Eight hundred and ninety-five strands!
Eight hundred and ninety-six strands!
He had already absorbed one wisp himself, and now, with another eight wisps and ninety-six strands, he was only four strands away from a thousand!
It had not taken much time—only two and a half days.
That unknown Mystical Gate cultivation art was not actually slow to cultivate.
The main issue was comprehension.
If one's comprehension was good enough, cultivating true qi overnight, true essence in two days, and establishing one's foundation in five could be said to come effortlessly. Moreover, the true astral force formed would be astonishingly pure and immense.
Well, that was Li Su's understanding.
He reckoned that if a Sky Firmament Sect disciple were here and heard him say that, they would probably stab him to death with a knife.
And then there was the Earth Baleful Qi!
Though it was extreme, there was no doubt that this qi was powerful. He had clearly only absorbed a hundred strands, condensing them into a single wisp, yet it had already supported him in forming true essence.
That was no small matter!
Under normal circumstances, he should still have been at the true qi stage. To become true essence, he would need a hundred wisps to condense into a drop.
But Earth Baleful Qi was different. A single wisp was enough to form true essence. Of course, the cultivation manual did describe such a situation—it was called high-grade essence qi.
However, this method was generally not recommended.
The reason was simple: the foundation was too fragile to bear essence qi of such high quality.
Of course, that was only an analogy.
After all, the book did not regard Earth Baleful Qi as one kind of essence of heaven and earth. Living beings basically had no way of touching