"What?"
"Is this true?"
Sure enough, the moment those words were spoken, the eyes of several Foundation Establishment elders lit up.
Elder Han stroked his beard and laughed. "No wonder you wanted to secure another Foundation Establishment opportunity for your disciple, Qing Wu... This old man watched the entire process last time. Your disciple was only one step away from succeeding in Foundation Establishment—the step of condensing Spiritual Sense... His odds this time are not small."
Clouddrift Adept shook his head. "We are discussing the True Disciple of the Hundred Arts of Immortality. May I ask, Fellow Daoist Qing Wu, since Five Dragons Child has cultivated Spiritual Sense, why is he still only a Quasi-Second-Order alchemist?"
Qing Wu's expression immediately turned somewhat ugly. "My disciple failed his Foundation Establishment attempt, and recovering from his injuries cost considerable time and spirit stones. Fortunately, by a twist of fate, he comprehended the marvels of Spiritual Sense... Even so, he has had less than a year to improve his alchemy. Thus far, he has only succeeded with the Bone-Spirit Blood-Replacing Pill, but he has recently been studying the Flesh-Regenerating Bone-Replenishing Pill. Give him another furnace or two, and he will certainly succeed!"
Although Spiritual Sense greatly reduced the difficulty of the Hundred Arts of Immortality,
Spiritual Sense was not omnipotent.
Take Fang Qing, for instance. Ever since he cultivated Spiritual Sense, refining First-Order pills had become a sure thing. Even with an entirely new pill formula, after studying it for a while, he had several chances in ten of getting started successfully.
But Second-Order pills were far more difficult than First-Order ones. Even with Spiritual Sense to assist, one had to fail repeatedly before possibly succeeding in a batch and grasping the underlying threads.
Five Dragons Child had originally poured his entire fortune