117: Opening the Mysterious Palace, Condensing the Void Elixir

[One hundred and thirty-three years old. For the past decade or so, you have been searching for suitable targets and refining them into purple mansion pills.]

[Under the potent effect of the purple mansion pills, your cultivation soared steadily. Your purple mansion space expanded at an astonishing rate, growing from its initial thousand-mile radius to five thousand miles wide now.]

[Within this space, purple vital Qi coiled like mist. The indistinct silhouettes of mountains, rivers, and peaks became clearer. Whenever you introspected this space, you could feel the magnificent Dao charm contained within it.]

[In fact, as early as when the purple mansion space expanded to two thousand miles, you keenly sensed that the Three major Dantians began to resonate, showing signs of Fusion.]

[But you resolutely suppressed this tendency, knowing that the potential of your purple mansion space was far greater. Furthermore, according to the Azure Nether Sect's ancient texts, you learned that the larger the purple mansion space, the stronger the three-in-one profound mansion condensed later would be, yielding greater benefits.]

[One hundred and thirty-seven years old. You Cultivated the Profound Ascension Spiritual Art of Qingxuan to its limit. Your Spiritual Root reached the maximum level of a Top-Grade Spiritual Root. Afterward, as long as you can obtain the Mandate of Heaven, you will be able to advance to a heaven grade spiritual root.]

[One hundred and fifty-three years old. Under the effect of continuously consuming purple mansion pills, your purple mansion space quickly expanded to ten thousand miles in circumference.]

[You felt that this size had already reached a limit. To increase it further would require either enduring a long time or consuming an enormous quantity of purple mansion pills.]

[So, without hesitation, you had the Sky-Vessel hover over a deserted island. After setting up several Formations, you controlled the Three major Dantians to begin Fusion, centering on the Purple Mansion.]

[Finally, you successfully opened up the three-in-one profound mansion, a mysterious space that exists both inside and outside the Physical Body.]

[The three-in-one profound mansion is a vast space formed by the combination of the Three major Dantians. If you introspect, you will find a world-like phantom floating within this space, and within that world phantom exists a towering, giant human-shaped phantom.]

[The opening of the three-in-one profound mansion plunged you into an unprecedented state of Epiphany.]

[The Dao charm between Heaven and Earth, along with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi covering hundreds of thousands of miles, gathered toward you as if summoned.]

[As the Dao charm and Spiritual Qi poured in, the illusory world phantom within the three-in-one profound mansion expanded and solidified at a visible speed, eventually transforming into a vast world equal in scale to the purple mansion space, yet far more real.]

[With the complete Formation of the three-in-one profound mansion, your Physical Body strength significantly improved, your Dharma Power purity increased by more than three times, and your Divine Sense, following the enhancement of your Divine Soul, reached a range covering fifty thousand miles.]

[At this point, you were only two steps away from achieving the Golden Core: condensing the dao seed virtual core and experiencing an Epiphany regarding the Immortal Golden Nature.]

[In the following days, you did not travel abroad but returned to the Azure Nether Sect to begin refining the phantom using your personal insights combined with the three-in-one profound mansion.]

[One hundred and seventy-six years old. You introspected the Profound Mansion, and the world and the human-shaped phantom that originally existed within it all dissipated.]

[In their place was a crystalline Virtual Core. Within the Virtual Core seemed to be endless Dao charm, and countless Dao patternss circulated on its surface. Each pattern contained the ultimate truth of Heaven and Earth.]

[This was precisely the miraculous aspect of the three-in-one profound mansion: it refined and condensed all your perceptions of Heaven and Earth and your understanding of the Great Dao into this unique dao seed virtual core.]

[The Virtual Core is without substance or form, yet it encompasses everything, serving as the condensation of the Dao Cultivated by the Cultivator, and the prototype of the Golden Core!]

[After condensing the Virtual Core, you once again stepped out of the Qingming Mountain gate. This time, your targets were no longer those in the Purple Mansion Realm, but the Golden Core True Lords.]

