Chapter 755. Nascent Soul, 7th Tier (Cultivation Realm)

Seeing her agreement, Eldrin couldn't help but reveal a faint smile.

This Azure Dragon Sea-Quelling Sword was still merely a sword embryo, having yet to nurture a sword soul or artifact spirit. With Qing Ji’s magical power, refining and transforming it would take approximately 1 cycle of 60 years to convert this artifact into her own life-bound immortal sword.

With the Pure Yang Immortal Sword in Qing Ji's hands, the Chen Clan's strength would be greatly enhanced, providing them with another means to confront powerful enemies such as the Green Flood Dragon Demon Emperor (Demon Beast) and the Fang Clan of Guyuan Mountain.

After confirming this matter, Eldrin spoke up, "This time we've obtained the River of Heaven Immortal Apricot. I intend to seize this opportunity to go into seclusion and cultivate until I reach the Great Perfection stage of the Nascent Soul, 6th Tier, in order to break through to the late Nascent Soul realm."

"Hmm, I also plan to seize this opportunity to go into seclusion."

Lyra also nodded, a faint smile gracing her features.

The master of the Dao Palace rewarded each of the 3 with a single Heavenly River Immortal Apricot. This treasure could help an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator advance by 1 cultivation level, and for these 3 individuals, it held immense value.

Since he was ready to break through his cultivation, there was no reason to delay any further.

Eldrin immediately returned to his secluded cultivation chamber to refine the incomparably precious sixth-rank spirit object, the Heavenly River Immortal Apricot.

Unlike the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Peach, this Heavenly River Apricot required far less time to refine. A single Heaven and Earth Spiritual Peach could take decades to fully absorb, yet the immense energy it contained was truly staggering.

According to Eldrin's (Person Name) estimation, the sixth-tier lower-grade Heaven and Earth Spirit Peach Tree could likely only produce 9 sixth-tier Heaven and Earth Spirit Peaches per harvest—far inferior to the Celestial River Apricot Tree's yield of up to 36,000.

In contrast, the Heavenly River Apricot contained less primordial qi compared to spirit peaches of the same rank, yet it bore a far greater number of fruits with each harvest. Refining a single 1 also required significantly less time.

This time, refining the Heavenly River Apricot of Immortality consumed a full 3 years of his life before he completely absorbed and integrated it.

It is done.

As the last wisp of the Celestial River Apricot was absorbed on this day, a faint smile of satisfaction graced Eldrin's lips.

At this moment, he felt the spiritual power within him had become flawless and seamless, with only the final barrier standing between him and the late Nascent Soul stage.

By this time, merely 1 100 years had passed since his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul, 6th Tier (Cultivation Realm). To already approach the threshold of the late Nascent Soul stage at such speed—his cultivation pace was likely considered rare even within the Dao Lord's Sacred Land.

"It is time to break through to the Nascent Soul, 7th Tier (Cultivation Realm)."

Eldrin murmured to himself. Instead of emerging from seclusion immediately, he retrieved a crystal-clear treasure pill.

This pill was none other than the incomparably precious Heavenly Dao Pill (Spiritual Object), sufficient to spare him centuries of painstakingly honing his magic power, allowing him to charge directly into the late-stage Nascent Soul realm in 1 fell swoop.

As he swallowed the Heavenly Dao Pill (Spiritual Object) in 1 gulp, he instantly felt an ethereal surge of Heavenly Dao Qi (Spiritual Root) erupt within his body. The potent medicinal energy swept through his spiritual power, shattering the intangible bottleneck in 1 decisive strike and propelling him into the Nascent Soul, 7th Tier (Cultivation Realm).

Late Nascent Soul Stage.

A look of immense joy spread across Eldrin's face. After breaking through to the Nascent Soul, 7th Tier, his magical power had surged by over 50 percent.

At this point, all he needed was to refine his spiritual energy slightly, and in terms of pure power, it would already be on par with that of a Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul cultivator at the Great Perfection stage.

Especially after breaking through to the late Nascent Soul stage, he had gained the ability to elevate the Heavenly River Immortal Sword. Once the refinement of the Heavenly River Immortal Sword was completed and it underwent tempering and feedback from the Pure Yang Immortal Sword, the purity of his magical power would become nearly comparable to that of a Primordial Spirit Dao Lord.

The reason why Primordial Spirit Dao Lords far surpass Nascent Soul True Lords lies in their Pure Yang Spiritual Treasures, communion between Heaven and Man, the disparity in magical power, and the might of the Primordial Spirit itself.

