In Seclusion Cultivating, Fifty Years Passed Unintentionally?

Within the cave, there is no count of seasons, and the cold ends without knowing the year.

Li Wuyang sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion by the Green Lotus pond, his five limbs facing the sky, his mind completely immersed in the profound realm of the Huang Ting Jing.

In his sea of consciousness, the Great Dao Imprint circulated with a faint purple glow, mirroring the Dao patterns of the Huang Ting Jing, allowing him to comprehend it with twice the result for half the effort.

As a supreme Foundation Establishment cultivation technique, the core of the Huang Ting Jing lies in the "Yellow Court" and the "Dantian." The Yellow Court is where the spirit resides, and the Dantian is the sea of Qi. The scripture elaborates on how to calm the mind and spirit, communicate with heaven and earth, draw primordial Qi to irrigate the Dantian, nourish the Yellow Court, and ultimately achieve the state of unity between spirit and Qi, and conformity with the Dao.

Following the scripture's guidance, Li Wuyang guided the vast yet chaotic True Qi within his body, circulating it slowly along obscure routes, continuously purifying and compressing it, and converging it into the Dantian. Simultaneously, he visualized the Yellow Court, concentrated his spirit, and sensed the most fundamental primordial Qi of heaven and earth.

This process was slow and intricate, requiring immense patience and focus.

Initially, his progress was slow, and he often failed to grasp the essence. But as time passed, with the aid of the Great Dao Imprint, he gradually gained entry.

The True Qi in his Dantian became increasingly condensed, gradually transforming from a gaseous state to a liquid state, like a small spring of spiritual energy. Within the Yellow Court, his spiritual sense also became clearer and more concentrated.

The spiritual energy within the cave was inexhaustible, especially the aura emanating from the Green Lotus pond, which greatly benefited his cultivation.

He completely forgot the passage of time.

Huaihuai, Little Fire, Yingying, and Jinbao also found suitable places within the cave to cultivate or rest. Huaihuai absorbed the essence of wind and clouds, Little Fire breathed in fire spirits, Yingying danced around the Green Lotus, and Jinbao happily gnawed on several spirit stones. The cave was peaceful and serene, like a paradise.

After an unknown amount of time, perhaps a year, perhaps ten years...

On this day, a faint hum echoed from within Li Wuyang's body!

In his Dantian, the spring-like True Qi finally reached its critical point, violently contracting and condensing, transforming into a grain of rice-sized, perfectly round, flawless Golden Core radiating inner golden light!

The Golden Core spun, emitting pure and powerful energy fluctuations!

The bottleneck of peak Qi Refining to Spirit Transformation was broken as a matter of course!

He had officially entered the realm of Spirit Refinement and Void Return! This was equivalent to the cultivation of an Earth Immortal in the Primordial World!

At the same time, his physical body was continuously tempered by the dense spiritual energy and cultivation technique, greatly increasing its strength, and his spiritual sense coverage expanded severalfold!

Li Wuyang slowly opened his eyes. Divine light blazed within them, and his demeanor became even more calm and profound, making him seem like a completely different person from the impetuous newbie he was before.

"Finally... I've succeeded!" He felt the surging power within his body and his incredibly stable foundation, filled with joy.

Only then did he notice the changes in his companions.

Huaihuai had grown a size larger, its single horn more crystalline, with clouds swirling around it. Little Fire's injuries had long since healed; its red scales were like fire, its aura ferocious, as if it could break through to a higher realm at any moment. The patterns on Yingying's wings were more intricate and beautiful, and the light powder it shed carried stronger vitality. Even Jinbao had gotten fatter, its fur glossy and shiny.

"How long have we been in seclusion?" Li Wuyang stood up, feeling a bit puzzled.

He walked to the entrance of the cave, where there was a spiritual spring. The spring water dripped onto a smooth stone wall, forming a shallow water mark.

He remembered that when he first entered, the water mark didn't seem so deep.

He carefully observed the depth of the water mark and then sensed the extremely subtle difference in the flow of time, faintly transmitted from the outside world through the spatial turbulence...

An astonishing guess surfaced in his mind.

"A day in the cave, a thousand years in the outside world? No, not that exaggerated... but the flow of time here is definitely much slower than outside!" He roughly estimated, "We might have... stayed here for no less than fifty years?!"

Fifty years! It might be a fleeting moment in the Primordial World, but for him, a transmigrator, it was practically half his life!

"This is bad, this is bad! Has the world changed drastically outside? Has the Witch-Demon war ended? Has the Dao Ancestor finished preaching?" Li Wuyang was a little panicked. He didn't want to come out of seclusion only to find that the plot had already reached its conclusion!

He had to get out quickly and see!