"What is your understanding of the Core Condensation Realm?" Lin ilin wanted to see just how much knowledge the boy beside her had about the cultivation realms.
Yang Ze thought for a mont before giving the most basic answer.
"They can control the elents!" He paused for a mont before adding further. "And they have a very long lifespan... like five hundred years?"
"Also, they are called ’gods’ by the mortals and so low-level cultivators alike."
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"That’s it?" Lin ilin couldn’t help but tilt her head. "Even a child who has just started his cultivation journey knows about it."
"What else do you know?"
Listening to her voice that had a trace of mockery in it, Yang Ze couldn’t help but curse in his heart. The only Core Condensation realm powerhouse that he ever ca across was the woman in front of him who pretended to be the leader of the Blue Faced Tribe the beat up their ass. And during that entire ti, he was either running away from her or trying to help Cang Yue. And in the end, he didn’t even get a good look at her various abilities before losing consciousness.
"Sigh." Looking at his silence, Lin ilin couldn’t help but give out a slight smile before raising her hand and poking his nose with her soft finger.
"Of course, you wouldn’t know about them." She almost let out a peal of laughter as she exhaled a mouthful of air.
"Just like you said, Core Condensation experts are powerful."
"It wouldn’t be a lie to say that anyone till the realm of Vein Expansion is rely a mortal."
"And Core Condensation is where the true cultivation starts."
Yang Ze quietly listened to Lin ilin’s words. Even though there were a few things that he wanted to ask, he held back and let her finish first.
"But what actually is the Core Condensation realm?" This sudden question caught him by surprise. Looking at Lin ilin’s expectant gaze that seed to be waiting for him to answer, he cleared his throat before answering.
"Core Condensation is about mastering the Elents!" He gave a blunt answer... sothing that he had read and heard many tis from others. His understanding of cultivation was already shallow. Even the knowledge about the realm upto Vein Expansion was learned too late in his cultivation journey. So, it ca as no surprise that he had re fleeting knowledge about the realms after that.
"That’s it?" Lin ilin couldn’t help but shake her head before taking a deep breath as she began to teach him about the core condensation and the realms above.
"You already know about body forging, pulse opening, foundation forging and vein expansion realm."
"These are the first four realms of one’s cultivation journey, but they all have one thing in common..."
"They are all related to internal energy."
"First one trains their skin, flesh and bones so they can bear the burden of the internal energy. Then they condense the internal energy, then forge a pillar of the internal energy so they can use it effectively and finally open up the five veins in their bodies to be able to use that internal energy outside their bodies."
"Everything till here... everything you train... everything is just to store and use as much internal energy as possible."
"And this is exactly what separates the core condensation realm."
"It is not about internal energy anymore. Instead, in this realm, one needs to comprehend a new kind of energy.... Elental Energy."
Her words made Yang Ze narrow his eyes in response as he tried his best to understand everything that Lin ilin was saying.
"You can say it is an evolution of the internal energy. Changing the internal energy into that of elents."
"It is a process that has stopped countless prodigies."
"To reach the Core Condensation realm, one needs to comprehend the Elents, and it is the most difficult thing to do."
"First choose one elent that you want to comprehend, then try to establish a connection with it."
"This step alone has stopped almost fifty percent of the cultivators."
"But even if one manages to establish a connection with an elent, they need to guide the elent into their body... let their body adapt to it and create a vessel on top of their foundation forging pillar... A vessel that would store the elental energy."
"And once this step is done, one can then slowly fill it with elental energy that they need to transform from their own internal energy."
"A lengthy and cumberso process that takes years."
"Hence the reason why you seldom see Core Condensation Experts."
"Because of their long lifespan, they spent years slowly filling their vessel, and once they fill it with the elental energy, they suppress it and then repeat the process with another elent for a total of five tis."
"Hiss..." Listening to Lin ilin, Yang Ze couldn’t help but draw in a cold breath. Lin ilin didn’t tell him the grand power of the Core Condensation realm; she rely told him the process and how difficult it was to progress.
And the more Yang Ze listened to her, the more he realised why he never saw any Core Condensation realm powerhouse. Judging by Lin ilin’s words, almost all of them must have been in seclusion, trying their best.
"What about the Soul Tempering realm?" Yang Ze couldn’t help but ask. Since Lin ilin was already teaching him about the cultivation, he might as well ask about the next realms to have a better understanding and save himself from embarrassnt.
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Lin ilin didn’t give him an imdiate reply but turned her head to look at him in silence for a mont before asking in a flat tone.
"Did you understand everything about the Core Condensation realm?"
"Mmm.... There’s more?" Seeing her act like that, Yang Ze couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise. She told him what the Core Condensation realm was, how they practised, and why he never t a powerhouse of that realm... was there sothing else that he was missing?
"Do you know how the Core Condensation realm is divided?"
The mont Lin ilin asked this question, Yang Ze couldn’t help but hold his breath. That’s right... he had almost forgotten about it.
Before he could ask, he felt Lin ilin suddenly grab his nose with her fingers before pinching it and asking in an annoyed tone.
"Does it cost money for you to use your brain? Or do you find it hard to use it?"
The more she looked at him, the more annoyed she got.
"Always making rash and stupid decisions... never thinking about what the consequences of the said decisions might be, and when everything goes wrong, you then brood like a whiny baby."
"Even now, instead of knowing about Core Condesation, you jump to know about the next realm."
