I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

What exactly is inside the Red Mist Secret Realm?

Gu Yuan sighed slightly, but could only temporarily put the matter aside, and said to Cen Qingqing: ”Brew some tea, I want to invite the Ascendant into the peak!”

With that, he flicked his hand, and a silver Command Sword swiftly flew towards Jade Pot Peak.

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”Nine-Aperture Body?!”

”Dao Body, no, no, Half-Dao Body?”

”Try to circulate your Qi for a moment.”

On Purple Sun Peak, Sword Fox Immortal frowned slightly, a bit uncertain, and then shouted to Gu Yuan.

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuan immediately began to absorb Spiritual Qi.

Sword Fox Immortal’s eyes flashed with gold as she carefully scanned through his entire skeletal structure and apertures.

”Golden Bone Thunder Aperture, it seems to be a Thunder Dao Body which can attract thunder. In thunderstorm conditions, your cultivation speed should increase by a few degrees. However, it hasn’t fully evolved, ambiguous at best, I’m not completely sure.”

”But the thunder light is magnificent and vast, not a bad thing, you need not worry.”

As the gold in Sword Fox Immortal’s eyes faded, she pondered for a while before finally speaking.

”That’s good.”

Gu Yuan nodded slightly, feeling relieved.

”How are the preparations?”

Sword Fox Immortal glanced at Cen Qingqing who was serving nearby and softly asked.

”Qi must not leak, for long it breeds change!”

”In twenty years, I’ll break through and form the Core!”

Gu Yuan raised his head, his gaze bright, making a firm decision in his heart.

Within twenty years, his Mana could surely be refined to a pure and perfect state, and the Spiritual Qi on Purple Sun Peak was richer than most Tier Three Spirit Peaks. In twenty years, he should be able to accumulate three threads, enough to wield several Dharma Seals.

In twenty years, he would be less than a century old, at the peak of his Qi Blood. With a ninety percent probability, he must give it his all.

Delaying it for too long is meaningless.

”I will personally be on Purple Sun Peak to watch you overcome the tribulation!”

Sword Fox Immortal didn’t try to dissuade him, just gave Gu Yuan a deep look.

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Flowers bloom and wither, time flies.

Twenty years pass in the blink of an eye.

The vast Purple Sun Secret Realm was silent.

It’s been fully thirty years since the True Inheritance contest.

All ten True Disciples, each a Celestial Pride, were already Late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators back then, and thirty years later, they have all reached Foundation Establishment Perfection.

With cultivation at its peak and perfect magical power, without forming the Golden Core, there would be no more progress.

But the Golden Core Realm is no longer what it used to be; without extraordinary talent, Exotic Treasures that conquer the skies, nobody dares attempt it lightly.

For five hundred years, only one Golden Core has been formed, as if the Golden Core Realm has turned into a curse, touching it spells death.

The Sunset Glow Sect, also a Tier Four Sect, has, over many years, only seen the emergence of one exceptional prodigy during the campaign against the Thundering Mountain Range, who successfully broke through the realm.

Aside from that, within tens of thousands of miles, there has hardly been a new Golden Core emerging from Loose Cultivators or small sects.

The Golden Core of today are all of considerable age.

It’s as if the path to the Golden Core has been severed in part, growing more arduous.

”Boom!!”

But on this day, above Cyan Peak Daoist School, suddenly the wind and clouds converged, thick dark clouds rolled in.

This anomaly instantly caught everyone’s attention.

Countless eyes and figures hurried over, looking at the place where the dark clouds converged.

Under the dark clouds was a towering, majestic Spirit Peak, with outlines as picturesque as paintings, towering trees, and an expansive lake at its peak.

”This is Ancient Mountain Peak?!”

”Junior Martial Uncle Huo, it’s Junior Martial Uncle Huo presiding over the Flowing Cloud Banquet!”

”Thunder Qi is turbulent, clouds darken the sky, is Junior Martial Uncle Huo trying to break through to Golden Core?”

Figures rushed forth, landing afar on the floating clouds, engaging in discussion.

”Breaking through to Golden Core? It’s not that easy!”

Someone sighed deeply.

”If I’m not mistaken, Junior Martial Uncle Huo is already over four hundred years old, close to the Foundation Establishment Limit...”

”Indeed, Junior Martial Uncle Huo reached the Late-stage Foundation Establishment two hundred years ago, even his skin began to turn golden, just one step from the Golden Core, yet that step has dragged on for nearly two hundred years...”

”Why did it take this long?”

”Why do you think? Junior Martial Uncle Huo is practically from the same era as the previous True Inheritance, where ten out of one survived, it’s terrifying. Without full certainty, who dares easily attempt realm-breaking?”

”Ten of the previous True Inheritance did not survive, how do you know? I see that the Daoist School’s records on the previous True Inheritance are scant!”

”The mountain man has his own clever means!”

”No need to say more, look, the True Disciples have arrived!”

On the floating clouds, Shu Tianzhi, Bian Chuyao, and others came together from the Purple Sun Secret Realm, watching from afar the Ancient Mountain Peak.

”Boom!”

The dark clouds in the sky became increasingly thick, the intense thunder light carrying the aura of annihilation gathered endlessly within.

At the peak of Ancient Mountain Peak, an elder with white hair and beard sat cross-legged, gray light shining in his abdomen, a greyish round object slowly condensed.

But this round object seemed to conflict with the heavens, tribulation clouds emerged, a bolt of thunder struck down swiftly, targeting the elder.

”Boom!”

In front of the elder’s knees, a jade green Spiritual Artifact resembling a Flood Dragon grew with the wind, transforming into a shadow of a three-zhang long green flood dragon, confronting the bolt.

”Bang!”

But the thunderbolt was extremely fierce, completely surpassing the power of the Foundation Establishment Stage. This top-grade High-grade Spiritual Artifact was directly charred under the thunder.

Yet the lightning’s force was relentless, continuing its assault on the elder.

”Bang!”

”Bang!”

Several Spiritual Artifacts before the elder automatically protected their master, forming barriers trying to impede the thunder.

But the thunder’s power was overwhelming and infinite, not something mortal could withstand.

Three barriers in succession, all pierced by the thunder, which then struck the elder directly.

”Sizzle Sizzle Sizzle!”