Chapter 1144 - Breaking the Golden Core and Forming the Nascent Soul! (1/2)

The Nascent Soul Level.

Some cultivators divided the eight stages of the Qi Refinement level into the upper and lower four stages. The Qi Refinement, Connate, Golden Core and Nascent Soul levels were the lower four stages, while the Soul Formation, Void Returning, Dao Reunion and Tribulation levels were the upper four stages.

The Nascent Soul level was the highest stage among the lower four. After going further from that step, cultivators would be truly the kings among the others and could be called high-level Qi Refinement Cultivators. Although the imperishable sects had tons of Nascent Soul Cultivators, only several of them among billions of people on a planet would be able to reach higher levels. Those were the Ancestral Patriarchs of a race or a sect.

There was a saying in the universe: “Nascent Soul is easy to cultivate, Soul Formation is difficult to complete.”

That meant that it wasn’t hard to form a Nascent Soul. As long as a cultivator had perseverance, enough cultivation resources, training from a Master in a large sect, high-level Qi Refinement Arts and enough cultivation talents, he would be able to reach the Nascent Soul level after a thousand years. However, it would be too difficult if he wanted to go further to attain the Soul Formation level. Many people were already stuck at the Golden Core Level as they tried walking along the path to the Soul Formation Level.

Even for those who had formed a divine-grade Golden Core and become Divine Princes, there might not even be one out of ten Divine Princes who would become Soul Formation Cultivators, the dominators of a world even in the Central Galaxy, who truly stood on top of the universe, overlooking the sun, moon and the galaxy. The disciples of the sacred grounds or the Celestial Sects might not be able to deal with the Soul Formation Cultivators, either.

Once reaching the Soul Formation level, a cultivator would be able to decide his own destiny.

The Celestial Sects and sacred grounds were indeed powerful, but he had the ability to hide far away along the border of the universe or in other galaxies. He could break through the barrier between two worlds and sneak into the Underworld or the Fiend World. He could even create a small world and hide inside it, to be the creator of everything. The universe was so vast. Who could catch him?

So, technically speaking, forming the Nascent Soul wasn’t that difficult.

Forming a Nascent Soul was hard to create for many ordinary Qi Refinement Cultivators, but Chen Fan had been reincarnated from a Celestial Lord. He had cultivated the Nascent Soul level twice in his previous life, and his foundation was so strong that he had the Three Deity Beauty. Reaching the Nascent Soul level was as easy as eating and drinking water for him.

But the situation was exactly the opposite.

“Crack!”

The green thunderbolts turned into bright electric dragons that flew around the air. Countless bolts of lightning struck Chen Fan’s body, Golden Core and Divine Soul, trying to imprint the Dharma Laws into his body.

That was the Nascent Soul Tribulation that he had to go through before reaching the Nascent Soul Level. The power of Dharma Laws would be imprinted in his body and Divine Soul, so that he could completely master some kind of power of Dharma Law. The Dharma Law Lightning was terrifying. A lot of cultivators had burned their bodies at that stage, but Chen Fan’s initial-success Deity Body wasn’t even afraid of thunderbolts ten times more powerful, let alone that green lightning.

At the same time, Chen Fan had also encountered some difficulties.

He was surrounded by a golden aura, thunderbolts and glitter, but he was still not taking a step forward to “refine his body with Dharma Laws.” He frowned as if there was a big issue.

Chen Fan was torn.

Every cultivator had to choose his path after reaching the Nascent Soul Level. What kind of path? He had to decide which type of Dharma Law he would follow to continue his cultivation journey.

A Fire Qi Refinement Cultivator had been practicing cultivation arts and Divine Powers related to fire, so he would surely choose the Dharma Law of Fire. That would directly strengthen his cultivation arts and power. Or, a swordsman that practiced Sword Arts would certainly choose the Dharma Law of Sword.

More powerful ones like the first Divine General of Mount Emperor, Mangya, had a very rare Dharma Law, the “Law of Hades.” It was one of the strongest Dharma Laws, similar to the Dharma Law of Reincarnation, Underworld and Darkness.

Some people even cultivated multiple cultivation arts and mastered a few Dharma Laws at the same time, so their power would be doubled when they fought. However, the more Dharma Laws they chose, the higher the chance they might have the problem of biting off more than they could chew in the future.

Chen Fan was also facing that problem right then. Which type of Dharma Law did he need?

Boom!

The Golden Core moved and the Deity Wheel spinned. Nine Divine Forms slowly appeared behind Chen Fan.

The Xuan Wu, the Azure Thearch, the Ancestor Fiend, the Kun Peng, the Thunder Loch, the Grand Dao, Thick Soil, Red Sparrow, True Martial…

Even since the Foundation Establishment Level, Chen Fan had cultivated nine Divine Arts. The ones with the lowest level were also supreme Divine Arts and he didn’t even know the level of the most powerful ones. They had apparently been passed down from the ancient times or the last epoch.

They represented different Dharma Laws respectively. Once Chen Fan chose one of them, he would apparently have to give up the other eight which would become minor cultivation arts and he wouldn’t be able to specialize in them anymore.

“Ah, I mainly cultivated the ‘Golden Immortal Body’ and had the most powerful Dharma Law of Gold in my previous life. After that, I started cultivating the Divine Powers of the True Martial Celestial Sect. I’ve never had to make a choice like this before!”

Chen Fan smiled wryly.

Other people only had a couple of Dharma Laws, but he had nine to consider. If the other cultivators knew about it, they would want to kill him with a brick. However, cultivating nine types at the same time wasn’t difficult for Chen Fan. When he cultivated till the end in his previous life, he had billions of Dharma Laws in his body and created his own path. So, what was wrong with nine of them?

But the Nascent Soul Chen Fan wanted was different.

He wanted to form “Deity Laws” instead of Dharma Laws!

Deity Laws were also called the “Deity-Grade Dharma Laws” or “Dharma Laws of the Deity Realm.” They were a kind of power way beyond normal Dharma Laws. It could be put in this way. Essence Qi was like soft cotton, while Dharma Laws had been formed by condensing, extracting and combining a type of Essence Qi, making some kind of rope. Divine-Grade Dharma Laws were rough hemp ropes, Sacred-Grade Dharma Laws were sailing ropes with great quality and Deity-Grade Dharma Laws were super carbon steel wires.

Steel wires might be as thin as hair, but they could easily lift a ton of heavy things.

Deity-Grade Dharma Laws were also the same. Even just a bit of it could destroy ten times or a hundred times of the normal Dharma Laws. Besides, there were rankings among the Dharma Laws.

If two people had a Dharma Law of Fire at the same time, one with a Deity Law and one with a normal Dharma Law, then the one with the normal Dharma Law wouldn’t even have the qualification to mobilize a hint of Fire Essence Qi in front of the other cultivator, since he had a much deeper understanding of the laws and controlled much more powerful energy.