The little fox spirit, Wangcai, and the golden-haired crow Xiaohei usually gather spiritual energy on the balcony.
Although Zeng Jingxue and Chen Li, who lived downstairs, did not understand cultivation and absorption, they were also nourished by some spiritual energy, and their bodies and complexions became more and more beautiful. Even the big banyan tree in the small courtyard under the banyan tree has been growing more and more lush and green recently!
As Zhang Yuan's cultivation level gradually improved, his dantian fire became purer, and with the advancement in his alchemy skills, the time required for him to refine Burst Pills and Meridian Opening Pills was greatly shortened.
This time, he completed the refining of 10 simplified Foundation Establishment Pills, as well as Burst Pills and Meridian Opening Pills in just a few days.
He took the newly refined Meridian Opening Pill from the alchemy furnace and put it into a bottle.
Now, everything is ready, and we're just waiting for the final push.
To avoid any unusual phenomena that might occur during the challenge and attract unnecessary attention, Zhang Yuan deliberately chose to attempt the challenge late at night.
midnight.
The moon hangs high in the sky, and all is quiet.
On the third floor of the Rongxia Courtyard, after closing the door, Zhang Yuan checked the spirit-gathering array.
Everything is normal.
Zhang Yuan sat in the center of the hall, where the spiritual energy was most abundant, with a white porcelain bottle containing a Meridian Opening Pill placed in front of him within easy reach.
The Enlightenment Stone was held in his hand.
Calm your mind and regulate your breathing, allowing your vital energy to circulate freely in your meridians and the microcosmic orbit.
Within the formation, wisps of spiritual energy entered Zhang Yuan's body through his skin and acupoints, then flowed into his meridians and gathered in his dantian.
Zhang Yuan opened the porcelain bottle, poured out a Meridian Opening Pill, and swallowed it!
After the Meridian Opening Pill entered his body, it melted and transformed into a continuous stream of spiritual energy, which entered Zhang Yuan's muscles, tendons, bones, and meridians.
Most of the spiritual energy enters the meridians!
Next, Zhang Yuan used his divine soul and will to control and guide a large amount of spiritual energy in his body to converge in his dantian.
In the Meridian Opening Realm, the true qi in a cultivator's dantian mainly exists in the form of gas. As the cultivation level increases, the concentration of true qi in the dantian continuously increases, gradually condensing into a mixture of gaseous and liquid states.
Zhang Yuan's cultivation had reached the peak of the Meridian Opening Realm. At this moment, the true qi in his dantian was a mixture of qi and liquid, and it was almost saturated. As a large amount of true qi entered the meridians, it was continuously guided into his dantian.
The dantian felt increasingly full, and the pressure was increasing, as if it was about to burst from the sheer volume of true energy.
The breakthrough from the Meridian Opening Realm to the Golden Core Realm occurs when the true qi in the dantian reaches its limit. Under the guidance and influence of the spirit and will, the true qi is compressed to the extreme, resulting in a qualitative change and the formation of the Golden Core!
Two conditions must be met here: first, the true qi must reach the limit of the dantian; second, the spirit must be involved, because only the spirit can mobilize the true qi, making it move in an orderly manner and gather in the dantian. At the same time, when the elixir is formed, the spirit needs to exert a thought of forming the elixir.
It usually takes ordinary cultivators several years, or even decades, to cultivate from the Meridian Opening Realm to the Golden Core Realm. With the help of pills and formations, Zhang Yuan greatly shortened his cultivation time and reached the edge of breaking through to the initial Golden Core Realm in less than a year.
But this also brought up a problem that Zhang Yuan was unaware of.
That is, the spiritual energy of the Spirit Gathering Array, combined with the massive amount of spiritual energy provided by the Meridian Opening Pill in a short period of time, made his body's spiritual energy too abundant, and his dantian, meridians, and soul were subjected to greater pressure than ordinary cultivators!
If Zhang Yuan's soul cannot control so much spiritual energy, there is a risk that his breakthrough will fail and his dantian will be burst.
At this moment, a large amount of spiritual energy surged into his body. Zhang Yuan's soul had been over-exhausted from studying the formation and had not yet fully recovered. Now, because of breaking through the barrier, he had to consume his primordial spirit power to guide and control the true energy, and his soul was once again in excruciating pain!
This pain was even worse than when I set up the spirit-gathering array!
Zhang Yuanqiang endured the excruciating pain and carefully controlled the large amount of true qi in his meridians to slowly enter his dantian. He endured the oppressive feeling that his dantian was about to explode and further compressed the true qi. At the same time, his primordial spirit continued to exert the intention of condensing the golden elixir.
Finally, with a loud boom, the true energy was compressed to its limit and collapsed inward, forming a golden, round elixir!
As the golden core formed, Zhang Yuan was surrounded by golden light, appearing as sacred as a god or Buddha.
