The path to immortality through martial arts begins with being forced into marriage!

Driven by the Divine Devouring Heaven Technique, true qi flowed through the meridians, and mental power surged in the sea of ​​consciousness!

Both are progressing in tandem and complementing each other!

When his body absorbed the life force refined from Cui Yuanhua's corpse, Cui Yi had already received a boost.

And now it's the second round of upgrades!

The most abnormal aspect of the Divine Fiend Devouring Heaven Technique is never that it cultivates true qi and mental power at the same time, but rather that it repeatedly utilizes life force!

Under the frenzied deduction of the Floating Pagoda, Cui Yi was surrounded by a faint golden light!

This is a strange phenomenon produced by the fusion of true qi and mental power, which ordinary cultivators may not be able to experience in their entire lives!

At this moment, this strange phenomenon is growing stronger and brighter!

In Cui Yi's dantian, the already abundant true qi had become so dense that it was almost liquefied.

With each complete cycle of circulation, the true energy becomes one degree purer!

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, his mental power was also growing wildly!

The mental energy that was originally as thin as a thread has now condensed into thick torrents, surging and roaring in Cui Yi's sea of ​​consciousness.

Both reach saturation at the same time and begin to undergo qualitative change at the same time.

The spirit-gathering array in the futon had already reached its limit, and the array was even flickering wildly, on the verge of collapse!

From the outside, it seemed like only a few hours had passed, but Cui Yi, whose cultivation had been deduced by the power of the Floating Pagoda, had cultivated for a thousand years!

In his dantian, the extremely dense true qi seemed to have reached a very special connection and actually began to contract inward!

It was as if a black hole had appeared out of thin air, sucking in all the true energy that had been gathered in the past, and then slowly gathering it again!

An unformed golden core appeared in the dantian, and it was at this very moment!

boom!!!

Two beams of light suddenly burst forth from Cui Yi's body!

One beam of light came from his dantian, and another from his sea of ​​consciousness. The two beams intertwined and formed a dazzling pillar of light around him, which shot straight to the top of the cultivation room!

This beam of light was incredibly destructive, breaking through the array's blockade in just a few breaths!

All defensive measures are as fragile as paper!

Rumble!

At this moment, all the defensive formations on the three underground levels of the Pill Tower failed simultaneously, and the beam of light pierced through the layers of stone walls, broke through the ground, and shot straight into the sky!

At the same time, a crack appeared in the sky above the Northern City without warning.

The crack was not large, but it was bottomless, as if it led straight to the deepest hell!

Golden light flowed continuously from the edge of the crack like liquid, radiating a chilling pressure!

Before anyone could be surprised, a golden beam of light shot up from the bottom of the Pill Tower and shot straight into the crack!

The instant the beam of light met the crack, another earth-shattering roar exploded across the entire Northern City!

The sound was so loud that it made the ears of countless cultivators ring, and caused the few Golden Core cultivators in the city to look up at the sky at the same time, their eyes filled with horror!

"Such terrifying pressure... I clearly sense this aura is around the Core Formation stage, but why does it make me so uneasy!"

"What... what is this? Ordinary Core Formation cultivators breaking through would never exhibit such extraordinary phenomena!"

"Could it be that an ancient powerful being has descended? Impossible... the passage between the immortal realm and the mortal realm is one-way!"

"There are rumors that breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm gives one a chance to ascend to the Immortal Realm, but I've never heard of anyone from the Immortal Realm being able to return to the mortal world!"

The most shocked were not the high-level cultivators, but the low-level cultivators and ordinary people who lived and worked in the Northern City.

Countless exclamations rang out throughout the city, and some people knelt down and kowtowed, thinking that a celestial being had descended to earth.

Many others stood there, staring blankly at the cracked sky, their minds a complete blank.

Three hundred miles outside the city, countless demonic beasts simultaneously raised their heads, gazing towards the direction of the Northern Border City.

They felt an unprecedented pressure.

That oppressive aura did not belong to the breakthrough of human cultivators, nor to any known realm, but rather to a more ancient and mysterious aura!

It was as if something that had been dormant for millennia was awakening.

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Inside the cultivation room.

Cui Yi sat cross-legged, his consciousness completely immersed in his body.

In the dantian, there was no longer a trace of free true qi; only an irregular golden object was suspended in the air.

This is a false elixir, and also a symbol of the Core Formation stage.

It has not yet formed the Golden Elixir, but it exhibits the characteristics of one!

Those truly powerful cultivators possess a flawless golden core in their dantian, round and smooth like a pearl, with its radiance restrained.

In contrast, a cultivator at the Core Formation stage only has one irregularly shaped pseudo-core in their dantian.

It is not a true golden elixir, but it is the prototype of all golden elixirs.

Once the false elixir is formed, one enters the realm of elixir formation.

This is an ironclad rule that has remained unshakable in the cultivation world for countless years.

But at this moment, Cui Yi frowned slightly as he looked at his fake elixir.

It's not because it's irregular, but because it's too regular!

Cui Yi's consciousness moved closer, examining the area carefully.

His fake pills were as round as a pigeon egg, with many patterns on the surface.

These lines are not deep, but they are exceptionally clear, as if they were naturally formed, as if this fake pill had these lines from the moment it was born.

One, two... six!

Six lines were evenly distributed on the surface of the fake pill, each emitting a faint golden light!

What's going on?

He could understand the presence of pill patterns on elixirs, but why were there also Dao patterns on fake elixirs?

Cui Yi suddenly remembered what Xi Yue had once said to him.

"The Great Perfection of Foundation Building is a truly flawless foundation for the Dao."

"This realm is rare and requires great perseverance and great fortune to achieve. It will be of great benefit to your future breakthrough to the Core Formation stage and even higher realms."

At the time, he didn't understand what "immense benefit" meant.

Now he vaguely understands.

The flawless Dao Foundation not only builds the perfection of the Foundation Establishment Realm, but also plants a seed for the Core Formation Realm that far surpasses that of ordinary people.

The fake cores of ordinary cultivators are pitted and rough because their foundation can only support them to this extent.

The reason his fake elixir has Dao patterns is because his foundation is too deep.

So profound that even a pseudo-elixir cannot fully contain it; these essences must be inscribed upon it in the form of Dao patterns!

Just as Cui Yi was about to regain his senses, suddenly—

Within his dantian, the fake elixir trembled violently!

An indescribable surge of energy erupted from the depths of the fake core!

Before Cui Yi could react, the six Dao patterns on the fake pill lit up simultaneously!

A blinding golden light shot out from the Dao patterns, instantly illuminating the entire dantian!

The fake pills, which had finally calmed down, have started to stir again!

Cui Yi's pupils suddenly contracted!

This is……

Need to break through further?

The foundation of the Foundation Establishment Realm Great Perfection was much deeper than he had imagined. Cui Yi had originally thought that his lifespan of a thousand years would only be enough to reach the Core Formation Realm.

However, he clearly underestimated the refining efficiency of the Floating Pagoda and the domineering nature of the Divine Fiend Devouring Heaven Technique.

Cui Yuanhua was at the peak of the Golden Core stage, and even though he was just a corpse, the vitality contained within him far exceeded that of ordinary Golden Core cultivators.

After the Divine Devouring Heaven Technique absorbed all this vitality, the remaining essence was hidden in the meridians throughout the body!

This is the moment to unleash our full potential!

A look of madness suddenly flashed in Cui Yi's eyes!

Since the foundation I laid in the Foundation Establishment Realm is solid enough, let's go!

He wanted to see what level he could reach with his combined lifespan of over a thousand years of cultivation before he would reach his limit!