Sect World, the Evergreen Sect.
After a full day of toil, most sects chose to return temporarily to their sect grounds at night to rest and recuperate.
The Evergreen Sect was no exception.
As the sect's main fighting force, Tie Dali and Liu Yurou were either fighting or on their way to a fight.
After a day of hard work, failing to rest properly would seriously affect their strength.
For the Evergreen Sect, which possessed the one day like a year trait, a night's rest was actually half a year of recuperation.
It was just that Lin Feng was unwilling to keep dragging the other sects into an involution arms race. Otherwise, his Evergreen Sect would only need a few minutes of rest before entering the [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] again to capture strongholds.
The benefits of the one day like a year trait had once again fully revealed themselves.
Tie Dali and Liu Yurou had ample time to sort through what they had learned from the day's battles, recover their condition, and continue cultivating, striving to reach a higher realm sooner.
Those with Supreme-Grade Spirit Roots needed only three years to advance from the Qi Refining Tenth Layer to the Foundation Establishment Realm, with a success rate of over 80%!
Those with heavenly spiritual roots needed only one year to advance from the Qi Refining Tenth Layer to the Foundation Establishment Realm, and could not fail.
Half a year was already enough for Tie Dali to break through from the Qi Refining Eighth Layer to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer!
Lin Feng predicted that in two days, Tie Dali would successfully establish his foundation ahead of Liu Yurou, becoming the Evergreen Sect's first Foundation Establishment cultivator.
And once Tie Dali entered the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, he, as the Evergreen Sect's sect master, would directly reach the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment!
Lin Feng was already feeling some anticipation.
The third day of the sect cultivation environment competition.
On the second day, Lin Feng had chosen to have Tie Dali remain at the sect to cultivate, striving to enter the Foundation Establishment Realm as soon as possible.
As a result, the points the Evergreen Sect earned on the second day from capturing strongholds and killing spirit demons had fallen by more than half.
Fortunately, the advantages of occupying advanced strongholds had already become apparent.
An advanced hidden-vein spring stronghold could generate 100 points per hour for the Evergreen Sect.
The two [Advanced Hidden-Vein Spring Strongholds] generated 4,800 points for the Evergreen Sect over a single day!
The four [Advanced Natural Spirit-Gathering Strongholds] could each generate 80 points per hour for the Evergreen Sect, producing a total of 7,680 points over a single day.
Adding the 11 intermediate strongholds, even at an average output of 20 points per hour, that was another 5,280 points a day.
That only counted the output of the strongholds captured on the first day. Adding the output of those captured on the second day, the total had easily surpassed 30,000 points!
The strongholds' output alone was several times greater than the points earned each day from killing spirit demons and capturing new strongholds!
Advanced strongholds were great! Advanced strongholds had to be captured!
For the other sects, 30,000 points a day was nothing short of a dimensional-reduction strike!
Most sects might only capture a few basic strongholds after a day of grueling work, each generating a few points per hour for the sect, amounting to just one or two hundred points a day.
Early on the third day, Lin Feng entered Sect World.
Tie Dali was already waiting excitedly for Lin Feng to emerge from the sect master's cave abode.
"Master! Your disciple has lived up to your expectations and finally broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm! Look!"
No sooner had Tie Dali finished speaking than a strand of divine sense reached toward Lin Feng to probe him, only to be bounced back halfway by Lin Feng's more powerful divine sense.
Tie Dali froze on the spot. "Master, you've broken through to Foundation Establishment too?"
Lin Feng smiled. "Dali, you only need to remember that, as the master of a sect, my cultivation will certainly be higher than that of you disciples."
Recalling everything about the sect, Tie Dali felt increasingly that his master was unfathomable.
One of the most obvious changes upon entering the Foundation Establishment Realm was being able to extend one's divine sense much farther.
Some cultivators at the Great Late Qi Refining stage with powerful divine sense could also project it outward, but a few meters was already their limit.
Once one entered the Foundation Establishment Realm, however, divine sense underwent a qualitative change. Even at early Foundation Establishment, it could extend around five hundred meters!
Lin Feng, at mid Foundation Establishment, could already extend his divine sense a full thousand meters!
When searching for advanced strongholds in the [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] from now on, they would no longer need to blunder around like headless flies!
After that brief moment of delight, a new world announcement appeared in Sect World 999.
[Sect World 999 announcement: Congratulations to the Evergreen Sect on officially becoming a Foundation Establishment sect! Generous rewards granted.]
Then Lin Feng received the details of the rewards from Sect World:
[Congratulations to the Evergreen Sect on advancing from a Qi Refining sect to a Foundation Establishment sect. Rewards obtained: mid-grade spirit stones ×100, upper-grade Yellow-tier cultivation art "Fierce Tiger Roaring at the Mountain Fist," upper-grade Yellow-tier spirit grain seeds ×300 jin, upper-grade Yellow-tier healing pills ×100, sect mountain-protecting formation advancement materials (lower-grade Yellow-tier → mid-grade Yellow-tier).] [Congratulations to the Evergreen Sect on being the first sect in World No. 999 to advance to a Foundation Establishment sect. Additional rewards obtained: upper-grade Yellow-tier cultivation art "Three-Transformation Evergreen Art," mid-grade spirit stones ×200, low-grade spirit artifact: Rock-Crushing Gauntlets ×1, trait draws +5.] ["Fierce Tiger Roaring at the Mountain Fist": Suitable for Foundation Establishment cultivators. An advanced version of "Tiger Roar Fist," comprising three forms. Upon cultivating "Tiger Roar Fist" to major accomplishment, one can directly reach the introductory level of "Fierce Tiger Roaring at the Mountain Fist."] ["Three-Transformation Evergreen Art": An advanced version of "Evergreen Art," offering faster cultivation and spiritual qi condensation, and greater completeness.] [Rock-Crushing Gauntlets: Low-grade spirit artifact. Forged from mystic iron and refined steel fused with scarlet firestone, with three low-tier fire-pattern jade fragments inlaid on the striking surfaces. Comes with the skill [Stone-Crushing Shock], which consumes a small amount of spiritual power to unleash a concussive force with a punch, damaging the meridians inside an opponent's body. Particularly effective against demonic beasts with powerful physiques.]
Looking at the rewards for the sect's advancement to a Foundation Establishment sect, Lin Feng was delighted.
Moreover, this advancement in sect rank had awarded five additional trait draws. Added to the eleven previously awarded and the two accumulated over the past two days,
Lin Feng now had a total of eighteen trait draws.
He planned to save up thirty draws and perform three ten-pulls in one go. Perhaps that would give him a better chance of drawing good traits!
Aside from the trait draws, the rewards also included the upper-grade Yellow-tier "Fierce Tiger Roaring at the Mountain Fist," an advanced version of "Tiger Roar Fist," as well as the upper-grade Yellow-tier cultivation art "Three-Transformation Evergreen Art," an advanced version of "Evergreen Art."
These cultivation art upgrades were better than being awarded new cultivation arts. At least the sect's disciples would not need to scrap their progress and start cultivating anew. It seemed Sect World's reward system was quite considerate.
What excited Lin Feng most was that, as the first sect to advance to Foundation Establishment, the Evergreen Sect had actually been awarded a low-grade spirit artifact!
It was even a pair of low-grade spirit artifact gauntlets that suited Tie Dali extremely well. Combined with the newly acquired upper-grade Yellow-tier "Fierce Tiger Roaring at the Mountain Fist," Tie Dali's strength would undergo a qualitative leap!
During the next few days of trials in the [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm], Tie Dali could practically sweep through the entire [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] single-handedly!