But she hadn’t yet completed the baptism with the Abyssal Ghoul Blossom or established a connection.
“I just had a breakthrough in Foundation Establishment, and I somehow knew the Cultivation Technique could bring me back to my youth, preserving my youthfulness, so I thought about becoming younger,” Lu Miaoyun said somewhat sheepishly.
After all, she was already fifty years old, yet she passed herself off as a young girl.
But she indeed had her ulterior motives.
She didn’t want to appear older than her husband, Lu Changsheng.
So she decided to fix her appearance at eighteen, the age when she first met Lu Changsheng.
“So, does that mean when I achieve Foundation Establishment breakthrough in the future, I can do the same?” Qu Zhenzhen spoke up.
Though she wasn’t particularly concerned about her current look,
seeing Lu Miaoyun’s situation sparked an interest in her.
“Of course, you can,” Lu Miaoyun said with a smile.
After a brief chat, Lu Changsheng turned to his wife and asked, “Yun’er, did you notice any changes after your Foundation Establishment breakthrough?”
He was sure his wife had successfully achieved Foundation Establishment.
But he felt that the way she raised her Dao Platform and shed her mortal shell was different from other cultivators.
So he wanted to know what the difference was between a breakthrough in Foundation Establishment using the Heavenly Longevity Technique and a normal Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
“Husband, when I had my Foundation Establishment breakthrough, it wasn’t as you mentioned, rising the Dao Platform within the Elixir Lake and shedding my mortal shell, but rather a Tao Foundation Seed congealed in the Elixir Lake,” Lu Miaoyun voice explained.
“A Tao Foundation Seed? Let me see,” Lu Changsheng, raising his eyebrows in surprise, said.
He immediately took Lu Miaoyun’s wrist and checked her condition with his Divine Sense.
The first thing Lu Changsheng felt was that Lu Miaoyun’s body didn’t resemble that of a typical Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
A normal Foundation Establishment Cultivator, even one with an ordinary Dao Foundation who hadn’t practiced Body Refinement, would still have a physique not far behind a usual martial artist or a Body Refining Cultivator after undergoing the baptism and shedding the mortal shell.
But Lu Miaoyun’s physical body was still very fragile, akin to that of an Energy Refining Cultivator.
However, her mana, flesh, and bones carried a rich life essence.
“Is this why the Heavenly Longevity Technique grants much longer life spans than other cultivators at the same level? Discarding all offensive and defensive means, everything is for the sake of longevity,” Lu Changsheng murmured to himself.
Although he had known about the general effects of the Heavenly Longevity Technique, he hadn’t fully understood it.
But now, through Lu Miaoyun’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough, he gained a deep understanding of the cultivation technique’s description about discarding combat capabilities.
Whether it was mana or the physical body, everything was geared towards living longer.
It seemed that this was also why Lu Miaoyun, after her breakthrough, had the effect of returning to her youth, preserving her youthfulness permanently.
His Divine Sense continued the investigation, focusing on Lu Miaoyun’s Qi Ocean Core.
Inside the Elixir Lake, there was a thumb-sized seed, semi-liquid and semi-solid, wrapped in a greenish-blue golden hue.
This seed was exuding a rich stream of life essence, circulating through Lu Miaoyun’s mana, limbs, and organs.
Constantly nourishing her flesh, muscles, bones, and internal organs.
“This is the Tao Foundation Seed of the Heavenly Longevity Technique?”
Lu Changsheng examined the seed.
From it, he sensed an aura of the Luminous Treasure Tree, as if this were a seed from the Luminous Treasure Tree.
However, he could tell that this was not a real plant seed.
It was something between a seed and a Dao Foundation.
“Yun’er has the Luminous Treasure Tree as her Life-bound Spiritual Root, so the Tao Foundation Seed she congealed is of the same root and origin as the Luminous Treasure Tree,” Lu Changsheng’s brows furrowed slightly, though he saw no issue.
He just found the situation to be quite rare.
“With the Tao Foundation being a seed during Foundation Establishment, what will the True Elixir be like after Core Formation?” Lu Changsheng thought to himself.
He then asked Lu Miaoyun what effects and sensations this Tao Foundation Seed brought.
“This seed has an ability called the ‘Luminous Eye.'”
“It allows me to see through illusions, Illusion Techniques, and various concealing methods,” Lu Miaoyun explained.