Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 478: Chapter 285: Pill Formation_2

As the deadline of the Heavenly Thunder arrived, the golden lightning’s ferocity weakened, absorbed by the golden Sword Intent, which then retracted back into the Golden Core.

“Hahaha!” Li Yuanba burst out laughing, despite the damage caused by the Heavenly thunder, he felt extremely good.

His soul had been enhanced once again. He did not know whether any other cultivator in the Cultivation World had undergone the baptism of Heavenly Thunder twice, but he indeed had accomplished this feat.

This put his soul at the starting point of the Golden Core Stage, surpassing other early-stage Golden Core cultivators, which was extremely crucial for his future cultivation, the growth of his Divine Thought, and more.

Within his body, a tiny Golden Core was closely linked to his body, becoming the source of energy for his body.

The Spiritual Power he could now control was all drawn from this tiny Golden Core. Each strand of Spiritual Power was like solid-state Spiritual Power and naturally contained Sword Intent.

Most uniquely, his Golden Core had inexplicably changed shape at the last moment and had become sword-shaped.

A sword-shaped Golden Core, even in the “Sky-Surging Sword Intend Technique,” had no recorded equivalent. If he hadn’t felt that his Golden Core was normal, he would have suspected that there was a problem with his cultivation.

“This is the Golden Core Stage!” Li Yuanba muttered to himself, feeling the changes inside and outside his body.

In terms of his soul, his soul had strengthened more than threefold, which made his spiritual strength surpass Li Shiming significantly, given that the weakest aspect during a Golden Core breakthrough is the enhancement of the soul.

For most cultivators, the enhancement of the soul during the breakthrough to Golden Core is merely enough to possess Divine Thought.

However, he had achieved Divine Thought back when he was at the Foundation Establishment Stage, and in some ways, his soul’s strength had reached the level of a Golden Core cultivator even then.

The soul and spirit are closely related; the stronger the soul, the stronger the spirit.

At this moment, his spiritual strength was likely even greater than that of mid-stage Golden Core cultivators, let alone the late-stage Golden Core cultivators. Elder Jian’s spiritual strength was something he could not perceive before, thus he had no notion of its depth.

In terms of Spiritual Power, the Spiritual Power drawn from the Golden Core was ten times more condensed than that at the Foundation Establishment Stage.

No wonder he felt that any strike from a Golden Core cultivator was unbearable before. This level of Spiritual Power was simply not something that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could withstand.

Only after truly reaching the Golden Core Stage did he realize how dangerous his battle with the Independent Practitioner Golden Core Niu Ziru had been.

Any strand of Spiritual Power from the Golden Core Stage, if it hit his body, would have been fatal.

Of course, he had dared to face Independent Practitioner Golden Core Niu Ziru originally because he was absolutely sure that Niu Ziru would not hit him.

In terms of the Taoist Body, back during mid-stage Foundation Establishment, his Body Refining Technique had been cultivated to the limit of the Foundation Establishment Stage, which was the effect of “Purple Qi Eastward,” letting his Taoist Body exceed the Foundation Establishment Stage, but also reaching a certain bottleneck.

Now, he felt that the previous bottleneck of his Taoist Body had disappeared, presenting great potential ahead in his Body Refinement.

Unfortunately, the “Sword Demon Secret Manual” did not contain content on cultivating during the Golden Core Stage. He needed to find a new suitable Body Refining Technique for further cultivation.

Outside Ten Thousand Sword Peak, once again, many cultivators had gathered.

The consecutive Heavenly Thunders had peaked these cultivators’ curiosity, but no matter how they used the Sound Transmission Technique, they received no responses.

A few Golden Core cultivators with ambitions towards Ten Thousand Sword Peak had flickering gazes, as they seemed to be worried about some accidents occurring.

“Once Elder Jian and Li Yuanba come out, we’ll know what happened!” Elder Yue said gravely.

Although he suspected that Elder Jian had secluded himself for breakthrough to the Nascent Soul, they couldn’t be one hundred percent certain, and considering the strange phenomena at Ten Thousand Sword Peak, which were far beyond what Li Yuanba could cause, Elder Yue spoke as such.

Because of these concerns, the ambitious Golden Core cultivators only verbalized their doubts, and none dared to suggest breaking the formation.

The cultivators discussed this for a long time before they slowly dispersed.

Of course, although it seemed like all had left, many cultivators, even after returning to their dwellings, kept a special watch on Ten Thousand Sword Peak.

