Divine Ray Palace

Eastern Sea Cultivation World, Heavenfrost Sect.

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Zhong Lingxiu sat cross-legged as a powerful surge of dharma power suddenly rippled from his body.

His eyes brightened slightly, and a freezing wind abruptly rose around him. Silently circulating the Mystic Ice Profound Art, he began charging at the bottleneck of the late True Core stage.

At last—

After an unknown amount of time, a crack sounded from within his dantian. His snow-white True Core became ever more crystalline and translucent, erupting with a terrifying core power.

"The late True Core stage... achieved."

Zhong Lingxiu hurriedly knelt. "Many thanks for Young Master's aid!"

His aptitude was merely average among True Core cultivators. When he had previously entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough, he had not held much hope.

Yet at the crucial moment, a powerful surge of dharma power had suddenly appeared in his dantian, forcibly helping him break through the late True Core bottleneck.

Clearly, Young Master had acted from afar to aid him!

On Blood Baleful Island, Fang Qing watched this scene and let out a sigh.

Ever since he had used numerous disciples on the Qi Consumption Path to pull off the Buddha Son's outrageous stunt, he had begun experimenting on the Qi Refining Path.

The results, however, had been far from satisfactory.

"In the end, the ancient and new systems are different— even Nascent Soul Cultivators cannot bear divine powers—"

"Someone like Zhong Lingxiu can scarcely withstand even Nascent Soul dharma power. On the contrary, when he was in seclusion attempting a breakthrough, I sent him a strand of late True Core dharma power from the same source. It stimulated his bottleneck and improved his chances of breaking through—this requires me to first cultivate the same ice-attribute technique, then transform it through the Dao Birth Pearl before bestowing