No wonder Chu Zixue had been so generous. She had given me a Foundation Establishment Pill that was priceless and impossible to buy on the market, and if I swallowed this, wouldn’t I be ruined on the spot?
Ye Bufan’s face turned green.
However…
Luckily, the system was awesome. The greater the side effect, the stronger I became.
With my aptitude, even if I barely managed Foundation Establishment, I could only form a low-grade dao platform. Now, with the side effect boosting me, I could condense a supreme-grade dao platform!
Ye Bufan’s hands trembled with excitement.
Foundation Establishment dao platforms were divided into four grades: low, medium, high, and supreme, and the higher the quality, the greater the potential and strength.
The magic power contained in a supreme-grade dao platform was six or seven times greater than that of a low-grade one in both quality and quantity!
There was not a single person in the entire Heavenly Demon Sect who could condense a supreme-grade dao platform.
Chu Zixue was only high-grade.
Lu Luo was only low-grade as well.
Ye Bufan did not dare delay and immediately swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill.
A surging strength flowed into his abdomen, and his whole body felt like a red-hot iron, with scorching white smoke rising off him as his skin throbbed unbearably.
He gritted his teeth and fully circulated Blood Spirit Art.
The mist-like qi vortex in his dantian rapidly expanded and then contracted into solidity.
It repeated this cycle over and over.
An unknown amount of time later, the qi vortex inside his body had completely solidified, crystal-clear like crystal.
It spanned one zhang, a low-grade dao platform.
It was not over yet, and the dao platform expanded rapidly.
Medium-grade!
High-grade!
At one point.
The dao platform inside Ye Bufan’s body was as white as jade and had reached nine zhang and nine chi.
Supreme-grade dao platform!
“The commotion really was a bit too big!”
Ye Bufan suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the enormous spiritual qi vortex above his head, and quickly used Divine Concealment Art to frantically suppress his cultivation and reduce the disturbance.
Just as the vortex disappeared.
A sudden change erupted, and a streak of golden radiance rose up, enveloping Ye Bufan’s entire body.
The sound of the Great Dao chanted like a Buddhist hymn, and dragons soared while tigers leaped, making him seem ethereal, like an immortal or a Buddha.
The dao platform inside him broke through its limits, reached ten zhang, and turned golden!
Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment!
“What the hell?!”
Ye Bufan was stunned and completely shaken.
Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment… let alone in Zhao Kingdom, he had never even heard of it in more prosperous cultivation nations.
Throughout history, countless prodigies had pursued Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment and paid who knew what price, but all of them had ended in failure.
This existed only in legends!
It was not even among the grades!
“This Foundation Establishment Pill is even more poisonous than poison. Just how great did the side effect have to be for someone with my trash aptitude to condense Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?”
Ye Bufan did not know whether to be grateful or to curse it.
The benefits brought by Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment were equally outrageous, with magic power ten times greater than that of a low-grade dao foundation.
It was also incomparably stable.
He did not know exactly how strong he had become, but he was certain he could blow away his former self with a single breath.
He could also completely kill Lu Luo, who was at the third level of Foundation Establishment.
His five senses had improved dozens of times, and within ten li he could hear everything, including some flirtatious gasps from Heavenly Demon Sect disciples.
Looking farther out, he could even clearly distinguish flies mating eight li away.
At the same time, a new strength surged in his mind.
With his eyes closed, he could probe everything within twenty li.
Spiritual sense!
A supreme-grade dao platform’s spiritual sense range was only ten li, yet he had doubled it!
Suddenly.
Ye Bufan smelled a foul stench at the tip of his nose, and it turned out that his entire body was already covered in impurities expelled from his body.
He chuckled softly and shook his head, then casually looked up at the sky and went pale with fright.
The phenomena around him were still expanding!
The courtyard he was in had already been set up with a formation by Chu Zixue, but even the formation could no longer conceal the phenomena!
“Damn it! I underestimated the commotion of Foundation Establishment. If this got discovered, I was definitely done for!”
Ye Bufan quickly used Divine Concealment Art to frantically suppress his cultivation, and only then did the phenomena slowly fade.
Still feeling uneasy, he even slapped a pile of concealment talismans onto himself and set up another restriction.
Having managed to survive until now, Ye Bufan had more concealment methods than he knew what to do with.
Meanwhile.
Three li outside the courtyard.
“Yang spiritual root, huh. No wonder Chu Zixue, that bitch, had been out for so long. It turned out she had gone to find a cultivation cauldron.”
A woman in a blue long dress, beautiful and cold in temperament, sneered.
Lu Luo lowered her head and did not dare face the cold woman directly.
Shangguan Qingyao, the daughter of the Heavenly Demon Sect’s Grand Elder, was at great completion in Foundation Establishment, heartless and ruthless, and the number of righteous cultivators who had died at her hands was neither a thousand nor eight hundred.
She was third on the Demon Lord Ranking among the younger generation in Zhao Kingdom!
“This is a Tiger Demon Pill. It depletes potential and can extend lifespan by half a month. Give it to that old man named Ye Bufan and have him take it, so he does not cultivate himself to death.”
“Once he has perfected Blood Spirit Art and completed Foundation Establishment, I will seize him as my cultivation cauldron! No, I will bring him to my room today and make Chu Zixue, that bitch, come away with nothing!”
Shangguan Qingyao took out a black pill and sneered repeatedly.
