Half a month later.
Within the Ling Clan's mountain domain, at the summit of Lingxiao Mountain deep within the Ling Clan Territory.
The doors to a meditation chamber that had remained sealed for a long time suddenly opened, and the curvaceous Yan Siyi emerged with helplessness written across her face.
At that moment, Ling Pengyun, who had been meditating in another chamber, sensed the disturbance and walked out of the cave abode as well.
"Husband, in the end, I still failed to attempt a breakthrough through the bottleneck before me and enter the Golden Core Fourth Layer!"
Yan Siyi said to Ling Pengyun, her spirits low.
With the aid of a great number of Third Rank cultivation pills over the past few years, Yan Siyi had already raised her cultivation to the peak of the Golden Core Third Layer half a year ago.
She had subsequently entered seclusion, intending to strike while the iron was hot and charge into the Golden Core Fourth Layer.
Unfortunately, things went against her wishes. Even after spending a full year tempering that bottleneck with her cultivation, and even using a Breaking Yuan Pill, she had only shaken that bottleneck slightly.
She was still extremely far from breaking through it.
"Madam, this bottleneck, along with those at the Golden Core Seventh Layer and Golden Core Completion, is known as one of the hardest bottlenecks to break through in the Golden Core Realm. Back then, I had to rely on the Miasma Breaking Treasure Pill, the Creation Purple Cloud Pill, which I obtained from Fellow Daoist Fire Yang in the Boundless Sea Region, before I could dissolve it in such a short time."
"The effects of an ordinary Third Rank Low Grade Breaking Yuan Pill are indeed far inferior to those of the Creation Purple Cloud