Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 665 The Road After the Golden Core
When Xu Yunfan returned to the Yuanshi Sect and ascended Shenxiao Peak, the eyes of several True Monarchs in the sect were all focused on him.

Xu Yunfan remained calm and did not immediately go to pay his respects. He had just entered the Golden Core Realm, despite having an attribute panel.

But it will take time to consolidate.

He naturally had to take a good look at the thousands of information notifications flashing across his screen.

What moved him most was that this was truly a thrilling experience.

But now that I've achieved the Golden Elixir, it's all worth it.

It ferments over time.

Everyone knows that Shenxiao Zhenjun has achieved enlightenment, but they have also witnessed the terror of the Golden Core Tribulation.

After all, Xu Yunfan's attainment of Dao fruition and achievement of the Golden Core was seen by others as a dead end.

Let's leave aside the calamities and punishments that Heaven has bestowed.

This is the inevitable difficulty one must overcome to attain enlightenment.

The terror of this calamity far surpasses that of ordinary heavenly thunder and earthly fire.

The root cause lies in the fact that the foundation of the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm has long been devoured by cultivators who are like giant rats.

The 108 Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends are the Heavenly Dao of this world, and also the basis for advancing to the Golden Core True Monarch realm.

But how could the True Lords of this era be willing to stop there? As time went by, half of the Dao Fruits had been swallowed up and incorporated into their own cave heavens, turning them into private property, in order to consolidate their power and prolong their lifespan.

The other positions are either hidden by the Heavenly Way or are vacant and difficult to attain.

The very essence of heaven and earth is being eroded and divided in this way, which is naturally unacceptable to the Way of Heaven.

To be honest, if someone has been swindled out of their underwear, they naturally have to suffer the consequences. This is why it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain a golden Dao attainment in the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm.

If any newcomer intends to seek gold to prove their Dao, thus diluting the already scarce Dao Fruit origin, then they are truly pulling at the last shred of the Heavenly Dao.

How could Heaven not be angry? In its fury, the calamities and punishments it unleashed were far greater than in ancient times, exceptionally fierce, and certain to result in certain death.

Although this calamity is severe, in the eyes of many who desire wealth, they can still rely on their extraordinary wisdom, powerful skills, and excellent location to fight for that sliver of hope.

The most terrifying and unsolvable of all is the calamity of humanity.

Resources in the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm are limited. The addition of a True Monarch means that one more person will share the already limited power of the Dao Fruit and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The Golden Elixir True Monarchs who stand at the pinnacle of their time will not allow newcomers to share in their spoils.

They all naturally and tacitly positioned themselves above the heads of all the cultivators.

With these thoughts in mind, Xu Yunfan couldn't help but slightly raise his head and look in the direction where Pudu Zhenjun had left.

He had personally witnessed how spirited and triumphant Chu Chengnan was when he activated the Unmoving Profound Mountain Dao Fruit, only to have it shattered at the most crucial moment by a Great Arhat who used the Spiritual Treasure Demon-Subduing Pestle to traverse the void and destroy the chance to attain enlightenment that he had gained through five lifetimes of burning away.

Although Qingyuan Zhenjun intervened to intercept the power of Bodhi Zen, he was unable to prevent the scheme of using a borrowed knife to kill someone from afar by a Bodhisattva of the same level.

The infighting within the Yuanshi Sect and the indifference of other True Lords are all invisible human calamities.

The people here especially like to go to the newbie village with full gear and block the road.

For a thousand years, since the Pure Yang Ancestor of the Wancheng Sword Sect, no one has been able to break through this barrier. Chu Chengnan is merely the closest and most tragic example among the countless Great True Immortals who fell on the path of seeking gold, their cultivation completely destroyed. It can be said that Xu Yunfan's achievement of becoming a True Lord this time truly turned the impossible into the possible, taking dancing on the edge of a knife to its extreme.

Its profound planning, risky schemes, and enormous sacrifices are unprecedented in history.

He knew that although the Pure Yang Ancestor Lü Chunyang was strong, the Wancheng Sword Sect was not a monolithic entity. Han Shi, an avatar who came from humble origins, was bound to be targeted by those within the sect who coveted his position at the Cangming stage.

The Pure Land school of Bodhicitta views non-Buddhist practitioners as demons and even mortal enemies.

The internal strife within the Yuanshi Sect was particularly fierce, and the deadly venomous Qingyuan Zhenjun had already harbored a deep grudge against him.

