Purple-Gold lightning streaked across the vast Western Wasteland at incredible speed, yet it carried an unprecedented steadiness and restraint.
Yu Yuanchen was eager to return home, but he did not devote all his attention to traveling. Within his Sea of Consciousness, he repeatedly deduced and devised the Method of Unique Soul Core Condensation that concerned his future path.
The Thunder God Seal between his brows, already fully formed, gave off a faint heat. Deeply linked to the Broken God Position, it elevated his perception of energy's essence and the condensation of laws to an entirely new level. Combining the scattered records left behind by the ancient Thunder God regarding "Spirit Cores" with his profound understanding of Thunder True Essence—a new power fused from Soul Power, Qi and Blood, and Spiritual Power—a bold, unprecedented concept gradually took shape in his mind.
"A Soul Core, or even a higher-level Spirit Core, should essentially be a stable, self-sustaining 'singularity' formed through the extreme condensation of energy and laws," he mused. "Future Soul Masters must condense multiple cores, perhaps because the world's rules have changed and energy levels have declined, leaving a single Soul Core unable to bear enough quality and quantity for breakthroughs. Or perhaps the Soul Master system is incomplete, preventing them from tempering a single core to its utmost limit, forcing them to seek qualitative change through quantitative accumulation."
"And I possess Thunder True Essence, whose quality far surpasses ordinary Soul Power. It also contains a trace of divinity as its foundation, and I have the Broken God Position as a reference... Perhaps I can forge the path of One Core Forever Stable!"
With the general direction set, he began refining the steps. This method was perilous and required the utmost caution.
"First, at the dantian's sea of qi, I must