142: Breakthrough! Fourth level of Dan Condensation!

As Jiang Lan silently recited in his heart, the text on the light screen before him began to scroll rapidly.

“Year 1: Your Realm has reached the Peak of Mortal Shedding, just one step away from Core Formation. You begin to fully attempt to Breakthrough.”

“Year 3: After three years of accumulation, you successfully achieved Core Formation. Congratulations, your Martial Dao Realm has successfully broken through to Core Formation First Level!”

As the light screen scrolled, Jiang Lan's Aura rapidly ascended at an incredibly absurd speed.

Jiang Lan could feel that the viscous True Qi throughout his body was now gathering towards his Dantian.

After converging in the Dantian, the True Qi became even more viscous, gradually coalescing.

As it coalesced, a vast amount of True Qi continuously rotated.

With each rotation, the True Qi would become more solidified, as if it were about to turn into a solid.

Who knows how long passed, perhaps a very long time, or perhaps just an instant, but the True Qi from all of Jiang Lan's major acupoints was completely drained, gathering entirely within his Dantian.

A golden inner core formed, nestled in the center of Jiang Lan's Dantian, rotating on its own and emitting waves of strange fluctuations.

At the same time, Jiang Lan felt his muscles and bones being refined bit by bit by these strange fluctuations.

Breaking, reorganizing, breaking again, reorganizing again.

Logically speaking, this process should have been very painful, but in reality, Jiang Lan felt no pain at all; he even experienced a strange sense of comfort.

Simultaneously, under these strange fluctuations, he also felt that his physical fitness, strength, and five senses were all rapidly improving.

To say he underwent a complete transformation would not be an exaggeration.

Jiang Lan was immersed in the feeling of Breakthrough, and on the virtual panel before him, the text continued to scroll.

“Year 952: Through your unremitting efforts, you broke through another Realm. Your Martial Dao Realm has advanced to Core Formation Second Level.”

“Year 2024: You Cultivated day and night, and your Martial Dao Realm broke through to Core Formation Third Level.”

“Year 3203: Your Realm successfully advanced to Core Formation Fourth Level.”

“Year 3452: Although you Cultivated diligently, your Cultivation time was ultimately still short. You were unable to continue advancing, and your Martial Dao Realm remained at Core Formation Fourth Level.”

Jiang Lan opened his eyes, and two golden rays shot out from them.

A terrifying fluctuation emanated from his body.

If he hadn't deliberately controlled it, the commotion he created would probably have collapsed the entire Inn.

“Whew...”

As a breath slowly exhaled from Jiang Lan's mouth, the Aura around him also completely receded.

It was different.

Completely different.

If, before, in the Mortal Shedding Realm, his body was still within the scope of a Mortal, then now, the situation was completely different.

Although no one had taught him, after Core Formation, the True Qi residing in his body could now be actively released by him.

In fact, the moment the Golden Core formed in his Dantian, many things appeared in Jiang Lan's mind.

Among these was the method for using the inner core.

It was as if he was born with this knowledge; he couldn't forget it even if he wanted to.

Not only could he release True Qi externally to fight enemies.

He could also achieve aerial flight through certain means.

Recalling this, Jiang Lan's eyes suddenly lit up.

Aerial flight!

Yao Banxian seemed to have mentioned it before, but he had mostly forgotten about it.

It was only after he entered Core Formation and gained memories about flying in his mind that he remembered it again.

For a moment, Jiang Lan felt a bit unreal.

He could... fly now?

Was it a bit too fast?

To be honest, the events that transpired today still made him feel somewhat unreal.

Originally, he had only planned to come to the city to try his luck, but he didn't expect to not only obtain a Cultivation Technique but also have his Realm directly break through several levels, reaching Core Formation Fourth Level.

Before this, he had broken through Realms consecutively quite a few times.

However, the Core Formation Realm was different from all the previous Realms.

After Core Formation, Jiang Lan could clearly perceive that he had changed.

It wasn't his personality that changed, but his level of life.

The current him and the him who had just Transmigrated were simply not the same species.

At this moment, Jiang Lan was no different from the immortals he directly understood.

Flying without external aids, releasing True Qi externally to fight enemies—wasn't this what the Cultivators in the novels he read in his previous life did?

Jiang Lan felt his mind was still a bit muddled.

No, I need to go out and try it!

He sat up directly, pushed open the wooden window of his room, and transformed into a streak of light, flying directly out of the Inn.

Without even practicing, Jiang Lan's aerial flight skills seemed to have been ingrained in him for years; the entire process was without a single pause as he flew straight out of the city.

Above the boundless desert, Jiang Lan's figure hovered in mid-air.

Looking down at his body, his eyes burst with a look of surprise.

This speed... This place was twenty li away from the Inn in the city.

And it only took him less than half a cup of tea to get from the Inn to this place.

That is to say, his flying speed was more than double his previous travel speed.

Converted, it was roughly two hundred thirty to forty kilometers per hour.

At this speed, if he traveled continuously, it would be more than several thousand li per day.

Traveling ten thousand li a day was not a delusion.

Jiang Lan was astonished by his own strength.

Moreover, traveling on the ground also required considering the terrain and topography, making it impossible to always maintain full speed.

But now, he was flying in the air.

In the sky, there was naturally no need to consider so many factors.

As long as his True Qi wasn't depleted, he could maintain full speed all the time.

Given this, it probably wouldn't take many more days for him to reach the border between Ling Country and the demon kingdom.

However, before that, he had to fulfill the promise he made to Liu Wei earlier.

He couldn't just reap benefits without doing anything.

After all, the two had just formed a contract.

Furthermore, Liu Wei had also helped him a great deal.

As Jiang Lan pondered, several faint figures in the distance came into his view.

The figures were extremely far from him; even with Jiang Lan's eyesight, he could only make out a general outline.

Jiang Lan's eyes lit up again.

These few were not human.

The faint figures all had a pair of curved long horns on their heads, and their heads did not resemble those of humans.

At this moment, the distance between these figures and him was about twenty-odd li.

Jiang Lan's mind stirred, and the Golden Core in his Dantian spun rapidly. His entire being shot out like an arrow, swiftly rushing towards the figures.

In less than half a cup of tea, Jiang Lan approached the figures.

Now he could see clearly.

These were all Ram Demons.

They were a head taller than ordinary people, with sheep heads on their necks and curved horns on top of their heads.

Ram Demons?

Jiang Lan became somewhat interested.

There were four Ram Demons in total. Since he had just broken through, he would use these little sheep to test his blade.

Jiang Lan stood in mid-air and drew the long saber from his waist.

“Clang!”

With the long saber drawn, Jiang Lan remained motionless, simply holding the long saber level and directly swinging it down towards the Ram Demons below.