Half a month later.
Inside the cave.
Lin Chang’an entered ditation, adjusting his essence, energy, and spirit. The surge of mana from the Chang Chun Skill was gathering in his dantian.
"Foundation Establishnt at fifty-four! Chang Chun Skill! Three Foundation Establishnt Pills, ninety-five percent chance of success!"
Lin Chang’an opened his eyes, revealing a calm expression, without a hint of hesitation. With a wave of his hand, the Tier Two Concentrating Spirit Incense in front of him was lit.
"Gulp!"
A top-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill was swallowed into his stomach, and Lin Chang’an embraced the return to origin, closing his eyes to begin the breakthrough to Foundation Establishnt.
First barrier, physical body!
When breaking through to Foundation Establishnt, physical defects, lack of vitality, or due to aging can all have an impact.
Fortunately, Lin Chang’an hadn’t fought demon beasts these years. Coupled with the nourishnt of the Chang Chun Skill, there weren’t many hidden injuries internally.
"At this mont, the advantage of the Chang Chun Skill becos evident."
Lin Chang’an sat cross-legged on the jade ditation mat, the dicinal power of the Foundation Establishnt Pill was unleashed, while his body also unrestrainedly absorbed the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy from outside.
Mana inside his body beca a continuous flood, washing through him.
His skin flushed red, and his veins were bearing the rampant mana.
Second barrier, mana.
His cultivation over the years had been a steady, step-by-step process.
Especially with a solid foundation, using the Chang Chun Skill which is renowned for its strong fundantals.
If Qi Refining mana is gaseous, then Foundation Establishnt cultivator’s is liquid.
This is also the key to Foundation Establishnt, the qualitative transformation of mana.
If too many elixirs were consud before, it could lead to impure mana.
"My Supre Realm Chang Chun Skill is famous for its purity, though I’ve taken elixirs to advance my cultivation, the problem is minor!"
Lin Chang’an gritted his teeth. Each wash of mana inside his body was like the waves removing sand, clearing out impurities, and at this mont, so impurities were gradually appearing on his body surface.
With the constant operation of surging mana, the prelude of solid transformation began to erge.
Third barrier, spiritual sense.
Both rampant mana and qualitative transformation require spiritual sense to perform the final control and compression, completing the final transformation.
Though his spiritual sense might be average, aided by pure mana and the top-grade Foundation Establishnt Pill, mane within his body was relatively easy to control.
Mist-like mana in his dantian spun swiftly, becoming more concentrated, combining essence, energy, and spirit — forming the final qualitative change.
Spiritual sense controlled compressed mana.
Mana was full of montum.
The physical body functioned smoothly, perfectly enduring everything.
Finally, transformation began!
[Realm: Qi Refining Ninth Layer 1 (98/100)]
At this mont, under Lin Chang’an’s tightly knit brows, the Qi Refining Ninth Layer experience on the attributes panel, at the instant of mana’s transformation, turned into 98.
Tick!
Ti had passed unknowingly, Lin Chang’an could clearly sense within his dantian, the ergence of the first drop of pure liquid mana.
With the appearance of the first drop, the second and third drops also began slowly coalescing.
Just as Lin Chang’an was breaking through, spiritual energy outside the cave was suddenly swept away, but in this place, Celestial Profound City, the abundant rich spiritual energy continuously poured in with the array.
People outside exclaid: "Look, soone is breaking through to Foundation Establishnt again."
The spiritual energy in Celestial Profound City, even if one hundred people reach Foundation Establishnt wouldn’t be affected, rely a slight disturbance in nearby Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.
...
Yet inside the cave, Lin Chang’an remained with furrowed brows, gritting his teeth.
"Weakness in montum!"
[Realm: Qi Refining Ninth Layer (99/100)]
Exactly stuck at the last step, Lin Chang’an gritted his teeth, without panic, he directly consud the second Foundation Establishnt Pill.
At this mont, he finally understood why spirit roots were divided into different grades.
"The grade of spirit roots, the speed of cultivation, severely affects the efficiency of qualitative transformation at breakthrough."
