["The World-Crossing Immortal Boat..."]
[True Monarch Shangxiao looked solemn. The Dazhou Immortal Dynasty's World-Crossing Immortal Boat was said to be designed to carry all living beings of the entire immortal dynasty into ascension.]
[Since ancient times, cultivators had pursued ascension to immortality.]
[However, as an immortal dynasty, the path the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty took differed from that of ordinary cultivators.]
[They pursued whole-nation ascension.]
[Thousands of miles away, you nearly held your breath.]
[From the appearance of the mysterious true lord in the red-and-gold robe, to the death of the Tier-4 beast king with the True Spirit Bloodline, and the frantic escape of the Tier-4 Eagle King, it all happened in the span of a single breath.]
[You never expected such an unforeseen variable to appear.]
[You had expected that as time passed, the beast king with the True Spirit Bloodline was destined to retreat in defeat to the Myriad Beast Mountain Range.]
[Most beast kings with the True Spirit Bloodline possessed the strength of the peak of the early Nascent Soul Stage.]
[Coupled with the many divine abilities and secret techniques inherited from their bloodlines, even if four or five ordinary early-stage true lords joined forces, they could at most defeat one, not kill it.]
[On the contrary, you had felt the Tier-4 Eagle King was much more likely to fall.]
["That mysterious true lord in the red-and-gold robe is at least a mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch; otherwise, it would be impossible..."]
[You were slightly shocked. Mid-stage Nascent Soul! That was an existence capable of heavily injuring or even killing early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.]
[In the super domains of distant realms, mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarchs were known as giants, able to dominate the fate of several large domains with a flip of their palms.]
["Fortunately, I used a puppet body to observe..."]
[You rejoiced secretly. A puppet body carried no aura. Even if discovered, you could instantly sever the spiritual sense connection to prevent any backlash from reaching your true body.]
["This mysterious true lord only attacked the beast king with the True Spirit Bloodline, yet let that Tier-4 Eagle King go..."]
[You continued to observe the events from afar.]
["Is it because he needed to suppress the demon core of the True Spirit Bloodline beast king? Was he unable to divide his attention, or did he have more important things to do?"]
[You speculated, feeling it was perhaps a mix of both.]
[Just now, when you saw the mysterious true lord raise his hand to suppress the True Spirit Bloodline beast king's demon core, you had thought that even a beast king as powerful as that was like an ant before him.]
[But recalling it carefully now, you realized that the timing of the mysterious true lord's attack was extremely subtle. It occurred right when the True Spirit Bloodline beast king was putting all its effort into dealing with True Monarch Zixu and the other two true lords, leaving it with no energy to spare for its surroundings.]
[If True Monarch Zixu and the other two true lords hadn't created the opportunity, given the beast king's strength, it wouldn't have been killed instantly even if it still ended up dying.]
[As for only attacking the True Spirit Bloodline beast king, that was naturally because the True Spirit Bloodline held higher value. To mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarchs and those even stronger, what they valued was the True Spirit Bloodline itself.]
["It's a pity I can't hear what they're saying."]
[From over a thousand miles away, you carefully watched as that mysterious true lord exchanged a few words with True Monarch Zixu, True Lord Seven Fiends, and True Monarch Shangxiao before his figure vanished.]
["I'll wait a few decades and see if I can gather any information..."]
[You thought to yourself. With the death of the True Spirit Bloodline beast king, the beast horde that had swept across more than half of the Taiyuan Region had ended ahead of schedule.]
[Taiyuan Palace would once again rule this large domain, giving you plenty of opportunities to investigate later.]
[In the 254th year, you were 270 years old.]
[These past ten years had been a decade of reconstruction for the Taiyuan Region. Taiyuan Palace publicly announced that the beast horde had been resolved by their own true lords, and the Taiyuan Region had now become incredibly safe.]
[They widely invited factions from neighboring large domains to migrate to the Taiyuan Region.]
["The Dazhou Immortal Dynasty... The Taiyuan Region is secretly gathering puppet craftsmanship talents... That mysterious true lord... True Monarch Chongtian..."]
[The intelligence you had gathered surfaced in your mind.]
[You were not the only one who had paid attention to the battle between the beast king and the true lords ten years ago; a few true persons had also been present at the time.]
["The Dazhou Region... The Dazhou Immortal Dynasty..."]
[You marveled inwardly.]
