Chapter 18: New cultivation path
"What?"
Langtian’s eyes widened.
"Wait... I thought that was impossible!"
Right. It was common knowledge that once your Core was taken from you, there was no way to get it back.
You’d be coreless. Forced to continue cultivation without that vital foundation.
Yes, it was still possible to grow stronger without a core. There were techniques, body refinement paths, even forbidden arts... but all of them were limited.
Without a core, the body could only absorb and circulate a small fraction of spiritual energy. Progress would slow to a crawl. No matter how hard one trained, no matter how fierce the will, there would always be a ceiling, a wall that could not be broken.
And worst of all... without a core, advancement to the next major realm, the Primordial Embryo Stage, was impossible.
That realm required the core to slowly mature over years, growing stronger, denser, purer. When it reached perfection, the cultivator would face their Heavenly Tribulation. If they survived, the core would collapse and be reborn as something far greater: a Primordial Embryo.
That means... no core, no Embryo.
And when no Embryo, there would be no path forward.
So when Yue Ling said there was a way to form a new core, Langtian could barely believe it.