As soon as the great formation of Ten Thousand Sword Peak was activated, they would immediately come to investigate the situation.

Elder Yue also left, not knowing what had happened at Ten Thousand Sword Peak, but it seemed it wouldn’t be activated for a short period.

Li Yuanba, of course, wouldn’t leave Ten Thousand Sword Peak. Having become a Golden Core cultivator, if Elder Jian were still around, perhaps he would have gone with Elder Jian to the sect to handle the renewal of his Identity Jade Disc.

It is important to know that the benefits and powers of a Golden Core cultivator in the sect are vastly different from those of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Truly speaking, the main combat force of a large sect is still composed of Golden Core cultivators, while Foundation Establishment cultivators often become mere cannon fodder.

Once reaching the Golden Core Stage, the sect would invest more in Golden Core cultivators, various third-grade resources, corresponding authority, and Cultivation Techniques are opened, all targeted specifically at Golden Core cultivators.

Li Yuanba didn’t mind receiving these third-grade resources a bit later.

Although he had already become a Golden Core cultivator, he didn’t possess the strength that a Golden Core cultivator should have, which was extremely disadvantageous.

The most important thing for him now was to immediately enhance his combat power.

There were several ways to enhance combat power, the main Cultivation Technique was ready, the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ for the Golden Core chapter, as well as some Secret Techniques for Golden Core attacks, could now be started.

Additionally, the most important magical artifact for Sword Cultivators was naturally the flying sword.

In terms of magical artifacts, Li Yuanba and his original body, Li Shiming, had already given it some thought, with Li Shiming’s Artifact Refining skills, after a while, once Li Shiming had formed his core, he could forge a flying sword magical artifact that was most suited for Li Yuanba.

This was initially the plan of Li Shiming, but plans never keep up with changes, who would think, the avatar Li Yuanba would surpass the original body and become a Golden Core cultivator first.

Even though Li Shiming’s cultivation was stronger, reaching the Foundation Establishment Peak earlier, and he had prepared lots of Spirit Pills to assist in forming the core, some of which were even top-grade Spirit Pills.

According to his plan, it would certainly be the original body becoming a Golden Core cultivator first, followed by the avatar Li Yuanba.

Li Yuanba’s Taiji Dao Body had disrupted the original plan.

However, he still made a backup plan, which was the Lifebound Flying Sword of Sword Cultivation Golden Core Yun Xingyi.

Yun Xingyi was the next strongest Golden Core Sword Cultivator in the Beishu Continent after Elder Jian. Had it not been for exploring a safe route in Beihai, accidentally entering the great formation area of Seven Star Island and being severely damaged by the collective strength of seven Golden Cores, Yun Xingyi with his combat abilities wouldn’t have been defeated easily.

The Lifebound Flying Sword used by such an existence of Sword Cultivation Golden Core was naturally top-tier.

This point was also confirmed by Li Shiming after he learned Artifact Refining.

At least, without obtaining any top-grade third-grade refining minerals, it was difficult for Li Shiming to forge a flying sword of the same quality as Yun Xingyi’s Lifebound Flying Sword.

Additionally, Yun Xingyi’s Lifebound Flying Sword had been enhanced for many years using Sword Intent, which made it far surpass other flying sword magical artifacts.

Importantly, back in the day Yun Xingyi intended to make Li Shiming a Body of Possession, even granting him the authority over the Lifebound Flying Sword for this purpose.

And Li Yuanba, as an avatar of Li Shiming, equally shared the authority over the Lifebound Flying Sword.

This made it such that after Li Yuanba refined the Lifebound Flying Sword, there wouldn’t be a significant loss in its power due to a change in its master.

Since the Lifebound Flying Sword recognized him, he and Li Shiming became the masters of this Lifebound Flying Sword after Yun Xingyi’s demise.

He took out the Lifebound Flying Sword, looking at the small Lifebound Flying Sword, hesitated briefly in his heart, but immediately made up his mind, a determined look flashing through his eyes.

This choice was extremely important for his subsequent cultivation. The choices of Sword Cultivators at the Golden Core Stage related to choices for a lifetime, and the cost of changing Lifebound magical artifacts was too great; typically, no cultivator would choose to change their Lifebound magical artifacts.

He chose Yun Xingyi’s Lifebound Flying Sword, so this Lifebound Flying Sword would accompany him for the rest of his life, even through the Nascent Soul Stage without change.