The Time to Set Sail

After her breakthrough, Xu Chunniang did not stop cultivating. Instead, she continued circulating her cultivation technique, guiding the violent spiritual qi into her spiritual veins and dantian to further increase her cultivation.

Only when her cultivation reached the Peak Golden Core Realm and could advance no further did she finally stop.

At this moment, the violent spiritual qi hidden within her flesh and blood had reached a subtle balance with the spiritual qi in her body's spiritual veins.

Neither interfered with the other, yet they depended on each other.

Xu Chunniang seemed to gain some insight. External body refinement and internal spirit refinement—body cultivation and dharma cultivation—were two different cultivation systems.

Dual cultivation of body and dharma seemed like walking two paths at once, but in truth, the two stood in opposition while also complementing one another.

Since leaving the Land of Water's Extremity, she had not encountered any other Five Elements Extremity Lands. As a result, her body cultivation had fallen far behind her dharma cultivation.

To some extent, this had also affected the growth of her cultivation.

Only after half a year of tempering her body with spiritual qi had her body cultivation caught up. Feeding back inward, it had loosened the bottleneck in her cultivation and allowed her to break through to the Peak Golden Core Realm in one stroke.

After reaching the Peak Golden Core Realm, Xu Chunniang felt stronger than ever before, as though she stood atop a lofty mountain, able to pluck the stars with her hand and look down upon all the lesser peaks.

She calmed her thoughts and walked out of the cave dwelling.

Sun Muyun, who had waited outside anxiously for over two months, heard the faint sounds coming from within the cave dwelling and hurried forward to stand by respectfully.