I don't know how long this process lasted. The spiritual energy vortex outside the cave expanded to a size of fifty feet and finally stopped expanding. The surrounding spiritual energy of the world had been absorbed, and the spiritual energy like a sea eroded away into the cave.

The guardian monk of Qingxuan Hall frowned when he looked at the huge spiritual energy vortex, and his face was full of doubts. This was not the first time for him to protect his disciples, but when others were building the foundation, the spiritual energy vortex was at most thirty feet in diameter. Why did this person attract such a huge spiritual energy?

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Tang Ning's body was filled with a steady stream of spiritual power, filling every corner of his body. His consciousness had become faint, and he entered another world in a daze.

There are green grass all around, towering green trees, and a blue sky with occasional white clouds floating by.

Suddenly, the surroundings dimmed, and its eyes were dim. Something seemed to be squeezing around it. It pushed hard upwards, and squeezed upwards. After a long time, maybe an hour, maybe several springs and autumns, it finally broke free from the cage.

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There is a fragrant world outside, with green grass everywhere, towering green trees, and a clear sky.

It struggled hard until its whole body squeezed out of the cage. It flapped its wings and came to a flower to suck food. It had been hungry for too long.

From then on, it wandered among the flowers and plants every day, very contented. One day, the autumn breeze was refreshing, and a tall figure came from a distance. It could not see the appearance of the tall figure, but it could only see it sitting among the green grass.

Day after day, sometimes he lowered his head and meditated, sometimes he looked up to the sky and sighed. As the days passed, he became familiar with this tall figure and often played together.

The tall figure chased it and put it in the palm of its hand. It liked this feeling and felt warm all over. It often stopped on his shoulder and circled around him, but it could never clearly see his specific appearance.

………

In the blue sky, a handsome man came to the green grass. He didn't know where he came from or where he was going, until he saw a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.

He kept following the butterfly. One day, the butterfly came to him and played with him. He loved the butterfly very much and played games with it for ages.

Tang Ning looked at the man and the butterfly. He had been watching them, even though he was nowhere to be seen in the world. Spring passed, winter solstice, cold and summer came and went. After all, the butterfly could not withstand the erosion of time and grew older day by day.

It couldn't fly anymore, it had no strength at all. Although it still wanted to play with the figure and fly around him, it was too tired. It closed its eyes. When it was dying, it tried hard

Looking at that figure, I still can't see it clearly.

The butterfly died, and he was very sad. He held it in his hands and cried loudly. Gradually, he became old and could no longer walk.

He still didn't know where he came from and where he was going. He only remembered that a butterfly had spent a good time with him.

The space between heaven and earth was empty, and Tang Ning had a lot of thoughts. Sometimes he turned into the butterfly, sometimes he turned into that man, and sometimes he turned into the ruler of heaven and earth watching them.

He could no longer tell whether he was the butterfly or the man. He switched back and forth between the three roles, being the butterfly, the man, and himself.

The sound of the bell was abrupt, echoing between heaven and earth, and the sound was endless. It was the Qingxin Bell that reminded him not to fall into the illusion. He was very awake, but only slightly nostalgic.

The surrounding green grass and trees were sloping down, and then the world started to spin. He returned to the cave and looked at his hands in confusion.

The foundation building has been completed, and a lake of water in the spiritual sea is stored in it, flowing along his body. It is the spiritual energy in his body that sublimates and turns into spiritual liquid.

The foundation building was successful, but he felt no joy at all. He was wondering whether this place was real or that world was real, whether he had transformed into a butterfly and a man, or whether the butterfly and the man had transformed into him.

After a long time, he sighed, put on his clothes and walked out of the cave. Although he suffered a little pain in building the foundation this time, there was no danger. The soul-controlling milk could be said to have made a great contribution.

Other people's foundation-building inner demon level was extremely dangerous, but he was not attacked by the inner demon. He just fell into an illusion and kept his consciousness clear. From the moment he fell into the illusion, he knew it was an illusion.

Among the three characters, the invisible existence watching the man and the butterfly is the embodiment of his own consciousness.

"Congratulations." The guardian monk of Qingxuan Palace said before he saw Tangning coming out of the cave.

"Thank you."

"Go to Qingxuan Hall to register and report tomorrow."

Tang Ning nodded, and the man stopped talking and turned into light and left.

He put away the five-door cloud water formation. Due to the attack by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the formation was damaged a lot. Two formation flags were broken. Several other formation flags also suffered varying degrees of damage and were basically useless.

Tang Ning tried to release the spiritual energy in his body, forming a spiritual energy shield around him, wrapping his whole body. As soon as his consciousness moved, the spiritual energy covering his whole body supported his body and soared into the air.

Tang Ning walked against the wind, sometimes soaring two thousand feet into the air, sometimes turning sharply downwards, going back and forth, she was quite happy with this feeling.

Ah! Wonderful.

On the second day, Tang Ning went to Qingxuan Hall to register his identity. When he arrived in front of the Fanxing Cave of the Middle Finger Peak, he handed a talisman in. After a while, the thick fog on both sides dispersed, and Tang Ning came to the main room: "Disciple Tang Ning, see you.

Pass Master Kong."

Kong Fanxing opened his eyes, his fat face trembled, and he was stunned for a moment with a look of shock on his face: "You have already established the foundation."

