Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

In fact, those cultivators had no idea that the Thunder Bamboo they were talking about had already been cultivated into Golden Thunder Bamboo by Chen Liang.

Moreover, it wasn't just one Golden Thunder Bamboo, but a full six. Chen Liang even left several Heavenly Thunder Bamboo seedlings in the ordinary medicinal herb field as backup.

In addition, Chen Liang had previously refined these six Golden Thunder Bamboos into a cyan-gold thunder ring, which he then placed in his dantian to nurture it.

With this thunder ring capable of storing large quantities of warding-off divine thunder, if no one else had been present on Scorpion Island that day, Ji Yin would have had no chance of escaping.

But now, he's lucky to have escaped with his life.

While cultivators outside were busy inquiring about Mo Lu's origins, Chen Liang had already returned to Bi Ling Island to focus on his cultivation.

This time, he will attempt to reach the Nascent Soul stage.

As for the Miaoyin Sect, they successfully uncovered the clever woman who leaked information about the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo through internal investigation.

In accordance with the sect rules, Zhou Yuan abolished the cultivation of this intelligent woman and expelled her from the Miaoyin Sect.

This clever woman, now homeless, tried to seek refuge with Zhao Zheng, but was kicked out and ultimately ended up going insane and disappearing without a trace.

Zhao Zheng and Fu Zhou also met a bad end. Chen Liang's second clone went to Tianxing City and used an extremely domineering divine control technique to subdue them.

Then the second clone controlled them to leave Tianxing City and used three-colored flames to refine them alive in a remote sea area.

Nine years later, on a sunny and breezy day.

On this day, Chen Qiaoqian, Xin Ruyin, Xiaomei, Yuan Yao, and Yanli, the five women, unusually did not go into seclusion to cultivate.

In their spare time, Xiaomei tended the herb garden, Xin Ruyin read miscellaneous books, and Chen Qiaoqian looked after the two blood jade spiders, Xiaobai and Xiaoyu.

Meanwhile, the two sisters, Yuan Yao and Yan Li, were busy feeding the gold-eating insects, and Xiao Wu, who was squatting in his nest, was grooming his own fur. Everything seemed so peaceful.

Since Chen Liang approached the Nascent Soul stage and began his seclusion, the five women who learned of this all came to Biling Island and stayed near the secluded courtyard where Chen Liang was in seclusion.

This has been going on for almost a year, but today is destined to be an extraordinary day.

Inside the quiet room, only a very thin layer of crystal remained of Chen Liang's golden core. Looking through the crystal layer, a somewhat rough nascent soul had already taken shape, emitting a faint, multicolored glow.

The next moment, as the first crack appeared in the crystal layer, the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth stagnated for a moment, and at the same time, the five women turned their gazes to the quiet room where Chen Liang was in seclusion.

Subsequently, a second, third, and even dozens of cracks rapidly appeared in the crystal layer, causing the surrounding spiritual energy to surge wildly towards the quiet room where Chen Liang was.

The force of its convergence was so rapid that it even swept up some spirit stones from the underground mine tunnels.

Furthermore, as the spiritual energy vortex formed, these spirit stones and a large amount of spiritual energy were passively condensed into pure spiritual energy crystals under the rapid scouring and compression, thus forming a star ring composed of spiritual energy crystals above the quiet room.

At this moment, Chen Qiaoqian, Xin Ruyin, Xiaomei, Yuan Yao, and Yanli, the five women, had gathered near this enormous strange phenomenon, watching it all with a mixture of anticipation and worry.

The star ring was originally rotating quietly, but as Chen Liang's golden core crystal layer shattered faster and faster, the rotation speed of the star ring also began to increase, causing the spirit stones of the same attribute within it to rapidly aggregate in violent collisions, forming five very conspicuous crystalline satellites.

Until Chen Liang's Golden Core crystal layer completely shattered, the surrounding spiritual energy converged at an even greater intensity. The five crystalline satellites finally stopped growing and were instead sucked in and pulverized by the rapid vortex of spiritual energy, flowing into Chen Liang's body.

Finally, the vortex of spiritual energy was completely absorbed by Chen Liang, and the surrounding world returned to silence.

In this brief silence, Chen Qiaoqian, Xin Ruyin, Xiao Mei, Yuan Yao, and Yan Li, along with Xiao Wu, Xiao Bai, Xiao Yu, and the spirit beasts like the Gold-Eating Insects, all felt a strange palpitation, as if something terrifying was about to appear in the world.

Then, the nascent soul within Chen Liang's body suddenly opened its eyes and instinctively unleashed the "Nascent Soul Astral Projection," a signature technique renowned to nascent soul cultivators.

Suddenly, a solid nascent soul, about three inches in size, lifelike, and radiating a seven-colored halo, appeared above Chen Liang's body.

