Chapter 3: Foundation Establishment, Simulation Ends
Watching you, now at the ninth level of Qi Refinement, your master True Person Zidan was overjoyed.
A bottle of pills appeared before you. True Person Zidan said lightly, “These are healing pills. Take them back and rest well. In one month, prepare for Foundation Establishment!”
Hearing this, you were deeply shaken. Foundation Establishment already?
Even though this was your first time cultivating, you knew how heaven-defying it was to go from a mortal to Foundation Establishment in just two years.
After explaining the preparations for Foundation Establishment, your master left. As for the three lying to one side, neither dead nor alive, he did not spare them a single glance.
Watching your master leave, you hesitated for a moment but did not depart immediately.
“Senior Sister, still alive?” you transmitted without any change in expression.
“I won’t die yet, but in a month, that’s another story.”
“Can you tell me what exactly you did?” Though you already had your guesses, you could not help but ask curiously.
Your Senior Sister pondered for a moment, then finally chose to tell you.
From your Senior Sister’s account, you finally understood that you were inside a formation.
To leave, unless you obtained True Person Zidan’s Elder token, you could only force your way out!
The three of them had been discovered by True Person Zidan precisely because they tried to force the formation. They had not gotten far before being captured one by one.
Before a Golden Core cultivator, how could a mere Qi Refinement cultivator possibly outrun them?
“You got out? What exactly is the outside world like?” You were extremely curious about this. After all, you had been here two years and had never once left.
“Outside? Heh heh… outside is full of Demonic cultivators! And the Azure Cloud Sect is a sect founded by those Demonic cultivators!”
“We’re dead for sure, there’s no hope…” Your Senior Sister sank into despair.
You spoke with the other two Senior Brothers as well, and found their accounts much the same as your Senior Sister’s.
Having finished your inquiries, you did not linger. You rode your flying sword and departed.
Returning to your dwelling, you began to think, making preparations for your second simulation.
A month later, your master arrived as promised and brought you to a secret chamber.
At the same time, your three Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters were also there, their limbs having already been reattached.
“These are Foundation Establishment Pills. Once you consume them, you may begin your Foundation Establishment.” True Person Zidan waved his large hand, and four Foundation Establishment Pills appeared in your hands respectively.
“If there’s nothing else, then begin. I will protect the Dharma for you.”
“Wait, this disciple has a request!” You looked at the Foundation Establishment Pill before you and spoke up.
Hearing this, True Person Zidan’s brow furrowed slightly. “What is it?”
“This disciple wishes to borrow Master’s Elder token!”
“And if I refuse?” True Person Zidan’s eyes fixed tightly on you, his tone stern.
“Then this disciple would rather die than establish his foundation!” Meeting True Person Zidan’s gaze, you responded resolutely.
“Good, good, good. Then go die!” With that, True Person Zidan slapped his palm over, sending you directly into the wall behind.
You could not help but vomit a mouthful of blood. Then you raised your head, staring dead at True Person Zidan without a word.
The three Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters beside you, already numb, could not help but glance back at you, shocked by your actions.
After the two sides stood in a standoff for several seconds, True Person Zidan pulled a token from his robes and tossed it into your arms.
You knew you had won the gamble!
Though you did not know why True Person Zidan insisted on your Foundation Establishment, you knew that before you established your foundation, you would not die.
At the very least, you would not die at True Person Zidan’s hands.
The slap from True Person Zidan just now had not actually dealt you much damage. You knew it was merely a warning.
“Begin your Foundation Establishment!” True Person Zidan closed his eyes and said no more.
You knew when to quit. You put the token away, swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill, and began your Foundation Establishment.
A week later, one of your Senior Brothers suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his meridians snapping throughout his body, spiritual qi leaking outward.
You knew his Foundation Establishment had failed. Eighty percent chance he was going to die.
Suddenly, he drew a flying sword, pouring all his spiritual power into it, and launched a full-force strike at True Person Zidan!
The flying sword stopped one meter before True Person Zidan, blocked by his protective spiritual qi, unable to advance a single step.
A full-force strike from the ninth level of Qi Refinement could not even shake True Person Zidan’s protective spiritual qi. Once again, you felt the terror of a Golden Core cultivator.
True Person Zidan’s true flying sword appeared and in an instant severed your Senior Brother’s head.
Throughout the entire process, True Person Zidan had not even opened his eyes.
“Continue your Foundation Establishment!”
A day later, your other Senior Brother succeeded in his Foundation Establishment.
That night, your Senior Sister also successfully established her foundation.
You continuously absorbed spiritual qi, compressing it within your dantian.
Until at a certain moment it reached its limit, unable to be compressed further.
You broke through!
After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, your lifespan increased by one hundred twenty years.
An ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator could only live two hundred years, but you, who cultivated the Longevity Art, could live two hundred forty!
At the moment of breakthrough, you felt the sublimation of your life’s very essence!
Before you could properly savor the power brought by breaking through to Foundation Establishment, your master True Person Zidan made his move!
“Hahaha, good, good, good!” True Person Zidan laughed aloud, then without a shred of hesitation launched his attack on the three of you.
Facing True Person Zidan’s assault, you had long anticipated this. The three of you simultaneously summoned your flying swords, wanting to flee.
Suddenly, your already fragile meridians began to snap!
Unable to move, you became lambs waiting for slaughter.
You sank into despair.
“Run, why aren’t you running?” True Person Zidan laughed. “It wasn’t for nothing that I invested so many resources.”
With that, True Person Zidan casually pulled out an alchemy furnace and tossed the three of you inside.
Feeling the heat within the furnace, and your body’s inability to move, you knew you were going to die.
Unable to resist, you chose to accept it.
You were refined into Life-Extending Pills. You died.
Simulation ended.