Little Spring Mountain.
Zhou Yi took out a bottle of Azure Sun Pills and poured them all into his mouth.
The pills transformed into surging spiritual qi, which the Five Elements Scripture refined into wisps of mana.
Azure Sun Pills were mid-grade pills, somewhat beneath the standards of a Foundation Establishment True Person. Yet swallowing entire bottles like this allowed Zhou Yi's mana to rise steadily every day.
"Cultivation is the root of everything. As long as I have enough pills, I can advance to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage in thirty to fifty years."
Zhou Yi slowly finished his cultivation, and his body instantly sank more than twenty zhang underground. After diligently practicing the Five Elements Escape Technique, he could now wield it as freely as his own limbs, though the circulation of the five elements still had certain constraints.
Little Spring Mountain stood over forty zhang tall, and Zhou Yi's location was roughly at the mountain's midpoint.
Several Lesser Five Elements Formations overlapped to conceal the place. Unless a master of formations stood at the pinnacle, no one could break the restriction in a short time.
Within the formations lay a medicinal field over two zhang high and four to five zhang across, planted with all manner of wood-element spiritual herbs.
As usual, Zhou Yi used the Jade Dew Art to gather Creation Jade Dew and ripen them. Quite a few herbs in the field were already over two hundred years old; whether eaten raw or refined into pills, they could increase mana.
"The Jade Slip contains the True Essence Pill formula, suitable for Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators. But the four arts of cultivation are even more precious than cultivation methods. Unless I hand over a Foundation Establishment Pill, I shouldn't even think about it for now. Still, I