"Father had his own road to walk, his own choices to make.
What about me?"
By then, Zhou Changwang had already returned to his residence.
His father's departure had not truly affected him much,
but he had his own confusion as well.
The difficulty of earning Spirit Stones, the repeated encounters with bandit cultivators... for the first time, they made him question his own path of cultivation.
Could he truly achieve Foundation Establishment?
He was no longer the ignorant youth who had just transmigrated. He knew that in the cultivation world, cultivators generally treated sixty as the limit for Foundation Establishment.
Only by attempting the Foundation Establishment Realm before the age of sixty could one possibly succeed. Once that limit was passed, physical strength and mental vigor would rapidly decline, and attempting Foundation Establishment again would be almost impossible.
"Only if I reach the Ninth Layer of the Qi Refining Realm before sixty will I have a sliver of hope of achieving Foundation Establishment."
Zhou Changwang calculated silently.
He was seventeen now, which meant he still had forty-three years.
Forty-three years seemed like a long time.
But he knew it was actually very short.
Because his Spirit Root aptitude determined that his efficiency in absorbing spiritual energy was extremely low.
Even with his current Minor Mastery of the Five Elements Formula, his efficiency in absorbing spiritual energy was barely comparable to that of a cultivator with four spiritual roots.
But in truth, in the cultivation world, those who could steadily cultivate to the Ninth Layer of the Qi Refining Realm before sixty without consuming massive resources had to be at least cultivators with Three-Attribute Spiritual Roots.
And that was under the condition that they had a sect's inheritance and cultivated somewhere with no shortage of spiritual energy.
"So, I need