The Immortal Phoenix looked as if she had just heard something utterly mind-blowing, her mind completely short-circuiting.
“Yeah. My ten-layer Foundation Establishment, Self Violet Palace, and Immortal-Rune Golden Core—all of them shattered,” Wang Xuanyi said, shrugging indifferently.
When he first embarked on the path of cultivation, he had been like a madman, cultivating day and night, constantly heading down the mountain to temper himself.
In just thirteen years, he went from the Qi Refining Realm to the Golden Core Realm. However, the Golden Core he condensed ended up shattering on its own. At the time, he had assumed it was due to a lack of comprehension.
Next came comprehending heaven and earth, smelting his own body with the three thousand Great Daos, and grasping immortal runes to once again condense an Immortal-Rune Golden Core.
This process of forming a core took a whole year. He formed them only for them to shatter, and they shattered only for him to form them again. Back and forth, he had formed over a hundred Golden Cores, but in the end, every single one of them had shattered.
“Wait, how old are you this year?”
“Nineteen.”
“You mean to tell me you're nineteen years old, have already condensed over a hundred Golden Cores, and then they all shattered on their own?!”
“Uh-huh.”
The Immortal Phoenix was dumbfounded. How could such a heaven-defying monster exist in this world?
Even the geniuses of her era would, at most, condense a single Golden Core before the age of twenty. How could someone condense over a hundred?
“No, this venerable one must take a look.”
With that, an immortal eye manifested on the Immortal Phoenix's forehead. She carefully inspected Wang Xuanyi's body. Wang Xuanyi did not resist, letting her observe him freely.
To him, it no longer mattered.
Since he couldn't condense a Golden Core, he would simply walk a different path.
A moment later.
The Immortal Phoenix closed her immortal eye, so shocked that she was somewhat speechless.
Based on the feedback from her immortal eye, this kid's entire body was shrouded in an immortal aura so dense that she had briefly mistaken him for a living True Immortal.
Furthermore, the inside of Wang Xuanyi's body was even more heaven-defying.
Bones, skin, meridians, blood, internal organs... every single part of his body, down to every single pore, radiated the aura of a Golden Core.
The good news was that this kid couldn't condense a Golden Core.
The bad news was that his entire body was a Golden Core!
“Li... Little Xuan, after your Golden Cores shattered, what did you use them for?” the Immortal Phoenix asked, her lips twitching as she lost her previous composure.
“Oh, those hundred-plus Golden Cores? I refined them. Since I couldn't condense a permanent Golden Core, I figured I might as well use them to nourish my own body instead of letting them go to waste,” Wang Xuanyi said indifferently.
“But in this venerable one's eyes, you're a monster. A Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation, a physical body comparable to the Nascent Soul Realm, and those eyes of yours known as immortal eyes... You're like a monster stitched together from various parts.”
The Immortal Phoenix spoke bluntly, directly voicing her thoughts.
This kid was too bizarre—so bizarre that he didn't even seem human.
“Tsk, that's just your ignorance speaking,” Wang Xuanyi said dismissively.
“In life, this venerable one was a True Immortal Realm cultivator who transcended all things and became an immortal! I have witnessed countless bizarre and wondrous phenomena. How dare you call me ignorant?!” the Immortal Phoenix protested indignantly.
“There are tens of thousands of things and methods in this world, but what about cultivation itself?”
“!”
With just this single question, the Immortal Phoenix froze.
Seeing this, Wang Xuanyi continued, “There are tens of thousands of methods in the world. There are methods of breathing in essence, methods of imitating birds and beasts, and methods of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The current laws of cultivation are merely one of those tens of thousands of methods. Since this path doesn't work for me, why can't I forge a new one?”
“But the current path of cultivation is the optimal path forged by hundreds of millions of predecessors over countless years. If this path doesn't work, then other paths...” the Immortal Phoenix countered.
The human race was originally the weakest race in the world. By imitating the states of all things, drawing their forms, and copying their essence, humans finally gained the ability to communicate with heaven and earth.
