Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 698: Shocking News
Ten years later, in the Purple Mist Mountain Range.
In the temporary cave dwelling, the hall.
On this day, the sunlight was just right, and a gentle breeze was blowing. Bright sunlight streamed through several windows, adding warmth to the hall.
"Tap, tap."
A series of regular footsteps approached, and a slender female cultivator gradually came into view.
She was dressed in a tight-fitting yellow outfit, and on the tray she held were several exquisite pastries, all made from spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs, radiating abundant spiritual energy.
It was Zhuo Mengzhen!
She walked to the other side of the table, placed the tray down, and silently gazed at Liu Yu.
After ten years, the aura she exuded still remained at the Golden Core Mid Stage.
The last attempt to break through to the late Golden Core stage had clearly ended in failure.
She was quite unfortunate, encountering a bottleneck during her attempt to break through. Her last retreat lasted four years, but she still couldn't make it.
Cultivating at the Golden Core realm was a hundred times more difficult than the previous two realms, and they were not even comparable.
Even with dual spiritual roots, there was no significant advantage.
At either the mid or late breakthroughs, one would inevitably encounter a bottleneck, and even dual roots or exotic roots wouldn't be exceptions.
The advantages of spiritual roots had significantly weakened by the Golden Core realm.
To have a smooth journey through the Golden Core realm, one would need a heavenly spirit root, a superior grade golden core, or exceptionally outstanding spiritual, divine, or daoist bodies to achieve it.
Besides that, even dual or exotic roots, or those with more ordinary spiritual bodies, would eventually hit a bottleneck, whether early or late.
However, those with excellent spiritual root aptitude could often condense a higher quality golden core.
Perhaps this could be seen as a continuation of the advantage of spiritual roots?
After all, for cultivators with ordinary aptitude, cultivating to the point of attempting to break through the Golden Core bottleneck was already extraordinarily difficult. How could they still have the energy to consider the quality of the golden core?
"Clap."
A few moments later, Liu Yu closed the cultivation technique tome, took a piece of pastry from Zhuo Mengzhen, and swallowed it whole.
While practicing the "Star Body," apart from needing to use some resources for body refinement during training, he also had to consume various foods rich in spiritual energy daily.
Only by doing so could he maintain high-intensity training and further unleash the potential of his physical body.
He had calculated that his investment in body refinement had even surpassed the total spent on qi and spirit refinement.
Such a massive resource consumption explained why body cultivation was gradually declining.
After all, since the "Ancient Great War," the overall spiritual energy concentration in the cultivation world had begun to diminish, and various cultivation resources were showing a downward trend.
Fortunately, Liu Yu had an Immortal Abode, and this level of consumption was bearable.
Over the past ten years, his cultivation in various aspects had steadily improved. Although he hadn't reached another small stage, there had still been significant growth.
His spiritual consciousness range advanced from one hundred fifty miles to one hundred fifty-two miles.
Compared to the two-hundred-mile lower limit of the nascent soul stage, he was now only forty-eight miles away.
"This is the recent collection of cultivation techniques."
Saying this, Zhuo Mengzhen took out several tomes and jade slips from her storage bracelet and placed them on the table.
Liu Yu's heart stirred, and he immediately picked up the tomes and jade slips to glance through them roughly.
"Not bad."
Moments later, he smiled and stored them in his storage bracelet alongside the tome he was originally reading.
During these ten years, although Liu Yu rarely went outside while staying in his residence, he had never stopped collecting various cultivation tomes and spiritual herbs.