Chapter 451: Core Formation!

"Locking Pearl Curtain"

A superior secret technique for Core Formation!

Originating from the Luoyun Sect, it is extremely difficult to cultivate and is accompanied by unimaginable pain.

Luo Chen has had it in his hands for nearly thirty years.

He studies it day and night, never letting it leave his hands.

Every word on it has been carved deep into his mind.

Every sentence has been repeatedly scrutinized and verified by him.

Furthermore, he has the secret technique cultivation insights obtained from the Luoyun Sect as assistance.

Besides that, he even spared no expense in resources to help Chu Kui practice this technique, letting him act as a pioneer to cultivate it in advance.

It can be said that Luo Chen's emphasis on this secret technique far exceeds that of the other three inferior secret techniques.

Even for "Settling the Wind and Waves," he only treats it as an auxiliary method.

Even the few Mingyuan Elixirs in his storage bag are only backup Core Formation resources.

Only the superior method has the greatest chance of Core Formation!

The fact that Chu Kui almost succeeded in Core Formation is proof of this.

One must know that Chu Kui had only practiced the "Locking Pearl Curtain" to the minor success realm.

A great success "Locking Pearl Curtain" does not condense thirty-six spiritual pearls, but three hundred and sixty-five, achieving the number of the stars in the heavens!

Now that Chu Kui has verified the feasibility of this secret technique.

Luo Chen's preparations have been sufficient to the extreme, and it is time to start practicing.

The first step is to cut and divide the soul.

Luo Chen closed his eyes, and his consciousness delved deep into his mind.

In that mysterious void, it was as if there was a golden ocean, gently rippling.

This was the Sea of Consciousness!

Deep in the Sea of Consciousness, a cyan light cluster stood still, and slow halos radiated from it.

Falling into the Sea of Consciousness, it becomes waves.

Leaving the body, it becomes spiritual sense.

As Luo Chen's spiritual sense returned to the Sea of Consciousness, large waves surged towards the light cluster.

Reaching the side of the light cluster, they slowly stopped.

Luo Chen was watching his own soul, as if facing a piece of meat, looking for the texture to cut.

A long time later, Luo Chen's mind stirred, and using the method of the "Locking Pearl Curtain," his spiritual sense turned into a blade, gently slashing at a corner of the light cluster.

"Hmm..."

A muffled groan couldn't help but escape from Luo Chen's mouth.

Pain!

But it was not unbearable.

However, Luo Chen discovered that his blade was not sharp enough.

The speed of cutting the main soul was especially slow.

That feeling was like a dull knife cutting meat.

Continuous muffled groans issued from Luo Chen's mouth, and cold sweat seeped from his forehead and brows.

Later on, the sound from his mouth was already in a near-growling state.

But even so, Luo Chen did not stop this action.

If this step was not completed, let alone Core Formation, even condensing spiritual pearls would be impossible.

Amidst the pain of cutting his own meat with a dull knife, Luo Chen's will was like steel, his spiritual sense like a blade, firmly and unswervingly cutting at the corner of the light cluster.

One day, two days...

In a trance, it felt as if many, many years had passed.

But when Luo Chen opened his eyes, he clearly knew that only nine days had passed.

"Hoo hoo hoo..."

In the cultivation room, Luo Chen was panting heavily.

His entire body was already soaked, as if he had just been fished out of water.

For a cultivator, this was an unimaginable situation.

After the marrow-cleansing, the body of a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator is no less than that of a body cultivator who has achieved minor success.

Moreover, Luo Chen's physique is not just a simple minor or major success in body cultivation, but a third-tier physique comparable to an ancient monster!

At this realm, the control over the body has reached the extreme, so how could it be so easy to sweat?

Thus, one can imagine the degree of that pain.

However, the result was gratifying.

Feeling the cyan thread wandering alone in the Sea of Consciousness, Luo Chen felt comfortable all over.

"Chu Kui failed seven times when he first completed the cutting of the main soul, and only succeeded on the eighth time."

"And I, although it took a little longer for the first time, succeeded directly!"

"Truly worth celebrating!"

With this gap, according to Luo Chen's speculation, it was likely related to his overall quality being stronger than Chu Kui's.

His current soul foundation already exceeded Chu Kui's, let alone Chu Kui, who was only at Foundation Establishment Level 9 and had just started practicing the "Locking Pearl Curtain."

Another difficulty is the tolerance for pain.

Since the Qi Refining stage, he had practiced "Ming Shen Po Sha," from the initial spiritual power stimulating acupuncture points to the later evil energy body tempering, and even thunder body tempering.

It can be said that below the Nascent Soul, Luo Chen is confident that he is the existence most capable of enduring pain.

The most critical point is!

Luo Chen practiced "Settling the Wind and Waves."

Luo Chen practiced this technique for three years and had already reached the minor success state.

Luo Chen didn't know what other effects it had, but his current willpower had indeed improved a lot.

From the external performance, facing Jin Dan True Persons like Haoranzi and Fengyue, he became more and more composed.

Internally, he was calmer; even with a dull knife on his body, he could endure it without changing his original intention.

To describe it in one sentence, it was that Mount Tai could collapse before him without his expression changing, and even if the wind and waves rose, he would not be shaken.

"And there is one more point I ignored before."

"When the proficiency of 'Ming Shen Po Sha' reached Great Perfection, it didn't derive soul attack and defense effects, but gained an 'One Mind, Three Uses' skill."

"That 'One Mind, Three Uses' and this soul division have quite similar effects!"

All these factors contributed to Luo Chen "easily" completing the first step.

If Chu Kui were to judge it himself, he would probably describe it with two words!

Foundation!

Luo Chen's foundation was simply too deep.

Now, it was just the simplest accumulation and thin hair in practicing a secret technique.

After completing the first step.

Luo Chen didn't rush to the second step.

Instead, he rested well for two days.

Although he could endure that pain, cutting the main soul did indeed cause damage to his soul.

Necessary recovery time had to be given.

Of course!

During these two days of rest, basic cultivation didn't stop.

The things in front of Luo Chen were not just practicing secret techniques.

There was also pushing the realm to the Great Perfection state!

Three years had passed since he stepped into Foundation Establishment Level 9.

In these three years, with the auxiliary support of the second-tier superior cave dwelling and top-grade Blood-Increasing Elixir and Dust-Descending Elixir, he maintained a stable cultivation speed.

That cultivation speed was terrifying in the eyes of outsiders!

But with Luo Chen's massive foundation, the progress was quite slow.

In three years, Luo Chen's realm progress had only improved by four or five points.

【Foundation Establishment Level 9: 5/100】

This was Luo Chen's current state.

According to this speed, if he wanted his realm to be perfect, it would take at least fifty or sixty years.

Fairy Fengyue's vision was very vicious and precise; she accurately judged that Luo Chen would need about fifty years to form his Core.

But this judgment ignored Luo Chen's use of resources.

Second-tier superior cave dwelling?

No!

Luo Chen had already rented the third-tier inferior cave dwelling, Tianlan Peak Jia-3, for himself in advance.

And this time, Luo Chen was not like before, using a weakened third-tier cave dwelling with formation restrictions.

Instead, relying on his strong physique and soul foundation comparable to the early Jin Dan stage, he directly used a normal third-tier inferior spiritual land for cultivation.

As a result, his cultivation speed soared again!

It was no longer the eight or nine times of before, but a solid ten times!

In this way, the time for Luo Chen's Foundation Establishment realm to reach perfection could be shortened by ten times.

Perhaps in just five or six years, he would be able to cross this last realm of the Foundation Establishment stage.

After Luo Chen cultivated for two days, he completely confirmed his judgment.

In the cultivation room.

