In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed!
The True Essence within your body had accumulated to fullness. The moment to break through into the Sea Gazing Realm had arrived.
One had to know that cultivation in the Upper Three Realms placed the greatest emphasis on condensing True Essence. Upon reaching the seventh realm, the Snow Mountain Realm, one had to further transform it. Depending on one's cultivation method, one might condense icy True Essence or gather blazing True Essence; the variations were too numerous to list.
The key to cultivation was to first transform Innate True Qi into True Essence, then use the altered True Essence to replace the True Qi throughout the body.
When all three hundred and sixty-five acupoints contained nine strands of True Essence, the Snow Mountain Realm would be complete.
This hurdle depended entirely upon patient, grinding effort.
Those of exceptional talent might achieve it in one or two years; those of ordinary aptitude needed four or five years; those with slightly poorer foundations might struggle for more than a decade without attaining full success. Martial cultivation was like rowing upstream—one must never let one's resolve scatter.
Once one's sharpness had been worn away, it became difficult to make further progress.
People like Xie Renfeng, who had relied on medicinal pills since childhood, appeared to advance at lightning speed, but were in truth fishing up a dried pond.
When they reached a crucial juncture, let alone the Snow Mountain Realm, they would struggle even to touch the threshold of the Upper Three Realms. Their cultivation would be like paper pasted together—one heavy rain, and it would fall apart.
There had never been a shortcut on the path of climbing the martial mountain!
At this moment, every acupoint throughout your body had been