Zhong Hongyu gazed at Fang Xi, who seemed forever young beneath the Yao Mo Tree, her expression exceedingly complicated.
She was one of the old companions who had stayed with Fang Xi the longest, witnessing wave after wave of cultivators arrive, grow old, and pass away in meditation...
Time was merciless!
Now, even after taking a Longevity Pill, she had only a few decades left to live.
Perhaps only women like Ling Shu, Liu Xu... and Shui Lingxin can accompany Young Master for longer...
Thinking of those three female Nascent Soul Cultivators, Zhong Hongyu could not help feeling a little ashamed of her own inferiority and wistful sorrow.
"Not bad..."
Fang Xi swept her with his divine sense and was fairly satisfied. "The aftereffects of failing to form a Nascent Soul have healed as well..."
The step of shattering the Core to form a Nascent Soul was incomparably dangerous. If it failed, ninety-nine percent of cultivators would perish.
However, Fang Xi knew that nothing was impossible in the Cultivation World.
For most cultivators, a pseudo-Core cultivation base was locked in place, making further cultivation impossible. Yet there was actually a method of "transforming the Core."
The same was true of shattering the Core to form a Nascent Soul. Fang Xi had previously taught Zhong Hongyu a secret technique, allowing her to gather part of her Core essence and fuse it back into a Golden Core when she failed to form her Nascent Soul.
But naturally, her cultivation would suffer severe damage as a result.
Fortunately, Emerald Island now occupied the two great cultivation regions of the Southern Wasteland and Western Desert, and who knew how many Nascent Soul Sects were scrambling to pay tribute.
There was no shortage at all of pills that assisted Core Formation Cultivators in increasing their