Five years!
They were five years of his realm soaring at high speed! Even without the aid of pills, his improvement had been terrifyingly fast, placing him among the very top tier even among Dual Spiritual Roots.
Just the Dual Placement Slots alone had increased his spiritual power by ninety thousand strands—in other words, a full 90 drops of True Essence. Added to that, his own bitter cultivation had also increased it by 12 drops.
It was now the sixth month of the fifth year of his career as a deacon.
At the Foundation Establishment Second Layer, his True Essence reserves had reached 132 drops. Even within the second layer, he had already walked no short distance, and was no longer newly entered into the realm. Once he reached three hundred drops, he could break through to the Foundation Establishment Third Layer.
Only when he cultivated to five hundred drops would he face the first checkpoint of the Foundation Establishment Stage: "Condensing Essence"!
At present, the arrangement of the Placement Slots was as follows.
[Placement Slot 1: Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Art] [Placement Slot 2: Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Art] "Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Art (33/100): forty-eight cycles a day, twenty years to completion." [Placement Slot 3: Grand Yin Nether Eye (Second Tier)] "Grand Yin Nether Eye (100/100): nothing further to derive" [Placement Slot 4: Frost Moon Wings] "Frost Moon Wings (20/100): twelve cycles a day, eight years to completion." [Placement Slot 5: Corpse Demon Secret Art (being completed ↑)] "Corpse Demon Secret Art (50/100): one thousand four hundred and forty cycles a day, Ten Years to completion."
As for cultivation methods.
After the Cold Blood Ascending Spirit Art reached perfection, it had activated the effect of improving aptitude again, and was already no longer of use.
Meanwhile, the Heavenly