Chapter 634: Core Formation (Part 2)

The woman surnamed Mu had only flown for more than ten miles when suddenly an inexplicable sense of dread descended upon her, and then the spiritual energy in the air suddenly began to churn chaotically, forming countless spiritual energy vortices in the blink of an eye.

This caused the unprepared woman to stumble, almost falling from the sky along with her magic tool.

Greatly alarmed, the woman surnamed Mu hurriedly gathered all her spiritual power to barely stabilize her figure amidst the spiritual energy fluctuations, and then hurriedly looked around, the scene that met her eyes making her extremely stunned!

She saw countless specks of spiritual light appearing in the high sky a hundred feet up. These specks of light were colorful, flickering between dim and bright, but every one of them contained extremely pure Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, appearing dazzlingly beautiful.

The woman surnamed Mu was terrified, and after scanning the distance slightly, her face turned even paler.

She saw that wherever her bright eyes turned, the high sky was filled with specks of spiritual light, boundless and endless, as if there were no end at all.

Heavens! What is going on?

The woman surnamed Mu floated in the air on her magic tool, looking at the strange situation before her, completely dumbfounded.

In reality, this strange scene of spiritual light appearing covered the entire area within a hundred miles centered on Han Li's cave dwelling.

At the same time the woman discovered the spiritual energy anomaly, thousands of other Falling Cloud Sect cultivators also sensed this huge change.

And the cultivators within a hundred miles witnessed this strange scene just like the woman surnamed Mu.

However, the experience of these cultivators within it was not pleasant.

Those above the Foundation Establishment stage were still okay; apart from physical discomfort and inner hesitation, they could barely maintain their composure.

But the most numerous Qi Condensation cultivators clearly felt a huge spiritual pressure; without exception, they were panting slightly, and those with shallower cultivation even had some difficulty breathing.

Terrified in their hearts, these cultivators didn't bother to investigate what this heavenly omen meant and sat down to meditate and breathe, trying their best to resist this anomaly that made them feel somewhat horrified.

As for the cultivators outside the Falling Cloud Sect, although they couldn't witness this scene, they all sensed the violent shaking of the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy to varying degrees.

Some cultivators with extremely profound cultivation even cast their astonished gazes toward the location of the Falling Cloud Sect from thousands or tens of thousands of miles away.

Although the vast majority of cultivators had never seen it and didn't know what the appearance of this heavenly omen represented.

Those who knew were either shocked or happy; some were terrified, some were astonished, and more were envious and extremely jealous!

On the main peak of the Falling Cloud Sect, inside a certain cave dwelling thousands of feet high, an old man with silver hair sat cross-legged, his face gray and pale as he breathed, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

At the moment the spiritual light appeared hundreds of miles away, the old man's long white eyebrows twitched, and his eyes opened in sudden astonishment, revealing an expression of disbelief.

He almost didn't hesitate to stop his cultivation technique and immediately turned into a white light, flying out of the cave dwelling.

A moment later, the silver-haired old man appeared on the peak of the main peak, standing on a tall boulder.

He looked solemnly in the direction of Han Li's cave dwelling, somewhat stunned, the expression on his face shifting uncertainly.

Just then, a yellow light flew from beyond the sky, heading straight for the old man's cave dwelling. However, seeing the silver-haired old man already standing outside, the yellow light immediately arrived before the old man, and after the radiance converged, it revealed a middle-aged man with a sallow complexion.

"Senior Brother Cheng, you sensed it too. There's no mistake, right? Someone is condensing a Nascent Soul within our Falling Cloud Sect!" The middle-aged man asked the old man in astonishment as soon as he appeared, as if he still couldn't truly believe it.

"Mistake? How is that possible! You and I have both experienced this situation. It is indeed someone condensing a Nascent Soul somewhere in our sect, and it has already reached the final stage; it will form the Nascent Soul immediately." The silver-haired old man didn't even turn his head, squinting his eyes and saying.

"This is strange! In our sect, only Junior Nephew Feng and that spy surnamed Hu have reached the late stage of Core Formation. But Junior Nephew Feng was still sprinting toward the Great Perfection realm two years ago; he couldn't even reach the False Nascent Soul stage in a short time, let alone form a Nascent Soul. As for that spy from the Heavenly Fiend Sect, his cultivation has been mostly crippled, and he has fallen several realms; it couldn't possibly be him." The middle-aged man muttered, but his words lacked any confidence.

"Hmph! Don't you and I know the cultivation of those junior nephews? Although this cultivator is forming a Nascent Soul within our Falling Cloud Sect, it doesn't necessarily mean they are from our Falling Cloud Sect. Perhaps it is some daring person who sneaked in or mixed into our sect. After all, the spiritual energy of Mount Mount Yunmeng is abundant, and it is indeed the best place for Core Formation." The silver-haired old man said a few words lightly, guessing Han Li's identity seven or eight times out of ten.

