Eternal Life: Hundredfold Rewards-Chapter 146 - 104: Five Years to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, the Sect Leader’s Sigh!_2

Chapter 146: Chapter 104: Five Years to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, the Sect Leader’s Sigh!_2

A vast amount of alchemical understanding surged into his mind, and only after a moment did he finish absorbing it.

Qi Chuan closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again.

"Once more!"

After a brief meditation, Qi Chuan began to refine another batch of spirit grass materials for the Yellow Dragon Pill.

After half a day’s work, six dragon-eye-sized, perfectly round, pale yellow elixirs floated within the Black Peak Tripod, exuding a faintly miraculous scent.

This was the Yellow Dragon Pill.

Before Qi Chuan’s eyes, words began to appear again.

[With Foundation Establishment Divine Sense and careful manipulation of Alchemy Technique, you attempted to condense six Yellow Dragon Pills, triggering a hundredfold critical strike, greatly enhancing your alchemy skills and your control over the flames.]

His proficiency in the Yellow Dragon Pill’s refinement had improved once more!

"Finally, I didn’t waste any materials this time; after all, I only have a few batches available."

With a slight smile, Qi Chuan gestured, and the tripod’s lid opened as the six Yellow Dragon Pills fell into his palm, spinning around effortlessly.

Upon examination, he found two wasted pills and discarded them.

"To have only two wasted pills on my first successful refining attempt is not bad. As I continue to refine more, I’ll surely achieve the goal of all six pills being successful."

Qi Chuan was rather satisfied with the rate of wasted pills.

Four Yellow Dragon Pills were already refined, and for now, Qi Chuan didn’t intend to continue refining.

After tidying up the place, Qi Chuan went to a stone chamber with a bed, where the concentration of Spiritual Qi was at a Tier Two Middle Grade Spirit Vein Level.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Qi Chuan closed his eyes to meditate.

A while later, his mind settled into tranquility.

Then, Qi Chuan opened his eyes, took out a Yellow Dragon Pill, gazed at it for a moment, and swallowed it whole.

He immediately activated the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique.

During this period, while aiming to improve his alchemy skills, Qi Chuan hadn’t completely ignored enhancing his mana cultivation.

After all, the process of alchemy requires sustaining the Innate True Fire, which consumes quite a lot of mana. If Qi Chuan didn’t cultivate and continued with just alchemy, he would run out of mana.

Therefore, every day, he would operate the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique to recover mana and enhance his overall mana.

However, even so, Qi Chuan couldn’t help but lament; the progress was terribly slow, like a crawling turtle.

In reality, with an Eighth Grade Spirit Root, reaching the Foundation Establishment Early Stage is already very challenging.

Moreover, within the Foundation Establishment Realm, even a slight breakthrough can take decades.

Even so, achieving any breakthrough is significant because Foundation Establishment Great Cultivators have a lifespan of about 250 years, and many remain stuck in the Foundation Establishment Early Stage for life, unable to advance to the Middle Stage.

So while Qi Chuan sighed, he could still accept his slow cultivation pace.

He had also tried taking Spirit Cultivation Pills, with the added boost from the Golden Finger’s critical strike, which made things somewhat better.

However, Spirit Cultivation Pills aren’t as effective as Yellow Dragon Pills. Qi Chuan wondered how swiftly his cultivation speed would progress with the Yellow Dragon Pill and an activation of the Golden Finger’s critical strike?

At this time.

The Yellow Dragon Pill within had transformed into a thick surge of medicinal power, spreading through his abdomen and flowing into every part of his body.

This medicinal power would integrate into his flesh.

Unlike most elixirs in the Qi Refining Realm, a single Yellow Dragon Pill takes about three months to completely absorb all its medicinal power.

Within, as he operated the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique, the medicinal power was rapidly being refined.

Concurrently, outside the stone chamber, streams of Spiritual Qi separated from the void, turning into tiny spirals that flowed into Qi Chuan through his breath.

The Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique guided these Spiritual Qi and medicinal power of the Yellow Dragon Pill through unique meridians, converting them into mana.

Soon, a Grand Circulation was completed.

