In the sixty years Zhou Yi spent in secluded cultivation, the Marketplace saw only three Foundation Establishment Pills appear.
Roughly every fourteen or fifteen years one would surface, as if the Foundation Establishment Pill, too, required an age of maturation. It was hard not to let loose cultivators suspect this was bait cast by the Dan Ding Sect.
Even so, no matter how deep a loose cultivator hid, they could not help but come out into the open.
Take, for instance, the pill from thirteen years ago—it eventually ended up in the hands of the Chu State's Royal Family. An old monster from the Imperial Clan, hidden within a spiritual land, successfully advanced to Foundation Establishment Adept.
He then joined the Dan Ding Sect as a formal disciple. Seemed no one suffered a loss.
"The mortal royal families command armies and secret spies. Within their own domains, searching for spiritual lands is far easier than for loose cultivators."
