The milky white warm current transformed from the Purifying World Spirit Flame, like a spiritual snake possessing life, happily wandered and permeated through Xiao Qi's four limbs and hundred bones. Wherever it passed, it wasn't recklessly flushing, but carried a mother's-womb-like gentleness and precision, conducting the deepest-level baptism and sublimation.
The last trace of negligible impurities in his flesh and bones was quietly removed. Meridian walls were widened and reinforced under gentle yet resilient power, presenting a faint glaze-like luster. The powerful foundation previously built from practicing "Indestructible Diamond Body," now was injected with infinite vitality and pure Dao rhyme, as if endowed with spirituality. Every inch of his body seemed to be emitting satisfied humming. This was an essential elevation, far exceeding ordinary body refining—a prelude to the life level advancing toward a higher dimension.
When the physical body was tempered to an unprecedented perfect state, that majestic yet gentle spiritual flame power, finally like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, grandly gathered into his already full and complete, surging dantian qi sea!
Inside the dantian, the scene was mysterious.
The vast, smoke-like liquid spiritual power presented a mercury-like heavy and brilliant luster. Originally already condensed to the extreme in the Northern Plains' extreme environment, now sensing the Purifying World Spirit Flame's surge, it didn't reject, but like long-drought seedlings meeting sweet rain, actively welcomed it!
The milky white spiritual flame light and brilliant liquid spiritual power instantly merged together!
No earth-shaking collision, only a kind of water-and-milk-blending, naturally-formed harmony. The Purifying World Spirit Flame's original true meaning containing "purification" and "creation," like the finest catalyst, began spontaneously and meticulously tempering Xiao Qi's liquid spiritual power.
Within the spiritual power, those subtle hostile energies and pill toxin impurities remaining from countless battles and consuming pills—imperceptible even to Xiao Qi himself—under the spiritual flame light's illumination, like ice and snow melting, were rapidly purified and refined. The spiritual power's color became more pure and transparent, as if stripped of all redundancy, leaving only the most original energy essence.
Simultaneously, that trace of "creation" meaning in the spiritual flame also began nourishing the spiritual power itself, making this majestic power, while being extremely condensed, additionally gain an endless vitality and resilience.
The entire dantian qi sea was like transforming into a huge furnace constituted of pure light liquid. The Purifying World Spirit Flame was the fire in the furnace, and Xiao Qi's perfect essence, qi, and spirit was the embryo awaiting being smelted and reshaped!
Just as this spiritual flame and spiritual power perfectly merged, making his entire dantian state reach an unprecedented, perfect balance's peak—
"Om!"
The Four Symbols jade pendant that had been silent in the dantian depths, faintly resonating with Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise four images soul crystals, now also seemed to be triggered by this perfect balance state, issuing a slight yet soul-reaching hum! A chaotic-colored, all-encompassing faint light flowed from the jade pendant, like the most stable foundation stone, quietly enveloping the entire dantian, providing final stability and shelter for this crucial transformation.
Purification Source, Four Symbols jade pendant, Purifying World Spirit Flame... These powerful powers originating from different opportunities and different attributes, at this moment in Xiao Qi's dantian, weren't conflicting with each other, but formed a wonderful symbiosis and balance! Purification Source was like the core, coordinating and harmonizing; Four Symbols jade pendant stabilized the universe, solidifying space; Purifying World Spirit Flame acted as tempering fire, sublimating essence!
And at this instant, enlightenment arrived!
A wondrous feeling of water flowing to its course, fruit ripening and falling, like the first ray of sunlight at dawn, instantly illuminated Xiao Qi's entire mind!
No need to wait any longer, no need to seek anymore. Essence, qi, spirit—the three were flawless and complete. Physical body foundation was consolidated to the extreme, spiritual power was pure and majestic and full of vitality, Dao heart was open and firm and clear without obstacles. Moreover, there was the Purifying World Spirit Flame—the supreme opportunity serving as trigger and catalyst...
All Core Formation conditions were already fully possessed, and in a perfect state far exceeding ordinary cultivators' imagination!
That invisible threshold between Foundation Establishment and Golden Core, at this moment became incredibly clear, and completely opened to him!
The best timing for Core Formation was right now! Right here!
Xiao Qi fiercely opened his eyes. In his pupils, the left eye seemed to have milky white purification fire dancing, the right eye reflected brilliant spiritual power star rivers. A majestic aura merging with heaven and earth and triggering laws uncontrollably spread from within him, enveloping the entire sacred ground valley in mysterious Dao rhyme!
He stood up, quickly sending a voice transmission to Zhao Tiezhu and the rabbit spirit guarding nearby: "Guard for me, strictly forbid anyone from approaching! I need to immediately meditate and condense the Golden Core!"
Before his words finished, he had no time for anything else. His form flashed, sitting cross-legged on the spot. His hands quickly formed a mysterious seal. His whole body's aura instantly restrained, as if turning into an eternally unchanging boulder. All essence, qi, spirit, all thoughts, completely sank into the ultimate transformation concerning Dao path destiny within his body!
Inside the dantian, that liquid spiritual power tempered to the extreme by the Purifying World Spirit Flame, under the Four Symbols jade pendant's chaotic faint light's envelopment, began rotating and compressing at unprecedented speed around some invisible core!
The Golden Core opportunity had already ignited! A life nirvana, a Great Dao sublimation, in this Southern Frontier Gu Village's sacred ground depths, officially began!