Chapter 1328: Yearning to Refine the Golden Core

It was just as Lin Feng and the Tongling Sect and others began their recovery phase, after recently having endured the central region of Gu Nanfang Dalu, which had been ravaged by nearly two hundred Dou Saint elites, that a chance for restoration finally arrived.

And in these tranquil days, half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

As for Lin Feng, during this period he quietly stayed within the Pingnan Pass, recuperating in his small wooden hut, focusing on expelling the wood‑source energy from his body.

Of course, after confirming that Lin Feng could handle his injuries, Xiao Yixian, Cai Lin and Qing Lin were not idle either.

Every few days, they led a group of their own men's concubines to scour the area outside the pass for cultivation resources.

Along the way, they also did not forget to look for members of the Tongling Sect.

Whenever they spotted them, the women would swarm and kill the target.

As for the Tongling Sect, they were temporarily short of a mid‑tier Nine‑Star combat power.

Therefore, after some Dou Saints died, faced with this situation they chose to temporarily retreat, pulling back into their main camp.

Seeing the former cower and hide, the women also dared not rashly approach the enemy camp.

Thus, they had to abandon the idea of beating a downed opponent and instead focus on killing as many Tongling Sect elites as possible, turning instead to search for cultivation resources.

Of course, while Xiao Yixian, Cai Lin and the others were diligently searching for resources, the Three Beauties of the Pill Tower, Zhao Ran, and the five members of Xuan Yi were also busy, being sent to brew pills or refine certain heavenly treasures.

However, the Tongling Sect has been unusually quiet lately, leaving one to wonder what they are plotting.

Of course, even if Lin Feng knows, he probably cannot do anything about it.

After all, the opposing camp is guarded by the Tongling Sect's founding ancestor.

Even though he cannot move freely, on this continent no one dares to approach him casually.

So even if Lin Feng knows, he cannot go forward to stop those Tongling Sect members.

"Ah, finally got this damned thing sorted out."

While the group of women were scavenging across Gu Nanfang Dalu, Lin Feng, who had been secluding himself in a small wooden hut inside Pingnan Pass for a long time, now opened his eyes.

As he spoke, his gaze also turned toward his own arm.

There, a piece of flesh had previously been knocked off by a vine, gradually turning woody and spreading.

But now, the spot where the wound was has fully healed.

On the skin, not a single trace of scar remains.

"Hehe, this time I owe it largely to Qiu Yue's help. If he hadn't let me absorb a lot of life force, my recovery wouldn't have been this fast."

While speaking, Lin Feng stood up and stretched his body.

Then, looking through the small wooden window ahead, he gazed at the distant rolling emerald peaks and muttered to himself, "Healing the injuries took about a month. It seems I must boost my strength quickly, otherwise when the Soul Heaven Emperor moves, my power will be insufficient and I'll be done."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and began to ponder silently.

But after a short while, he brushed his Nascent Ring and thought, "Compared to mastering the Book of Death and the Book of Life, I think it's better to first perfect that Golden Core, ingest and refine it, and raise my Dou Qi realm."

After all, compared to external forces, Lin Feng still believes his own strength is more important.

And it is also the most reliable!

Having made his decision, Lin Feng no longer hesitated; he sprang up and left the small wooden hut.

Of course, Lin Feng isn't foolish; he wouldn't immediately use that half‑finished Golden Core to practice.

Instead, he prepared two other batches of materials for forging a Ninth‑Grade Golden Core, to get a feel and accumulate experience.

After all, during the previous period he not only obtained some top‑grade medicinal herbs from the three major beast families.

And when he exterminated the Stone Clan, he also took away such medicinal herbs.

As for the Medicine Classic incident, he forced the two controlled Medicine Clan elders to nearly ransack the clan's treasury, obtaining many alchemical formulas, books, and herbs.

Among them were some top‑grade ingredients for forging a Ninth‑Grade Golden Core. Unfortunately, the unharvested herbs in the Medicine Realm's fields were not obtained by Lin Feng.

