On the Path to Immortality, Mastering a Hundred Arts Chapter Fifty-One: Stepping into Foundation Establishment!

[This simulation consumed 1.2 years of lifespan, with 24.2 years of lifespan remaining.]
[Simulation in progress...]
[At age 20, you mobilized all your personal connections and resources to search for the whereabouts of the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill.]
[At age 21, you controlled Luo Hu using the Soul-Seizing Gu worm, further expanding your network and influence in Anhe City.]
[At age 22, you attempted to break through your bottleneck, ending in failure.]
[At age 23, the Soul of Yan initiated a backlash, but it was suppressed by your powerful spiritual sense.]
[At age 25, having received no news of the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill, you chose to seek help from Lei Peng.]
[As a figure from several centuries ago, Lei Peng knew the materials required to refine the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill, though he lacked a detailed recipe.]
[You obtained all the material information for the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill from Lei Peng.]
[At age 27, you traveled far and wide to acquire and search for the refinement materials.]
[At age 32, you gathered three sets of materials for the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill.]
[Lacking a recipe, you began fumbling your way through the refinement of the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill.]
[Unsurprisingly, your pill refinement failed, but you gained some experiential details from the process.]
[Stirring up your fighting spirit, you set out to collect the materials for the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill once more.]
[At age 35, with the aid of the Evergreen Art, Hongling cultivated ten sets of materials for you.]
[You quickly exhausted all the materials and still failed to succeed, though you accumulated a significant amount of experience.]
[At age 38, you gathered your strength and re-ignited the cauldron to refine pills.]
[By this time, you had basically figured out the details of refining the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill, but you were constrained by your level of cultivation and unable to succeed.]
[At age 39, you left Anhe City and traveled thousands of miles to seek help from a Tier 2 Upper-Grade Alchemist to refine the Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pill.]
[Coveting the pill recipe, the other party harbored the intent to kill you and seize your treasures.]
[You counter-killed them.]
[At age 40, you sought Lei Peng's help, wishing to utilize his influence to find a reliable alchemist.]
[Lei Peng agreed to help, but also put forward a request: for you to take Cuicui away from the Guiyuan Kingdom and find a safe region to live in.]
[You learned from Lei Peng that the century-long war between human cultivators and fierce beasts was showing signs of breaking out, and the three major kingdoms of Guiyuan, Cixi, and Luoshan would all be dragged into the quagmire.]
[At age 41, you obtained ten Heavenly Mystic Foundation Establishment Pills.]
[At age 42, you went into seclusion to assault the bottleneck.]
[At age 44, you stepped into the Foundation Establishment realm, becoming a Foundation Establishment master, and your lifespan increased by six years.]
[At age 46, your pill refinement proficiency advanced to the Tier 2 Mid-Grade!]
[Your talisman-making proficiency advanced to the Tier 2 Mid-Grade!]
[At age 47, your formation mastery advanced to the Tier 2 Mid-Grade!]
[Your puppet-making proficiency advanced to the Tier 2 Mid-Grade!]
[Your spiritual planting mastery advanced to the Tier 2 Mid-Grade!]
[At age 48, you built up your strength, recruited troops and horses, and broadly sowed favors.]
[At age 49, with the momentum of sweeping away an army like falling leaves, you crushed the Heavenly Crane Sect, and your fierce reputation began to emerge!]

[Old Ancestor Heavenly Crane fought you to the death; sparing no cost to destroy your own foundations, you unleashed dozens of powerful secret arts, relying on the ruthless method of trading life for life to severely wound him.]
[Seeing that defeat was certain, Old Ancestor Heavenly Crane dropped harsh threats and activated a secret art to flee for his life.]
[Unable to catch up to him, you felt inwardly vexed.]
[You were heavily injured, beyond saving, and passed away inside the Heavenly Splendor Hall.]
[You died.]
[This simulation has ended. You may retain one of the following options!]
[Your cultivation realm at age 49.]
[Your formation experience at age 49.]
[Your pill refinement experience at age 49.]
[Your talisman-making experience at age 49.]
...
