The ancients were right in saying that the Golden Elixir could be achieved instantaneously with the right conditions.0

In Daoist terminology, the Golden Elixir Path meant ascending to immortality, or attaining the Dao. As Tantai Ying had said, the Golden Elixir, also known as the Golden Core, was an abstract concept, not a tangible object.0

Although long ago, the Holy Xuan once sought truth through falsehood and used an internal alchemy method to condense a false core, he ultimately failed to complete it. Elder Xu destroyed the false core entirely, and in the end, the Holy Xuan returned to the orthodox path.0

According to Madam Wu, the concept of forming a core actually originated from this incident of cultivating falsehood. Cultivation was supposed to be the pursuit of truth. Eating insects as a means of cultivation was completely contrary to the orthodox path, so it naturally fell into the category of cultivating falsehood.0

However, that term was somewhat cumbersome, so most people preferred to call it insect cultivation, giving rise to Insect Immortals.0

Since the concept was too horrifying, both the Daoist Order and the Western Daoist Order kept the cultivation of Insect Immortals under strict secrecy and destroyed most traces of it. As a result, by Qi Xuansu’s generation,...0