In addition to the colors representing the five elements—gold, cyan, aquamarine, red, and yellow—there is also a grayish-white color representing the Primordial True Fire and a blue-white halo representing the Fire of Divine Consciousness.

Moreover, it can be seen that the seven-colored halos gathered behind the nascent soul's head, faintly forming a seven-colored magic ring.

The moment this nascent soul appeared, it drew the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth to gather once again.

Under the watchful eyes of the five women and a host of spirit beasts, a massive seven-colored Dharma image rose from the quiet room where Chen Liang was in seclusion, and let out a fierce roar.

After the long roar, the illusory image of Chen Liang's nascent soul examined his own body, and then looked down at the five women and the surrounding spirit beasts.

This gaze made the five women and the group of spirit beasts dare not look directly at him, and they all looked away.

At this moment, the illusory image of Chen Liang's nascent soul realized that the pressure he had unintentionally emitted was making the five women and the group of spirit beasts feel uncomfortable. So he quickly dispersed the illusory image and returned to his meditation room.

At this point, Chen Liang successfully formed his Nascent Soul and officially became a Nascent Soul cultivator.

At this time, Chen Liang was only 105 years old.

On the other hand, the second avatar, also in the outer sea, naturally witnessed the entire process of the main body breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. He gained a great deal, laying a solid foundation for his later Nascent Soul formation.

Meanwhile, the first clone of the Nine Kingdoms Alliance in the far south also sensed something, but the distance was too great, and he only knew that his main body had broken through to the Nascent Soul stage.

When Chen Liang's nascent soul returned to his physical body, he couldn't help but examine his body carefully from the perspective of the nascent soul before returning to his dantian.

A short while later, Chen Liang opened his eyes again.

He casually opened the restrictions on the secluded courtyard, letting the five women and the group of spirit beasts know that he had succeeded.

So Chen Qiaoqian, Xin Ruyin, Xiao Mei, Yuan Yao and Yan Li, along with Xiao Wu, Xiao Bai, Xiao Yu and a swarm of gold-devouring insects and other spirit beasts, all rushed into the spacious quiet room, where sincere congratulations and joyful cries filled the air.

The five women congratulated each other in unison, saying, "Congratulations, my husband, on achieving the Nascent Soul stage."

Xiao Wu has accompanied Chen Liang all the way to this day and has long regarded Chen Liang as his closest companion, so at this moment he is affectionately rubbing his cheek against Chen Liang's.

Xiao Bai and Xiao Yu regarded Chen Liang as family. Although they could not get close to him due to his enormous size, they were still chirping happily on the outside.

There were also the Gold-Eating Insects, who regarded Chen Liang as the king of their tribe and Yanli and the other five women as queens, flying and celebrating in the sky.

Not long after, considering that Chen Liang might need to stabilize his cultivation level, the five women quickly left with their group of spirit beasts.

Although Chen Liang had just broken through, his realm was extremely stable. All he needed to do was familiarize himself with the Nascent Soul realm.

So he went into seclusion for a few more days before emerging to celebrate with the five women.

After spending a rather absurd period of time, Chen Liang finally calmed down and officially began his cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage.

In fact, the energy circulation path of a normal cultivation method is basically determined from the foundation building stage, and there will be almost no major changes thereafter.

However, the cultivation path of the "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing" changes drastically again during the Core Formation stage, which is beyond the common sense of the cultivation world.

In addition, the advantages accumulated from both the Foundation Establishment stage's "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing" and the Qi Refining stage's "Xiao Hun Yuan Gong" were also added in, which is why Chen Liang was able to become a Nascent Soul cultivator who was over a hundred years old.

However, Chen Liang was not satisfied with this. As the saying goes, running fast for a while does not mean that you will be the first to reach the finish line.

Therefore, Chen Liang plans to add the internal meridians of the five internal organs to the circulation path of the "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing" to upgrade the "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing" once again.

Therefore, Chen Liang once again took out his training array and separated a drop of primordial essence from his own nascent soul, and began another arrangement and combination of the energy path.

However, Chen Liang still needed to practice normally during the breaks between practicing the energy circulation path.

Therefore, Chen Liang now needs various cultivation techniques for the Nascent Soul stage and elixirs that can accelerate the growth of the Nascent Soul.

But these things are undoubtedly extremely precious. Even though Chen Liang had been collecting various books before, especially during the Battle of Jinguyuan, all the battle merits he gained through fighting or refining magic weapons and treasures were spent on them.

However, the cultivation techniques for the Nascent Soul stage recorded in it are still pitifully few.

As for pills and formulas that can accelerate the growth of the Nascent Soul stage, there are some, but most of them are no longer usable.

Because many of the medicinal herbs recorded in it have long since disappeared over time; they are either extinct or only remain in some secret realms.

Therefore, Chen Liang had a premonition that he would soon have to experience the cultivation conditions of an ordinary cultivator.