woof woof!!”
Big Yellow pointed at Elder Ding’s corpse, indicating that it recognized this person—he had bullied them before.
“Now that you mention it, he really does look fucking familiar. Isn't this old fogey that Elder Ding from the Chixia Sect?”
With Big Yellow’s reminder, Lu Ming recognized Elder Ding’s robes.
He and Huang Tianbao carefully removed the identity tokens from the two corpses to take a look.
The three of them exchanged looks.
“It really is these two sons of bitches...”
Lu Ming muttered, shaking his head.
“Sigh! How pitiful! Murdered and dumped. Luckily for them, they ran into me.”
“Woof woof...?”
Big Yellow wagged its tail and looked at Lu Ming. What are you trying to do? They're our enemies.
Huang Tianbao also looked at Lu Ming in confusion.
Then, he watched as Lu Ming snatched the storage bags from the corpses' waists.
After that, he threw the corpses right off the boat.
Lu Ming weighed the storage bags in his hand. “Consider this compensation for dirtying my spirit boat...”
“As for giving you a sky burial, no need to thank me. I'm a good person, after all.”
Seeing this, a look of delight crossed Huang Tianbao’s face. The eldest senior brother had made the right call.
Lu Ming put away the storage bags and turned to Big Yellow and Huang Tianbao.
“Let's find a place so I can break through first. This world is way too dangerous, too terrifying...”
Big Yellow nodded in agreement. Just walking down the road could result in corpses falling from the sky. It really wasn't your average level of danger.
Shortly after, they found a high, densely forested mountain peak.
Lu Ming used his spirit sword to carve out three cave dwellings.
Big Yellow indicated that it also wanted to break through to the 2nd-rank and needed to go into seclusion.
First, Lu Ming set up several protective and concealment array disks around the area.
Having picked up so many storage bags, including Ye Fan’s, he was currently not lacking in these things.
Huang Tianbao, with nothing better to do, stood guard for Lu Ming and Big Yellow.
In the meantime, he organized the storage bags that Lu Ming, Big Yellow, and he had gathered.
With everything arranged, Lu Ming sat cross-legged inside his cave dwelling.
He piled spirit stones all around himself.
He had to admit, that kid from the Haoran Sect who wanted to kill him was filthy rich.
Lu Ming couldn't help but sigh with emotion. That guy alone had contributed a massive amount of spirit stones.
He hoped he would encounter more "Top Donors" like him.
With his preparations complete, Lu Ming reviewed the process of establishing his foundation.
Compressing spiritual energy, transforming the spiritual core into a Dao foundation...
After reading through it, Lu Ming began to circulate his cultivation technique.
As the technique circulated, a massive amount of spiritual energy surged into Lu Ming’s body.
Lu Ming began to compress his spiritual energy to construct his Dao foundation.
The gaseous spiritual energy was forcibly squeezed and condensed, making a sizzling sound.
However, the vortex in his dantian spun frantically, instantly shredding the tiny bit of Dao foundation he had just compressed.
Lu Ming frowned. Could this vortex please stop causing trouble?
He looked at his own dantian, completely speechless. With it churning like this, how was he supposed to establish his foundation?
Helpless, Lu Ming gritted his teeth and could only try again.
He tried three times in a row, but failed every single time.
What was he supposed to do? He couldn't just never establish his foundation, could he?
Lu Ming speechlessly observed his vortex dantian once more.
Just as Lu Ming was about to get dizzy from watching it spin, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He began to establish his foundation again...
As time passed, the aura around Lu Ming also began to change.
His already spacious meridians...
...became even wider, thicker, and more resilient.
Lu Ming felt an unprecedented sense of power surge from his limbs and bones through his entire body.
His cultivation level had also reached the Foundation Establishment stage. However, when he looked at his dantian, his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
At this moment, his dantian looked exactly like a megaphone.
The vortex dantian served as the base, and the Dao foundation surrounded it.
“Though it looks a bit peculiar and unique, I've still successfully established my foundation.”
“Let's give it a try...”
With that, Lu Ming circulated his cultivation technique again.
Whoosh, whoosh...
The dantian spun wildly like a vacuum cleaner, frantically devouring the surrounding spiritual energy.
