Foundation Establishment Today! [Extra-long three-in-one chapter]

Water Dragon Sect, Four Directions Island, Alchemy Room.

This was not Ji Yuan's first visit to Four Directions Island, but it was his first time entering its Alchemy Room—and one connected to an earth vein, at that.

The moment he entered, a wave of heat washed over him.

The Alchemy Room was not particularly large, perhaps thirty or forty square meters, though it was still larger than his Alchemy Room on Mist Island. Its walls were made from some unknown material, neither quite wood nor quite iron. A protective formation also enveloped the room, soundproofing it and shielding it from others' scrutiny.

At the very center of the Alchemy Room burned a fire that seemed eternal and unquenchable.

That was where the earth vein connected to the room, and where the pill furnace was meant to stand.

Refining Foundation Establishment Pills required melting down demon cores, and only earth-vein fire could do that. Of course, a cultivator's core flame at the Golden Core Formation Realm would work too.

Unfortunately, Ji Yuan was still a little way off from Golden Core Formation.

Normally, renting an earth-vein Alchemy Room cost ten Middle-Grade Spirit Stones a month.

That was why most alchemists prepared their medicinal ingredients at home beforehand. Once they arrived, they could begin refining immediately and finish in two or three days at most.

For them, the price was quite reasonable.

Ji Yuan's situation was different this time. He had not even begun preparing the ingredients for his Foundation Establishment Pills. Once he finished that, he still had to refine them.

Five batches, no less.

After finishing the pills, he would also have to establish his foundation here. By his estimate, if he could complete the whole process and successfully establish his foundation within a year—

That would already be a