To avoid complications, it was better to seize the cultivation cauldron first.
“Yes! Then… what about my cultivation resources?”
“Rest assured, once it is done, there will be plenty… hm?”
Shangguan Qingyao froze and abruptly turned to look into the distance.
She saw a streak of golden radiance appear in the distance, and it was so mighty that it made her feel as if she had encountered a natural enemy.
The radiance flashed and vanished, disappearing in an instant.
“A Foundation Establishment phenomenon? Could it be that someone had achieved supreme-grade Foundation Establishment?!”
Shangguan Qingyao was somewhat shocked. She was only high-grade Foundation Establishment, and only supreme-grade Foundation Establishment could suppress her. But that phenomenon did not seem quite right, and it had lasted far too briefly.
If she had not been so close, she would have had difficulty sensing it at all.
Of course, she had also thought of Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, but that was impossible.
“That direction is your residence, right? That old man?”
“Impossible. He was only at Qi Refining level twelve, and he was cultivating Blood Spirit Art, which depleted lifespan. What’s more, his aptitude was poor.”
Lu Luo was very shocked, and her eyes were full of envy. “It must be some other young cultivator nearby.”
Heavenly Demon Sect had six peaks, and she lived on Demonic Sword Peak, where there were over a thousand disciples. It was hard to tell exactly who had achieved supreme-grade Foundation Establishment.
“No matter who it was, find him for me. Such a monstrous genius must be befriended, or even…”
A blush rose on Shangguan Qingyao’s cheeks.
Supreme-grade Foundation Establishment had to be pursued no matter what and made into her dao companion.
Not just him.
Quite a few people among the upper and middle ranks of Heavenly Demon Sect had also sensed the phenomenon.
“That kind of phenomenon… why did it look like the rumored Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?! It appeared quickly and vanished just as fast, so fast that even spiritual sense had no time to investigate.”
“That was only a legend and could not be trusted. Still, one thing was certain: that person’s dao foundation was definitely top-tier! They had to be found!”
“It seemed to have come from the direction of Demonic Sword Peak. Was it one of Master Demonic Sword’s disciples? Seize them! This venerable one would take them as a disciple!”
On the six peaks of Heavenly Demon Sect, many Core Formation elders emerged from seclusion, their expressions excited and unable to restrain themselves.
Even the Grand Elder and sect master, who had been in seclusion for a long time, were startled awake.
No one dared even imagine the rumored Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment; it was only an ethereal legend.
However, supreme-grade Foundation Establishment was enough to drive them mad.
This meant that person’s spiritual root aptitude was absolutely heaven-defying, and with such a foundation.
Given time, they could absolutely break through to Nascent Soul!
Heavenly Demon Sect had only one Nascent Soul Old Ancestor!
He had suppressed Zhao Kingdom for eight hundred years!
“Seal off Heavenly Demon Sect. The upper ranks of Demonic Sword Peak should immediately investigate who exactly that supreme-grade Foundation Establishment was!”
“Also, seal off the news! This venerable one did not want such a promising talent to be assassinated!”
Because the matter was of great importance, the sect master immediately issued orders.
As for the lower-level demonic cultivators, they actually had not seen much, since the event had lasted far too briefly and their senses were nowhere near as sharp as those of the upper ranks.
However, there was one exception.
The one who saw it most clearly was Zhou Wangchen.
Beneath a rock outside Ye Bufan’s courtyard, a gray-clothed youth looked at the golden light in the courtyard, and his scalp went numb.
He quickly took out an ancient hand-copied booklet and, after reading it, trembled all over.
This booklet had been obtained from an ancient cave dwelling and recorded many ancient secrets.
If Ye Bufan saw this person, he would definitely feel that he looked familiar.
Because this was the sycophant who fawned over Lu Luo every day, the one who refined Copper Armored Corpse.
“Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment! So it was not a legend; it was real?!”
Zhou Wangchen trembled uncontrollably in disbelief.
He had fawned over Lu Luo for many years, and these past few days he had noticed that Lu Luo often went to the Demon Pill Pavilion to fetch pills, and they were Qi Refining stage pills.
At the time, he had felt something was off, which was why he had started watching the small courtyard.
He had thought Lu Luo was keeping a pretty boy, but he had never expected the other party to achieve Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment right under his nose!
At this distance, he saw it far more clearly than those people in the upper ranks.
First came envy, then jealousy, and then hatred.
He had fawned over her for so long, only to find out she was secretly keeping a man behind his back.
Just imagining his beloved woman being pinned beneath someone else made him burn with rage.
“Just after Foundation Establishment, with an unstable foundation, I have a very good chance of turning this pretty boy into a corpse puppet! How strong would a corpse puppet made from Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment be?!”
Zhou Wangchen’s eyes even turned a little red.
“No, after refining him into a corpse puppet, I might even be able to possess him, then walk the corpse path and become the Ancestor of Corpses!”
Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment was favored by the Heavenly Dao; whoever tried to possess it would die.
But if he was first refined into a corpse puppet and then possessed, there would be no problem.
And he was an early Foundation Establishment stage cultivator. With several Foundation Establishment stage Copper Armored Corpse as well, he was confident he could take down that pretty boy just after Foundation Establishment!
“He needed to go back and prepare first, then make his move in secret!”
Zhou Wangchen panted like an old ox, could no longer hold himself back, and hurried away.