"Select all!"
Li Feng did not hesitate.
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the cultivation realm at age 49.]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the formation experience at age 49.]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the pill refinement experience at age 49.]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the talisman-making experience at age 49.]
...
Following the system's voice, majestic spiritual power and a massive flood of memories poured into Li Feng's body.
At his dantian, the dense mist-like spiritual power rapidly compressed and transformed its form under the blessing of the new energy, ultimately turning into a crystal-clear liquid spiritual droplet.
Li Feng felt every pore in his body exude comfort.
He picked up the talisman brush and brandished it freely in the air.
Amidst the dragon-flying and snake-wancing strokes, profound and abstruse patterns condensed together, burst with bright light, and triggered bursts of thunderous flashes.
Looking at the talisman he had so easily crafted, a smile that Li Feng could not suppress appeared on his face.
When a talisman master stepped into the Tier 2 Mid-Grade, they could make talismans in the void without relying on talisman materials, but this was limited to Tier 1 talismans.
To craft Tier 2 talismans, one still had to rely on specialized materials.
However, what Li Feng had just created in the void was a Tier 2 Thunder Talisman.
Perhaps due to having a somewhat special constitution, he felt no strain when crafting Tier 2 talismans.
Sensing the endlessly surging power within his body, Li Feng became fascinated by it.
"Beneath Foundation Establishment, all are mere ants; this saying is completely true!"
[The host only has 27.2 years of lifespan remaining.]
However, he did not rejoice for long before he noticed that the remaining lifespan was incorrect.
Habitually concealing his true cultivation level, Li Feng questioned the system, "Did you calculate it wrong?"
"When I broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, my lifespan increased by six years. Deducting the one year of lifespan consumed by selecting all, it should still be 29.2 years."
"How could you deduct two extra years from me?"
[Rule 3 for the host: As the host's major cultivation realm ascends, the amount of lifespan consumed by each simulation will also increase.]
[Similarly, as the host's major cultivation realm ascends, the amount of lifespan consumed by selecting all will also increase.]
Li Feng was somewhat displeased and argued with the system reasonably.
"Your original rules didn't state that selecting all would increase the lifespan consumption amount; these two rules are fundamentally not the same thing at all."
[The final interpretation right belongs to the system! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]
"You..."
Li Feng wanted to curse, but his twelve years of compulsory education pulled his rationality back.
"How much lifespan does a single simulation in the Foundation Establishment realm require now?"
Speechless as he was, life still had to go on.
Now that the rules had undergone some changes, he needed to understand and familiarize himself with them as soon as possible to avoid getting trapped again.
[A single simulation in the Foundation Establishment realm consumes 4 years of lifespan.]
"Damn you, it quadrupled, you *****."
The tiny bit of refinement Li Feng had left vanished completely.
After cursing continuously for half an hour, he finally stopped with a sense of lingering grievance.
The system had long since remained silent; let the wind blow and the rain beat, drip-drop, not a single sound could be heard.
Li Feng calculated that at this rate of consumption, his meager lifespan was only enough for a little over five simulations.
If tricky problems arose in the future requiring multiple simulations, it would mean he was wasting several years of his life in vain.
"Damn it!"
"Soul of Yan, get over here!"
"Master, do you have any instructions?"
Summoned, the Soul of Yan hurriedly rushed over and knelt. He could feel the monstrous, suppressed rage emanating from Li Feng.
Currently, this vessel of the Soul of Yan was entwined with deathly aura, devoid of vitality, and nearing the end of its road.
Li Feng intended to find a new body for it.
"Are you confident you can seize the body of a Tier 2 Level 8 cultivator?!"
"I cannot do so currently."
The Soul of Yan played crafty tricks.
Li Feng kicked him, "Then what do I keep a piece of trash like you around for? I might as well eat you, and incidentally see if the protein of a Soul Gu worm is higher than that of beef."
"Master, appease your anger. Actually, it's not entirely impossible, but the premise is to make the other party lose consciousness."
He did not believe that Li Feng, a mere Qi Condensation ant, could deal with a Tier 2 Level 8 master.