[The Dazhou Region was different from normal large domains; it was completely ruled by a single faction named the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty.]
[Within the immortal dynasty, the world was governed by officials. Even a cultivator's advancement required the dynasty's permission and an advance application.]
[The Dazhou Immortal Dynasty maintained a strict hierarchy. It walked the path of gathering the destiny of humanity to pursue whole-nation ascension.]
["Is Taiyuan Palace's gathering of puppet craftsmanship talents also related to the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty... to that True Monarch Chongtian?"]
[You speculated secretly. You had now managed to gather some intelligence regarding the mysterious true lord from back then: True Monarch Chongtian, possessing a cultivation base at the peak of the mid Nascent Soul Stage.]
["Never mind, none of this has anything to do with me..."]
[You steadied your mind. What stood before you now was the breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm.]
[As for the Dazhou Region, the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty, and True Monarch Chongtian, even if you wanted to scheme against them, it would be a matter for the next simulation.]
[In the 264th year, you were 280 years old.]
[Your Divination skills finally reached the peak of the Tier-3 mid-grade.]
[In the 274th year, you were 290 years old.]
[You learned that an astronomical phenomenon for condensing a Nascent Soul had appeared deep within Taiyuan Palace. Ultimately, after surviving the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, the cultivator perished during the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[Even for a Nascent Soul-level faction like Taiyuan Palace, the probability of a Nascent Soul seed they poured all their resources into cultivating actually stepping into the Nascent Soul Stage was only thirty or forty percent.]
[Your external conditions were no better than those of the Nascent Soul seeds cultivated by such factions.]
[However, you possessed an advantage those Nascent Soul seeds couldn't compare to.]
[Even if you failed your breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm, you could start over.]
[But for those Nascent Soul seeds, once they failed, their bodies would die and their souls would be extinguished, leaving them no chance to try again.]
[In the 284th year, you were 300 years old.]
[Jiang Jixue passed away. Uncharacteristically, she had not met with you for the five or six years before her passing.]
[You naturally knew the reason. As cultivators approached death, they would reveal a certain degree of aging. In this regard, even a Face Preserving Pill couldn't suppress it.]
[Jiang Jixue hoped that you would remember her at her most beautiful.]
[Rather than her aged appearance right before passing away.]
[Jiang Jixue had attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul realm once before, but she ultimately failed and suffered a backlash.]
[Although she survived, she lost several decades of lifespan.]
[In the 294th year, you were 310 years old.]
[You had long reached your limits in all aspects, yet in order to gather more intelligence, you did not attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.]
[In the 334th year, you were 350 years old.]
[You faintly sensed that you had a little over twenty years of lifespan left.]
[True persons at the Core Formation Stage enjoyed a lifespan of five hundred years, but you had successively invested more than a hundred years of it into the path of Divination.]
["Twenty-five years left!"]
[You calculated your precise remaining lifespan.]
["It's time to begin the breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm."]
[You did not hesitate.]
[However, before attempting the breakthrough, you planned to invest twenty years of your lifespan into the path of Divination.]
[Over these years, your Divination skills had been firmly stuck at the Tier-3 mid-grade. You felt that even if another hundred years passed, they would remain the same.]
[Now that your Nascent Soul breakthrough was imminent, if you failed... with the foundation you had prepared, you would definitely pass the phase of shattering the core to form the nascent soul. This meant failure would result in certain death.]
[Therefore, out of the more than twenty years of lifespan remaining, keeping five years would be enough.]
[Your physical body and constitution were at the late stage of Tier 3, with surging vitality and blood, so you had basically no worries about old age.]
[Whoosh—]
[You began to invest your lifespan, entering a deep state of Divination.]
[When a Diviner invested their lifespan to perform deep Divination, their Divination skills would rapidly improve.]
[A moment later.]
[You sacrificed twenty years of your lifespan, and your Divination skills finally advanced from the Tier-3 mid-grade to the Tier-3 high-grade.]
["This path of Divination..."]
[Your expression was strange. You felt that the path of Divination forced Diviners to constantly sacrifice their own lifespans.]
[Without investing lifespan and solely relying on grinding through the years, it was very difficult to cross certain critical bottlenecks.]
[Of course, it was also possible this was due to your very low talent in Divination.]
[Perhaps true Divination geniuses did not need to do this.]
["I can break through now."]
