A basin lay on the outskirts of the Qin Kingdom's Imperial Capital.
It was remote and low-lying, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and it was also a natural formation that gathered spiritual energy.
For Xiao Mo, it was an ideal place to undergo his tribulation and enter the Nascent Soul realm.
Among cultivators, there was a saying—"Only upon forming a golden core do you become one of our kind."
There was another saying among cultivators—"Only on the day you shatter your core and form a nascent soul do you become an immortal."
In the eyes of the vast majority of cultivators, the Nascent Soul realm was already the end of the cultivation path.
Thus, reaching Nascent Soul meant becoming a true immortal.
After all, Nascent Soul cultivators could establish their own sects and be addressed as "Patriarch," while Golden Core cultivators were generally only elders in most sects.
Though the Qin Kingdom's wars against the other kingdoms saw not only Nascent Soul cultivators on the battlefield, but even cultivators of the upper three realms.
These cultivators had all been raised through the resources of entire nations, and even a whole kingdom had few of them.
Even among the seven great kingdoms, such as Qin, each had no more than thirty Nascent Soul cultivators.
Cultivators of the upper three realms were particularly scarce.
Among the seven great kingdoms, each possessed no more than ten Jade Purity realm cultivators, while those in the Immortal realm and Ascension realm were rarer still.
For most cultivators of the upper three realms, a kingdom's sovereign would only ask them to act during wars that mobilized the entire nation.
Moreover, they mostly fought one-on-one against enemy cultivators of the upper three realms, avoiding venturing deep into the battlefield whenever possible.
After all, battlefields were places