Her mind sank into her body, and all the clamor and light of the outside world quickly receded.
Su Yun’s consciousness felt as if it had dived into an endlessly deep, warm ocean. Here, there was no up or down, no four directions—only a vast, boundless domain radiating a soft, emerald-green light.
This was the majestic sea of life force within her.
Usually, it was quiet and docile, like a sleeping galaxy, permeating every corner of her body in the form of countless tiny specks of light. From the tips of her hair to her fingernails, it lived in symbiosis with every cell.
It was so vast that Su Yun’s consciousness within it seemed as small as a lone boat.
Su Yun was in no hurry to act.
She simply let her soul settle quietly into this sea of life.
Suddenly.
Bursts of enlightenment surged into her heart.
Looking again.
That petite body had transformed into a boundless galaxy of stars.
“Living…”
Su Yun murmured to herself.
It was as if she heard those repeated questions once more.
Why do you live?
What is the meaning of living?
I don’t know.
I don’t care.
I just want to live.
A ripple traveled from the depths of this “universe.”
Su Yun immediately felt her connection with this life force grow much tighter.
Indescribable sensations flooded her mind.
She seemed to understand something, yet she could not put it into words.
“My god…”
Outside, a strange light flickered in Lin Mo’s beautiful eyes.
“Truly heaven-chosen… to be able to perceive a trace of the Laws at the initial stage?”
Su Yun knew nothing of this.
Her mind transformed into an invisible hand, gently brushing across this sea of stars.
At first, these specks of life light gave no reaction. They merely drifted passively with the ripples of her consciousness, like mindless dust.
Su Yun was not discouraged. Over and over, she used her will to touch them, to call out to them.
Her majestic intent spread out like ripples.
Gradually, a wonderful reaction occurred.
The light specks closest to her consciousness began to emit a brighter glow. They actively and affectionately drew closer to her mind, like a swarm of fireflies that had found their mother.
One success triggered a cascade.
Soon, the light specks around her consciousness became active, forming small, constantly rotating vortices of light.
They were like the countless nebulae within the universe.
Rotating slowly, yet with determination.
With this initial response, Su Yun’s confidence surged.
Originally, she had intended to simply compress them haphazardly into a pill.
But now, she had changed her mind.
Since the life force within her was like a vast, boundless galaxy.
Then why not directly enact the end of a universe?
She fixed her mind at the location of her lower Dantian, the Sea of Qi, and then elevated her intent of “condensation” to the extreme.
She was no longer gently guiding; she transformed her consciousness into a gravitational singularity—a core hungering to gather all light.
“Come!”
A cry originated from the depths of her soul.
In an instant, the entire ocean of life force began to boil.
Countless emerald-green specks of light, as if receiving an imperial edict, were awakened from her limbs, bones, and internal organs.
They galloped forth, turning into thousands of brilliant light ribbons and billions of emerald meteors. Majestic and unceasing, they swirled and surged toward the core of consciousness in Su Yun’s Dantian.
There is a theory.
When a star dies, it eventually becomes a black hole.
Black holes swallow everything, pulling at each other until they become the beginning and the end of all things.
A singularity—
This torrent was so terrifying that if it were any ordinary mage, the mere scouring of this energy would be enough to instantly collapse their physical body and annihilate their soul.
But Su Yun’s body was the original vessel for this life force; the two shared the same source.
This was more like a grand homecoming.
Instead of harming her, the torrent of energy continuously washed over and tempered her meridians and bones. It made her already extraordinary physical body even more translucent, filled with a divine radiance.
Infinite life force gathered in the Dantian, and its density quickly reached a staggering level.
They were no longer scattered points of light, but had formed a high-speed, rotating, liquefied emerald nebula.
At the center of the nebula, pressure and temperature began to climb geometrically.
“Still not enough!”
Su Yun’s teeth were clenched as she poured her entire mind into controlling this nebula.
She could feel that familiar sense of “fullness” returning. It was a hundred times stronger than before, as if her entire body was about to be burst apart by this infinite energy.
But—
Become an Immortal!!!
Eternal Life!!!!
Su Qiuyue’s soul let out a roar.
Boundless obsession transformed into infinite power.
No one shall stop me!!!
“Condense for me!”
Her consciousness became an invisible giant hammer, ruthlessly striking the center of that rotating liquid nebula.
Her mental strength burned with unprecedented intensity, forcibly resisting the natural diffusion and repulsion of the life force.
“Buzz—”
An indescribable humming sounded in the depths of Su Yun’s soul.
Under that extreme pressure and the tempering of her will, the very core of the liquid nebula suddenly collapsed.
The moment of collapse was like the reverse of the Big Bang.
All the surrounding liquid life force was frantically sucked in. Light was swallowed; energy was compressed.
The originally clamorous and violent energy storm fell into an eerie stillness at this moment.
In its place was a pill about the size of a dragon’s eye, hovering in the center of Su Yun’s Dantian. It was perfectly round, radiating a restrained yet profound emerald glow.
It was no longer shining brilliantly like before; instead, it appeared somewhat plain and unadorned. All the energy was perfectly contained within.
Its surface was smooth as a mirror, like the most perfect jade in the world.
But if one looked closely, they could see that the interior of the pill seemed to contain a newborn world, with galaxies flowing and green life flourishing, filled with infinite vitality and rhythm.
It hovered quietly. Every slight rotation drove the life breath of Su Yun’s entire body through a cycle of respiration.
The life force that had previously filled her body and made her feel bloated was now perfectly stored within this pill, transformed into a source power she could mobilize at will.
The bottleneck of Level 19 instantly melted away like thin ice under a scorching sun the moment this Golden Core took shape.
It even went further.
Level 25.
A sense of power, far purer and stronger than before, surged through her entire body from the depths of her lower Dantian.
The Life Golden Core was complete!
Su Yun slowly opened her eyes, and a flash of deep emerald divine light vanished within her pupils.
She spread her palm and, with a thought, a wisp of life breath so pure it reached the limit condensed into a budding green lotus in her hand.
This power was hundreds of times stronger than its previous scattered state.
This unprecedented power caused her confidence to explode.
She could even clearly feel that she would no longer age with the passage of time.
For a moment, she forgot her surroundings and shouted wantonly.
“This master has succeeded! Hahahaha…!”
“Hmm? What have you succeeded at?”
“Eh…” Su Yun froze, stiffly turning her small head.
She saw Lin Mo looking at her with a smile on her face.
“So, what exactly did you succeed at?”