Chapter 3935 — Taking the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill Again
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Wei Zhao had waited far too long for this day. Counting from the moment he obtained those two Thundering-Heart Exquisite Grass seeds, a full three months and more had now passed.
Entering the jade-pendant space, he adjusted his condition, counted out the two Thundering-Heart Exquisite Grass plants along with the other pill-refining materials he had prepared in advance, and once again lit the furnace. By now he had this process down to a fine art.
Several hours later, Wei Zhao held the freshly produced Foundation Establishment Golden Pills in his hand. Their quality was, as ever, of the very highest grade—and there were three of them in all!
Originally, the two Thundering-Heart Exquisite Grass seeds that had come into Wei Zhao's possession were the products of mass cultivation and had been inherently deficient. Even with the finest auxiliary materials, refining two Foundation Establishment Golden Pills would already have been the absolute limit; producing a third should have been utterly impossible.
The reason he had now produced a full three came down, in the end, to the heaven-defying efficacy of the jade-pendant space. Its incomparably favorable environment had thoroughly made good the vital essence damaged by that inherent deficiency—and thus this unexpected delight.
Gazing at the three top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Pills in his hand, Wei Zhao clenched his fist in secret. More than three months of toil had indeed not been in vain!
There was no time to lose. Without the slightest hesitation, Wei Zhao adjusted his condition and began taking the Foundation Establishment Golden Pills.
According to his last experience, a single top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Pill was enough to reach the barrier; then, by directly taking the top-grade Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pill he had refined earlier, success in breaking through was all but assured.
Three top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Pills were more than sufficient—in fact, two would be left over for later use. But to Wei Zhao's surprise, this time he took two top-grade pills in succession and still could not even touch the barrier.
Wei Zhao could not help beginning to suspect that the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill had simply stopped working for him—until he took the third, and finally, as he had hoped, touched that hard barrier, nearly materialized, that stood between the peak of early Foundation Establishment and the middle stage!
As for this result, Wei Zhao was left speechless, and could only accept it in silence. No wonder, when he had chatted idly with his long-suffering senior brother and with Lu Bianren and the others, they had all said that the peak of early Foundation Establishment was a threshold every cultivator must face.
Many dazzlingly talented cultivators had once risen splendidly, halos of genius blazing above their heads, and had even seemed to surge toward Foundation Establishment without the least effort. Yet a great many of them were stuck fast at the peak of early Foundation Establishment, making no progress for decades, their genius ground down into mediocrity until they were lost among the common crowd.
No wonder Meng Jueming, that eldest senior brother, had gone so long without breaking through this barrier before he ever met Xu Lingchong!
This was no isolated case or two—it was a stage every cultivator was bound to pass through. To be stuck at the peak of early Foundation Establishment for decades or even a century was the most ordinary thing in the cultivation world. In truth, without vast cultivation resources or some extraordinary stroke of fortune, many people remained peak early-Foundation-Establishment hands right up to the end of their days.