Breaking into the Transformation Realm, Gaining the True Intent Left by the Demon Ancestor

Half an hour later.

Xu Taiping, wholly unaware of anything outside and focused solely on breaking through, finally reached the most critical moment.

With a cracking sound that only he could hear, he finally completed the most important step in breaking through from the Spirit Refining Realm to the Heaven Gazing Realm: shattering the Pill Embryo and forming the Golden Core.

Compared with his original Dantian, the Golden Core formed after breaking through to the Heaven Gazing Realm could hold more than ten times the True Essence he had possessed in the Spirit Refining Realm.

And as one cultivated step by step toward Great Perfection of the Heaven Gazing Realm, this Golden Core would continue to grow.

Exactly how much it could grow depended on the cultivator's own potential.

Some exceptionally gifted practitioners of True Cultivation could even expand their Golden Core to ten times its initial size by the time they reached Great Perfection of the Looking-to-Heaven Realm.

In that case, their Golden Core would hold a hundred times as much True Essence as they had possessed in the Spirit Refining Realm.

It was extremely terrifying.

Precisely because of this, the Heaven Gazing Realm was also known as the Foundation Establishment realm of a cultivator's Transformation Realm stage. If one failed to strengthen the Golden Core as much as possible during this stage, then even if one barely managed to break through to the Heaven Shocking Realm, both future combat strength and cultivation potential would inevitably be greatly diminished.

This was also why cultivators in the same Heaven Gazing Realm sometimes differed so greatly in combat strength.

Besides holding at least ten times as much True Essence as a Spirit Refining Realm Pill Embryo, a Heaven Gazing Realm Golden Core could draw in the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven