The pain of shattering his core sent cold sweat streaming down Chen Lin's body, but this was only the first step in forming a nascent soul.
After his golden core shattered, a speck of spiritual light emerged from within it. It steadily absorbed the energy in the fragments of his golden core and began to grow.
This speck of spiritual light was the nascent soul's initial form, known as an infant embryo.
Some cultivators could not produce an infant embryo even after reaching Golden Core Perfection, forever losing their chance to advance to the Nascent Soul stage. Such cultivators accounted for the vast majority.
That was precisely why secret methods for nourishing the golden core were so precious, guarded by the great aristocratic clans as secrets never to be passed on.
Without the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Technique, his aptitude would never have allowed him to produce an infant embryo. The Silver Fairy had recognized this, which was why she had used a few little tricks to send Sun Caiyi to his side and help him practice this secret art.
Chen Lin gathered his thoughts and stopped dwelling on it.
The infant embryo's growth was a lengthy process. He could not rush it.
No strange phenomena appeared in heaven or earth during this stage, however. Although his own energy fluctuations would become abnormal, the formation screened them, and he had used several Concealment Talismans as well. The Shadow Monster would not discover him.
He sat upright before the stone stele, looking no different from when he ordinarily cultivated.
It took three full days and nights before the infant embryo finished absorbing all the energy in the golden core fragments.
To Chen Lin's disappointment, however, it still had not reached the point of drawing down a heavenly tribulation.
Without any other means,