Chapter 435 - 324: Peak of Foundation Establishment
At this moment, Fang Yun was refining his second batch of Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pills.
「Two days later.」
The second batch of Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pills was finally complete.
"Just as I expected, no wasted pills." Fang Yun looked at the eight freshly refined Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pills in his hand. "Three Middle Grade, five Lower Grade. Not bad at all."
Fang Yun was quite satisfied with his results in refining the Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pills.
The better he refined pills and the like, the greater the benefit for the sect—and for himself.
This all contributed to his accumulation of Life Talent Points.
From refining his first Third Tier pill, the Five Qi Chao Ling Pill, Fang Yun had already understood the difference in the Talent Point multiplier between grades.
A Middle Grade Second Tier pill gave eighty percent more Talent Points than a Lower Grade one.
A single Lower Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pill provided a base of 1,800 Talent Points, while a Middle Grade one provided a base of 4,500.
The Middle Grade provided one and a half times more points than the Lower Grade.
When compared directly, the total multiplier between them was 2.5.
An Upper Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pill provided even more.
A single Upper Grade Five Qi Chao Ling Pill could provide a full 18,000 base Talent Points, which was four times that of a Middle Grade one.
If the current Fang Yun could refine an Upper Grade Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pill, the Talent Points he’d receive would be ten times that of a Lower Grade one.
The multiplier gap between grades varied for pills of different tiers, with the gap widening as the tier increased from low to high.
However, Fang Yun had yet to figure out the exact pattern of this increase.
From Tier One to Second Tier, and from Second Tier to Third Tier, Fang Yun couldn’t see any discernible numerical pattern. He only knew that the rate of increase was growing larger and larger.
If this trend continued to Tier Four pills, the gap in Talent Points between a Lower Grade and an Upper Grade pill of the same type would be even larger.
’Senior Sister must have left by now.’
After leaving the Alchemy Room, Fang Yun saw a message left on the table.
If Bai Qinying hadn’t come out of the Artifact Refining Room by this point, it would mean she had encountered a major problem while refining her Lifebound Magical Treasure.
With the two batches of Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pills refined, Fang Yun needed to make a trip to Song Qiaoqiao’s residence.
Song Qiaoqiao was the Management Elder of Dan Cloud Peak, so he had to submit the Third Tier pills he refined to her.
While submitting them, he could also take the opportunity to share some of his experiences refining the Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pills; perhaps Song Qiaoqiao could use them in the future.
Even if she wasn’t refining Third Tier pills, learning from his experience could still be helpful for her own Second Tier alchemy.
After personally refining the Three-Rib Rejuvenating Pills, Fang Yun felt increasingly confident about refining the Golden Core Pills next.
According to the latest news he’d received, he would be able to get the Spirit Medicines for refining the Golden Core Pill in June of next year.
At that time, he could begin refining the Golden Core Pill.
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「The following year.」
「Mid-February.」
At this moment, Fang Yun was in his Cultivation Room, completing the final stage of his cultivation at the Late-stage of Foundation Establishment.
He hadn’t taken an Upper Grade Primordial Spirit Pill. But now that his Spirit Root had been cleansed, he could still achieve a very decent cultivation speed by relying solely on the high concentration of Spiritual Power from the Cultivation Room’s Gathering Spirit Array.
The Liquid Spiritual Power in his Qi Sea had accumulated to ninety percent capacity.
The eighth Fire Lotus had already formed in Fang Yun’s Qi Sea.
’The peak of the Late-stage of Foundation Establishment.’
The moment the new Fire Lotus formed, Fang Yun stopped his cultivation.
His cultivation could not advance any further for now. To continue accumulating Liquid Spiritual Power, he had to break through the Late-stage of Foundation Establishment and enter the Peak of Foundation Establishment.
Fang Yun stopped cultivating and first went to change the sign on his residence.
He was about to enter seclusion.
He would, of course, attempt his breakthrough to the Peak of Foundation Establishment in his Cultivation Room.
He refilled the Gathering Spirit Array with Spirit Stones and reactivated it at full power. In an environment with a high concentration of Spiritual Qi, the probability of a breakthrough would also be slightly higher.
To prepare for his breakthrough to the Peak of Foundation Establishment, Fang Yun prepared an Upper Grade Purple Essence Pill for himself, as well as a Middle Grade one.
The Middle Grade Purple Essence Pill probably wouldn’t be needed.
He kept it on hand just in case one Upper Grade Purple Essence Pill wasn’t enough for him to break through to the Peak of Foundation Establishment.
This was Fang Yun’s first breakthrough after having his Spirit Root cleansed.
At this moment, Fang Yun wasn’t nervous; he was actually a little excited.
Neither nervousness nor excitement was conducive to a breakthrough. It was vital to keep one’s mind as calm as still water.