Luo Chen woke up from a night of cultivation.

Feeling the massive spiritual energy growing in his body, the pure spiritual liquid falling from the spiritual energy clouds in his massive nine-layered Qi Sea.

It was like rain.

He nodded with satisfaction.

"As long as the body can withstand it, exchanging resources for time is always the fastest shortcut!"

This sentence could actually only be said by him.

If it were a rogue Foundation Establishment cultivator, even someone as wealthy as Chu Kui wouldn't dare to boast.

Because they simply didn't have so many resources!

A cultivation environment of one million spirit stones a year, let alone Foundation Establishment, even Jin Dan cultivators couldn't afford it!

Even a Daoist of a Jin Dan major sect wouldn't dare to say that.

Even if the sect provided them with a suitable weak third-tier spiritual land, their bodies couldn't withstand it!

Tao Wan had long been at Foundation Establishment Level 9 and had been a Daoist for a long time.

But it was only twelve years ago that she finally achieved the Jin Dan Great Dao.

Too many trivial matters? Poor aptitude?

No, it was just that she didn't dare to use a third-tier spiritual land for long-term cultivation.

This time, to sum it up, it was still that same word.

Foundation!

Only Luo Chen's massive internal and external accumulated foundation allowed him to be so reckless and explode with potential at Foundation Establishment Level 9.

After determining the current cultivation speed, Luo Chen also had more confidence in the future.

Then, what needed to be done next was the second step of the "Locking Pearl Curtain."

One month later.

Luo Chen's attention was cautiously focused on the cyan spiritual pearl in his Qi Sea.

It looked like an elixir he saw most often.

But on the surface, liquid was flowing endlessly.

Such a peculiar sight was dazzling.

Suddenly!

A drop of spiritual liquid was about to fall from the cyan spiritual pearl.

To this, Luo Chen was unhurried.

Inside that spiritual pearl, a wisp of cyan thread darted out like a swimming fish, directly stringing the spiritual liquid that was about to fall.

The first spiritual pearl was done!

"The classics record that after a cultivator advances to Jin Dan, spiritual power transforms into magic power. The essential difference between the two is that magic power is a mixed energy after spiritual power is contaminated by the soul."

"It is more powerful, and its control is more at will."

"And a Jin Dan is a condensed body of countless magic powers. Thus, there is the saying: 'Once a Jin Dan is swallowed into the belly, my fate is up to me, not heaven'."

"Now it seems that my spiritual pearl indeed possesses some characteristics of magic power."

"If I use this to adsorb all the spiritual power in the Qi Sea and let it continuously expand and compress, I should be able to completely achieve Jin Dan, right!"

Countless thoughts emerged in his mind.

But in the end, Luo Chen suppressed that impulse.

This was only the first one!

One spiritual pearl didn't have such great attraction to swallow all the spiritual power in the Qi Sea.

"The road is still long!"

Luo Chen sighed.

After resting a little, he did another thing.

Practicing "Settling the Wind and Waves."

The more he practiced this secret technique, the more comfortable he felt.

Even if thoughts kept popping up like bamboo shoots after rain during the cultivation process, and various distracting thoughts stirred up waves from time to time, he could always calm down in the end.

Although he couldn't reach the level of using a wisdom sword to cut off emotional ties and wipe out other distracting thoughts.

It did indeed have the miraculous effect of "no thoughts existing, one mind settling the wind and waves."

"The road of cultivation is long and far. There are inner demons inside and great tribulations outside; on the long path to immortality, there are countless temptations."

"Even if I consider my Dao heart firm and my foundation solid, I often fall into obsession and demonic barriers."

"Even under the temptation of mere beauty like Huiniang and Caiyi, I have moments of being unable to hold back, let alone other feelings of revenge, compassion, and anger."

"Practicing 'Settling the Wind and Waves' more, even if it's useless for Core Formation, is of great benefit to my overall cultivation."

A few muttered words solidified Luo Chen's determination to continue practicing this secret technique.

In this way, his daily routine was completely stabilized.

Main practice of "Locking Pearl Curtain," auxiliary practice of "Settling the Wind and Waves," and the daily cultivation of increasing spiritual power in the body were also insisted upon without fail.

Time slowly passed in this bitter cultivation.

"Almost there!"

"It is indeed almost there!"

In the cultivation room, Luo Chen was spirited.

He discovered that his speed of cutting the main soul and stringing the spiritual pearls was getting faster and faster.

Before, it took a month to complete the first and second steps to condense one spiritual pearl.

But as he became more proficient at cutting himself, and the soul threads stringing the spiritual liquid became more stable, accurate, and ruthless, this time was continuously shrinking.

Now, it only took twenty days to condense one spiritual pearl.

And Luo Chen felt there was still huge room for improvement.

As for the pain of cutting the soul?

"You get used to it after cutting enough."

Luo Chen mocked himself, looking indifferent.

But in fact, was it really that easy to get used to?

It was just that his willpower was getting stronger, and he was actively ignoring that pain.

"Perhaps I can practice the 'Locking Pearl Curtain' to the Great Success state when I reach Foundation Establishment perfection?"

Luo Chen began to imagine the future, holding beautiful hopes.

However, this hope of Luo Chen encountered difficulties two years later.

Luo Chen's eyes were tightly closed, and his whole body was trembling continuously.

Large waves of spiritual power fluctuations rose and fell on him.

His ink-bamboo white robe moved without wind, rustling.

"Chu Kui did not deceive me!"

"Thirty-six is the limit!"

In his Qi Sea, thirty-six spiritual pearls were spinning around.

The powerful momentum seemed to form the unique spiritual pressure of a Jin Dan cultivator, pressing all the spiritual liquid in the entire Qi Sea to the limit.

Each one was spinning crazily, trying to absorb and swallow more spiritual power to strengthen itself.

But the consequence of doing so was... the balance was about to be broken!

"How could this be?"

"According to the secret technique records, minor success is thirty-six, medium success is one hundred and eighty, and great success is three hundred and sixty-five, and all have been achieved by people."

"Why can Chu Kui and I only practice to the minor success realm?"

"This won't do; either I actively disperse the spiritual pearls, or I must attempt Core Formation. But if I do that, the former is all previous efforts wasted, and the latter is far from reaching the best opportunity for Core Formation."

One question after another floated into his mind.

Making Luo Chen extremely irritable.

And at this moment, the Lanke Black Chess hidden in his body radiated layers of halos, allowing Luo Chen to calm down.

This was the miraculous effect after five years of using the "Settling the Wind and Waves" secret technique to refine the Lanke Black Chess to the master level of proficiency.

It didn't need to be actively triggered; it would be passively triggered when Luo Chen's thoughts were complex.

The wind and waves gradually subsided.

Even if there were still some thoughts arising, Luo Chen was relatively much calmer.

A guess floated into his mind.

"The Luoyun Sect held something back!"

This guess did not come without reason.

The cultivation insights obtained through the transaction with Tian Xingzi were written by Jin Dan True Person Linghu Jie.

He had briefly mentioned the origin of the "Locking Pearl Curtain" secret technique.

"'Locking Pearl Curtain' is a technique our sect's ancestor obtained from a secret realm, accompanied by three skills and two arts, with which the ancestor established the Luoyun Sect's inheritance. Practicing this technique is extremely painful and difficult. If one also practices another soul inheritance secret technique of our sect, it would be best..."

That was it!

Three skills and two arts!

Although he didn't know what they were specifically, the "Locking Pearl Curtain" indeed had to be coordinated with another soul inheritance secret technique.

"If that's the case, perhaps the minor success realm is the limit we can reach by forcibly practicing without the matching secret technique."

Luo Chen opened his eyes and smiled bitterly.

