The purple mansion lies in the upper dantian, and so does the sea of consciousness. This amounts to opening a brand-new world within the sea of consciousness. Anything involving the creation of a world is far from easy for Outer Dao cultivators. Without protective measures, even geniuses with an Immortal Spirit Root face a high risk of death.
Zhang Yuan pondered this, but he was not worried in the slightest.
Outer Dao cultivators had no experience in cleaving heaven and earth apart, but he did. Back when he attained the Celestial Person level and forged a dao domain within his body, he had already experienced opening heaven and earth and creating a world.
Thus, this perilous hurdle for Outer Dao cultivators amounted to nothing for him. He could cross it with ease. For Zhang Yuan, the difficulty of breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm lay not in opening the purple mansion, but in the immense magic power required to do so.
Ordinary cultivators at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm could open a purple mansion roughly ten meters across, depending on how much magic power they possessed. His magic power, however, was more than three times that of an ordinary cultivator. To build a deep foundation and possess the potential to become a Great Immortal Lord, he had to make his purple mansion as large as possible. That would undoubtedly require a vast amount of magic power.
His own magic power alone would not suffice; he needed external resources to supplement it. This was also why Zhang Yuan had plundered two hundred million soul power as a reserve for his breakthrough to the Purple Mansion Realm.
*Two hundred million soul power. If that really isn't enough, I'm in the Zhao Xia Imperial Family's treasury, with Heavenly Materials and