Chapter 397: Forming a Core and Magic Treasure

Inside the cave dwelling, the door of the secret room finally opened.

A figure flashed, and a person with disheveled hair, whose face couldn't be seen clearly, walked out slowly from the secret room.

At this moment, yellow light flickered, and Qu Hun immediately appeared beside this person, his expression extremely wooden.

"Hehe, forming a Core. Finally, the Golden Core is complete!" Looking at everything outside the secret room and Qu Hun at his side, this person suddenly looked up and laughed loudly, which actually revealed a faint sound of a dragon's roar and a tiger's howl.

The face revealed from between the dirty hair was none other than Han Li, who had entered the secret room sixty years ago.

Only at this moment, his eyes were flashing with brilliance, and every gesture he made carried immense momentum, as if he had become a different person.

After laughing, Han Li looked at everything outside the secret room and actually felt a sense of strangeness.

Sixty years of not asking about worldly affairs gave him a sense that things had changed, as if everything that had happened before had become very distant!

Han Li didn't stay in the same place but followed his memory back to his bedroom.

After the time it takes to eat a meal, when Han Li came out of the bedroom, he was glowing with health, having restored his appearance and attire from decades ago, still looking like a young man in his twenties.

However, at this moment, his expression was extremely cold, and he walked toward the insect room without haste.

The Gold-Eating Insects in the insect room were completely different from decades ago!

Not only had their number reached a terrifying tens of thousands, but the original silver insect shells also had golden spots, looking much more ferocious and vicious.

Seeing this scene, Han Li didn't show any surprise.

As early as many years ago, he had known this news through his clone Qu Hun. Now, he was just seeing the real situation with his own eyes.

Speaking of which, Han Li himself had never expected that his flash of inspiration to use these Gold-Eating Insects for the Neon Clothes Grass experiment would accidentally solve the problem of cultivating Gold-Eating Insects.

After he went into seclusion, Qu Hun still fed the Gold-Eating Insects the leaf-spreading Neon Clothes Grass every month. After eating it, these flying insects became more and more irritable.

After feeding them for three or four years, the Gold-Eating Insects finally underwent a mutation.

After devouring the Neon Clothes Grass, they actually began to devour and kill each other.

Within a few days, only a dozen of the original hundreds of Gold-Eating Insects remained, but the surviving insects were far superior to their kind in size and aura.

Moreover, not long after these insects devoured others, they began to lay eggs on their own, and each insect only died slowly after laying nearly a hundred eggs.

Han Li immediately obtained over a thousand insect eggs.

These insects hatched on their own after only one year.

Thus, Qu Hun used the Neon Clothes Grass to feed them again, letting them continuously devour and lay eggs.

After several rounds of this, the number of Gold-Eating Insects began to increase wildly.

If it weren't for the limited number of Neon Clothes Grasses that could be urged to grow, causing the time for them to devour each other to be dragged out longer and longer, the number would likely be far more than this!

What was even more surprising was that the descendants of these Gold-Eating Insects devouring and breeding were stronger and more ferocious generation after generation, and the insect shells also appeared with golden spots in the pure silver, and the golden spots had a trend of getting larger and larger.

This made him wonder if they would truly upgrade only when the insect shells were completely transformed into gold.

Standing outside the insect room, Han Li stared at these Gold-Eating Insects for a long time, not saying a word.

He knew very well that this method of breeding and cultivating Gold-Eating Insects was definitely not the orthodox means used by the beast-taming cultivators of ancient times.

Because he believed that the miraculous effect of the mysterious small bottle was absolutely unique in this mortal world.

Perhaps this method was even better than the insect-rearing techniques of his predecessors!

Thinking of this, Han Li smiled slightly. He walked toward another insect room not far away, where two Blood Jade Spiders were kept.

Although under Han Li's instruction, Qu Hun only used a small part of the green liquid produced over these years to cultivate the spiritual herbs for refining Spirit Feeding Pills. But after such a long time of feeding with Spirit Feeding Pills, the two Blood Jade Spiders had long since upgraded several levels and were now Level 4 peak demon beasts.

Now, they were exactly the same as the White Jade Spiders he had seen in the underground cave that day, completely crystal clear like jade, and extremely beautiful!

Han Li's arrival clearly disturbed the two white spiders, and they, who had long been connected to Han Li's heart and mind, immediately flew toward the stone door, looking like they wanted to be intimate and play with Han Li.

Han Li was happy in his heart and immediately opened the stone door. The two Blood Jade Spiders jumped out immediately, circling around Han Li's side.

