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Chapter 240: Chapter 156: Laying Plans, Counting Gains, Breakthrough (Part 3)

”Master, is this... this Foundation Establishment Ghost Soul also for your servant?”

Autumn Cicada was so excited that her tongue was tied.

When Fu Changsheng nodded slightly.

Immediately, she cast a spell again to collect Cao Renshan’s ghost soul into the Human Emperor Banner.

”Hiss~”

At this moment.

Xiaoqing, which had been coiled inside the Treasure Pagoda, couldn’t hold back any longer and flew out with a swoosh, wrapping around Fu Changsheng in a fawning manner.

After Autumn Cicada completed her spell.

Seeing her master pat the storage bag again, she blinked in disbelief:

”Master, there’s more?”

Just as the words fell.

Hee Mingdian’s corpse floated in the air.

For Shangguan Feng and Lin Tianfu, Foundation Establishment corpses were of no other use; they simply took the storage bag, and Fu Changsheng naturally collected the rest impolitely.

”Hiss~”

Xiaoqing was also extremely excited upon seeing the third Foundation Establishment corpse.

Once Autumn Cicada sent Hee Mingdian’s ghost soul into the Human Emperor Banner, Xiaoqing immediately couldn’t wait any longer, opened its mouth as a suction force emanated, and instantly swallowed all three corpses at once. With a flash of green light, it returned to the pagoda to refine them.

Autumn Cicada bowed:

”Master, Autumn Cicada will also now enter the Human Emperor Banner.”

”Wait.”

Fu Changsheng, fearing that Autumn Cicada might be unable to hold back and attempt to break through Tier Two again, instructed:

”Autumn Cicada, I’ve already found the Ghost Cherry Pill Recipe and the main ingredients; once you find an Alchemist, you can start refining. With the Ghost Cherry Pill in hand, you’ll be sure to break through Tier Two, so after refining these ghost souls, remember not to rush your breakthrough, understood?”

”Yes, Master!”

Autumn Cicada felt somewhat touched.

Xiaoqing, her fellow cultivator, successfully advanced to Tier Two, yet she failed her breakthrough and now needed her master to work tirelessly to find the Ghost Cherry Pill for her. It was truly shameful; if she couldn’t break through to Tier Two, given her master’s current cultivation, she would be nothing more than a burden.

Autumn Cicada secretly vowed in her heart.

No matter what difficulties or obstacles she faced next time, she would overcome them and succeed in breaking through.

After Fu Changsheng finished putting the Human Emperor Banner and Cloud Ring Purple Immortal Tower into the storage bag, he contemplated the contribution points on the panel.

According to intelligence, the Tier Two Alchemist Shi Shutong, who was imprisoned by the Cloud Soaring Tribe, would attempt to escape during the tribe’s grand festival.

If his guess was correct.

The Foundation Establishment Pill Recipe that Elder Kun exchanged at the Ghost Market had most likely already fallen into Shi Shutong’s hands.

If he could rescue Shi Shutong.

The Foundation Establishment Pill Recipe would be within reach!

The Foundation Establishment Spirit Medicine obtained at the Penglai Mountain’s Qingxu Sect ruins could then be used to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.

As a result.

With the assistance of Foundation Establishment Pills, Molan could certainly establish her Foundation.

Moreover.

A furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills would certainly yield more than one pill.

By then, the Human Puppet or any tribe members with potential could attempt to establish their Foundation.

”I wonder if the Cao Family, Hee Family, and Ping Family will attack the Cloud Soaring Tribe before then.”

As in the past.

Only they, their three families, and the Cloud Soaring Tribe knew of the Ghost Market. With Ping Xingliu and three others dead, along with the traces of dharma combat left behind by him, arranged according to the Cloud Soaring Tribe’s methods, it’s likely the Ping Family and others would infer that the Cloud Soaring Tribe was the culprit.

Whether the three families go to attack the Cloud Soaring Tribe or not.

He must first quickly improve his own strength.

