Chen Lin nodded in satisfaction.
An early Nascent Soul enforcer who could also guard the mountain was enough.
He turned to Song Qiuya and the other three women, his voice gentle. "I'll be going into seclusion for a while to attempt Foundation Establishment. Ten days at the shortest, a month at the longest. Keep cultivating while I'm away. Don't slack off."
"Attempt Foundation Establishment?" Song Qiuya's beautiful eyes tightened with concern. "Will it be dangerous?"
"Don't worry." Chen Lin smiled. "I've prepared thoroughly."
After reassuring the women and giving Friday a few instructions, he lingered no longer.
His figure flashed, and a pitch-black doorway appeared out of thin air. Chen Lin stepped through it and vanished before their eyes.
The Stationmaster's Workshop, inside the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station.
This was the safest place on all of Blue Star, and even in the entire universe as far as Chen Lin knew.
Chen Lin sat cross-legged on the cold metal floor.
With a thought, he took five smooth jade bottles from his Advanced Storage Ring.
As he pulled out the stoppers, a strange medicinal fragrance instantly filled the air.
Foundation Establishment Pills!
Back when he found that Core Formation cultivator's remains at the Garbage Station, he had obtained seventy-two Foundation Establishment Pills in total.
Eight hundred years ago in the Cultivation World, a quantity like that would have been enough to make a second-rate sect wage a war of extermination to seize them.
"The Qi Refining stage is ultimately just a transition between mortal life and the immortal path."
Chen Lin drew a deep breath, his gaze turning utterly resolute.
At the Qi Refining stage, even at the perfected thirteenth level, spiritual power remained gaseous, and cultivators relied on spells.
Once Foundation Establishment succeeded, however, the spiritual energy inside the