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Chapter 541: Chapter 317 Golden Core

Elder Su and Elder Ma’s expressions were extremely grim; in their perception, Li Shiming’s life force was exceedingly weak and could extinguish at any moment.

This had already exceeded their imaginations. Under the onslaught of five such powerful Heavenly Thunders, it was a miracle that Li Shiming hadn’t died instantly.

Now it all depended on whether Li Shiming’s life force could last until the power of the Heavenly Thunder subsided; this was of crucial importance.

Li Shiming’s mind was very clear. After feeling that the Heavenly Thunder was too strong, he had retracted most of his spirit into the control room space. He used the distant connection to his clone, Li Yuanba, to judge his original body’s condition.

If the body was attacked by the Heavenly Thunder, and the spirit in the control room space left, it would be attacked immediately by the Heavenly Thunder, depriving him of the ability to maintain sufficient cognitive capacity.

The Angry-eyed Vajra Phantom behind him still roared angrily, with Vajra power continuously entering his body. Coupled with the power of the Third-Grade Top Rejuvenation Pill, his body was maintained in a near-death state.

Under normal circumstances, the Golden Core would definitely be unable to withstand such Heavenly Thunder.

Yet Li Shiming’s five Golden Cores were not considerably damaged by the bombardment of five Heavenly Thunders.

The most important factor was the thunderous energy contained within the five Golden Cores.

The five Golden Cores themselves had thunder attributes, so the effect of Heavenly Thunder was naturally weaker. Moreover, the five Golden Cores maintained the ‘Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’. Although this array had no defensive capability, it allowed the five Golden Cores to share each other’s energy.

The brunt of each Heavenly Thunder was aimed at one Golden Core, and the others endured relatively less attack, allowing them to aid the core under targeted attack.

Li Shiming had no idea how much time had passed; under the Heavenly Thunder, he seemed to lose all sense of time.

This period seemed exceedingly long, but no matter how long, it would pass eventually.

Finally, he felt the power of the Heavenly Thunder inside his body dissipating, and his body, nearly destroyed to char by the Heavenly Thunder, was springing to life with vitality.

This life force was like a spring, nourishing his injured body. Under its influence, his body was reviving as if dead wood was meeting the spring.

This was not ordinary recovery, but a substantial enhancement of his physical constitution. He had already reached the constitution of the Golden Core Stage, and now it had been enhanced again.

His spirit was also rewarded by the heavens and earth, strengthening continuously. It seemed that the tribulation of Heavenly Thunder was so powerful that the reward given was even more generous.

If measured by quantity, he felt that the enhancement of his spirit was about two and a half times that of the two bouts of Heavenly Thunder tribulations endured by his clone, Li Yuanba.

In other words, his five Golden Cores had endured five rounds of Heavenly Thunder tribulation. Although extremely dangerous, the reward after enduring was fivefold.

The rewards of the heavens and earth, more potent than any Spirit Pill, had healed Li Shiming’s near-death injuries in a matter of moments.

After the power of the Heavenly Thunder subsided, he recalled his spirit back into the control room space. He slowly opened his eyes, and the spiritual enhancement made his eyes shine almost tangibly.

Only now did he have the chance to feel the Golden Cores within his body.

The five Golden Cores were the five nodes of the ‘Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’, and his Spirit Lake had vanished long before.

The interior of each Golden Core corresponded to one of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and each Golden Core also contained the attribute of thunder.

Although there were five Golden Cores, he did not feel it affected his control over Spiritual Power.

With a mere thought, he could freely summon the Spiritual Power from any one or several Golden Cores. Because of the existence of the ‘Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’, even though the attributes of the Spiritual Power within the Golden Cores differed, the ‘Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’ could convert the attribute of the Spiritual Power as needed, maintaining a balance of Spiritual Power within the five Golden Cores.

“Five Golden Cores, is that normal?” Li Shiming asked himself. He couldn’t provide an answer.

Of course, the formation of five Golden Cores constituting the ‘Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’ had its benefits. He no longer needed to consider finding Fourth Grade Five Elements Array Materials.

The five Golden Cores had replaced the energy of the Third Grade Five Elements Formation, becoming the nodes of the ‘Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’.

But as for the path of cultivation ahead, he had no idea how to proceed. Did he have to cultivate five Nascent Souls?

He shook his head vigorously. Even cultivating a single Nascent Soul was extremely difficult, not to mention five. Look at how many talented cultivators there were in the Cultivation World; how many of them could truly become Nascent Soul Ancestors?

“I’ll think about the future when it comes; it’s too early now!” He suppressed his uncertainty about the future. No matter what, he had successfully reached the Golden Core Stage, with five hundred years of life ahead. He had plenty of time to consider the path to Nascent Soul.

“Master, I made it!” Li Shiming said to Elder Su and Elder Ma with a smiling look as he saw their concerned gazes.

“Shiming, you nearly scared us to death!” Elder Su said with slight annoyance.

He really wanted to chastise Li Shiming. Li Shiming’s breakthrough had too many mistakes, they had given him the materials for forming a Golden Core, the experience that Shushan Sect had summarized.

But look at Li Shiming; from the beginning of Golden Core formation, mistakes abounded.

For a cultivator, deviating from the normal path is a mistake, and cultivators didn’t have many chances to err.

A single mistake could prevent a cultivator from ever rising again, becoming a cautionary example in the Cultivation World.