He cultivated until the Zi Hour that night.
Zhang Yuan slowly opened his eyes in the dark room. Spiritual radiance flowed through them, and the aura of his Qi Refining to Immortality Path had grown several times stronger.
"The efficiency really is much higher. In just eight hours, I went from the middle stage to perfection. I'm not far from an Outer Dao Golden Core now."
Sensing the spiritual power of Outer Dao Foundation Establishment perfection within him, Zhang Yuan felt pleased.
Compared with the Sha Ingestion Gang Devoration Path, the Qi Refining to Immortality Path was much easier to cultivate. With enough talent and resources, cultivation was smooth sailing. Apart from a handful of thresholds, it posed virtually no difficulty for a genius.
"Could I really be a cultivation prodigy?"
But next came the first threshold of the Qi Refining to Immortality Path: advancing from Outer Dao Foundation Establishment perfection to the Outer Dao Golden Core realm.
Aside from the difficulty of condensing a Golden Core, according to the Great Qian Primordial Soul-Refining Scripture, as a Qi Refining to Immortality Path cultivation technique born from the Mystic Gate's Demonic Dao, it naturally drew the rejection of heaven and earth during breakthroughs. Its practitioners would face an additional Golden Core tribulation lightning that cultivators of normal techniques did not.
And this tribulation lightning apparently struck to kill.
The author of the Great Qian Primordial Soul-Refining Scripture conjectured that the tribulation lightning faced by Demonic Dao cultivators originated from a Thunder Cultivator's Golden Position rather than ordinary heavenly thunder. Its power was immense, far beyond what anyone at Outer Dao Foundation Establishment could withstand.
Of course, since the Great Qian Primordial Soul-Refining Scripture had survived to be passed down, it was not entirely without solutions. The simplest was to break through