Music and dance had finally combined.
Now, Mu Yanxi could finally enjoy the Spiritual Moon Sect’s specialty—song and dance.
These were the senior sisters from the Dance Club, performing a Western Region dance piece.
At that moment, San Shijie’s pipa melody shifted, becoming rhythmic and passionate. The small drum beside her began to beat rapidly.
Then, a group of dancers wearing only transparent silk ribbons and golden silk threads walked to the central platform and began to dance gracefully.
“Now, let the feast begin!”
After pouring the wine, the host Lin Haochen stood up with his wine glass and gave a toast.
“Thank you all for gracing my feast. Tonight we celebrate the collaborative project between Yangxin Hall and the Spiritual Moon Palace. May our two families’ friendship last forever! To our friendship, ganbei!”
Everyone raised their glasses in salute, then drank it all in one go. Lin Haochen downed his cup and laughed.
Lin Haochen’s extravagance knew no bounds. The aged wines he presented this time alone included three types: yellow wine daughter’s red wine, red wine dry red, and white wine Qingyun Lang liquor. Additionally, there was a very precious fruit vinegar drink for honored guests who didn’t drink alcohol.
There was alcohol. The rich aroma of wine floated in the air, and even a whiff made one feel refreshed, with mana slowly increasing in the body.
This was at least a thousand-year vintage, with ingredients also a thousand years old, totaling at least two thousand years.
The deans of teaching and etiquette teachers had already taught them how to pour wine for guests. At the start of the feast, they must pour wine in front of the guests and ensure the guests’ cups were always full during the banquet.
Guests in other pavilions also had maidservants holding wine pots coming forward to pour wine for them.
When Lin Haochen walked to the seat at the central palace square plaza amid everyone’s flattery, several high-level members of the two sects, led by Qiongdann Laoren and the Headmaster, sat to his left and right. Several maidservants holding wine pots poured wine for them individually.
The senior sisters of the Dance Club danced wildly like golden snakes, accompanied by exotic dance music.
Golden light radiated around them. Illusory dancer avatars leaped into the air and came to dance gracefully by the guests’ sides.
More and more illusions appeared: goddess-like fairies rising and falling in the sky, galloping horses around the venue, and golden dragons shuttling through the clouds.
This was the effect of combining the Music Path and the Dance Path.
Mu Yanxi felt her Elixir Field heat up, and her mana flowed and increased rapidly. In no time, she reached the peak of the 19th Layer of Qi Refining, about to break through to the 20th layer.
And it wasn’t just her. The maidservants attending the guests let out soft cries, their bodies erupting with powerful auras as they broke through one after another.
Even Bai Ying beside her instantly broke through to the 19th layer, and Lei Mulan also broke through to the 16th layer.
“Good! Excellent! The Spiritual Moon Palace’s dance music is truly unmatched in the world, living up to its reputation!”
Lin Haochen clapped and said. For banquet dance music like this, they usually used the number of maidservants who broke through on the spot as a standard—the more breakthroughs, the higher the level of the dance music.
“Young Master Lin flatters us. They still have much room for improvement.”
The Headmaster laughed with great pride. She felt honored by the praise of her disciples, especially with so many breaking through on the spot, which made her feel even more glorious.
This was actually because there were nearly a hundred First Year Key Class disciples present. They had just recently advanced to Qi Refining, had encountered the Great Sect’s deeper cultivation methods, and were in the midst of rapid cultivation progress.
Each one was a little genius. The effect of group breakthroughs looked even more impressive than that of the second- and third-year senior sisters.
This was a dance that could benefit even golden core and Nascent Soul Stage elders. The combination of dance and music multiplied the assisted cultivation effect geometrically.
For a Qi Refining small fry like Mu Yanxi, she felt the spiritual energy in her body surging like rivers and seas.
“Whoa!”
Mu Yanxi covered her mouth. Crying out from the intense pleasure of breakthrough would indeed be unseemly. Combined with the ingredients she had eaten earlier, her realm instantly broke through to the 20th Layer of Qi Refining.
As someone who had experienced this before, Mu Yanxi had a clear understanding of her mana strength. From the moment she advanced to the 20th Layer of Qi Refining, her mana had already reached the standard of the middle foundation establishment stage.
Although it was the weakest tier of middle foundation establishment stage—equivalent to those who only pursued cultivation speed with no mana quality or magic combat divine abilities, and used Elixirs to cheat their way through bottlenecks—it was still truly at the level of middle foundation establishment.
Moreover, Mu Yanxi had a feeling that if she wanted to, she could enter foundation establishment stage at any time.
A true advancement to foundation establishment stage.
Although it was already possible before, it was unstable, requiring closed-door meditation, adjusting breathing and qi, and a series of preparations before breakthrough.
Now it was different.
Mu Yanxi had a very clear feeling that if she tried to circulate her energy and break through now, she would almost certainly advance to foundation establishment stage, easily and without any difficulty.
After all, her mana had already reached the middle foundation establishment level.
Mu Yanxi had heard in her past life that before the invention of the Foundation Establishment Pill, cultivators would cultivate to the 13th Layer of Qi Refining great perfection and then attempt to break through to foundation establishment stage on their own.
The probability of successfully breaking through back then was extremely low, nearly one in a hundred.
Moreover, every time a breakthrough failed, mana would plummet, requiring cultivation back to the peak before attempting again.
But Qi Refining lifespan was only a little over a hundred years, and countless cultivators never broke through to foundation establishment in their lifetime, dying with regret at the 13th layer.
Later, some pill refining master invented the Foundation Establishment Pill.
The Foundation Establishment Pill could be taken at the 7th Layer of Qi Refining, giving a probability of directly advancing to foundation establishment stage, and the higher the layer, the higher the breakthrough probability.
Moreover, the Foundation Establishment Pill had no upper limit on consumption.
Even a cultivator with extremely poor talent could be forcibly pulled from the 7th Layer to the 13th Layer with about twenty pills, until they broke through to foundation establishment.
Such powerful effects earned the Foundation Establishment Pill the reputation of “Ascension Pill.” The old method of self-cultivation breakthrough was directly abandoned, and one could forcibly break through using the pill after reaching the 7th Layer of Qi Refining.
Mu Yanxi’s Hundred Day Foundation Establishment in her past life came from this.
And the materials for the Foundation Establishment Pill were cheap.
Although for itinerant cultivators, getting a single Foundation Establishment Pill seemed extremely difficult, that was only for those without backing.
In reality, for the sects, Foundation Establishment Pills were not precious. Gathering materials, one could refine hundreds or even thousands at a time, and they could even sell some to itinerant cultivators.
Thus, gradually, the ancient method of foundation breakthrough was completely abandoned. Even the once-precious breakthrough methods and experiences vanished into the river of history.
To the point where later many cultivators even believed that without the Foundation Establishment Pill, it was impossible to break through to foundation establishment, never considering how high-level cultivators existed before the pill.
Unexpectedly, in this world of extremely advanced Immortal Way Technology, the ancient method of foundation breakthrough had become mainstream again.
Not only was it easy to achieve, but one even had to deliberately control oneself not to break through, otherwise one couldn’t perform infinite qi refining.