In orthodox Immortal Dao Golden Core cultivation, attaining the Higher Vehicle realm required finding the Great Elixir Thirteen: six External Medicines and seven Internal Medicines, then letting spirit and qi depend upon each other, returning to the root with every breath.
Finally, once the stem of life had formed.
One could naturally seize the creative power of heaven and earth and embody the longevity of the void!
In short, the more completely one gathered the great elixirs, and the more perfectly one polished one's cultivation until it was seamless.
The deeper a cultivator's attainment would be, and the higher the grade of the core they achieved!
Among the thirteen kinds of great elixir, the Internal Medicine known as "tranquil void essence qi" was the hardest to achieve.
Through the ages, countless brilliantly gifted individuals had fallen at this barrier, failing on the very brink of success.
Even cultivators blessed with sudden insight into the method mostly missed the proper timing, leaving the "tranquil void essence qi" they refined incomplete in its essential nature and ultimately preventing them from forming a first-grade core.
During this period of cultivating on borrowed grounds at the Grand Talisman Palace, spiritual currents were abundant, and no one came to disturb him rashly.
In just one year, Chen Heng had condensed the two Internal Medicines, right mind edge and sage earth.
Only the final "tranquil void essence qi" had taken him six full years before he finally saw results, even with a true method recorded for him to study at any time...
It had to be understood that condensing a Golden Core was a matter of balancing yin and yang, an undertaking of utmost importance in which neither External Medicines nor Internal Medicines could be omitted.
Its intricacies were like boundless tides swaying and surging, appearing