Twenty days later.
Luo Chen sat alone in the quiet chamber, gazing at the Attribute Panel with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
[Foundation Establishment Second Layer 26/100]
The progress had advanced by a full two points.
This was not the Harmony Qi Pill's accomplishment alone. During the latter nine days, he had switched to the Rising Dragon Pill.
"Previously, without taking pills and relying entirely on my own cultivation, supplemented by the Second-Order Low-Grade Cave Mansion, I gained twenty-two progress points in a year."
"That was roughly two progress points every forty days."
"Now, with the support of Tier 2 Pills, my cultivation speed has precisely doubled."
"If nothing goes wrong along the way, at this cultivation speed, I will need roughly a thousand years to reach Foundation Establishment Great Perfection."
This conclusion
left Luo Chen both delighted and disappointed.
He was delighted because he had indeed found a way to improve his cultivation speed.
He was disappointed because the increase was simply too small.
Double?
For those Heaven's Pride with exceptional aptitude, that would already count as an enormous improvement.
But for him, it was still far from enough.
With a sigh,
Luo Chen put away his disappointment and made himself feel invigorated.
"At least I can see hope!"
A doubled cultivation speed was truly no small matter.
Moreover, he still had plenty of room to improve.
For now, he was more concerned with the effects of the two pills.
"The Harmony Qi Pill truly deserves to be a specialty of the Medicine King Sect. Its medicinal nature is upright and gentle, and it contains relatively little Pill Poison. Its sole flaw is that the medicinal power it provides after refinement is slightly inferior to the Rising Dragon Pill."
This judgment had not come from intuition.
It was