"Just like, instead of solving so basic problems you have, you jump to face and create new problems."
With these words, the room plunged into a brief silence before Lin ilin spoke further.
"Initially, I was going to teach you things and let you explore the world yourself so that you can gain experience."
"But now... it is clear that you will just make one stupid decision after another."
"So, instead of wasting everyone’s ti, I will teach you personally."
"No more running around."
"No more putting your nose in matters that don’t concern you."
"And most importantly... no more annoying questions."
"You will only listen to what I say."
With a brief pause, she then continued further.
"And to answer your question about the Soul tempering realm... its process is even more hellish than the Core Condensation realm."
"In the Core Condensation realm, if you can’t make a connection with the elents, you just have to try again. No matter how many tis you fail, you can keep trying until you either reach it or die of old age."
"But that is not the case in the Soul Tempering realm, where you only have one chance."
"Fail it, and you will either beco a cripple or die."
"There is no other outco."
"Now then..." A smile appeared on Lin ilin’s face as she tilted her head slightly.
"Still want to know more about the Soul Tempering realm, or should I start my lesson?"
Yang Ze’s corner of his lips twitched after listening to her sarcastic voice, but at the sa ti, his heart was in turmoil.
This was the first ti he heard that a person only had one chance to step into the Soul Tempering realm, and failing it would result in death or being crippled. For a mont, a sense of fear arose in his heart, wondering what if he couldn’t do it? What if he failed?
But the mont this thought ca to his mind, he felt Lin ilin’s grip on his nose tightening, bringing him out of his stupor.
’Forget it.’ With a forced smile, he simply exhaled a mouthful of air. Instead of worrying about what might happen in the future, he might as well focus on the present.
With this thought in mind, he gave a nod to Lin ilin before speaking in a soft voice.
"Please continue, master."
"Heh... Now you are learning." With a satisfied smile, Lin ilin finally lowered her hand, freeing his nose from her clutches.
"Let’s head outside." With a wave of her hand, the two of them disappeared from the room before Yang Ze found himself standing at the top of the mountain.
"...." Looking at the city of Yuyang in the distance below him, which had turned to a dot, he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes. He was once again amazed by Lin ilin’s thods of travelling such a large distance.
"Till now, you heard the process of becoming a Core Condensation realm powerhouse."
"Now let show you the strength."
Without wasting a word, she simply raised her hand as a small ball of water appeared above her palm.
"Let’s say I have just stepped into the Core Condensation and the first elent I mastered is water."
Lin ilin then waved her hand, and with that, a large pillar of water shot towards Yang Ze, who, in turn, wanted to dodge but couldn’t. To his dismay, his body wasn’t under his control.
He rely glared at Lin ilin in dissatisfaction before gritting his teeth for the impact.
And sure enough... With a splash, the pillar of water drenched him completely.
But it didn’t just stop there.
The pillar of water then suddenly turned flexible, almost like a living being that enveloped Yang Ze completely.
"This is just a simple demonstration of what the water elent is capable of."
"A core condensation realm expert with water elent could simply drown hundreds of people in a single go."
Even though Yang Ze was completely enveloped by water, Lin ilin’s voice was crystal clear in his ears as if she were talking directly into his mind.
"And the sa is true for other elents as well." With a snap of her finger, the water around Yang Ze burst out, spreading all over the mountain. But before Yang Ze even had ti to breathe, the ground beneath him suddenly twisted as his body was dragged down before disappearing completely.
"And you can even trap people like this..." With a soft chuckle, Lin ilin snapped her fingers as the ground twisted once again before Yang Ze’s figure was spat out.
"And this..." Lin ilin’s smile got even wider as she snapped her fingers once again, and this ti, Yang Ze’s body flew into the air as gusts of wind overwheld him. It was as if he were in the midst of the storm.
But the storm lasted for only a few seconds before dissipating. Before Yang Ze could even react, he heard the familiar sound of Lin ilin’s snap as a wall of fire appeared around him, locking him in place.
Looking at the boy’s otherworldly face that was filled with distress, Lin ilin couldn’t help but lick the corner of her cherry-red lips before snapping her fingers for the last ti.
By now, Yang Ze understood what Lin ilin was trying to show him. And sure enough, the next mont, the fire disapepared and he was finally surrounded by nurous lightning bolts, woven together like a net.
He rely looked at Lin ilin’s face that had returned to its previous calm. For a mont, Yang Ze could have sworn that she was doing it purposefully.
"So,,, How was it?" Now that Yang Ze had experienced every elent firsthand, Lin ilin wanted to know his opinion.
"Are you seriously asking that question after drenching, burying, throwing in the air, and almost burning alive?" Shaking his hand, Yang Ze touched his chest as his old set of drenched clothes was replaced by a new set of dry clothes.
Lin ilin’s eyes narrowed into slits upon watching this, but she didn’t say anything. She only shrugged in response.
"Relax, kiddo, this is just a taste of what a Core Condensation realm expert is capable of."
"Since I took you as my disciple, I am gonna hamr everything in your thick little brain."
"Get ready... Now I am going to teach you the most terrifying ability of Core Condensation realm experts..."
"Elental rging."
Gazing at her overexcited face, Yang Ze was already green with regret and was beginning to consider if he did the smart thing. But alas, there was nothing he could do now.
In the end, he grit his teeth and readied himself to face what Lin ilin was going to do next.
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