Ninety-three days.
"Eighth Level of Qi Refining..."
Ninety-six days.
"Ninth Level of Qi Refining..."
Ninety-eight days.
"Tenth Level of Qi Refining..."
Ever since Li Tianwei had awakened from that strange state, not a single day had passed in rest. His aura had continually risen higher.
In just ten short days, Li Tianwei had leaped from the Fifth Level of Qi Refining to the Tenth Level. At this point, he was only one step away from the Foundation Establishment Realm.
According to the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method, once a person stepped onto the path of cultivation, these hundred days would open the hundred apertures of the human body, allowing Innate Qi to be born.
With Innate Qi within the body, the Dao Embryo nurtured the Dao Body. The remaining breath of Qi was the root from which the Dao Foundation was conceived.
That breath of Innate Qi could flow through the entire body, thoroughly forging the Dao Foundation. It would then completely purge the acquired turbid Qi from the body and forge an immaculate physique.
"Since I've come this far, then let's begin."
Li Tianwei did not care about anything else. In his mind, he possessed a Heavenly Spirit Root, and the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method had also been thoroughly altered into a secret method suited to him.
Li Tianwei now believed that he lacked nothing. Nothing at all.
With that thought, Li Tianwei began to assault his Spiritual Platform while continuously searching for the Innate Qi within his body and opening the hundred apertures of the human body.
At that moment, the Spiritual Platform deep within Li Tianwei's consciousness continuously bloomed with light.
Five-colored spiritual energy gathered and flowed endlessly within it, making the entire Spiritual Platform seem to ripple...
Huff, huff...
No one knew how much time had passed. Li Tianwei breathed deeply, and with every breath, the fervent and utterly violent spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured directly into his body.
Under his actions, the Spirit-Gathering Formation atop Tianmen Peak, originally built from countless Spirit Stones, was already on the verge of collapse.
A terrifying rate of absorption spread outward. Drawn by Li Tianwei, the surrounding spiritual energy poured back toward him in reverse.
The speed was beyond imagination. The surging spiritual energy even formed a vacuum for a time.
Yet even so, it did not stop in the slightest. Although Li Tianwei's Pseudo-Spirit Root had little attraction toward spiritual energy, under the collisions of fission, it formed a chain reaction that continuously spread outward.
A storm thus appeared atop Tianmen Peak. The enormous siphoning phenomenon swallowed all the spiritual energy from the surrounding skies.
Because of the Fission Qi Gathering Method, the chain reaction connected everything.
The strangest part was that Li Tianwei was doing only one thing: fully operating every kind of Explosive Secret Method he knew.
With the support of the Sacrificial Dao Undying Body, Li Tianwei was not afraid of death at all. In fact, aided by these Explosive Secret Methods, he was advancing toward an even higher realm.
At the same time, Li Tianwei's Explosive Secret Methods consumed that frenzied five-colored spiritual energy, desperately drawing it into his body.
Such a transformation was simply unimaginable. How had Li Tianwei managed to reach such a point?
Even Bai Muxu, who was at the Nascent Soul stage, could not peer into it. He could only see dark clouds filling the skies above Tianmen Peak, swirling like a vortex as endless spiritual energy linked together and churned the wind and clouds.
The violent disturbance erupted once more, naturally drawing the attention of all kinds of disciples within Lingxu Sacred Land.
And this moment happened to be the hundredth day since the new disciples had entered the sect.
Watching the commotion at Tianmen Peak, quite a few disciples had already connected it to certain possibilities.
"Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days?"
"That new disciple, Li Tianwei, is about to achieve Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days?"
Shock, fear, and all manner of emotions appeared on the faces of disciples across the various peaks of Lingxu Sacred Land.
As the hundredth day since the new disciples entered Lingxu Sacred Land approached, their Innate Qi had gradually dissipated and been consumed. Along with the increasing difficulty of later realms, many had already become stuck at a certain level, unable to make further progress.
At this moment, the gap between different aptitudes was laid bare. Some were still at the first or second level of Qi Refining, while others had already reached the fifth or sixth level. Those with even greater talent were rumored to be assaulting the Foundation Establishment Realm already.
No, it should be said that they had been assaulting the Foundation Establishment Realm from the moment they entered the sect. The true favored children of heaven all had Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days as their goal.
When they heard of Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days, the new disciples of Lingxu Sacred Land had secretly harbored the same thought. If others could do it, then even if their spirit roots were a little worse, perhaps they could accomplish it through hard work.
Because they had begun cultivating, with Dao Embryos in their bodies and Innate Qi constantly being stimulated, it gave them the feeling that cultivation would surely bring success.