Later, when he let Yun'er occupy the Medicine Realm, it had already been completely looted.

The fields were left with not even a single root.

As for those herbs, it is nothing but a baseless claim.

It seems the Soul Clan, after Lin Feng and his companions left, exterminated the remaining Medicine Clan in the Medicine Realm and other guests, then stripped everything inside.

"Jiǔqū Xuányuán Pill, a Ninth‑Grade Golden Core, enhances Dou Qi levels. After consumption it clears hidden injuries, aids subsequent cultivation and advancement, and has a fifty‑percent chance to raise an Eight‑Star Dou Saint by two sub‑stages. Of course, it cannot help the user break through from the Eight‑Star pinnacle to a Nine‑Star Dou Saint."

"If, after taking it, the two‑stage advancement fails, it still guarantees at least one sub‑stage increase, granting the user, upon emergence, at least late‑stage Seven‑Star strength or higher. Those lacking the ability to capture such a potent pill should be cautious!"

"Required materials: Jiǔqū Blood Ginseng, Mysterious Spirit Herb, Yunhuang Yuan."

In the far north of Gu Nanfang Dalu, Lin Feng's body hovered in the sky surrounded by mountains, gazing at the scroll of Ninth‑Grade Golden Core formula kept in a Golden Core master's Nascent Ring, a look of awe flashing across his face.

Although he had already examined the formula several times and prepared two batches of ingredients for forging the pill.

Yet seeing again the list of rare herbs on the formula, he couldn't help but be secretly shocked by how precious the required materials were.

"The gap between a Golden Core and a Mysterious Core is truly huge; with this set of materials alone, you could almost trade for two Ninth‑Grade Mysterious Pills."

After a long while, Lin Feng closed the bright‑yellow sheet, a scroll painted with various grass and tree illustrations in white pigment, and exclaimed.

However, considering the effect of the Jiǔqū Xuányuán Pill, if it can be forged, all this effort is worthwhile.

After all, at the Eight‑Star Dou Saint realm, a normal cultivation path may require thousands of years for each sub‑stage advancement.

Some older Seven‑Star Dou Saints, after breaking through to Eight‑Star, can only gain about five hundred years of life force.

And that life force is generally insufficient for them to have enough time to assault the next realm.

Thus, from this perspective, the Jiǔqū Xuányuán Pill is a highly important elixir for Eight‑Star Dou Saints.

After all, it has a fifty‑percent chance to help an Eight‑Star Dou Saint break through two sub‑stages.

In doing so, it saves one to two thousand years of arduous cultivation.

Thinking that way, it's all worth it.

After putting away the formula, Lin Feng immediately pulled an ancient yellow book from his Nascent Ring and began leafing through it.

The book is one of the alchemical notes left by that Ninth‑Grade Golden Core master.

Within this scroll lies the very alchemical experience of that Golden Core master forging the Jiǔqū Xuányuán Pill.

And these experiences are, for Lin Feng, who is about to refine this pill for the first time, undoubtedly an extremely precious asset.

"Huh, I've seen enough, but what you get on paper always feels shallow; for now I'll refine it once and see which step I can reach."

Regarding his first attempt at refining a Nine‑grade Golden Core, Lin Feng naturally would not be arrogant enough to think he could succeed in one go.

He knows that the refining process for a pill of this grade is so complex that it far exceeds ordinary people's imagination.

Therefore, as a newcomer, unless his luck is off the charts, he will inevitably end in failure.

After all, if a Nine‑grade Golden Core were truly that easy to refine, those pill‑refining masters before would not all coincidentally think otherwise.

Only an Emperor‑realm soul meets the normal soul grade required for refining a Nine‑grade Golden Core.

After all, even the materials for refining such pills start at tens of thousands, and a slightly better Golden Core runs into the hundreds of thousands.

Thus the difficulty of refining a Nine‑grade Golden Core—

The next chapter will be revised later; you can skip it for now, tomorrow is daily ten thousand.

(End of chapter)