Returning to Qiong Feng Pavilion, Gu Feng immediately retreated into his room. He ordered Jiu Long to stand guard at the door as a protector, while Manager Wu was tasked with arranging the matters related to the "Talent Recruitment Board."

Gu Feng closed his eyes, his breathing gradually steadied, and his mind entered a state of meditation as his Divine Sense slowly sank into his body.

The Dantian Spiritual Sea is the lifeline of all cultivators, the endpoint where all Spiritual Energy converges, and the starting point of the vast True Core within the body.

Gathering spirit into the sea, collecting a hundred rivers, refining the spirit to return to the void, through limbs and bones!

Cultivators absorb the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth, storing it here. As the Spiritual Energy accumulates, the True Core transformed within the Spiritual Sea becomes increasingly refined.

It transitions from clarity to viscosity, and upon reaching a certain level, this True Core condenses into an Inner Elixir, which, after being refined and purified, becomes a Golden Elixir!

This process is the transition from the Qi Refining stage to the Golden Elixir Realm.

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It sounds simple, but for many, it's as difficult as ascending to the heavens!

In Gu Feng's Dantian, the Spiritual Sea resembled a small marsh, with the True Qi within it crystal clear! This fully demonstrated the weakness of his cultivation and the insignificance of his strength.

It's likely that even the laborers in the Imperial City were on par with his level.

Currently, he could only perform some basic entry-level Five Elements Talisman Methods, which could at most scare ordinary mortals.

The only thing that astonished Gu Feng was the pea-sized "Innate Dao Embryo" quietly curled up in mid-air above the True Core marsh in his Spiritual Sea, seemingly in a deep slumber.

This "Dao Embryo" was neither an Elemental Infant nor a traditional Destiny Artifact; it was extraordinarily peculiar.

Taking out a Superior Grade Spirit Stone from his Ring Storage, Gu Feng formed a hand seal and pointed towards it. The Spirit Stone trembled slightly, and a wisp of radiant green thread flowed along Gu Feng's finger into his body.

Gu Feng knew this was the extremely pure Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Stone. He quickly activated his cultivation method, guiding this Spiritual Energy to slowly pass through his Eight Extraordinary Meridians!

The method he was currently practicing was the Gu Family's ancestral Yellow Rank Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method—Linghai Tianzhao Technique.

The Gu Family had better cultivation methods available, but the path of cultivation requires gradual progress. Even if Gu Feng attempted to practice those advanced methods, he would suffer backlash due to insufficient True Core!

It's like asking a five-year-old child to wield a hundred-pound broadsword; he would likely injure himself first.

The green Spiritual Energy circled around Gu Feng's meridians for a full eighty-one cycles, causing only a faint green glow in the True Core marsh of his Dantian Spiritual Sea, with its capacity visibly increasing by just over an inch.

"Sigh! This speed is too slow! It's like a turtle's pace!"

Gu Feng withdrew his Divine Sense, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and noticed that his clothes were already soaked through. The Superior Grade Spirit Stone before him had shrunk by a whole circle.