This explained why the Luoyun Sect was so generous in taking out a superior Core Formation secret technique for the rogue cultivators on the battlefield at that time to exchange for.

Without the matching secret technique, the effect of the "Locking Pearl Curtain" in the minor success state was at most equal to an inferior Core Formation secret technique.

At least, in his current feeling.

If these thirty-six spiritual pearls were used for Core Formation, the effect would be about the same as the spiritual vortex after reversing the "Qingyuan Miaodan Method" to great success.

"If it's just like this, I am not reconciled!"

Luo Chen's expression darkened, and he looked for a remedy.

Attempting Core Formation now? Don't even think about it, directly rejected!

Disperse one spiritual pearl, maintain the state of thirty-five, then practice to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, and then make up the number of thirty-six small cycles to charge at the Jin Dan stage?

Can be considered.

"Actually, there is another way. I will disperse all thirty-six spiritual pearls, and then continue to cut the main soul and string them together every day to brush the proficiency of the secret technique. After the proficiency of 'Locking Pearl Curtain' reaches Great Perfection, maybe the system can derive a complete cultivation method?"

This was trying to exploit a system loophole.

After thinking about it, Luo Chen felt that this method had some feasibility.

The only problem was that this set of secret techniques was complete in itself!

It wasn't cut down; it just lacked another matching soul secret technique.

The system was very unlikely to complete it.

Silence!

If that was really the case, then after brushing the proficiency to full, what Luo Chen would likely face was a big disappointment.

Instead, it would drag down his Core Formation time.

In the long silence, Luo Chen looked at his Qi Sea again.

Those thirty-six spiritual pearls, pure to the extreme and seemingly about to solidify, were still spinning non-stop.

The mutual swallowing power caused the Qi Sea to churn, and countless spiritual liquids were about to flow backward and rush to each spiritual pearl.

But the current state was already the limit.

If more spiritual liquid was swallowed, the balance would inevitably be broken, and the thirty-six spiritual pearls might even collide with each other, causing unimaginable damage to Luo Chen.

Watching and watching.

Suddenly!

Luo Chen had a sudden inspiration.

"Being in the same Qi Sea and checking and balancing each other is why there is the small cycle number. But it also causes imbalance because each swallows spiritual power."

"What if I separate and isolate these spiritual pearls?"

"In that way, wouldn't it form a situation of individual existence? With my powerful main soul, I could easily suppress them and wait for the future great success to merge them directly!"

This sudden thought was not a fantasy.

Because Luo Chen really had the environment to isolate the spiritual pearls!

Other cultivators might not be able to, but Luo Chen really could!

Because he had opened his acupuncture points!

The human body has acupuncture points, seven hundred and twenty in total, forming a double cycle number.

Luo Chen, during the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, after completing the meridian opening, began to open acupuncture points with body cultivation methods.

First opening points with spiritual energy, then with evil energy, and finally, in the ruins of the Soul Transformation, using the power of thunder to open all the acupuncture points in his body.

These acupuncture points were not useless; they could store a large amount of spiritual energy in normal times.

Luo Chen even treated them as a second Qi Sea.

Otherwise, his vigorous spiritual power wouldn't be far beyond his peers.

"Those acupuncture points of mine have long been impacted by spiritual energy, polished by evil energy, and even forged by the power of thunder."

"A mere spiritual pearl should be able to be stored!"

"If I move every newly condensed spiritual pearl to an acupuncture point for storage and seal them separately, the imbalance won't happen, right?"

After this thought popped up, Luo Chen couldn't hold back anymore.

After continuous deduction and experimentation.

He was sure that this was indeed feasible!

Without hesitation, he started moving the spiritual pearls that very day.

When he moved a complete spiritual pearl to the largest acupuncture point and successfully sealed it with a spiritual power restriction.

Luo Chen couldn't help but be ecstatic!

Success!

His assumption was correct.

He didn't know how the Luoyun Sect's matching secret technique handled it, but his method directly solved the current problem.

"In this way, I can continue to condense and string together new spiritual pearls."

"Great Success 'Locking Pearl Curtain,' three hundred and sixty-five in the cycle, is just around the corner!"

Time slowly passed.

The fifty-year preparation period for the opening war was getting closer and closer.

As the front line, the Yuding Domain was also becoming more and more lively.

Every day, countless strange stories happened.

In small places, people advanced to Foundation Establishment, and in large immortal cities, Foundation Establishment True Cultivators made a name for themselves on the Dao Discussion Platform.

The Yuhuang Mountain Sword Discussion also ended a few years ago.

Originally thought to have declined after decades of civil war with the Luoyun Sect, the Yuding Sword Sect revealed powerful strength in this sword discussion.

Yuding sword cultivators were dominant in combat power!

Many cultivators who relied on the ranking of the ten major immortal city Dao Discussion Platforms to obtain quotas to participate in the Yuhuang Sword Discussion had shocking results in the end.

Only seven cultivators achieved good results in the sword discussion.

And among those seven, five were true disciples from other Nascent Soul upper sects.

Through this sword discussion, cultivators from outside the domain had to pay attention to the Yuding Sword Sect, the local hegemon, and some rash provocations were slightly restrained.

The Yuding Sword Sect showed its muscles, and the Luoyun Sect was not to be outdone.

They directly disregarded their reputation and completely revealed their cooperative relationship with Tianfan City.

One powerful puppet after another, refined by the weapon-casting masters of Tianfan City, was sent to the Luoyun Sect.

And the Luoyun Thirteen Sons, who had made a name for themselves before, also began to form their Cores one after another.

In this way, the number of Jin Dan cultivators in the Luoyun Sect began to increase.

On the contrary, the Ice Fortress, which had once become famous because of Luo Chen, seemed obscure in this fiery atmosphere of war preparation.

What people knew was probably just that of the five female cultivators of the Ice Fortress who closed themselves off in death-seclusion to charge at the Jin Dan stage, only one succeeded in Core Formation.

The other four, one died, two were seriously injured, and the other had her foundation destroyed, completely cutting off the possibility of Core Formation.

The outside world was surging.

In the Jia-3 cave dwelling on Tianlan Peak, it remained as quiet as ever.

Ten years passed in a flash.

For the first time, Luo Chen left the cultivation room and came to the living room.

The reason for him doing so was only one.

Foundation Establishment Great Perfection!

It took twice as long as the five or six years originally calculated.

The reason was that Luo Chen spent a lot of energy on the "Locking Pearl Curtain" secret technique.

But the results were also gratifying.

Ten years, three hundred and sixty-five spiritual pearls!

As Luo Chen stepped forward, his whole body felt incredibly heavy.

Even a third-tier physique seemed unable to withstand that kind of pressure.

"The pressure brought by the spiritual pearls of the star cycle number is truly extraordinary."

Luo Chen sighed.

Standing at the gate, his gaze passed through the heavy clouds and mist, as if overlooking the magnificent immortal city below the mountain.

Cultivators walked past below his eyes like ants.

Standing at the door, Luo Chen, whose mind was as calm as an ancient well, opened his attribute panel after many years.

A transparent light screen, like the waterfall of Tianlan Peak, slowly unfolded before him.

