Inside the secluded cultivation chamber.
Fang Qing silently circulated the Azure Sea Method, striking at the bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
Unfortunately, no matter how he circulated his technique through the heavenly cycle, the twenty drops of liquid mana within his Dantian Qi Sea remained twenty drops, utterly motionless.
"As expected—wanting to grind through the bottleneck by myself in such a short time is nothing but a fool's dream—I still have to take pills!"
"Actually, I don't need to care too much about Pill Poison. After all, I can use the Dao-Born Pearl's 'Revert to Root, Return to Origin' to purify my mana. But pure mana doesn't mean a pure body—in the future, if I can take Prime Quality or superior pills, I should still avoid Inferior Quality ones—"
Fang Qing took a deep breath, produced a Minor Barrier-Breaking Pill, and swallowed it.
Rumble!
Once he began circulating his cultivation method this time, the situation was completely different!
The pill's power entered his Dantian and immediately transformed into streams of misty purple qi, sweeping up the twenty drops of liquid mana as they charged toward the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage bottleneck.
Crack!
Perhaps it was only an instant, yet it also seemed as though a long time had passed.
Fang Qing's Spiritual Sense drifted in a haze, and he seemed to hear the sound of a silver vase suddenly shattering, water bursting forth.
Looking inward, he saw the twenty-first drop of deep-cyan liquid mana slowly taking shape within his Dantian.
"Foundation Establishment Middle Stage!"
The moment that twenty-first drop of liquid mana formed, Fang Qing immediately felt utterly transformed. His Dantian Qi Sea expanded once again, and he could consume Water-Origin Pills to continue advancing his mana.
And that was not all!
His Spiritual Sense, which had originally