Chapter 1164: Magic Core Ocean

After putting away the recipe for the Nine Palace Founding Emperor Pill, Lin Feng immediately continued to finish reading the remaining four volumes of Golden Core recipes.

Although these recipes each have different effects, none of them are anything less than extraordinarily heaven-defying.

However, the items inside this spatial ring were not limited to these; after Lin Feng finished searching for these, he immediately continued to rummage through other areas.

"Is this the medicine cauldron area?"

Gazing at the huge cauldrons directly placed on the ground before him, Lin Feng immediately reached out and rubbed his chin a few times, murmuring softly.

But soon, he swept past this area and moved on to the next one.

When his soul perception arrived at this area, Lin Feng immediately discovered that everything before him were weapons.

These weapons were truly comprehensive—swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks, whips, maces, polearms, staves, clubs—you name it, they had it.

Moreover, among these weapons, some even made the present Lin Feng feel a faint chill in his heart.

Thus, some of these weapons could not have their damage ignored even by Dou Saint experts.

But when his soul perception reached the weapon area, he was suddenly struck by a flash of cold light, making his heart pound with shock.

Faced with this sudden situation, Lin Feng's soul perception immediately ceased its movement.

The next moment, he turned his direction and rushed toward the position of that cold flash.

Not long after, his soul perception stopped before a dark-purple spear erected and placed inside a wooden cylinder.

This spear is about seven feet long (approximately 2.3 meters), and its entire body is made of a dark-purple metal.

As his gaze moved upward, Lin Feng saw that the spear tip resembled a willow leaf, with a red tassel beneath it.

Moreover, the spear tip was extremely sharp; whenever his soul perception brushed over it, he felt a chill in his heart.

In the depths of his mind, he also had a feeling that if he were pierced by this spear, the outcome would surely not be pleasant.

Furthermore, the spear shaft was perfectly straight, with no sign of bending, and there was no tassel at the butt.

At the same time, this spear seemed exceptionally special, placed alone here, with no other weapons within tens of meters around it.

From this treatment different from other weapons, it is obvious that this spear is not ordinary.

"What a formidable spear, and it's placed alone somewhere. Could this be the weapon used in life by this Ninth-grade Golden Core Master?"

Seeing this spear placed alone here, Lin Feng pondered briefly, then immediately ventured a soft guess.

However, considering that this spear could make even him, a Five-star mid-stage Dou Saint expert, feel waves of chill and threat, Lin Feng arose with the intention of taking it as his own weapon.

Of course, though his heart was moved, he still decided first to continue exploring the items ahead.

After all, the spear won't run away by itself here; there's no need for him to rush at this moment.

Thinking this, Lin Feng's soul perception swept past the spear and continued onward.

But soon, he swept past the weapon area and arrived at another storage location.

Upon reaching this area, the ground was once again covered with wooden tables.

At the same time, Lin Feng's gaze swept over and saw that the surrounding wooden tables were filled with crystal spheres of various colors and sizes.

Naturally, Lin Feng felt no unfamiliarity toward these spheres displaying various colors.

Because these numerous items are all magic cores, and moreover, they are high-grade magic cores!

"Just how many magical beasts did this Ninth-grade Golden Core Master slay to collect such a quantity of magic cores?"

Gazing at the near-endless ocean of magic cores before him, Lin Feng couldn't help but draw a sharp breath, his eyes wide as he looked around at those magic cores radiating rich and violent energy.

But soon he recalled that this Golden Core Master had once gathered many experts to annihilate the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and the Heavenly Snake, and a flash of realization crossed his eyes.

When the Heavenly Snake and the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python clans were slaughtered, the majority of the magic cores of their strong warriors must have fallen into the hands of this alchemist.

At the same time, the storehouses of those two clans certainly contained many magic cores as well.

These things were undoubtedly also collected together by this Golden Core Master into his hoard.

Thinking this way, it is understandable that this place could possess such a vast ocean of magic cores.

However, shortly afterward, Lin Feng sensed something amiss.

Having already examined most of the areas inside this spatial ring, if the Heavenly Snake clan and the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python clan had taken most of their clan's stores away for this Golden Core Master.

Then the quantity of these things would be rather too little, wouldn't it!

Upon reaching this point, after pondering for about the time it takes to finish a cup of tea, Lin Feng's eyes suddenly snapped open, he turned his head, and his gaze shot straight toward the southeast.

"Could it be that most of the things were placed inside that ruin?"

Thinking this, a flash of bitterness crossed Lin Feng's eyes, and he almost instantly regretted his intestines turning green.

After all, he originally had the time to examine the interior of the ruin bit by bit.

But because he sensed something wrong deep within the ruin, he directly rushed with Yun'er to the location of that ninth-grade Golden Core, and thus did not explore those interior regions of the ruin.

