Atop Condensed Jade Peak on Earth Jade Island, nine layers of restrictive magic seals enclosed the cave abode as tightly as a glazed glass dome.
Xuanji True Person sat motionless over the spiritual eye of the earth vein. The chains of spiritual power coiled around him flickered unevenly with his rapid breathing.
His face was pale, his features sunken, faintly exposing crystalline white bone.
The runes of the "Jade Pivot Locking Essence Formation" covering the cave abode's four walls flashed madly, completely blocking out the shock waves from the twelve Golden Core cultivators bombarding the grand array outside.
Crack-
Before him floated half of a completely shattered Jade Ruyi.
It was the very one that had collapsed atop the peak earlier, of which he had subsequently captured a little less than half with a spell.
The fragments reflected his face, shriveled like tree bark, a terrifying sight.
At that moment, the Jade Ruyi fragments were spinning wildly, and vast amounts of spiritual energy poured into his body.
Two or three days earlier, Xuanji True Person had already broken through the first Nascent Soul pass, the Golden Core Shattering into Nascent Soul Pass.
The Golden Core within him had shattered, replaced by a somewhat illusory, two-inch Nascent Soul.
This Nascent Soul bore some resemblance to him. Though tiny, it radiated a unique aura.
The two-inch Nascent Soul phantom trembled violently in his dantian. The Nascent Soul true essence gushing from its seven orifices actually condensed into blood-colored Dao patterns in midair-the very Jade Pivot Dharma Nascent Soul secret technique recorded in the "Jade Pivot Jade Heart Spirit Concentration Art"!
"Cough, cough... in the end, I've taken the same old path as Master. But I'm luckier than Master in one respect: I have two Nascent Soul Formation Herbs and a piece of