The years of cultivating immortality passed in a blur.
Several years later.
Jade Island, inside the cave abode.
Fang Qing slowly withdrew his power, a black gleam flashing through his eyes. "Qi Refining Ninth Layer? Not bad..."
With the aid of pills such as Qi Refining Powder, he actually could have cultivated to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer long ago.
The reason he had delayed until now was naturally because he had not converted the Origin Qi from his other cultivation arts!
Even though he had now broken through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, the Dao-Born Pearl still stored the Origin Qi transformed from the Qi Ingestion Seventh Layer of the Black Ridge Observation Book!
If he converted it all, he could immediately reach Qi Refining Great Perfection and attempt to charge at Foundation Establishment.
"With the authentic Luo Family copy of the Black Ridge Observation Book, breaking through to the Qi Ingestion Seventh Layer poses no difficulty whatsoever for me. I only chose to cultivate it again from the beginning because I wanted to lay my foundation anew and accumulate vitality. That is why I am only at the Qi Ingestion Seventh Layer now..."
"As for the Great Sun Empowerment Secret Art, I can forget about relying on bitter cultivation alone. Without empowerment now, Early Qi Ingestion is all I am doomed to achieve!"
Fang Qing silently calculated that the day when both his Breath-Nourishing Dao and Qi Refinement Way reached the ninth layer was not far off.
At that time, the "Qi Origin Pass" among the Foundation Establishment Three Passes should be breakable with a flick of his fingers.
"Foundation Establishment... is within reach."
With that thought, he could not help but look inward at his sea of consciousness, where he saw the Seed Syllable representing "Great