Therefore, they used a strategy of deceiving the heavens and crossing the sea, and feinting to the east while attacking the west.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Pure Yang Patriarch was in charge of the Wancheng Sword Sect, he brazenly used his clone Han Shi to simultaneously activate the Cangming Dao Fruit, attracting the attention of several True Monarchs of the Wancheng Sword Sect. The internal opposition forces were stirring, but the Pure Yang Patriarch overruled the objections and forcefully suppressed the infighting, creating a glimmer of hope for Han Shi.

This is an obstacle.

He further took advantage of the opportunity of the Pure Land of Bodhi and Chan constructing the ritual for the attainment of Buddhahood of the King of Self-Mastery in the Eastern Wilderness, and used the stone embryo planted by Buddhism in his clone Wukong as a surprise attack to undermine the Buddha's power.

The clone Wukong reversed the flow of the mantra of the "Great Powerful King Fighting Tathagata Sutra," causing the evil energy of battle to pollute the fruition, and forcibly reversed the nascent form of the Free King Buddha into the fruition of the Fighting King Buddha.

This action instantly enraged the Bodhisattva Hui Ri who was presiding over the ceremony, triggering a backlash from the entire Pure Land of Bodhi and Chan. It also prompted the True Lord of Universal Salvation to seize the opportunity to obstruct Hui Ri, successfully disrupting the heavenly secrets of the Eastern Wilderness and forcing the Pure Land of Bodhi and Chan to watch helplessly as everything in the Eastern Wilderness turned to dust.

This is the second obstacle.

The simultaneous attainment of enlightenment by the two avatars was earth-shattering and resounding throughout the three sects. In reality, it was to cover up the fact that the main body, Xu Yunfan, in the Eastern Wilderness Ruins used ninety-nine strands of immortal golden essence to forge the Divine Firmament Thunder that destroyed all laws, and the Xuanqiong Undying carried the supreme image of all heavens.

Then, by delaying the process, they will attract the favor of the Shenxiao Dao Fruit, who has been living in seclusion for a long time and is ranked among the top ten of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends.

If it were any other Foundation Establishment Perfected Great Immortal, no one would dare say they could have survived the attack of a Golden Core True Monarch and achieved Golden Core.

Or rather, after witnessing Xu Yunfan achieve the Golden Core stage, all the Great Immortals who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage fell silent, filled with despair.

"Difficult, difficult, difficult! It's even more difficult than climbing to heaven."
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Yuanshi Sect, Shenxiao Peak.

Xu Yunfan, who was in seclusion consolidating his cultivation and trying to comprehend the mysteries of the Golden Core realm, suddenly felt confused.

The Divine Golden Pill within his dantian, coiled by ninety-nine purple-gold divine dragons and containing the rudiments of an endless world of thunder, exhaled a vast and boundless power, allowing him to truly experience the might of a True Monarch who wields thunder and shatters all laws.

The so-called Golden Elixir is formed when he swallows the Dao Fruit, combines it with his own essence, energy, and spirit, condenses his intention, and incorporates his Dao Foundation Cave Heaven into it.

"It looks a bit like a fertilized egg..."

Feeling this, Xu Yunfan couldn't help but mutter something under his breath.

As the Divine Firmament Nine Heavens Profound Vault Imperishable True Scripture circulated, its magical power surged like a vast sea of ​​stars. The immortal Daoist charm of the Profound Vault merged with the physical body and soul, bringing a sense of eternity as if coexisting with the Dao.

But that's not enough. The mid-stage of the Golden Core realm doesn't qualify as immortality. Only by entering the mid-stage and further developing the power of the Dao Fruit, allowing one's own celestial abode to remain completely suspended in the air, can one be reborn indefinitely without weakening one's innate wisdom. This is true immortality.

But what about the cultivation techniques after the Golden Elixir?
Just as the sword path passed down by the Pure Yang Ancestor of the Wancheng Sword Sect stopped at the Golden Core stage, the many true methods circulating in the Yuanshi Sect, and even the Shenxiao True Scripture he cultivated himself, and the Cangming Sword Path realized by his clone Han Shi, all their highest realms were limited to the Golden Core stage.

The path of cultivation after the Golden Core stage, whether it is the evolution of the grotto-heaven, the gestation of the nascent soul, or even higher levels of the Dao, is a blank, as if shrouded in an invisible mist.

Within the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm, those high-ranking True Monarchs kept this a closely guarded secret, regarding it as the greatest hidden matter.

(End of this chapter)