Chapter 394: The Nascent Soul Realm (2/2)

Lin Mu had already learned about the Nascent Soul realm from senior Xukong and had an idea of its power.

Reaching the nascent soul realm was incredibly difficult, as a cultivator had to overcome the heavenly tribulation.

When a cultivator reached the absolute peak of the core condensation realm, they would start to get an idea of when their heavenly tribulation would be coming.

During this period they were called as pseudo nascent soul realm cultivators as their understanding of the spirit qi had exceeded that of a normal cultivator and were close to that of a nascent soul realm cultivator.

A cultivator would usually suppress the heavenly tribulation until he or she found a proper opportunity. One needed a lot of preparation if they wanted to reach the nascent soul realm, as the heavenly tribulation could very easily kill them if they were not careful and well prepared.

Once the cultivator became ready to undergo the heavenly tribulation, tribulation clouds would gather and heavenly lightning would strike their body. The goal of the cultivator was to endure this heavenly lightning and use it to hatch their nascent soul.

Their core would act as the egg, and from it, the nascent soul would be born. Once the nascent soul was successfully born, the cultivator was said to have successfully reached the first stage of the nascent soul realm.

The first stage was called as the infant soul stage as the nascent soul was in the form of an infant. This infant would look the same as the cultivator when they were of that age.

There were three more stages in the nascent soul realm, which were the child soul, adolescent soul, and adult soul stages, for a total of four stages.

The cultivator would be able to freely able to wield the spirit qi in the environment and would have to nourish his or her nascent soul in order to make it grow and reach the next stage. It was also this stage during which the appearance of a cultivator was fixed.

If a cultivator reached the adult stage of the nascent soul realm at the age of twenty, his appearance would be fixed at that age until he reaches the very end of his or her lifespan. At that point, they would rapidly age hundreds of years in the span of a few minutes and then die.

Reaching the nascent soul realm increased the cultivator's life span to a thousand years and made them worthy of starting their own cultivation sects.