Upon hearing Qian Diheng's startled cry, Xun Shu and Kun Feiyan also snapped out of their terror and hurriedly checked their cultivation. Sure enough, all of them showed signs of true qi condensing! Joy immediately appeared on all three faces!
"If you do not work hard now, when will you?" Xiao Hua shouted, instantly jolting the three awake as if from a dream. They sat up from the ground, assumed the posture of five hearts facing heaven, circulated their respective cultivation techniques, and let true qi flow slowly through their meridians!
Yet a day and a night quickly passed. The eagerness in Xiao Hua's gaze gradually faded. Though all three had gained a slight increase in cultivation, none of them had taken that crucial step into Foundation Establishment!
The next day, Kun Feiyan was the first to open her eyes, her face full of unwillingness. Xun Shu soon stopped as well, sighed, and rose to her feet. After another incense stick's worth of time, Qian Diheng also ceased cultivating. Looking at his two senior sisters, who likewise had failed to establish their foundations, he said, "What a pity. I always feel that I am about to establish my foundation, yet my true qi simply refuses to condense!"
"Yes, true qi is right at that point between condensing and not condensing. If Master had not cautioned us long ago, I would already have taken a Foundation Establishment Pill to try it!" Kun Feiyan said indignantly.
"The opportunity has not arrived," Xun Shu concluded. All three sighed.
Seeing this, Xiao Hua smiled. "What is wrong with you three, fellow disciples? You nearly established your foundations before even leaving the Thunder Control Sect's territory. Is that not a joyous occasion? If we had not remained behind through a twist of fate, how could