Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

At a normal cultivation speed, it would take Chen Tian hundreds of years to reach the Core Formation Realm. However, with the help of the abundant spiritual power from the eight spiritual veins, Chen Tian compressed this process into a mere few days.

While absorbing spiritual power, Chen Tian's body and bones were also undergoing transformation. Upon closer inspection, one could discover that Chen Tian's body was faintly becoming warm and transparent, making him look like a piece of beautiful jade.

At the same time, a refreshing fragrance emanated from Chen Tian's body. This fragrance spread from the palace and enveloped the entire Dongli Kingdom!

In those few days, every citizen of the Dongli Kingdom was immersed in this strange fragrance. Although they did not know where this fragrance came from, everyone who smelled it felt incredibly comfortable. Children became more perceptive, and the elderly lived longer!

However, this blissful period did not last long. After seven days, the fragrance that enveloped the entire Dongli Kingdom rapidly retreated, eventually concentrating back into the palace.

At that moment, Chen Tian, who had been breathing and absorbing spiritual power, slowly opened his eyes.

Releasing his spiritual sense for a brief internal inspection, Chen Tian discovered that his Dantian had completely collapsed and shattered, transforming into a starry sky filled with brilliant starlight. At the very center of this starry sky were three of the brightest lights, like stars, shining exceptionally brightly!

These three radiant lights were Chen Tian's Immortal, Demon, and Monster race avatars!

Only after breaking through the boundaries and transforming the Dantian into a void can it bear more spiritual power. This is also a necessary step to break through the Foundation Establishment Realm!

At this time, with the help of the eight spiritual veins, Chen Tian had completely completed the transformation of his Dantian into a void. At the same time, a large amount of spiritual power also transformed Chen Tian's physical body once again, causing him to be completely reborn.

After completing the transformation of the Dantian into a void, the second step was to condense an Immortal Infant that belonged exclusively to Chen Tian.

Logically speaking, once cultivators reach the Transformation Spring Realm, they will condense a Spiritual Infant. This Spiritual Infant is where their primordial spirit resides, and it can also serve as their external avatar. After condensing the Spiritual Infant, even if their physical body is destroyed, as long as the Spiritual Infant still exists, they can use the Soul Seizing technique to occupy another person's body and recover.

Therefore, the Spiritual Infant is equivalent to giving each immortal cultivator a second life.

However, Chen Tian's situation was quite complicated. When he broke through to the Transformation Spring Realm, he did not condense a Spiritual Infant. Instead, he directly used the three race avatars to replace his Spiritual Infant, forcibly breaking through.

It should be known that these three race avatars are powerful and belong to ancient powerful races. Therefore, using them as Spiritual Infants made Chen Tian's strength far superior to that of cultivators of the same rank! It was precisely for this reason that Chen Tian was invincible and always victorious!

However, if he wanted to break through the Foundation Establishment Realm, then using the three race avatars to replace the Spiritual Infant would no longer work.

Because unlike the Transformation Spring Realm and the Condensation Sea Realm, the primordial spirit of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator is no longer called a Spiritual Infant, but an Immortal Infant!

Immortal Infant, as the name suggests, is an infant destined to become an immortal!

In ancient times, as long as a cultivator condensed an Immortal Infant, then he would be qualified to ascend to the Ancient Immortal Realm and become an immortal.

This is the origin of the Immortal Infant.

Although the path to the Ancient Immortal Realm has been completely sealed off, the term 'Immortal Infant' has still been retained.

Therefore, if Chen Tian wanted to break through the Foundation Establishment Realm, then he had to condense an Immortal Infant that belonged exclusively to him!

After thinking about this, Chen Tian took a deep breath. Immediately afterward, he did not stop and mobilized all the spiritual power and primordial spirit in his body, condensing a small person of several inches in size in his Dantian!

This little person was exquisitely carved and extremely cute. Even more miraculously, this little person's face and appearance were exactly the same as Chen Tian's, completely a miniature version of Chen Tian.

Furthermore, not only that, but this little person also exuded an aura of arrogance and aloofness, completely carved from the same mold as Chen Tian.

This was the Spiritual Infant that Chen Tian condensed, containing all his spiritual power and primordial spirit!

"Ding ding ding… Ding ding ding…"

Just as the Spiritual Infant was formed, the bells that Chen Tian had placed around the palace to serve as a warning suddenly began to shake violently and strangely, emitting a series of disturbing noises.

After looking around, Chen Tian's eyes sharpened, and he locked his gaze on the southeast corner, coldly saying, "Hmph, as expected, they still came. A mere evil demon dares to try to attack me; quickly die!"

With that said, Chen Tian pointed with his right hand, and the Xuan Forbidden Immortal Sword hovering above his head suddenly burst out with a buzzing sound. Then, like a meteor, it quickly shot towards the southeast corner and slammed into a pillar!

"Shriek… Shriek… Shriek… Shriek…"

Along with a series of sharp howls like ghosts crying and wolves howling, a green-faced, fanged ghost suddenly appeared at the tip of the Xuan Forbidden Immortal Sword. However, its body was now completely pinned to the pillar by the Xuan Forbidden Immortal Sword, making it unable to move.

For cultivators, breaking through from the Condensation Sea Realm to the Foundation Establishment Realm is undoubtedly equivalent to walking around in front of the gates of hell, because during this process is the weakest moment for a cultivator. Those wandering lonely souls and fierce ghosts will seize this opportunity to devour the cultivator's primordial spirit.

Although Chen Tian had set up multiple restrictions around the palace, this could only block some of the weaker lonely souls and wild ghosts. However, it was completely useless against those giant demon fierce ghosts that had wandered the world for tens of thousands of years and accumulated vast amounts of Yin energy.

As it turned out, the strength of this fierce ghost subdued by Chen Tian was actually equivalent to the mid-stage of the Condensation Sea Realm among human cultivators.

They wandered in the human world, specializing in devouring human primordial spirits for a living. At this time, they were tempted by the aura emanating from Chen Tian's body, so they rushed over, wanting to devour Chen Tian's primordial spirit and Spiritual Infant.

Once they succeeded, then let alone breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, even Chen Tian's life might not be saved!

That is why it is said that every time a cultivator breaks through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, it is like walking in front of the gates of hell.

"Shriek… Shriek… Shriek… Shriek…"

At this time, although the body of this green-faced, fanged fierce ghost was imprisoned by the Xuan Forbidden Immortal Sword, it still wanted to reach out and grab the Spiritual Infant floating above Chen Tian's head with its instincts!

"Die!"

However, how could Chen Tian let it succeed? After a cold snort, the Xuan Forbidden Immortal Sword suddenly burst out with dazzling light, immediately dissolving the fierce ghost's body!

"Shriek shriek shriek shriek… Shriek shriek shriek shriek…"

However, just after Chen Tian had strangled this fierce ghost, more cries of ghosts came from all directions, surrounding the palace. Obviously, they were all attracted by the aura emanating from Chen Tian and came to devour Chen Tian's primordial spirit!

However, after Chen Tian sensed all of this, his face suddenly darkened. Immediately afterward, his mind moved, and the Xuan Forbidden Immortal Sword immediately burst out with even more gloomy and dazzling light, soaring into the sky and shooting towards those constantly approaching fierce ghosts.