"Another sixty years of cultivation gone. Refining this Past-Wisdom Incense really isn't easy.
But if my conjecture is true, the gains will repay this a hundredfold!
Even if it turns out to be a false alarm, I can completely eliminate the hidden danger within her. I won't lose out."
On the way, Li Ling assessed his condition and found that his cultivation had fallen to roughly a thousand years.
He was now four hundred and sixty-three years old and had reached Foundation Establishment four hundred and forty-one years ago. His naturally accumulated cultivation amounted to precisely four hundred and forty-one years.
Given the opportunities available to ordinary rogue cultivators, they might, at most, consume a few heavenly treasures over those years, gaining another sixty to a hundred and twenty years of cultivation for a total of five or six hundred years. The unlucky ones might even lose cultivation rather than gain it due to injury or aging.
Such people had no hope of reaching Core Formation in their lifetimes.
Li Ling enjoyed a Spirit Peak Blessed Land and dual cultivation with his Dao companion. He also had virtually every spirit pill, miraculous medicine, and heavenly treasure he could want, and could refine Three Treasures Floating Incense Pills himself. Naturally, he could not be judged by the same standard.
Thus, through years of steady accumulation, his cultivation had long since exceeded a thousand years.
He had also attained Orchid-Inspired Enlightenment and refined Three Marvel Incense, gaining another five hundred years of cultivation.
Had he not refined Supreme Wisdom Incense and Past-Wisdom Incense over the years, split off a Gourmet Dao Seed, and commanded Chang Ghosts, he would already have been approaching two thousand years of cultivation.
However, these costs restricted mass production on the scale of mundane goods. They had little