Everyone knew that above the Foundation Establishment Realm lay the Golden Core Realm.
The gap between the Golden Core Realm and the Foundation Establishment Realm was far greater than that between Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators.
The two were as far apart as heaven and earth.
Provided resources were not too scarce, even cultivators with poorer talent had a chance to build their Dao Foundation.
The Golden Core Realm, however, was entirely different.
Resources, luck, state of mind, cultivation method-not a single one could be lacking.
There were no small number of Foundation Establishment cultivators throughout the Chu Kingdom, but only thirty or forty known Golden Core cultivators.
In the cultivation world, countless cultivators had perished on the road to seeking a Golden Core.
Some failed to break through to Golden Core and, knowing they had no hope left in this lifetime, lost heart.
Yet they were unwilling to die as mere Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Thus, they used Demon Beast Cores to fashion a core within their bodies, achieving a "False Core."
Such cultivators possessed some Golden Core abilities, but these were ultimately not attained through their own strength.
Their combat strength was roughly half that of an early-stage Golden Core cultivator.
Their lifespan and cultivation realm also stopped there for good, unable to increase any further.
It could be said that once a cultivator reached the False Core Realm, his Dao Path had reached its end.
Yet when it truly came to that, quite a few cultivators made this choice.
After all, in a place like the Chu Kingdom, gathering the precious medicines needed to attain a Golden Core was far, far too difficult.
The False Core Realm already placed one above tens of thousands.
At this moment, however, everyone was astonished.
Could this Song Yan actually face