Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 112 Golden Core Mutation
The teleportation array lit up again.

In the blink of an eye, we were back at Jade Spring Peak.

After inspecting the goods and handing over 'part' of the spoils, Su You left immediately.

Take the quest items with you and head to the Hall of Merit.

Having completed this mission, his status and position in the Void Heaven Sect have finally been elevated to a higher level.

After carefully examining the essence of earth milk, the elder of the Good Deeds Hall readily took out a drop, put it in a jade bottle, and handed it to Su You.

This is one of the rewards for this mission.

After receiving the reward, Su You quickly went to the Internal Affairs Hall and changed his identity.

A true disciple!

He stayed in the Void Heaven Sect in order to seek a higher status, and now he has finally taken the first step.

Now he has higher authority in the Void Heaven Sect. The most obvious example is that he can now enter the fourth floor of the Transmission Pavilion and view the scriptures and jade slips inside.

However, now is not the time to collect knowledge; his most urgent task is to advance to the Golden Core realm.

"I still need to go to the Dharma Transmission Pavilion." Su You thought for a moment and immediately set off.

Advancing to the Golden Core stage was a piece of cake for Su You. Even without the Golden Core that guaranteed a breakthrough, he still had a high probability of succeeding.

However, Su You still had some doubts about what exactly determines the grade of the Golden Core formed when advancing to the Golden Core stage, and he needed to find out more details.

Although Chi Ding had said that using the Nine Revolutions of Dan Yuan in combination with special pills would greatly increase the chances of condensing a Grade One Golden Core, he still wanted to confirm it himself to see if he could increase the success rate.

The grade of the Golden Core is related to future progress, not just potential. Different grades of Golden Cores will also have some differences in strength.

He easily exchanged dozens of Core Formation insights at the Transmission Pavilion, as well as knowledge and secret techniques about Core Formation summarized by the sect.

Su You doesn't lack merit points right now. Apart from the merit points he exchanged for with spirit stones to build his foundation, all the merit points he accumulated afterward were obtained by taking on alchemy tasks. He still has hundreds of thousands of merit points left.

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Shui Yuan Peak.

This is the third-tier spiritual vein that Su You replaced after becoming an apprentice, and it is also his place of cultivation in the sect.

It's unlikely he'll switch back until he advances to the Nascent Soul stage, unless he, like his master, displays fourth-tier alchemy skills at the Golden Core stage, which might allow him to gain control over some fourth-tier spiritual veins.

Su You didn't care about the place where he cultivated.

Simply relying on absorbing external spiritual energy for cultivation is far too slow.

Even after he advances to the Golden Core stage, he will still need to rely on pills to improve his cultivation.

Su You was too lazy to develop this spiritual vein. It only yielded a few thousand spirit stones a year, and it would require hiring spirit farmers to cultivate it, which was too troublesome.

Although this is just his base of operations within the sect and there aren't many secrets hidden here, it's still better to be cautious.

Back in his cave, Su You activated the restrictions and began to examine the information on the jade slip.

The cultivation techniques he practiced also included some information about Core Formation, but it's never a bad thing to know more.

Moreover, with tens of thousands of years of heritage, the Void Heaven Sect undoubtedly has a deeper understanding of the Core Formation process and may even possess corresponding secret techniques.

The secret art of Core Formation is indeed one of the foundations of a sect. A good Core Formation technique can even enhance the sect's potential.

The Secret Technique of Nourishing Spirit Essence!

This is the Golden Elixir Secret Technique passed down by the Void Heaven Sect. It can nourish one's own essence and allow one to store three times the amount of essence in a short period of time.

This secret technique is incredibly powerful!
It should be understood that the Golden Elixir is the product of the condensation of the body's essence, energy, and spirit.

The stronger one's own essence, energy, and spirit, the higher the quality of the golden elixir that can be condensed.

However, human energy is limited, and it is already very difficult to cultivate one's own vital energy and magical power, let alone improve one's physical body and soul.

Moreover, even with sufficient resources and energy, improving the physical body is relatively easy, but improving the soul is extremely difficult.

The spirit is the manifestation of a person's soul, hidden deep within the sea of ​​consciousness. It is extremely difficult to improve, and techniques in this area are very scarce.

Even within the Void Heaven Sect, with Su You's current authority, he could only find a very rudimentary cultivation technique in the fourth-level Transmission Pavilion, which would bring very little improvement.

According to the jade slips of the Void Heaven Sect, to condense a first-grade golden core, one not only needs to raise one's essence, energy, and spirit to their limit, but also needs to transcend that limit.

