Burning Lifespan to Refine the Spirit and Shatter the Golden Core; Forming the Nascent Soul Reveals Divine Powers

An extreme sense of clarity surged through him in an instant. Zhao Cheng felt as though his soul had been plunged into a warm bath. Every inch of it was being nourished and strengthened.

His once-ethereal spiritual power gradually grew solid, like mist condensing into droplets, then gathering into a stream, and finally becoming a great river that surged through his sea of consciousness.

His perception also expanded at a startling pace, as if his soul itself were swelling.

This perception did not come from his five senses. It was a feeling of simply knowing, deep down.

At first, he could instinctively sense every corner of the quiet room and clearly see the patterns on the floor tiles and the specks of dust floating in the air.

Then his perception broke through the quiet room's door and spread across the entire courtyard. He could hear the guards outside breathing, along with the faint sounds of the Steam Engine at work.

At last, his perception covered the entire Lord Wuwei Mansion. Even the sound of chopping vegetables in the kitchen and the soft whinnying of warhorses in the stables reached his mind with perfect clarity.

Zhao Cheng could clearly "see" his spiritual power growing at a visible pace. What had once been "mist" was gradually condensing into a small pool.

His brow pulsed faintly. A sense of power unlike anything he had ever felt filled his sea of consciousness. It was as if, with but a thought, he could stir countless strands of spiritual power and wrap them around his Golden Core.

Zhao Cheng immediately spent his lifespan on cultivation.

[Year One: You completely absorbed the Three Pure Spirit Pill. Your spiritual power increased greatly. You tried to stir your Golden Core and shatter it to form a Nascent Soul, but