「In Ning Yuexi's room.」
Lin Tang and Ning Yuexi sat motionless in their cross-legged positions. They had remained this way for a long ti as a great deal of light swirled around them. After cultivating for a while, Ning Yuexi would open her eyes to look at Lin Tang, who was only a short distance away. After watching for a mont, she would begin cultivating again, repeating the cycle.
She didn't find it boring, nor did she feel hungry. It's just… a bit strange. How much longer will Lin Tang continue like this? With so many people outside, what will they think? Of course, her primary emotion was concern. She wondered if Lin Tang could overco this difficult challenge. If he succeeded, he would beco a Nascent Soul Ancestor. If he failed, it would be disastrous…
"Now is the ti! Shatter the Golden Core and form the Nascent Soul!"
Just as Ning Yuexi imrsed herself in cultivation once more, she suddenly heard Lin Tang's decisive, low shout. The next mont, the Golden Core spinning rapidly inside his body ca to an abrupt halt. It then began to expand and contract in a rapid cycle, like the engine of a racing car, expanding ever larger and contracting ever smaller.
Finally, it reached a critical point.
It… exploded!
BOOM!!
Like a flash flood, countless surges of True Qi burst forth. The energy tore through all of Lin Tang's ridians, even damaging his flesh and bones, before gushing into Ning Yuexi's body.
Ning Yuexi grunted. Even with her Luli Pure Body, which was capable of absorbing vast amounts of energy, she couldn't handle such an unprecedented and trendous onslaught.
It's too much, too much! I'm full, it's spilling over! she thought, feeling both terror and pain.
This thought flashed through her mind: Did Shen Youling go through this when she helped him break through? She doesn't have a Luli Pure Body, so how did she withstand it? Then, she was overwheld by the ever-increasing flood of True Qi and fell into a state of dizziness.
What a fool. To let her mind wander at such a critical mont, not even knowing to circulate her energy to absorb this and seek a breakthrough? What a waste of my True Qi… Lin Tang, in the midst of everything, was speechless.
Luckily, he was very familiar with Ning Yuexi's Cultivation thod. He imdiately diverted a sliver of his attention to help her channel it, absorbing the True Qi he released and converting it into her own cultivation base. As it accumulated, her cultivation level rose rapidly, as if she were riding a rocket.
Once her cultivation was back on track, Lin Tang concentrated fully, turning his attention to condensing and shaping his Nascent Soul. Every step was perilous. Cultivation techniques were often written in a cryptic and concise manner, requiring cultivators to comprehend and explore nurous details on their own. If they failed to comprehend or explored incorrectly, it was ga over. For a cultivator of average aptitude, nothing was more despairing.
But for a peerless genius like Lin Tang, it seed a trivial matter.
Like shaping a clay figure, he perford the procedure with casual ease. In the end, all of his Divine Sense and even his very spirit were forcibly compressed into a tiny, sesa-sized point, which suddenly drilled into the brow of the nascent figure. At the sa ti, his body seed to die, utterly devoid of vitality.
Ning Yuexi had just reached her own mont of breakthrough and hadn't noticed at all that Lin Tang had "died." Otherwise, she would have been utterly shocked and might have even suffered a cultivation deviation.
One second, two seconds… one minute, ten minutes…
Ti continued to pass.
Ning Yuexi silently broke through to the peak of the Qi Condensation stage. Just as she was about to press on and break into the early Foundation Establishnt Stage in one go, a soft shout from the Yin Yang Mirror suddenly rang out, inaudible to anyone else.
"If not now, when?!"
To Lin Tang, it was like the resounding boom of a great bell—deafening! His seemingly lifeless Nascent Soul instantly opened its eyes. The tiny body of the Nascent Soul began to uncurl and stretch. It opened its mouth, emitting a sound that was part wail, part long cry. An extrely pure Innate Nascent Qi, filled with infinite vitality, radiated from its body.
From death to life, from stillness to motion.
Through the eyes of his Nascent Soul, Lin Tang saw what seed to be a whole new universe. Countless spaces overlapped, shifting from two-dinsional to three-dinsional, and rising from three-dinsional to four-dinsional. An inexplicable joy and boundless emotion allowed him to comprehend even more profound and mysterious truths.
At the sa ti, all the scattered True Qi roiled back toward him, devoured by his Nascent Soul as if by a bottomless pit, without so much as a hiccup. Ning Yuexi's breakthrough was abruptly interrupted as the True Qi within her was drawn away by Lin Tang.
「Outside.」
Under the watchful eyes of Xuan Nu and the others, the sky-piercing column of light vanished. All the strange phenona ended.
"This…"
"Did he succeed or fail?"
"He definitely failed, hahaha! There's no movent at all! He's dead, this is great!"
Just as Shaosiming was about to laugh with abandon, Xuan Nu's sigh reached everyone's ears. "Long Tianji has beco a Nascent Soul cultivator. From this day forward, no one may disrespect him!"
Shaosiming's laughter died in his throat, his smile freezing on his face. The others, harboring complex emotions, all acknowledged the command.
A mont later, the now-stabilized Nascent Soul suddenly leaped from his Dantian. It jumped to a spot above Lin Tang's head, observing the world with newfound clarity while flipping sorsaults in joy. Ning Yuexi looked up, staring dumbfounded at the Nascent Soul's face, which resembled Lin Tang's but looked like a child's.
A strange thought grew in her heart. Why does it feel like a Nascent Soul cultivator has given birth to a child? And this child is also him? It's so confusing! Especially for a male cultivator…
"What nonsense are you thinking!" Lin Tang's Nascent Soul scolded, its voice like that of a young child. "If you had focused your mind from the start, without any delay, you might very well have reached the Foundation Establishnt Stage. Yuexi, you really need to pay more attention!"
"I..."
Ning Yuexi guiltily lowered her head.
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