In fact, more than twenty days earlier, with the combined aid of the Spirit-Raising Mystic Advancement Pill and the remains of the Jade Ancient Spirit Crocodile,
Qing Chen had already quietly crossed the bottleneck and successfully broken through.
During this time, he had merely been carefully honing and stabilizing his cultivation, slowly assimilating the immense power that followed his breakthrough.
With his breakthrough in cultivation, Qing Chen's divine sense had also improved tremendously, surging to a range of two li, a full three hundred-odd zhang.
Even experts at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage could hardly match divine sense of such strength.
Ordinary Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators, after all, had divine sense that covered only a hundred zhang to one li;
those at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, only two hundred zhang to two li;
those at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, three to five li.
What was a False Core cultivator? A cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Peak who had attempted Core Formation but unfortunately failed. Though some of these cultivators had failed, their magic power was considerably more condensed than that of those at the Foundation Establishment Peak, faintly showing signs of crystallization.
But a False Core cultivator's divine sense generally reached no farther than six li.
With Qing Chen's breakthrough in cultivation, the Demon Lotus Karmic Fire of the Nine Refinements of Demon Fire method had officially attained the power of the Fifth Turn.
The fifth and sixth turns already possessed Foundation Establishment Late Stage power;
from the seventh through the ninth turns, its power climbed step by step, until it broke beyond the power of Foundation Establishment.
The ninth turn, in particular, possessed the might of a Golden Core, enough to burn mountains and boil seas.
Qing Chen's magic power had also been