Chapter 1332: Taking the Golden Pill

As Lin Feng laughed, the golden pill in the distance suddenly writhed into a human shape, instantly turning into a dazzling beam of gold that shot outward at astonishing speed toward the horizon.

Heh heh, trying to run?

Watching the swiftly darting golden figure, Lin Feng gave a slight smile and immediately shouted, "Xiao Ling!"

I'm coming, master.

Hearing the summons, Xiao Ling instantly turned, becoming a flash of fire that flew into his body.

Immediately after, Lin Feng's body suddenly ignited into raging flames.

In his eyes, a flame lotus blossomed.

At the same time, his aura surged dramatically!

In an instant, his power leapt from a late‑stage Eight‑Star Dou Saint to the early stage of a Nine‑Star Dou Saint.

Then he looked up at the distant sky and laughed loudly, "After all this refining, even with Nine‑Star Dou Saint strength, you still can't escape!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, Lin Feng formed seals with both hands and unleashed a beam of light, charging straight toward the fleeing Nine‑Grade Golden Pill.

Whoosh!

The light moved at a shocking speed; the next moment it split into two, reaching the space above and below the humanoid fleeing Golden Pill.

Immediately each split became a circular formation, sweeping along with the golden figure's flight.

Buzz!

As the two formations formed, they instantly shot a column of light up and down, trapping the Golden Pill within.

At the same time, a strange energy seeped out from the cylindrical seal, making the Golden Pill inside extremely uneasy.

Eek!

The next instant, driven by instinct, the speechless Nine‑Grade Golden Pill frantically unleashed a torrent of Battle Qi, trying to break the seal and keep fleeing.

However, the pill's power was far from weak, vaguely brushing against the threshold of a mid‑stage Nine‑Star Dou Saint.

But this seal was specifically created to counter such pills.

Moreover, the current pill hardly knows how to use its own power.

Even against a Flame Tribe chieftain far weaker than it, it would likely need some time before it could defeat the opponent.

Thus, facing Lin Feng, a cultivator wielding the Ten Thousand Fires True Body and temporarily at Nine‑Star Dou Saint level, using this pill‑countering secret technique left him utterly helpless.

Seeing violent escape impossible, the Golden Pill immediately adopted a flattering demeanor.

At the same time, it kept extending its hand toward Lin Feng, its mouth opening and closing, uttering incomprehensible "eek eek" sounds.

Though he couldn't understand, Lin Feng could vaguely guess from its appearance.

The Nine‑Grade Golden Pill was probably pleading to be spared.

Later, it would repay him generously.

But facing such a Nine‑Grade Golden Pill, Lin Feng could never let it go.

So he ignored its pleas, continued feeding Battle Qi, and used the Pill‑Control Method to suppress the Golden Pill within the seal.

However, when thinking of the Pill‑Control Method, Lin Feng couldn't help recalling Tian Yan, a former factual spouse from the Tian Clan.

And it must be said, that woman's great generosity—both in touch and taste—was unparalleled on the continent!

Unfortunately, after that incident, Tian Yan seemed to avoid seeing him.

What a pity.

Thinking of that, Lin Feng couldn't help sighing.

But the feeling didn't last long; his attention returned to the distant Golden Pill, increasing Battle Qi output to resolve it quickly.

Beauty can bring great pleasure, but compared to that, Lin Feng still prefers overwhelming power.

After all, once you have strength, any beauty is yours for the taking.

Ah!

At the same time, as Lin Feng kept strengthening the seal, under the relentless suppression, the golden figure let out a wail.

Soon, amid thick white mist pouring from its body, the figure could no longer hold form and finally reverted to a golden pill.

Seeing this, Lin Feng's eyes flashed with a golden gleam.

Immediately he swept his hand, using Battle Qi to pull the distant cylindrical seal toward himself.

At the same time, he voluntarily ended his fusion with Xiao Ling.

After all, he wanted to eat that Golden Pill now; staying in the Ten Thousand Fires True Body state wasn't appropriate.

Of course, the moment he broke the fusion, Lin Feng didn't forget to mentally convey, "Xiao Ling, the pill I'm about to eat, guard it for me."

Alright, master!

At his command, Xiao Ling immediately responded.

As soon as the words ended, the girl darted out of Lin Feng's body, flying to the sky roughly ten thousand li south of this place.

After all, north of this spot lies the barrier that separates this continent from the outside world.

