Chapter 775: Golden Core Perfection in Half a Day
Chapter 775: Golden Core Perfection in Half a Day
Li Fan stood within the secret chamber, wrapped in a prolonged silence.
He mulled over his options.
Now that he had regained his composure, he felt no great sense of alarm.
After all, his situation could hardly be called desperate.
The teeming masses of the Xuanhuang Realm lived without the aid of [Truth], each granted but a single chance at life.
He had merely returned to the same starting point as all other beings.
Moreover, he still held the immense advantage of foresight, an accumulation of knowledge from his endless cycles of rebirth.
"It all began with a single, fleeting thought."
Li Fan's thoughts raced.
He swiftly pinpointed the source of all the anomalies affecting him.
"Indeed, there's no such thing as a a free lunch."
"Relying on a resemblance to Mr. Bai, I gained peerless talent and grasped several divine abilities."
"The price for this was his insidious corruption, which spread from the clone to my original self."
"Though I had been on guard ever since I noticed something amiss, planning to use [Truth] the moment I detected any influence on my true self..."
"But what I hadn't anticipated was that by the time my true self became aware, it was already too late."
For a fleeting moment, that stunningly perfect face reappeared in Li Fan's mind.
"Mr. Bai..."
"Interesting."
"You want to use me for your rebirth? Fine, I'll oblige!"
A sharp glint flashed through Li Fan's eyes.
The Dao Transformation Stone in his mind, already strained to its absolute limit, suddenly erupted in a brilliant blue light.
Countless scenes flashed through it.
Li Fan was deducing the myriad possibilities of the future.
"So, you wish to obstruct my path..."
"It won't be that easy!"
Abruptly, the glow of the Dao Transformation Stone vanished.
But Li Fan had already devised a plan.
A cold smirk touched Li Fan's lips as he slowly sat down. Calmly, he resumed his work, deciphering the data of the Limitless Spirit Void Technique.
The scene shifts back to Xu Bai.
He and the Holy Embryo exchanged a look, and identical, eerie smiles spread across their faces.
Xu Bai gently pointed at the red string before him. "Go!"
As if alive, the red string shot straight toward the Holy Embryo.
Meanwhile, Xu Bai retrieved heaps of supreme-grade spirit stones from his storage ring.
He shattered them with a single strike of his palm.
The offspring—or clones—produced by the Holy Blood Embryo Transformation technique are born without a cultivation base.
But for the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, this was no issue whatsoever.
His aptitude was identical to the original Xu Bai's, reaching a level that was simply unimaginable.
And that was to say nothing of the vast cultivation experience Li Fan had amassed over his many reincarnations.
"Absorb the spirit of heaven and earth, harness its vital energy!"
The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, slowly incanted.
An invisible whirlwind seemed to stir within the secret chamber.
The spiritual energy, so dense it was almost tangible, howled as it surged toward the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai.
In the span of a few breaths.
He shattered the barrier between mortal and cultivator, successfully stepping into the initial stage of Qi Refining.
The rate at which he absorbed spiritual energy didn't slow in the least; on the contrary, it accelerated.
The clone, Xu Bai, remained expressionless, repeating the cycle: retrieve supreme-grade spirit stones, shatter them, and retrieve more.
Had it been an ordinary cultivator, absorbing such a vast amount of spiritual energy in so short a time would have surely caused their body to explode.
But the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, was like a bottomless pit.
His expression never faltered; however much spiritual energy came, he devoured it all.
He drew all of it into his dantian.
His cultivation realm ascended at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Mid-stage Qi Refining, late-stage Qi Refining.
Peak Qi Refining!
The [Heavenly Disaster] that plagued countless cultivators the world over seemed utterly nonexistent for the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai!
For the first time, the clone Xu Bai witnessed a true, top-tier genius of the New Method cultivating without the hindrance of any bottlenecks.
The terrifying speed of his cultivation!
"Borrow the wonders of heaven and earth, and forge my foundation!" The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, incanted once more.
Within his dantian, the red string from Mr. Bai pulsed with a faint light.
Without the slightest obstacle, his breakthrough was as natural as water carving a channel.
In the span of a single breath, the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, had successfully reached Foundation Establishment.
The faint red string dissolved within his dantian, transforming into his foundation.
And with that, he learned its true name.
[Heaven's Will Sword].
"If there is such a thing as Heaven's Will, it must align with my own."
"Marvelous."
The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, and the clone, Xu Bai, spoke in perfect unison.
Even after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, did not halt his cultivation.
He continued to draw in an endless stream of the dense, pure spiritual energy within the chamber.
His cultivation realm continued its swift and steady ascent.
Through the Foundation Establishment stage, he still encountered not a single bottleneck.
Mid-stage, late-stage, peak Foundation Establishment...
"Perceive the laws of heaven and earth, and from them, forge the Golden Core."
The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, stood with his hands clasped behind his back.
He chanted softly.
He opened his mouth and inhaled, instantly draining the secret chamber of its spiritual energy, which had been so thick it was on the verge of liquefying.
He then took the storage ring filled with spirit stones that the clone offered him, clasping it in his hand.
Within his dantian, a crimson light slowly began to coalesce.
"My will is the will of Heaven; my heart is the heart of Heaven."
The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, declared, his voice calm and natural.
It was like a cataclysmic explosion.
The crimson radiance filled every corner of his dantian.
Then, it abruptly contracted to an infinitesimal point.
A moment later, a single point of red light materialized within the Holy Embryo's dantian.
The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, had reached the Golden Core realm!
In such a short time, he had accomplished what ordinary cultivators take decades, or even centuries, to achieve.
Yet he still did not halt his cultivation.
With a ceaseless supply of spiritual energy, the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, pressed on toward the peak of the Golden Core realm.
Unsurprisingly, the [Heavenly Disaster] failed to appear.
The double standards of the Xuanhuang Realm's Heavenly Dao were plain to see.
And by the time the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, had finally reached the peak of the Golden Core realm, a mere half-day had passed since he had been brought into existence.
"So this is Mr. Bai's cultivation speed."
"No, in his time, Mr. Bai was faster still. A mortal ascending to Soul Transformation in a single instant."
Within the secret chamber, the Holy Embryo and the clone conversed, one asking, the other answering.
After a long pause, the clone, Xu Bai, slowly shook his head.
"In today's Xuanhuang Realm, reaching the Golden Core stage in half a day is the absolute limit."
The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, nodded. "To form a Nascent Soul, one must seize the essence of heaven and earth."
"Without the necessary preparations, even the greatest talent cannot advance a single step further."
"As they say..."
The Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, gave the clone a casual salute, then turned and strode out of the room.
"The Immortal Path ahead is untreadable, for the Dharma Spreader Heavenly Venerate looms above!"
His figure vanished.
Yet his voice continued to echo through the secret chamber, long after he was gone.
The clone knew that the Holy Embryo had gone in search of the opportunity needed to form his Nascent Soul.
For any other cultivator, the process would surely be fraught with hardship.
But for the Holy Embryo, Xu Bai, it would be a simple matter.
There was no need to even worry about the Holy Embryo's safety.
Though he was currently only at the peak of the Golden Core realm, even a Soul Transformation cultivator would not necessarily be his match.
Because...
"My heart is the heart of Heaven."
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