Ao Mei sat in her room brushing her hair with an ivory hairbrush while looking into a large crystal mirror.
No one's more beautiful than me thought the arrogant Ao Mei as she applied expensive beauty products.
"Now just one more thing," said Ao Mei as she took out a bright pink pill.
This was a pill made by an alchemist called the eternal youth pill and despite its name, it's just a common pill that can be easily bought just about anywhere but it had a certain effect that Ao Mei loved.
It had a beautifying effect that made whoever ate it look young and attractive but it was purely cosmetic.
It didn't make you any younger it just made you look young but for a dual cultivator like herself, this kind of pill was very important.
She must always be sexy and seductive if she wasn't how would she survive?
Ao Mei was always a woman who used her looks and persuasive abilities to get by.
It was thanks to these talents that she became the second wife of the fearsome Mao Ling and received so much wealth and opportunities.
All she had to do was show some skin and she could get whatever she wanted.
Ao Mei consumed the pill and began circulating her Qi to speed up the process when Mao Qiang walked toward her.
He asked something but she ignored him and instead focused on the pill but not long after that she felt a suction force pulling away all the nearby spiritual Qi.
This greatly surprised her as such a phenomenon was impossible but she calmed herself and walked outside her room to find the root of the disturbance.
As she walked around she tried to wrap her head around what could be causing this strange phenomenon when it hit her it must be her freakish son doing.
Ao Mei has heard that people with superior attitudes for cultivation could create all kinds of unusual phenomena when they cultivated.
It just had to be him, after all, he was a monster but it's not like Ao Mei didn't like him in all honesty she was very proud of him.
Who's mother wouldn't be proud of a beast like him after all he was strong enough to kill Mao Jiang a man in the Nascent soul realm at only a day old and thanks to that she got some pity points from Mao Ling and Shi Xi got put in her place.
Even so, she was still afraid of him who wouldn't be afraid of a freak like him but that didn't matter all she cared about right now was what he could possibly be doing.
She quickly arrived in the garden where he regularly played in she assumed she didn't keep a very close eye on him.
She looked around and saw him standing by the lotus pond but something wasn't right.
Why did he have the unmistakable aura of a cultivator not just that it felt like the aura of someone in the soul formation realm?
Wasn't Mao Qiang a mortal all be it a very powerful mortal only a few minutes ago how did he go from nothing to the peak of the soul formation realm in that brief span of time?
She was utterly shocked but didn't show it instead she decided to march over to him and get some answers as to how he did all this.
She was going to do that but Mao Qiang instead asked her something.
"Hey, mom I have a question what comes after the soul formation realm?"
Ao Mei was surprised by this but decided to tell him anyway with a sigh.
"After the soul formation realm comes the golden core realm and to reach it you must combine your spiritual Qi, blood Qi, and your soul power and compress them into a core," answered a tired Ao Mei.
Mao Qiang just nodded his head then he followed what she said and in the next second Ao Mei's jaw dropped.
He had compressed all his different Qi's into a dim yellowish sphere meaning he had broken through into the first cycle of the golden core realm.