Chapter 48

Jiang Pingan was utterly astonished. Just by taking a deep breath, he had touched the boundary barrier.

This pill was even more precious than he had imagined.

Holding the pill in his hand, it shimmered with a rainbow of colors. Although he did not recognize the pill, he clearly understood its value.

He quietly took out the bronze treasure basin and carefully placed the pill inside.

"I wonder if such a high-grade pill can be replicated."

Jiang Pingan held his breath in tension.

Although he had previously replicated the Foundation Establishment Pill and the Realm Breaking Pill, these pills were not particularly valuable.

This strange seven-colored pill was different, its value far surpassing those pills.

Just as Jiang Pingan was worried, a brilliant rainbow light illuminated the entire room.

Because of the barrier, the light did not spread out.

Jiang Pingan was incredibly excited, braving the blinding light to look at the bronze basin.

The pills appeared!

But it was not ten, only five.

Jiang Pingan was stunned; this was the first time such a situation had occurred.

Previously, he had always replicated ten, but this time only five.

The bronze basin indeed had a limit; it could not always replicate ten times the resources.

Replicating something of such high value might result in this situation.

Jiang Pingan was a bit disappointed; five a day seemed a bit too few.

Fortunately, no one knew his thoughts, or countless cultivators would surely want to bash his head in.

Many families spent enormous resources to find just one pill, and he was complaining about having five a day.

Jiang Pingan put away five pills, adding Meng Jing's, making a total of six.

"I hope it can improve my talent a bit."

Jiang Pingan did not expect to become something like a Divine Phoenix Body or a Ten Thousand Gold Body; he just wanted to speed up his cultivation a little.

He swallowed a seven-colored pill and began to digest it.

In that instant, a surge of energy quickly flooded his limbs and every part of his body, and his seven orifices emitted a rainbow of light.

Jiang Pingan felt as if he were flying into the clouds, his body light and more comfortable than ever before.

"Crack!"

A sound of a chain breaking came from inside his body.

Without using the Foundation Establishment Pill, he had directly established his foundation!

The spiritual energy in his body transformed into spiritual liquid, one of the most obvious changes of establishing a foundation.

The spiritual energy turned into spiritual liquid, increasing the energy storage in his body.

The surrounding energy converged into Jiang Pingan's body like water filling a large pit.

Worried that it would affect his breakthrough, Jiang Pingan threw out ten thousand spirit stones and swallowed a Cultivation Essence Pill.

At the same time, on the mountain peak.

A defeated genius, dejected, descended from the twenty-ninth floor to find a room on the thirtieth floor to rest.

This genius was also famous in his hometown, but here, he could only be at the bottom.

"Too strong, I can't fight them, but I won't give up. I must push forward!"

The young man's heart was still filled with fighting spirit.

Just as he was about to recover his spiritual energy, he noticed that the surrounding spiritual energy was extremely thin.

"What's going on? Why is the spiritual energy on the thirtieth floor so scarce? It's even less than outside."

Not just him, but others who had come down from the thirtieth floor also found the energy on the thirtieth floor to be unusually scarce.

"It must be the princess's way to motivate everyone to work hard in cultivation, making the spiritual energy on the thirtieth floor so scarce."

"I must push to higher peaks!"

No one suspected that the spiritual energy had been absorbed by someone, as a genius with such ability would not be on the thirtieth floor.

Three days later, the effects of the talent-improving pill wore off.

Jiang Pingan slowly opened his eyes, and the ten thousand spirit stones in front of him were drained and shattered into crystals.

Jiang Pingan was secretly alarmed; had he broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, or even the Golden Core stage?

The consumption of spiritual energy was terrifying.

However, he was happy that he had successfully established his foundation.

He tried to activate the *Bodhi Body Technique*, and indeed, it ran more than ten times faster than before!

The pill Meng Jing gave him was indeed extraordinary.

No wonder the treasure basin could only replicate five.

What Jiang Pingan did not know was that the Heavenly Profound Pill improved far more than just that.

Jiang Pingan suppressed his joy and calmed himself down.

Although he had established his foundation, the gap between him and other geniuses was still very large.

Defeating those geniuses would not be easy; he still needed to learn cultivation techniques.

The main reasons those geniuses were so powerful were:

1. Fast cultivation speed, breaking through as easily as drinking water.

2. Abundant spiritual energy in their bodies; the better the talent, the better the energy storage, allowing them to use techniques freely without worrying about waste.

3. Special talents, such as the Thunder Spirit Body, which can summon lightning.

4. Mastery of powerful techniques.

Jiang Pingan now only had one advantage: abundant energy in his body.

He was confident that in terms of energy, he could compete with the Divine Phoenix Body at the top of the mountain.

In other aspects, he was far inferior to the other geniuses.

In terms of cultivation speed and special talents, he might not match those geniuses, as these were innate.

However, in terms of techniques, he could try to catch up.

He would start cultivating the *Limitless Fist* and go eat.

He hadn't eaten for three days and was quite hungry.

Jiang Pingan came out of his room and looked at the mountain peak, where the battles were no longer as intense as before.

The rankings were mostly fixed, with only a few floors still having battles.

Jiang Pingan looked up to find Meng Jing.

He finally saw her on the twenty-fifth floor.

She was currently fighting someone.

"Despicable scoundrel!"

Something had happened, and Meng Jing was angrily cursing while swinging her blue-flowered saber.

"Meng girl, you can't say that. The rules allow people from the lower floors to challenge those on the upper floors."

Ma Wei, though plump, was abnormally agile, and even Meng Jing's fast saber could not catch him.

"Bang!"

Ma Wei swung his sword, creating several sword shadows.

Meng Jing's face changed, and she decisively retreated, jumping to the next floor.

"So weak, a Thunder Spirit Body, and that's all you are."

Ma Wei put away his sword and mocked her without restraint.

Meng Jing wanted to retort but saw Jiang Pingan at the foot of the mountain and flashed down.

"You've made me so angry, let's go eat."

Meng Jing gritted her teeth, very angry.

"What happened?"

Jiang Pingan asked, sensing that Meng Jing was not angry because of her defeat.

"It's that fatso from the Ethereal Sect. He has the strength of the top ten floors but deliberately challenged me from behind, pushing me down and preventing me from going up."

Because Ma Wei was blocking her, Meng Jing could not go up.

The higher up, the more resources there were. With him blocking her, she could not obtain more cultivation resources.

The worst part was the risk of not making it into the top ten.

Jiang Pingan frowned and looked up at Ma Wei.

The reason Ma Wei was targeting Meng Jing was because of him.

Ma Wei noticed Jiang Pingan's gaze and shouted loudly,

"What are you looking at? If you're not satisfied, come challenge me! Oh, I remember, you're just trash and don't have the qualifications to challenge me, hahaha~"

His laughter was loud, attracting the attention of many geniuses.

"This person actually dared to offend a disciple of the Ethereal Sect, he must have a problem with his head."

"Poor guy, if he can't go up, he'll have fewer resources, and fewer resources mean slower cultivation."

"Whatever, don't talk to that Jiang Pingan, or Ma Wei will remember you."

"Who would talk to someone who's always on the thirtieth floor?"

Some people were gloating, some were secretly sighing, and most were focused on their cultivation, ignoring such trivial matters.

"You..."

Meng Jing was about to charge up, but Jiang Pingan pulled her into the room.