Granted Azure Ordination, a Great Zhou Immortal Official

The Examination Office. A Quiet Chamber.

Shut off from the clamor outside and the pressure of two Purple Abode True Persons, this small space fell silent once more.

Chu Bai sat cross-legged on a Meditation Cushion. Rather than begin Breath Regulation at once, he half-closed his eyes and let his Divine Sense sink into his Dantian Qi Sea like mercury spilling across the ground.

For the first time outside the urgency of battle, he examined in such detail the Dao Foundation he had forged in desperate straits—the Cosmic Cycle Wheel.

The scene within his dantian had changed completely.

The old sea of gaseous Spiritual Power had vanished, replaced by a bottomless lake of five-colored Spiritual Power, thick as mercury.

At its center, a crystalline five-colored wheel inscribed with intricate patterns of heaven and earth hovered above a pedestal, turning slowly.

It did not turn quickly, but every revolution seemed to follow the rhythm of the Heavenly Dao, drawing the Spiritual Power throughout his body through a perfect Lesser Celestial Circuit.

Endless, unceasing.

So this was Foundation Establishment...

Chu Bai marveled inwardly at the power flowing through his meridians.

Compared with the weightless, gaseous Spiritual Power of Qi Refining, his Spiritual Power was now liquid, heavy, and concentrated. A single drop equaled a hundred from before.

If he cast Spell Arts at the Subtlety level again, he would need no time to gather power. One lift of his hand would unleash a killing move.

What delighted Chu Bai even more was the unique property the Cosmic Cycle Wheel bestowed.

Most cultivators built a Dao Foundation of a single attribute. A fire cultivator, for instance, would struggle to wield water arts.

But the Cosmic Cycle Wheel shattered that barrier.

Command the Five Phases; transform them at will.

At a thought from Chu