Apocalypse: Why did you provoke her? She's a cultivator.

Chapter 128 Pill Formation
It wasn't a dissipated stillness, but rather... having been touched by the tribulation lightning, it finally fell into complete silence, carrying with it a faint trace of lingering attachment.

The unusual movement of the spirit means that it has been activated and has played a role.

That wisp of divine soul was specially refined by him back then; it only recognizes a faint aura and can only be awakened by her using her natal spiritual energy.

It moved, and even saved someone from disaster...

The cultivator in the green robe suddenly stood up, and the stone bed shattered from the spiritual energy he generated as he stood up.

He looked in the direction where Ye Qiumian had once undergone her tribulation, his eyes first revealing deep pain, then igniting a cluster of increasingly bright light.

Mianmian...

Is she... still alive?

This thought, like a thunderclap, exploded in the long-dormant lake of his heart, stirring up a monstrous wave.

With a swift movement, he vanished from the cave, leaving behind only the suddenly chaotic spiritual energy that indicated the master's uncontrollable excitement.

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The scorched earth was burning hot from the lightning tribulation, and the residual heat seeped through the tattered clothes and seared my back like countless tiny embers.

Ye Qiumian lay on the ground, her forehead pressed against the rough clod of earth, a metallic, sweet taste rising in her throat, but she barely had the strength to cough.

At the edge of sight, that wisp of pale golden divine soul finally dissipated completely in the wind, leaving not even a last glimmer of light.

Master...

She murmured silently, her eyes already dry, but her heart felt like it was being squeezed tightly by an invisible hand, the pain almost suffocating her.

Only the deathly silence of the aftermath of the calamity remained between heaven and earth. The wind swept across the scorched earth, making a wailing sound, as if someone was crying softly.

After an unknown amount of time, a faint warmth suddenly emanated from his dantian.

The warm current flowed slowly along the meridians, and wherever it passed, the burning pain and fatigue seemed to lessen.

Ye Qiumian snapped back to reality, her unfocused gaze gradually refocusing—her spiritual energy was still circulating on its own.

Deep within his dantian, a hazy halo was slowly coalescing.

It’s the golden elixir!
She was just grieving the loss of her master after seeing him.

For a moment she forgot that she had just survived the Golden Core Tribulation.

In the cultivation world, the strong prey on the weak, and only cultivation level is the foundation for survival.

Moreover, she wanted to go back and find out the truth behind why they suddenly attacked her after she survived her tribulation!
Ye Qiumian believed that as long as her cultivation level broke through to the Tribulation Transcending stage, she could overcome the Heavenly Tribulation.

Perhaps then I can leave this world.

Then she'll find a way to return to the cultivation world.

A resolute will rose from the bottom of her heart, overpowering the heart-wrenching sorrow.

Ye Qiumian gritted her teeth, used all her strength to turn to the side, and tremblingly took out a Qi-Nourishing Pill from her spatial storage.

The pill melted instantly upon entering the mouth, its gentle medicinal power sliding down the throat and merging with the warm current in the dantian, transforming into a more powerful force that propelled the halo of light.

She closed her eyes, forced herself to clear her mind of distractions, and guided her spiritual energy to circulate according to the mantra.

With each cycle of the body's energy, the halo around her dantian solidified a little more, drawing in the sparse spiritual energy around her and forming a faint vortex around her body.

Her meridians felt like they were being stretched open, causing a dull ache, but she paid no attention and simply compressed that ball of spiritual energy again and again.

After an unknown number of hours, when the last wisp of spiritual energy was compressed in, the dantian suddenly sank!
Ye Qiumian was overjoyed. Upon looking inward, she saw a golden pill the size of a walnut, smooth and translucent, radiating a faint golden light, quietly floating in the center of her dantian, slowly rotating.

Become!

She has successfully condensed her golden core!

However, before the ecstasy had subsided, an extreme sense of emptiness swept over him.

The tribulation exhausted ninety percent of her spiritual energy, and the condensation of her golden core drained the last bit of it.

At this moment, her meridians were completely empty; she didn't even have the strength to lift her hand, and her golden core appeared somewhat dim due to the lack of spiritual energy. Just as she was feeling dizzy and about to collapse again, an unusual fluctuation suddenly came from beneath her feet.

That's... spiritual energy?
Ye Qiumian was startled and suddenly looked down.

A thin crack appeared in the scorched earth beneath her, and a warm luster emanated from the crack. Several wisps of spiritual energy, a hundred times more concentrated than that outside, were rising from there.

A thought struck her, and with all her might, she moved her body aside and reached out to pry open the broken clods of earth.

As the topsoil was brushed away, a small patch of crystal-clear stone gradually came into view.

Those are spirit stones!

Although it was only a small piece the size of a palm, it exuded an amazing spiritual energy.

It must have been that earth-shattering lightning tribulation that just now exposed a corner of the spiritual vein deep within the mountain!
A bright light flashed in Ye Qiumian's eyes; this was truly a glimmer of hope in a desperate situation!

Although she initially chose this place because it had a richer spiritual energy than other places.

It was highly likely that the spiritual vein was right beneath our feet, but unexpectedly, the lightning tribulation directly cleaved the spiritual vein out.

Ignoring her exhaustion, she immediately sat cross-legged and gently placed her palm on the spirit stone.

At the same time, he circulated his inner energy, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy surging from the spirit stone and the spiritual vein beneath it.

The abundant spiritual energy surged into the meridians like a flood bursting its banks, instantly filling the previously parched meridians.

The gentle, nourishing power soothes every damaged vein.

The golden elixir within the dantian, like rain after a long drought, began to slowly rotate.

Nourished by spiritual energy, its light gradually became fuller and brighter.

Ye Qiumian was immersed in cultivation, completely isolated from the outside world.

The wind was still blowing on the scorched earth, and a faint light gradually appeared on the horizon. Then the blazing sun hung high in the sky, and finally, night quietly fell, only to recede in the first rays of dawn.

When she opened her eyes again, there was no trace of dejection in them, but instead, calmness and determination.

The spiritual energy within his body flowed abundantly, and the golden core remained steadily in the center of his dantian, emanating a stable aura befitting his cultivation level.

Her cultivation at the early stage of the Golden Core realm has been stabilized.

Ye Qiumian slowly stood up and patted the dust off her clothes.

She looked up at the distant void, the path she was about to embark on to return home.

Master... wait for me!
Ye Qiumian lowered her eyes and looked at the crack in the spiritual vein at her feet.

The spirit stone, which had just been shining with a lustrous sheen, had turned grayish-brown, and the wisps of spiritual energy that had been emanating from it seemed to have been drained away.

Only a few faint wisps of breath remained, drifting in the cracks, disappearing at the slightest touch.

She gently brushed her fingertips across the surface of the spirit stone; the warm, smooth texture remained, but the spiritual energy contained within was nearly depleted.

It seems that she was too eager when absorbing the energy, and this corner of her body has temporarily run out of energy.

"The Golden Core stage... is still too weak."

She murmured to herself, her fingertips curling slightly.

Removing a spiritual vein, even just a small section, requires at least the cultivation level of the Nascent Soul stage to shake its foundation.

She has just entered the Golden Core stage. Although her spiritual power is stable, it is far from enough to move the main trunk of the intricate spiritual veins beneath the rocks.

Let's keep it for now.

But she suppressed the thought as soon as it arose.

If someone were to discover this place after the recent tribulation and destroy this spiritual vein, wouldn't she suffer a devastating loss?

This spiritual vein was an opportunity she obtained by following that sapling; she would eventually take it away once her cultivation was sufficient.