Seeking Immortality In The World Of Cultivation

If struck by several, or even more than a dozen White Rainbow Mountain Opening Talismans, even a Golden Elixir Master would have a hard time getting away unscathed.

Moreover, once one begins crafting such Talismanic Treasures as the White Rainbow Mountain Opening Talisman,

it would mean that He Song’s cultivation level had undoubtedly reached the Golden Elixir Middle Stage.

With such expertise, the power of the White Rainbow Mountain Opening Talisman crafted would naturally be greater.

The increased power of the White Rainbow Mountain Opening Talisman, the might of several or even more than a dozen talismans unleashing their power together, would naturally be immense.

Even a qualitative change caused by quantitative accumulation was not impossible.

When that time came,

He Song would truly possess a foundation to protect himself.

As this thought passed through his mind, He Song closed his eyes slightly and once again immersed himself in the process of breaking through the bottleneck.

Breaking through the bottleneck,

did not involve any special tricks.

One only needed to circulate the mana throughout the body and relentlessly assault the bottleneck.

Of course,

this act of channeling one’s entire mana to assault the bottleneck was also quite draining on the mind and spirit.

Consequently, He Song could not afford to divide his attention to study various skills while persistently breaking through the bottleneck.

Therefore, during the process of assaulting the bottleneck, there was no progress in He Song’s various skills.

In the five years preceding the bottleneck, He Song did indeed study his skills.

However, five years was really too short.

As a result, during those five years, there was no significant improvement in He Song’s skills, only an orderly extension of those skills.

Aside from that, there was no other significant progress.

And now,

He Song had fallen into the continuous process of assaulting the bottleneck, naturally unable to study and develop his own skills.

Hence, during this period, He Song’s various skills had come to a standstill.

But,

as time went by,

the previously rock-solid, seemingly immovable bottleneck,

slowly began to weaken under He Song’s unremitting efforts.

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Time passed.

Years flew by.

In the blink of an eye, He Song had spent another full five years in his cave mansion.

As the five years quietly slipped by, He Song, who had been controlling his mana to constantly assault the bottleneck, achieved success one day after the fifth year.

One day,

Purple Cloud Sect.

Hu State.

Inside an abandoned mine.

Within the Quiet Room of He Song’s cave mansion,

He Song sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, his brows tightly furrowed, beads of sweat emerging on his forehead.

But they quickly evaporated, turning into a cloud of mist drifting toward the ceiling.

Then, new beads of sweat emerged and evaporated in turn.

In this repetitive cycle,

strange phenomena began to manifest above He Song at this moment.

A long mist stretched from He Song’s forehead, undulating like a dragon, hovering mid-air in the Quiet Room, the mist twining and continuously changing shape.

But He Song was completely unaware of this, his brows still locked in concentration as he controlled his mana, striving to break through the bottleneck in front of him.

In He Song’s perception, the bottleneck was already teetering on the brink, as if the next assault could completely shatter it.

However, the idiom ‘hope deferred makes the heart sick’ was not just wishful thinking.

Under He Song’s repeated assaults with his full mana, the already quivering bottleneck still firmly blocked his path to the Golden Elixir Middle Stage.

But He Song was not discouraged.

He continued to wield his full mana, trying his best to break through this bottleneck.

Over these five years, He Song dared not slacken for a moment, continuously striking at the bottleneck before him.

Now, with success within reach, why entertain the thought of giving up?

At this moment, the determined look in He Song’s eyes grew increasingly intense.

On the cusp of victory, He Song naturally would not give up.

As He Song persisted, the already faltering bottleneck became even more unstable under his relentless assaults.

Until, at a certain moment.

As the obstacles before him vanished and the bottleneck disappeared, the massive mana that He Song was wielding surged rapidly within his body.

At this moment, with the bottleneck gone and all hindrances removed,

the Golden Core Middle Stage was achieved!

He Song’s eyes snapped open at this very moment.

