Ling Qingxue and Song Wei were both sensible people, and Li Yifu was even more obedient to Xia Ruofei. Therefore, after hearing Xia Ruofei's words, they all nodded seriously.
Song Wei said, "Ruofei, you must be careful when you cultivate alone!"
They had been with Xia Ruofei for so long, but they rarely saw Xia Ruofei in closed-door cultivation. Moreover, this time, everyone knew that Xia Ruofei was about to break through to the Gold Core Stage, so they had already guessed the purpose of Xia Ruofei's closed-door cultivation, but they didn't say it out loud.
Xia Ruofei nodded to everyone, and then his figure flashed and disappeared into the night.
Li Yifu went over to Zheng Yongshou, who was waiting beside the plane, and said a few words. Then, he respectfully took Song Wei and Ling Qingxue and left the tarmac by car.
Xia Ruofei flew all the way and soon arrived at the cement house near the cliff on the west side of the island.
This was the core of the entire formation, and also the most heavily guarded place on the island. However, Xia Ruofei had already known about the Taixu Mystical Clear Formation, so he naturally came here with ease.
He first went to the core formation plate and used his mental strength to mobilize the formation, forming layers of protection around it. Then, he sat down cross-legged beside the core formation plate.
Xia Ruofei's heart stirred, and he summoned the Spiritual Map Scroll from his palm.
Under the heavy protection of the Taixu Mystical Clear Formation, this place was naturally very safe. Even if a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator could break into the island, it would take a lot of effort to break through the encirclement and reach the core formation plate. For ordinary people, it was impossible to even use advanced equipment to spy, let alone get close. All they could see was a cloud of fog.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei was very relieved to take out the Spiritual Map Scroll in this place.
Then, Xia Ruofei quickly took out pieces of formation talismans from the Spiritual Map Scroll that he had already taken out. He placed the Spiritual Map Scroll in a hidden corner of the house, and then began to skillfully set up a protective formation around the place where the Spiritual Map Scroll was hidden.
These formation talismans were all made by Xia Ruofei when he was free. They were almost all of his assets.
In this way, there were layers of protection from the Taixu Mystical Clear Formation outside, and many formations around the Spiritual Map Scroll. It could be said that it was impregnable.
After arranging everything, Xia Ruofei felt at ease and entered the space.
He chose to break through in the Ring-Tu space after careful consideration.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the Ring-Tu space was much denser than in the outside world. At such a critical moment like breaking through to the Aurous Core Stage, the denser the spiritual energy, the better. After all, he did not have any experience. He could only read about the experiences of his seniors in various cultivation books. He did not know how much spiritual energy he would need to consume in the process of breaking through, so it was safer to break through in the space.
In addition, Xia Ruofei also clearly felt that when he cultivated in the Ring-Tu space, not only was the spiritual energy denser, it seemed that his cultivation state, including his comprehension, was obviously better than the outside world. Perhaps this was one of the magical effects of the Ring-Tu space. It was a little benefit left behind by the creator of the Ring-Tu space, Zhenren Shan He.
During normal cultivation, this kind of difference was nothing. At the critical juncture of breaking through to a major realm, Xia Ruofei was not willing to let go of any advantage.
In addition, using the Ring-Tu space's environment to break through was also very important. After a period of accumulation, the spiritual energy in the outside world had already become denser. Therefore, he did not need to worry too much about the consumption of spiritual energy during the process of breaking through. In addition to absorbing energy from the chaotic space, the Ring-Tu space could also absorb spiritual energy from the outside world to replenish and purify it. Using the Ring-Tu space to break through here basically did not require him to worry about the excessive consumption of spiritual energy, which would damage the foundation of the space.
Xia Ruofei directly entered the Ring-Tu space's Archean Realm. Furthermore, he directly sent a telepathic message to Xia Qing, telling him not to come over to greet him and not to enter the Archean Realm without his summons. He needed an environment where he would not be disturbed.
Xia Qing had originally prepared to come over to greet his master when he sensed Xia Ruofei enter the space. After receiving Xia Ruofei's telepathic message, he hurriedly replied respectfully, "Yes! Master! "
Only then did Xia Ruofei cross the jade bridge beside the pool and arrive at the small island in the center of the pool.
