Qin Fengming stood in the cave chamber, but his heart had long been unable to calm down. As he recalled everything that had happened over the past seven years, he felt both excited and helpless.
First, Bing'er had broken through into the Core Formation realm on her own. Then she had advanced again. Later, Rong Qing had also cultivated to the threshold of a bottleneck, and only needed to wait until they left before attempting a breakthrough.
Now, the corpse refinement had finally reached the point of an imminent breakthrough as well. Any one of these developments would have been unimaginable to Qin Fengming in the past. As for Rong Qing and Bing'er, there was no need to mention them. Even without this bizarre place, their advancement had only been a matter of time.
But for this tall corpse refinement to advance and develop intelligence, doing so in the outside world would have been no different from a mortal attempting to cultivate into an immortal.
The outside world was already thin in Yin energy. Even if Qin Fengming exhausted every means at his disposal, spent a fortune purchasing spirit herbs, and refined pills for the corpse refinement to consume, it would still have been absolutely impossible for it to reach the stage of advancement in just a few short years.
A cultivator could stir the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and draw down the Heavenly Tribulation. It could be said that any Peak Core Formation cultivator could accomplish this after making certain preparations. Yet even if they successfully stirred the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, fewer than one in ten thousand cultivators truly entered the Nascent Soul stage.
That was because the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation was far too powerful. The energy it released to temper a cultivator's body was