【Lifespan: 90/200】

【Spirit Root: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth】

【Realm: Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, Ancient Third-Tier 10/100】

【Cultivation Method: Unaging Evergreen Scripture Great Perfection, Myriad Dao Convergence Perfect 301/500, Myriad Beast Scripture 15/100】

【Spells: Third-Tier: Mirror Flower Water Moon Proficiency 201/300, Life-Cutting Finger Entry 15/100, Innate One Qi Great Handprint Entry 87/100, Locking Pearl Curtain Master 999/1000, Settling the Wind and Waves Master 950/1000

Second-Tier: Flower Fairy Perfect 327/500, Soul-Confusing Spell Master 527/1000, Grass-Cutting Geng Metal Sword Technique Proficiency 260/300, Five Elements Organ-Returning Spell Perfect 375/500】

First-Tier: Soul-Awe Spell Great Perfection, Bone-Restoring Spell Proficiency 239/300, Limb-Continuing Spell Entry 15/100

Great Perfection Spells (Click to query details)】

【Alchemy: Scale-Turning Hand Perfect 400/500, Star-Plucking Hand Great Perfection. Great Perfection Alchemy (Click to query details)】

【Martial Arts: Cloud-Exploring Divine Claw Master 590/1000, Raging Fire Miasma Master 521/1000, Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers Great Perfection, Mountain-Opening Monument-Breaking Palm Great Perfection】

【Profession: Third-Tier Alchemist, Second-Tier Physician

Third-Tier Elixir: Mingyuan Elixir Entry 6/100

Second-Tier Elixir: Tongyou Elixir Great Perfection, Emperor Flowing Plasma Entry 12/100

Great Perfection Elixirs (Click to query details)】

【Achievement Points: 52】

"It seems I haven't opened this panel completely for a long time."

Luo Chen muttered.

He discovered that as his realm got higher and higher, the number of times he opened the panel got fewer and fewer.

Before, every time he broke through a realm, he would look at it, summarize the past, check the present, and plan for the future.

But the last time he opened it was at Foundation Establishment Level 8.

Now looking at it again, he was already at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.

Even his age, which he always felt was still young, was unknowingly ninety years old.

"Old, huh!"

Luo Chen mocked himself.

If outsiders heard this, they would probably wish to stab him to death with a sword.

A ninety-year-old Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, what a crazy cultivation speed!

It is estimated that only those Heaven Spirit Root cultivators who claim to establish Foundation in ten years and form a Core in a hundred years can compare.

Luo Chen was slightly proud; he knew how much he had paid for this cultivation progress.

After a self-deprecating joke, Luo Chen looked at the lifespan limit.

Two hundred years!

Somewhat unexpected.

Before, at Foundation Establishment Level 8, it was only one hundred and seventy; later, he rose two small realms, so it should only have added twenty years.

"Perhaps it's related to absorbing a large batch of low-tier monster vitality during the time I was healing?"

Luo Chen made a reasonable guess, but didn't delve into it.

As for the lifespan limit, as long as it didn't reach the danger line, he didn't pay much attention to it.

At least, as far as he knew, cultivators in the Shanhai World, even those with Soul Transformation power, couldn't achieve immortality.

Continuing to cultivate hard was the right thing to do!

His gaze slid down, and he paused on the ancient third-tier body cultivation realm and the "Myriad Dao Convergence" entry.

Since returning from Jilei Mountain, his body cultivation realm and this body cultivation method had made little progress.

The reason was simple.

Lacking the external force needed for body cultivation.

Thunder power was hard to find, and even if occasional heavenly thunder descended, it was not lasting.

Therefore, it created the current awkward situation.

However, for this situation, Luo Chen had long had a solution.

That was to use the Origin True Fire for body cultivation!

When "Myriad Dao Convergence" was created, its core philosophy was true fire and fake thunder, borrowing thunder to temper the body.

Now that thunder was hard to find, he could completely return to the essence, cultivate the Fire Peng True Body, and use fire to temper the body.

And the Kuerong Fire indeed had other mysteries, which could burn and refine the vitality of living beings and swallow it.

However, there was no need to rush at the moment.

The top priority was still Core Formation.

Body cultivation matters could wait until after Core Formation failed or succeeded.

After all, it was an excellent cultivation method derived by consuming a large amount of achievement points and absorbing all of Luo Chen's accumulations; Luo Chen would naturally not let "Myriad Dao Convergence" be buried.

In fact, he already had many good ideas that occasionally popped up to perfect the specific cultivation steps of this set of methods.

Although the previous effects were good, they were a bit rough.

Mentioning Core Formation, one had to mention those two secret techniques.

Ten years of main practice!

Both "Locking Pearl Curtain" and "Settling the Wind and Waves" had reached the master level, just one step away from Great Perfection.

But it was that one step away that he couldn't cross no matter what.

Especially "Locking Pearl Curtain," which had been stuck at 【999/1000】 for a while.

Even if Luo Chen actively dispersed the spiritual pearls and kept re-cultivating, he still couldn't improve.

To this, Luo Chen's guess was that it was likely related to Core Formation.

Only by completely merging those three hundred and sixty-five spiritual pearls into one Jin Dan could the secret technique be considered perfect.

After all, this technique had three steps, and Luo Chen had only pushed the first two steps to the limit.

The third step was merging.

Luo Chen hadn't tried it yet.

He didn't dare to try it rashly; that meant taking the final step completely.

Not just the final step of the secret technique, but the final step of the Foundation Establishment stage!

After paying attention to these, there was nothing else to talk about.

It was all the accumulation and improvement of the previous decades.

Spell proficiency improved, alchemy perfect, and he learned a new third-tier spell.

Oh!

His alchemist level had been upgraded to a third-tier alchemist after successfully refining the third-tier Mingyuan Elixir!

This was good news.

And expected good news.

Finally, there were the achievement points.

Before, to get started with Mingyuan Elixir, he consumed forty achievement points in one go.

But after years of replenishment, it returned to the safety of 52.

Possessing abundant achievement points gave Luo Chen full confidence.

After completely browsing the attribute panel, Luo Chen had a clearer understanding of his current state.

"Whether it's physique, soul, or spiritual power reserve, I have comprehensively surpassed Foundation Establishment True Cultivators and infinitely approached early Jin Dan cultivators."

"In terms of Core Formation secret technique practice, I have also reached the point where there is no further progress."

"All preparations are ready."

"Next..."

Luo Chen took a slightly greedy deep breath of the air outside the cave, then closed the cave gate without lingering.

"Failed again!"

"How could this be? I clearly did my best!"

"I consider my Core Formation preparations to be comparable to those of a Daoist from a Nascent Soul upper sect, and this still fails?"

In the cultivation room.

Luo Chen's face was as dark as ink and as gloomy as water.

He held a copper mirror full of cracks in his hand, and an unbelievable sound came from his mouth.

Core Formation failed, and it was twice!

Of course, it wasn't that Core Formation failed in reality, but that he used the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror to simulate Core Formation failure.

As one of the three inheritance magic treasures of the Ghost God Valley, the wonderful use of this mirror was originally to simulate Core Formation for Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivators.

Luo Chen possessed the treasure, so he naturally couldn't waste it.

Therefore, when he decided to go into death-seclusion to charge at the Jin Dan stage, he actively drove this object.

With the Lanke Black Chess protecting him, plus practicing the third-tier illusion Mirror Flower Water Moon for many years, he already had a certain resistance to illusions.

Therefore, even without the protection of sect elders, Luo Chen dared to simulate asking his heart alone.

But the results of both times were unsatisfactory.

The first time, he used the Great Success "Locking Pearl Curtain" secret technique to perform Core Formation, and failed.

The specific reason was unknown.

Luo Chen only remembered that at the last step, after the three hundred and sixty-five spiritual pearls merged together, a violent explosion suddenly occurred.

After a boom, he woke up drowsily.

After resting for a month, he activated the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror again.

This second time, he used Mingyuan Elixir for Core Formation, but it still failed.

The reason for this failure was even more vague.

After swallowing the elixir, there seemed to be a huge sense of expansion in his body, and then... there was no then.

It was like a gust of wind blowing by, leaving nothing behind.

He naturally woke up, and his soul didn't even feel any fatigue.

