Ying Jiaren should have started building her Foundation Establishment Dao Platform long ago.
But she had invested most of her money in the halls, running all thirty-six at full capacity and giving all the resources they produced to Wang Quan to speed up his progress on his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform.
Only this way had Wang Quan's time to reach Foundation Establishment been shortened from twenty or thirty years to around ten.
Now, only after Wang Quan reached Foundation Establishment would she have the resources and ability to do so herself.
Because the method for constructing a [Purple Mansion] transmitted by the [Third-Rank Dao Seal] was far more complicated than the Foundation Establishment methods ordinary cultivators used.
So Wang Quan had to prepare in advance.
At that moment, he thought of Ma Qingqiu again.
"The Orthodox Mystic Sects really do have it better. Their sects arrange their Foundation Establishment materials for them. Presumably, they'll arrange their Purple Mansion materials too!"
"How enviable!"
After a bout of envy and jealousy, he immediately adjusted his mindset. "If no one prepares the resources I need, I'll prepare them myself!"
"I originally thought I would lag twenty years behind Ma Qingqiu and the others in reaching Foundation Establishment."
"But from the looks of things now, the gap is only five years."
"I'll work a little harder, struggle a little more. I won't ask to catch up at the [Purple Mansion] realm, only to narrow the gap a little further."
If he could narrow the gap at every realm, even by just a year or a few months, that would be progress for him.
Whoosh!
Wang Quan left the Scripture Repository to find the cultivators from the Si Household, Zhong Household, and the others.
A cup of tea's time later:
Cultivator representatives from dozens