Eldrin already possessed the innate connection to the celestial realm. Once he advanced to the Pure Yang Spirit Treasure, his magical power would be nearly indistinguishable from that of a Primordial Spirit Dao Lord.

At that time, the greatest disparity between them would lie in the depth of his magical power—his reserves amounted to merely less than 30 percent of a Primordial Spirit Dao Lord's.

And this disparity...

"Perhaps when I break through to the Half-Step Primordial Spirit (Cultivation Realm), relying on my foundation as a Great Luo Golden Core cultivator, I might be able to smooth out most of it, or even erase it completely?"

"By then, if I encounter a newly ascended Nascent Soul, could I rely on my arsenal of spiritual treasures and divine abilities to hold my own?"

Eldrin murmured to himself, a trace of uncertainty lingering in his heart—after all, he had never truly broken through to the Nascent Soul realm.

After a long while, he thought of the 9 Nether Dragon Emperor and shook his head, saying, "It's still not enough. I must become even stronger."

Suppressing his thoughts, Eldrin emerged from the seclusion chamber to find Lila had been waiting there for quite some time.

Witnessing his breakthrough to the late Nascent Soul stage, Lila (Person Name) couldn’t contain her joy and exclaimed, “Congratulations, my lord! You’ve finally succeeded.”

She understood the significance of Eldrin's breakthrough to the late Nascent Soul stage. The Heavenly River Treasure Gold within the water veins of Celestial Vault Isle had fully matured, signifying that Eldrin would forge a Pure Yang Immortal Sword.

Eldrin did not rush to advance the Pure Yang Immortal Sword, merely inquiring, "Are Huaixu and Lyra still in seclusion?"

"Hmm."

Lila nodded and began to speak, "Sister Huaixu is refining the Azure Dragon Sea-Quelling Sword, while Sister Lyra is in seclusion, striving to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage. I believe it's about time she emerged."

As the 2 were speaking, the spiritual energy from the ley line surged into Lyra's seclusion chamber. Not long after, Lyra successfully achieved her breakthrough.

"Madam, your breakthrough could not have come at a better time. I was just about to ask for your assistance in forging an immortal sword."

Eldrin (Person Name)微笑着说道，然后便带着Lyra (Person Name)一起去了一趟Verdant Chariot Mountain (Location)，从族库中取出了家族珍藏多年的五行精气，然后便动身去了炎狱火海。

Refining the Pure Yang Immortal Sword required not only the consumption of extremely precious sixth-tier Pure Yang Treasure Gold, but also vast quantities of 5 Elements essence.

To advance this Heavenly River Ren Water Sword to the lower-grade sixth rank, the required essences of Ren Water and Geng Metal alone would cost as much as 3,300,000,000 spirit stones.

All told, it amounted to 3,300 Heavenly Crystals (Spiritual Object), roughly equivalent to the value of 30-3 low-grade Demon-Subduing Treasures.

This was only possible because the Chen family had extensive connections and formidable strength of their own.

Even for the Chen Immortal Clan (Organization), gathering this amount of 5 Elements Essence required the efforts of over a dozen Nascent Soul True Lords, several 100 Golden Core cultivators, and as many as 1,000,000 clan cultivators laboring for hundreds of years.

Throughout the entire 3 Veins Ancient Domain, among the hundreds of Nascent Soul immortal clans, no more than 20 families could produce this amount of 5 Elements essence, let alone the Pure Yang Treasure Gold worth tens of thousands of Heavenly Crystals (Spiritual Object).

Yet even so, refining this Pure Sun Treasure Gold was an immensely arduous task.

The sixth-rank Pure Sun Treasure Metal was virtually indestructible, requiring a sixth-rank fire vein to smelt it before it could be forged into the Li River Ren Water Sword.

Yet there was no sixth-grade fire-attribute ancestral vein within the Eastern Wastelands (Location). Left with no alternative, Eldrin (Person Name) had no choice but to venture into the Flaming Abyss of Inferno, relying on the power of its fifth-grade, upper-tier fire vein to smelt the Pure Yang Treasure Gold.

Of course, this alone was insufficient. Thus, Eldrin sought out Lyra, intending to combine their powers to manifest the energies of the 'Samadhi Fire' and the 'Pure Yang Fire', thereby compensating for the inadequate temperature of the fire vein.