Under his gloomy expression, Luo Chen forced himself to calm down and summarize the reasons for the two failures as much as possible.

"A cultivator's Core Formation is a natural transformation. Even without auxiliary resources like secret techniques and elixirs, there is a certain chance of successful Core Formation."

"But this chance of success is too small. It was the predecessors who, from a high vantage point, summarized and created some methods to increase the chance of Core Formation. Such as Core Formation secret techniques, such as breakthrough elixirs, such as some heaven and earth wonders."

"'Locking Pearl Curtain' is a superior Core Formation secret technique. I practiced it to the Great Success realm, which increased the chance of Core Formation by 30% on top of my original foundation."

"Mingyuan Elixir is a third-tier Minghai Elixir derived from the Soul Transformation holy land Mingyuan Sect, which comes with a 20% increase in the chance of Core Formation."

"Although they were simulated separately twice, they shouldn't have both failed."

"Why would it be like this?"

Luo Chen asked himself.

In his mind, he kept searching for possible answers.

A long time later, he got a plausible answer.

Returning to the essence, it was still that old, clichéd topic.

Aptitude!

The aptitude of five spirit roots dragged him down.

However, unlike before when his aptitude was poor, this time he changed his direction of thinking.

Using True Person Canglong's evaluation to correctly view his aptitude.

"Poor, it's definitely not not poor."

"Even, under my cultivation, this aptitude can actually be considered excellent. It allows me to have a wider Qi Sea, accommodate several times the spiritual power of my peers, and my combat ability is far beyond my peers. In contrast, the disadvantage of slow cultivation speed can actually be compensated for by massive resources."

"I, Luo Chen, am also a person with excellent aptitude in another sense!"

"But precisely because of this excellent, even terrifying aptitude, the help needed when breaking through realms is greater!"

If cultivation is compared to building a house.

Then aptitude is the foundation.

Those with fewer spirit roots have smaller foundations, so naturally, they build houses quickly and beautifully.

With just a little help, they can build them decently.

But those with more spirit roots have larger foundations, so they need more materials to build a house.

Naturally, when building the big house of Core Formation, more help is needed.

"Superior method, not enough!"

"Mingyuan Elixir, also not enough!"

"I still have the reversed spiritual vortex of the 'Qingyuan Miaodan Method'!"

"No, next time, I will use all methods together and see the effect."

Since one method can only increase the chance of Core Formation by a few points, what if they are used together?

Unknowingly, a slightly crazy thought filled Luo Chen's mind.

Although a bit crazy, it was not impossible. 【446】 Because Luo Chen had a sharp weapon in his hand, he could give it a try! 【447】 Looking at the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror full of cracks, Luo Chen rested for a few days and then unhesitatingly threw his soul into it. 【448】 In the yellow-hued mirror surface. 【449】 A Daoist sat cross-legged. 【450】... 【451】 The third failure arrived as scheduled. 【452】 Along with the failure came the complete scrapping of the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror. 【453】 This was expected. 【454】 It was originally an incomplete magic treasure. 【455】 Over the years, Luo Chen had used it many times to ask his heart; not only did he use it himself, but he also gave it to Gu Caiyi and Luotian Association members for Foundation Establishment. 【456】 Driving it so frequently, plus Luo Chen didn't have the corresponding maintenance and repair methods, naturally, its condition would get worse and worse. 【457】 Last time in the Yuan Magnetic Valley, when he used the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror to help Miao Wen find herself, this treasure had already shown signs of imminent damage. 【458】 Now, it had already reached the limit of limits to support Luo Chen in simulating Core Formation three times. 【459】 Luo Chen looked at the copper mirror fragments in his hand with slight regret. 【460】 This was a rare soul-type magic treasure! 【461】 After a faint regret, a look of excitement appeared on Luo Chen's face, and there was even a hint of a smile. 【462】 In a situation where misfortunes never come singly, why could he still laugh? 【463】 The reason, naturally, was that in the last simulation, although he failed, he was infinitely close to successful Core Formation! 【464】 "My idea is correct!" 【465】 "Although they belong to different Core Formation paths, they each have their mysteries." 【466】 "As long as I handle the conflicts between them well and take their essence, I will definitely be able to help myself soar into the sky!" 【467】 "However, relying only on these two secret techniques is still lacking." 【468】 Luo Chen's thoughts turned, and a cyan light flashed on his hand. 【469】 Three jade slips appeared in his hand. 【470】 They were exactly the three inferior Core Formation secret techniques: "Dragon Phoenix Tribulation," "Escaping the Cage," and "Hunyuan Method." 【471】 "If I merge these three secret techniques with 'Locking Pearl Curtain,' can I tailor a Core Formation secret technique for myself?" 【472】 Luo Chen had the confidence! 【473】 He had obtained these secret techniques many years ago and had studied them extremely meticulously, so it wouldn't be difficult to get started. 【474】 In fact, he satisfied some conditions for each of these secret techniques to some extent. 【475】 "Dragon Phoenix Tribulation" required Dragon-Rising Elixir and Ice Phoenix Pill, and he had them ready. 【476】 "Escaping the Cage" required a strong physique and a powerful third-tier breakthrough elixir, which he also possessed. 【477】 "Hunyuan Method" was even simpler; his "Qingyuan Miaodan Method" was of the same origin, and even of a higher grade. 【478】 If he merged the four methods and created a unique technique. 【479】 Perhaps he could increase the chance of Core Formation to the maximum! 【480】 Even if he couldn't make one plus one equal two, as long as it was greater than one! 【481】 Four secret techniques, three types of elixirs, and solid essence, energy, and spirit treasures. 【482】 If even this couldn't break through the Jin Dan stage, Luo Chen would doubt whether the five spirit roots were abandoned by heaven, and he would even doubt whether the existence of the Five Elements Divine Sect was reasonable. 【483】 As for whether the merged method would be suitable for cultivation? 【484】 Although he no longer had the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror, he still had the system as a cheat; he could try to use achievement points to get started and identify it when the time came. 【485】 Think and do! 【486】 Luo Chen had no way out now. 【487】... 【488】 Relying on his solid foundation, broad knowledge, and super talent for spell cultivation. 【489】 Luo Chen began to practice the three Core Formation secret techniques. 【490】 One year, two years, three years... 【491】 They were just inferior Core Formation secret techniques after all, so the practice wasn't too complicated, and they mostly relied on external forces to form the Core. 【492】 However, after three years, Luo Chen practiced the three secret techniques to the master level. 【493】 After reaching this step, he didn't continue practicing. 【494】 Instead, he began to try merging them with "Locking Pearl Curtain." 【495】 However, the merging process was not very smooth. 【496】 After all, they were completely different methods taken out by four sects, and there were conflicts between them. 【497】 Luo Chen made slow progress for a year. 【498】 But by the fifth year, Luo Chen tried to integrate "Settling the Wind and Waves" into it. 【499】 The four previously incompatible secret techniques, after the addition of "Settling the Wind and Waves," instead presented a strange balance. 【500】 This day. 【501】 In the cultivation room. 【502】 Luo Chen pulled out the system attribute panel and held a bamboo slip he had written himself in both hands. 【503】 This was the Core Formation secret technique he had created over the past five years, incorporating the strengths of various families and using his own insights. 【504】 He named it "Dust Origin Technique." 【505】 People are like dust, their hearts facing the universe, and the word "Origin" has the meaning of the foundation of heaven and earth and all things in the universe. 【506】 With this technique, even the most inferior aptitude has a chance to reach the Great Dao. 【507】 The naming of this secret technique contained Luo Chen's ambition to strive for the long-lived Great Dao. 【508】 【Dust Origin Technique, Supreme Core Formation secret technique, whether to get started?】 【509】 When the system gave the cold text prompt. 【510】 Luo Chen closed the system with a smile. 【511】 Of course, there was no need to get started! 【512】 He knew the various tricks within the method he created better than anyone, and even the foundation had already been laid. 【513】 There was no need to waste achievement points at all. 【514】 Next, just sort it out once and practice it step by step. 【515】 And the time required for this process? 【516】 Luo Chen felt it wouldn't be too long! 【517】... 【518】 Two years later! 【519】 Luo Chen left the cultivation room and went to the living room. 【520】 One by one, the resources needed for Core Formation were taken out. 【521】 Three Mingyuan Elixirs, Dragon-Rising Elixir, Ice Phoenix Pill, Tianshan Returning-Yang Water, Obstacle-Fixing Talisman, Mind-Cleansing Incense, Canghai Elixir... 【522】 Densely packed resources. 【523】 Some were obtained by Luo Chen himself. 【524】 Some were obtained by Sima Huiniang driving Luotian Association cultivators to bid for him at the annual auctions of the Yuding Domain as much as possible. 【525】 For this, countless manpower and material resources were spent. 【526】 Looking at the fully prepared resources, a hint of excitement was hidden in Luo Chen's calm eyes. 【527】 Bathing, changing clothes, burning incense, straightening his cap. 【528】 After returning to the quiet room, sitting upright, waiting for his heart to be calm, waiting for his intention to be sincere. 【529】 For a full month, Luo Chen adjusted his state to the peak. 【530】 At this time, his energy was surging, his spiritual energy was perfect and unified, his mind was as calm as an ancient well, and he was not surprised even if the sky collapsed. 【531】 Fifty years ago, he first obtained the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror and failed to simulate Core Formation. 【532】 Fifty years later, three consecutive simulations were all failures. 【533】 But each failure was increasingly close to success. 【534】 During this process, he gained several insights from predecessors on Core Formation and personally witnessed Chu Kui's Core Formation process. 【535】 For this day, he had prepared too much and waited too long. 【536】 "Everything, I have done to the extreme, success or failure depends on this one move!" 【537】 Luo Chen opened his lips slightly and took a deep breath. 【538】 In the cultivation room, the incredibly rich spiritual energy turned into a white dragon of energy and surged into his body. 【539】 As if sensing something. 【540】 In the Qi Sea filled with countless pure spiritual liquids, a sudden mutation occurred. 【541】 Two elixirs swallowed in advance suddenly tore through the spiritual power restriction, and two strands of extraordinary medicinal power fell into the Qi Sea. 【542】 One was icy cold, the other was scorching hot. 【543】 The two medicinal powers collided with each other, drawing out the water and fire power in the Qi Sea, and suddenly, the Kan and Li were reversed, clashing against the heavens. 【544】 Under this extreme collision, the Qi Sea suddenly boiled. 【545】 Countless spiritual liquids gathered towards the center, and a pill was vaguely formed. 【546】 Suddenly! 【547】 The pill, which was slightly embryonic, suddenly shattered! 【548】 The moment it shattered, before it could condense again, it was controlled and turned into a tiny vortex. 【549】 This spiritual energy vortex was extremely small at first. 【550】 But as it continuously rotated clockwise, it became larger and larger. 【551】 In the nine-layered Qi Sea, countless spiritual powers poured into the spiritual energy vortex, being screened over and over again like a sieve. 【552】 This process, I don't know how long it lasted. 【553】 It seemed like an instant, and it also seemed like millions of years. 【554】 After this step was completed. 【555】 The vortex was originally rotating steadily, but after reaching a limit, it strangely began to rotate counter-clockwise. 【556】 The change brought about by this completely different direction of rotation was earth-shattering! 【557】 Before, it was just gently screening spiritual power, filtering impurities, and removing elixir toxins. 【558】 But with a counter-clockwise turn, a huge swallowing power instantly surged out. 【559】 The entire Qi Sea boiled in an instant! 【560】 Countless spiritual liquids surged towards the reversed spiritual vortex. 【561】 This spiritual vortex became larger and larger. 【562】 In the blink of an eye, it was as if there was a tornado reaching the sky and the earth in the depths of the ocean, stirring the vast ocean. 【563】 It seemed it wasn't lively enough! 【564】 An elixir suddenly dissolved. 【565】 A terrifying medicinal power that had reached the extreme roared into the vast ocean. 【566】 Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! 【567】 The moment the medicinal power erupted, nine terrifying thunder claps exploded in Luo Chen's body. 