Lii Xiaolan's eyes revealed a clear longing and expectation.

"Normal cultivators, before entering the Initial Tier Earth Immortal Realm, rely on Five Elements Spiritual Objects to condense five types of spiritual veins. By the time they reach the Ninth-Layer Perfection, all Five Elements Spirit Veins are already nurtured. Then, through the stimulation of an Immortal Ascension Treasure Pill, cultivation in an Immortal Yuan Cave Mansion, and finally undergoing the refining of the Earth Immortal Celestial Tribulation, they integrate the Five Elements Spirit Veins into an almost indestructible Earth Immortal Golden Core!

"With this Earth Immortal Golden Core, cultivators who newly enter the Earth Immortal Realm can naturally use the Earth Immortal Immortal Essence transformed from the Golden Core to refine their immortal body. Thus, they become like a Divine Dragon, able to transform freely with immense power, and their lifespan ceiling can be raised to at least eight thousand years!

"Furthermore, Initial Tier Earth Immortals can integrate their Divine Soul into the Golden Core, achieving a unity of body and soul. From then on, as long as the Golden Core is intact, Earth Immortals are almost impossible to kill through external attacks!

"In addition, because the unity of the Five Elements facilitates limitless transformations, even Initial Tier Earth Immortals can cultivate various Immortal Techniques. For example, the Thunder Technique you cultivated—normally, cultivators without a Thunder Attribute bloodline cannot cultivate it. However, Earth Immortal powerhouses, with their potent Five Elements Golden Core, can easily cultivate various Thunder Techniques and possess abilities like summoning wind and rain, and commanding the earth to turn into steel!

"This is the fundamental difference between immortals and mortals, and also the fundamental reason why immortals can wield various Immortal Techniques!

"However, for Earth Immortal Realm cultivators, because the Earth Immortal Golden Core is transformed from Five Elements Spiritual Objects, even when cultivated to high grades, they are ultimately still bound within the Five Elements. They can only cultivate various Five Elements Immortal Techniques. True Celestial Immortal or Celestial Demon Techniques, such as those found on Celestial Demon Bones, cannot be cultivated directly; they can only be used by integrating and nurturing Celestial Demon Bones!

"After all, those Celestial Demon Techniques from Celestial Demon Bones have already transcended the scope of the Five Elements. For example, the Incarnation Technique mastered by Celestial Sect Leader Hua, or the Time Technique possessed by Cao Yu—these are all more powerful and mystical Celestial Immortal and Celestial Demon Techniques!

"Furthermore, each time an Earth Immortal Realm cultivator's immortal body and Golden Core can undergo Metamorphosis for advancement, they must face extremely dangerous celestial tribulations! It can be said that most Earth Immortals in the Central Divine Dynasty did not die from the exhaustion of their lifespan, nor from conflicts. As long as the Golden Core remains intact, Earth Immortals are almost impossible to kill. In reality, most of them died under the celestial tribulations encountered during realm breakthroughs!"

Lin Xuankong frowned and said, "What does all this have to do with the Sixth Celestial Vein?"

Lii Xiaolan glared at him. "Why the rush? Just listen to me patiently. Is there something urgent?"

I'm rushing to use the Fierce Tiger Roar Bone Technique on you! Lin Xuankong secretly complained in his heart but remained quiet.

Seeing him quiet down, Lii Xiaolan shook her little head, then gave a somewhat smug laugh before continuing:

"However, things in this world always have exceptions! The Sixth Celestial Vein Spiritual Object is precisely such an exception! Through a Sixth Celestial Vein Spiritual Object, Transcendence Realm cultivators can condense the Sixth Celestial Vein, successfully advancing to the Tenth Layer of Transcendence! After consuming an Immortal Ascension Treasure Pill, refining the immortal body, and forming the Golden Core, they can possess a miraculous Six Paths Golden Core. Thus, they can roam freely between heaven and earth, beyond the Five Elements, possessing a Golden Core and immortal body superior to Earth Immortal Realm cultivators of the same realm!

"Most importantly, because they condense the miraculous Six Paths Golden Core, their success rate of resisting celestial tribulations during each realm advancement will be several times higher than that of ordinary Earth Immortals!

"Master Qu Wan'Er said that it has been nearly two hundred thousand years since a true Celestial Immortal has appeared in the Central Divine Dynasty, the Profound Yin Demon Sect, and Spirit Platform Buddhism. That is why for two hundred thousand years, the Celestial Gate has remained unopened, and the Celestial Road has remained hidden, leading some Earth Immortal cultivators to heavily doubt whether anyone in this world can still cultivate to the Celestial Immortal Realm! If not for the discovery of Celestial Demon Bones by Earth Immortal cultivators one hundred thousand years ago, the Celestial Demon Techniques might have long vanished from this world!"

