NOVEL NEXT Chapter 60 – Together through the Desert of Death
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[You ignored their reactions and went straight to find Old Li.]
[You told him clearly that you wanted to break through and asked for his protection.]
[This time, Old Li hadn't checked your situation and didn't know you had a twelfth-grade Golden Core. He thought you were making a fuss over nothing.]
[He believed that breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage was no big deal as long as no one disturbed you!]
[Although Old Li thought this, he still agreed to your request.]
[Actually, you asked Old Li to protect you just in case.]
[After all, you are different from ordinary cultivators. When you broke through to the Core Formation stage, you caused quite a commotion.]
[After getting Old Li's promise, you chose to start the breakthrough immediately.]
[Breaking through from the Core Formation stage to the Nascent Soul stage in the Immortal Dao involves breaking the core and transforming it into a nascent soul.]
[This allows the nascent soul within your body to become your second life.]
[Once the transformation is successful, as long as the nascent soul remains intact, you can seize another body and be reborn!]
[In the Martial Dao, breaking through from the Qi Motion Realm to the True Core Realm involves releasing primordial energy to form a protective shield, giving you an additional layer of passive protection in battle.]
[However, your situation is different now. You are practicing both the Immortal Dao and Martial Dao, and you don't really know how to break through.]
[You can only choose to break through the Immortal Dao and Martial Dao one by one and see if they react to each other.]
[Your Martial Dao breakthrough went smoothly, and you soon cultivated a protective shield, quickly reaching the first layer of the True Core Realm.]
[But when you wanted to break through your Immortal Dao cultivation, you were dumbfounded.]
[What was going on? How did your Golden Core also have a shield, looking exactly like the protective shield?]
[You were a bit helpless. Breaking through from the Core Formation stage to the Nascent Soul stage involves using primordial energy to break the outer layer of the Golden Core and transform it into a nascent soul.]
[Now, you have to break the protective shield around the Golden Core first, undoubtedly increasing the difficulty of the breakthrough.]
[You wondered if you had gotten the order wrong and should have broken through the Immortal Dao first, then the Martial Dao.]
[But you didn't know that if you broke through the Immortal Dao first, the difficulty of breaking through the Martial Dao would also increase.]
[This is the result of practicing the Divine Dao. To gain greater power, you naturally have to endure greater difficulties.]
[Due to the increased difficulty, it took you a whole month to complete the Immortal Dao breakthrough, reaching the first layer of the Nascent Soul stage.]
[You looked at the nascent soul within you, which was a miniature version of yourself.]
[Your nascent soul was different from others because it also had a layer of primordial energy shield.]
[Obviously, you knew this would make your nascent soul even stronger.]
[Everything went smoothly during the breakthrough, and there were no heavenly phenomena; it was just a false alarm.]
[Old Li saw you had completed the breakthrough and took his leave, telling you not to make such a fuss in the future, as breakthroughs weren't that dangerous.]
[You thanked him profusely.]
[In the thirty-seventh year, you began cultivating the Immortal Dao again.]
[In the thirty-eighth year, you found Old Li and told him that Senior Lu Wuya's formation might have a problem and you wanted to find someone to help repair it.]
[Although you thought this suggestion would likely be rejected, since the last simulation had proven this point, you thought, "What if?"]
[The final result was no "what if." After discussing, Old Li and the others did not agree with your opinion.]
[To prevent you from acting on your own, they even found you a place to live in a remote area of Spine Mountain.]
[You no longer had to live within Lu Wuya's formation.]
[In the forty-first year, Old Li hurriedly found you, saying that Senior Lu Wuya's formation had shown some anomalies and seemed to be on the verge of collapse, asking you to take a look.]
[You shook your head and said it was too late, urging everyone to evacuate immediately.]
[The people of Spine Mountain didn't understand and your warning had no effect.]
[They thought you were sulking because they hadn't listened to you before and checked the formation.]
[As a result, many people from Spine Mountain came to your small hill to plead with you, hoping you would not hold a grudge against them.]
[Finally, after your repeated confirmation, Old Li believed you!]
[Disheartened, he began to evacuate the people of Spine Mountain.]
[Unfortunately, it was too late. Just as everyone was evacuating, the formation collapsed, and many cultivators' families perished.]
[However, thanks to your warning, most of the cultivators managed to survive.]
[In the forty-second year, Old Li found Jiang Fushan, who was in seclusion outside, and explained the situation at Spine Mountain.]
[It was now almost certain that the cultivators of the Southern Regions had no way out except to venture into the lands of fierce beasts, escape the sealed land, or face certain death when the Heavenly Thunder descended.]
[Your father, Jiang Fushan, upon hearing this, said without hesitation that he was now at the Eighth Layer of Tribulation and was willing to attract the attention of the fierce beasts to give others a chance to escape.]
[However, your father, Jiang Fushan, made it clear that Old Li must protect you!]
[That's right, in this simulation, you didn't leave alone but chose to act with the people of Spine Mountain.]
[You felt that since you had already achieved your goal in this simulation, there was no point in hiding for another ten years, as it wouldn't improve much.]
[You wanted to see for yourself what the outcome would be if you ventured into the Desert of Death.]
[After all, you had previously thought that these people couldn't escape the Desert of Death based on their strength compared to the dangers.]
[This time, you wanted to verify it with your own eyes.]
[In the forty-third year, all the cultivators of Spine Mountain, led by your father, headed straight for the Desert of Death, and you were among them.]
[Along the way, you were ambushed several times by people from the Immortal Arrival Sect!]
[But after the sect leader, Shen Wuyou, was severely injured by a single palm strike from your father, Jiang Fushan, no one dared to come close again, only following from a distance.]
[You paid no attention to those people and continued straight towards the Desert of Death.]
[At this point, you understood the confusion from the previous simulation.]
[It wasn't that the Immortal Arrival Sect hadn't tried to stop these cultivators from entering the Desert of Death.]
[It was that they couldn't win and didn't dare to!]
[After entering the Desert of Death, your father, Jiang Fushan, gave you a glance before heading alone towards the Demonic Dragon's lair.]
[You felt a pang of sadness and wanted to stop him, but you kept reminding yourself: This is a simulation, this is a simulation!]
[In the end, you didn't say much, just rushed up to give your father, Jiang Fushan, a hug.]
[Shortly after your father left, you sensed the desert churning.]
[You knew the Demonic Dragon had emerged.]
[Soon, everyone could see your father, Jiang Fushan, already fighting the Demonic Dragon.]
[At the same time, demonic pythons began appearing throughout the Desert of Death.]
[At this moment, Old Li stepped forward and told everyone to scatter and escape through the Desert of Death, leaving their fate to destiny.]
[This was a consensus reached before setting out, and no one said much.]
[Everyone dispersed in small groups, each trying to survive.]
[But you were different. Because of your father, Jiang Fushan's instructions, Old Li would take you with him.]
[Being with a master at the Seventh Layer of Tribulation, your chances of survival were significantly higher than others.]
[But no one said much about it. Everyone knew that your father, Jiang Fushan, was risking his life to distract the Demonic Dragon, essentially trading his life for yours!]
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