Chapter 308: Chapter 276: Advancing to Golden Core

However, before handling all these matters, there is one more important thing — ascending to the Golden Core Realm.

His Wizard Level has long stabilized at the Second Level, but his Cultivator Cultivation has been stuck at the Foundation Establishment Stage Great Perfection for quite some time.

In the past, Jeming thought this bottleneck was due to the psychological trauma caused by the fall of his friends Amy and Victor on the Plane Battlefield.

But on closer reflection, his emotions at the time were not so intense, not as painful as sadness, not as passionate as anger, just a layer of fog arose in his heart, a very bland fog.

The mist was not large, yet it was enough to obscure the sun.

Now Jeming has understood that the name of that fog is: loneliness.

As a transmigrator, there has always been a faint barrier between the depths of his soul and this world.

The appearance of Amy and Victor seemed to open two windows in this barrier, allowing him to glimpse and feel a touch of this world’s warmth.

Their sudden departure caused those two windows to slam shut, leaving behind the cold mist called loneliness.

Until… he faced Jack, whose face was twisted with jealousy.

That ugliness, that unrestrained scorching emotion borne of his own incompetence and envy of Jeming’s talent, instead served as a piercing light, cutting through the fog in Jeming’s heart.

He suddenly realized that regardless of reason or indifference, the Wizards of this world, and all living beings, under their masks are living “people” with emotions.

They would cry, laugh, be jealous, be angry, act because of desire, and shrink back because of fear.

This realization, this strong touch of the world’s “reality,” instead made his heart, floating as it was from an outsider, truly begin to sink into the soil of this world.

At that moment, what he felt was not aversion, but an indescribable, almost “homecoming” sense of relief.

Once the knot in his heart was gone, the bottleneck dissolved naturally.

At that moment, he clearly felt that the barrier from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core had become as thin as a cicada’s wings.

The reason he held back during the Plane War and did not choose to break through was naturally due to deep apprehension towards Dionysius Spencer, the Seventh Level Wizard of the Destiny Element.

Attempting a breakthrough involving the soul’s essence and energy level transition under the eyes of someone who can glimpse the trajectory of destiny?

Jeming thought he wasn’t that bold.

Now, returning to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, which was completely under his control, he had no more scruples.

To ensure nothing would go wrong, he was not in a hurry to succeed.

First, he spent over a decade sinking into his consciousness to connect with the Great Dao Book Pavilion, flipping through, comparing, and studying tens of thousands of elixir recipes and Experience Jade Scrolls about ascending to the Golden Core Realm.

Then, combining the principles of Pharmacy and Alchemy Techniques from the Wizard World, he eliminated the dross and retained the essence, extrapolating repeatedly until he successfully refined a Promotion Potion perfectly suited to his situation.

Having done all this, Jeming’s once restless heart had calmed significantly.

Looking at the potion in his hand, emitting a brilliant golden light, Jeming suddenly had an epiphany, “It seems the time for promotion has come!”

He activated the Plane defense system built among the foundational structures for transforming the Plane, completely sealing off the Purgatory Sulfur Plane from the outside, turning it into an absolutely independent place for seclusion.

All preparations were complete.

In the quiet room, Jeming slowly sat cross-legged, with his five hearts facing the sky.

The room was filled with a faint medicinal fragrance, while the turbulent energy of the outside Sulfur Plane was isolated by layers of Arrays, leaving behind absolute silence.

He took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, his eyes becoming incomparably clear and determined.

“Let’s begin.”

His mind sank into his Dantian, guiding the Foundation Establishment True Essence, already filled to the brim, to launch an assault on the formless barrier of the Golden Core.

Jeming’s mind was deep in concentration, his consciousness fully introverted, focused on the Lower Dantian.

There, the liquid Foundation Establishment True Essence, which was originally swirling like a cyclone, had been compressed to the extreme.

At the center, a dazzling golden glow was brewing, exuding surging vitality and an ineffable profound Dao charm.

His years of accumulation were truly abundant, with over two centuries of diligent cultivation, and a constant supply of various advanced resources.

Following that were over eighty years of warfare across two Planes, countless brushes with death, and a deep understanding of his own path, all of which had honed his foundation to be incredibly solid.

At this moment, crashing into the Golden Core Realm was like a natural progression, with barely any sense of obstruction.

The once-invisible barrier that blocked his progress, now thin as morning dew after the knot in his heart was untied, fragmented and dissolved silently under the impact of pure, vast True Essence.

Buzz…

A soft hum, perceivable only by the soul, arose from deep within the Dantian.

In an instant, that point of golden light at the center of the Dantian exploded!

Like the first ray of light at the beginning of the universe, it instantly illuminated the meridians and landscape within the body.

All liquid True Essence, as if all rivers were flowing into the sea, frantically converged, compressed, and condensed toward that point of golden light!

There were no earth-shattering phenomena, only an upheaval in the energy level within the body.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit, the three treasures, in the moment the Golden Core was formed, seemed to find a common pivot, beginning to merge and resonate spontaneously, producing an indescribable qualitative change.

No one knows how long it lasted; it might have been a moment, or it could have been an eternity.

When Jeming’s consciousness once again clearly “saw” the Dantian, a dragon-eye-sized, flawless, and round Elixir Pill, suffused with gentle yet infinite power of golden light, was quietly suspended at the center of the Dantian, slowly rotating.

Each rotation naturally inhaled and exhaled surrounding Spiritual Power, creating a mystical resonance with the heavens and earth.

The Golden Core is complete!

He didn’t even use the bottle of meticulously prepared Promotion Potion nearby; solely relying on his own accumulation, he successfully crossed this chasm that countless cultivators dream of.

However, just as the Golden Core stabilized, before Jeming could carefully comprehend its mysteries, an extremely exaggerated, almost barbaric suction force suddenly erupted from the Lower Dantian where the Golden Core resided!

This suction was not aimed at the outside world, but was madly extracting the Spiritual Power within his body that had just completed transformation and was not yet abundant, as well as the Essence contained in his flesh.

Jeming was not alarmed but delighted, understanding in his heart: “It seems I was right, the next stage of ’Inner Cycle’ has begun!”

The Dharma Gate he practiced, “Inner Cycle,” had its core in the method of opening the Grotto Heaven.

When advancing to Foundation Establishment, this method had opened an initial internal space within his body.

Now, with the consolidation of the Golden Core, the energy level and essence of life leaping forward, naturally, this internal space must evolve and expand accordingly!

Jeming had anticipated this and was prepared with countermeasures.

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