By now, the identities of the two were clear: Xu Yi and Qiu Wa.
Twenty years had passed in a flash. Xu Yi had spent a full twenty years in Jingchen Hall.
Xu Yi woke in the second month after Liao Chen left.
At the time, strange phenomena appeared in the heavens. Thunder rumbled, shaking him awake. The moment he came to, the strange phenomena vanished.
Xu Yi looked within his spiritual platform and was utterly astonished.
A scarlet pool had appeared in his spiritual platform, and his True Soul Figure was immersed in it.
His True Soul Figure was now an exact miniature of himself—even its pores were clearly visible. It had grown far more substantial than before.
His qi sea had also undergone a change. His scarlet True Essence had turned colorless and filled the entire qi sea.
Xu Yi could clearly tell that it was no longer True Essence, because he discovered he could control not only fire spirit energy, but all the Five Elements spirit energy.
He suddenly recalled what Sect Leader Zhu had once said: once one completed the ignition of the core and cultivated to True Essence Fifth Turn, fully liquefied the True Condensation Circle, and comprehended Heaven's will, one could attempt to break through to the True Core Realm.
Once one successfully formed the core, the qi sea would transform into the forces of earth, water, fire, and wind. One would then be able to control the Five Elements spirit energy, and after safely enduring the tribulation of lightning, one would become a True Core Early Stage cultivator.
The True Soul would also transform into a Primal Soul.
But Xu Yi knew, down to his toes, that the state he was in was not what it looked like when one successfully formed a