Chapter 130: Formation of the False Core

One hour later.

Wang Jianqiang returned to his residence in the Small Space and headed straight to the fourth floor.

He arrived at the location where the Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula was kept and took out a Jade Order.

On the Jade Order, faint Spirit Light gathered into two characters.

"Three hundred."

This Jade Order was called a Contribution Token, obtained after he finished an Alchemy task within Shenfeng Pavilion.

The number on the Contribution Token represented the amount of Contribution Points.

He pressed the Contribution Token against the Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula.

The moment the Contribution Token was about to touch the Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula, a layer of faint spirit barrier emerged.

A flash of Spirit Light appeared on the Contribution Token, changing from "Three hundred" to "Sixty."

The next moment, the spirit barrier shrouding the Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula flickered and vanished completely.

Wang Jianqiang reached out with his other hand, encountered no resistance, and successfully retrieved the Jade Slip containing the Pill Formula.

He probed it with his Spirit Sense.

After looking through it, a look of joy appeared on his face.

That's right, it was indeed the Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula!

"Ding, inferior Pill Formula detected. Optimization and upgrade will cost 500 Attribute Points. Do you wish to optimize and upgrade?"

"Yes."

"Ding, the Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula has been successfully optimized and upgraded to the Perfect Huanling Pill Pill Formula."

The system notification sound continued to ring.

A stream of information flooded into his mind.

It was the optimized and upgraded Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula.

After reviewing the optimized and upgraded Pill Formula, Wang Jianqiang's eyes could not help but light up.

The original Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula contained seven recipes: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and lightning.

Cultivators with multi-element Spirit Roots who wanted to use this pill to breakthrough had to consume multiple Phantom Spirit Pills to form a corresponding number of False Cores within their bodies.

Afterwards, they had to inject the Spiritual Power of each attribute into the corresponding attribute's False Core, cultivate the False Cores to Consummation, and finally fuse the multiple False Cores to become a complete Golden Core.

For example, a Water-Wood Dual Spiritual Root cultivator wanting to consume Phantom Spirit Pills to form a Golden Core had to consume two Phantom Spirit Pills.

One for the water attribute and one for the wood attribute.

After the medicinal power of the Phantom Spirit Pills formed False Cores in the body, they still had to cultivate the two False Cores with water-attribute Spiritual Power and wood-attribute Spiritual Power respectively.

Once the two False Cores reached their limit in containing Spiritual Power, they would then fuse the two False Cores into one to form a true Golden Core.

The same applied to Three-Element Spiritual Root and Four-Element Spiritual Root cultivators.

It was just that the number of Phantom Spirit Pills consumed would be higher, and the step of fusing the False Cores would be more difficult.

But the Perfect Huanling Pill required no such trouble at all.

After being optimized and upgraded, the seven-attribute recipes in the Phantom Spirit Pill Pill Formula were perfectly fused together.

One Perfect Huanling Pill could contain up to seven attributes of Spiritual Power simultaneously.

And the proportions were perfectly distributed.

Once the False Core formed by the Perfect Huanling Pill was filled with Spiritual Power, it did not require the cultivator to exert effort; it could automatically fuse and transform into a Golden Core.

In this way, it was not only simpler, but it could also minimize the probability of failure when fusing the False Cores.

After coming back to his senses, he went to the location where the Medicinal Herbs were kept.

He spent 50 Contribution Points to purchase five sets of Medicinal Herbs needed to refine the Phantom Spirit Pill.

One set each for the five attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Afterwards, he returned to the third floor and impatiently began the refining process.

One day later.

Wang Jianqiang stopped Alchemy.

He then spent the better part of a day adjusting his state.

Once his state reached its peak, a flash of Spirit Light shone from the Space Ring on his hand, and a five-colored pill floated out.

The pill was about the size of a longan, perfectly round, and smooth as a mirror.

The pill was composed of five colors: gold, green, blue, red, and brown.

The five colors were distinct, perfectly dividing the entire pill into five areas of equal size.

The surface shimmered with a faint five-colored halo, looking incredibly miraculous.