Han Li stroked the backs of the two demon beasts for a while, marveling at their crystal-clear bodies! Then he put them away in a spirit beast bag and turned to leave the insect room.

Han Li didn't intend to use those Gold-Eating Insects yet.

He planned to wait until these insects hatched for a few more generations and their bodies completely turned gold before using them, considering them his hidden trump card.

Next, Han Li toured every part of the cave dwelling again before returning to the bedroom in high spirits.

Lying on the comfortable wooden bed, Han Li thought about the situation of forming a Core in the secret room.

Speaking of which, being able to form a Core so quickly this time was also beyond Han Li's own expectations.

He hadn't completed the third turn of the "Three-Turn Heavy Origin Technique," only completing the second turn after spending over thirty years.

Because relying entirely on taking pills to practice the "Three-Turn Heavy Origin Technique," the progress was much faster than he had originally anticipated.

He had originally thought that completing all three turns would be extremely strenuous, or even impossible.

But he didn't expect to complete the second turn in just over a hundred years, which was more than enough for him to practice the third turn with his remaining lifespan.

As a result, Han Li's mind became active, and he didn't dare to place all his hopes for forming a Core on the "Three-Turn Heavy Origin Technique."

After all, this technique was created by someone else and hadn't been practiced by anyone else.

And the technique stated that there was a fifty percent chance of forming a Core after the third turn, which didn't mean that even if he finished the third turn, there was still a fifty percent chance he wouldn't be able to form a Core.

This made him worried, and he couldn't help but want to take more measures to increase his chances of forming a Core.

At this time, the statement once mentioned by the former Thousand Bamboo Sect Young Master "Senior Brother Lin," that practicing the Great Expansion Art to a profound level could increase the Core Formation rate, surfaced in his mind again.

Thus, after careful consideration, he began to practice the third layer of the Great Expansion Art.

"Regardless of whether this statement is true or false, practicing it won't do any harm!" This was Han Li's simple thought at the time.

The third layer of the Great Expansion Art naturally took longer to practice than the second layer.

Han Li spent twenty years before finally breaking through the bottleneck and barely practicing it.

As for the fourth layer of the Great Expansion Art, Han Li didn't even think about practicing it.

Because the time spent practicing it was not something the current Han Li could afford to waste.

After that, Han Li began the Core Formation process, which lasted for several years, with the help of various spiritual herbs.

To tell the truth, because of the extreme failure of forming a Core during the first turn, Han Li didn't have much hope for forming a Core during the second turn.

He just proceeded with the mentality of giving it a try for a few years.

It took Qu Hun four years to form a Blood Core, while Han Li, because his aptitude was inferior, used a full five years before unexpectedly completing the Golden Core not long ago.

Even when he personally felt the heaven and earth spiritual energy pouring crazily into his body, and after his true essence struggled and turned in his dantian, condensing into a four-colored bead the size of a thumb, Han Li still felt like he was dreaming.

"Just like that, I entered the Core Formation stage?" He still couldn't quite believe it!

Han Li, who had no mental preparation, was so surprised by this huge surprise that fell from the sky that he almost caused the Golden Core, which hadn't yet stabilized, to collapse.

Frightened, he hurriedly calmed his mind, which prevented a huge disaster and kept himself from falling back to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Thinking of this, Han Li, lying on the bed, couldn't help but curl his lips, containing a faint, elusive smile.

With a "whoosh," he sat up and got off the bed.

Now, even though so much time had passed since forming the Core, he still felt more and more excited the more he thought about it, unable to remain calm.

Entering the Core Formation stage not only meant that he was now a senior expert in the cultivation world, but his lifespan had also reached a terrifying five or six hundred years, which allowed him to cultivate with peace of mind from now on.

Most importantly, he could finally use pill fire to refine and polish his own magic treasure.

Speaking of magic treasures, Han Li had two.

One, the "Mixed Origin Bowl," had already been refined by Qu Hun. The other, the "Green Brilliant Sword," he prepared to use for self-protection for the time being.

And the magic treasure he ultimately wanted to refine was the "Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword" from the "Gold Page," which he had been coveting for a long time.

This sword was refined as a set, and once successfully refined, its power would be absolutely immense, enough to sweep away cultivators of the same level.

Plus, his Green Origin Sword Art had now reached the seventh layer, and he could finally use the "Sword Shadow Splitting Technique" ability.

This made him full of expectations for his cultivation path after forming a Core!

What he needed to do now was to quickly collect the materials for refining the "Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword," so he could cultivate the great power of this magic treasure in his pill fire and primordial spirit as soon as possible.

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