The Long Journey to Immortality

Considering the current state of the magnetic gold, Han Lu felt that her guess was reasonable. So without thinking, she grabbed a handful of liquid spiritual energy and tried to integrate it into the small pellet she had just "squeezed".

Immediately.

The stubborn bullet, after receiving more spiritual power, immediately began to move towards "solidification".

Seeing this, Han Lu secretly cheered, believing that she had grasped the key point of "solidifying spiritual power".

However, her good fortune didn't last long. Han Lu overdid it, causing the "bullet" formed from her highly concentrated spiritual energy to explode in the sea of ​​spiritual energy.

The "explosion" triggered a tsunami, causing Han Lu's spiritual power to become momentarily disordered and difficult to control.

Fortunately, the magnetic gold was far enough away from Han Lu's experimental field that it did not cause any unexpected changes.

This failure left Han Lu somewhat disheartened.

She thought to herself, "Could it be that I'm still as foolish as I was ten years ago, unable to seize this 30% chance of success and advance to the late Foundation Establishment stage in one go?"

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After a moment of confusion, Han Lu managed to compose herself and comforted herself, "At least I've already touched the threshold. Even if I can't use the secret technique this time, I can figure it out carefully later and maybe I can break through the bottleneck smoothly in a few long periods of time."

With a clear understanding of the situation, Han Lu was no longer worried. She tried her best to make the most of the last bit of "class" time, thinking about how to understand the problems that occurred during the process of solidifying spiritual power and find solutions.

At this point, the magnetic gold had lost the vitality it had when it first entered the ocean of spiritual energy.

The speed at which it attracted nearby spiritual energy slowed down considerably, and even the "shell" covering the surface of the magnetic gold seemed to be about to detach from its body.

But it was precisely because of this that Han Lu saw some details that were difficult to notice during the initial intense reaction, which gave her more insights and experiences about solidifying spiritual power.

However, whether these insights and experiences are correct and whether they are the key to resolving the "explosion time" remains to be tested by Han Lu herself.

Han Lu then used her internal vision to observe for about a hundred breaths, and finally one of the extremely magnetic golds exhausted its "power".

After all, Han Lu's hands and eyes are not a measuring stick, and she did not cut the four magnetic gold particles into perfect pieces.

Therefore, the smallest of the magnetic gold particles has completely exhausted the magnetic force that was released in large quantities when it was activated by the secret technique.

The shell composed of solid spiritual energy detached from the magnetic metal body that had lost its magnetism, slowly sank into the ocean of spiritual energy, and eventually dissolved and disappeared into the ocean of spiritual energy.

The magnetic gold beneath the shell, having exhausted its magnetic force, revealed its true nature.

The magnetic gold resembled a dull, lifeless pebble, suspended in the ocean of spiritual energy.

After the secret technique, the extremely magnetic gold, having had all its remaining value extracted, will remain in Han Lu's dantian for one to two days, and will eventually dissolve into smaller impurities, which will be expelled from her body in various ways.

This is why the Extreme Magnetic Secret Technique has no side effects.

Only one of the magnetic gold particles lost its magnetic force; the other three were still there, using the last bit of their "life" to demonstrate to Han Lu the mystery of "solidifying spiritual power."

Finally, after ten breaths, the remaining three magnetic gold particles "died" one after another, bringing to an end the "liquid spiritual energy solidification" reaction that had been triggered in Han Lu's body by external objects.

In her internal vision, Han Lu felt slightly lost as she faced the now calm spiritual energy ocean in her dantian.

"Try one more time. If it doesn't work this time, then these two ounces of magnetic gold will basically be wasted."

After gazing at the boundless ocean of spiritual energy for a moment, Han Lu tried her best to throw away all her negative emotions and completely calm her mind before starting the third attempt, which was also the last attempt in this secret technique.

Han Lu lifted a large amount of liquid spiritual energy from the ocean and suspended it in her dantian.

