``` [The realm of a [Golden Core Powerhouse] required refining Golden Nature and forging a Grotto-Heaven.]
[If [Qi Refining] and [Foundation Establishment] were a stairway to heaven, this step was the sheer cliff at its summit.]
[Even multiplying the combined difficulty of cultivating through the previous two realms several times over would likely fail to approach even a ten-thousandth of this realm's difficulty.]
[Breaking through from [Foundation Establishment Perfection] to [Golden Core Powerhouse] usually required three steps:]
[First, one engraved one's True Spirit upon a [fruit position], forming a deep connection with it.]
[From then on, as long as the [fruit position] did not fall and the True Spirit did not disperse, one's rank would remain fixed in Eternity, attaining Transcendence beyond the mortal world.]
[Yet the difficulty lay precisely in those two words: "[Fruit position]."]
[In the present [Supreme True Realm], every genuine [fruit position] across its vast expanse had long since been divided up.]
[Even clinging to the lingering shade of a predecessor's attainment was a dead end.]
[—This entire world lay beneath the schemes of the [True Lords] and even the Supreme Existences.]
[Rootless duckweed like you, without any backing—how could you even speak of touching a [fruit position]?]
[Not to mention the current state of this Era.]
[—Only a scant few [derivative fruit positions] remained in the world, and all had a Ruler.]
[Unless...]
[Unless, like "Mo Wuy ya," the ultimate victor in the previous [simulation], you enjoyed heaven's favor.]
[Not [Heavenly Will], but [Heaven and Earth] personally spoon-feeding you.]
[Last time, to warn you, [Heaven's Mandate] had gone so far as to fabricate the trait [Rogue Cultivator's Good Fortune].]
[So you were hardly surprised that he had attained the realm of a [Golden Core Powerhouse].]
[It was simply a matter of some extraordinary opportunity still