Evan Lin stored the five hundred Nourishing Spirit Pills into his Spatial Ring.
He also tried once more to probe the situation beneath Medicine King Valley.
But still found nothing at all.
Lily Zhao continued to recuperate quietly inside the Soul-Sacrifice Beauty Scroll.
Since she didn’t come out on her own, Evan didn’t disturb her either.
During this period, Evan remained in secluded cultivation within Medicine King Valley, absorbing and refining Nourishing Spirit Pills.
He gradually refined all five hundred high-quality Nourishing Spirit Pills.
When he finished refining four hundred of them—
Medicine King Valley began to shake violently.
Birds scattered from the forest.
Thunderous rumbling echoed through Evan’s body, like rolling wind and storm.
A soft halo rose layer by layer over Evan’s whole body.
He opened his eyes, dazzling divine light shining within them.
With a casual wave of his hand, he stirred up a visible gust of force in mid-air.
Inside his body, his strength felt as if it had reached its peak.
“Four hundred high-quality Nourishing Spirit Pills fully absorbed, and now I’ve broken through late Foundation Establishment to reach its peak!”
“But there’s still some distance to the peak transformation—forming a Golden Core.”
Evan frowned.
Now, his dantian’s spirit platform was overflowing with spiritual qi, but the distance to condensing a Golden Core still seemed long and vague.
Back then, on the Immortal Martial Continent—
At the moment Evan reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, his feeling was completely different from now.
At that time, his spiritual qi was abundant, and he was only one step away from the Golden Core.
It was like a thin barrier—once broken, he could step into the Golden Core stage.
But now, even though the spiritual qi in his body was abundant...
The feeling Evan got was that the distance to the Golden Core was still not short.
It was a mysterious, almost unfathomable feeling.
"Is it because Earth’s spiritual qi is insufficient?"
Evan pondered, but found nothing.
Normally, when one reaches the peak of Foundation Establishment, the biggest obstacle to condensing a Golden Core is not spiritual qi, but insight.
For Evan, insight was never a problem.
But every time he tried to condense a Golden Core, he always failed.
Not only did he fail, he couldn’t even begin.
Often, before he even started to condense the Golden Core, it had already dissipated completely.
Evan was completely baffled.
When he had free time, Evan checked the dragon on his left hand.
A faint blue light appeared on the dragon’s body on his left hand.
This had never happened before.
But every time Evan tried to communicate with the dragon on his left hand, it still acted like it was asleep, completely ignoring him.
He ended his secluded cultivation.
Warren Wu was already waiting outside.