[You went to the deepest part of the Jiang Family and informed the contemporary Jiang Family Patriarch.]
[For hundreds of years, due to Jiang Jixue and Venerable Xuan, your status in the Jiang Family had long been akin to that of a Grand Elder.]
[The contemporary Jiang Family Patriarch had received many favors from you. He immediately began mobilizing the spiritual energy of all of Profound King Island to construct a Tier-4 cave dwelling.]
[Inside the Tier-4 cave dwelling, where the spiritual energy was so dense it was almost tangible, you sat cross-legged.]
["Nascent Soul..."]
[You closed your eyes.]
[Rumble—]
[An astronomical phenomenon for condensing a Nascent Soul spanning a hundred-mile radius instantly manifested.]
[Boundless spiritual energy gathered toward the Tier-4 cave dwelling deep within the Jiang Family.]
[The process was extremely stable.]
[If the phenomenon of shattering the core to form the nascent soul when Jiang Jixue and her grandfather broke through was a trickling stream...]
[Then the Nascent Soul phenomenon you triggered was a great river flowing into the sea.]
["This kind of Nascent Soul phenomenon..."]
[On Profound King Island, true persons lifted their heads one after another, their expressions changing slightly.]
[The Nascent Soul phenomenon triggered by Zhou Qing was too stable, which meant he was almost guaranteed to pass the stage of shattering the core to form the nascent soul.]
["This fellow..."]
[The flamboyantly dressed, bald Venerable Xuan awakened, looking from afar toward the center of the Nascent Soul phenomenon.]
[Inside the Tier-4 cave dwelling.]
[Zhou Qing observed his constantly expanding Flawless Gold Core.]
[At the same time, he sequentially consumed the Heavenly Infant Fruit, Nine Heavens Pure Qi, Thunder Dissolving Water, Shangqing Fruit, and other Nascent Soul condensation spiritual items.]
[A month later.]
[A crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the perfectly round Flawless Gold Core, as if it were a spirit beast egg nurturing new life.]
[Zhou Qing's face turned slightly pale. The shattering of the Golden Core would generate a fierce backlash.]
[However, Zhou Qing's Golden Core was of flawless quality. Coupled with his powerful physical body and the consumption of numerous Nascent Soul condensation spiritual items...]
[The backlash he suffered during the shattering of his Golden Core healed before it could even develop into an injury.]
[Buzz—]
[Accompanied by the appearance of the first crack on the perfectly round Golden Core...]
[One crack after another rapidly emerged.]
[At the same time, the entire round Golden Core also exuded an aura of death.]
[The shattering of the Golden Core was a true demise.]
[But from amidst the dense aura of death, a new aura was unexpectedly brewing.]
[Rebirth from destruction.]
[Streams of Golden Core origin constantly gathered, forming the phantom of an infant.]
["I finally made it through..."]
[You looked at the infant phantom that had replaced the Golden Core.]
[And finally breathed a sigh of relief.]
[At this moment, Zhou Qing had already passed the stage of shattering the core to form the nascent soul.]
[The backlash caused to you during the Golden Core's shattering amounted to merely a minor injury.]
[It could be healed in just a few dozen breaths.]
["Is this the embryonic form of a Nascent Soul?"]
[You stared at the illusory infant deep within your dantian, thinking to yourself.]
[The so-called embryonic Nascent Soul wasn't a true Nascent Soul. Only after Zhou Qing passed the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation and the Heart Demon Tribulation, bringing his realm to perfection, could it thoroughly solidify.]
[If he failed to pass the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation and the Heart Demon Tribulation, falling short of the realm, the illusory Nascent Soul would rapidly collapse and regress, deteriorating back into Golden Core magical power.]
[Rumble—]
[The Nascent Soul phenomenon dissipated, replaced by pitch-black tribulation clouds.]
[Bolts of cyan lightning began to brew. You stood beneath the tribulation clouds, constantly adjusting your aura to heal your injuries.]
[A moment later.]
[The heavenly thunder began to descend rapidly.]
[Because you had ample experience undergoing tribulations, even though the power of the Nascent Soul's Heavenly Thunder Tribulation far exceeded the Tier-2 and Tier-3 body refining heavenly tribulations, you easily survived the first eight bolts of heavenly thunder.]
[It wasn't until the ninth bolt of heavenly thunder that Zhou Qing faintly felt a trace of a threat.]
