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Chapter 178: Those Who Wished to Understand the Will of Heaven Must Begin from the Middle Phase of the Aurous Core Stage

Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations

At the top of the Black Heavenly Treasure Tree, Lin Feng sat. His body and mind were in their perfect condition.

”Let us begin,” Lin Feng closed his eyes and with his mind’s eye, he viewed his body. A white jade aurous core brimmed with a spinning purple light.

Under Lin Feng’s control, the mana in his body began to work.

A thick torrent of mana swept through Lin Feng’s body like water after a dam had been breached.

Following which, the mana went ’boom’ and began to burn like matchsticks that had been lit. The mana burned from feet-first all the way to the top of Lin Feng’s head. Evidently, it was Immolation by the Yin Fire.

This was the Tribulation of the Yin Fire!

As one progressed the middle stage of the Aurous Core stage, one must go through the Immolation by the Yin Fire. Successfully going through this stage would bestow one with unlimited chances for progression and advancement. Failure to do so would reduce one to ashes.

Many cultivators in the early phase of the Aurous Core stage deliberately suppressed their power so that they would not inadvertently encounter the Tribulation of the Yin Fire as they had no confidence in successfully overcoming it. They would rather spend their entire life in the early phase of the Aurous Core stage and enjoy a thousand-year lifespan than to be reduced to ashes in a single instant.

Lin Feng, however, was filled with confidence. Hence, he deliberately ignited the Tribulation of the Yin Fire as he believed that he had made the necessary preparations.

In that moment, while his entire body burned from the fire from the Immolation of the Yin Fire, the spiritual altar in him was calm as if it had been blown over by a gentle gust of spring wind.

Lin Feng could every inch of his body transforming as it communicated with every single creation under heaven. In a flick of a finger, it felt as if a thousand years had passed.

As the Yin Fire burned Lin Feng’s aurous core, it vibrated non-stop. From it, black smoke billowed out.

In the early phase of the Aurous Core stage, despite having formed a aurous core it still contained impurities. One had to borrow the power of the Yin Fire to get rid of them.

After a while, Lin Feng opened his eyes rapidly. His eyes glowed.

Boom!

Between the Heaven and Earth, Lin Feng’s willpower turned into a powerful force linked the upper echelons of Heaven with the nethermost River Styx.

Lin Feng felt his entire body trembling with force from head to toe as it underwent a thorough transformation from inside out.

An aurous core, glistening and flawless, emerged without a single trace of impurity.

A gust of invisible air appeared out of nowhere and connected with Lin Feng’s body.

As fate would have it, Lin Feng’s consciousness connected with the heaven and earth. Yet, it did not integrate with them. Rather, he felt like a frog that had lived its entire life in a well finally realizing the vastness of the sky.

A door that was originally closed had been pushed open by Lin Feng’s hand, allowing him to step into a brand new world.

Those who wished to understand the will of heaven must begin from the middle phase of the Aurous Core stage.

Lin Feng could only understand the veracity of this statement after he had entered this phase.

Before that, a cultivator only used the power in his body to store energy.

From the perspective of one’s innate power, there was not a big difference between the middle phase and the early phase of the Aurous Core stage.

However, only after one had entered the middle phase of the Aurous Core stage could someone be said to have controlled the entirety of mana.

Cultivating one’s Tao meant that while a power of an individual was limited, the power of the Heaven and Earth was unlimited just as how the sun and moon were eternal. Only by borrowing the power of the Heaven and Earth could one break through the limitations of Man and live freely, without any prospect of destruction.

In the early phase of the Aurous Core stage, one could glimpse into the prospect of immortality. However, one could only bring one power to its peak, reflect upon one’s existence and through repairing one’s wounds indefinitely and hence, obtaining immortality.

However, that is only limited to one’s mastery of the flow of Heaven and Earth. One could not yet reach the pinnacle of one’s power and maximize its potential.