After recalling for a long time, reviewing all the experiences, insights, and lessons learned from her studies, Han Lu made another move, trying to solidify the liquid spiritual power under her control, and to make the "sun, moon, and stars," which symbolize a cultivator's advancement to the late Foundation Establishment stage, appear in her dantian.

This time, Han Lu has made some progress compared to last time.

Having learned from her previous experience, Han Lu did not hold back her spiritual power this time.

When she gathered spiritual energy and attempted to fuse it, she paid close attention to being gentle on the inside and firm on the outside, so as to prevent the liquid spiritual energy from forming solid spiritual energy first, which would hinder the subsequent fusion of spiritual energy.

This small adjustment had a noticeable effect, and in terms of gathering and fusing spiritual energy, it was much faster than the previous two attempts, and quickly formed a solid outer shell.

Another solid sphere of spiritual energy, about the size of a bullet, appeared.

This time, however, is slightly different from the last one.

The shells of the projectiles were filled with liquid.

Without transforming the internal liquid into a solid, this projectile cannot be called solidified spiritual energy, nor can it be treated as a stable entity, allowing it to transform into the sun, moon, and stars in the dantian.

However, this is definitely a good sign; it's a small breakthrough.

Feeling that she was on the right track, Han Lu continued to operate in her dantian according to her understanding of solidifying spiritual energy.

But how can we allow more spiritual energy to pass through this solid outer shell and enter the "bullet," making it solid and truly something that can be called solid spiritual energy?

This stumped Han Lu.

She tried to manipulate her spiritual energy into a sword shape to break through, but to no avail. She even almost pierced the bullet, breaking the newly formed balance.

Enveloping the "bullet" with spiritual power, attempting a gentler approach, proved ineffective; only a small amount of spiritual power managed to penetrate the shell and enter the bullet.

With such a small amount of spiritual energy, it would be impossible to solidify it a second time within the bullet.

These soft tactics obviously won't work either.

"What should we do?"

Han Lu tried her best to keep the bullet stable, attempting to prolong the existence of this unfinished product so that she could come up with a good way to break the deadlock.

Suddenly, Han Lu remembered the Seven Kill Sword Technique she had obtained from Senior Fang Lin, and the Point-Character Sword Technique she had already mastered to a certain extent.

"Try using the power of insight while in a state of internal vision..."

With a try-it-out mentality, Han Lu used her supernatural insight.

The next instant, the bullet formed from the limited amount of solid spiritual energy in her dantian appeared "riddled with holes" in Han Lu's eyes.

Targeting these vulnerable areas, Han Lu manipulated her spiritual power to penetrate them.

It worked!

More and more liquid spiritual energy, and even gaseous spiritual energy, enters the projectile through these invisible but real gaps, combining with the liquid spiritual energy in the hollow area of ​​the projectile for secondary solidification.

In a short while, the bullet became solid and was no longer as unstable as before.

"That's it?"

Han Lu asked herself a question and slightly relaxed her control over the bullet.

The next moment, the bullet naturally floated up and entered the sea of ​​clouds in the dantian.

Nourished by the gaseous spiritual energy in the sea of ​​clouds, this solid spiritual energy pellet emitted a light golden light, as if a sun had truly risen in Han Lu's dantian.

Seizing the opportunity, Han Lu continued to make new "bullets" using the same method.

Han Lu wasn't sure if this method of solidifying spiritual power was efficient, but the practice just now proved that it was feasible and useful.

The projectiles were made, and either rose into the clouds or sank into the ocean of spiritual energy.

After the seventh bullet was completed in Han Lu's hands, Han Lu suddenly had a unique feeling.

She seemed to have turned into a black hole, recklessly absorbing spiritual energy.

A large amount of spiritual energy turned into liquid and replenished the spiritual energy ocean, which had just lowered its sea level slightly due to the solidification of spiritual energy.

