Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm, Heavenfrost Sect.
Zhong Lingxiu sat cross-legged, and a powerful surge of mana suddenly rippled from his body.
His eyes brightened slightly as a freezing wind abruptly rose around him. Silently circulating the Profound Ice Mysteries Art, he began his charge at the bottleneck of late Core Formation.
At last—
Who knew how much time had passed? With a crack from within his dantian, that snow-white True Core became ever more crystalline and translucent, blooming with terrifying core power.
"Late Core Formation—success."
Zhong Lingxiu hurriedly knelt. "Many thanks for your assistance, Young Master!"
His aptitude was only ordinary 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 mana had suddenly appeared within his dantian, forcibly helping him break through the late Core Formation bottleneck.
Clearly, the Young Master had acted from afar to aid him!
On Bloodfiend Island, Fang Qing watched this scene and let out a sigh.
Ever since he had pulled off the Buddha Son's outrageous stunt with numerous disciples in the Breath-Nourishing Dao, he had begun experimenting in the Qi Refinement Way.
The results, however, had been far from satisfactory.
"In the end, the ancient and new systems are different—perhaps not even Nascent Soul Cultivators can bear Divine Abilities—"
"Someone like Zhong Lingxiu cannot even withstand Nascent Soul mana. Yet during a breakthrough in seclusion, if I send him a strand of same-origin late Core Formation mana, it can stimulate the bottleneck and improve the odds of breaking through—this requires me to first cultivate the same ice-attribute technique, then use the Dao-Born Pearl to transform it before bestowing it—"
He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the differences between the new methods of the