After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, Luo Chen realized that the direct benefits of cultivating in a spirit land could rival the effects of supplementary pills.0

Cultivating for one day in a low-grade second-tier spirit land produced about half the effect of a low-grade qi-consolidation pill. When paired with supporting resources like Divine Fiery Incense and repeated cycles of his core cultivation technique, the spirit energy absorbed could nearly match the effect of a regular qi-consolidation pill. If one cultivated in a second-tier top-grade cave residence, the benefits increased significantly. This theory generally applied to ordinary early stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Luo Chen fell in that category.5

In fact, his dependence on spirit lands far exceeded the benefits he would gain from second-tier, low-grade pills, because his physique was stronger and his divine soul foundation was deeper. With the support of Divine Fiery Incense, he could do ten cycles a day, and beacause of that, his demands for spirit energy density were extremely high. 2

Fortunately, he had secured a second-tier top-grade cave residence. After one day of cultivation, if the spirit power refined from low-grade pills counted as one unit, and...0