Three years later.
Inside Ice Soul Cave on Supreme White Island.
"Difficult, difficult, difficult..."
Fang Qing put away the "Everlasting Spring" with a touch of melancholy and sighed.
"Late Dao Foundation... it really is difficult."
Over the past three years, he had constantly studied the "Everlasting Spring." It was not as though he had gained nothing, but he had reached a certain hurdle.
The bottleneck in breaking through to Late Dao Foundation!
"When I tried to break through to Mid Dao Foundation, I even used a Life Spring Pill... but there aren't any suitable pills for Late Dao Foundation..."
Although the Secret Treasury Domain had secret medicines to aid breakthroughs, they were all pills formed from blood and vital energy, and their effects were no longer particularly good.
Fang Qing planned to wait until he achieved Core Formation and his strength soared once more, then visit the territory of the Orthodox Taiyi Mystic Gate in the east.
Although Ancient Shu had opened his eyes several times already, things ought to be better in the territory of the righteous path... right?
He walked out of his cave abode and sent out a voice-transmission talisman.
Before long, a strand of Core Formation-level spiritual sense reached him. "Young master, Zhong Lingxiu requests an audience."
"Come in."
Fang Qing nodded and watched Zhong Lingxiu enter and bow respectfully. "Greetings, young master."
"Hmm, you haven't returned to the Heavenfrost Sect for so many years. Won't that cause trouble?"
Fang Qing asked casually.
"Reporting to the young master... I made all the necessary arrangements before leaving the sect. Staying away for thirty or forty years poses little problem. After all, Core Formation cultivators already count among the sect's higher ranks and have considerable freedom... It is quite normal for them to travel for years or decades