My path to immortality was smooth sailing.

The moment the strange phenomenon appeared, the entire pool fell silent.

No, it wasn't just the pool. Everyone within several miles of the waterfall fell silent at the same time.

The Qingfu Sect disciples who were dozing on the flying boat opened their eyes, the elders of various families who were sitting cross-legged by the pool stopped their breathing exercises, and even the attendants and servants who were talking in hushed tones subconsciously shut their mouths.

More than a hundred people looked up at the same time, their eyes focused on the huge water screen and on the boy's tightly closed eyes.

Yang Qingxuan's lips trembled slightly.

There have been precedents for unusual phenomena occurring in the Suixu Secret Realm.

On the contrary, in the previous two instances, four or five people would cause unusual phenomena.

But that's all in the later stages of the secret realm's opening, which is seventy or eighty days later.

What takes seventy or eighty days in the outside world can take seventy or eighty years in the secret realm.

Those who have seen through the illusions of the mortal world will eventually reach the Foundation Establishment stage after decades of arduous cultivation.

"So, is this a Foundation Establishment phenomenon?" Yang Qingxuan murmured, his eyes fixed on the figure bathed in golden light within the secret realm.

You have to understand, only eleven days have passed in the outside world, but eleven years have passed in the secret realm. How could a person cultivate so quickly?

Even if he cultivated from the womb, it would be impossible for him to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm at the age of eleven, right?

No, there is one exception: unless he has a Heavenly Spiritual Root.

"Perhaps it's not some kind of Foundation Establishment phenomenon, but rather the awakening of some kind of physique?" Yang Qingxuan pondered, but in the end, he had no answer.

Finally, he sent a message to the sect leader, Yu Ji, and also notified several senior Foundation Establishment elders in the sect.

Soon after, the strange phenomena surrounding Wei Jing dissipated, and he returned to his previous appearance.

It wasn't until after the moon had risen above the willow branches that Elder Honggu returned, her face bruised and swollen. Although she was in a terrible state, she had a smile on her face.

It seems they won.

When she returned, she noticed something was wrong: in the middle of the night, everyone was in high spirits, gathered around the Thousand-Foot Waterfall to watch.

"What's going on?" Hong Gu leaped up and rode her peach blossom pod to Feng Yuting's side.

"Did I miss something good?"

"Hmm!" Feng Yuting looked at Hong Gu with a complicated expression.

"Someone just caused an anomaly."

"What?" Elder Honggu's eyes widened in surprise.

"Who? Who is it? Is it the prodigy of the Qingfu Sect?" Elder Hong Gu was very excited. He knew how remarkable it was to cause an anomaly in the Suixu Secret Realm.

The guaranteed reward is a cultivation technique from the secret realm, enough to become a family heirloom passed down through generations, which can greatly enhance the family's foundation.

"The Wei family is truly blessed!"

"Congratulations! Congratulations!" Suddenly, a group of people gathered around and congratulated Hong Gu repeatedly.

This left her completely confused.

"Hong Gu, congratulations! Your Wei family has produced a prodigy." The elder of the Dan Ding Sun family offered his congratulations, his face carrying a hint of flattery.

"Wei family and Wei Jing are very good." Even the elders of the Mozhu Lu family were pleased.

At the same time, the family cultivators who had gathered around her all flew towards her.

……

"Phew!" Wei Jing slowly finished his cultivation. After three months of seclusion, he had finally entered the Foundation Establishment stage.

His spiritual energy was condensed into profound magical power.

Qi Refining cultivators transform spiritual energy into spiritual power, while Foundation Establishment cultivators refine it into mana. This is the biggest difference between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment.

Spiritual power and magical power are completely different; the leap from spiritual power to magical power is a qualitative change.

If spiritual power is a rudimentary application of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and its quality is one, then the quality of magical power is at least one hundred.

This is transformation.

It wasn't just a transformation in spiritual and magical power; a simultaneous transformation also occurred at the level of life itself.

Qi Refining cultivators can live for a hundred years without illness or disaster, while Foundation Establishment cultivators can live for two hundred years.

Their lifespan has doubled.