In just three breaths, as this special state ended, the amount of spiritual energy stored in Han Lu's dantian even reached twice that before her breakthrough in meditation.

Emerging from her meditative state and feeling the spiritual energy within her body, which was far more abundant and surging than before, Han Lu knew that she had successfully completed her breakthrough and entered the final stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

He was only one step away from the Golden Core realm that he had once looked up to.

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It was just a small breakthrough, and it didn't bring Han Lu any sense of qualitative change.

Having overcome the bottleneck, the only physical change Han Lu could perceive was an increase in the amount of spiritual energy within her body.

There is no difference between the two realms, which is why it is no wonder that there are often cases of mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators defeating late-Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Zhengyi Sect.

Only an hour had passed, and Han Lu still had plenty of time to spare in the meditation room, so she didn't rush to leave this quiet place of cultivation to celebrate with Wen Erya or Piaomiaozi after completing her breakthrough.

Han Lu sat cross-legged again on the Dharma seat and entered a meditative state, circulating her cultivation technique for the first time as a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

After advancing her cultivation to the late Foundation Establishment stage, Han Lu's task was to convert the liquid spiritual energy in her body into solid spiritual energy pellets as much as possible during cultivation, thereby increasing the total amount of spiritual energy stored in her dantian by increasing the density of spiritual energy.

When the total amount of spiritual energy exceeds a critical value and her skill in "making pellets" makes a breakthrough improvement, a unique fake pill will appear during the process of making "pellets".

At that time, Han Lu will have successfully advanced to the Pseudo-Core Realm. She only needs to activate the Pseudo-Core by circulating her cultivation technique at the right time and place, allowing it to devour all the spiritual power in Han Lu's dantian and form a Core.

Once the process of forming the Golden Core is complete, regardless of the grade of the Golden Core formed, she can advance to the Golden Core stage and become a recognized "superior person" in the Central Plains cultivation culture.

While meditating, Han Lu spared some attention to ponder her "craftsmanship" for creating solidified spiritual energy.

Although the matter of "solidifying spiritual power" is quite complex and can only be understood intuitively rather than explained in words, Han Lu still saw many descriptions of this process by cultivators in many cultivation classics.

These descriptions vary. There isn't a single cultivator who has synthesized solidified spiritual energy using a process similar to Han Lu's.

Different methods and approaches naturally have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Having just advanced to the late stage of Foundation Establishment and come into contact with knowledge at this level, Han Lu couldn't say whether the methods she had figured out were superior or inferior.

But she was certain that this was the best approach for her at the moment.

Continue to absorb spiritual energy, create spiritual power, and use the spiritual power of gaseous or liquid spiritual energy as raw materials to create solid spiritual energy projectiles.

While performing this mechanized and procedural work during her cultivation, Han Lu was also paying close attention to the details, thinking about whether she could optimize the steps to make herself create "solid spiritual energy pellets" at an even higher speed.

After all, the better and faster this work is done, the sooner the fake pill will appear in the dantian, and the more spiritual energy will accumulate in the dantian.

One step at a time, one step at a time.

Time is just as important as it is for Han Lu, who possesses the bloodline of a true spirit and is destined to live longer than ordinary cultivators.

Han Lu spent a full four hours cultivating atop Hanchan Peak before leaving the meditation room.

During this period, she not only completed her advancement and broke through the bottleneck, but also created a total of twenty-seven solid spiritual energy pellets in her dantian.

The vast majority of them sank to the bottom of the sea and became part of the spiritual ocean.

Only a small number of "high-quality" solid spiritual energy projectiles floated up and hovered in the sky composed of gaseous spiritual energy, becoming specks of stars.

This result indicates that Han Lu is still a novice in kneading dough and has a lot of room for improvement.

When Han Lu's dantian is filled with stars, that will be the time when she advances to the pseudo-core stage and takes another step forward on her cultivation path.

After leaving the summit of Hanchan Peak, Han Lu did not return to her small residence, but instead went to the academy.