Qiu Qianhai's Breakthrough Had a Problem

Ji Yuan looked inward at his Dantian and saw the cloud of spiritual energy that had condensed there. He let out a long breath.

The sign of breaking through to Late Qi Refining was the formation of a cloud of spiritual energy in the Dantian. In other words, anyone seeking that breakthrough needed a large reserve of Spirit Stones.

Otherwise, if the Spirit Stones ran out during the breakthrough, there would be no hope of succeeding.

Ji Yuan had prepared four Middle-Grade Spirit Stones. Even after absorbing the first two, he still lacked enough spiritual energy to break through. Of the two remaining stones in his hands, only a third of their spiritual energy was left.

A breakthrough to Late Qi Refining required at least three hundred Spirit Stones.

No wonder there were so few Late Qi Refining cultivators in Cloud-Rain Marsh.

Condensing the cloud marked Late Qi Refining. To advance further, he would need to condense more clouds until they filled his Dantian. That would mean he had reached Peak Qi Refining.

After that, to achieve Foundation Establishment, he would have to compress the spiritual energy in his Dantian until it liquefied into Core Liquid.

Once that Core Liquid filled his Dantian, he would have reached Peak Foundation Establishment.

Finally, compressing the Core Liquid into a solid would mean he had reached—the Golden Core!

With that in mind, Ji Yuan continued absorbing spiritual energy to consolidate his cultivation.

Four more days passed in the blink of an eye. When the last two Middle-Grade Spirit Stones in his hands crumbled into powder, his cultivation finally stabilized completely.

In truth, it had stabilized two days earlier, but the little spiritual energy left in those stones was no use for anything else.

So Ji Yuan pressed on in one go and drained