"Oh?"
"I've been refining pills for only three months?"
Fang Qing put away the premium Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill and counted on his fingers. He could not help smiling. "I'd estimated that refining it would take at least a year... Who would have thought this happy accident would not only bring my Dao Foundation to perfection, but also greatly improve my alchemy..."
He felt that once he had fully absorbed what he had learned from "alchemy as cultivation," he could attempt to become a near-Fourth-Order alchemist. Better still, future sessions of Water-Method Alchemy would no longer be long, grueling chores. They would advance his cultivation instead!
"Now that the Wind-Approaching Foundation has reached Perfected Dao Foundation, I can look toward the Purple Mansion..."
Fang Qing sighed in satisfaction, then his expression turned grave again.
The Purple Mansion!
Divine Abilities!
These words weighed a thousand pounds. In the Breath-Nourishing Dao, once someone attained the Purple Mansion, they immediately transcended the mortal world. They could step off the chessboard and become a player.
From then on, they need not fear the influence of the higher sect or being used as bait... They could live free and unfettered for five hundred years!
Yet countless brilliant talents had fallen before this hurdle. Li Rulong was one of them!
Even Sangji, with all his cultivation and Dao Hui, had nearly stumbled there.
That alone showed how difficult it was to attain a Divine Ability!
Fang Qing silently recalled what the Ancient Shu Daoist Canon said of Divine Abilities:
"A Divine Ability is a wondrous power that transcends the ordinary and enters the sacred, rises above the mundane and strides through the void. It can seize the creative force of heaven and earth and steal the hidden workings of yin and yang..."
The Purple Mansion cultivation