"Yes, my disciple built the foundation at Jincui Peak yesterday and was lucky enough to succeed. Today I came here to pay a visit to Master Kong." Kong Fanxing has taken great care of him in the past few years, so he was the first person he visited after building the foundation.

Qing Yuli should also come and visit him.

"Now that the foundation has been established, I don't dare to call him a senior uncle anymore. I'd rather call him a senior brother!"

In the world of spiritual practice, seniority is generally determined by cultivation, but not all are like this. If someone is acquainted with someone or has studied in the same discipline, seniority will be determined.

Like Tang Ning and Kong Fanxing, although they both belong to the Qianyi Sect, they were neither relatives nor friends before, and now they have the same level of cultivation. It is obviously inappropriate to refer to them as masters, uncles and disciples.

"Disciple doesn't dare." Tang Ning said modestly.

Dao Kong Fanxing waved his hand: "Hey! It's just a title, don't be too attached. Junior Brother Tang, you have completed the foundation building. According to the sect's rules, you can choose any place in this sect to build your own cave, but we

According to the rules of the Intelligence Department, the foundation building monk's cave must be on the Middle Finger Peak. If anything happens, he can be summoned at any time. Have you chosen the location?"

Tang Ning replied: "We just laid the foundation yesterday, and we haven't chosen to build a cave yet. Do we have to wait for Uncle Lu's approval for this matter?"

"Why bother with such trivial matters? Just build your own cave house wherever you like on the Middle Finger Peak."

The two chatted for a long time, then Tang Ning left and went to Lu Xingxian's cave to visit him. He explained the reason outside his main room. Lu Xingxian heard that he had successfully built the foundation and came to visit him, so he said, "Come in!"

This is the first time he has stepped into Lu Xingxian's main chamber. The first two times he was refused entry to the cave, and the second time was when he came to visit a few days ago and spoke about foundation building outside the main room.

Lu Xingxian opened his eyes and looked at him and said: "Since you have successfully established the foundation, from now on you will be treated as equals with me, and we will treat you as brothers and sisters. This is the case for everyone in our department."

"yes."

"Our department has rules that the cave must be built on the Zhongzhi Peak, and I am no exception. Just choose a place on the Zhongzhi Peak to build the cave."

"clear."

"Tomorrow at noon, come to the meeting hall and I will announce your new appointment to the junior brothers."

Tang Ning left Lu Xingxian's cave and found a place in the south of the first knuckle of Zhongzhi Peak. After working for most of the day, he built a simple cave. It was not large, covering an area of ​​three acres. It was divided into a main room and an auxiliary room.

Four rooms, front yard and back yard.

The entire cave was empty except for a stone bed, a stone table and a few stone benches in the main room. Compared with Kong Fanxing's cave, it was like a slum, and even compared with Lu Xingxian, it was far inferior.

At around noon on the second day, he arrived at the summit meeting hall. The two disciples on duty were shocked to see him break through the foundation building, and turned to look envious.

When Tangning arrived, no one else had arrived yet. He chose a seat near the bottom of the hall and sat down. Not long after, several other foundation-building monks from the Intelligence Department came one after another. They were a little surprised when they saw him, and then they

Relieved.

Only Kong Fanxing smiled slightly at him, and Zhu Xu also nodded to him.

Among the foundation-building monks stationed outside the Intelligence Department, there are only seven who have stayed in the sect for a long time.

They are Lu Xingxian, Kong Fanxing, Zhu Xu, Lu Guang, Chen Xuan, Ye Xiu, and Xu Jingtian. Among them, Xu Jingtian was the one who successfully established the foundation three years ago and was originally the captain of the third team of the Intelligence Section.

When everyone gathered together, Lu Xingxian took out a piece of paper and said: "Junior brothers, I have called everyone to the meeting hall this time for one thing. I want to announce the appointment of Junior Brother Tang Ning. After being recommended by our department and approved by the Secret Academy, Qingxuan

The palace verified it and issued an appointment, appointing Tang Ning to be in charge of the Intelligence Department."

"Junior brother Tang Ning was originally a disciple of the air support team. The foundation building was completed the day before yesterday. I have decided that he will take over junior brother Zhang Ye's original job and be in charge of intelligence liaison with outside the sect. Junior brother Xu will return to his duties. Junior brother Kong, what do you think?"

Kong Fanxing said with a smile: "After Junior Brother Zhang passed away, I was worried that no one would take over his job. Junior Brother Tang came at the right time."

"In that case, this matter is settled. Junior Brother Tang, from now on, you will handle the intelligence communication with outside the sect."

"yes."

"You must all know these junior brothers." Lu Xingxian said: "Junior brother Zhu Xu is in charge of the intelligence collection work. All intelligence is reported to the sect through him. Every personnel action in the intelligence department must have a file handed over to him.

The intelligence room will be handled by Junior Brother Zhu."

"Junior Brother Kong Fanxing is in charge of inspection work. He supervises the actions of all personnel in the Intelligence Department. If he is found to have committed crimes and violated the sect's laws, he can deal with them according to the rules. If the situation is serious and the situation is urgent, he can make arbitrary decisions on the spot.

The right to kill first and report later.”

"Junior Brother Lu Guang and Junior Brother Ye Xiu are in charge of the specific affairs of each action team."

"Junior brother Chen Xuan and junior brother Xu Jingtian are in charge of the internal affairs of the department, including the operational funding of department personnel, reporting of operational losses, personnel rewards and punishments, etc."

Tang Ning nodded her head.
Chapter completed!