Chapter 126: Chapter 34: Target—Golden Core

Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Marketplace, Rong family courtyard.

“Pop~” Li Jizhou removed the shadow of the Illusion Talisman he had maintained for a year and a half and closed the array beneath the chessboard.

Sitting cross-legged, it seemed as though he had truly been in closed-door cultivation here for a year and a half.

Toward Master Qingmu, Li Jizhou’s mindset was very calm, with no deep-seated hatred; it was merely an ordinary killing for treasures on the path of cultivation, caused by the opportunity at Inverted Mountain, resulting in death with unfulfilled wishes.

Now, the cause and effect are over, and everyone is joyful.

A month later, Li Jizhou officially ended seclusion, claiming the Blood Burning Pill was completed and ready to return to the Golden Sun Sect.

The Patriarch of the Rong family secretly informed him of some news.

He told him that Master Qingmu was cultivating Demon Skills, now everyone was hunting him, and he was wanted by three sects.

This made Li Jizhou greatly shocked and repeatedly grateful for not accompanying him on that day two years ago.

In the aftermath, he gifted the Rong family Patriarch a Blood Burning Pill which used the heart blood of a Spirit Beast provided by the Rong family as the main ingredient and could double the power and impact of magical power in a short time.

Afterward, he bade farewell to the Rong family and returned to Xiaogang Peak.

Not long after he returned to the peak, Zhang Ruoyu hurried over.

After some greeting and concern, he told him some news.

Last year, the Supreme Elder of the Golden Sun Sect personally ordered that all senior Pill Masters within the sect, along with all Honored Guest Elders capable of refining Middle Grade Tier Two Pills, be sent to Inverted Mountain.

They were to refine on site a Divine Soul type pill named Solid Spirit Pill.

It was said that beneath Inverted Mountain, a bizarre realm was discovered, possibly where Divine Soul thoughts of high-level beings buried in Thunder Flame Sect eight hundred years ago had been born.

Among them may be an opportunity for the Nascent Soul.

However, countless cultivators enter, mostly ending in vain death, while those who came out alive completely lost their memory of it.

The Supreme Elder of the three sects personally investigated and confirmed that those who came alive were erased of Sea of Knowledge memories by the bizarre realm.

If there were a pill that could stabilize the Divine Soul and prevent memory erasure, it might be possible to explore the strange rules and opportunities within.

“It has finally come!” Li Jizhou slightly shook his head.

Having heard legends in his past life and read extensively in this life, he had expected that once a bizarre realm was discovered by major powers, and the discoverer’s strength was inferior to the Divine Soul thoughts within, only this method could solve it.

Use Solid Spirit Pill to resist the memory-erasing means within the realm.

However, this method is extremely perilous.

Divine Soul thoughts within the realm are bizarre entities born from earthly veins over centuries after the original body dies leaving its will in the world, stronger than their original selves and merged with the realm to form their own rules.

Trying to resist memory erasure can easily lead to Sea of Knowledge destruction, body not dead, but soul gone.

Who knows how many lives must fill it before a chance for success appears.

It is destined to be an ocean of corpses and rivers of blood.

“Pill Master Li, are you planning to go?” Zhang Ruoyu asked with a smile.

Li Jizhou immediately shook his head: “I have no experience in Divine Soul type pills, going there would only waste the sect’s materials, it’s better not to add to the chaos!”

Ever since he accidentally entered the Thunder Spirit Crystal Ore at Inverted Mountain in those years and witnessed the Divine Soul thoughts within, he has always kept a respectful distance from Inverted Mountain.

From what he saw and heard in the strange realm, the Thunder Flame Sect’s demise eight hundred years ago is definitely not as simple as rumors suggest.

Underneath it, there might be an earth-shattering secret unknown to people, sure to be accompanied by immense unanticipated danger.

“Hahaha, Pill Master Li is getting more and more in line with my taste, very good.” Zhang Ruoyu nodded appreciatively towards Li Jizhou.

He was truly worried that Li Jizhou couldn’t resist the temptation there and would run over.

At that time, he would lose a pill companion to co-refine the Lifespan Extension Pill with him.

The two chatted casually, with Zhang Ruoyu sharing the effects of the last Lifespan Extension Pill.

He praised Li Jizhou’s Pill Skill once more.

And promised to find another Longevity Fruit within three years to refine it with Li Jizhou again.

Their conversation was greatly enjoyable.

