Therefore, since ancient times, even if someone had the opportunity to cultivate this Heaven-Opening Creation Technique, those who succeeded were extremely rare! Just think, if it were an ordinary person without firm willpower, they would probably give up after running a hundred or so cycles without seeing any results. After all, such monotony is not something most people can endure. Moreover, if the soul is even slightly weak, it would be impossible to persist. A freak like Ethan Brooks, who can run several hundred or even a thousand cycles in one go, is truly one of a kind for someone with no prior cultivation experience!

Even if someone had such perseverance, they would still go astray during the process due to insufficient spiritual awareness!

But Ethan Brooks just happens to possess all the requirements for cultivating the Heaven-Opening Creation Technique. Ethan Brooks is inherently a person of extremely tenacious character—once he sets his mind on something, he never changes his original intention. To put it nicely, this kind of personality is called persistent; to put it bluntly, it's being stubborn—never turning back until hitting a dead end. But Ethan Brooks is the type who, even after hitting the wall and breaking through it, still won't turn back! Now, cultivating this most difficult Heaven-Opening Creation Technique, it's truly like a tortoise meeting a soft-shelled turtle—they're all one family.

Aside from temperament, Ethan Brooks's own fortune also played a significant role. The Hongjun Pagoda is Ethan Brooks's greatest blessing; without the protection of such a great opportunity, there would be absolutely no hope of even getting started.

In addition, Ethan Brooks is a transmigrated soul, so his spiritual awareness is already strong, and with the help of the Hongjun Pagoda, his body and spirit have become one with Ethan Morris Brooks, making his spiritual sense even more powerful. All these factors allowed him to break through the first major barrier in just one night!

This achievement is not only unprecedented, but likely will never be repeated!

The Niwan Palace at the top of his head throbbed more and more intensely, and eventually began to pulse rhythmically, growing hotter and hotter. Ethan Brooks's fair face gradually turned bright red...

He sat like this all the way until dawn, when the sky was just beginning to lighten! Ethan Brooks clearly felt that the fine, thread-like sensation of energy running through his body was becoming more and more lively, and gradually, it connected into a single line.

At the moment when the last segment of these fine threads connected, Ethan Brooks suddenly felt a burst of dazzling, multicolored light before his eyes, as if all the flowers in the world bloomed at once before him, and all the seven-colored clouds surrounded him. At the same time, it seemed as if thunder rumbled above his head, lightning flashed and thunder roared, rumbling loudly.

But Ethan Brooks's eyes were still closed, which meant that all of this was happening within his mind! This was precisely the first major barrier of the Heaven-Opening Creation Technique: Heart Stabilization!

Although Ethan Brooks clearly "saw" these strange visions, he always firmly remembered that his eyes were closed while cultivating! In other words, he shouldn't be able to see anything, but now he was seeing it—what did this mean? It meant that all of this was an illusion!

So Ethan Brooks paid it no mind, steadfastly guarding the clarity of his spirit, continuing to circulate his energy, ignoring everything else.

"Boom!" It was as if a bomb exploded suddenly in Ethan Brooks's mind. His body shuddered, and he suddenly felt as if he had lost all weight, his soul drifting away. With a "wah" sound, he spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood, spraying it far away, and immediately fainted.

That mouthful of blood landed on the snow-white bedsheet, bizarrely appearing pitch black, almost solid, not flowing at all. It looked just like a lump of black charcoal.

Ethan Brooks's body, collapsed on the ground, began to twitch slightly without his awareness. From his skin, little by little, more black liquid seeped out, slowly soaking and staining the soft white robe he wore...

This was the true meaning of cleansing the meridians and purging the marrow!

The filth that had seeped from his body earlier had only expelled most of the impurities from his skin and muscles, but what was being expelled now truly belonged to the inside of his bones. As for that thick, black blood clump that Ethan Brooks spat out, it was the impurities from his internal organs—the most difficult filth for the human body to expel!

Ethan Brooks's current state, in the words of cultivators, was the "Transcending the Mortal" realm! In other words, from this moment on, he had broken free from the shackles of the mortal flesh and officially stepped into the ranks of cultivation!

It should be known that every cultivator who achieves the "Transcending the Mortal" realm must go through a long and painful process—at the shortest, it takes several months, at the longest, several years or even decades. Some may never reach this realm in their entire lives! Yet Ethan Brooks achieved it in just one night! This was truly a miracle among miracles. If word got out, not a single cultivator would believe it!

Of course, this was not because Ethan Brooks had a special physique, nor simply because of his strong spiritual power. There was another reason—the white mist was the most important factor. It was the purest spiritual energy of heaven and earth! It's just that Ethan Brooks didn't know this yet.

Although Ethan Brooks was a martial arts expert in his previous life, he had never come into contact with the world of cultivation. In fact, in his understanding, so-called cultivation and becoming immortal was nothing but nonsense! So, even though he clearly knew about the changes in his body, he would only think he had some incredible stroke of luck.

When Ethan Brooks woke up again, he found himself in a large wooden tub, surrounded by warm water, with two soft little hands diligently scrubbing his body.