Any enemy that could forcefully break the seal here would be unbeatable.

Thus, only those from the south, perhaps from the Tongling Sect, might come.

Although the chance is slim, it must still be guarded against.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Lin Feng, having seized the seal, quickly scanned the golden pill within it.

This Nine‑Grade Golden Pill, after being tempered by flame and "slimmed down",

had expelled impurities, shrinking from fist‑sized to half that size.

However, though its volume decreased, the flame refinement made its energy increasingly pure!

At the same time, Lin Feng's gaze fell on the half‑fist‑sized golden pill, which seemed to contain boundless energy, intoxicating his spirit.

And upon close inspection, one could see that perhaps the pill's energy was so concentrated it was packed into a single point.

Therefore, the space around it is being compressed and twisted before this vast and dense energy.

Lin Feng, after a quick glance at the pill without a word, reached out, seized the pill that had taken its original form inside, and immediately shoved it into his mouth.

"Boom!"

The moment the pill entered his mouth, Lin Feng instantly felt an incomparably vast energy suddenly explode within his body.

When such a massive energy erupted, Lin Feng's whole body instantly shuddered violently.

At the same time, he couldn't help but exclaim in shock: "You see, if my body weren't strong enough, that strike just now would have blown any cultivator below the Nine-Star Dou Saint to pieces, turning them into countless chunks of flesh falling from the sky!"

While speaking, he hurriedly steadied his posture and opened all his meridians.

He guided the massive energy transformed from the golden core pill to every part of his body.

After all, by now he understood that his body certainly couldn't contain such a massive amount of energy.

Only by doing so could he increase his body's capacity as much as possible.

In this way, his body could hold more energy, preventing all of it from clogging his few main meridians.

Because such a massive amount of energy packed together would easily burst his meridians, and then he would be even less able to digest the energy inside him.

That outcome would leave only a dead end.

Meanwhile, that huge and pure energy continued to race wildly within his body.

Lin Feng discovered the Nine-Grade Mysterious Pills he had previously taken.

Facing this ocean of energy, even ten of them combined wouldn't reach half of this golden core pill's power!

"Bang"

As those energies entered his body, shortly after, Lin Feng's clothing suddenly burst apart, instantly turning to ash and vanishing from this world forever.

At the same time, the countless tiny dragon scales hidden within his body uncontrollably surged out from under his skin.

At this moment, waves of indescribably vast energy streamed down Lin Feng's throat.

Like tides, they surged endlessly within his body!

However, soon, because the golden core pill's energy was too massive, Lin Feng's internal meridians became completely filled.

Yet, his body, though full, could not accommodate even a trace more energy.

But the massive energy transformed from the golden core pill kept flowing into his body endlessly, as if it had no end.

It still acted on its own, continuing to surge incessantly into Lin Feng's meridians!

However, since Lin Feng's body could no longer contain this energy.

Soon, it began to overflow, spilling out beyond Lin Feng's meridians.

Wherever this energy passed, Lin Feng's internal organs and cells were rapidly filled to the brim by it.

Subsequent incoming energy likewise overflowed because those organs and cells could not hold more.

Eventually, that energy actually surged out of Lin Feng's body.

On the scales covering his body, it solidified into a crystalline armor.

"Whoa, the energy of this Nine-Grade Golden Core Pill is truly formidable!"

Realizing his body was almost "frozen" by the energy crystals, Lin Feng couldn't help but speak.

Although he had long anticipated that the energy of this top-tier Nine-Grade Golden Core Pill would be enormous.

He hadn't expected the energy inside this pill to be so concentrated!

"Considering the concentration of energy in this pill, that Golden Core Master, who once reached the Nine-Star Dou Saint but later fell due to severe injuries, probably couldn't withstand such massive energy either."

Lin Feng, while swiftly circulating his internal cultivation method to digest the pill's energy, couldn't help but complain.

However, soon he realized, slapped his head, and helplessly said: "How could I have forgotten this Nine-Grade Golden Core Pill? After breaking free from the fire cauldron formed by the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire, it had devoured all the Nine-Grade pills and top-grade herbs inside the ruins."

"So its current energy, compared to when it was normally formed, is much stronger!"

Thinking of that, Lin Feng's mouth twitched involuntarily.

But immediately after, he hurriedly activated another cultivation technique, the Life-and-Death Determination, together with the Burning Secret, to absorb the energy crystals that had long been clogged inside his body.