【568】 Each thunder clap made his body tremble once. 【569】 The ancient third-tier physique was actually blasted with cracks in this vibration. 【570】 It was as if nine thunder dragons wanted to escape from his Qi Sea and leave this body. 【571】 However, Luo Chen did not allow it! 【572】 The body is like a cage, the heart is like a prison. 【573】 If I haven't escaped, how can I see the Great Dao? 【574】 In this terrifying thunder, the terrifying medicinal power had no choice but to surge into the Qi Sea. 【575】 As soon as it entered, it was sucked into the sky-reaching tornado that had expanded to the limit. 【576】 With the addition of the Mingyuan Elixir's medicinal power, the balance of water and fire, metal and wood in Luo Chen's body was completely broken. 【577】 The nine-layered Qi Sea shattered instantly. 【578】 Endless spiritual power fell from the nine heavens, smashing the vast ocean into constant vibration. 【579】 If it continued, I fear the Jin Dan would not have been formed, and this Qi Sea would have been completely shattered. 【580】 And at this moment! 【581】 "Settle!" 【582】 In the mysterious void, a mighty divine sound fell into the Qi Sea. 【583】 Subsequently. 【584】 A spiritual pearl as bright as a star broke free from the acupuncture point confinement and hovered above the Qi Sea. 【585】 At this moment, the Qi Sea was quiet. 【586】 But the next moment, it began to vibrate again. 【587】 "Not enough!" 【588】 "Come again!" 【589】 The soul sound issued again, and another spiritual pearl entered the Qi Sea. 【590】 If a great power were to penetrate Luo Chen's body and see the scene in his Qi Sea at this moment. 【591】 They would see an unimaginable picture. 【592】 In the vast ocean, water and fire clashed, metal and wood floated and sank, and the terrifying physique turned into a solid wall to block the leakage of spiritual energy. 【593】 A giant tornado rotated counter-clockwise, crazily swallowing the spiritual energy in the boundless ocean. 【594】 It even stirred the nine-layered Qi Sea into pieces. 【595】 From the acupuncture points outside the heavens, spiritual pearls fell like stars, one after another, using great power to settle the turbulent waves raised by the boundless ocean. 【596】 I don't know how long passed. 【597】 The mighty soul sound erupted again. 【598】 "Merge!" 【599】 Three hundred and sixty-five stars hovered together above the empty Qi Sea. 【600】 Then they turned into meteors and rushed towards the sky-reaching tornado like moths to a flame. 【601】 Kan and Li reversed, water and fire helped each other, metal and wood floated and sank, the Great Dao could be expected. 【602】 The sun and moon in the furnace, the creation is self-evident, something from nothing, dragon and tiger gather. 【603】 Heaven's essence and earth's marrow, yin soul and yang soul, the stars of the cycle, all collected in the universe. 【604】 Luo Chen merged the three methods of upper, middle, and lower, exhausting his foundation. 【605】 The Jin Dan Great Dao was right before his eyes. 【606】 "If not Core Formation now, when!" 【607】 With a low growl, the three hundred and sixty-five spiritual pearls that merged into the tornado began to continuously merge under the guidance of the main soul. 【608】 Not only that, the sky-reaching tornado, which had expanded to the extreme, exerted huge pressure, forcing them to merge into one from the outside. 【609】 In the hazy and chaotic state. 【610】 Vaguely, a glazed pill, radiating five-colored light, was generated in the chaos of lightning and thunder, wind and rain! 【611】... 【612】 Tianlan Immortal City. 【613】 There were only ten years left until the opening war. 【614】 As one of the three immortal cities closest to the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, the number of cultivators gathered in Tianlan Immortal City had already exceeded one million. 【615】 There were countless Qi Refining cultivators, and the number of Foundation Establishment True Cultivators was easily over ten thousand. 【616】 Even Jin Dan True Persons were not as rare as before, where you could only see one or two occasionally. 【617】 According to estimates by those in the know, there were at least ten Jin Dan cultivators in Tianlan now. 【618】 And this was just those who were settled there daily, not counting those who passed by occasionally. 【619】 In such an environment, the lively atmosphere had already been agitated to the extreme. 【620】 Everyone was waiting for the opening of the war in ten years. 【621】 However, with so many high-tier cultivators gathered, the demand for spiritual land and cave dwellings naturally reached its peak. 【622】 The number of cave dwellings on Tianlan Peak was not enough before, and now it was even harder to find one. 【623】 Especially for Jin Dan cultivators! 【624】 They had a more urgent need for high-tier cave dwellings. 【625】 From time to time, someone would go to the sect on duty to ask when that Jia-3 cave dwelling could be rented. 【626】 But each time, they would get the answer that the cave dwelling was occupied. 【627】 This day. 【628】 A Jin Dan True Person from outside the domain finally couldn't hold back. 【629】 In front of a Jin Dan cultivator of the Luoyun Sect, he slammed the table and asked angrily. 【630】 "Why does a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator get to occupy the Jia-3 cave dwelling for twenty years?" 【631】 The Luoyun Sect Jin Dan lowered his eyelids, "Because he paid enough spirit stones." 【632】 The outsider cultivator shouted angrily, "But twenty years have passed, haven't they? This is already three years overdue, how can you still rent it to him?" 【633】 The Luoyun Sect Jin Dan said faintly: "His sect members paid another three years for him; I can't just kick him out, can I!" 【634】 The outsider cultivator was speechless for a moment. 【635】 A moment later, he couldn't help but say: "Can't Fellow Daoist Qu accommodate him a little? I urgently need to cultivate a major method to deal with the opening war, and that third-tier spiritual land is indispensable. Giving it to a Foundation Establishment cultivator is truly a waste of heaven's gifts." 【636】 "How about this, whatever spirit stones he pays, I will pay the same, how about that?" 【637】 Was this first soldiers and then gifts? 【638】 The Qu-surnamed Jin Dan cultivator of the Luoyun Sect curled his lips. 【639】 In the immortal city, it's not about cultivation level, but about spirit stones; for the same price, it's about first come, first served. 【640】 Moreover, your realm is higher than his, but that person's relationship with the Luoyun Sect is better than yours, an outsider. 【641】 However, he naturally wouldn't explain too much. 【642】 Just as he was thinking about what method to use to send this person away, his expression changed suddenly. 【643】 Without waiting to talk, he went straight out of the hall and stared fixedly at the direction of Tianlan Peak. 【644】 The outsider Jin Dan was first angry, then suddenly realized something. 【645】 When he stepped out of the hall and looked at the direction of Tianlan Peak, he couldn't help but glance at the Qu-surnamed cultivator who was staring intently. 【646】 It is rumored that Luoyun Sect cultivators are proficient in the way of refining the soul. 【647】 Their spiritual sense is far stronger than their peers. 【648】 The other party discovered the phenomenon earlier than himself, so the rumors are true. 【649】 Was he a bit too rude just now? 【650】 Just as he was feeling uneasy, he suddenly heard a soft "Huh." 【651】 "Isn't it just Core Formation, what's there to be surprised about?" The outsider Jin Dan was puzzled. 【652】 But when he carefully noticed the Core Formation phenomenon on Tianlan Peak, he couldn't help but blurt out. 【653】 "Immortal Venerable is above, which major Jin Dan sect's Daoist-level figure is forming their Core here!" 【654】 The Qu-surnamed cultivator glanced at him and snorted coldly: "Ignorant, with such a formation, how could it be a Daoist of a major sect?" 【655】 The outsider Jin Dan was stunned, and then his face turned slightly pale. 【656】 Like them, there were quite a few Jin Dan cultivators who noticed the phenomenon on Tianlan Peak. 【657】 Even later, everyone in Tianlan Immortal City, from Jin Dan True Persons down to Qi Refining cultivators, noticed the Core Formation phenomenon. 【658】 No other reason, it was truly too terrifying. 【659】 The wind roared, and colorful clouds gathered. 【660】 The sound of dragons and tigers roaring was endless. 【661】 And there was that sky-reaching tornado, rolling back to the sky. 【662】 Spiritual energy from all directions gathered towards that tornado. 【663】 And this was just the beginning! 【664】 About a stick of incense later. 【665】 The tornado didn't shrink, but became larger and larger. 【666】 The mighty momentum swept across the entire Tianlan Peak. 【667】 Countless first-tier and second-tier cave dwellings shook together. 【668】 The spiritual energy confined in the cave dwellings couldn't help but surge towards the Jia-3 cave dwelling. 【669】 Even! 【670】 The third-tier spiritual vein under this immortal city was affected. 【671】 The expression of the Qu-surnamed cultivator changed from curiosity at the beginning to surprise later, and by the end, it was already a look of hesitation. 【672】 "Something's wrong!" 【673】 "This child's foundation is truly terrifying." 【674】 "A mere artificial third-tier spiritual vein is not enough to help him. If he is allowed to swallow like this, he will destroy most of the cave dwelling arrangements." 【675】 After some hesitation, he finally made up his mind. 【676】 "Forget it!" 【677】 "The True Person has words to be kind to him." 【678】 "I will help him!" 【679】 With a thought, the Qu-surnamed Jin Dan cultivator abandoned the outsider Jin Dan and flew towards the central hall of Tianlan Immortal City. 【680】 Not long after he left. 【681】 The entire Tianlan Immortal City suddenly let out a boom. 【682】 The outsider Jin Dan who remained in place showed an expression of disbelief. 【683】 "Did they open the spiritual vein restriction of the immortal city?" 【684】 Just as he was shocked, large amounts of spiritual energy suddenly surged out from the entire immortal city. 【685】 Its concentration directly raised the immortal city, which was only at the first-tier level, to the second-tier! 【686】 And the entire Tianlan Peak was instantly transformed into a third-tier spiritual land! 【687】 The sky-reaching tornado, helped by this power, became even more huge. 【688】 The act of swallowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also became more joyful. 【689】 How to describe it? 【690】 Only the word "whale swallowing" would do! 【691】 Also during this process, a figure suddenly stepped up from the hazy wind and clouds. 【692】 The figure was upright, and the face was illusory. 【693】 Only a head of black hair fluttered behind, setting off the black eyes that illuminated all things, like a god or a demon! 【694】

