Golden Core Stage, achieved!

You recite poetry? So will I!

Mu Hao had long since noticed that the cultivation art he had acquired in a dream seemed invincible, but actually harbored deadly dangers. With every realm he advanced, he felt a thorn in his back and a lump in his throat.

To uncover the truth.

Mu Hao searched all over Cihang City and ambushed a Cultivator while the man was cultivating.

"Talk! Where did you get this cultivation art?"

"If I tell the truth, will you spare my life?"

"Spit it out!"

"A master gave me this Feather Record in the Fourth Prison. I wasn't the only one. Every inmate got it."

How strange. This man was a fellow inmate.

"Unfortunately, you've seen my face, so you've already sealed your fate." With that, Mu Hao slapped him apart, turning the inmate into a disassembled inmate. Then he used the Soul-Searching Technique to extract the general principles of the Feather Record from his primordial spirit.

"Reach a thousand years' cultivation in a hundred days—would you trade your future for the present?"

Mu Hao studied the Feather Record closely, a cold gleam flashing through his eyes.

"This Feather Record is even faster than my Invincible Heaven Art."

"No, something's wrong! It's called the Feather Record, but it's really the Mayfly Record. It trades lifespan for cultivation, and its ceiling is extremely low. Once you reach Foundation Establishment, you can't advance any further!"

He thought back to that day, when every inmate in the prison had received the Feather Record, while he had comprehended the Invincible Heaven Art.

Mu Hao felt as though he had plunged into an icy pit. An enormous conspiracy lay before him.

"I'm not a medical student, I've never farmed, and I've never worked as a Beast Tamer at the Zoo."

"Yet my