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In the narrow, damp cave.
"Hoo!"
Chen Li exhaled a breath of stale air, opened his eyes, and concluded a cycle of Grand Circulation cultivation, fully recovering the depleted Spiritual Power.
He checked his game panel.
"State: Foundation Establishment Second Layer: 54/100"
"My cultivation level is now over half-way through the second layer of Foundation Establishment. Going by this rate, I should be able to step into the third layer next year at this time," Chen Li calculated silently, "And after that comes the middle stage of Foundation Establishment..."
In the entire Returning True Sect, there were only six people at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
Most of them were old and decrepit.
Even if you included Xia Hongyi, who was at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and the Golden Core Ancestor, there were only eight of them.