This cultivation time is particularly crucial:

”It seems it’s time to use the [Training Room].”

The Training Room not only offers threefold time acceleration but also increases the efficiency of cultivation. To quickly break through to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment in a short period, activating the [Training Room] is the only option.

His mind made up.

With a thought, he activated:

”Activate [Training Room].”

Buzz!

The panel trembled.

A large amount of yellow light surged.

Then, with a flicker before his eyes, he vanished from the original place, entering the Training Room.

The familiar fragrance of sandalwood filled the air.

After sitting down on the mat, although he had initially been quite excited, his heart quickly calmed.

Operating a grand circulation.

He exhaled a mouthful of impure air from his body.

Fu Changsheng patted the storage bag, and the barrel containing Spiritual Ape Wine and Red Tobacco flashed out, with the barrel opened in an instant and Red Tobacco thrown in.

Buzz!

The spiritual wine appeared to boil wildly, with strands of gray vapor rising, dissipating into nothingness upon hitting the sky.

The barrel ceased trembling, and the Spiritual Ape Wine inside returned to stillness, an overwhelming Spiritual Qi aroma filling the air. A light inhalation and a refreshing clarity were felt at once.

Looking internally to the dantian.

He found that mana was not sealed.

This meant that the Thousand-Mile Fragrance of the Spiritual Ape Wine had been entirely removed:

”It’s time to cultivate.”

Fu Changsheng immediately opened his mouth, gulping down a bottle of the Spiritual Wine to start refining it with the Cyan Emperor Longevity Technique.

Spiritual Ape Wine is different from pills.

The medicinal power it contained could be entirely converted to True Essence after just one circulation.

Thus, the refining speed was extremely swift.

In the blink of an eye.

More than a year had swiftly passed.

Only four bottles of Spiritual Ape Wine were left after all the others had been refined.

When refining the Spiritual Ape Wine, he discovered a seeming drug resistance in his body, where the conversion rate to True Essence diminished to under twenty percent, prompting him to halt the refining, keeping the remaining four bottles for Grandmaster Yu.

”Phew~”

A close look revealed a line of text on the panel:

”Foundation Establishment: Third Layer (92/100)”

Just a little short of breaking through to the Fourth-Layer Foundation Establishment.

Nevertheless.

The medicinal power of this Spiritual Ape Wine surpassed his expectations; he had anticipated reaching ”80” as quite an achievement.

With a flip of his right hand.

A box with a white leaf pattern appeared in his hand, and when opened, revealed a Tier Two Middle-Grade Fire Mulberry Fruit inside, precisely what he intended to use for the sprint to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment. Opening his mouth, the Spirit Fruit instantly slipped into his stomach.

”Boom!”

Unlike the gentle medicinal power of Spiritual Ape Wine.

As soon as the Fire Mulberry Fruit entered the dantian, it exploded like a Bursting Talisman.

The immense medicinal power surged like galloping horses, charging within the dantian. Fu Changsheng groaned softly, hurriedly circulating True Essence to disperse the medicinal power into clusters, sealing them individually for subsequent refining.

Cultivation knows no sense of time.

Another year quickly slipped by.

During seated meditation, Fu Changsheng heard a cracking sound within, as if a mystical barrier had been breached. His dantian expanded more than threefold, simultaneously tripling his Divine Sense.

Fu Changsheng’s eyes shone bright:

”Foundation Establishment Fourth-Layer!”

He finally achieved his goal of stepping into the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment.

No wonder people often say that the Third and Fourth Layers of Foundation Establishment are a daunting gap, judging from the expanded dantian alone, it’s evident.

Following that.

He spent several months stabilizing his realm and refining the Cloud-Stepping Boots and Profound Turtle Armor while also removing a restriction left at the bottom of the Primordial Alms Bowl by an ancestor of the Ping Family.

As he was about to conclude his seclusion.

Suddenly.

A tremor resonated from the Cloud Ring Purple Immortal Tower.