A cultivator at the early Qi Refining stage plotting how to achieve Foundation Establishment would probably have been the funniest joke ten thousand years ago. Immortality was not so easily cultivated; every stage on the path of cultivation was an uncrossable gulf. Many people remained stuck at one level their whole lives, unable to break through. Thinking too far ahead was meaningless.
In the era of ancient methods, cultivators would only begin learning about Foundation Establishment after reaching the late Qi Refining stage in this lifetime. Generally speaking, it took at least seven years to go from late Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment. Those with slightly poorer talent could not even touch the threshold without a medicine called a "Foundation Establishment Pill" to aid them.
However, as modern methods revealed the nature of spiritual energy and explored the mysteries of the human body, the difficulty of cultivation had been lowered again and again. No matter how poor a person's innate aptitude was, as long as they could embark on the path of cultivation, they could steadily reach the Golden Core stage. The time required for the three stages of Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Core Formation had also been continually compressed. If one did not care about the quality of one's Foundation Base or Golden Core, someone with slightly better aptitude could even attempt the Golden Core stage within five years.
Among Modern Dharma Cultivators, Wang Qi was undoubtedly one of the most gifted. Zhen Chanzi even suspected that the greatest barrier facing Modern Dharma Cultivators, the "Primordial Spirit Heavenly Pass," would not slow his advancement at all.
After hearing Wang Qi's sigh, Zhen Chanzi asked, "From the sound of it, you seem to have many possible solutions?"
"Really, it's just using one cultivation method to contain all the others."