At this moment, a golden core the size of an egg was suspended in the center of Zhang Yuan's dantian. The golden core was constantly rotating, absorbing the spiritual energy from his body and the surrounding area!
When a cultivator condenses their Golden Core, the more spiritual energy and true energy the Golden Core absorbs, the stronger the cultivator will become. When Zhang Yuan broke through to the Golden Core realm, he absorbed too much spiritual energy, which caused his Golden Core to be larger than that of ordinary cultivators, almost twice the size of the Golden Core of other cultivators when they first broke through to the initial Golden Core realm.
At this moment, within Zhang Yuan's dantian, the golden core, the size of an egg, spun like a bottomless pit, absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world.
So he took another Meridian-Clearing Pill.
After the Meridian Opening Pill dissolves, the spiritual energy, guided by the primordial spirit, enters the dantian and is absorbed by the golden elixir.
After reaching the initial stage of the Golden Core realm, the body absorbs the effects of the Meridian Opening Pill more quickly.
It only took him a little over ten minutes to absorb all the spiritual energy contained in the entire Meridian Opening Pill. When Zhang Yuan was in the advanced stage of Meridian Opening, it would take him at least an hour to absorb the spiritual energy of a single Meridian Opening Pill!
After the true energy of the Meridian Opening Pill was completely absorbed, the Golden Core seemed to reach saturation temporarily, stopped rotating, and gradually slowed down its absorption of spiritual energy.
But it is still absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world!
This is the difference between the Golden Core Realm and the Meridian Opening Realm. Once the Golden Core is formed, even if the cultivator does not actively cultivate, the Golden Core in the dantian will slowly absorb the spiritual energy flowing in the outside world.
Of course, if a cultivator actively cultivates, the Golden Core will absorb spiritual energy even faster!
After a night of intense effort, Zhang Yuan finally broke through to the early stage of the Golden Core Realm!
He slowly opened his eyes, and the golden light surrounding his body disappeared into his body.
When Zhang Yuan saw the white porcelain bottle containing the Meridian Opening Pill in front of him, he had a thought. The white porcelain bottle, which was on the ground, slowly floated up and then flew towards Zhang Yuan, landing in his hand!
Zhang Yuan put the porcelain bottle back into his Qiankun bag, and then with another thought, the Moon Sword flew out of the bag.
The Moon Sword circled the dormitory a few times before slowly landing in Zhang Yuan's hand!
Telekinesis!
This is a unique ability that cultivators possess after reaching the Golden Core realm: using powerful true energy to control external objects and use them for their own purposes.
The higher one's Golden Core cultivation level, the larger and heavier the objects one can control, and the farther one can fly.
When a cultivator has just broken through to the early stage of the Golden Core realm, they can generally only control some relatively light objects and magical artifacts, and the flight distance is not very far, probably only a few meters.
However, Zhang Yuan's condensed golden core was larger than that of ordinary early-stage golden core cultivators, so he could control heavier objects and fly farther.
Because he was in the dormitory, Zhang Yuan couldn't conduct experiments freely.
After he controlled the Moon Sword to fly around the dormitory a few times, his primordial spirit felt a stinging pain again, so he put the Moon Sword away.
When he broke through to the Golden Core Realm, he consumed too much of his primordial spirit power and triggered an old ailment, causing him a terrible headache.
"I need to find a way to properly cultivate my primordial spirit from now on!"
Zhang Yuan muttered to himself.
After resting on the futon for a while, the stinging sensation lessened, and Zhang Yuan finally stood up!
Outside the window, a sliver of dawn was breaking on the horizon; daylight was fast approaching.
Zhang Yuan pushed open the door and went out.
Outside, the little fox demon Ye Xiaoqian sat leaning against a rocking chair on the balcony, yawning wearily.
Last night, when Ye Xiaoqian came to cultivate, she found that Zhang Yuan was breaking through his cultivation barrier, so she guarded outside the house all night to help protect Zhang Yuan and prevent him from being disturbed during his breakthrough.
Zhang Yuan was quite moved, even though he hadn't actually asked the little fox demon to protect him.
Upon seeing Zhang Yuan emerge, Ye Xiaoqian immediately stood up.
"Congratulations, Brother Zhang Yuan, on breaking through to the Golden Core Realm!"
Ye Xiaoqian said playfully.
Zhang Yuan nodded with a smile.
After breaking through to the Golden Core Realm, his perception became even more acute. Therefore, after only one glance at Ye Xiaoqian, he keenly discovered that Ye Xiaoqian's cultivation had reached the late stage of the Demon Soldier Realm.
Previously at Zeng Houyi's house, the little fox demon's cultivation level was at the mid-stage of the Demon Soldier realm, equivalent to the mid-stage of the Foundation Establishment realm for human cultivators. In just a short time, it has already reached the peak of the late-stage Demon Soldier realm!
His cultivation progressed at an astonishing speed.
Zhang Yuan greatly admired the little fox demon's talent and said, "You're about to break through to the Demon General realm, so I'll give you something."
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