Lu Ming was startled. My megaphone dantian is actually this powerful?
This was three times faster at absorbing spiritual energy than even the top-grade spiritual roots recorded in the manuals!
Lu Ming stood up in satisfaction. He truly was the protagonist, the darling of the Heavenly Dao.
Reigning supreme across eternity and suppressing the current generation was just around the corner.
Just as he stepped out of the cave, Lu Ming heard Huang Tianbao’s joyful voice.
“Eldest Senior Brother, you successfully established your foundation?”
“That's right, I'm a Foundation Establishment big shot now... Mwahaha...”
Lu Ming laughed heartily and smugly.
“Congratulations, Eldest Senior Brother...”
Although Huang Tianbao was happy, a trace of disappointment still lingered in his eyes.
He still couldn't cultivate.
Seeing Huang Tianbao's dejection, Lu Ming quickly comforted him:
“Don't worry, you'll definitely be able to cultivate... How could my, Lu Ming’s, junior brother not be able to cultivate?”
“Your opportunity just hasn't arrived yet.”
Hearing this, Huang Tianbao's eyes lit up.
“Yes, I believe in you, Eldest Senior Brother...”
“Your second senior brother hasn't come out of seclusion yet?”
Huang Tianbao shook his head. “No.”
Afterward, Lu Ming and Huang Tianbao grabbed a bite to eat.
Then, Lu Ming entered his cave dwelling again to begin cultivating the Qingshan body refining technique in seclusion.
Lu Ming felt a qualified protagonist definitely needed to be able to take a beating.
The first layer of the Qingshan body refining technique, Spiritual Energy Body Refining, required using spiritual energy to temper the entire body.
Once mastered, his physical resilience would become three times stronger than before.
Immediately, Lu Ming began to temper his body with spiritual energy.
“Hiss... Oh... Ow... Does tempering have to hurt this much?”
Soon, all kinds of miserable shrieks echoed from the cave.
Standing outside, Huang Tianbao heard Lu Ming’s screams and grew incredibly worried. Is cultivating really this painful?
Tempering wasn't difficult; it was just a matter of tempering the body over and over again.
While it wasn't difficult, it hurt like hell!
“If I don't work hard at cultivating today, tomorrow we'll be brothers inside the Ten Thousand Soul Banner...”
“If I slack off and sleep today, tomorrow I'll be hotpot meat in a demonic cultivator's pot.”
“The more pain I suffer during training, the harder I'll crush my enemies in battle.”
Amidst various forms of self-consolation, Lu Ming pushed through and mastered the first layer of body refining in one go.
He was afraid that if he stopped, he wouldn't have the courage to start again.
Stepping out of the cave dwelling once more, Lu Ming saw that Big Yellow had already emerged.
“Oh! Big Yellow, you're a 2nd-rank spirit beast now.”
Big Yellow tilted its head up at a forty-five-degree angle, wearing an expression of "it's lonely at the top."
“Woof woof...”
Please call me the Oriental Great Emperor...
Thud...
Lu Ming kicked Big Yellow aside.
Acting cool was only elegant when he did it himself.
Big Yellow was just showing off.
“Woof woof!!”
Snapping back to its senses, Big Yellow lunged at Lu Ming’s pant leg and began to tear at it.
Boss, don't blame me for being ruthless. I'm tearing your pants right off!
“Haha...”
Watching Lu Ming and Big Yellow mess around, Huang Tianbao joined in as well.
In the end, two humans and a dog, all bruised and swollen, held their food bowls and squatted in a row to eat.
After eating and drinking their fill, Lu Ming wiped his mouth.
“Let's go, back to the sect.”
Then, he took out the spirit boat.
Huang Tianbao, who was packing up their things, looked up at Lu Ming.
“Eldest Senior Brother, can we make a detour to visit my hometown?”
“Sure!”
Lu Ming agreed without hesitation.
The spirit boat spewed black smoke as it soared through the clouds. Looking down, they saw deserted mountain fields, abandoned villages, and empty farmlands.
“Old Third, your home territory is pretty huge!”
Huang Tianbao looked down.
“Ah! This isn't my home territory. This is what the neighboring country abandoned on their own initiative.”
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