Chapter 245

Chapter 245: Could It Be That Yu Zhao Formed Her Nascent Soul?
Thick spiritual energy turned into mist and filled the sealed stone cave.

Yu Zhao kept her hands in a spell seal. Her eyes were shut, and a faint frown rested between her brows.

As she absorbed energy day after day, the crack on her Golden Core grew larger and larger. It could shatter to form a Nascent Soul at any moment.

But the more critical the moment, the less she could afford to be careless.

Yu Zhao stayed alert at all times.

Just then, she seemed to hear a tiny cracking sound.

The crack on the Golden Core widened again.

Right when Yu Zhao thought her Golden Core was about to break apart and condense into a Nascent Soul, the spiritual energy inside her body suddenly went wild, crashing back and forth inside her.

She let out a muffled groan and was forced out of her state of meditation. The spinning Golden Core slowly came to a stop, and the crack on it stopped changing.

She opened her eyes and bit down on her lower lip in unwillingness.

Her first attempt to break through to Nascent Soul had failed.

[My spiritual energy was full, my state was steady, my Sea of Consciousness was stable. Why did I still fail?]

She had prepared carefully for this result. She had even used a Longevity Fruit. How could everything fall apart at the last step?

Yu Zhao could not figure it out no matter how much she thought about it.

After a long while, she let out a soft sigh, first smoothing out the violent spiritual energy in her body. Then she left the cave.

Since she had failed to form her Nascent Soul, she must be lacking in some area.

Yu Zhao decided to temper herself in the Nine Abyss Secret Realm for a longer time. Maybe she would find a chance to break through.

She walked back along the tunnel she had come through.

After about half a stick of incense, her steps suddenly stopped. She stood where she was and hopped lightly in place.

Her body felt as light as a swallow.

She tried throwing a punch.

Her movement was crisp, and the force of the punch was sharp.

Light flashed in Yu Zhao’s eyes bit by bit.

Her body seemed to have gone through a gentle evolution.

When she chose this place for closed-door cultivation, she had picked a spot that pushed right up against the limit of what she could endure. Because of that, she had moved slowly, and her spirit power had also flowed very sluggishly.

Now, she no longer felt that discomfort. Instead, she moved with ease, and her body was agile.

It was that Longevity Fruit!

Yu Zhao immediately thought of the source of the change in her body.

It was said that the Longevity Fruit could cure all poisons.

After Cui Jue ate the Longevity Fruit, all the toxins in his body were cleared, and his body returned to normal.

After she ate it, her body had undergone a complete transformation.

From this, it was clear that the real effect of the Longevity Fruit was not just to cleanse poison, but to change a person’s constitution from the inside out, all for the sake of seeking Chang Sheng.

What was more, the process of change was very gentle and did not cause strong pain.

Everyone’s constitution and bones were set from birth. Unless they met with an enormous stroke of fate later on, it was nearly impossible to change them.

Even if a change did happen, it always came with inhuman suffering.

Yu Zhao had heard of a few such cases before. Without exception, every one of them went through countless hardships before they finally got what they wanted.

Very few people received a stroke of fortune as silently and smoothly as she had.

Yu Zhao finally understood why she had failed to form her Nascent Soul.

Her constitution had changed, so the requirements for Nascent Soul formation had naturally risen with it.

If her body used to be a small bucket, now it was a large one. The amount of spirit power it could hold was no longer the same.

“Whew.”

Yu Zhao let out a long breath. The gloom around her brows melted away.

Now that she knew the reason, she could find the right cure.

In her past life, she had been held back by her body and hit walls again and again, but she had never given up on herself.

Now that she had a better starting point, she should all the more charge up to the Nine Heavens and see how vast the world truly was.

Yu Zhao walked with firm steps to the edge of a crack in the stone and leaped down.

As she dropped, she found that not only had her body’s endurance grown stronger, but her five senses had also evolved again.

She did not even need to use her divine sense. Just by the smells in the air, she could tell where demonic beasts were hiding in the stone cracks.

