Chapter 832 - 280: Nine Elements Exiled Immortal Temple_5
Next comes the most critical moment of this idea.
Condensing Pill.
And it must transform the five types of spiritual power simultaneously from spiritual qi into the form of an inner core. During this process, there must not be any errors.
If any spiritual power becomes condensed faster or slower, the entire balance system will be instantly disrupted.
Shen Yuan separated a portion of the power of divine sense to maintain the current state of the five types of spiritual power inside the dantian, while the remaining substantial amount of divine sense seized every moment to slowly recover the previously consumed heart spirit and divine soul power.
He had to accomplish this in a full-strength state, otherwise, if he failed, he would surely die!
It’s unclear how much time has passed.
When he felt his state had thoroughly recovered to the peak, he initiated the act of condensing the pill!
The divine sense split into five, and the power of the heart spirit was also divided into five purposes.
Simultaneously manipulating the five types of spiritual power in the dantian, slowly compressing them in sync, eventually allowing them to transform from spiritual qi to inner core.
While the five types of spiritual power continuously rotated, their forms also simultaneously changed into the shape of inner cores.
Even at this point, Shen Yuan dared not relax.
He needed to continue compressing the five inner cores, ensuring they were completely stabilized, and wouldn’t collapse once his divine sense withdrew.
The extensive consumption of divine sense and heart spirit had made his consciousness blurred.
The severe headache from the Sea of Consciousness made it difficult to maintain focus.
Shen Yuan struggled against all discomforts, trying his best to maintain his previous caution.
But he still overlooked the difficulty of this final step.
For ordinary cultivators at the Great Perfection of Fetal Breathing when preparing to break through to the inner core, they don’t need to be this careful, just applying all power of divine sense and heart spirit to the dantian and slowly compressing the spiritual power until it congregates into an inner core.
Even so, the mere step of Core Formation is enough to exhaust a cultivator’s divine soul power at the Perfection of Fetal Breathing realm.
Thus, some cultivators hesitate to break through to the Golden Core, not merely due to external factors but primarily due to insufficient divine soul cultivation.
If they cannot ensure their divine soul power can instantly condense the spiritual qi in the dantian into a pill, they dare not attempt to break through.
Otherwise, the forces between expansion and contraction of spiritual power can lightly rupture their dantian or severely send their entire body exploding into oblivion.
With Shen Yuan’s current divine soul cultivation, if he only needs to condense one inner core, it would be more than sufficient.
However, condensing five simultaneously, the difficulty is more than merely five times greater.
After all, during the Condensing Pill process, he needs to constantly monitor the condensation speed of the five inner cores and their mutual generation and mutual inhibition influences.
His power of the divine soul had already been exhausted when the Five Elements Inner Core first formed, and he persisted entirely through sheer stubborn will.
Buzz!
A wave of dizziness swept through his head, Shen Yuan’s seated body swayed slightly.
The previously harmonious and stable scene in his dantian suddenly became restless in that moment.
The fire attribute inner core that glowed red and the dark water attribute inner core produced a strong repulsive force from slight turbulence.
Under the influence of this force, the positions of the two inner cores shifted, consequently affecting the nearby other inner cores.
Seeing this, Shen Yuan’s heart sank.
Immediately, he endured the headache that came from exhausting divine soul, forcibly stabilizing the imminent collapse with his feeble power of divine sense.
But the crisis had not been resolved.
The operation of the five inner cores was stabilized, yet he also found his divine sense couldn’t detach.
Not only because any slight loosening of divine sense would alter the form of the five yet-fully-formed inner cores.
Also because he suddenly discovered that when the five inner cores rotated, they seemed to lose their central control, unable to stabilize at any position in the dantian.
In this moment, Shen Yuan felt a surge of helplessness.
Failed...
This attempt was already considered a failure.
And the price of failure was also imaginable; once the five inner cores within the dantian lost control, the rampant force would directly shred the dantian, blast his body into pieces, and even destroy the entire Yunshui City.
He suddenly felt some regret, regretting choosing Black Water Pavilion for closed-door cultivation.
Regretting taking this risk to break through the Golden Core.
"Enough, after living nearly two hundred years, with descendants aplenty."
"With Wen’an and Chongming, the Shen Family should be able to carry on."
A hint of relief suddenly surfaced in Shen Yuan’s heart, then he began to slowly withdraw the exhausted power of the divine soul, no longer forcing himself.
Yet at the moment his divine sense slightly loosened, a large amount of fluorescence suddenly emitted from the White Jade Turtle Shell in the Sea of Consciousness!
In an instant, those not-so-intense fluorescences directly illuminated his entire Sea of Consciousness!
Not only that, Shen Yuan suddenly realized everything seemed to be frozen in an instant!
Breathing, thoughts, the operation of spiritual power within, including the five inner cores in the dantian, everything was frozen in a flash.
Before he could understand what had happened.
The red-and-white vortex on the surface of the White Jade Turtle Shell suddenly engulfed his divine soul and vanished!
Shen Yuan only felt the surrounding light and shadows changing, and when his vision was restored, he was shocked to discover that the White Jade Turtle Shell had taken his divine soul to a familiar place!
That dilapidated mysterious palace!
Initially, Qu Yunhe from the Huangsheng Sect schemed to steal half of the Shen Family’s luck, and in finding a way to retrieve the luck, Shen Yuan forcibly deduced the "borrowing luck" technique of the Huangsheng Sect, accidentally arriving at this peculiar palace.