It was precisely the five-element Perfect Huanling Pill refined from the five-attribute Medicinal Herbs of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Wang Jianqiang reached out, picked up the pill, and swallowed it in one gulp.

After the pill entered his throat, it instantly turned into a five-colored air current, traveled through his meridians for a cycle, and finally poured into his dantian, transforming into a translucent five-colored pill.

"Is this a False Core?"

Wang Jianqiang curiously introspected the translucent five-colored pill that had appeared in his dantian. He pondered for a moment, then tried to convert the Spiritual Power in his body into metal-attribute Spiritual Power and poured it into the golden area of the five-colored pill.

On the five-colored pill, a tiny, imperceptible bit of solidity immediately appeared within the golden area belonging to the metal attribute.

Moreover, he could feel that his Spiritual Power was very calm after entering the False Core, without any sense of being out of control.

"It really works!"

Wang Jianqiang's eyes lit up, and he completely set his mind at ease.

He continued to pour Spiritual Power into the False Core.

Two months later.

The popularity of Shenfeng City had increased quite a bit.

The main streets were no longer lifeless, and one could see figures walking about from time to time.

Inside the Pill Tower.

The ranking list welcomed its first update.

However, because the time was still short, apart from a few individuals at the bottom of the list, the rankings of the vast majority of people had not changed.

Inside the Small Space filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

Wang Jianqiang, who had been in seclusion for two months, slowly opened his eyes.

Now, the Spiritual Power within his body had completely transferred into the False Core.

The five colored regions on the False Core had completely solidified; the entire False Core no longer looked translucent, but had turned into a solid substance.

"The False Core is completely at Consummation."

"Next, I only need to wait for the five regions of the False Core to fuse on their own, until it completely transforms into a Golden Core."

A flash of joy flickered across Wang Jianqiang's face.

This process would be very fast; at the longest ten days, and at the shortest five or six days, it would certainly be completed.

In other words, in ten days at most, he would be able to successfully achieve Golden Core and officially become a Golden Core Stage Cultivator.

By then, his lifespan limit would increase once again, reaching five hundred years!

Just at this moment.

Wang Jianqiang suddenly sensed that the Formation outside his residence had been triggered.

His expression stirred, and his Spirit Sense merged into the Formation.

Immediately, he saw the scene outside the main gate.

A familiar figure then came into view.

Yang Wanxin?

He raised an eyebrow, a thought moved through his mind, and he opened the entrance leading to this space.

He then arrived on the first floor.

Not long after, a graceful and slender figure walked in.

"Fairy Yang, we meet again."

Wang Jianqiang looked at Yang Wanxin, who was walking in from outside the door, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

"Greetings, Daoist Friend Wang."

Yang Wanxin bowed to Wang Jianqiang.

Wang Jianqiang's gaze swept over her, and a look of concern flashed across his face, "When you entered the door, there was a look of worry between your brows, Daoist Friend; have you encountered trouble again?"

"Daoist Friend Wang is truly accurate in reading people." A look of surprise flashed across Yang Wanxin's face, and then she sighed, "Wanxin has come this time still for issues regarding Alchemy."

"After Daoist Friend Wang provided Clarification for Wanxin last time, Wanxin went back and tried it, and the purity of the Ice Heart Soul-Melting Pill indeed increased, and it even reached an astonishing ninety percent."

"But I always feel that when refining the Ice Heart Soul-Melting Pill, there are some places that are not done to Consummation; if I could do better on the details, the purity of the Ice Heart Soul-Melting Pill could go even further."

"However, I cannot figure out exactly which details are not done well."

"So I have come specifically to ask for advice from Daoist Friend Wang."

Hearing Yang Wanxin's words, Wang Jianqiang laughed.

"I am quite happy to be able to help Fairy Yang."

"But Fairy Yang should remember the rules of our Junzi Sect, right?"

"Naturally, I remember." Yang Wanxin blushed, "Daoist Friend Wang, how about we keep it the same as before?"

Wang Jianqiang shook his head.

"No, this time it will be two incense sticks."