"The chance to form a Nascent Soul has come!"
The moment that first fetal movement sounded, Luo Chen understood.
For an instant, his mind seemed to harmonize with heaven and earth, blending with them like water and milk.
But!
That brief distraction made the Golden Core within him fall still again, and the sensation vanished in a flash.
Luo Chen did not regret failing to seize the chance.
He knew he had reached the necessary realm. With more attempts, he could bring that feeling back.
He seized the moment to carefully revisit what he had just experienced.
"The Golden Core, fused with the Three Treasures, becomes a Nascent Embryo and merges with heaven and earth until neither can be distinguished from the other. Through that opening, a Nascent Soul can condense within the embryo. This is called Shattering the Core to Form a Nascent Soul, after a woman giving birth."
"But looked at another way, isn't the so-called Nascent Embryo an egg formed through the union of man and heaven and earth?"
"Fetal movement is its response to heaven and earth."
"And during Nascent Soul Formation, that response must be maintained at every moment, or all previous efforts will come to nothing."
"But for a Golden Core Cultivator, forcing that fetal movement to continue is difficult beyond measure. Outside help is essential!"
Outside help meant either support or stimulation from beyond oneself.
First, a Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein!
Such a Spirit Vein already showed faint signs of becoming a Blessed Land. It could shape the land around it, which was why Spirit Soil lay everywhere on Dragon Abyss Island.
If a cultivator could draw on the spiritual energy of a Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein while in a state of fetal movement, that aid could greatly prolong the time spent merged with heaven