Mortal Alchemy

A month later.

"Thirty-two years old, huh..."

Inside the alchemy room.

Chen Ping sat cross-legged.

He adjusted his condition to its absolute peak.

In front of him were placed Essence Qi Pills, Spiritual Sense Pills, Qi Replenishment Pills.

As well as century-old spiritual milk, jade marrow fungus, and a celestial spirit fruit.

Having prepared all of this, Chen Ping began his closed-door cultivation.

He circulated his cultivation technique, starting his breakthrough.

He placed a Foundation Establishment Pill in his mouth, temporarily refraining from swallowing and refining it.

Then, Chen Ping began to assault the bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment realm.

Vast spiritual power roared forth, with his powerful spiritual sense closely following.

"Rumble!!!"

Like a great river crashing against a sturdy dam, wave after wave surged relentlessly, day and night.

However, the Foundation Establishment bottleneck remained as immovable as a mountain or a star, no matter how Chen Ping battered it.

This seemed like a truly despairing situation.

After three days and three nights, Chen Ping's own spiritual power and spiritual sense were nearly exhausted.

At that moment, Chen Ping swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill and began to refine it.

"Boom!!!"

In an instant, Chen Ping felt an unprecedented surge of spiritual power erupting from within him.

"Rumble!!!"

If Chen Ping's own spiritual power and spiritual sense were like rivers, then the power brought by this Foundation Establishment Pill was like the ocean!

Overwhelming, vast, and surging, it carried Chen Ping's power and crashed against the Foundation Establishment bottleneck.

Half a day passed.

The immense power finally created a crack in the bottleneck.

In that instant, Chen Ping had an epiphany.

He adjusted his spiritual power to pass through the crack, attacking the bottleneck from both the inside and the outside.

After the spiritual power entered the bottleneck, Chen Ping's spiritual power began to change.

It began to transform from a mist-like state into a liquid state!

This was the sign of Foundation Establishment!

This shocked Chen Ping, and he guarded his mind, completely transforming the first barrier of spiritual power into liquid spiritual power!

"Rumble!!!!"

The first barrier of Foundation Establishment, the spiritual power barrier, was thus broken through, and Chen Ping's spiritual power was successfully transformed into liquid spiritual power.

Within his sea of consciousness, his spiritual power was previously like a river, but now, it was like a vast and powerful ocean!

Next was the second barrier of Foundation Establishment!

Spiritual sense transforming into divine sense!

A wisp of purple energy erupted from within him, surging into his sea of consciousness, impacting the second bottleneck!

This barrier was even more difficult than Chen Ping had imagined; a wisp of purple energy blasted a crack in the second bottleneck!

Spiritual sense rushed in, and then it seemed to arrive in a new world, transforming into divine sense!

This wisp of divine sense returned from the new world to the sea of consciousness, merging with Chen Ping's spiritual power.

Then, spiritual power, carrying this wisp of divine sense, set off from the sea of consciousness and began to travel through Chen Ping's meridians.

The meridians, flesh, and bones were being strengthened, allowing them to bear the power of liquid spiritual power and divine sense.

Chen Ping's body began to tremble, and an immovable, mountain-like, earth-shattering force surged out, supporting Chen Ping's physical body and allowing him to successfully transform his divine sense.

"The second and third barriers of Foundation Establishment are linked together!"

The divine sense must travel through the entire body's meridians and merge into the dantian qi vortex to form a whole, so that the divine sense can leave the body and explore the world!

At the same time, the physical body must be strong to undergo transformation while enduring this power.

Transforming from mortal to immortal, no longer a mediocre person!

And Chen Ping's physical body was already a second-order body cultivator, extremely powerful.

When the divine sense entered the dantian, Chen Ping's physical body continuously sublimated, and his strength continuously increased. The subsequent spiritual power of the Foundation Establishment Pill was insufficient, and the physical body began to absorb the spiritual power of the world.

