Golden Core.
This realm was not actually far from Li Ye.
He was now at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment. He needed only two more layers to break through.
It was practically set in stone. If he had not been suppressing his mana and stabilizing his Dao foundation, he could probably have already started thinking of ways to break through.
The sect's inheritance contained many introductions and explanations regarding the Golden Core. Especially as an inner disciple and the personal disciple of a Nascent Soul True Person, he had access to even more such texts.
But those Golden Core inheritances were all the insights of his predecessors.
His path was very different.
For Li Ye, it was not that they were of no help at all; they were merely better than nothing.
Yet this time, the Golden Core insight stirred monstrous waves within his heart.
He "saw" a cultivator seated cross-legged atop a lotus dais forged from jade at the center of a grotto-heaven.
A golden pellet floated silently in the cultivator's palm.
The earth veins transformed into petals that lifted it upward, while purple light fell from the heavens and shrouded it below. The light of the five elements wrapped around that Golden Core in countless forms, like heavenly maidens scattering flowers.
The sensation of being nourished by the entire world felt wondrous to him.
It was not merely spiritual energy, but also the world's "feelings"—that wholehearted care devoted solely to that single Golden Core.
It was...
A path utterly different from the ordinary immortal Dao, one that emphasized emotions—the ability to retain one's original heart even after gaining transcendent power.
He found it very familiar.
*Does this have something to do with the Dawnlight Bell and Soothing Flute I learned? Why do I feel it is related