If he had a top-grade spirit root, he might have already broken through, but with a low-grade spirit root, Lin Chang’an’s mana transformation obviously slowed, unable to complete entirely.
"The Cloud Jade Scroll ntioned, the mana quality and speed of conversion differ among different grades of spirit roots, and there’s also differences regarding cultivation techniques."
The subtle differences perhaps unnoticed in normal tis beco shackles in crucial breakthroughs.
This is still Lin Chang’an using the Chang Chun Skill, perhaps not outstanding early on, but with deeper cultivation, the purity isn’t lacking.
Even in his Supre Realm Chang Chun Skill, it was enhancing his success rate.
...
Days later!
The spiritual energy vortex gradually dissipated inside Lin Chang’an’s cave, followed by an imposing spiritual pressure of Foundation Establishnt Realm sweeping in.
[Realm: Early Foundation Establishnt (2/100)]
"After thirty years of bitter cultivation, finally reached Foundation Establishnt!"
Inside the cave, Lin Chang’an’s joyful laughter echoed, even culminating in a long shout venting the oppression in his chest.
His path to Foundation Establishnt lacked the tumultuous and legendary experiences of other geniuses in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
It was simply accumulation until everything ca naturally.
Even due to the two top-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills, his excess mana post-Foundation Establishnt slightly advanced his cultivation.
"Now I am terrifyingly strong!"
With a smile full of excitent, Lin Chang’an felt the changes in his body, and finally, he wielded a power for self-preservation in this turbulent Immortal Cultivation Realm.
"Now, as a Foundation Establishnt cultivator, surely I won’t be cannon fodder."
He’s now no longer the ant at Qi Refining Stage, but a strong cultivator at Foundation Establishnt Realm.
In a small place like Cyan Bamboo Mountain Market, he’s sufficient as a presence of Foundation Establishnt Ancestor.
When Lin Chang’an stepped out from the secret chamber, a gust of cold wind swept in, and the scenery of Celestial Profound City left Lin Chang’an in a daze.
He saw outside covered in flying snow, and Celestial Profound City cloaked in a layer of silver frost.
"Congratulations, senior, on confirming the Foundation Establishnt Dao, immortal paths are evergreen."
As he ca out, the steward in charge of this place, in late-stage Qi Refining, approached with a smile full of envy, skillfully expressing the congratulatory wishes.
"How long have I been in seclusion?"
Lin Chang’an was dumbfounded, looking at the changing world. He rembered it was autumn’s chill before seclusion, and now it had beco a snowy world.
While dazed, a sense of the cave being one day, but thousands of years on Earth, ca over him.
"In reply to senior, it has been two months and twenty-seven days since you entered seclusion."
Nearly three months!
Lin Chang’an sighed deeply in his heart, this is the life of a cultivator.
The Qi Refining Stage still falls within a normal scope, just superior to ordinary people, but post-Foundation Establishnt, the world seems different.
Even the simplest seclusion, he experienced the disparity of immortal and mortal.
Foundation Establishnt cultivators’ seclusion could be months, or years.
"So much ti has passed."
Lin Chang’an threw two spirit stones to the person, instantly eliciting a smiling bow of gratitude from the steward:
"Thank you for your kindness, senior."
Despite being the first to congratulate him, Lin Chang’an chuckled gently, nodded, and with a breeze underfoot, directly headed towards Yun Yao’s cave.
After all, this success in Foundation Establishnt, Yun Yao had greatly assisted, not only with concocting Foundation Establishnt Pill and previously guaranteeing the purchase of the array.
Especially the insights during Foundation Establishnt, they were invaluable.
...
"Successful Foundation Establishnt!"
Nearby people, after Lin Chang’an left, ca forward to inquire, followed by expressions of envy and longing.
Naturally, jealousy was inevitable.
"At fifty-four, a Tier One Upper Grade Talisman Master, it’s fitting for him to succeed in Foundation Establishnt."
"Indeed, unlike us ordinary loose cultivators who lack such fortune."
A group of loose cultivators spoke among themselves, being fifty-four at Foundation Establishnt isn’t surprising. There’s a rumor that Master Lu the Black Tortoise reached Foundation Establishnt at an old age.
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