Body Tempering and Body Tempering Realms!

[You repeatedly cross-referenced them. There were no problems with either the technique or your circulation.]

[You even dug open a patch in the corner of the courtyard to expose the soil, just to get closer to the "earth qi".]

[Yet it still had no effect.]

[Your state of mind nearly collapsed.]

[You browsed through the entire cultivation art once more. This time you noticed the mention of the "Yin-Yang hours", and you wondered if your current body tempering realm was too low to rouse the Power of Thick Earth deep underground at all, and that you needed to cultivate during the Yin-Yang hours when the Power of Thick Earth was at its densest.]

[Thus, you temporarily gave up cultivating the Thick Earth Body Tempering Art and began to practice seated meditation.]

[During this period, you refined several spirit herbs previously obtained from your lineage. Although these few spirit herbs were all high-grade spirit tier, they were still not enough for you, who had already broken through to the Golden Core Stage.]

[You were still some distance away from elevating your Golden Core grade.]

[Several hours later, as the sun was about to rise, you immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and circulated the internal qi in your body according to the requirements of the art.]

[This time you finally sensed the silken wisps of the Power of Thick Earth drifting deep underground, and you immediately mobilized your divine sense and the art to guide a wisp of the Power of Thick Earth to merge into your own body.]