What was a cultivator at golden core perfection?
"The golden core serves as the foundation, spirit and core merge; the purple mansion opens, and the yang spirit first takes shape."
That single sentence seemed simple, but in reality, it was fraught with difficulties.
After reaching the golden core peak stage, Immortal Alliance cultivators had to gradually draw their three ethereal souls and seven corporeal souls into their golden cores, nurturing and tempering them with undying golden nature and Earth Baleful True Vapor. They had to purge the yin dregs, transform their souls from yin spirits into yang spirits, and comprehend the profound state of "the spirit resides within the core; the core itself is the spirit."
Then, within the purple mansion between their brows-the Niwan Palace of the upper dantian-they had to condense a yang spirit embryo possessing the dual characteristics of "self" and "companion." Simply put, the purple mansion yang spirit embryo was both a preliminary fusion of a Golden Core True Person's companion Great Dao with their three ethereal souls and seven corporeal souls, and a rehearsal before a golden core cultivator attained the Dao as a True Lord and forged a purple mansion nascent soul. More than that, it was a transformation and sublimation of the essence of life and the soul.
Yet becoming a True Lord was difficult. The reason most golden core cultivators of the Immortal Alliance stopped at True Person, with no hope of becoming True Lords, was not that the hurdle of attaining the Dao as a Nascent Soul True Lord was so difficult, or that the heart-demon calamity was so terrifying.
Rather, many golden core cultivators did not know how to bring their cores to fruition within the purple mansion, send their yang spirits out of their shells, and ascend to the