Development and Hidden Dangers

Zhao Lingyin successfully formed her Origin Core, adding another Origin Core Realm powerhouse to the sect!

Beyond her, over the next few years, the Red Flame Sect welcomed a peak period of core formation like long-parched earth meeting a cold, timely rain. Yuan Qingshi, Jin Chinian, Jiang Lingfeng, Guo Xun, Lu Ming, Meng Sanchi, Giant Corpse Daoist, and many other peak Spirit Sea Realm cultivators all began attempting to form their Origin Cores.

Some did not succeed.

Yuan Qingshi and Jin Chinian, for instance, were both attempting core formation for the second time. Yet once again, all their efforts came to naught, and they remained stuck at the half-step Origin Core stage.

Guo Xun, meanwhile, was attempting core formation for the first time, but he too failed.

There were also many half-step Origin Core cultivators who had come from the former Heavenly Sword Sect, Ghost Corpse Sect, Seven Star Altar, Moon-Deriving Sect, and other cultivation factions. Quite a few failed to break through, and some even perished outright...

Nearly ten people successfully entered the Origin Core Realm, including Jiang Lingfeng, Giant Corpse Daoist, Lu Ming, Meng Sanchi, and several other rising juniors blessed with Spirit Bodies!

With this, the number of Red Flame Sect Origin Core Realm powerhouses—Fourth Realm, fourth stage—was approaching forty.

So many sect members forming their Origin Cores was mainly due to two factors, one internal and one external.

First, the Red Flame Sect had integrated all the cultivation forces of the former Red Flame Domain. Cultivation arts and secret techniques, pills and spiritual items, heavenly treasures, experiences of core formation, and more had all gathered beneath one roof. Its foundations were now far beyond what any single sect could have matched in the past!

Second, after Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven descended into the Immortal Realm, it benefited