Time flew by. Another five years passed.
Beneath the Solar Divine Tree, the violent spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the Great Sun dispersed, revealing a young man in azure robes below.
"Peak mid-stage Golden Core..."
"The seventh Heavenly Astral Great Sun restriction of the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword is complete."
Jiang Ding opened his eyes. His scarlet killing intent was almost impossible to contain, his gaze red as magma.
The sword-refining method for Blazing Sun Spirit Iron was too cruel and extreme for any cultivator's will to endure. Wherever he looked now, he instinctively searched for powerful opponents, wanting to take their heart's blood to calm himself.
He drew a deep breath and silently recited the Immortal Sect's top-tier third-order secret art, the Clear-Mind Formula. Only after a long while did he soothe the agitation in his heart. The molten scarlet in his eyes gradually faded, restoring their original clear black and white.
"Time to break through."
Jiang Ding looked inward at the azure mana in his dantian, which had reached two-thirds of its limit.
Crack!
The mana of the Myriad Transformations Magneto-Primordial Art surged through his dantian. With a single sweep, the seemingly unbreakable bottleneck shattered, offering no resistance at all. Its fragments dissolved into his dantian, settled as mana, and vanished.
Boom!
An explosion sounded within him. The mana in his dantian churned and circulated at high speed, flooding into the tiny branches of his meridians it had never reached before and widening them. The mana pathways of the Myriad Transformations Magnetic Origin Scripture grew more intricate and efficient. His mana rose by a measure, and his aura surged far more.
Late-stage Golden Core!
"Sixteen years old and already late-stage Golden Core!"
"This is my great achievement as a genius!"
Jiang Ding opened