Condensing the Core, Opening Star Apertures, and Soaring Through the Sky

[In the first year, you cultivated the Heavenly Star Constellation True Technique, stirring all three hundred and sixty-five apertures throughout your body into a synchronized hum and drawing the Primordial Qi drifting through heaven and earth toward you like a surging tide.

After being tempered through your major apertures, this Primordial Qi transformed into pale golden True Essence, flowing ceaselessly into your Dantian.

Gradually, the sound of flowing True Essence arose within your Dantian, like a stream newly formed, slowly gathering toward the might of rivers and seas...]

[In the third thousandth year, the True Essence in your Dantian had gathered from a stream into a vast ocean. Looking within, you saw a sea of pale golden True Essence surging and rolling, pounding against the walls of your Dantian with a muffled roar.

You no longer absorbed Primordial Qi indiscriminately. Instead, you circulated your cultivation technique and began refining your True Essence, using the resonance of the Heavenly Star Constellation's major apertures as a furnace to continually compress the Primordial Qi at the heart of the sea.

The Jade Liquid True Essence gradually grew viscous, like melted honey. When it flowed across your palm, it could even stretch into fine threads...]

[In the sixth thousandth year, after three thousand years of refinement, the True Essence in your Dantian had completely shed its honey-like quality, transforming into translucent, lustrous jade marrow.

Every wisp of True Essence had condensed until it was almost solid, radiating a warm golden glow.

Each thread weighed as much as a mountain...]

[In the seventh thousandth year, the quality of your True Essence continued to rise with the aid of the Essence Gathering Pills, advancing from "ordinary jade marrow" to "Glazed Jade Marrow."

Yet its total quantity had not diminished at all. On the contrary, as Primordial