White Camel Peak, inside the cave dwelling of Chen Pingzhi, a Chen Lineage Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
After Zhou Yang entered the seclusion chamber of this Chen Lineage Foundation Establishment Cultivator's cave dwelling, he did not immediately take the Foundation Establishment Pill and charge toward Foundation Establishment. Instead, he first sat on the Cold Jade Bed in the chamber, closed his eyes, focused his mind, and once again recalled the experience summaries left behind by his predecessors regarding the Foundation Establishment process.
According to the experience of the cultivation world's predecessors, there were three trials in Foundation Establishment: the Divine Sense Trial, the Mana Trial, and the Physical Body Trial.
Once a Ninth Layer Qi Refining Cultivator made up his mind to attempt Foundation Establishment, countless illusions would arise in his mind to bewilder his consciousness. If he could not see through those illusions and free his consciousness from them, he would eventually exhaust his spirit amid boundless phantasms and die while meditating.
It was worth mentioning that the Divine Sense Trial tested whether a cultivator's heart for the Dao and will were firm. Very few external objects could help a cultivator through this trial, and even the Foundation Establishment Pill could not.
However, according to the experiences of those before him, as long as one was not born weak-willed or mentally immature, an ordinary Ninth Layer Qi Refining Cultivator would not find it difficult to pass the Divine Sense Trial. This was also the easiest of the three trials of Foundation Establishment.
After a cultivator passed the Divine Sense Trial, his divine sense would undergo a transformation, its strength multiplying in a straight leap. He could then use that transformed and powerful divine sense to compress and refine his mana, passing the Mana Trial.
Everyone knew that a Foundation Establishment