After about a quarter of an hour, Yu Zhao once more felt the strain she had felt before. She decisively stopped going down, twisted her body, and jumped into another, wider crack.

Whoosh.

A strong gust roared past Yu Zhao’s ears.

She lifted her brows. Her soul force turned into a giant hand and easily grabbed the purple centipede that lunged at her.

Maybe because it had grown up in the stone crack, this purple centipede was only as thick as a thigh. Its bamboo-like body shone with a strange violet light. A pair of long feelers writhed around, making it look fierce and evil.

“A purple centipede. The poison must be strong. I can keep it for Yao Wuji,” she murmured.

While muttering to herself, Yu Zhao used her soul force to form a cage and trap the purple centipede, then stuffed it into the spirit beast pouch she carried with her.

This spirit beast pouch had been given to her by Yao Wuji. He had said it was better to be prepared. She had not expected to use it so soon.

The purple centipede was probably the strongest demonic beast living in this mountain crack. After Yu Zhao subdued it, no other demonic beasts dared to attack her again.

She moved forward without meeting any more resistance, entered deep into the rock wall, opened up a new cave residence, and continued to cultivate.

The spiritual energy here was several times thicker than in her previous closed-door cultivation spot. The mist-like spirit power condensed into raindrops that fell down in a soft patter.

Bathed in the spiritual rain, Yu Zhao’s quiet Golden Core began to spin faster once more.

Crack, crack.

With faint breaking sounds, Yu Zhao’s Golden Core split in half. A Nascent Soul phantom that looked exactly like her sat cross-legged in her dantian.

The broken shell of the Golden Core turned into spiritual energy and was absorbed by the Nascent Soul.

The Nascent Soul grew more solid bit by bit, and a faint sense of pressure spread out in silence.

“Myriad Illusions, Eternal True Heart.”

Wanderer Bright Moon’s ethereal voice echoed in her Sea of Consciousness.

Yu Zhao’s eyes flew open, and a burst of five-colored light shone from them.

At the same time, the Nascent Soul inside her body opened its eyes as well.

Unlike Yu Zhao, the Nascent Soul’s left eye was pitch black and its right eye was pure white. The mismatched eyes gave off a cold light and looked quite eerie.

Boom!

The aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator exploded within the cramped space. The ground shook. The stone crack spread out in all directions like a spiderweb. Huge chunks of rock tumbled down and crashed into the Abyssal Pool below.

Water splashed up and slammed against the stone walls on both sides, making a thunderous sound.

Yao Wu Jiand Si Tu Xuan, who had been searching for spirit herbs in the stone cracks, heard the noise. They rushed out one after another and looked around in shock and confusion.

“This aura…”

Yao Wuji’s eyes slowly went wide.

[Could it be that Yu Zhao actually succeeded in forming her Nascent Soul? What a monster!]

Si Tu Xuan flashed to his side and said at once: “Fellow Daoist Yu has formed her Nascent Soul?”

Yao Wu Jinodded excitedly. “It seems so.”

Si Tu Xuan’s face stayed calm, but his fists clenched tight.

Yu Zhao’s cultivation was advancing too fast. It put a lot of pressure on him.

Before he met Yu Zhao, he had thought very highly of himself and had looked down on other cultivators his age.

Only after getting to know Yu Zhao did he learn what it meant when people said there is always a higher mountain.

After the Cultivation World Grand Tournament ended, he was still standing in the same place, while Yu Zhao had already started to charge toward a higher realm, and now she seemed about to succeed.

While Si Tu Xuan was happy for Yu Zhao, he could not help feeling a little down and sour inside.

He glanced sideways at Yao Wuji.

Yao Wuji’s face was glowing red with excitement. He was muttering under his breath.

Si Tu Xuan listened carefully.

“Yu Zhao is so amazing. No, no, I can’t let myself get distracted by anything else anymore. I have to hurry and catch up to her, or there won’t be any place left for me to stand by her side in the future.”