He sat down cross-legged in the small square in front of the Exquisite Pagoda. He first meditated to adjust his state of mind, allowing his emotions to completely calm down.
Xia Ruofei did not set up any time array flags because the breakthrough was close at hand. It could be completed with a thought. It did not need too much time at all. Furthermore, the Archean Realm had a thirty times faster flow of time. It was enough to save time.
Very soon, Xia Ruofei threw away all distracting thoughts and entered a state of emptiness.
There was no sorrow or joy in his eyes as he naturally began to circulate the Great Dao Sutra. Rich spirit qi poured into his body, cleansing his meridians and dantian. After a while, the last bit of Quintessential Qi in his dantian had been converted into Essence Energy.
At that moment, Xia Ruofei felt his meridians tremble slightly. The Great Dao Sutra's circulation speed had clearly sped up. He felt an indescribable sense of comfort all over his body. From that moment onwards, the spirit qi absorbed into his body would directly produce Essence Energy after passing through his dantian. It would no longer produce Quintessential Qi.
In fact, from the moment he broke through the Qi Refinement realm bottleneck, Xia Ruofei had already cultivated the second level of the Great Dao Sutra. However, because the Quintessential Qi in his body had yet to completely transform into Essence Energy, the spirit qi he absorbed during cultivation was basically a mixture of Essence Energy and Quintessential Qi. As the ratio of Quintessential Qi increased, the proportion of Essence Energy in the mixture would also increase.
Today, he finally cultivated the first wisp of pure Essence Energy with the second level of the Great Dao Sutra for the first time.
Of course, cultivating Essence Energy was not Xia Ruofei's primary task today.
His main energy was placed inside his dantian. At this moment, a large amount of Essence Energy had gathered in his dantian. It was all transformed by Xia Ruofei's cultivation over the past few days.
Of course, because Essence Energy was many times purer than Quintessential Qi, the same dantian could naturally accommodate more Essence Energy. In contrast, Xia Ruofei's dantian now felt much emptier than when he was at the ninth level of the Qi Refinement realm.
The mental cultivation method of the second level of the Great Dao Sutra was still circulating, constantly replenishing Essence Energy for his dantian.
The most obvious sign of the early stage of the Gold Core realm was the formation of a vortex of Essence Energy in the dantian, which was the embryonic form of the Gold Core realm. As long as this vortex of Essence Energy was formed, it meant that the cultivator had reached the early stage of the Gold Core realm.
The Great Dao Sutra was a supreme cultivation method that pointed directly to the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. The second level corresponded to the Gold Core realm. Naturally, there was a section that described in detail how to form a vortex of Essence Energy.
Xia Ruofei had already learned and memorized it. The main task of his cultivation this time was to form this vortex of Essence Energy.
As for the mental cultivation method of the second level of the Great Dao Sutra, he only needed to spare a trace of energy to circulate it naturally.
According to the explanation of the cultivation method, Xia Ruofei used his mind to control the Essence Energy in his dantian and began to slowly rotate it in a clockwise direction.
At the beginning, Xia Ruofei felt that the resistance was very great. With such a huge amount of Essence Energy, moving it a little bit as a whole made his mental strength feel overwhelmed.
He had almost thoroughly studied the second level of the Great Dao Sutra. He knew very well that this was a normal phenomenon.
For example, in foreign strongman competitions, it was common to see strongmen pushing heavy trucks. At the beginning, it was also the most strenuous. Often, they would use all their strength, but the truck would only move a little. However, the further it went, the easier it would be because the truck itself had inertia.
Now, the situation in Xia Ruofei's dantian was a bit similar.
This was also because Xia Ruofei's mental strength cultivation had far exceeded his Essence Energy cultivation — when he was in the middle stage of the Qi Refining realm, his mental strength had already broken through to the Spirit Gathering realm, which was equivalent to the Gold Core realm. If it were an ordinary cultivator who cultivated to this stage, their mental strength would basically just barely break through to the Spirit Gathering realm. Some people even lagged behind a little. In this case, it was easy to imagine how difficult it was to drive such a huge amount of Essence Energy.
