Nameless Sea Region.
Undersea Cave Abode.
Zhao Yi had now reached the critical moment of condensing his Dao foundation.
Over these years, supported by the spirit vein and spirit pills, Zhao Yi had opened eighty apertures. Together with those he had opened before, he had now cleared 188 apertures, enough to condense a superior-grade Dao foundation.
A superior-grade Dao foundation meant becoming a Core Condensation cultivator. If a cultivator with a middle-grade Dao foundation had a ten-percent chance of breaking through to Core Condensation, one with a superior-grade Dao foundation had a full fifty-percent chance! To condense a superior-grade Dao foundation, one had to either sense heaven and earth with the spirit and comprehend an innate spell, or refine a spiritual treasure born of heaven and earth, comprehend the laws contained within it, and seize the opportunity to succeed in a single push.
Besides these methods, one could also take a Foundation Establishment Pill. However, the Dao foundation condensed with a Foundation Establishment Pill would be low-grade, with no possibility whatsoever of advancing to the Core Condensation Stage!
Zhao Yi would never choose to condense his Dao foundation with a Foundation Establishment Pill, not to mention that one cost around ten thousand low-grade spirit stones. In the insights on advancement Zhao Xinghe had given Zhao Yi, he had mentioned that he had never taken a Foundation Establishment Pill. Though the Zhao Family was powerful, it had also been poor back then and could not produce ten thousand spirit stones!
To sense heaven and earth with the spirit, one could take a Supreme Spirit God Pill, entering a wondrous state and seizing the opportunity to comprehend the Dao and one's own innate spell. As for spiritual treasures born of heaven and earth, those could only be encountered by chance, not sought.