After carefully examining that alternative method of entering the Nascent Soul realm, Ling Pengyun and the others could not help but be astonished.
This method was extremely unusual. It did not follow the path of condensing a Nascent Soul.
Instead, it relied on Moonlight Power to condense a Moon Essence Pill, thereby stepping into the Moon Essence Realm.
The Moon Essence Pill could actually be regarded as an enhanced version of a Golden Core.
The Moon Essence Realm was in fact the Nascent Soul realm; it was merely called differently by the Demon Race here.
As for why the Demon Race here had created this method of entering the Nascent Soul realm, it was an act born of helplessness.
The Demon Race here had actually derived the method of transforming a Golden Core into a Nascent Soul long ago, for that was the orthodox path of all races.
But this secret realm was only a peak mid-sized secret realm. Though it could draw down Golden Core Tribulation Lightning, it could not draw down Nascent Soul Tribulation Lightning.
Thus, the Demon Race here could not use the orthodox Nascent Soul Formation method to enter the Nascent Soul realm.
Only by relying on the Moon Essence Pill could they barely ascend to the Nascent Soul realm.
However, precisely because those who entered the Nascent Soul realm through this method had not undergone the baptism of tribulation lightning, their strength was only around fifty percent of that of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.
Other than that, the pill had no other shortcomings. With it as a foundation, one could likewise continue advancing one's cultivation.
But condensing a Moon Essence Pill required an extremely long time. At the very least, one needed ten thousand years to accumulate enough Moonlight Power, transform it into Moon Essence