I Have a Billion Golden Cores

The once-in-ten-thousand-years genius Ye Chen formed a golden core after just three months of cultivation, breaking a record that had stood for a hundred thousand years. But when he tried to break the record for reaching the Nascent Soul stage, he found that no matter what he did, he couldn't shatter his core and form a nascent soul. So he went into seclusion to keep cultivating, only to... form another golden core. Unwilling to give up, he secluded himself again and formed yet another golden core... Finally, after a hundred thousand years, he successfully formed one hundred million golden cores! Each golden core grants five hundred years of life... But by then, it is already the twenty-first century, an era said to be devoid of spiritual energy...