I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

The news spread very quickly.

Su Yu's return to the sect with a portion of the Myriad Manifestations Sect's inheritance, along with the massive amount of contribution points he gained and the addition of a Holy Maiden from the Taiyin Sect by his side, caused quite a stir among the inner disciples of the Tian Shu Sect.

But the commotion quickly subsided.

Since the Supreme Elder had already given his word, no one dared to gossip.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of miles away.

Taiyin Sect.

Inside the deepest, icy cave within the sect.

An elderly woman holding a cane suddenly opened her eyes.

She is the only Nascent Soul Grand Perfection Ancestor of the Taiyin Sect.

After listening to the report from the sect leader kneeling on the ground, the old woman trembled with anger and smashed the ancient ice table in front of her to pieces with her cane.

"That rebellious disciple, Mu Qingxue!"

The old woman's voice was harsh and unpleasant.

The medicinal herbs she had nurtured for so many years were taken away whole by the people of the Tian Shu Sect!

"Ancestor, should we go to the Heavenly Pivot Sect to demand an explanation?"

The sect leader mustered his courage and asked a question.

"Demand an explanation?"

The old woman stared intently at him, then laughed in exasperation.

"You want me to go and demand an explanation from that old monster at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, Tian Shu?"

Although the Taiyin Sect is a major sect in the Southern Wilderness, it is still inferior to the Tian Shu Sect.

Moreover, the one who took Mu Qingxue away was the fifth holy son personally appointed by the old monster Tian Shu.

Go and demand people back? That would be asking the Taiyin Sect to live too long.

The old woman's chest heaved violently a few times before she finally closed her eyes with extreme reluctance.

The situation is better than people.

She had no choice but to swallow this bitter pill.

"go."

The old woman gritted her teeth, as if she were chewing her own bones.

"Cross Mu Qingxue's name off the sect's official register."

"Go to the inner treasury and select three top-grade magic treasures, and prepare 100,000 high-grade spirit stones."

The sect leader was stunned.

The old woman suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze cold and sharp.

"What are you standing there for!"

"Send someone to the Tian Shu Sect and say...say that the Tai Yin Sect congratulates the Fifth Holy Son on finding a good match!"

The sect leader shuddered and scrambled out of the room.

That's just how realistic the cultivation world is.

You stole my things.

If you're tough enough, not only can I not scold you, I'll also have to give you gifts with fanfare.

I was afraid you wouldn't have enough fun grabbing things, so I just wiped me out too.

……

Cultivating immortality knows no time, and one is unaware of the changing seasons.

More than twenty years have passed quietly amidst the surging sea of ​​clouds on the main peak and the rising and setting of the sun and moon.

For the past twenty years, Su Yu has lived an extremely regular and peaceful life.

He didn't accept any bounties from sects, didn't fight powerful demons in the deep mountains and forests, and didn't compete for opportunities with those bloodthirsty geniuses in various secret realms.

He stayed peacefully in his cave on the main peak.

With the powerful backer of Ancestor Tian Shu, plus the massive amount of ancient resources emptied from the Myriad Manifestations Sect, they were able to achieve their goals.

He doesn't need to go out and show his face at all.

And in these more than twenty years of living and working together day and night.

Mu Qingxue, the once aloof and guarded saintess of the Taiyin Sect, gradually let down her guard and composure.

Su Yu treated her very well.

There was not a trace of arrogance or condescension, nor any domineering attitude.

They provided her with resources, cultivation techniques, and elixirs, meticulously planning everything for her.

In the world of cultivation, a place where people eat each other and even couples can turn against each other for half a cultivation technique.

This unreserved sincerity and protection is more deadly than any rare and precious treasure.

Human hearts are made of flesh and blood.

Faced with such a handsome, composed, and unfathomably profound Daoist partner who is also sincere towards him.

Mu Qingxue's heart, which had been chilled and guarded by the Taiyin Sect's schemes, had long since melted into a pool of spring water.

Once the iceberg melts, it's unstoppable.

The dual cultivation of Yin and Yang, combined with the mutual affection between the two, unleashed an extremely terrifying power.

For the past twenty years, the two of them have become addicted to this, working tirelessly day and night.

Dual cultivation is inherently a smooth path of mutual complementarity and benefit.

Mu Qingxue's inexhaustible Xuan Yin Qi, combined with the massive amount of pure Yang spiritual energy absorbed and exhaled by Su Yu's Earth Spirit Root, and the endless cycle of life created by the Creation Furnace Technique.

Their cultivation levels advanced rapidly, as if they were on a flying boat, progressing at breakneck speed without any obstacles.

