foundation establishment realm

honestly , Ken found the auction a waste of time. there was no problem with the auction as he liked the atmosphere very much , much better than the small auctions on earth he had taken part in for buying and selling some goodies that were obtained from various ancient sites all over the world . but most of the items were fake every time so at least the items in this auction were of good quality .

ken didnt find any useful herb that he could use to refine some pills of high tier. the weapons were of no interest for ken either so he left mid way as the last of the items were all weapons from various refiners in the sect .

ken had now returned to his house and was mediating on his bed . actually he was only going through the devouring dragon art once again properly because he was troubled by the energy needed to advance to higher realms . of course the information was the same and ken had accepted it already .

all those blood qi pills that he consumed to advance nearly 3 full minor realms wouldn't provide enough energy for ken to break through and reach the foundation establishment realm . a cultivators spirit root transforms in his inner world after reaching the foundation realm so the energy required to break through is much more compared to tempering the body and storing the excess energy in the body in the qi condensing realm.

a dragon's inner world was much much bigger than any cultivator from the start . so the energy required to further rise in realms could not be compared to them when it comes to ken . well he is troubled now because he wanted to advance to the foundation establishment realm in go so now when he isn't getting any tasks from the guild , it seems impossible . ken can only hope that suman understood his explanation and would forward him the tasks to refine pills from tomorrow . well he could just advance slowly and ken wouldn't mind much either.

but these thoughts turned to be unnecessary as suman passed him the task which was to refine 25 sets of qi breaking pills . these pills are somewhat more important than the blood qi pills because this pill increase the chances of a cultivator to break through and reach 4th level of qi condensation realm from 3rd level . and similarly the chances to break through a realm till the 6 th level .

this pill is much needed by the less talented cultivators as they experience bottlenecks every time they try to advance some realm . of course ken is different now because he just needs to absorb energy and the next realm will be reached easily .

ken recieved 300 sets of herbs which was too lucky for him as he needed more pills now . this pill is difficult to refine than the blood qi pill so the success rate expected from ken was much lower too . this time ken didnt bother holding back and divided his consciousness into 9 because the number of herbs needed to refine the pill were only 7 and the rest of the two will be responsible for providing mental power while others exhaust it .

as expected he refined all 300 sets in just 7 hours and some minutes because there was no break this time in between . the essence was a little more than the blood qi pills so he succeeded in refining 23 or 24 top grade pills from each set of 275 . the rest were left for last as they were for 3rd grade and 4th grade pills . ken had increased the quality this time because if he showed progress then more jobs will be passed to him which meant more pills .

in truth ken only recieved jobs which were rejected by others or nobody else was free . but to him these things didnt matter as he only wanted more pills to increase his cultivation from this alchemy guild .

adam sent 25 jade bottles which were white and golden in colour through the space portal and started mediating to recover his mental power . it took 2 hours for his mental power to return till more than 90 percent and it was sufficient for ken .

this time ken from the start stuffed 10 pills inside his mouth and increased every time by 20 more as he could definitely endure small pain which was nothing compared to his resistance . more than 6000 pils were absorbed in just 4 hours by ken and finally a bang was heard inside his mind like a dam broke open and the water finally gushed out from the opening .

ken only focused on circulating the energy according to devouring dragon art because he could always check his progress after confirming that his qi had calmed down . others need to stabilize their foundation for hours or even days but ken just needed to run his art till the qi calmed down after sudden increase.

ken was truly happy after he saw the scene inside his inner world . other cultivators awaken a small world first where many small orbs of light which is the qi floats randomly and the amount of qi orbs will determine the future progress. the more qi orbs there are the more the future increases in cultivation . but Ken's inner world was already as big as a small room and qi paricles had filled the room leaving only some space between each other to float. this meant that Ken's energy reserve was too monstrous already and even more than when cultivators reach the middle levels of earth realm . so the future energy required by him to advance could be guessed easily as it's simply vast .

now Ken's back had grown about 1 inch long grey dragon scales and they had filled his back tightly . these same scales would mature into what they can in the foundation realm when ken reaches the 2nd level of foundation establishment realm . these inch long scales would grow more than 4 inches long each . and for further small levels each time these scales would grow on some part of Ken's body till the 9th level when his body would transform into a dragon human warrior .

now his body at least 10 times stronger than it was in peak 9th level of qi condensation realm . so the huge amount of energy required him to break through had made his body too strong and his qi too pure and vast . ken was somewhat exhausted as his mental energy had too increased a lot so the sudden increase in soul strenght but his lost mental power had yet to recover . so now sleeping was the best choice for him . he focused his mind and with a small command all the scales easily went back inside his body . ken then laid down on the fluffy bed and started snoring immediately...