Until Zhang Ruoyu left, Li Jizhou activated the Restriction Array.

Releasing both Gua Gua and Bai Yi.

A year and a half ago, after Gua Gua was refined from the Spirit Blood Pool, it directly slept for three months!

The originally colorful skin became even brighter, more and more resembling the flower toad described by Rong Jiangyan.

As expected, Gua Gua’s bloodline improved, transforming from regular Lower Grade to Middle Grade bloodline.

And it broke through to Tier Two Early Stage all of a sudden, becoming a Tier Two demon beast comparable to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment.

It’s worth mentioning that its illusion talent improved once again, a month ago in the Purple Vine Mountain Range, although Master Qingmu was already very weakened and his Divine Soul was chaotic, Gua Gua could repeatedly succeed in releasing illusions at a Tier Two Middle Level demon beast stage, enough to indicate its strength.

After all, Master Qingmu had formed a Fake Pill for over a hundred years, considered a strong figure among Fake Pills.

Li Jizhou estimated that even if a cultivator at the Early Stage of Fake Pill were careless, they might fall to Gua Gua’s schemes.

“Gua~” Not returning for two years, as soon as Gua Gua emerged, it immediately hopped into the Celestial Pool, lying inside with its feet up.

Still carefree and lazy.

This was far from the performance described by Rong Jiangyan in the Spirit Blood Pool.

A month ago, Bai Yi swallowed the Three Nether True Flame from Master Qingmu’s body, also achieving subtle improvement, the Spirit Body became more compact, and the fire power broke through.

And it was in that instance that Li Jizhou discovered Bai Yi’s other peculiarity.

As a Fire Spirit, it can not only burn objects but also burn Divine Souls.

After Foundation Establishment, cultivators develop Divine Sense, which gets more refined after being tempered by Core Formation, laying the foundation for later Nascent Soul, thus after Core Formation, when a cultivator’s physical body perishes, the refined Divine Sense remains briefly.

Li Jizhou was initially planning to use a Soul-erasing Talisman to clear Master Qingmu’s Divine Sense, but ended up finding it had been burned by Bai Yi incidentally.

This brought Li Jizhou quite an unexpected joy.

Originally somewhat worried about Divine Soul Marks inside Master Qingmu’s leftover storage bag and intended to destroy it all, but because of Bai Yi’s ability to burn Divine Souls, he took it.

Currently, both inside and outside Master Qingmu’s storage bag have been burned by Bai Yi several times, eliminating all possible Divine Soul Marks.

It’s undeniable that Master Qingmu has given him a huge surprise.

Besides a Top-Grade magical artifact, Heaven-Flipping Seal, he had actually accumulated half of the Core Formation materials.

“Could he have wanted to reform his Core again?”

“Perhaps the cultivation technique ’Nine Nether Urgent Flame’ assists in reforming Core?”

In this world of cultivation, after Core Formation, one can turn the solid Formation Pill back into the liquid magical power of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Then, one can reform the Core.

This gives those who hurried into Core Formation with unsatisfactory results, and later found enough materials or unexpectedly obtained a significant Core Formation opportunity a chance to start over.

However, no matter the quality of the Core Formation, once reformed, the cultivation realm will revert to the Foundation Establishment Stage, and lifespan will also return to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Most importantly, whenever Core Formation is reformed, the success rate of reformation is bound to decrease by ten percent.

Moreover, after reforming, the physical body and Divine Soul will be injured, needing long terms to recuperate and finally attempt to reform the Core.

Usually, if only a Fake Pill is formed during the first Core Formation, unless subsequently finding heaven-defying opportunities to greatly increase Core Formation rate, it is not attempted easily.

After all, in Qi Kingdom, collecting normal Core Formation resources is not an easy feat.

Li Jizhou couldn’t help but have greater guesses about the cultivation technique ’Nine Nether Urgent Flame’.

Being able to obtain from the Divine Soul thoughts of Thunder Flame Sect, it might indeed be highly effective in significantly increasing both the chances and quality of Core Formation.

“Core Formation! Fake Pill, True Core, Golden Core… Immortal Golden Core!”

In his past life, Li Jizhou exerted all efforts yet never formed even a Fake Pill.

In this life, he already has half a bottle of Celestial Pure Water.

Once Core Formation resources are gathered and the Foundation Establishment Realm is fortified, Golden Core is the goal!

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