Qi Chuan opened his eyes and saw words appearing in the void before him.

[You operated the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique, absorbing Spiritual Qi and refining medicinal power into your mana, triggering a tenfold critical strike, obtaining tenfold results, with a slight increase in your total mana.]

"Tenfold..."

Watching the words vanish, Qi Chuan introspected his Dantian.

He saw within the Dantian, beside the thirteenth drop of liquid magical power, was a tiny bead of magical power like dewdrops on grass.

Beside this "dew-like" small bead of magical power, there was a thin thread-like liquid magical power.

The former, an accumulation of Qi Chuan’s efforts since entering the Foundation Establishment Early Stage to this point.

The latter, a result of consuming the Yellow Dragon Pill, aided by the Golden Finger’s critical strike stacking.

Seeing this scene, Qi Chuan cautiously guided the thread-like liquid magical power to merge with the "dew-like" small bead.

After manipulation, the small bead of magical power appeared slightly larger.

If it continued to grow, forming a new drop of liquid magical power equal in size to the existing thirteen drops, it would mean that Qi Chuan’s total mana increased by one-thirteenth.

"Although it’s just a hair-thin gain in liquid magical power, it’s not bad. At this rate, in about five years, I should be able to enter the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage?"

After pondering for a moment, Qi Chuan mused in his heart.

Five years to reach the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage!

Such an increase in cultivation speed would likely leave the so-called geniuses of various major sects in shame.

This is the combined effect of the Yellow Dragon Pill, Tier Two Middle Grade Cave Mansion, and the Hundredfold Critical Strike Golden Finger. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"Not bad, very good."

Qi Chuan was naturally very pleased with such a rapid improvement.

"Next, should I continue trying to increase my total mana?"

With this thought, Qi Chuan closed his eyes again and activated the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique once more.

Within the Dantian, his total mana increased continuously.

...

In what seemed like the blink of an eye, a month passed.

On this day, when Qi Chuan opened his eyes, there was a momentary flash of light, making the stone chamber appear brighter.

There was a hint of a smile on Qi Chuan’s face, and confidence shone in his eyes.

Then, he introspected his Dantian.

Within the Dantian, there were now a complete fourteen drops of liquid magical power!

In just a month, he’d managed to refine a new drop of liquid magical power, increasing his total mana by one-thirteenth, a speed that was remarkably quick.

In merely a month; if he continued this pace for a year, wouldn’t he produce twelve new drops of liquid magical power?

Twelve more drops of liquid magical power would nearly double his total mana.

And this was just one year’s achievement, alone.

It proved that Qi Chuan’s plan to reach the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage within five years wasn’t an exaggeration.

"Qi Chuan, are you in the cave mansion?"

At the moment when Qi Chuan was happy with an additional drop of liquid magical power, a voice echoed from outside the cave mansion.

"Master?"

Upon hearing this voice, Qi Chuan looked up, a bit surprised.

At this time, the only one who could come here to find him was his Sect Leader Master; no one else knew he was here.

Immediately, Qi Chuan left the stone chamber and came to greet at the cave mansion entrance.

As the array activated, he saw the figure of his Sect Leader Master, Situ Jiang.

"Qi Chuan, it seems your aura has grown stronger?"

Upon seeing Qi Chuan, Situ Jiang instantly noticed that Qi Chuan’s aura seemed more powerful than before, indicating that Qi Chuan’s total mana likely increased.

"Yes, Master." Qi Chuan didn’t hide anything and spoke directly.

"As expected of you, even within the Foundation Establishment Realm, your talent for cultivation hasn’t waned."

Hearing this, Situ Jiang couldn’t help but shake his head in amazement.

At this moment, even he was somewhat impressed with Qi Chuan’s talent.

He himself had progressed from the Foundation Establishment Early Stage to now achieving Foundation Establishment Perfection, fully aware of how difficult it is to increase mana cultivation within the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Every new drop of liquid magical power requires painstaking effort and sleepless nights of cultivation.

Typical Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot achieve what Qi Chuan did, entering Foundation Establishment Early Stage not long ago, his aura now showing significant improvement again.