This will increase the probability of condensing a first-grade golden elixir.

“Beyond the limit…” Su You murmured, “My current spiritual power should be considered beyond the limit. If I combine it with the secret technique of the Nine Revolutions of Dan Yuan, and the Crimson Cauldron also helped me exchange for a pill that temporarily enhances the three treasures of human essence, qi and spirit, there is really a very high probability that I will achieve a first-grade golden core.”

He was certain that the reason Chi Ding was so sure he had formed a first-grade golden core was because he had seen through his powerful spiritual energy.

Furthermore, by employing the Nine Revolutions of Dan Yuan Secret Method, one can further refine one's spiritual energy during the formation of the elixir.

However, the secret techniques passed down by the Void Heaven Sect should not be forgotten; the Essence Nourishing Technique has a temporary effect on enhancing essence.

It is indeed extremely useful for those who have reached the Core Formation stage.

This would perfectly address the shortcomings in his physical essence, with the only drawback being that his magical power was not at its limit.

Fortunately, the gap between it and the limit isn't too large, and it should be able to be made up for with the help of secret techniques.

"If we calculate it this way, my success rate in breaking through to the first-grade Golden Core stage will be even higher." Su You felt a little excited.

Even without the pills that temporarily boost his essence, energy, and spirit, he far surpasses his twin clones in all three aspects.

His physical body is already at the mid-stage of the third-order Body Refinement realm, and his mental strength has reached the late-stage of the Golden Core realm. As for his magical power, he cultivates the Nascent Soul Transformation technique, and his magical power is already at the limit of the Foundation Establishment realm.

After reading the classic texts, Su You immediately decided to go into seclusion.

He was already confident of breaking through this time, and the first-grade golden elixir was just a piece of cake.

He returned to Luoxia Island, bringing all the pills he needed for his breakthrough, and left the supplies he had brought from Hongya Secret Realm there.

Those materials that can be processed and used by ourselves are processed and sold directly; those that cannot are simply placed in the shop for sale.

In one day, Su You went to the Void Heaven Immortal City and then returned to the Void Heaven Sect. He rented a fourth-tier cave dwelling on the mountain where the cultivation room was located.

Although his master had a free fourth-tier cave dwelling, he had too many secrets, and he was breaking through even more secretly in his cultivation chamber.

After closing the door to the secret chamber, Su You first used his divine sense to scan the area. Once he confirmed that there were no problems, he began to cultivate the Essence Nourishing Spirit Secret Technique.

This secret technique is not difficult to master, but it requires the use of high-level pills to restore one's vital essence. The vital essence stored in the Essence Nourishing Technique is drawn from one's own body, but one must immediately restore one's own vital essence after the extraction, otherwise it will affect the formation of the Golden Core.

In particular, since the essence stored by this secret technique can only last for a maximum of one day, it requires the highest-grade elixirs for recovery.

If that doesn't work, you can only reduce the extraction of essence and store only twice or one and a half times the amount of essence, so that you have more time to recover to your peak condition.

This minor flaw was nothing to Su You.

In the Void Heaven Immortal City, he spent a great deal of money to buy several bottles of third-grade high-quality pills to restore vital essence, which was enough to deal with the current situation.

After swallowing a Rejuvenating Pill, a continuous stream of vital energy surged from his body. Su You quickly activated his secret technique, drawing upon his own vital energy while refining the essence within the pill.

In just two hours, he had completed the storage of three times the amount of essence.

Including his own essence, it can be considered four times the essence. Such a huge amount of essence, even if it is still some distance from the Golden Core level of body refinement cultivators, is about the same as the late Foundation Establishment level of body refinement cultivators.

Although the twin clones stopped body refinement after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, they still refined their bodies during the Qi Refining stage, so their essence is still more abundant than that of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

"Let's begin..." Su You formed hand seals and began circulating his cultivation technique.

The liquid magic power within his body began to surge and swirl, as if it were a tidal wave.

In an instant, the fourth-order spiritual energy outside began to surge and be absorbed into Su You's body.

The violent impact caused cracks and bloodstains to appear on his body.

Fortunately, he had prepared third-tier recovery pills in advance, which quickly repaired his physical body after he swallowed them.

Within his dantian, liquid magical energy swirled continuously, frantically absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world.

Su You felt an intense stinging pain in his dantian. He endured the pain and continued to absorb spiritual energy until he was about to reach his limit and could no longer bear it. Only then did he swallow the golden pill in one gulp.

