Above Earth Jade Island, the formation patterns of the Island-Protecting Grand Array suddenly trembled violently.
The spiritual energy within a hundred li churned like boiling water. Drawn by the Formation Core, it formed thirty-six torrents of spiritual energy that rolled and coiled wantonly through the air like enormous golden dragons.
Spiritual energy gushed from cracks in the ground, carrying earthfire essence and charring every plant within ten li.
This was none other than the third-tier high-grade Spirit-Gathering Formation-the Earth Baleful Intent Spirit-Gathering Formation.
As time passed, the spiritual energy took on increasingly strange shapes.
It slowly gathered into the manifestation of a towering spiritual peak, several hundred zhang high.
"Shaking a hundred li, Spiritual Energy Mountain Manifestation."
Qing Chen stared blankly at the distant scene as those words suddenly sprang to mind.
At the center of it all, an aura so powerful it was suffocating surged upward, spreading in every direction like a raging torrent.
Without question, this was the phenomenon of heaven and earth triggered by Xuanji True Person's breakthrough into Nascent Soul during secluded cultivation from which there would be no retreat. It marked the formal beginning of the breakthrough!
One had to understand that breaking through to Nascent Soul was no easy feat for a peak Golden Core or Pseudo-Nascent Soul cultivator.
First, they had to raise their cultivation, Divine Sense, and aura to a level capable of triggering disturbances in heaven and earth.
Without vast quantities of spiritual energy gathering in response to the breakthrough's stirring aura, how could they sustain the first of the three Nascent Soul passes-the Core Shattering and Nascent Soul Condensation Pass?
The spiritual energy required for this pass was oceanic in scale, far beyond what an ordinary cultivator could easily gather.
The Spirit Vein was therefore also important. Naturally, fourth-tier strength