"Oh~"

  He was back!

  Entering the game world once again, a hint of nostalgia flickered across Li Wei's face. It had only been an hour since his st visit, yet he felt a sense of timelessness, as if ages had passed.

  And this time, it was pletely different from before.

  Previously, he was a formless bck mist, only able to perceive himself as such. But now... he had a physical body!

  He finally experiehe fresh air of this world, the spiritual energy many times more abundant than oh, and the real, tangible people.

  Even... the giant in front of him.

  This fellow was two meters tall, built like a bull, the king sound of his dark red armor rubbing together crisp and clear. Seemingly with nothing to do, he was strolling around, pig his nose as he went!

  He reized this kid, Li Yundou, the idiot who spoke without thinking.

  Just as he was about to throunch, Li Wei froze.

  Li Yundou's body passed right through his own.

  "Uo be targeted, uo attack. Li Yundou is at the Foundatioablishment stage; even at his weakest, he should be able to sehe presence of ghosts and spirits. This means I'm not even sidered a true spirit. I o within a specifige in this world and absorb spiritual energy for my breakthrough, right?"

  Li Wei suddenly uood. No wonder entering the world to fight for five minutes costs so muse value.

  While merely existing in this world for a year only costs 1,000.

  Furthermore, Li Wei looked into the distance. Within a ten-thousaer radius around the aral hall, a boundary had formed. He sehat he couldn't step outside this circle.

  "There's a reason why it's cheaper."

  Li Wei didn't mind.

  He exhaled deeply and simply walked to the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree to meditate. This further firmed his guess. Previously, when he desded as a misty figure, the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree had been the most excited. This thing inally had some kind of tract with his spirit tablet, but now it showed ion at all.

  "One year in this world is only an hour outside. This skill is already heaven-defying; there's o dwell on it."

  Li Wei didn't overthink it any further.

  In an instant, he closed his eyes and began his breakthrough.

  ...

  Breaking through from Qi Refio Foundatioablishment was the easiest step.

  As long as one's spiritual roots reach 60 points or above, they aodate enough spiritual energy from heaven ah to forcefully open the body's acupoints, transform the dantian into a sea of Qi, and obtain the Core Fme. This also initiated the process of sing impurities from the body, bringing about a transformation in aptitude and even discarding weak or unnecessary spiritual roots.

  The reason why the previous members of the Li family, despite their ordinary aptitudes, were able to break through to Foundatioablishment oer another was because they had ed Li Wei's "Heaven's Secret Replenishing Pill." That thing was basically ary ticket to the Foundatioablishment.

  Otherwise, it wouldn't be hailed as a divine medie in the real world.

  The reason why breakthroughs took a long time was that cultivators o accumute suffit spiritual energy within their spiritual roots to reach the optimal state for the breakthrough. The process was plex and often required repeated dedus and calcutions.

  The realms beyond were like crossing a heavenly chasm!

  From the early Foundatioablishment to the peak of Foundatioablishment, it rocess of densing the sea of Qi within the dantian into a Golden Core. At the same time, one's spiritual power would bee denser and more potent.

  After f the core, it was tempered with the Core Fme. This tempering period was known as the False Core Formation stage.

  The Golden Cores fed during this stage also varied in strength.

  The process involved inscribing one's own teiques or martial skills onto the Golden Core. The more plete the inscription and the more powerful the teique, the higher the quality of the resulting Golden Core. They were cssified intrades: Heaveh, and Human. These grades determihe Golden Core's capacity to store spiritual power, the speed of abs spiritual energy from heaven ah, the speed of casting teiques, and other innate qualities.

  The strohe Core Fme formed from one's spiritual roots, the easier it was to temper the Golden Core.

  Li Wei had also heard that if one had insights into the ws of heaven ah during the tempering process, the Golden Core could even surpass the three grades and rea even higher level!

  For instance, Elder Qiuli's Golden Core was of the Earth grade, which was why he could effortlessly fight against three olden Core cultivators simultaneously.

  At this moment, Li Wei was tempering his False Core!

  Within his dantian, fmes roared, and the Yin-Yang Diagram served as his meditation mat.

  The Yin-Yang Diagram was his most powerful cultivation teique, far surpassing the Phantom Shadow Steps. It was this teique that he inteo inscribe onto his False Core.

  Li Wei's ambition was not small. He was still young. If he couldn't inscribe the Yin-Yang Diagram teique before his life ehen he might as well spend a year inscribing a useless teique and give up on any further progress.

  Either be the head of the dragon or the tail of a turtle—that was his philosophy in life.

  Otherwise, he would have already broken through to the Golden Core stage.

  ...

  As Li Wei tempered his core, the spiritual energy from heaven ah, drawn by the Yin-Yang Diagram, gathered around the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree, resonating with his Golden Core breakthrough.

  In just one year, the spiritual energy grew increasingly abundant.

  This phenomenon couldn't escape the notice of the Li family. Eleven-year-old Li Tianyi, carrying his Sixth Uncle's newborn child, ran to where Li Yunbing was handling family affairs, his face beaming with joy. "Sed Uncle, our aor has maed his divine power!"

  "What?!"

  Li Yunbing was overjoyed. He had always sulted the aor whenever he faced a difficult decision, but the aor hadn't respoo him for a whole year. "Quickly, take me there!"

  Soon, Li Yunbing followed Li Tianyi to the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree.

  The tree's branches reached towards the sky. The Li family members, who were supposed to be in secluded cultivation, had already emerged and gathered together, their eyes filled with wonder as they gazed at the sight before them.

  Because the spiritual energy surrounding the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree, shimmering with fluorest light, had practically materialized!

  They remembered the Yin-Yang Diagram that their aor had used before, its aura filled with paradox, extreme Yin on the left areme Yang on the right, f a world of its own.

  And now, the five elemental energies of heaven ah verged. For those with keen eyesight, five pilrs of light representing the five elements could be seen f a pentagram that enveloped the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree. The interpy of creation aru between the five elemental energies grew increasingly apparent.

  All the members of the Li family could se.

  Cultivating here would yield twice the results with half the effort!

  "I uand now!"

  Li Dalo out a cry of surprise, startling everyone. He grabbed Li Yunbing's shoulders with excitement. "Yunbing, you came to me a few months ago, saying you couldn't tact our aor, didn't you?"

  "Yes, it's been a year."

  Li Yunbing nodded, stunned.

  "Our aor is right here!"

  Li Dalong stared at the sky above the pilrs of light, his eyes reddening. "I uand now. That must be the legendary Immortal Realm. Our aor is an immortal! Last time, he used a wisp of his divine soul to desd, so he couldn't stay for long."

  "He saw that we couldn't defeat the Su family with our own strength, and we had no Golden Core cultivators. So, he specifically found a way to ect with us from the Immortal Realm and transmit his uanding of the five elements to aid our cultivation!"

  "That's why we couldn't sense his presen the aral hall."

  Upon hearing this, the Li family members fell silent.

  Their eyes reddened with emotion. So that was it! No wohe Li family was experieng such extraordinary phenomena. With this expnation, everything made sense.

  "Aor!"

  "Your unworthy desdants have caused you . We will surely live up to your expectations and cultivate diligently!"

  In an instant, led by Li Dalong, the Li family members took out their spirit tablets and sat down to cultivate, fag the dires corresponding to their respective spiritual roots.