"Who would have thought? I'd barely arrived in Suyang, and already the chance to advance to Foundation Establishment was right before my eyes!"
Watching the black market steward open a brocade box and display two crystalline pills, white as flawless jade, before him, Li Chen sighed with heartfelt wonder.
"Now I believe there really are more opportunities to advance your cultivation in the east. If I hadn't traveled tens of thousands of li east to Suyang City, I'd never have found a black market of this scale, let alone been lucky enough to stumble upon Foundation Establishment Pills right away."
The steward asked, "Honored guests, have you ever heard of the 'Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment'?"
Li Chen said, "Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment? I know of it. The saying seems to have come from the Earthly Immortal Continent. It already existed in the age of ancient cultivators."
The steward said, "Indeed. Ancient cultivators believed that cultivation meant gathering the nine breaths of innate True Essence back together, harmonizing them into a single breath, and transforming it into a Dao Foundation."
"In modern times, however, people see it as a method of liquefying Spiritual Energy, combining it with one's own True Essence to produce Magic Power that has undergone a qualitative transformation."
"But ancient or modern, most still agree with the notion of Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment. Suppose someone possessed extraordinary talent and a complete set of Spiritual Roots, and devoted themselves to arduous cultivation from the moment they gained awareness. In roughly a mere hundred days, they could successfully refine their True Essence and forge a Dao Foundation!"
"In reality, however, geniuses with a complete set of Spiritual Roots are hard to find. The 'innate Dao bodies' of remote antiquity, born at Foundation Establishment or above, were rarer still-as scarce as phoenix feathers and