Chapter 203 - Core Forming Realm (2/2)
The Zuoqiu family was even more repulsive than the Ling family, and much stronger too. He felt not only a sense of helplessness. If this was the past, who would be stupid enough to provoke him after hearing that he was a disciple of the Mystic Cyan Sect and Immortal Miaoyin, Ling Yin?
However, the past was untouchable. It was useless to think of this now. The opponents he met were increasingly powerful. The only thing he should do now was getting stronger, so strong that they would get frightened just from hearing his name and wouldn’t dare to provoke him!
He took a deep breath and started refining his Qi. He concentrated on operating the Mystic Cyan Cultivation Method. What was paramount was ingesting Zuoqiu Ming’s powers as soon as possible. Perhaps he might have a chance to break through into the Core Forming Realm then. Once he succeeded, he could use the Devil’s Three Turns of the Heaven’s Talisman when he truly had to. So what if Zuoqiu Yang was a peak Core Forming Realm cultivator, a quasi-Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, or a true Nascent Soul Realm cultivator?
Successive attacks hit acupuncture points like his Sea of Qi, Great Tower Gate, and Elixir Field. Several hours passed. Xiao Chen was so exhausted that sweat was dripping off his face and drenching his innerwear, but he was still unable to break through the bottleneck in his Foundation Building Realm. The gold elixir inside his body had yet to take complete shape. How could it be so easy to enter the Core Forming Realm?
“Seven interlinked apertures, with each one luminous. The sacred sun and moon shine upon the golden hall…”
It was much harder to enter the Core Forming Realm than entering the Foundation Building Realm. One had to form an Internal Elixir inside the body. He recited the mental cultivation method for the Core Forming Realm over and over. Finally, an Internal Elixir became faintly visible inside his Elixir Field. The Internal Elixir, wrapped with a white glow, was sometimes there and sometimes not. It looked both real and illusory at the same time.
Xiao Chen meditated, knowing that this was the first sign of the Core Forming Realm. He must remain calm right now or his scattered Qi would spell the end of his Internal Elixir as well. He put even more focus on reciting the mental cultivation method. “Refining essence into Qi, refining Qi into the state of apotheosis, refining apotheosis into nothingness…”
Several more hours passed, drawing the curtain of the night. Qin Shaoyang and the others could detect the continuous fluctuation in vital force inside his room. Knowing that he was forming his core, they stayed in the courtyard to protect him.
“I use my heart to observe its shape; I use its shape to become one with it…”
Xiao Chen repeatedly recited the mental cultivation technique while guiding his internal powers. The Mystic Cyan Cultivation Method was indescribably wonderful. Back then, it was the top method in Immortal’s Practice. Finally, the Internal Elixir inside his Elixir Field gradually materialized into something tangible out of nothingness.
When his Internal Elixir came into shape, white glow illuminated for one hundred thousand feet!
A white light emerged from within his body, lighting up the entire room, and then broke out of the window lattice and roof to illuminate the entire courtyard so brightly that it looked like daytime.
Everyone in the courtyard was tremendously shocked. Qin Shaoyang, in particular, was in disbelief. He himself was in the Core Forming Realm and he had also seen others achieving the realm. The white light would flash only briefly each time. However, this time, the white light that Xiao Chen was emanating looked as if it had become one with the moonlight.
Instantly, boundless vital force extended 5 kilometers in all directions, covering it all in white light. It awakened countless people residing in the small town in a state of confusion.
Qin Shaoyang and the rest had long become dumbstruck. The white light continued to emanate from Xiao Chen’s room without fading. How could this be considered an unnatural phenomenon for success in Core Forming Realm cultivation? This was the unnatural phenomenon for success in Nascent Soul Realm cultivation!
It took a long time for the white light to gradually subside, revealing the twinkling stars in the night sky. Xiao Chen was sitting cross-legged inside his room with a peaceful heart. He had finally broken into the Core Forming Realm, but what surprised him was that this time, he had instantly broken into the third level of the realm!
That feeling from thousands of years ago seemed to have returned to him. That prodigy from the Mystic Cyan Sect had finally returned.
The door opened with a creak. Xiao Chen strolled out of his room with a smile on his face and a hand behind his back. The moonlight that illuminated him seemed to be coating him in a white glow. It made him look like an immortal who had descended onto the mortal world.
Right then, his entire temperament had changed. One could sense a faint otherworldly aura from him. Everyone in the courtyard was astounded. Qin Shaoyang was the first to recover his senses. He saluted Xiao Chen and said with a smile, “Congratulations, Brother Xiao!”
Only now did he understand just how strong Xiao Chen was. Previously, he forced a draw with Xiao Chen and refused to use his full strength. Now, he might not be a match for Xiao Chen even if he used the entirety of his strength.
Xiao Chen chuckled. “Thank you for keeping guard for me, Brother Qin.”
“Brother Xiao Chen!” An overjoyed Murong Xian’er ran over to him and gave him a hug, eliciting the envy of the remaining ten or so Xianyong disciples.
“Hehe.” Xiao Chen caressed her hair. It was only now that he felt like he had truly become strong. In the past, he never realized it. Only now he knew the true difference between a peak Foundation Building Realm and a beginner Core Forming Realm cultivation. Even though it was merely a step away, it was such a far one and carried a heaven-and-earth difference.
If he could fight ordinary beginner Core Forming Realm cultivators when he was just a peak Foundation Building Realm cultivator, then he could now battle any peak Core Forming Realm cultivators or even quasi-Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.