Chapter 35: Core Formation

High above the sprawling area, where the peak of the mountain pierced the rolling white clouds, the world was entirely silent. The air was incredibly thin, yet the ambient spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth was surplus here, so thick and untamed that it practically clung to the skin like morning dew.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged in a perfect lotus position upon a flat boulder near the very precipice of the summit.

His eyes were closed, his breathing slow, and incredibly profound. Typically, for an ordinary peak Foundation Establishment cultivator, crossing the threshold into the Core Formation realm was a step that required decades of preparation, and a hoard of pills. But for Lin Yuan, with his supreme talent thanks to his root bone, and his newly tempered physical vessel, this monumental breakthrough was but a single step.

Lin Yuan took a deep, deliberate breath.

Whoosh.