Fang Yun adjusted his state of mind and took one last deep breath.
His mind was now calm.
’Time to break through to the Peak of Foundation Establishment!’
In the center of the Gathering Spirit Array within his Cultivation Room, Fang Yun sat cross-legged with his eyes closed. He had already begun to circulate the portion of his Nine Fire Lotus Technique—the Mental Method for breaking through to the Peak of Foundation Establishment.
Within the Foundation Establishment Stage, the breakthrough from the pinnacle of the Late-stage to the true Peak of Foundation Establishment was naturally the most difficult.
But not for Fang Yun.
Because when he broke through to the Late-stage of Foundation Establishment, his Spirit Root had not yet been cleansed.
He had only just begun the breakthrough, but Fang Yun could already feel the difference now that his Spirit Root was cleansed.
Circulating his Mental Method had been relatively slow during previous breakthroughs. Now, he could clearly feel how much smoother it was.
The benefit of this was that it shortened the time needed for the breakthrough.
As time went on, Fang Yun methodically proceeded with his breakthrough, eventually reaching the most critical moment.
He immediately consumed the Upper Grade Purple Essence Pill he had set aside.
The medicinal power of the Upper Grade Purple Essence Pill spread throughout his body.
Fang Yun quickly mobilized the pill’s medicinal power, using its help to continuously assault the bottleneck between the pinnacle of Late-stage Foundation Establishment and the Peak of Foundation Establishment.
Only half of the Upper Grade Purple Essence Pill’s medicinal power had been consumed when Fang Yun broke through the bottleneck.
In the past, at this stage, he would have had to make many attempts to succeed.
Now, the number of attempts had dropped dramatically.
The moment he broke through the bottleneck, his aura began to change. At the same time, a large amount of Spiritual Qi surged into his body, rapidly converting into Spiritual Power and becoming part of the Liquid Spiritual Power in his Qi Sea.
The Liquid Spiritual Power still filled ninety percent of his Qi Sea, but the quality of the Spiritual Power was now continuously rising.
「A long time later.」
Only when the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the Cultivation Room had returned to normal did Fang Yun slowly open his eyes.
By now, the transformation of his aura was complete.
Peak of Foundation Establishment!
Next was to go from the Peak of Foundation Establishment to the *true* Peak of Foundation Establishment.
Just as the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining was called the Peak of Qi Refining—signaling a cultivator could begin Foundation Establishment—Fang Yun’s current state was similar. Reaching the Peak of Foundation Establishment was the threshold to attempt the breakthrough to the Core Formation Stage.
Even without further accumulation, a cultivator at the Peak of Foundation Establishment could attempt Core Formation, but their chances of success would be much lower.
Typically, a cultivator at the Peak of Foundation Establishment would cultivate to the *true* Peak of Foundation Establishment before attempting to break through to the Core Formation Stage.
There were also cultivators at the Peak of Foundation Establishment whose Life Spans weren’t long enough to wait. They had to take a desperate gamble and attempt the breakthrough before reaching the *true* Peak.
Fang Yun was not yet one hundred and eight years old; he was still a long way from his Life Span running out.
’I’ve reached the Peak of Foundation Establishment. The next goal is to cultivate to the *true* Peak of Foundation Establishment within twenty years. If possible, I should try to break through to the Core Formation Stage before I’m one hundred and thirty.’
In his heart, Fang Yun set the next goal for his cultivation.
At the Peak of Foundation Establishment, he only needed to accumulate another ten percent of Spiritual Power. But the quality of this ten percent was on a completely different level compared to before, so accumulating it would take a considerable amount of time.
If the quality of Spiritual Qi at the Peak of Foundation Establishment were the same as in the Late-stage, Fang Yun would absolutely be able to cultivate to the *true* Peak of Foundation Establishment in less than ten years.
The moment he left the Cultivation Room, Fang Yun immediately summoned his Magical Treasure-level Earth Yellow Sword.
Back when he was in the Late-stage of Foundation Establishment, he could already unleash the full power of the Earth Yellow Sword as an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact; its basic power limit had been reached. Now that he had broken through to the Peak of Foundation Establishment, its power wouldn’t have changed, assuming his Combat Talent hadn’t been upgraded.
What *did* change was the Spiritual Power consumption.
Thanks to the higher quality of his Spiritual Power at the Peak of Foundation Establishment, he would undoubtedly consume less of it.
The Magical Treasure-level Earth Yellow Sword, however, was a different story.
At the Peak of Foundation Establishment, he could draw out even more of the Magical Treasure’s power. On top of that, with the boost from his Combat Talent, the might of the Earth Yellow Sword under his control would rise to another level.
With his realm breakthrough, his power had once again soared.