Aboard the Flying Boat.
Li Ping swept his divine sense over the five Storage Bags in his hands.
A moment later, he shook his head and set them down without touching their contents.
The five Storage Bags held nothing but ordinary items. Li Ping had no use for them and no interest in taking inventory.
Several days later.
The Flying Boat crossed several countries and returned to Little Plum Mountain.
Li Ping then plunged straight into the underground spirit vein and devoted himself to cultivation.
With an uninterrupted supply of pills to consume and the third-tier top-grade spiritual qi within the underground spirit vein assisting him, Li Ping cultivated at an astonishing speed.
In only about two years, he brought the qi refining portion of the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Sacred Canon to the Foundation Establishment middle stage.
At the same time, after obtaining its second-tier body refinement methods, he began trying to cultivate that portion of the art as well.
Body refinement proved much more difficult, however. In fact, he had already pushed his body refinement cultivation to the peak of the first tier long ago.
What he needed to do now was advance his body refinement to the second tier, equivalent to Foundation Establishment in qi refining.
Breaking through to second-tier body refinement was no easier than reaching Foundation Establishment through qi refining.
Second-tier body refinement cultivators were rare in the cultivation world precisely because spiritual treasures that aided that breakthrough were far less plentiful than those used for Foundation Establishment. Qi refining also had broadly applicable spiritual aids such as the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Body refinement breakthroughs essentially depended on one's own talent, or on assistance from exceptionally rare treasures of heaven and earth.
Li Ping had expected this.
If advancing through body refinement were easier than