Purple Palace's Quest for Gold and False Ascension

"This Qi Absorption Realm was almost equivalent to a combination of the Qi Refining Realm and part of the Foundation Establishment Realm as practiced in the present world."

"Then."

"When a spirit-beast cultivator perfected their practice in the Qi Absorption Realm, and the spiritual energy they had gathered filled the entire Visualization Diagram until it could hold no more..."

"The Visualization Diagram would illuminate their Inner Body-Soul Heavenly Cycle like the True Yang Great Sun."

"And in that state, bathed in brilliant light, the spirit-beast cultivator would discover a place within their body and soul, rich enough in spirituality to reflect the 'great sun's radiance.'"

"Nourished by their innate bloodline, strengthened by their acquired Qi Absorption practice, and steeped for years in the Visualization Diagram, that place would have grown into a heavenly treasure!"

"The key to breaking through to the next realm lay in that heavenly treasure!"

"They would move it, little by little, through the heavenly cycle from the place where it had naturally formed within their body and soul, until it reached their inner world. Then they would use the Visualization Diagram to gather starlight and kindle a spark!"

"Temper the heavenly treasure in that spark!"

"Melt it down into refining material, then merge it into the Visualization Diagram. At that instant, the diagram would turn wholly from illusion to reality and unite with the mind's focused thought."

"They would immediately transform, ascend, and leap into the next realm!"

"And in this new realm, the former Visualization Diagram, having gained a heavenly treasure as refining material, would transform into the True-Form Visualization Diagram!"

"The barrier to cultivation in this realm still lay in the visualization diagram itself."

"Gathering and absorbing qi proceeded as before, by the same method. It was simply more efficient at this higher realm."