As time passed, most people had already come to their senses. Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days? How could such a thing be possible?
But today, the disturbance at Tianmen Peak had appeared once again, and it was precisely the hundred-day limit. Naturally, everyone connected it to that possibility.
Since Tianmen Peak was a newly established peak, its peak master Bai Muxu had not accepted many disciples. Normally, only menial disciples delivered cultivation resources and materials to Tianmen Peak, so it was impossible to obtain much information.
As a result, there had been no further news of the disciple who had climbed to the top of the Heart-Questioning Stairway. With the busyness of recent days, people had even begun to forget Li Tianwei.
Li Tianwei did not know what anyone else was thinking. Right now, he was focused entirely on Foundation Establishment.
As his Spiritual Platform continuously trembled, Li Tianwei had even forgotten how much spiritual energy he had absorbed.
He had long surpassed the amount of spiritual energy required for Foundation Establishment by the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method. In Li Tianwei's view, it was probably because his aptitude was simply too good, which was why he needed so much spiritual energy.
Above Tianmen Peak, purple light flashed as though thunder serpents were surging.
Rolling dark clouds churned, the vortex hung upside down, and spiritual energy erupted...
A simple Foundation Establishment had caused heaven and earth to boil, as though a heavenly tribulation were descending.
As spiritual energy poured in and battered him, Li Tianwei slowly opened his eyes. At that instant, cold light seemed to flash through them.
As Li Tianwei expelled a breath of turbid Qi, Innate Qi ran through his entire body. All hundred apertures opened, and his innate body had formed.
But this was merely the beginning. Innate Qi surged from all over his body toward the Three Flowers Above the Crown, and his Spiritual Platform became unimpeded.
"Forge the Dao Foundation."
Li Tianwei preserved the Innate Qi as he took the final step of Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days.
Open the Spiritual Platform, transform the Dao Embryo, forge the Dao Foundation, and finally achieve Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days.
Feeling the impact of the spiritual energy, Li Tianwei had no intention of stopping in the slightest and continued to charge forward.
After all his reckless messing around these past days, Li Tianwei's physical constitution had now reached a bizarre state.
Li Tianwei heard only waves of echoes deep within his consciousness. Soon, he sensed the bottleneck blocking him. Gathering Qi once more, he surged straight upward.
Finally, after a crisp sound, his Spiritual Platform blossomed. Before Li Tianwei's eyes, vivid flowers seemed to bloom one after another.
The Three Flowers Above the Crown also became luminous at that moment. Li Tianwei felt his entire body relax, and excitement appeared on his face.
At that instant, the aura around Li Tianwei continuously rose. Innate Qi ran through his whole body, and at last, a Dao Foundation slowly emerged, perfectly unified as one.
The moment Li Tianwei completed Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days, the dark clouds and vortex that had originally filled the heavens came to a halt, replaced by clear skies stretching for ten thousand miles.
Strains of immortal music echoed through heaven and earth. At the same time, countless spirit beasts revealed themselves in the mountains and forests of Lingxu Sacred Land, while flocks of birds crossed the skies.
"The Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation is complete."
Feeling the dense spiritual energy within his body and the Innate Qi flowing through him, Li Tianwei saw within his divine sense a strange circular radiance, a Three-Leaf Round Fan, with five colors swirling around it.
This strange symbolic form was the Dao Foundation Li Tianwei had forged. Looking at the Dao Foundation within his divine sense,
Li Tianwei flipped through the various Dao Foundations recorded in the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation Method once more, but did not see one that matched his own.
In Li Tianwei's eyes, his Dao Foundation was somewhat extraordinary and strangely familiar. If he had to describe it, his former world had an extremely similar symbol—it looked like a Nuclear Radiation Symbol...
"Why is it so strange? Could it be because of the Fission Qi Gathering Method? After all, I adapted it based on atomic collisions and nuclear chain reactions."
"But something as insubstantial as a Dao Foundation couldn't possibly turn into a symbol I recognize, could it?"
Li Tianwei looked at his Dao Foundation and thought honestly.
Suddenly, Li Tianwei felt as though earth-shattering wisdom flashed through his mind.
"My aptitude really is strong enough for me to create my own Dao Foundation."
Clapping his little hands together, Li Tianwei felt that he had found the answer.
"I knew it! I have a Heavenly Spirit Root. Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days is a piece of cake for me."
"System, System, did you see that? I told you I have a Heavenly Spirit Root, but you wouldn't believe me. Otherwise, how could I have achieved Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days? You even tried to fool me."
After successfully achieving Foundation Establishment, Li Tianwei finally removed the block on the System.
As for the System, upon receiving Li Tianwei's words, it fell silent.