Su Yu, who was in his early thirties, easily pushed his cultivation to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.

There is nowhere left to go.

Mu Qingxue, on the other hand, was one step ahead of him, seizing the opportunity to form her core.

Core formation is a major hurdle on a cultivator's path to enlightenment, a matter of life and death.

According to the ironclad rules of the cultivation world, the formation of the core requires one's own understanding and struggle against the laws of heaven and earth.

Outsiders can't offer any real help.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator can only protect you from inner demons or external enemies at most, but cannot compress your true essence or straighten out the laws for you.

If one cannot withstand the backlash from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, at best the golden core will be riddled with cracks and the cultivation will be half-ruined; at worst, the body will explode and the person will die on the spot.

But those rules are for ordinary cultivators.

With Su Yu protecting her, Mu Qingxue's situation was completely different.

During the two weeks she was in seclusion to form her core, Su Yu moved a chair and sat outside her cave to drink tea.

The originally wild and chaotic spiritual energy of heaven and earth became as docile as a tamed sheep when it flowed into Mu Qingxue's body.

The power of the laws did not backfire; instead, it actively aligned with her meridians, patiently helping her to regulate the newly formed golden core.

Smoothly.

It went so smoothly, so incredibly smoothly, without the slightest hiccup whatsoever.

half a month later.

The heavy stone door was slowly pushed open.

Mu Qingxue stepped out, her body radiating a lustrous, ever-flowing golden elixir light.

On the surface of the Golden Core, the flawless Dao patterns are perfectly formed.

First-grade Golden Elixir!

Mu Qingxue stood there, her beautiful eyes filled with shock, almost unable to believe it.

Although she possessed the "Mysterious Yin Dual Cultivation Body," a rare find even once in ten thousand years, she never dared to hope to even touch the threshold of the first-grade Golden Core.

Reaching the top three ranks was originally her greatest goal and pursuit in this life.

After all, even the most brilliant and talented holy sons and daughters throughout history only reached the third rank of Golden Core.

As for the first-grade golden elixir...

That's something that can't be achieved simply by relying on resources and special physical attributes.

That is a supreme realm that only a truly peerless genius who dominates an era can reach!

Mu Qingxue never expected this.

That one-in-a-million Grade One Golden Elixir was actually formed just like that, as naturally as water flowing into a channel!

Mu Qingxue raised her head and looked at Su Yu, who was sitting at the stone table, holding a teacup and smiling at her.

She instantly understood, knowing perfectly well whose blessing she had received for all of this.

Without saying a word, Mu Qingxue stepped forward, grabbed Su Yu by the collar, and pulled him back into the depths of the cave.

The saintess, who had just formed a first-grade golden core, used an extremely enthusiastic and unreasonable approach to drag Su Yu along for another round of "consolidation" of his cultivation.

The experience is something that cannot be explained to outsiders.

……

Several more months passed.

Su Yu also reached the Core Formation stage.

The process was equally uneventful, even more so than with Mu Qingxue.

The "Creation Furnace Technique" operates on its own, causing the earth's spiritual energy to flow back in.

The liquid essence is compressed and solidified very smoothly in the gas sea.

A golden elixir, radiant and flawless, floated in the dantian.

First-grade Golden Elixir.

Although there are vaguely even higher and more ethereal levels above this.

However, Su Yu didn't care at all, and didn't even have the slightest intention of forcing it.

He is an extremely pragmatic person with an exceptionally clear understanding of his own shortcomings.

Based on his extremely poor comprehension and his originally inferior ninth-grade aptitude...

To be able to comfortably achieve the Foundation Establishment of the Heavenly Dao and the First-Grade Golden Core is already an incredibly fortunate destiny.

Having already effortlessly reached the pinnacle that most geniuses in the world can only dream of, what more could one ask for?

Everything fell into place naturally.

The moment Su Yu emerged from seclusion.

Ancestor Tian Shu, who had been in seclusion deep within the main peak, immediately extended his divine sense.

The old monster's originally calm and composed expression twitched violently a few times after sweeping over the two men's dantian.

"Two first-grade Golden Core cultivators..."

Standing in his secret chamber, the Celestial Ancestor plucked out a few white hairs from his chin.

He wasn't surprised at all that Su Yu had formed a first-grade golden core.

After all, if a chosen one of destiny couldn't produce a first-class talent, that would be truly bizarre.

But what about Mu Qingxue?

A cultivator of the Yin-Yang dual cultivation body from the Taiyin Sect, though possessing top-tier aptitude, would at best only reach the second or third rank.

How come after cultivating with my disciple for over twenty years, I've also become a first-grade Golden Core cultivator?!

When one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven.

