[Ever since you arrived on Whisperwind Island to cultivate, you had immersed yourself in its abundant spiritual energy.]
[The island held two mystic-grade spirit veins and the Greater Heavenly Circuit Big Dipper Formation. Whenever night fell over the East Sea, the formation drew down starlight from the nine heavens and refined its vast stellar power into a wisp of pure Big Dipper Spirit Energy.]
[Deep beneath the island, Ten-Thousand-Year Deep-Sea Spirit Marrow also formed. Only one drop condensed each year, and no one had managed to harvest it for centuries.]
[No Golden Core cultivator had appeared on the island in ages. Unable to refine either treasure, they had left both for you to enjoy.]
[Spirit ores were piled high as mountains, and the cultivation grounds were pure and unblemished. Though this blessed Heavenly Grotto was not the finest in the world, it still ranked among the best, far surpassing Little Green Peak and nearly matching the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury you had entered.]
[You opened every aperture in your body, drawing in the surging Big Dipper Spirit Energy like a great whale swallowing the sea and pouring it all into your Golden Core. You also absorbed into your dantian every last drop of the centuries-old spirit marrow stored in mutton-fat jade bottles.]
[For a time, all the spiritual energy on Whisperwind Island surged toward you like a tide and flowed into your seemingly bottomless Golden Core.]
[The Great Peace Hongbao Dao-Integration Art coursed through you like a spring river breaking through ice, its force impossible to resist. Never before had you opened every aperture so freely and let your true qi run its course.]
[The Nine-Turn Golden Core in your dantian revolved slowly. Its nine Dao patterns appeared and vanished like swimming dragons, and as golden light flowed, the imprint of