[Over the years, your attainments in the Path of Alchemy deepened, and you were already capable of refining Medicinal Pills at the Golden Core level.]

[You had a faint premonition that if you could successfully refine the upgraded version of the purple mansion pill—the golden core great elixir!—perhaps you could use this Medicinal Pill to achieve Epiphany regarding the mysterious Immortal Golden Nature more quickly.]

[In the following days, you simultaneously tempered your Physical Body, pursuing the perfect Realm of the Leakless Body, and searched for suitable prey to prepare for refining the golden core great elixir.]

[One hundred and seventy-nine years old. Hard work pays off. After drifting on the Boundless Sea for three years, you finally found a Golden Core True Lord suitable for your purposes.]

[This Golden Core True Lord was named True Lord Mo Gu, and his actions were similar to those Purple Mansion Realm individuals you refined into Medicinal Pills.]

[Of course, there is still a gap between a Golden Core True Lord and a Purple Mansion True Person. Given his status as a Golden Core True Lord, his actions in the peripheral regions of the Archipelagos of Stars were not entirely unacceptable in the eyes of others, for this world is fundamentally one where the strong prey on the weak.]

[But you paid no mind to this. In your view, whether a Purple Mansion True Person or a Golden Core True Lord, as long as they met the conditions for Alchemy, they were merely an ingredient in the furnace.]

[The most important reason you targeted True Lord Mo Gu, of course, was that this True Lord had only recently advanced to the Golden Core stage—just a few tens of thousands of years ago—and possessed a fixed, secluded Immortal Cave for closed-door Cultivation.]

[After pinpointing the target, you silently set up your unique Golden Core-grade Formation, the "Heart Extremity Divine Lock Formation," around True Lord Mo Gu’s retreat Immortal Cave.]

[This set of Formations integrated your profound understanding of the Dao of Mind and the Dao of Karma. Using the Earth Veins as the foundation, Heart Power power as the guide, Karma as the lock, and combining the Power of Space, it could completely confine the target’s Divine Soul within their Physical Body inside the Formation.]

[In this way, you not only ensured that the Medicinal Pill’s efficacy reached its maximum during Alchemy but also completely cut off any possibility of the opponent resurrecting.]

[With all preparations complete, you employed the Daoist Magic Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations. Instantly, the Heavenly Secrets within a radius of three hundred thousand miles were completely obscured, as if this area had been forcibly severed from the world.]

[This range was just enough to envelop the core area of True Lord Mo Gu's retreat.]

[Then, you directly used Heart Power power to twist reality, pulling True Lord Mo Gu into the Space Domain created by your Heart Power power.]

[True Lord Mo Gu was in closed-door Cultivation when he suddenly felt the surrounding space violently shake. Before he could react, he was dragged into a strange space.]

[There were no sun, moon, or stars here; no mountains or rivers, only endless white light.]

[As for True Lord Mo Gu’s Purple Mansion Realm Disciples, you refined them easily while you were at it.]

["Extreme Spiritual Golden Demon Slash!"]

[True Lord Mo Gu did not panic about suddenly appearing in an unknown space. He quickly adjusted his state and immediately used a Divine Ability, intending to shatter this space.]

[Bright light shot out of True Lord Mo Gu’s eyes, and the Dharma Power around his body surged like a sea. In an instant, a Golden Light Demon Blade spanning Heaven and Earth suddenly took shape.]

[The Demon Blade was covered in circulating Profound Truth runes. With a thought from True Lord Mo Gu, the ten-thousand-mile-long Golden Light Demon Blade shot out, carrying the might to tear apart Heaven and Earth, slashing directly toward the edge of the space.]

[However, although this strange space constructed by your Heart Power power was limited to a hundred thousand miles in radius due to your Divine Soul strength, it possessed stability far beyond imagination.]

[The moment the world-destroying Golden Light Demon Blade touched the edge of the space, it rapidly melted away like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun, turning into scattered Spiritual Qi light spots filling the sky.]

[Ripples appeared on the spatial barrier, yet it remained completely unshaken, demonstrating astonishing defensive power.]