Thinking this, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel utterly stifled.

Because within those buildings, it is highly likely that many items looted from the warehouses of the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and Heavenly Snake clans are hidden.

Moreover, considering the sheer amount of stuff, this Golden Core alchemist could not possibly carry it all on his person.

In that case, aside from the other items inside this spatial ring, basically everything would be in that spatial ruin.

"Sigh, I was careless—who would have thought that the master of that space would be a Ninth-grade Golden Core alchemist, possessing such a quantity of treasures? If my guess is correct, that Golden Core's true form should be the Return Origin Increase Qi Pill mentioned in the earlier five volumes of Golden Core recipes."

"That Return Origin Increase Qi Pill can enhance the strength of Dou Saint experts; even if a Nine-star Dou Saint takes it, it is greatly beneficial. Within the Ninth-grade Golden Core tier, it can be said to be only slightly inferior to the Nine Palace Founding Emperor Pill. After its formation, its strength is usually around the peak of Eight-star Dou Saint."

As soon as his words fell, Lin Feng thought of this Golden Core alchemist's life and the fact that he could cooperate with others to refine emperor-grade pills; his expression changed instantly, and he continued: "However, considering that this Return Origin Increase Qi Pill was refined by this individual, who among Ninth-grade Golden Core alchemists can also be called a top-tier alchemist master, whether in alchemical technique or materials, it must be excellent."

"If that Golden Core could complete its final step, making itself flawless, perhaps it could truly, as that previous pill said, break through Eight-star Dou Saint and step into the Nine-star realm."

Thinking over the potency of that pill, Lin Feng couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh.

Although that Golden Core is tempting, its power on the current Battle Qi Continent can be considered among the foremost experts.

In a one-on-one duel, even the chiefs of the Flame and Thunder clans might not necessarily defeat that Golden Core.

Unless it is the person who refined it, or a stronger expert makes a move, otherwise one can only resort to other means.

However, even if he obtained the Pill Control Law scroll from the Tian clan's hands, without Eight-star Dou Saint combat power or the aid of a stronger expert, Lin Feng would not go there.

After all, if I cannot control that Golden Core, the next moment I might become a member of the Soul Clan or the Ancient Clan.

And he could only stand foolishly in the distance, watching.

Forget it, that Soul-Returning Qi-Boosting Pill is temporarily not something I can get my hands on; I should continue exploring the storage ring.

Thinking of his current situation, Lin Feng immediately shook his head, dispelling the distractions in his mind.

Afterward, he withdrew his gaze toward the southeast and continued to drive his soul sense into the storage ring, continuing his exploration.

Upon arriving at this 'ocean' composed of magic cores, Lin Feng still felt tremendously shocked.

However, he quickly came to his senses this time, and with a swoosh dove into the vast magic core ocean, beginning to calculate the number of magic cores inside.

And this calculation directly startled him greatly.

Because the number of eighth-rank magic cores inside was astonishingly over a thousand!

As for ninth-rank magic cores, although their number is much fewer, there are still nearly a hundred!

However, most of these magic cores emit a seven-colored faint light from their surface, or are green magic cores.

Although these two types of magic cores differ greatly in color, they both emit an astonishing yin-cold aura.

Seeing these magic cores, Lin Feng quickly guessed that these two-colored magic cores must be those of the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and the Heavenly Snake.

As for that Heavenly Snake magic core later, he had actually already seen its appearance before.

Because a few years ago, when Qing Lin and Feng Er went out, they also happened upon the corpse of a Heavenly Snake that had been strong in life.

And in there, Qing Lin and Feng Er also obtained a ninth-rank magic core.

Finally, that magic core was even absorbed by Cai Lin.

Thus the former was able to raise his strength to the Dou Saint realm in such a short time.

These are all good stuff; now my magic core collection could rival some ancient forces.

Gazing at these lovely magic cores before him, Lin Feng couldn't help but flash a hint of excitement in his eyes.

However, after using his soul sense to probe, he found that among these ninth-rank magic cores, the strongest seemed not to exceed the Heavenly Snake magic core of Eight-Star Dou Saint level that Qing Lin had previously retrieved.

Even if we truly compare, the magic core with the strongest energy fluctuation here is still considerably weaker than that one.

According to this situation, the magic beasts whose living strength was strongest among these magic cores probably do not exceed Eight-Star Dou Saint.

At most, they are roughly at the peak of Seven-Star Dou Saint level.

Why would this be? The strongest Dou Saint among the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and Heavenly Snake clans couldn't possibly be only Seven-Star level, could it?

After realizing that the quality of these ninth-rank magic cores was far worse than he had imagined, a hint of disappointment and doubt instantly appeared in Lin Feng's eyes.

After all, this situation before him indeed does not quite match his expectations.

