"Forty-eight years old, at the Foundation Establishment middle stage!"
Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing was in a good mood.
In terms of age and cultivation alone, Zhou Qing compared favorably even with cultivators who possessed heavenly spiritual roots.
Of course, those cultivators had far more momentum in reserve. If they reached the Foundation Establishment middle stage at forty-eight, they would reach the late stage in their fifties and be able to attempt a Core Formation Breakthrough around eighty.
In this simulation, without the threat of the Blood-Sea True Person, my Foundation Establishment lifespan should let me live past two hundred at the very least.
And with the Mountain Sea Art's effects extending into my twilight years, I should be able to grind my way to the peak of the Foundation Establishment late stage. Then I'll at least have a chance to attempt a Core Formation Breakthrough.
Zhou Qing thought to himself.
For ordinary cultivators with middle-grade spiritual roots, even reaching the Foundation Establishment late stage was an extravagant hope. They would get stuck at the bottleneck between the early and middle stages, or between the middle and late stages.
But with the aid of pills, Zhou Qing merely had to burn through some of his own potential.
"The road of cultivation is difficult at every step..."
Zhou Qing could not help sighing. Only the foundations he had accumulated in his previous two simulations had earned him the chance to attempt a Core Formation Breakthrough in this one. He could well imagine how hopeless ordinary cultivators must feel when faced with this road.
``` [You did not conceal your Foundation Establishment middle-stage cultivation, and word soon spread.]
[When you arrived in the Immortal City and joined the Pill Hall over thirty years ago, you were already at the Foundation Establishment early