Embracing Core Realm

Biodata

Power Progression

Position in the Cultivation System

The Embracing Core Realm is the fourth of the Five Realms of Martial Saints, following the Core Condensation Realm and preceding the Shattering Core Realm. The Five Martial Saint Realms are regarded as a departure from mortality, with practitioners potentially capable of destroying mountains and rivers. 44

Breakthrough

A Core Condensation Realm martial artist enters the Embracing Core Realm by transforming their Profound Core into a Martial Dao Golden Core. The cultivation method used determines the Golden Core's quality and the attributes of the spiritual essence produced afterward. 98 121

Higher-grade Embracing Core cultivation methods produce greater quantities and quality of spiritual essence, but are correspondingly more difficult to cultivate. The basic Middle Yuan Embracing Core Technique is considered the easiest method for a breakthrough and produces non-attribute spiritual essence. 121

Primordial Martial Golden Core

The Primordial Martial Golden Core is an advanced breakthrough method that uses the Primordial Technique to reconcile two opposing Embracing Core cultivation methods. It fuses Primordial Spiritual Essence with Great Sun Crimson Yang and Profound Yin Ice Soul spiritual essences. 121 123

• The process requires precise control; an imbalance within the Profound Core can cause the conflicting spiritual essences to clash. 122
• Su Xian used the Great Sun Crimson Sun Golden Core Method and the Profound Yin Ice Soul Pill Heart Art as the opposing techniques. 120 123
• His completed Golden Core produces Primordial Limitless Spiritual Essence, which can convert among Primordial, Great Sun Crimson Yang, and Profound Yin Ice Soul forms. 124
• Its spiritual-essence reserves and recovery speed exceed those of an ordinary Embracing Core Realm martial artist by more than threefold. 124

Capabilities

Martial Dao Golden Core

Formation of a Martial Dao Golden Core transforms a martial artist's spiritual essence from its generally non-attribute state into an attribute aligned with their cultivation method. 121

• Attribute-aligned spiritual essence can enhance compatible martial skills. 98 121
• The Great Sun Crimson Sun Golden Core Method produces heat-bearing Great Sun Crimson Yang Spiritual Essence. 98 121
• The Profound Yin Ice Soul Pill Heart Art produces a yin-aligned spiritual essence. 119 120
• A strong Embracing Core cultivation method creates an advantage that compounds through later stages and into the Shattering Core Realm. 98 121

Embracing Core Realm Physique

An Embracing Core-level physical body can restrain its essence, energy, and spirit without leakage, slowing the loss of life essence. 88

• It can levitate without consuming energy; high-speed flight still consumes True Origin. 88
• Su Xian's Embracing Core physique allowed him to compress all twelve apertures' Jade Liquid true essence into his dantian and break through to the Core Condensation Realm more easily. 93 94
• At the realm's peak, Su Xian's physical strength, speed, defense, and bodily control were greatly enhanced. 104

Embracing Core Realm Martial Skills

Embracing Core martial skills can be deduced from a sufficient foundation of lower-realm techniques. 96 97

• Heavenly Incineration Demon Slaying Slash — Saber technique deduced by Su Xian from Demon Hunter and other saber arts. 97
• Crimson Refined Lock Gold Hand — Close-quarters technique that heats the hands enough to melt metal and sever iron; its heat can burn an early Embracing Core Realm cultivator on direct contact. 97 98
• Divine Movement Nine Transformations — Movement technique that creates high-speed afterimages; at peak Core Condensation, Su Xian could create five or six, while full Embracing Core cultivation allows nine. 98
• Crimson Sun Divine Light Ray — A martial skill requiring Great Sun Crimson Yang-type spiritual essence to achieve its greatest power; its consumption is too great for even an ordinary peak Embracing Core martial artist to sustain for long. 124

Known Practitioners

• Su Xian — Entered the realm by forming a Primordial Martial Golden Core; his body had already reached Embracing Core level before his cultivation did. 88 124
• Luo Qiyuan — Gold Bell Demon Hunter who cultivates the Great Sun Crimson Sun Golden Core Method and fought Cao Han alongside other Embracing Core Realm Demon Hunters. 111 112
• Cao Han — White Lotus Cult leader and peak Embracing Core Realm martial artist who cultivated the Profound Yin Ice Soul Pill Heart Art. 101 119
• Old Dragon — A peak Embracing Core Realm Flood Dragon whose physique makes him difficult to defeat at the same cultivation level. 96

Trivia

• The Embracing Core Realm body can be achieved independently of Embracing Core cultivation; Su Xian possessed such a physique while still in the Core Condensation Realm. 88 93
• Su Xian's Nine Dragon Power doubles physical strength when activated and also enhances his speed and defense, but initially enlarged his body and tore ordinary clothing. 88
• The gap between Embracing Core and Core Condensation is portrayed as decisive: pill-boosted early Core Condensation martial artists may fail to withstand even a single strike from an Embracing Core expert. 101