["Divine ability... Eruption!"]
[Zhou Qing immediately activated this body cultivation divine ability.]
[His vitality, blood, physical body, and constitution skyrocketed, allowing him to withstand the ninth bolt of heavenly thunder.]
[Nascent Soul Heavenly Thunder Tribulation! Passed!]
[Zhou Qing's expression was calm as he looked up at the firmament.]
[At this moment, the tribulation clouds had not disappeared. Instead, they gathered even thicker, brewing an extremely disastrous aura.]
["Heart Demon Tribulation..."]
[Your heart grew solemn. The Heart Demon Tribulation was the most difficult hurdle when breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage.]
[The vast majority of Great True Persons with heavenly spiritual roots and Flawless Gold Cores died right at this stage.]
[Zhou Qing stared at the tribulation clouds beneath the firmament, momentarily plunging into an illusory heart demon world.]
[The heart demon world Zhou Qing faced required him to walk down an endless road.]
[Zhou Qing exhausted incredible effort to finally reach the end of the road, passing the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[Zhou Qing also successfully condensed a true Nascent Soul, becoming a Nascent Soul True Monarch who looked down upon the masses of the large domain.]
[At this time, Zhou Qing looked at Venerable Xuan, who was slowly approaching.]
[The other party bore a face full of goodwill, congratulating Zhou Qing on ascending to become a true lord.]
[After chatting with Venerable Xuan for a while, the other party mentioned a promise from the past.]
[It turned out that Venerable Xuan had discovered a large-scale secret realm, suspected to be the ruins of a super sect from the ancient era.]
[He wanted to invite Zhou Qing to explore it together.]
[Zhou Qing gladly agreed.]
[Ultimately, inside that large-scale secret realm, you obtained a massive amount of Tier-4 resources.]
[Afterward, Zhou Qing held a Nascent Soul grand ceremony, and Nascent Soul True Monarchs from many surrounding large domains all came to congratulate him.]
[The once-unreachable True Monarch Zixu and True Lord Seven Fiends conversed with Zhou Qing as equals.]
[Relying on the monstrous resources obtained from that large-scale secret realm, Zhou Qing spent two hundred years to finally step into the mid Nascent Soul Stage. In the end, he found the pill recipe for the Nirvana Transformation Pill, hunted down several beast kings with the True Spirit Bloodline, refined the pill, and used it to step into the late Nascent Soul Stage.]
[Before Zhou Qing's lifespan limit arrived, he attempted to break through to Deity Transformation, and ultimately succeeded in stepping into Deity Transformation...]
[In a trance, the world around him faded away.]
[Zhou Qing suddenly opened his eyes, discovering that he was still on Profound King Island, and the tribulation clouds overhead were rapidly dispersing.]
["Sigh..." A sigh rang out again, and the bald Venerable Xuan's face filled with pity.]
["This..."]
[Feeling the rapidly collapsing illusory Nascent Soul deep within his dantian, Zhou Qing cried out inwardly, "How bitter..."]
[Obviously, everything he had just experienced originated from the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[From stepping into the Nascent Soul realm, to successfully breaking through to the mid and late stages, and even Deity Transformation.]
[It was all just an illusion manifested by the heart demon within the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
["Indomitable Will..."]
[Zhou Qing's expression was thoughtful. While experiencing the Heart Demon Tribulation, his mind had completely sunk into it, yet there had constantly been a cold aura influencing him.]
[It was just that you were too eager to step into the Nascent Soul Stage, constantly ignoring this cold aura. Looking back now, this cold aura originated from the talent, Indomitable Will.]
[If he were to do it again and grasp that cold aura, there was a high probability that Zhou Qing wouldn't continue to sink into the heart demon. There would be a great hope of breaking free early and passing the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[Zhou Qing looked toward the cave dwelling of the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce branch, as if he could see Li Yan with a face full of worry.]
[Once you died, Li Yan, who had a 'demon seed' planted in her by Zhou Qing, would also die with you.]
[Under Zhou Qing's subsequent arrangements, the entire cave dwelling of the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce branch would also be destroyed along with it.]
["Nascent Soul Stage..."]
[You firmly etched the experience of this attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, as well as the influence of Indomitable Will on the Heart Demon Tribulation, into your mind.]
[Zhou Qing died.]
[This simulation has ended.]
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