Before this, Victor knew that a large part of the foundation establishment pill’s function was to cleanse the tendons and marrow, clearing away the turbid qi in the body. The process of cleansing the tendons and marrow was naturally a painful process.
His meridians were getting hotter and hotter, but his limbs were extremely cold. This feeling of alternating between hot and cold was really uncomfortable.
Even though he had countless painful experiences of absorbing cultivation technique, he still gritted his teeth, and dense beads of sweat kept oozing out of his forehead.
Victor forcefully controlled the medicinal effects according to the absorption method recorded in the Tree Building technique, and bit by bit, the medicinal effects seeped into his meridians.
“Victor, are you alright…”
Ye Lingxuan looked at Victor’s pained expression and was a little worried. If his strength was insufficient, he might die after eating the foundation establishment pill.
Since ancient times, there had been a precedent where a spirit gathering stage cultivator was in a rush for success and died after swallowing the foundation establishment pill because he couldn’t digest the medicinal efficacy.
However, Ye Lingxuan had never been worried that this would happen to Victor. After all, Victor’s strength was sufficient.
He was even better than cultivators of the same realm as him who came from the Heavenly Sword Mountain.
“How could this be?”
Ye Lingxuan frowned slightly. Did something happen while he was absorbing the medicinal strength of the foundation establishment pill?
She was even hesitating whether she should use her profound cultivation to force the medicinal strength out of Victor’s body.
At this moment, Victor waved his hand with difficulty and said through gritted teeth, “I… am fine…”
It wasn’t that Victor couldn’t bear the medicinal strength of the foundation establishment pill, but it was just too difficult for the spiritual energy to enter his meridians.
He forcefully pressed the medicinal strength of the foundation establishment pill into his meridians. Every time he pressed a wisp of medicinal strength into his meridians, it would be a bone-piercing pain!
Back then, Victor had stayed at the peak of the ninth level of the spirit gathering realm for a long time. Only when his spiritual energy had overflowed naturally, he broke through perfectly!
Naturally, this laid a solid foundation. His meridians had been tempered by spiritual energy for a long time, and the quality of his bones was compact and perfect.
But the more solid it was, the tougher his body was, and it was difficult to penetrate the medicinal efficacy!
However, Victor did not regret it.
The harder it was to break through, the more thoroughly he had to absorb it!
The medicinal efficacy of the foundation establishment pill would be best absorbed through the compression and purification of the meridians.
Victor’s philosophy was that if he wanted to lay a foundation, it had to be the most solid.
If he wanted to break through, it had to be a perfect breakthrough!
Victor worked hard for a full quarter of an hour, and his entire body was drenched in sweat.
At this time, he looked inside his body and found that the spirit embryo in his dantian had a trace of faint golden light.
However, Victor did not feel the slightest bit of joy. Instead, he was extremely dispirited. was so little!
He had consumed one-fifth of the medicinal strength of a foundation establishment pill, yet he had only refined this much.
If he were to completely refine it, it would probably take another ten to twenty thousand times. Could it be that he needed thousands of foundation establishment pills to complete the absorption stage?
This was the rich and proud Green Dragon Mountain. After supplying him with thousands of foundation establishment pills, they would probably suffer!
One had to know that the Heavenly Sword Mountain only produced about 20 foundation establishment pills every three years.
Even if Green Dragon Mountain was slightly more powerful, it would take them a hundred years to accumulate thousands of foundation establishment pills!
No matter how talented and monstrous Victor was, Green Dragon Mountain could not sacrifice itself. They could not afford to give him so many foundation establishment pills. Moreover, it would take them a hundred years of restless work to provide him the foundation establishment pills.
Furthermore, even if Green Dragon Mountain was willing, Victor could not afford to wait.
Thinking of the heavenly divine tree recorded in the Tree Building technique and its ability to control nature, Victor felt deeply displeased.
No matter what, he would not give up on absorbing. Even if the hope was slim, he would find a way.
He would refine as much as he can! Even if it was a tiny bit!
After firming up his confidence, Victor gritted his teeth and continued to absorb the remaining medicinal power of the foundation establishment pill.
