Lying Low While Cultivating Immortality in Two Worlds

"So that was it...when Qi Ingestion Path cultivators forged their Dao Foundation, there was actually something similar to a Foundation Establishment Pill formula—a ‘Dao Foundation Pill Formula’?"

"With this pill scripture, even if this trip to the Blessed Land yielded nothing else, it would already be enough."

Fang Qing silently contemplated the pill scripture and gained greatly from it.

"For Qi Ingestion Path cultivators, the most orthodox path of cultivation was actually to comprehend the Dao and thereby form the Dao Foundation"...through perceiving the Great Dao and condensing one’s Dao attainment to refine the Dao Foundation, generating the most suitable and mysterious foundation for oneself...this was the method of ancient cultivators, long abandoned in the present age."

"If I wanted to comprehend the Dao and forge the Dao Foundation, that was basically impossible...or rather, it had been wrong from the very beginning. But the ancient method was not good either: entry was difficult, progress slow...so it was gradually replaced by the modern method."

"Looking at it this way, could the Great Sun True Explanation in my hand actually be an ancient method? No wonder it could no longer be cultivated..."

"Besides that, there was the method where a cultivator at the Ninth Layer of Qi Ingestion, at peak completion, relied on external objects to form the Dao Foundation! That required several specific spiritual items; just any one would not do..."

For example, Fang Qing still had a large quantity of Zhen Water spiritual materials, many taken from Second-Tier demonic beasts.

In the World of Ancient Shu, those would definitely count as Zhen Water Dao Foundation spiritual items—but could they allow a Ninth Layer Qi Ingestion cultivator of Zhen Water to forge a Dao Foundation solely with them?