Male Inferiority and Female Supremacy in the World of Immortal Cultivation

Chapter 154: 154. Terrible but Effective Way

Foundation Establishment is a complex project involving many rigorous theories, enough to write a thousand papers and open a separate course.

Fang Zhou is still a novice among novices on the cultivation path, relying on some tricks to get where he is today, unlike other cultivators who progressed step by step with solid practical and theoretical foundations.

Fang Zhou is fairly adept at practical operations, but he’s clueless when it comes to theory, so he doesn’t fully understand the various forces involved in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

However, based on his own understanding, the Qi Refining Realm is about using spiritual energy to nourish and strengthen the body, while the Foundation Establishment Realm is about transforming the body with spiritual energy. In short, it’s like a complete transformation, transcending the ordinary.

If that’s still unclear, we can put it more plainly—cultivation is a process of getting handsome. Qi Refinement is like using skincare products to maintain your face, while Foundation Establishment is like cosmetic surgery, directly altering your face with a knife.

And both processes complement each other. When the Qi Refining Realm uses spiritual energy to nourish the body, it also preconditions the body to adapt to spiritual energy, thereby increasing the success rate during Foundation Establishment.

Fang Zhou started Foundation Establishment following the method taught by Yu Qing, which described the process in detail, with two key points to pay attention to. One is to endure the pain; if you can’t, you’ll fail if you abandon the process. The second is the need for a massive amount of spiritual energy, and if it runs out midway, you’ll also fail.

Fang Zhou only understood what these two points truly meant after he began Foundation Establishment and grasped the reality of the process.

The entire Foundation Establishment process, in simple terms, is using spiritual energy to wash over the body, shattering every part of the body and then repairing it with spiritual energy, repeatedly shattering and repairing it. During this process, spiritual energy penetrates cells previously unreachable to complete the transformation.