Amid the cultivators' enthusiastic congratulations, Liu Changxu returned home to Spirit Spring Residence with his family.
Having only just succeeded in Core Formation, Liu Changxu did not continue celebrating after arriving home. Instead, he entered his seclusion chamber to consolidate his cultivation.
This period of seclusion lasted nearly another half year.
By the time Liu Changxu emerged from his seclusion chamber, it was already January of year 3187 of the Great Tang Calendar.
The terrifying aura that had occasionally radiated from him just after Core Formation was gone. His magic power was restrained to the utmost, making him seem like a mortal with no magic power at all.
Yet his movements and bearing still revealed that he was different from others.
In the past, Liu Changxu had walked, sat, and moved much like an ordinary mortal, only far faster! Now, however, it was more fitting to describe him as gliding gracefully into view.
Upon entering the Golden Core stage, cultivators advanced to a higher level of life. Greater strength and a five-hundred-year lifespan were not the only benefits, merely the two most important ones. There were many others.
The first was rejuvenation. After advancing to Golden Core, cultivators' lifespans reached five hundred years, and both their appearance and their bodies returned to a youthful state.
If a cultivator succeeded in Core Formation at the age of a hundred and twenty, their effective age would be equivalent to someone in their twenties, and their face and body would regain that youthful appearance. The mere thought was enough to drive people wild, especially women.
This was not particularly important to Liu Changxu, however, since he was only thirty-eight and already very young. After Core Formation, his body was effectively equivalent to that of an eight-year-old child.
Fortunately, Liu Changxu retained his height.