Those who reach the Golden Core stage can live for eight hundred years, and the lifespans of those who reach the Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation stages are even more terrifying, being ancient monsters who live for thousands of years.

Moreover, after their lifespan ends, they will remain in the back mountain to be reborn, either by possessing another's body or by cultivating a new life, thereby transcending the limitations imposed by heaven and earth on the lifespan of life.

At that level, death is extremely difficult.

"Eleven years have passed in a flash, and we are now the foundation builders."

"Haha!" Wei Jing laughed heartily. He had reached the Foundation Establishment stage in just one year, while the secret realm was closed for a hundred years.

"There's still time. I'll strive to reach the Golden Core stage in thirty years, transform into the Nascent Soul stage in sixty years, and break through to the Divine Transformation stage within a hundred years." At this moment, Wei Jing's heart was surging with excitement, and he was filled with great ambition.

Full of fighting spirit!

Wei Jing did not slack off after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage. Although this level of cultivation could not be reflected in the real world, being able to glimpse the mysteries of cultivation in such a realistic dream and accumulate cultivation insights was still excellent.

Moreover, after the Suixu Secret Realm ends, rewards and gifts will be given based on the level of cultivation.

"On the path of cultivation, I am determined to reach the peak and see the view from above."

Having made up his mind, Wei Jing cultivated even more diligently.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, he was able to abstain from grains, so he simply left home and found a deep mountain forest, where he carved out a cave specifically for cultivation.

Leaving aside the outside world, time flies by in the secret realm.

Time flies, and ten years later, Wei Jing broke through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

Ten years later, he successfully broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

"Unfortunately, all the cultivation techniques, treasures, and pills in this world are illusory. I cannot rely on the benefits of pills, otherwise I could have broken through to the late Foundation Establishment stage many years earlier." Wei Jing emerged from seclusion.

At this time, he was already in his early thirties, but he still looked like he was eighteen.

After twenty years of seclusion, everything had changed, and Wei Jing had no intention of returning to the Wei family.

After resting for a while, he went into seclusion again.

The goal this time is to form a golden core, to condense one's own golden core.

As the saying goes, once a golden elixir is swallowed, one's fate is in one's own hands, not in the hands of heaven.

Golden Core cultivators are definitely among the top combat forces in Wushan County. Even the Qingfu Sect only has two Core Formation Ancestors, yet they can still dominate all the sects and cultivation families in Wushan.

Time flies, and we relentlessly slay the most arrogant and ruthless.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and Wei Jing did not achieve his breakthrough during this seclusion.

Why is that?

Wei Jing was puzzled. His cultivation had reached its limit five years ago, and the magical power within his dantian was surging and almost overflowing.

No matter how he cultivated or absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, his cultivation level remained unchanged.

"Could this be the legendary bottleneck?"

"Has my destiny become ineffective?"

Wei Jing's expression changed; this was something that had never happened before. Wei Jing refused to believe it and went into seclusion to cultivate again.

Five years have passed, and he is still at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

This time, Wei Jing was certain that this was not a bottleneck, but rather that condensing the Golden Core required special conditions and methods, and he was unable to grasp the method and thus could not get started.

"What special methods and means are needed to advance to the Core Formation stage and condense the Golden Core?" Wei Jing was troubled. He stopped his seclusion and went into the secular world to find an answer.

"In the end, their knowledge was too shallow. Staying in the Wei family, it's impossible for my uncle and the elders of Dieyu Peak to know the method of condensing the Golden Core."

"Even the Seventh Elder and the First Elder may not know the secrets of the Golden Core," Wei Jing pondered.

The elders of the family were, in the end, only cultivators at the late stage of Qi Refining.

"What is the secret of this golden elixir?" Wei Jing was puzzled and wandered the mortal world, searching for immortal techniques.

But there are no immortals in this world, and he is the only cultivator. No one can give him an answer.

Wei Jing had been wandering in the mortal world for ten years, and fifty years had passed since he entered the secret realm.

He established his foundation at age eleven, and was still searching for a way to condense the Golden Elixir at age fifty.

Unfortunately, nothing was found.

"Why is this?" Wei Jing asked, feeling lost and frustrated.