Time passed swiftly.
Especially with no great calamity like the Demon Beast Uprising, time flew by all the faster.
In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.
On this day, deep within Ice Spirit Valley in the Ice Snow Forest, which spanned more than three hundred thousand li—
Inside a cave abode, Ling Pengyun, who had been in seclusion here for ten years, slowly opened his eyes. A trace of delight rose on his face.
"After fifteen years of seclusion, I have finally raised my cultivation to the peak of the Golden Core Sixth Layer."
"My realm is fairly stable as well. I can take that Creation Purple Cloud Pill in one go and attempt to break through into the Golden Core Late Stage."
With that, he patted the Storage Bag at his waist, took out the Third Rank Middle Grade Creation Purple Cloud Pill he had purchased years ago at the grand auction in the Fallen Star Sea Region, and swallowed it.
Ling Pengyun had always been reluctant to use this Miasma Breaking Treasure Pill, saving it precisely for this bottleneck between the Golden Core Middle Stage and Golden Core Late Stage.
It was said that among the three minor realms of the Golden Core early, middle, and late stages, the bottleneck between the Golden Core Middle Stage and Golden Core Late Stage was the most solid and the hardest to overcome.
Countless Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators in the Cultivation World had been trapped at this bottleneck, which was why Golden Core Late Stage cultivators were so rare.
Among the dozen or so Golden Core cultivators in all of Yan Kingdom, only Hundred Spirits True Person and Medicine King Zhenren had reached the Golden Core Late Stage.
Moreover, both of them had relied on various spiritual