Therefore, it often took many years for ordinary cultivators to break through the bottleneck of the Qi Refining realm to officially enter the Gold Core realm. For example, Luo Qingfeng was like this. It was mainly from the Foundation Establishment realm to the Early Gold Core realm. Although there were no bottlenecks, there were still many difficulties to overcome. Many people were stuck in the mental strength aspect and needed to specially spend a lot of time to improve their mental strength cultivation.
Of course, when ordinary cultivators reached this stage, the quantity and quality of Essence Energy in their dantian were not as high as Xia Ruofei's. Therefore, it was relatively easier for them.
At this time, Xia Ruofei only felt a little strenuous. Under his full control, the Essence Energy in his dantian began to take heavy steps and slowly rotated in a clockwise direction in his dantian.
To form a Essence Energy vortex, simply rotating the Essence Energy was naturally not enough. In the process of rotation, it was necessary to consciously use the Essence Energy in some key positions to construct a structure similar to a formation. Only in this way, the Essence Energy vortex that was finally formed could be stable and continuously absorb Essence Energy to gradually evolve into a real Gold Core.
Different techniques naturally had different methods of constructing the Essence Energy vortex, so the Essence Energy vortex that was finally formed was also different. In addition, the quality of the Essence Energy vortex also had a lot to do with the quality of the Essence Energy itself.
Therefore, the Gold Core was divided into nine grades. Whether it was the upper three grades, the middle three grades, or the lower three grades, in fact, when the Essence Energy vortex was formed, it had already determined the grade of the Gold Core.
The reason why Xia Ruofei attached so much importance to this breakthrough and took every step steadily and used the external conditions to the extreme was so that the Essence Energy vortex that was finally formed could be of a higher grade. This was a key step that determined his future cultivation path.
The Essence Energy in his dantian slowly rotated. Xia Ruofei paid full attention to the situation of the Essence Energy, not daring to be distracted at all.
While controlling the Essence Energy to accelerate the rotation, he also constantly used his mental strength to weave a mysterious pattern and integrate it into the Essence Energy — this was the skeleton of the Essence Energy vortex.
Only when the skeleton was stable would the Essence Energy vortex formed in the end be stable.
Of course, Xia Ruofei had absolute confidence in the "Great Dao Technique". He knew that as long as he meticulously completed the construction of the Essence Energy vortex according to the requirements of the technique, the Essence Energy vortex that was finally formed should not be of a low grade.
The Primordial Qi rotated faster and faster. After this inertia, Xia Ruofei no longer needed to use all his strength to drive it. On the contrary, he even began to control the rotational speed slightly. This was because he had entered a critical stage when he was building the 'skeleton'.
At this time, Xia Ruofei's mind was completely devoid of any distracting thoughts. All he could think of was the part of the second layer of the 'Dao Technique' that described how to construct a Primordial Qi vortex. He used his Spiritual Energy to construct runes one after another without any delay and wrapped his Primordial Qi around them to form a mysterious net-like structure.
This rune network also became more and more complete with the Essence Energy, almost covering the entire inner wall of the dantian.
When the last rune was integrated into the network and closely combined with the Essence Energy, Xia Ruofei finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had successfully completed the part of the entire process that was most prone to problems.
The following work would be much easier.
He began to push the yuan qi with all his heart and soul to accelerate its rotation. As the yuan qi rotated faster and faster, the yuan qi in his dantian seemed to have a hint of berserk aura. However, with the restriction of this rune network, all the berserk aura was suppressed. No matter how strong the centrifugal force was, it did not leak out at all.
The Essence Energy rotated like the flywheel of a giant electric motor. It was extremely heavy at first, but once the inertia began to take effect, the speed was so fast that it was terrifying.
As the Essence Energy rotated to the extreme, Xia Ruofei suddenly felt that the Essence Energy that was originally under the effect of the centrifugal force seemed to be about to dissipate at any time. But now, it suddenly changed. It suddenly collapsed inward, and a huge suction force followed.
This was like riding on a pirate ship. After reaching the highest point, it suddenly began to fall. The instantaneous transition from overweight to weightlessness made one's heart feel as if it was about to fly out of one's chest.
This feeling was very similar, and it made Xia Ruofei feel uncomfortable.
Of course, he did not have time to think too much. When the Essence Energy vortex produced a suction force, he suddenly felt a void in his dantian …
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