[Realm: Body: 12th Layer (3/12,000); Spirit: Qi Gathering 7th Layer (2/700); Mind: Level 5 (1/5000); Soul: Infant (1/100,000)]
As soon as the new stat appeared in the status screen, a torrent of knowledge flooded Xiang Yu's mind.
The soul, he now understood, developed through three distinct stages: infant, nascent, and adult. Under normal circumstances, when a cultivator reached the Golden Core stage, their core would migrate to the spiritual sea. There, bathed in nourishing qi, the core would transform into an egg. This egg would gradually absorb qi until it finally hatched, producing an infant soul.
This infant soul would then feed on the eggshell—essentially consuming the Golden Core itself—and advance to the nascent stage, marking the breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm. However, if a cultivator's core was damaged or insufficiently powerful, the infant might emerge without adequate nourishment, resulting in a kind of pseudo-Nascent Soul stage.
