His Junior Martial Brother and Junior Martial Sister had both left.
Mo Hua was alone now.
His master was gone, Grandpa Kui was gone, his Junior Martial Brother was gone, and his Junior Martial Sister was gone too. From now on, he would have to walk the road ahead alone...
After a spell of dejection, Mo Hua pulled himself together.
He had to start preparing for Foundation Establishment.
After all these upheavals, Mo Hua understood more deeply than ever that cultivation was a cultivator's foundation.
To learn the Array Technique that could "steal Yin-Yang, seize creation, and reverse life and death," he needed sufficient cultivation.
Only with cultivation as his foundation could he seek the Great Dao and study Array Techniques, wrest a sliver of hope from Phecda's dead end, change his master's Heavenly Mandate, and turn death back into life...
And Foundation Establishment was the first step in laying the foundation for that Great Dao.
Before attempting it, Mo Hua thought everything through carefully. He even made a list, hoping to cover every angle and prepare for anything...
First, he needed plenty of Spirit Stones.
Mo Hua already had quite a few.
They numbered in the tens of thousands: some his parents had saved for him over the years, some he had earned drawing Array Techniques, and some his Junior Martial Brother and Junior Martial Sister had secretly slipped him.
The better one's Spirit Root and the higher the grade of one's cultivation method, the more Spirit Stones Foundation Establishment cost.
As it happened, Mo Hua's Spirit Root was poor, so he would spend fewer Spirit Stones. Tens of thousands would be more than enough.
He had also bought pills and spiritual materials in Liyuan City, just in case.
These were not for breaking through his bottleneck. They were