However, Chen Ping's spiritual root was a five-element mixed spiritual root, and the speed of absorbing and transforming spiritual energy was too slow.

If this continued, Chen Ping's breakthrough to Foundation Establishment would fail, like Mu Luofei, falling at the third barrier of Foundation Establishment.

Chen Ping decisively grabbed the century-old spiritual milk and the celestial spirit fruit, swallowing and refining them.

"Rumble!"

A pure and massive spiritual power and the power to nourish the physical body surged out, supporting Chen Ping to continue his Foundation Establishment transformation.

After all of this was done, the three barriers of Foundation Establishment were passed, allowing Chen Ping to enter the Foundation Establishment cultivation.

But it was not over yet.

The surging power of liquid spiritual power, the Foundation Establishment physical body, and divine sense began to feed back into the sea of consciousness.

A wisp of purple energy surged out from the dantian, heading towards the sea of consciousness.

It began to drive Chen Ping's soul power to become stronger!

This was the real difference between Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining.

The purple energy entered the sea of consciousness, turning into a purple-gold point. Only at this moment did Chen Ping's physical body undergo a qualitative change.

The liquid spiritual power became more condensed, and its power became more tyrannical.

The divine sense began to be able to spread out from the sea of consciousness, leave the physical body, and perceive the surrounding world.

At the same time, the dantian qi vortex continuously compressed.

Spiritual power, divine sense, and the physical body reached their limits, stepped into a new world, and fed back into the soul.

And the soul began to transform from formless to formed, and in turn fed back into Chen Ping's spiritual power, divine sense, and physical body, allowing him to stabilize in the Foundation Establishment realm.

The foundation and potential that Chen Ping had painstakingly accumulated began to transform into Chen Ping's Dao foundation and combat power, raising his potential to a wider range.

At this barrier, it was truly 'Foundation Establishment' in the real sense, a permanent certification, and the Dao and magic power would not regress.

The power of the soul was still growing stronger, and Chen Ping's combat power and Dao foundation were also continuing to expand.

Seven days passed, and Chen Ping's soul power transformed into a point.

Fourteen days passed, and Chen Ping's soul power evolved into a grain of rice!

A month passed, and Chen Ping's soul power was as indestructible as a crystal, as big as a fingernail!

At this point, Chen Ping could sense the path from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core.

Solidifying and crystallizing spiritual power, and within this spiritual power crystallization, allowing the soul to manifest, so that his divine sense could be wider, his magic power could be more surging and powerful, and his spell power could be even stronger!

The first step into transcendence, transforming everything formless into formed!

And with the current size of this crystallization, Chen Ping had to take the liquid spiritual power in his body to the extreme, and then compress all the liquid spiritual power into crystallization, so that his Foundation Establishment cultivation could be improved.

But that required a massive amount of terrifying spiritual power.

Until the soul no longer increased in strength, the crystallization process stopped, and Chen Ping's soul, spiritual power, divine sense, and physical body began to settle down, which meant that he had completely and perfectly completed Foundation Establishment!

And Chen Ping's nascent power of divine sense was a full thirty feet away, and wherever the divine sense reached, the magic power could be extended at will.

And the divine sense itself was a powerful force, and how strong the soul was, how strong the divine sense attack was.

Chen Ping slowly opened his eyes, the spiritual power in his body was as turbulent as the sea, and his physical body could slowly float into the air!

He could fly!

This was the sign of a Foundation Establishment cultivator!

At the same time, the power of the physical body was further refined, and essence blood could be extracted. This involved the grade of the cultivation technique. Chen Ping could vaguely sense that his essence blood would be a holy product for healing and a great tonic!

"Hahaha!"

Chen Ping looked at his feet floating off the ground, his whole body floating in the air, and felt an unspeakable sense of joy and heroism surge in his heart!

"Riding the sword on the wind..."

The words of a child more than twenty years ago have finally come true today!