For a cultivator to form a nascent soul was truly to defy the workings of heaven and earth.
As far as Li Ping knew, ancient cultivators had not divided cultivation into the many realms used today: "Qi refining," "Foundation establishment," "Core formation," "Nascent soul," "Spirit transformation," and so on.
Ancient cultivators had actually recognized only two realms: "Qi refining" and "spirit refinement"!
What were now called "qi refining," "Foundation establishment," and "core formation" had all been known as "qi refining" in ancient times.
"Nascent soul" and "spirit transformation," meanwhile, had been known as "spirit refinement," divided into "yin spirit" and "yang spirit."
Upon reaching the nascent soul realm, a cultivator could send their nascent soul out of their body to roam ten thousand miles and gained extraordinary divine abilities such as Instantaneous Movement. They were almost an entirely different order of being from core formation cultivators.
If late-stage foundation establishment cultivators could still overwhelm a core formation cultivator through sheer numbers, then no matter how many core formation cultivators there were, facing a nascent soul cultivator capable of instantaneous movement meant certain death unless they possessed a treasure that could restrain a yin spirit.
Of course, a nascent soul was a yin spirit and had weaknesses: it feared chilling winds and the blazing sun and could not remain outside the body for long.
Precisely because the breakthrough from core formation to the nascent soul realm involved such a tremendous leap, even cultivators with a heavenly spiritual root had no more than a twenty-percent chance of shattering their core and forming a nascent soul without the aid of a Nascent Soul Formation Treasure.
And even if they truly succeeded in forming a yin spirit nascent soul, they still had to endure the tribulations of Heavenly Thunder Body Refinement and **Heavenly Demon