Penglin's Arduous Golden Core Great Dao, Sudden Enlightenment

Two months later.

Deep within the Azure Billow Sea Secret Realm, atop Core Breaking Peak.

Ling Penglin, her face covered in wrinkles, her hair entirely white, and bearing the appearance of extreme old age, sat cross-legged there. Her brows were tightly furrowed, and she was consumed by worry.

Over the past two months, although she had relied on the three portions of Golden Core Spirit Objects Ling Pengyun had given her, Yin Yang Primordial Qi, and six methods including cultivating divine sense and Tempering Meridians to forcibly raise the strength of her divine sense and meridians to a level comparable to Golden Core Second or Third Layer cultivators, her foundation was still somewhat unstable.

Under such circumstances, while madly drawing spiritual power into her body to condense Solidified Spiritual Power, she not only needed to expend a vast amount of spiritual power to stabilize her foundation, but also had to condense the spiritual power within her Dantian into "Solidified Spiritual Power."

As a result, the difficulty of her breakthrough to the Golden Core increased by several tenths, perhaps even nearly doubled.

This also caused the effects of the three portions of Golden Core Spirit Objects she had consumed to be nearly exhausted, yet she had only condensed eighty percent of the spiritual power in her Dantian into Solidified Spiritual Power. She was still a full twenty percent short of gathering a Golden Core.

Even then, it was only because Yin Yang Primordial Qi had made her spiritual power several degrees sharper. Otherwise, being able to condense fifty percent Solidified Spiritual Power by now would already have been quite good.

This left Ling Penglin filled with regret.

"Whether I succeed in forming a Golden Core this time or not, I must tell the rest of the clan about the matter of