Seven years later.
Little White Island.
Fang Qing sat cross-legged, gazing at the Water-Origin Pill in his hand.
This Water-Origin Pill was not only crystal-clear; two intricate pill patterns also adorned its surface. It was unmistakably a Second-Order Mid Grade great medicine. "I didn't expect drug resistance to come so quickly. Fortunately, I've always taken Second-Order Low Grade Water-Origin Pills, while saving these Mid Grade Water-Origin Pills refined from Second-Order Demon Cores..."
He tipped back his head and swallowed the pill, silently circulating the Azure Sea Method to digest its medicinal power.
Crash!
Within his Dantian Qi Sea, nineteen drops of deep cyan liquid mana surged and rolled, continuously traveling through his meridians in a Greater Celestial Circuit.
Suddenly, another incomparably round drop of deep cyan liquid mana condensed, bringing the liquid mana in Fang Qing's dantian to the threshold of twenty drops and forming a small pool of emerald water.
Twenty drops of liquid mana!
This was the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment Early Stage!
"Finally... the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment Early Stage..."
Feeling the surging mana within his body, as well as that formless bottleneck, Fang Qing nodded, then shook his head.
Cultivating with the aid of pills had allowed him to advance at a tremendous pace. Less than ten years after Foundation Establishment, he already had hope of breaking through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, nearly surpassing even Zhong Lingxiu, who possessed an Ice Spirit Root!
But the price was—
"The Middle Stage bottleneck won't be easy to break through... Before breaking it, no matter how much I cultivate or even consume Water-Origin Pills, I can only restore and replenish mana... I cannot exceed the limit of twenty drops of liquid mana."
For cultivators to break through a bottleneck, they either relied on fortuitous opportunities, enlightenment between life