Huge Chasm

After He Song attempted to break through the bottleneck once, the situation he had anticipated—being able to estimate how long it would take him to break through—did not appear.

Instead, a chasm like a heavenly moat appeared in He Song's senses.

In He Song's perception,

this Golden Core Late Stage bottleneck was like an enormous chasm, blocking him firmly before the threshold of Golden Core Late Stage and making it impossible for him to advance even an inch.

Though He Song tried many times, each time seeking to cross that immense chasm,

every attempt ultimately ended in failure.

Thus,

after making repeated attempts, He Song came to some conclusions regarding the Golden Core Late Stage bottleneck he now faced.

The first time He Song encountered something called a bottleneck was during Qi Refining Late Stage.

Back then, after encountering the Qi Refining Late Stage bottleneck, he merely made a slight attempt at breaking through and immediately sensed roughly how much time he would need to do so.

It was also from that time onward that He Song formed his own understanding of bottlenecks.

At the time, He Song believed that bottlenecks were all like the one he had encountered: with just a slight attempt, one could roughly estimate the time needed to break through.

After that, when He Song was in the Foundation Establishment realm and even the Golden Core realm,

his thoughts did not change when he encountered bottlenecks again.

He had even believed

that those cultivators who were blocked by some tiny bottleneck and wasted away their entire lives likely had other hidden reasons, rather than truly being stopped by the bottleneck itself.

However,

just as He Song continued to hold such thoughts, believing bottlenecks to be nothing more than this,

when he encountered the Golden Core Late