Upon hearing Lii Xiaolan say this, Lin Xuankong and Xiaoo Ying'Er both showed expressions of amazement. The concepts of a Six Paths Golden Core, resisting celestial tribulations, and a Celestial Immortal Realm unseen for two hundred thousand years... they would hardly believe such things if these words hadn't been spoken by Xiaoo Ying'Er, as this information was indeed too shocking!

But soon, a trace of doubt appeared in Lin Xuankong's eyes. "Such a precious Sixth Celestial Vein Spiritual Object, why don't the Earth Immortals in major Immortal Sects like the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect use it themselves, or let their disciples use it? Instead, they widely recruit new disciples? Don't they covet such a rare chance to become Celestial Immortals themselves?"

Lii Xiaolan rolled her eyes at him. "The Sixth Celestial Vein Spiritual Object is extremely rare. It's said that the Sixth Celestial Vein Spiritual Object discovered this time in Boundaryless Mountain was not only occupied by a Ninth-Grade Demon King, but the Profound Yin Demon Sect, Spirit Platform Buddhism, and various other Immortal Sects also sent people to contend for it. Only a few sects managed to seize a portion!

"Aside from those three top sects, medium-sized Immortal Sects like the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, for their part, actually gave some of the spiritual objects they acquired to other sects. For example, the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect handed over some to Spirit Platform Buddhism; it's said that a Little Bodhisattva named Galin Bodhisattva came with Buddhist Spiritual Treasures to collect the spiritual objects!

"The Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect couldn't entirely monopolize the remaining spiritual objects they held. After leaving only seventeen for their own use, other sects joined forces to threaten them regarding the rest. They were forced to open their gates wide and allow Ninth Layer disciples from various Immortal Sects to compete for them. The strongest among these competitors could then possess one of the twenty-one spiritual objects!

"This disciple recruitment ceremony of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, while sounding grand on the surface, is different in reality. During the actual competition, many participants are disciples from various other Immortal Sects! Those cultivators who are top-ranked now will find it hard to remain in the top ranks when the real disciple selection ceremony begins. Except for the top three, who indeed have significant advantages, most will be defeated by disciples from other Immortal Sects. After all, those disciples each possess exceptional talent and have various magical artifacts, Exotic Beasts, and even Immortal Artifacts bestowed by their sects!

"As for why Earth Immortal powerhouses don't use it themselves? Earth Immortals have already condensed their Golden Cores; how could they have the chance to condense one anew! Unless an Earth Immortal is willing to abandon thousands or even tens of thousands of years of hard cultivation—forcibly separating their Divine Soul, shattering their Golden Core, and dispersing all their Immortal Yuan—only then can they drop to the Ninth Layer of Transcendence and regain the opportunity to condense a new Golden Core!

"But cultivation is so arduous. Among those Earth Immortals from the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, when advancing from Initial Tier Earth Immortal to First-Grade Earth Immortal, half of them fell during their celestial tribulations, and the rest took at least three hundred years to reach First-Grade Earth Immortal. From First-Grade Earth Immortal to Second-Grade Earth Immortal, even more terrifying celestial tribulations occurred; two-thirds perished, and the rest took at least five hundred years to reach Second-Grade Earth Immortal! And for Second-Grade Earth Immortals attempting to reach Third-Grade, a full nine-tenths of them fell under celestial tribulations! The survivors spent a millennium to finally reach Third-Grade Earth Immortal!

"Along this path of cultivation, the number of Earth Immortals who have fallen far exceeds those who successfully advanced! How many Earth Immortals would be willing to abandon thousands, or even tens of thousands, of years of cultivation to start over from Ninth-Layer Perfection?

"Though the Six Paths Golden Core indeed increases the success rate of facing celestial tribulations by three or four times and enhances the power of Immortal Techniques and the immortal body by several folds, these advantages mainly manifest in the lower grades of Earth Immortals, like Initial Tier, First Grade, and Second Grade. At the middle grades, the success rate of Earth Immortal advancements is already less than one in a hundred. Even if this probability is increased severalfold, it would at most become one-twentieth or one-thirtieth—still extremely risky!

"Hence, apart from three Initial Tier Earth Immortals who each received one spiritual object and were willing to abandon their cultivation to start over, other Second- and Third-Grade Earth Immortals are indeed reluctant to give up their cultivation!

"Moreover, even if one obtains a Sixth Celestial Vein Spiritual Object, the chance of successfully condensing the Sixth Celestial Vein with just one is extremely low—it's said to be only one percent! With such a low probability, how many Earth Immortals would willingly abandon their current achievements to pursue that elusive Six Paths Golden Core!"

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