Golden Liquid of the Flowery Pool filled the Flying Spirit Coffin; Three Flowers Gather at the Crown to form the True Embryo.
What was a Golden Immortal? One who turned the insubstantial into the real and refined the false into the true. Their Magic Power flowed like golden liquid; so long as their soul endured, their Dao would endure forever.
It sounded exceedingly difficult. In truth, it was anything but simple.
Cultivating Essence, Qi, and Spirit together was enough to stop the heroes of the world in their tracks—like adding ink and color to a finished painting, a task far harder than laying out fresh paper and painting anew.
Take Daoist Jietian. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, he had already condensed the Flower of the Spirit Dao and become a Half-step Golden Immortal.
Yet the road ahead was boundless, and any further progress seemed to offer nothing but eternal despair.
Some might ask: if breakthroughs became so difficult at higher realms, why not advance along all three paths from the start?
Unfortunately, though the approach seemed workable, every step bristled with thorns and unforeseeable dangers.
Even attaining immortality through a single path was an uphill struggle for ordinary cultivators. Advancing along two paths at once was more than twice as hard.
Even if they succeeded by luck, without sufficient cultivation to control both paths, their techniques could clash and send them into Qi Deviation.
And with every step thereafter, the Heavenly Tribulations they faced would swell again and again.
Through the ages, how many Peerless Heavenly Talents had fallen to those tribulations? The thought was enough to make one sigh and wring one's hands.
Clearly, cultivating all three paths was far harder than ordinary cultivation.
As a Golden Immortal, Pure Bliss Old Ancestor knew this well. One glance told