"Brother Mo, what is this?"
"Junior Brother Yuan, take a look and guess." Mo Fei said as he turned the box around and faced Yuanxiao.
Yuanxiao also sat down at the stone table and took a closer look. It was a black pill that exuded a faint medicinal fragrance. Now that he was very close, he could feel the fluctuations of spiritual energy emanating from the pill.
Yuanxiao suddenly remembered what the great elder had said before.
"Senior Brother Mo, I heard from the Great Elder before that you had the opportunity to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage two years ago, but you were delayed because of worldly things. Could this pill be related to breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage?" Yuan Xiao guessed.
"That's right, and that's not right. This pill is indeed related to the breakthrough to the foundation building stage. What the elder said about me having the opportunity to breakthrough to the foundation building stage two years ago was also true." Mo Fei said slowly.
"But it wasn't because I was entangled in worldly affairs at the Old Mountain Gate that delayed my cultivation. It was because I had already experienced a failed foundation building. In the following two years, I used up all my spirit stones, and sold almost all the treasures I had, before I could exchange for this second pill."
"Two years ago, I participated in the sect competition and won the first place in the inner sect disciple of that year. I won the most precious reward of that year, the foundation-building pill!
Yes, it was the foundation-building pill! The one in the box in front of me is also one! After getting the foundation-building pill, I found ways to borrow some spirit stones and began to retreat to build my foundation.
As a result, you now know that I failed to build my foundation and it was all in vain!
In the sect competition, although we inner sect disciples can participate every year and there are 1~2 foundation-building pills as the highest reward every year, the sect stipulates that once you have won the foundation-building pill reward once, even if you win the first place again in the annual competition, you can only give it to the next person.
This is the only way to ensure that the best in the sect have the opportunity to get the foundation-building pill and give all the outstanding inner sect disciples hope and opportunity."
"Now two years have passed, and I have spent all my wealth again. This time, I exchanged it for a Foundation Establishment Pill from the sect's Treasure Pavilion.
But I don't know what chances I have of succeeding in building the foundation this time!" Mo Fei's words were filled with both hope and worry.
"Brother Mo, even with this foundation-building pill, is it possible that we are still unsure of building the foundation?" Yuan Xiao was somewhat puzzled.
After all, he still knew very little about elixirs. It seemed that if he had time, he could go and talk to Master Crazy. Even if Master Crazy was really crazy, he knew more about elixirs than he did.
"Brother Yuan, you don't know. Although the Foundation Building Pill is a sacred elixir in cultivation and can increase our success rate in building the foundation, its effect is also limited.
The opportunities and luck in the dark are also unpredictable. Some people even say that taking the Foundation Building Pill is gambling on luck!"
"Foundation Building Pills are also divided into grades, low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. For example, the black Foundation Building Pill in front of us that we exchanged for is a low-grade Foundation Building Pill.
Medium-grade Foundation Building Pills will have pill patterns on them, high-grade Foundation Building Pills will have pill clouds on them, and top-grade Foundation Building Pills are said to emit colorful halos. Low-grade Foundation Building Pills can only increase our foundation building success rate by 20%.
Medium-grade Foundation Building Pills can increase the foundation building success rate by 50%, high-grade Foundation Building Pills can increase the foundation building success rate by 70%, and the rare top-grade Foundation Building Pills can increase the foundation building success rate by 90%."
Mo Fei said with a wry smile: "Although I have been in the 10th level of Qi Refining for more than two years, I am not naturally gifted. At most, I can only say that I have practiced harder for a longer time and have a more solid foundation.
Without the support of the Foundation Establishment Pill, I still have no chance of successfully establishing the foundation. Even with the support of this low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, I only have a 40% chance of success this time!
Moreover, if you take the Foundation Establishment Pill many times and fail to impact the foundation, the probability of successfully establishing the foundation will become lower and lower, and it will become more and more difficult in the future!"