4: Chapter 4 Foundation Establishment Successful!

On the Tianxuan Continent, the grades of Cultivation Technique are divided from low to high into four major ranks: Yellow, Profound, Earth, and Heaven. Each major rank is further divided into three minor grades: Low Grade, Middle Grade, and High Grade.

The Heaven Rank Cultivation Technique before him, though only a Low Grade, was the first Heaven Rank Cultivation Technique Su Fan had ever seen in his life.

He hadn't expected that as soon as Senior made a move, she would produce a legendary gold-tier spirit furnace, and on top of that, a Heaven Rank Cultivation Technique. It was truly terrifying!

Su Fan immediately glanced at the Pill Formula and saw it written: "Grade 4 Medicinal Pill: chi yan rejuvenation pill. Required Materials: one core of a Grade 4 Yao Beast chi yan beast, twelve portions of Heavenly Maiden Flower, one portion of Ice Sun Tianshan Snow Lotus, and one portion of Hui Chun Powder!"

After reading the Pill Formula, Su Fan was left speechless.

He couldn't get his hands on any of these things...

Let alone in this cliff cave, even in the Jianren Sect, he couldn't refine this Grade 4 Medicinal Pill even if he asked his Revered Master to help...

Wasn't this effectively demanding his life?

Thinking of this, Su Fan packed everything into his Storage Pouch, walked into the cave, and said to the woman in purple: "Senior, I'm afraid I cannot refine the Grade 4 Medicinal Pill you require..."

Ji Yao glanced at him indifferently and then tossed him a Storage Pouch.

When Su Fan saw the Storage Pouch, he was immediately astonished. This was a 100,000-Ox Pouch!

The one he currently used was still a 100-Ox Pouch.

The capacity of a Storage Pouch was measured in oxen; one that could hold one hundred oxen was called a 100-Ox Pouch, and one that could hold a thousand was called a 1,000-Ox Pouch.

A 100,000-Ox Pouch meant it could hold one hundred thousand oxen.

He hadn't expected to obtain another 100,000-Ox Pouch. This time, Su Fan didn't rush to celebrate; instead, he reached into the Storage Pouch and took out everything inside.

Fortunately, his knowledge of alchemy was quite comprehensive, and he recognized all these items.

"Thirty cores of chi yan beasts, five hundred portions of Heavenly Maiden Flower, twenty portions of Ice Sun Tianshan Snow Lotus..."

There was no Hui Chun Powder.

Hui Chun Powder was a Grade 3 Medicinal Pill.

Since there was no Hui Chun Powder, did that mean he had to refine it first?

Thinking of this, Su Fan took a quick look at the woman in purple: "Senior, do you mean... that I should reach the Foundation Establishment stage within ten days, then refine the Hui Chun Powder, and finally refine the chi yan rejuvenation pill?"

He had the Materials to refine the Hui Chun Powder—ten portions, in fact. Because whenever his Revered Master refined Grade 3 Medicinal Pills, he would always be asked to prepare the Materials, and he would secretly stash some away for his own use each time.

Perhaps the beautiful Senior before him had seen that he had the Materials for the Hui Chun Powder, which was why she hadn't provided them.

Of course, it was also possible that she simply didn't have those Materials.

While Su Fan was thinking about this, Ji Yao glanced at him sideways and said coldly: "You guessed correctly. However, I will state this beforehand as a warning: if you cannot achieve a Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment within ten days, and cannot refine the chi yan rejuvenation pill within a month, I... will not spare you!!"

Su Fan knew her temper and strength, so other than nodding, he dared not ask anything more.

If he asked one more question, he might die right now...

Although he did not fear death within the simulation, based on his years of experience reading and writing web novels, he deduced that things obtained in the simulation might also be obtainable in reality. Therefore, even if he were to die, dying in a month was better than dying right now; after all, it was possible to gain more things in reality.

He stopped overthinking, picked up the Heaven Rank Low Grade Cultivation Technique, the Qiankun Spirit Gathering Art, and began to practice...

He sat cross-legged, formed hand seals, focused his gaze on his nose, his nose on his heart, and slowly guided his Divine Sense into his Dantian and Qi Sea...

