A moment earlier.
"So this is the legendary Nascent Soul?"
Having successfully shattered his core and formed his Nascent Soul, Xu Taiping used his Divine Sense to look inward at the tiny figure in his Dantian, shaped like a sleeping fetus. He found it quite novel.
But immediately, his heart tightened again, and he thought to himself:
According to Sister Lingyue, shattering the core and forming the Nascent Soul isn't the final step of this breakthrough.
The final step of this breakthrough...
Should be Nascent Soul breath replenishment.
Nascent Soul breath replenishment meant that, at its birth, the Nascent Soul would fuse the cultivator's own True Essence, Divine Essence, and Qi and Blood Power it had absorbed, along with the divine power of the Thirteenfold Crown of Heaven, into three breaths of Innate True Spirit Qi and exhale them.
These three breaths of Innate True Spirit Qi would merge respectively into the cultivator's Divine Soul and Divine Essence, the Qi and Blood in the heart aperture, and the Nascent Soul itself.
Once the cultivator's Divine Soul absorbed that breath of Innate True Spirit Qi, their Divine Essence would transform into Divine Marrow Power.
Once the heart aperture absorbed that breath of Innate True Spirit Qi, their Qi and Blood would transform into Golden True Blood Power.
After absorbing its breath of Innate True Spirit Qi, the Nascent Soul itself would manifest a body of Dao Essence and begin converting the Spiritual Power it absorbed into Dao Essence Power.
Then it would also become clear whether the Nascent Soul he had formed was a Punishment Baleful Intent Nascent Soul capable of enhancing killing power, a Baleful Transformation Nascent Soul adept at defense, or a Divine Baleful Intent Nascent Soul capable of helping a cultivator improve their cultivation.
The distinction between these