After checking the cottage, he slowly sat on the cushion on the bed and began to cultivate.

Wei Chen looked at the four Yellow Spring Essence Pills in his hand before swallowing all of them. A fresh herbal aroma rose as the pills melted instantly in his mouth, turning into a concentrated mass of underworld qi that rushed straight toward his dantian.

At that moment, Wei Chen felt as if he had swallowed something piping hot. A wave of warmth flowed from his throat down into his dantian.

Wei Chen immediately channeled his cultivation method, activating his black hole core to its maximum.

Within his spiritual qi sea, the black hole core faced a dark star formed by the concentrated underworld qi from the four Yellow Spring Essence Pills.

The black hole core immediately began breaking it down and swallowing it rapidly. However, the amount of qi was more than the black hole core could consume in a single moment. The excess qi formed a ring around the black hole, slowly being pulled into its core.

The underworld qi was now like a red dwarf, slowly drifting toward the black hole. Due to the small size of the black hole, only the surface touching the event horizon was being broken down. The red dwarf itself was not disturbed much, because even after Wei Chen's last breakthrough, the black hole core was only about the size of an average river pebble, roughly eighteen millimeters.

The concentrated underworld qi appeared as if it had swallowed Wei Chen's black hole core, but in truth, it was merely settling around it. The black hole core continued to do its work, swallowing and pulling the concentrated underworld qi from within.

The usual phenomena caused by his cultivation were not very noticeable, as all the qi was being digested entirely within his dantian. The amount of underworld qi was more than sufficient for the voracious black hole core to process over a short period of time.

As a result, the pulling force on the surrounding qi did not become too strong. It was no different from a normal cultivation session of a cultivator with a superior physique or an exceptional cultivation method.

The power of Wei Chen's black hole core increased exponentially as its mass grew rapidly. From a simple pebble, it slowly increased in size, just as his cultivation continued to rise without stopping.

Core Formation Realm, middle stage. Core Formation Realm, late stage.

When his cultivation reached the late stage of the Core Formation Realm, both qualitative and quantitative changes began. His black hole core expanded to the size of a ping pong ball, then a tennis ball, then a basketball, and it continued growing.

His cultivation increased without pause. The size of his black hole core continued to grow as it devoured the red dwarf from within. The devouring process continued until the red dwarf could no longer maintain its form and was torn apart before being absorbed into the black hole.

Now, the red dwarf was no more. In its place was a black hole with an event horizon measuring around 240 meters, roughly equal to two to three soccer fields, as his cultivation continued to rise nonstop.

His cultivation reached a bottleneck at the Half-Step Nascent Soul Realm. The underworld qi surrounding the black hole core was still being devoured at a rapid pace.

Wei Chen felt that something was about to form. All of the underworld qi continued to enter, but instead of nourishing his black hole core, it flowed somewhere else.

No, it was nourishing his spiritual body. He was about to form a Nascent Soul.

Then, beside his black hole core, another black hole formed. However, its mass was quickly devoured by the suction force of the main black hole, preventing it from stabilizing. All of the mass that was consumed nourished the main black hole, and in turn, Wei Chen could feel his body being strengthened.

Another new black hole formed. This time, the distance was greater than the previous one, but the moment it took shape, the suction force pulled in all of its mass.

The process repeated until the distance no longer increased. The second black hole should have become stable by then, but it did not. The energy from the four pills had already been depleted, so the second black hole, which represented Wei Chen's Nascent Soul in his spiritual sea, failed to form. Wei Chen was left stuck at the Half-Step Nascent Soul Realm.

After that, he tried to form it through understanding alone. Since he was within the Myriad Realms Epiphany Pagoda, his comprehension of cultivation had become deeper and more profound. However, the Nascent Soul formed through his understanding alone was immediately sucked into the black hole. It was broken down as it was devoured, and because it was his own Nascent Soul, he did not suffer severe backlash when it was absorbed by his own core.

There was no blood splatter or vomiting. All he felt was overwhelming physical and mental fatigue from the effort.

What Wei Chen felt now was like downloading a female anatomy documentary from Japan and being about to finish, only for something to go wrong when the download reached one hundred percent and the data was about to become readable.

His mother suddenly walked in and pulled the plug from his PC for no reason. When he turned it back on, the three hundred gigabyte documentary was corrupted, leaving him with no choice but to download it again, only for the same situation to repeat itself.

Wei Chen felt like lying down and contemplating life.

In the end, he gave up as exhaustion overtook him. Wei Chen stopped cultivating, lay on the bed, and listened to the sound of the bamboo forest.

"F*ck. Which idiot thinks a black hole foundation was a good idea?" Wei Chen muttered as fatigue dragged him into dreamland.

After an unknown amount of time, Wei Chen finally woke up. Both his mental and physical fatigue had fully recovered.

When he thought back to his failure before falling asleep, he felt like going back in time just to slap himself in the face.

At this rate, if he cultivated by himself, he would never be able to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm.

"Sigh." Wei Chen let out a long breath. It could not be helped. He checked his inventory and looked at the Nether Yang Ascension Pill, then took it out.

At first, he had planned to use this pill to advance from the Void Refining Realm to the Great Ascension Realm, since its effect was to immediately advance by one great realm and it could only affect realms below the Great Ascension Realm.

Wei Chen looked at the golden pill, which emanated a strange power along with massive and powerful spiritual qi.

He closed his eyes and popped the pill into his mouth. Once the pill entered his mouth, it immediately melted and turned into powerful spiritual qi. The strange power flowed down to his dantian and nourished his black hole core.

The same phenomenon occurred again, but this time the amount of qi was massive. Vast as an ocean, it converged and formed a second black hole, a smaller one orbiting the main black hole at a safe distance. The orbit became extremely stable, no different from the relationship between the earth and the moon.

The binary black holes orbited each other as the second one slowly stabilized and grew larger and larger.

Crack…. Crack…. Booooom!

Like a butterfly breaking free from its cocoon, his cultivation finally broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm. The representation of his Nascent Soul in his spiritual qi sea was the second black hole.

Wei Chen could feel and comprehend the mysteries of the space surrounding him. Now, he could form his own storage space within his Nascent Soul, and finally, he could practice the Deathless Legion Summoning Decree.

Wei Chen felt a rush of excitement. He could not wait to stabilize his cultivation and begin practicing this technique.

With the power of the Nether Yang Ascension Pill, his cultivation rose nonstop. Nascent Soul early stage. Nascent Soul middle stage. Nascent Soul late stage.

His second black hole continued to be nourished as its size grew larger and larger. Its event horizon now measured around one hundred meters.

Wei Chen concentrated on cultivating as the power of the Nether Yang Ascension Pill continued to nourish his cultivation without pause. He had a feeling that his cultivation would stop at the Half-Step Soul Transformation Realm.

— Meanwhile —

Outside the Myriad Realms Epiphany Pagoda, it was already morning. Yun Feng was sitting on a rock just outside the pagoda gate, guarding against ill intent.

At this moment, Yun Feng was facing more than ten people. Each of them was at least at the Foundation Establishment Realm, and the strongest among them had reached the early stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. Even so, Yun Feng stared defiantly at the group.

The strongest among them was a man in white and blue robes, at the Nascent Soul Realm, standing atop a flying sword and looking down at Yun Feng from the sky.

In front of Yun Feng, several men lay on the ground. All of them had been beaten unconscious, and judging from the bruises on their bodies, they had been incapacitated with a single move.

"Trash. I will say it again. This pagoda belongs to this young master. Move aside!" said the young man in blue robes.

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