428 Core Condensation Realm!

Lin Mu opened his eyes in the Sleepscape as they slightly glimmered.

"Excellent!" Xukong said.

"You knew this was gonna happen?" Lin Mu questioned.

"With your foundation that is extremely stable, it was merely a question of time." Xukong chuckled.

"Hehe…" Lin Mu laughed a little bit as well before hearing senior Xukong speak again.

"Anyways. Congratulations on becoming the youngest cultivator to ever reach the core condensation realm in this world." Xukong spoke.

Only now did, Lin Mu realized the reality. The publicly known person who held the record before Lin Mu was none other than the crown prince of the Great Zhou Empire and he had reached the core condensation realm at the age of twenty. But Lin Mu on the other hand was still about sixteen years old and his birthday was still six months away.

Lin Mu's eyes lit up as he reveled in this achievement for a bit before calming down. He now wanted to see the difference in his body and sat down cross legged and chanted the severing heart sutra. Almost immediately he felt his meridians that were being filled with spirit Qi that flowed like a river.

Lin Mu trailed down to his Dantian and saw his core that floated there. The core looked vastly different from what Lin Mu had seen before though. It did not look pale white like that of Hei Yingjie's core. Instead, it was a silvery grey, almost the same color as that of the mysterious ring.

But that was not all, there was also a pattern printed on his core.

"This… The Great Slumber bear?" Lin Mu muttered.

"Indeed, the bloodline had been fully assimilated by your body. And due to the uniqueness of the bloodline skill 'Well of Slumber' it has presented the bloodline crest on your core." Xukong spoke.

Lin Mu opened his eyes upon hearing senior Xukong's words and had a question pop in his head.

"Wait, senior you mean the pattern that is on my core, it can be in different places as well?" Lin Mu questioned.

"Yes. Depending on the type of beast the bloodline belongs to, the bloodline crest will appear on different parts of your body that correspond to the ability. Since the well of slumber corresponds to the cultivation, it has appeared on your core." Xukong explained.

"Ah… I see now, senior." Lin Mu nodded his head in understanding.

He closed his eyes again and checked his capacity for spirit Qi. Unlike before, his Dantian was almost completely empty and only the core could be seen floating in the center of the Dantian. His entirety of liquid spirit Qi had been condensed into this one core and could now contain even more than before.

Lin Mu observed for more time, as the spirit Qi from his meridians eventually reached his Dantian. But here the process had changed. The spirit Qi that entered his Dantian was in the form of wisps which then gathered together to form clouds. These clouds of spirit Qi floated around at the top of his Dantian and grew in size.

This continued for a while until they became extremely dense and then finally started raining. The spirit Qi wisps started being converted into liquid form automatically, which shocked Lin Mu to no end. Before he had to put a lot of effort to refine the liquid spirit Qi, but now it seemed to be happening automatically.

"Senior! There are clouds of spirit Qi in my Dantian that rain down liquid spirit Qi." Lin Mu said.

"Oh, really? I didn't know that the bloodline of the Great Slumber bear could do something like this. They are far too rare, and thus there isn't much information about it. Besides, no one was able to survive long enough to tell what exactly happens with the bloodline.

Another thing is that no one was at the Qi refining realm when they refined and assimilated the bloodline, thus what you are experiencing is completely undocumented." Xukong explained.

"I understand senior…" Lin Mu replied and went back to observing his Dantian.

Though that was not the only change that his body had. After all of his cells had been converted into Xiantian physique cells, their ability to conduct spirit Qi had increased by a lot.

Usually, meridians were how the majority of spirit Qi traveled as the other cells were not as conducive to spirit Qi as the meridians were. But due to the Xiantian physique, Lin Mu's normal cells were about fifty percent as conducive as his meridians now.

The benefits of this were many, and Lin Mu could already imagine a few of them. His ability to use various Qi skills would improve, and so would his absorption of the medicinal effects of the alchemical pills.

Even cultivating normally would show an increase in speed. The overall effect was even greater than that of the Dual Circle Ascension fruits that Lin Mu had eaten a while back.

Lin Mu had observed his core enough that he could estimate how much spirit Qi he would need to reach the next stage of the core condensation realm.

The stages in the core condensation realm were similar to that of the Qi refining realm, such that one would need double the amount of spirit Qi they had in the previous stage.

In Lin Mu's case, as he was in the early stage of the core condensation realm and had a core that was condensed from three thousand drops of liquid spirit Qi, to break through to the mid stage of the core condensation realm, he would need a total of six thousand drops instead.

This would keep on doubling as he would need twelve thousand in the late stage, and finally twenty four thousand liquid spirit Qi drops in the peak stage of the core condensation realm.

~huu~

Lin Mu took a deep breath as his future plan appeared in his mind.

"Even a sea would begin from a single drop; I've done it before and I'll do it again!" Lin Mu said to himself with determination.