Champion Scholar's Mansion, Small Shrine
Zhang Jian made some arrangements and simultaneously brought in a large tripod to stand within the small shrine. A precious bundle of Soothing Incense was now emitting wisps of blue smoke, its soothing fragrance dispersing and making the distant figures feel as if their very souls were warmly sublimating.
Bai Xianyin watched this scene, and even she couldn't help but be surprised.
Soothing Incense is an extremely valuable resource for cultivators at the Yin Spirit Realm, yet it was placed so lavishly. No wonder Zhang Jian didn't need to return to the sect.
Even if one returned to the sect, it couldn't be so extravagant.
Zhang Jian glanced around, seeing the several Forbidden Techniques he set up begin to take effect. He immediately sat cross-legged on the mat in front of the small shrine, continuously circulating magical power to adjust his state.
When he felt his internal energies were fully harmonious with no further progress possible, Zhang Jian brought forth the Sheji Dao Map, following the steps to induce this Golden Core Level technique to ascend to the Yin Spirit Level.
This is the most orthodox breakthrough method of Pill Break Divinity Transformation.
Leveraging the power of technique transformation to induce his soul's transformation, then breaking through the esoteric threshold to advance to Yin Spirit.
In fact, there are other methods, such as using elixirs or directly employing a cultivation technique to leap past the bottleneck, directly facing the challenges of evil wind and yin fire to transform into a Yin Spirit.
However, advancing through technique, when one's soul is transforming, its origin gains some enhancement, making it preferable.
Zhang Jian did not deviate from tradition.
Behind him, within the Sheji Dao Map, as more and more mountains and rivers' essences filled in, countless Heaven and Earth Runes were updated, a new technique structure formed deep in his sea of consciousness, continuously absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanisms, with some parts integrating into the Golden Core and others into the soul.
Using this influx of spiritual mechanism as an opportunity, Zhang Jian pushed the Golden Core deep in his Dantian to transform into a Pill Qi that directly integrated into the depths of the soul.
This is Pill Break Divinity Transformation.
It's not directly smashing the Golden Core, but unifying one's life essence.
On the foundation of unifying essence, spirit, and soul, to further evolve.
To have the internal magical power merge with the soul imprint.
To completely fuse with the Three Souls and Seven Spirits within, rather than just with simple Divine Thought.
There is a significant difference between merging Divine Thought and merging with the soul!
Divine Thought is just the external manifestation of soul power!
The core Three Souls and Seven Spirits remain independent!
This stage can also be called the union of spirit and breath.
It's also breaking past the boundary of life and death.
Yin spirits can perform soul takeover and reincarnation because their magical power is completely merged with their soul, possessing a bit of resistance against life and death, and the ravages of time.
Behold, the Golden Core, condensed by the Treasure Record Secret Technique, refined into a pure golden spiritual light, merged into the depths of the soul.
As the Golden Core approached the soul, boundless magical power fully merged into the soul's depths, Zhang Jian, following the "Tongshan Pure Treasure Record" secreturel through, combined the two, like the ethereal Azure Dragon and Tiger, continuously rotating, fusing.
Typically, this step would bring boundless heart demon illusions, because some Golden Core cultivators have impure golden cores. When merged into the soul's depths, it births illusions, even attracting the covetousness of Outer Realm Heart Demons.
One must also allocate a portion of one's mind, running visualization secret techniques, to grind, refine, slowly fuse, and transform them.
Yet at this moment, Vast Flame surged around Zhang Jian, with the Celestial Purity Fire acting as a bridge. Visibly, the already vast and substantial soul slowly emitted a layer of light, condensing into form.
Zhang Jian had long noticed that his soul was extraordinarily strong, with a clear brilliance inside resembling a diamond. Now, operating the Treasure Record Technique, it transformed from a chaos into a human form, lightly leaping towards the void, akin to leaping out of a chaotic shell in an instant.
In the small shrine, as a clear spiritual light appeared from behind Zhang Jian's head, Bai Xianyin instantly saw a hazy figure emerge from the light.
"Yin Spirit!"
Seeing this, Bai Xianyin's eyes brightened.
Yet when her gaze fell upon this Yin Spirit, Bai Xianyin's small face looked somewhat dazed.
For inside this hazy figure, there exuded an intense spiritual light, causing this hazy Yin Spirit to gradually transform from virtual to real, as if it were a flesh body.
"Yin Spirit materialization..."
Bai Xianyin widened her eyes; it was as if a legend was playing out before her eyes.
Breaking into Yin Spirit and directly materializing is an anomaly said to only occur with lives of exceptional soul strength.
Moreover, Zhang Jian's body was adorned with many unique, ancient-looking patterns. Upon closer inspection, they resembled multiple star rivers surrounding him.
Bai Xianyin glanced, her small face nearly losing its smile as she looked at Zhang Jian as if he were a monster.
Most of those ancient patterns were techniques, containing Golden Core techniques embodying the Heaven and Earth Law.
Among other strange objects was a small bronze tripod and a small sword.
These were two solid artifacts.
Equally eye-catching was a nine-colored small diagram full of grandeur, a black talisman, and a green-purple intertwined talisman, slightly more powerful; other scattered pieces resembled a star river, mesmerizing the eyes.
Within they varied in strength!
"No wonder the young master isn't at all worried about the evil wind, yin fire..."
Bai Xianyin's small face at this moment looked peculiarly odd, even as worldly as she was, she had never seen such an exaggerated Golden Core cultivator.
To have comprehended so many techniques.
With such formidable foundation, the upcoming Evil Wind Tribulation and Yin Fire Tribulation would not be worries at all.
The Evil Wind Tribulation and Yin Fire Tribulation are inevitable trials for any cultivator's first Yin Spirit emergence.
And every time the Yin Spirit emerges, one must face the hindrances of evil wind and yin fire; these two calamities are rumored to originate from the Nine Netherworld.