Time flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, three years passed amid the busy yet fulfilling life at Noren Academy.
Over those three years, Benjamin devoted most of his energy to studying the Potions Department and alchemy. At the same time, under his day-after-day nurturing, the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror grew ever more docile. The concepts of the five lights circulated within its surface in seamless unity, ready for him to call upon at any moment.
And now, he had reached a crucial step on the path of cultivation—Foundation Establishment.
Foundation Establishment was the key for cultivators to cast off their mortal bodies and lay the foundations of the Great Dao.
It signified a qualitative leap in both the quantity and quality of True Essence, an advancement of spiritual sense, and a tremendous increase in one's ability to perceive the Spirit Energy of heaven and earth.
Only by successfully achieving Foundation Establishment could one truly step onto the path of Cultivation, gaining a longer lifespan and greater power.
Benjamin had obtained the formula for the Foundation Establishment Pill from the Great Dao Library long ago.
Though rather than a formula, it was more accurate to call it a refining philosophy.
After all, as the key for low-talented cultivators to leap from carp to dragon, the number of variant formulas for Foundation Establishment Pills was frighteningly vast.
Benjamin still remembered the scene when he searched for Foundation Establishment Pill formulas: streams of light released by the Great Dao Library had filled the depths of his entire consciousness.
It was no exaggeration to say that if someone in the Cultivation World obtained that pile of formulas, they could use any herb with an energy level reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm as the main ingredient for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
As long