Chapter 462: Cultivation Reaches the Ninth Realm's Jade Pivot Core; the Thousand-Year Buddha Child!
[Inside Peach Blossom Spring.]
[Another 180 sword marks had been carved into the peach tree used to count the days.]
[A year had passed in the mortal world, yet the seasons never changed here.]
[Only a single setting sun hung forever above the distant mountains.]
[The white-robed youth stood in a shallow pond with his trouser legs rolled high. He suddenly bent and reached into the water; when he straightened, two silver fish writhed in his palm, their scales scattering flecks of light.]
"Kid, we're in for a treat today." He waved the silver-scaled fish, a smile reaching the corners of his eyes. "The fish and birds Old Third keeps in Huangliang Dream aren't easy to catch. Use your cultivation, and they slip right through your fingers."
Blue smoke curled from the burning peachwood. The youth used his sword to gut the fish, then skewered them on branches. As the flames licked their silver scales golden, he suddenly beat time and sang, "Before Mount Xisai, white egrets fly; amid peach blossoms and flowing streams, the mandarin fish grow fat..."
"To eat a leisurely meal of fish in the world as it is today—that alone is extraordinary."
Seeing that you remained seated in the pavilion at the pond's center and paid him no mind, Second Sir took no offense.
His gaze settled on the True Essence coursing around you. After three hundred days of unbroken practice, the sea of energy in your dantian had grown into a vast, blue ocean.
The spiritual energy here was even denser than in Bianjing's imperial city, and the medicinal power within you helped as well. Your cultivation advanced with half the effort and twice the results.
On the path from Sea