A Record of A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

Chapter 385: Sea Ape Island

Han Li gently pinched a pill between two fingers and held it up in front of his eyes. After focusing for a moment, a faint smile appeared on his face.

Finally, this desperate gamble wasn’t in vain. With these few “Dust-Settling Pills,” the chances of Quhun and himself reaching foundation formation stage had increased by a bit.

After putting the pills back, Han Li carefully placed the bottle into his storage bag.

Now, Han Li needed to find a place that was both rich in spiritual energy and safe, so he could hurry and advance to foundation formation.

Whether it was Quhun or himself, as long as one of them reached the foundation formation stage, they would have a fighting chance against the pursuers who were core formation stage cultivators.

However, foundation formation wasn’t something that could be achieved overnight.

Except for those cultivation prodigies with innate spiritual roots, other cultivators needed enough spirit medicines and time to break through the bottleneck.

The “Snow Spirit Water” and “Heavenly Fire Elixir” Han Li had originally intended to buy were two essential spiritual entities that cultivators must consume during foundation formation.

It wasn’t that one couldn’t form a foundation without them, but the success rate would be so low that immortal cultivators would be horrified.

Although no one had officially recorded statistics, it was said the success rate was far below one percent.

Besides these two, there were other spirit medicines that could be consumed during foundation formation—the more varieties, the better the chance.

But none had as significant an effect as “Snow Spirit Water” and “Heavenly Fire Elixir.”

Of course, like those two spiritual entities, taking them repeatedly had no effect. After all, this was not just refining qi through meditation; consuming the right amount of different medicines was best—too much could cause the opposite effect.

Interestingly, other spirit medicines were far less effective than “Snow Spirit Water” and “Heavenly Fire Elixir,” yet they were even harder to find and rarer.

This was because most required one or even several millennium spiritual herbs as raw materials to concoct.

Ordinary cultivators simply could not afford such extravagance.

At most, aside from the “Snow Spirit Water” and “Heavenly Fire Elixir,” having one or two additional types was considered extremely lavish.

Of course, this was not a big problem for Han Li.

Except for a few rare spiritual herbs he either didn’t have or hadn’t heard of, the rest had long since matured during his years of cultivation on Xiaohuan Mountain. Using them, he had prepared more than a dozen kinds of auxiliary spirit medicines for foundation formation, all safely stored in one of his storage bags.

What was most surprising was that these spirit medicines did not require innate true fire to refine. They could be simply concocted like ordinary medicines of the mortal world.

Furthermore, their formulas were easily found clearly documented in various classic texts.

This had puzzled Han Li greatly at the time, and even now he still didn’t fully understand.

The five Dust-Settling Pills he had obtained were likely one of the auxiliary medicines needed by cultivators in the Chaotic Star Sea during foundation formation, hence their extreme rarity.

But it didn’t mean that taking these auxiliary medicines would immediately increase the success rate by a large margin compared to other cultivators.

Based on the information Han Li had gathered, even his extremely lavish foundation formation regimen would only raise the success rate by around 10 to 15 percent at most compared to others.

Still better than not taking them at all, of course. But these were just Han Li’s speculations!

Moreover, the foundation formation process didn’t end in a matter of days or weeks.

According to various texts and the foundation formation experience once mentioned by Li Huayuan, the entire process took three to five years.