Through the continuous exploration and refinement of their predecessors, they eventually established the current cultivation system, which also became the path of cultivation for all things in the world.
Yet now, this kid had actually embarked on an unprecedented path, creating an entirely new cultivation system.
This was simply too shocking.
“Paths are forged by those who walk them, not by those who deny them,” Wang Xuanyi corrected the Immortal Phoenix.
Since the path established by those before him didn't work, he would pave his own way.
The path Wang Xuanyi walked was precisely the path of the true self and the self. It did not require the recognition of heaven and earth. By cultivating his own body, he himself would become the strongest.
Even if he were to speak of it openly, others would only think he was mad, rather than believe that the path he chose was viable.
In truth, Wang Xuanyi didn't have so many lofty ambitions at the beginning. He had just wanted to cultivate honestly, live a quiet life, and take things as they came.
Everything now was forced upon him.
In the original novel, the highest realm the original “Wang Xuanyi” reached was the Nascent Soul Realm, and that was the realm he died in.
Sometimes he wondered if, due to the plot, he was destined to never condense a Golden Core in this life, or if he would only be able to do so right before his death.
He couldn't accept such an absurd ending.
Hence, he had chosen to walk this dark path to the very end.
“But...”
“Alright, alright, let's not dwell on this question. I don't want to debate the Dao with anyone right now. It'll just raise my blood pressure and make my brain cells overheat,” Wang Xuanyi waved his hand, signaling the end of the topic.
The Immortal Phoenix was left even more bewildered.
Brain cells? Blood pressure? What on earth was he talking about?
After cleaning up the corpses of the deceased, Wang Xuanyi set off once again, heading in the direction of the Peach Blossom Immortal.
There was no other reason than that, according to the Immortal Phoenix, the Peach Blossom Immortal was close to this location, whereas the ghost immortal was extremely far away, nearing the boundary of the Ten Thousand Immortal Mound.
While Wang Xuanyi was retrieving the Phoenix Blood Pool, the geniuses of the various immortal sects had also successively obtained their own immortal inheritances.
Long Zitian, blessed with immense luck and following the path of his past life, led Leng Ning'an to obtain two immortal inheritances in a row. Their cultivation levels had even broken through to the eighth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
“Thank you, Junior Brother.”
Leng Ning'an's face flushed with embarrassment. From the moment they entered the Ancient Immortal Realm until now, Long Zitian had always stayed at the forefront, even letting her take the immortal inheritances first.
With such a man by her side, which young girl wouldn't be moved?
“Senior Sister, we are of the same sect. There is no need for thanks.”
Long Zitian was in no rush. Someone like Leng Ning'an couldn't be rushed; she needed a period of transition before he could help her further. When the time came, she would naturally fall in love with him again.
Moreover, his path of cultivation in this life was far more complete, and his foundation was much more stable than in his past life. All that was left was to see who could obtain more Dao charm at the Dao Discussion Platform in the end.
For them, this was the best and most powerful opportunity to break through to the Violet Palace Realm.
Aside from them, those ancient freaks had also broken through to the ninth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm, reaching the absolute limit and nearing the path of the tenth layer, yet they were unable to touch its threshold.
Even though they cultivated according to the Foundation Establishment secret techniques bestowed by the ancient immortals, they could never sense the path to great perfection. They always felt that something was missing.
“It seems we can only wait for the Dao Discussion Platform to open.”
“Yes.”
The Twin Stars of Yinyang Valley finished their meditation. The aura on their bodies fluctuated, as did the surrounding spiritual energy. The two were infinitely close to the Violet Palace Realm and could break through at any moment if they wished.
The foundation platforms they had established were also built upon the Dao of Yin and Yang. After receiving the immortal inheritance, strands of immortal aura now lingered around their foundation platforms.
This was an essential factor for a perfect foundation platform.
It proved that the foundation platform they had established had shedded mortality and entered spirit.
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