At the same time, he didn't forget to apply a restraining seal, extracting a pill from it and swallowing it quickly.

After all, when taking a top-tier Nine-Grade Golden Core Pill, he couldn't possibly be unprepared.

The pill he just took was meant to increase the speed of his cultivation technique circulation.

With it, his energy absorption rate could surge by thirty percent!

After all, if his refinement speed lagged, these energies would freeze his body entirely.

Then he would become like Zi Yan No. 2, sealed entirely by energy crystals like that girl.

Even his movements would become endless talk of eternity.

But Lin Feng certainly didn't want to see that happen.

After all, the energy of this Nine-Grade Golden Core Pill is so concentrated; if he turned into that state...

He'd probably never wait for Xiao Ling to rescue him, and his body would be blown apart by the massive energy.

By then, he'd be completely dead.

"Hoo Hoo"

Sure enough, after Lin Feng took this auxiliary pill, the circulation speed of his two cultivation methods surged by thirty percent instantly!

"Wah‑la‑la"

And with the first at full speed, the seemingly endless vast energy inside him began to flow through his meridians like a massive river.

After those energies circulated along his cultivation technique's meridians for several cycles, they finally transformed into a robust fighting Qi, merging into Lin Feng's limbs and bones.

At the same time, as that continuous energy surged in rapidly, an overwhelming sense of fullness suddenly rose to his heart.

Moreover, subtly, as Lin Feng continuously absorbed, his aura gradually amplified once more.

If one were to sense carefully, it could be detected.

At this moment, the battle qi intensity of Lin Feng's two cultivation methods is already very close to the eight-star peak realm!

The effects of the nine-rank golden core began to manifest their heaven-defying power in this instant.

At the same time, Lin Feng saw that his internal condition was stabilizing, and he let out a great sigh of relief.

Immediately afterward, he cast aside distracting thoughts and focused on refining the energy within his body that showed no sign of diminishing!

As Lin Feng continued this refinement, half a month passed.

During this period, Xiao Ling would also come from time to time to check, to see if her master's condition was normal.

At the same time, under a continuous influx of energy, Lin Feng's two vortices also arrived at the threshold of the nine-star Dou Sheng.

The breakthrough is only a hair's breadth away.

Thus it can be seen, this nine-rank golden core, which cultivated for thousands of years within the ruins and devoured all top-tier cultivation resources within the ruins.

Just how terrifying is the energy contained within it!

And Lin Feng himself naturally also sensed that he was about to break through this point.

Therefore, his current absorption has become even more violent and urgent.

Under the constant absorption of these two techniques, the Flame Scripture and the Life-and-Death Decision, Lin Feng's internal energy has been consumed by eighty or ninety percent.

As for Lin Feng's current battle qi level, both cultivation methods have almost stepped half a foot into the nine-star Dou Sheng.

He lacks only that final point, and then he can fully cross this threshold, thereby advancing to a true nine-star Dou Sheng!

"This golden core's contained energy is truly terrifying; if I didn't have two vortices, I would have already broken through to nine-star Dou Sheng by now. Even after absorbing the remaining energy, I could directly break through to the mid-nine-star level. Worthy of being a top-tier nine-rank grandmaster capable of cooperating with others to forge emperor-grade pills, the supreme golden core I refined for myself."

Thinking of this, Lin Feng was startled again, then continued to say: "Moreover, this guy had also cultivated for thousands of years before, and had cleaned out all the good things in the ruins of the Golden Core Grandmaster. The combination of the top-tier golden core's main body, a large amount of cultivation time, and top-tier resources is truly terrifying!"

Thinking of this, the former couldn't help but shake his head.

Although this golden core's internal energy is immense, it is also truly difficult to deal with.

If it hadn't been discovered by him, but by someone else, even Wu Nie Tun Yan might not necessarily be able to capture it.

After all, its main body is a nine-star Dou Sheng, and adding two entities that have almost stepped into nine-star Dou Sheng, their combined form is comparable to a nine-star early-stage Dou Sheng's Nine Mystic Golden Dragon.

Wu Nie Tun Yan alone truly cannot handle that golden core after advancing to nine-star Dou Sheng!

Of course, this is based on the premise that Wu Nie Tun Yan is not an emperor-level soul.

If the latter is the case, then that's another matter.

There is still another chapter after this (end of chapter)