This unreasonable blessing even made the old monster who had lived for over 30,000 years, a Nascent Soul cultivator, tremble violently.

In the world of cultivation, the rules regarding lifespan are extremely strict.

Forming a first-grade golden elixir signifies a lifespan of five thousand years.

If one eventually forms a Nascent Soul, one can gain another ten thousand years.

Upon reaching the Nascent Soul stage, his life level underwent an absolute qualitative change, and his lifespan reached a full 50,000 years!

This is also the source of his confidence that allowed him to live in this world for over 30,000 years, even enduring being stuck at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage for over 10,000 years.

But in the end, he endured too long and was too lonely throughout his life.

The barrier above his head was like an eternal prison that sealed off the heavens and the earth, suppressing him for thirty thousand years.

But now, he finally sees real hope.

"With this kid's unreasonable breakthrough speed, coupled with this kind of fortune that even the Heavenly Dao has to give way to..."

The Heavenly Pivot Ancestor's eyes flashed with an extremely dazzling light, as if he could see the boundary wall shattering.

"Five hundred years! At most five hundred years, he will definitely break through to the Nascent Soul stage!"

"Achieving the Nascent Soul stage is definitely within three thousand years!"

"Within ten thousand years, he will definitely be able to help me shatter that barrier above my head!"

The old monster took a deep breath, reaffirming his determination to be a good protector of the Dao.

As long as Su Yu can grow up safely, he will protect this disciple with all his might, even if it costs him his old life.

……

The news that two top-tier Golden Core cultivators had appeared in the world at the same time could not be kept secret.

The two consecutive spiritual phenomena that resonated with heaven and earth above the main peak had already alarmed the highest levels of the Tian Shu Sect.

Inner gate, main hall.

The sect leader and a dozen or so Nascent Soul elders looked at each other in bewilderment. The hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"Su Shengzi is a first-grade Golden Core cultivator... Mu Qingxue is also a first-grade Golden Core cultivator..."

The sect leader took a deep breath, his tone revealing undisguised shock.

In the Tian Shu Sect, the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters represent the sect's strongest talents and foundation.

Besides Su Yu, the other four holy sons and daughters also possess special ancient physiques.

Even with the sect's best efforts in nurturing them, only the Great Saint Son among the four managed to form a first-grade Golden Core.

The other three were all of the second rank.

Second-grade Golden Core cultivators are extremely rare in the cultivation world, possessing the qualifications to attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

However, in the true battle for the Great Dao, there is a despairing chasm between the second and first ranks!

A first-grade golden elixir is a perfect crystallization that has truly been recognized by the laws of Heaven.

It is not only a sure thing to become a Nascent Soul seed, but as long as it does not perish along the way, it also has the absolute foundation to touch the elusive threshold of the Divine Transformation!

What's most suffocating is the absolute gap in combat power between the two.

In terms of the amount of true essence stored in the Qi Sea alone, a first-grade Golden Core is more than twice that of a second-grade one!

Moreover, the purity and explosive power of the true essence are overwhelmingly superior, like a dimensional reduction attack.

If it really comes down to a life-or-death struggle, a first-grade Golden Core cultivator can even crush and instantly kill a second-grade one!

This is the most insurmountable barrier between peerless geniuses and top talents.

And now, two peerless geniuses have emerged from the main peak in one go!

"Sect Master, the Fifth Holy Son's talent and fortune are truly an unprecedented blessing for our Tian Shu Sect."

A very senior Nascent Soul elder stepped forward, his tone extremely solemn.

"Although Saintess Mu was born into the Taiyin Sect, she is now the Daoist partner of our sect's Holy Son, and she is also a First-Grade Golden Core cultivator."

"The combination of these two will undoubtedly be the absolute foundation for our Tian Shu Sect to dominate the entire Southern Wilderness and remain prosperous for all time."

The sect leader nodded slowly, his determination becoming increasingly clear.

He sat in a high position and saw everything clearly.

Su Yu is not only the Supreme Elder's precious darling, but he himself is a towering white jade pillar that can make the entire Tian Shu Sect strong for tens of thousands of years.

"Pass down the order."

The sect leader stood up, his voice echoing throughout the hall, leaving no room for negotiation.

"The resource supply for the main peak lineage will be doubled again, effective immediately."

"The Holy Son Su and Holy Daughter Mu have the absolute priority to use all the top-grade spiritual medicines and rare treasures in the Internal Affairs Pavilion without needing to report."

"Tell everyone in the sect that the Fifth Holy Son is the foundation of our Tian Shu Sect's future."

"Anyone who dares to show the slightest negligence or disrespect will be severely punished as a traitor!"