Nine months passed.
Han Yi's Alchemy Technique had, without his noticing, made a tremendous leap at the Peak Perfection level.
Alchemy was also a form of cultivation.
His cultivation had likewise moved another step closer to the middle stage of Golden Core.
Inside the Meditation Chamber.
Han Yi sat cross-legged on a cushion before the Five-Elements Convergence Furnace, continuously channeling mana into it. His mana was pure, gentle, and smooth as it flowed through the furnace's mouth and into its depths.
Within the furnace, a cyan spirit pill gradually took shape. Numerous supplementary ingredients gathered around it, converging upon the forming pill.
Joy stirred in Han Yi's heart, but he did not relax in the slightest. He remained wholly focused.
Only after a full hour did he slowly withdraw his hand and let out a long breath. With a light wave, the furnace lid flew up, and a cyan pill slowly rose from within.
Han Yi took out a high-grade jade vial and stored the pill inside.
"It succeeded."
"A Foundation Establishment Pill—and a flawless-quality Foundation Establishment Pill."
The delight on his face was impossible to conceal.
The ingredients for a Foundation Establishment Pill were inherently difficult to obtain.
This time, he had used a demon core as the main ingredient.
That demon core had come from the Azure Flame Tapir, the contracted demon cultivator of Xie Puxuan from the Primordial Beast Sect, whom Han Yi had killed.
Using the demon core of an early-stage Golden Core demon cultivator as the primary material, supplemented by numerous auxiliary ingredients, and coupled with the tremendous progress his Alchemy Technique had made over these nine months, Han Yi had finally managed to refine this Foundation Establishment Pill.
Foundation Establishment was the beginning of the immortal path. In the unseen depths, it was constrained