If a foundation establishment pill was used absorbed by the whole body, it would have no effect at all.
Although Victor had sufficient resources, he wasn’t rich enough to the extent where he could not take the foundation establishment pill seriously. He could not accept that after eating a precious foundation establishment pill, his strength would not increase at all.
Thinking of this, Victor followed the method of the Tree Building divine technique and circulated all the spiritual power in his body, gathering all the medicinal power into the Wood Spirit Embryo in his dantian.
Since refining his entire body did not have any effect, then it was better to refine on a focused area!
Time passed. More than an hour had passed before Victor finally refined this foundation establishment pill. At this time, his entire body was already exhausted.
The consumption of spiritual power was too great. Victor turned his body and laid on the stone altar sprawled out, panting heavily.
Fortunately, this place was blessed by nature. With every breath, a large amount of heaven and earth spiritual power surged into his body and was absorbed by the Wood Spirit Embryo, quickly nourishing Victor’s almost dried-up meridians.
Looking inside his dantian, the Wood Spirit Embryo was indeed covered with a thin layer of pale golden light, as if it had been nourished by the sun.
Victor could feel that the Wood Spirit Embryo was full of vigorous natural power!
Victor’s endurance, recovery, and vitality were all stronger than before!
“Victor, are you okay?”
Seeing that Victor had finally recovered, Ye Lingxuan let out a sigh of relief and handed him the handkerchief. She didn’t expect that Victor would have such a big reaction after taking the foundation establishment pill.
“I’m fine.”
Victor waved his hand and took the handkerchief from Ye Lingxuan. He found that the clean handkerchief that had a faint fragrance had become dirty. Obviously, it was his doing.
Victor smiled awkwardly and found that the surface of his body was covered with a layer of sticky gray oil.
The foundation establishment pill was a spiritual pill that cleansed the muscles and marrow and expelled the turbid qi in the body. After eating it, impurities would naturally be expelled.
Victor could not stand the sticky feeling on his body and said to Ye Lingxuan, “I’m going out to take a bath.”
“Okay, go.”
At the back of Priest Chi Lian’s residence, there was a deep pool that had been artificially dug.
Victor stood beside the pool and circulated the Tree Building technique as he felt the changes in his physique after absorbing the pill. Indeed, there was a qualitative improvement in his spiritual energy from the inside out.
Ye Lingxuan saw that Victor had returned with wet hair and changed into clean and refreshing clothes. He looked valiant and carried himself tall. Finally, she felt slightly relieved.
“Victor, have you eaten a marrow cleansing pill before? I feel that there are very few impurities expelled from your body?”
The strength of the marrow cleansing pill was very strong, especially for cultivators in the secular world. They would usually be able to expel a thick layer of gray sticky matter.
However, Victor’s body did not expel much, which was why Ye Lingxuan asked.
“Yes… I’ve eaten it.”
Victor nodded awkwardly. 90% of the medicinal efficacy of the foundation establishment pill that he had just eaten had been absorbed by his spirit embryo.
Only a little of it was left in his meridians, so naturally, it did not have much effect on cleansing his muscles and marrow.
Ye Lingxuan’s gaze swept over Victor’s body from head to toe before she nodded in satisfaction.
“I see that your cultivation hasn’t improved much. The medicinal effects should be hidden in your body. You don’t have to be in a hurry. After eating the foundation establishment pill, you’ll need to enter seclusion for a long time before you can slowly absorb the medicinal effects.
“When that time comes, your strength will at least break through to the 13th level of the spirit gathering realm, and you’ll even be able to touch the threshold of the foundation establishment realm.
“However, this kind of cultivation isn’t something you can cultivate on your own. You have to strengthen your cultivation first. Before reaching the 13th level of the spirit gathering realm, don’t think about eating any more foundation establishment pills. If you ate too many of them, it’ll only make things worse.”
“Uhh… I understand.” Victor smiled bitterly in his heart.
Sure enough, after telling a lie. He had to use more lies to cover it up. There was no more medicinal efficacy left in his body. He had already absorbed it all.
However, his cultivation had only increased by a little bit, and he was still far from the 13th level of the spirit gathering realm.