After all, no matter how you say it, the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and Heavenly Snake clans couldn't have fallen that low, could they?

Right, this Golden Core Alchemist, especially after the Dou Emperor disappeared, frequently refined Emperor-grade pills to understand the situation, and in the process needed many pills to replenish his Dou Qi, so he must have consumed many top-quality magic cores in this process; thus the quality of the magic cores here naturally declined greatly.

Thinking of this possibility, Lin Feng instantly understood why the quality of the magic cores in the storage ring was worse than he had imagined.

After all, that alchemist could hardly have kept all those magic cores stored away without using them.

Furthermore, refining Emperor-grade pills with Dou Saint-level strength inevitably requires consuming a tremendous amount of Dou Qi.

And in that process, the good magic cores were likely used first.

Moreover, this Golden Core Alchemist has many friends; some of the good magic cores might have been exchanged with his friends for them to refine pills.

After all, using magic cores in pill refinement is not strange at all.

Sigh, although the quality of these magic cores is mostly from Heavenly Snake and Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python level magic beasts, which is excellent, why can't I feel happy?

Thinking that those good magic cores have all been used up, Lin Feng instantly felt extremely helpless.

Furthermore, why is there no trace of the Emperor-grade pill formula and ingredients mentioned earlier in that vision?

Today really is both a happy and disappointing day!

Immediately after, Lin Feng sighed and shook his head, then continued to explore forward in the storage ring space.

And when he left the magic core area, he immediately saw a vast number of scrolls, so many as to dazzle the eyes.

This situation instantly made Lin Feng realize that he had arrived at the cultivation technique area.

Since Lin Feng himself doesn't need cultivation techniques, he isn't particularly interested in this.

However, thinking that his women still only have Heaven Tier low-level cultivation methods, and now that all the women have broken through to Dou Saint, they are also seeking higher-level techniques.

Thus he controlled his perception to move swiftly, quickly scanning over the scrolls before him.

And under this vast soul power sweep, Lin Feng quickly discovered Heaven Tier mid-level wind-attributed and poison-attributed techniques, as well as a scroll of yin-cold type technique.

Hmm, the wind-attributed technique can replace Yun'er's previous Heaven Tier low-level technique; the poison-attributed one can go to Xian Er; and the remaining yin-cold type technique can go to Qing Lin. This temporarily solves their technique problems. As for the fire-attributed Chen Er, Xin Lan, and Ying Er, I believe there will be better techniques here.

While taking out and storing those three techniques, Lin Feng's soul sense continued to search forward.

After all, he couldn't believe that a late-stage Nine-Star Dou Saint, a ninth-rank Golden Core Alchemy Grandmaster, would only cultivate Heaven Tier mid-level techniques.

And not long after, Lin Feng's perception arrived at a wooden table holding only three scrolls.

After glancing at the scrolls on it, Lin Feng immediately took them all out.

Looking at the three scrolls now in the outside world, Lin Feng used Dou Qi to suspend them in midair with one hand, and with the other picked up one extremely exquisite orange-yellow scroll.

Great, it is indeed a Heaven Tier high-level fire-attributed technique!

Looking at the text on the scroll in his hand, Lin Feng instantly became delighted.

With this Dou Technique, the cultivation methods of his several fire-attributed women are finally no longer a worry.

Immediately after, he quickly put away the orange-yellow scroll, then began to examine the remaining two scrolls, spreading out the green one.

Wind-attributed Heaven Tier high-level technique?

Seeing the introduction on this scroll, Lin Feng momentarily felt a bit dazed.

But soon he reacted, and with delight he stored it properly into his storage ring.

Hehe, great, even Yun'er wife's technique problem is solved. I really don't know what this final technique will be; it's truly something to look forward to.

While speaking, Lin Feng immediately picked up the last equally exquisite green scroll, then slowly unfurled it.

"Wood-attribute Heaven-rank high-level cultivation technique?"

Seeing the words on it, Lin Feng froze on the spot, then sighed disappointedly.

After all, among his women, none is a wood-attribute cultivator.

If one must say, Xian Er used to be, but now she has become a poison-attribute cultivator, so naturally it's also unusable for her.

In that case, this scroll's technique currently has no one who can use it.

"Sigh, although disappointed, this is also normal; after all, poison-attribute and yin-cold-type cultivation techniques are inherently scarce, let alone this being a Heaven-rank high-level one. To find a Heaven-rank mid-level poison-attribute and yin-cold-type cultivation technique in this Golden Core Sect Master's storage ring is already quite fortunate."

Thinking of the difficulty in finding cultivation techniques for Xiao Yixian and the Qing Lin two women, Lin Feng immediately shook his head and said helplessly.

While speaking, he then put away this Heaven-rank high-level wood-attribute cultivation technique, and then his soul sense continued to delve into the storage ring to explore.