"Again!"
The pain did not make Lin Ke shrink back. Instead, it made his resolve to grow stronger burn all the more fiercely.
The second time he condensed his Heartflame, he barely held on for a few breaths, but that was already a clear improvement over his first attempt.
After regulating his breathing for a while, Lin Ke began his third attempt.
After that, he regulated his breathing, tried again, regulated his breathing, tried again... The cycle repeated without end.
After a day of cultivation, Lin Ke could remain conscious for nearly a quarter of an hour under the Heartflame's searing heat.
And through this cultivation and tempering, his physical strength had once again increased considerably.
As his body grew stronger, he clearly felt that his cultivation realm, which had previously begun to loosen, had now become firm again.
Clearly, his increased physical strength had also broken through the upper limit of the power he could accumulate. To break through a minor realm, he would have to accumulate more power first.
And this was precisely the effect Lin Ke wanted.
Only this way could he make the foundation of the power he accumulated during the Golden Core Stage more solid.
And only this way would his accumulated power and foundation be firmer than those of other cultivators when he broke through to higher realms in the future.
His goal was to cultivate every realm to the fullest extent possible.
That had been true of the Dao Foundation Stage, and it would be true of the Golden Core Stage, and even the Nascent Soul Realm and Fusion Stage beyond it.
Not long after he finished cultivating, True Person Liuyun sent him a message.
Its contents were simple: the sect master's support supplies would arrive within two days.
Within those two days,