Half an hour later, a massive surge of Spiritual Qi poured into his Dantian and Qi Sea like a vast ocean. This Spiritual Qi was so immense that he couldn't digest it in time, sweat beaded on his forehead, and for a moment, he was at a loss for what to do...

"If you cannot absorb that much at once, then don't absorb so much. Compared to ordinary Cultivation Techniques, the amount of Spiritual Qi the Qiankun Spirit Gathering Art can absorb is countless times greater. Don't be foolish and get yourself burst to death..."

Hearing the guidance from the Senior beside him, Su Fan finally understood the power of the Qiankun Spirit Gathering Art.

If the amount of Spiritual Qi absorbed each time by the Jianren Sect's Cultivation Technique was labeled as unit 1, then the unit absorbed each time by the Qiankun Spirit Gathering Art was at least 1000...

Which meant that practicing this Heaven Rank Cultivation Technique made his cultivation speed 1000 times faster than his peers!

Terrifying, truly terrifying!

...

[With this Heaven Rank Cultivation Technique, you became obsessed with cultivation, forgetting to eat and sleep.]

[On the first day, you made a Breakthrough from Qi Refining Stage 3 to Qi Refining Layer 4.]

[On the second day, you made a Breakthrough from Qi Refining Layer 4 to Qi Refining Layer 5.]

[On the third day, you did not make a Breakthrough. You noticed she was coughing up blood again, but you only looked at her with concern, not daring to ask anything.]

[On the fifth day, you finally made a Breakthrough to Qi Refining Layer 6.]

[On the seventh day, you made a Breakthrough to Qi Refining Layer 7. You noticed she was coughing up blood again. You couldn't help it and asked with concern: "Senior, are you alright? How about I refine some Medicinal Pills to help you recuperate first?"]

[This time, she wasn't as cold as before. Instead, she sighed slightly and said: "The injury I sustained cannot be healed by ordinary Medicinal Pills; only that chi yan rejuvenation pill will be useful. Hurry and make a Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment. Only by reaching Foundation Establishment will you have enough Mental Energy to refine the Hui Chun Powder..."]

[On the eighth day, you made a Breakthrough to Qi Refining Layer 8.]

[On the ninth day, you made a Breakthrough to Qi Refining Layer 9.]

[On the tenth day, you did not complete the Foundation Establishment.]

...

"Foundation Establishment failure?"

"You took the foundation establishment pill, and the Foundation Establishment still failed?"

Su Fan was struck by lightning on the spot. He hadn't expected that even after taking the foundation establishment pill, the Foundation Establishment would still fail...

What on earth was going on?

Didn't the foundation establishment pill have a 99% chance of success!?

How could it be like this!

This was a foundation establishment pill he had refined with his own hands; the Medicinal Pill couldn't possibly be the problem!

Could it be his own Physique?

At this moment, a jade-like palm quietly reached Su Fan's chest...

Su Fan was shocked and shouted: "Senior!! I really tried my best, please show mercy, Senior!!!"

Ji Yao glanced coldly at Su Fan and said: "What are you panicking about? I am just checking your Physique to see where the problem lies..."

If it weren't for the fact that the Cold Ice Bone-Melting Palm would flare up in a month and destroy her body, and that she couldn't even use 10% of her strength right now, she wouldn't have pinned her hopes on the youth before her...

Sigh, that damned Ice Old Ghost!

If I can heal my body in a month, I will definitely make you pay the price!

Seeing the youth in panic, she spoke while guiding her Divine Sense into the youth's body, checking his Meridians, Dantian, and Qi Sea...

Then, she struck a palm onto the area below Su Fan's chest.

Just as Su Fan felt pain throughout his whole body and was about to faint from the pain...

Rumble!

A surge of Spiritual Qi, even more massive than before, poured into his Qi Sea like a thunderclap!

He didn't care about anything else and quickly began refining it. As he refined it rapidly, the Spiritual Qi formed something like a torrential rain, and the "Spirit Liquid" pattered and swept through his Dantian, like water flooding the Golden Mountain...

The volume of his Dantian increased several times over!

"This is... Foundation Establishment!?"