A bleak look appeared on both women's faces. As the masters of Baisuan Pavilion, their cultivation over the years had gone fairly smoothly. After all, they had vast cultivation resources at their command, and pills were hardly lacking. Even when they encountered bottlenecks, they could rely on medicinal power to force their way through.
Like master, like servant. Speaking of which, the two women's method of cultivation was somewhat similar to Lin Xuan's. In a short span of sixty or seventy years, they had reached the great perfection of the Core Condensation Realm.
Originally, everything had gone smoothly, and Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin had also thought they could successfully form their Golden Cores.
However, they had forgotten one thing: the path of immortality was arduous, and the breakthrough of every major realm was especially difficult to an unimaginable degree.
With the aid of pills, one could progress smoothly through the Foundation Establishment Realm, but that did not mean Golden Core Formation could be achieved just as easily. The difference between the two was entirely unlike heaven and earth.
Although over the years, following Lin Xuan's instructions, the two women had also purchased many ancient pill formulas, setting aside how difficult it was to refine those pills, even if they succeeded, the chance of Golden Core Formation they could increase was still extremely limited.
According to ordinary odds, among every hundred cultivators at the great perfection of the Foundation Establishment Realm, at most only one or two could successfully form a Golden Core.
Although they had exhausted the strength of Baisuan Pavilion, and the two women had finally collected some spirit herbs, after attempting it two or three times in succession, they had still failed to advance smoothly in the end. Combined with what they had read in some ancient