“Golden Core Middle Stage, accomplished!”

With an exclamation filled with immense joy, He Song reveled in his success, yet did not forget his main purpose.

As He Song closed his eyes again, he began to operate the Violet Palace Refining Spirit Formulas.

He Song, who had been unable to absorb even the slightest bit of spirit Qi from the outside world to enhance his cultivation level,

underwent a tremendous change.

As vast amounts of spirit Qi began flowing into He Song’s body and were continuously refined into his own mana through the operation of the Violet Palace Refining Spirit Formulas,

the spiritual pressure emanated by He Song began to grow bit by bit.

With the torrential inflow of spirit Qi, the mana within He Song’s body naturally grew more powerful as spirit Qi continued to pour in.

As the mana inside him became more robust, He Song’s own spiritual pressure naturally became even more formidable.

But at the same time,

another issue also came into He Song’s view.

With He Song’s successful breakthrough, vast amounts of spirit Qi flocked from all directions and were ceaselessly condensed into his body.

In such a scenario, the concentration of spirit Qi in the cave mansion began to decline rapidly.

Fortunately, He Song had previously laid down a Golden Elixir Realm’s Spirit-Gathering Array within his cave mansion.

After the spirit Qi concentration in the cave mansion dropped to a certain level,

the external spirit Qi gradually began to be drawn in by the Spirit-Gathering Array, thereby replenishing the cave mansion’s deficiency of spirit Qi.

Undoubtedly, the Spirit-Gathering Array He Song had laid here was a complete Golden Elixir Spirit-Gathering Array.

Therefore, even though He Song had successfully broken through to the Golden Core Middle Stage here,

he did not have to worry about causing any disturbance in the outside world while absorbing spirit Qi.

A complete Spirit-Gathering Array’s spirit-gathering effect is far more powerful than the small Spirit-Gathering Arrays used at the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Just as when He Song initially broke through to the Golden Elixir Early Stage, he had caused a large area’s spirit Qi to be depleted due to using only a small Foundation Establishment Spirit-Gathering Array.

That was when the effect of the Spirit-Gathering Array could not keep up with the rate of He Song’s strength enhancement, causing the disturbance.

Now,

the Spirit-Gathering Array within He Song’s cave mansion is a complete Golden Elixir Spirit-Gathering Array.

Breaking through to the Golden Core Middle Stage within this array, he naturally won’t stir up any commotion outside.

Moreover, He Song was confident

that even if he subsequently broke through to the Later Stage of Golden Elixir or even the Golden Elixir Great Perfection Realm, he would definitely not cause any other disturbances due to the breakthrough.

Perhaps, it would only be when breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm that the Golden Elixir Realm’s complete Spirit-Gathering Array, which He Song controlled, would fall short.

But by then,

He Song would likely have already mastered more profound Spirit-Gathering Arrays, capable of concealing the immense turbulence of that time.

As He Song continuously operated the Violet Palace Refining Spirit Formulas, vast amounts of spirit Qi were also transformed into his own mana, resulting in a significant increase in the amount of mana within his body.

At this moment, the amount of mana within He Song’s Golden Elixir rapidly increased as well.

The denser the mana within the Golden Elixir, the stronger He Song’s own strength became.

Once the accumulation of mana reached a certain level, the difference in the minor realms could be displayed.

Although He Song had not yet completed his breakthrough, and his strength was still rapidly growing,

He Song knew

that once this phase of growth ended, his strength would reach the level of the Golden Core Middle Stage.

Cultivators of the Golden Core Middle Stage are much more powerful than those at the Early Jindan Stage.

By then,

He Song might be able to begin attempting the refinement of Talismanic Treasures like the White Rainbow Mountain Opening Talisman.

Once he had a few Talismanic Treasures on him, his personal safety in the future would have some guarantee.

At the very least, with a few Talismanic Treasures for protection, He Song would have a foundation to fall back on even when engaging in Fighting Law with others.