"Senior Brother, what should we do now! Are we just going to watch the other party successfully form a Nascent Soul?" The middle-aged man frowned, somewhat unwillingly.

"That's right, Junior Brother is correct. We can just wait quietly without doing anything. Although I don't know if this person can survive the final step of the heart demon backlash, it is already meaningless to interfere now. The process of experiencing the heart demon seems to have lasted for months or even years for the person forming the Nascent Soul. But for us, it is only a moment. Junior Brother Lu, have you forgotten the situation when you formed your Nascent Soul?" The silver-haired old man's face was pale, but his demeanor was calm.

"Forget it, how could I! I really don't want to recall that situation again. Heart demon backlash is almost like whatever you fear most, whatever you are most afraid of, will be conjured up in your heart. If I hadn't taken a Spirit-Fixing Pill when I formed my Nascent Soul, I definitely wouldn't have been able to survive that tempering of the heart and mind." The middle-aged man surnamed Lu couldn't help but shiver when the old man mentioned the heart demon during Core Formation, his face turning extremely ugly. He looked as if he was terrified at the mere mention of it!

"That's right. If this person doesn't survive the final hurdle and doesn't form a Nascent Soul, how to deal with them will naturally be up to the two of us; why rush? But if this person luckily steps into the Nascent Soul stage, it will be too late for us to stop them now, so there's no need to do such an offensive thing. It's better to wait and see the result. Besides, this person forming a Nascent Soul is not necessarily a bad thing for our Falling Cloud Sect; perhaps we can even befriend this person, or even pull them into the sect!"

"Does Senior Brother mean that this person is actually a rogue cultivator?" The middle-aged man was moved.

"Hmm, ten to one, it should be! If it were a cultivator from a clan or sect, why would they risk forming a Nascent Soul in our Mount Mount Yunmeng? Otherwise, even if they were worse, they should have a large group of high-tier cultivators guarding them. Do you remember the solemn actions of our sect when you and I formed our Nascent Souls?" The silver-haired old man smiled slightly and turned to the middle-aged man.

"How could I not remember. During the months I formed my Nascent Soul, the entire sect was like facing a great enemy, sealing the mountain, and even the sect-protecting formation was activated. Looking at it this way, this person really might be a rogue cultivator without a sect." The middle-aged man recalled the events of that year and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

"If this person forms a Nascent Soul as a rogue cultivator, we must naturally pull them in more and not easily offend them. After all, cultivators who form a Nascent Soul as rogue cultivators seem to be even more difficult than us, but once they form a Nascent Soul, every one of them has extraordinary divine abilities and cannot be underestimated. And these cultivators have no sect to hold them back, so compared to us sect-born cultivators, they have fewer scruples and are very fond of holding grudges. Isn't that Old Monster Friend Tianhen a person that even we don't want to easily provoke? Most of this is because this old monster has profound cultivation, far exceeding cultivators of the same rank, but his unscrupulous style of doing things is also something that many major sects in Tiannan are deeply wary of." The silver-haired old man said slowly.

The middle-aged man nodded silently upon hearing this, seemingly very much in favor of the other party's statement.

"It has begun!" A sharp glint flashed in the old man's eyes, and he suddenly blurted out in a low voice.

The middle-aged man was startled and hurriedly cast his spiritual sense into the distance.

At this moment, above Han Li's cave dwelling, more and more spiritual light appeared, gradually condensing into a single piece.

After a while, the sky within a hundred miles appeared as a boundless expanse of five-colored glow.

The sound of wind, rain, and thunder rose within the glow, and the colorful clouds rolled and churned with the thunder, then flew rapidly from all directions toward the center.

Above the Little Stone Mountain where Han Li's cave dwelling was located, it was dazzling and eye-catching, forming a huge ball of light a mile in diameter, with spiritual light flowing inside, making it impossible for people to look directly at it.

Suddenly, a heaven-shaking thunderclap rang out from thin air, and the entire stone mountain shook violently.

Subsequently, a pillar of cyan light sprayed out from the stone mountain, shooting exactly into the light ball in the high sky.

Dark clouds immediately gathered around the huge light ball, with wind, rain, thunder, and lightning intertwined.

The light ball began to shrink and deform bit by bit in the dark clouds, while the five-colored spiritual light shimmered, becoming even more dazzling and eye-catching.

Some cultivators who were closer had already arrived near Little Stone Mountain, looking at the astonishing heavenly omen in the sky, looking at each other in dismay, not knowing what to do.

Not long after, the huge light ball, in the astonished eyes of the crowd, condensed into a crystal-clear round bead the size of a fist. The huge and terrifying spiritual energy contained within it made the nearby watching cultivators' faces change drastically, and no one dared to act rashly.

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