At this moment, everyone present had their eyes fixed on Li Yuande alone.
Facing those burning gazes, Li Yuande remained as calm as drifting clouds and a gentle breeze.
His breath was long and even, spiritual essence brimmed within him, and a mild smile rested on his face. He did not look in the least like a man about to die.
The hour had come. Li Yuande turned his head slightly and looked toward the third-tier viewing platform.
"Children, watch today's demonstration carefully."
He murmured softly, seemingly speaking to all the young cultivators in the venue.
But Zi He and Li Qingwan both knew that their ancestor was giving the two of them his final instructions.
Afterward, Li Yuande began circulating his cultivation art, gathering all the spiritual power in his body into his qi mansion as he began tempering true essence!
He dispelled every concealment art upon himself. It was as though he stood naked before the observing cultivators, every change within his body laid bare for them to see.
"That true essence is about to explode!"
Only a few breaths after he began, everyone saw that the first strand of true essence Li Yuande had condensed was about to explode due to an error in the tempering process!
If unformed true essence exploded within the qi mansion, it would damage the very foundation of cultivating the Dao. Once that happened, this attempt at Core Formation would be declared a failure.
At the sight, the young cultivators could not help but break into a cold sweat for Li Yuande.
Yet Yang Lingrui could sense that Zi He and Li Qingwan, the Li Family's younger generation, remained utterly calm, their emotions without the slightest ripple.
No one knew better than those two what kind of peerless genius their ancestor was.