The powerful medicinal effects of the Golden Elixir immediately took hold, and the dantian began to stabilize again. The liquid mana continued to absorb spiritual energy, and it was beginning to condense into a ball.

The blue magical power formed a sphere, continuously gathering, condensing, and compressing, containing the golden elixir. This process was extremely smooth.

He can still easily break through even if he does nothing.

But at most, this will result in a mid-grade Golden Core.

Sensing that the spherical magical power had condensed for about the right amount of time, Su You no longer hesitated and swallowed another pill.

This is the Three-Element Treasure Pill, and its value is in no way lower than that of the Golden Core Pill, since it is a powerful pill that can improve the grade of the Golden Core.

As soon as the pill was swallowed, Su You felt a continuous surge of energy and spirit within his body.

The magical power that appeared out of thin air was reinjected into the semi-solid magic pill, and the essence in the body was also continuously poured into this blue magic pill.

The spiritual power within the sea of ​​consciousness flowed in like a long river.

The so-called Golden Elixir is the condensation of essence, energy, and spirit into one; it is not considered a Golden Elixir if it is merely formed from magical power.

The essence, energy, and spirit brought by the Three Yuan Treasure Pill gave this newly formed semi-golden pill a stronger foundation, allowing it to absorb even more essence, energy, and spirit.

freed!

Just as the effects of the precious pill were about to wear off, Su You released the seal of the Essence Nourishing Spirit Secret Technique, and a massive amount of essence continued to flow into the semi-solid golden pill.

Now his blue golden core has become incredibly deep, with a hint of cyan within it, which is precisely the attribute attached to his spiritual power.

He hadn't expected that his spiritual power attribute would bring such a change to his golden core.

However, he had a vague feeling that this change should be a good thing, as his originally surging golden core began to quietly stabilize.

Furthermore, mysterious runes were faintly generated on it.

This is a sign that a first-grade golden elixir is about to be formed.

Because once a first-grade golden core is formed, it will naturally generate supernatural powers, which is the strength of a first-grade golden core.

Su You realized that he was still just one step away from condensing a first-grade golden core.

Nine Revolutions of Elixir!

As soon as the secret technique was activated, mysterious fluctuations began to sweep across the still-forming golden core, making the entire golden core even purer, and eliminating traces of invisible gray-white impurities from its body.

After the Nine Revolutions of the Elixir Technique was activated, the golden elixir, which had been faintly solidifying, gradually lost the color that originally accompanied its magical power, becoming incomparably pure and shining with gold.

The runes on it also accelerated their formation.

Countless mysterious runes intertwined, eventually forming the shape of a green world tree, with the rune pattern taking shape on the surface of the golden core.

The golden elixir is ready!
After the runes took shape, the golden core began to spin rapidly, and the surrounding spiritual energy surged wildly into its body, constantly being absorbed by the formed golden core.

The violent spiritual energy surged throughout his body, causing his entire body to crack repeatedly, but it healed again with the help of the Golden Elixir.

The spiritual energy permeates the body, and the meridians, bones, and blood undergo transformation under its influence.

After absorbing enough spiritual energy, the blue golden core began to spew out a massive amount of essence and spiritual power again.

His physical body is undergoing a transformation under the influence of a much larger amount of essence. It can be said that the strength of his physical body is now comparable to that of a mid-stage second-tier body refinement cultivator.

This is a tremendous improvement. You should know that even if a Golden Core cultivator undergoes a physical transformation, they are at most equivalent to the early stage of the second tier.

The golden core continued to spray spiritual energy, and all of it was absorbed bit by bit by the sea of ​​consciousness, and the entire soul began to transform.

After a short while, his soul stabilized again.

Compared to the huge leap in physical strength, the improvement in mental power is much smaller.

After all, Su You's mental strength had already broken through to the third level, undergoing a qualitative change. This breakthrough would at most make his mental strength even stronger.

He estimated that his mental strength had broken through from the third level of the Golden Core stage to the fifth level.

Don't underestimate the improvement of just two minor realms; if Su You were to meditate and cultivate silently, it would take at least fifty or sixty years.

"Finally, I've broken through to the Golden Core realm!" Su You spat out a perfectly round and full Golden Core, with a large green tree faintly emerging from its brilliant gold surface.

After a hundred years of cultivation, he finally reached the Golden Core realm.

Moreover, it was a first-grade elixir.

Although this cultivation speed cannot compare to those of super geniuses, it is already among the top in the sect.

(End of this chapter)