Naturally, when building the great house of Core Formation, the more assistance required, the better.

"Superior Method, not enough!"

"Mingyuan Elixir, also not enough!"

"I still have the Reversing Spirit Vortex of the 'Qingyuan Wonderful Elixir Method'!"

"No, next time, I will use all methods together and see the effect."

Since one technique can only increase the chance of Core Formation by a few points, what if they are used together?

Unknowingly, a slightly crazy idea filled Luo Chen's mind.

Although somewhat crazy, it was not impossible.

Because Luo Chen had a sharp weapon in his hand and could give it a try!

Looking at the Ghost God Heart-Questioning Mirror full of cracks, Luo Chen rested for a few days, then threw his soul into it without hesitation.

Inside the hazy yellow mirror surface.

A Daoist sat cross-legged.

The third failure arrived as scheduled.

Along with the failure came the complete scrapping of the Ghost God Heart-Questioning Mirror.

This was something expected.

It was originally an incomplete magic treasure.

Over these years, Luo Chen had used it many times to question his heart; not only did he use it himself, but he also let Gu Caiyi and the members of the Luotian Society use it for Foundation Establishment.

With such frequent activation, plus Luo Chen not having the corresponding maintenance and repair methods, the condition naturally became worse and worse.

Last time in the Magnet Valley, when he used the Ghost God Heart-Questioning Mirror to help Miao Wen find her true self, this treasure had already shown signs of imminent damage.

Now, it had barely supported Luo Chen for three simulated Core Formations, which was already the limit of the limit.

Luo Chen looked at the bronze mirror fragments in his hand with slight regret.

This was a rare soul-type magic treasure!

After a faint sense of regret, a look of excitement appeared on Luo Chen's face, and there was even a hint of a smile.

In a situation where misfortunes never come singly, why could he still laugh?

The reason, naturally, lay in the fact that in the last simulation, although he failed, he was infinitely close to a successful Core Formation!

"My idea is correct!"

"Although they belong to different Core Formation paths, each has its own mysteries."

"As long as I resolve the conflicting parts and take their essence, I will surely be able to help myself soar into the sky!"

"However, relying solely on these two secret techniques is still lacking something."

Luo Chen's thoughts turned, and a green light flashed on his hand.

Three jade slips appeared in his hand.

They were precisely the three inferior Core Formation secret techniques: "Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation," "Escaping the Cage," and "Hunyuan Method."

"If I fuse these three secret techniques with the 'Locking Pearl Curtain,' can I tailor a Core Formation secret technique for myself?"

Luo Chen had this confidence!

He had obtained these secret techniques many years ago and studied them extremely meticulously, so it was not difficult to get started.

It could even be said that for each of these secret techniques, he had more or less met some of the conditions.

The Rising Dragon Elixir and Ice Phoenix Pill required by "Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation" were readily available in his hands.

"Escaping the Cage" required a powerful physique and a formidable third-tier breakthrough elixir, which he also possessed.

The "Hunyuan Method" was even simpler; his "Qingyuan Wonderful Elixir Method" was originally of the same origin, and even higher in grade.

If he fused the four methods to create a unique technique.

Perhaps he could maximize the chance of Core Formation!

Even if he couldn't make one plus one equal two, as long as it was greater than one, it would suffice!

Four secret techniques, three types of elixirs, and solid essence, Qi, and spirit—the three treasures.

If even then he couldn't break through to the Jin Dan stage, Luo Chen would doubt whether the five-element spiritual root was truly abandoned by the Heavenly Dao, and he would even doubt whether the existence of the Five Elements God Sect was reasonable.

As for whether the fused technique would be suitable for cultivation?

Although he no longer had the Ghost God Heart-Questioning Mirror, he still had the system as a cheat; when the time came, he could try to use achievement points to get started and appraise it a bit.

Thinking is doing!

By now, Luo Chen had no way back.

Relying on his solid foundation, broad knowledge, and super talent for technique cultivation.

Luo Chen began to practice the three Core Formation secret techniques.

One year, two years, three years...

After all, they were only inferior Core Formation secret techniques; practicing them was not complicated, and most relied on external forces to achieve Core Formation.

In just three years, Luo Chen had practiced the three secret techniques to the master level.

After reaching this step, he did not continue to practice.

Instead, he began to try to fuse them with the "Locking Pearl Curtain."

However, the fusion process was not very smooth.

After all, they were completely different methods brought out by four sects, and there were conflicts between them.

Luo Chen spent a year with slow progress.

But by the fifth year, Luo Chen also tried to integrate "Settling the Wind and Waves" into it.

The four previously incompatible secret techniques, after the addition of "Settling the Wind and Waves," instead presented a strange balance.

This day.

In the cultivation room.

Luo Chen pulled out the system attribute panel and held a bamboo slip he had written himself between his hands.

This was the Core Formation secret technique he had created over the past five years, incorporating the strengths of various schools and using his own insights.

He named it "Dust Origin Technique."

If a person is like dust, the heart faces the universe, and the character "Origin" has the meaning of the foundation of heaven and earth and all things in the universe.

With this technique, even the most inferior aptitude has a chance to reach the Great Dao.

The naming of this secret technique contained Luo Chen's ambition to strive for the Great Dao of longevity.

【Dust Origin Technique, Supreme Core Formation Secret Technique, do you want to get started?】

When the system gave the cold text prompt.

Luo Chen closed the system with a smile on his face.

Of course, there was no need to get started!

He knew the various tricks within the technique he created better than anyone, and even the foundation had already been laid.

There was absolutely no need to waste achievement points.

Next, he just needed to sort it out once and practice it step by step.

And the time required for this process?

Luo Chen felt it would not be too long!

Two years later!

Luo Chen left the cultivation room and went to the living room.

One by one, the resources needed for Core Formation were taken out by him.

Three Mingyuan Elixirs, Rising Dragon Elixir, Ice Phoenix Pill, Tianshan Returning Yang Water, Barrier-Solidifying Talisman, Heart-Purifying Incense, Vast Sea Elixir...

Densely packed resources.

Some were collected by Luo Chen himself.

Some were auctioned for him by Sima Huiniang, who drove the Luotian Society cultivators to scour the various large and small auctions in the Yuding Domain over the years.

For this, countless manpower and material resources were spent.

Looking at the fully prepared resources, a hint of excitement was hidden in Luo Chen's calm eyes.

Bathing, changing clothes, burning incense, straightening his crown.

After returning to the quiet room, he sat upright, waiting for his heart to be calm and his intent to be sincere.

For a full month, Luo Chen adjusted his state to the absolute peak.

At this time, his energy was surging, his spiritual energy was round and unified, his mind was as still as an ancient well, and he would not be startled even if the sky fell.

Fifty years ago, he first obtained the Ghost God Heart-Questioning Mirror and failed to simulate Core Formation.

Fifty years later, he had simulated it three times in a row, all of which failed.

But each failure was getting closer and closer to success.

In this process, he gained several insights on Core Formation from predecessors and personally witnessed Chu Kui's Core Formation process.

For this day, he had prepared too much and waited too long.

"Everything that could be done, I have done to the extreme; success or failure depends on this one move!"

Luo Chen's lips parted slightly, and he took a deep breath.

In the cultivation room, the incomparably rich spiritual energy turned into a white gas dragon and surged into his body.

As if sensing something.

In the sea of Qi filled with countless pure spiritual liquids, a mutation suddenly occurred.

The two pills swallowed in advance suddenly tore through the spiritual power restrictions, and two extraordinary medicinal powers immediately fell into the sea of Qi.

One was icy cold, the other was scorching hot.

The two medicinal powers collided with each other, drawing out the water and fire forces in the sea of Qi; suddenly, the Kan and Li were reversed, clashing against the heavenly gate.

Under this extreme collision, the sea of Qi suddenly boiled.

Countless spiritual liquids gathered towards the center, and faintly, it seemed as if a pill was being formed.

Suddenly!

That embryonic pill suddenly shattered!

The moment it shattered, before it could condense again, it was controlled and turned into a tiny vortex.

This spiritual energy vortex was initially extremely small.

But as it continued to rotate clockwise, it became larger and larger.

In the nine heavens of the sea of Qi, countless spiritual powers surged into the spiritual energy vortex, being screened over and over again like a sieve.

This process, I don't know how long it lasted.

It seemed like an instant, and it also seemed like ten million years.

When this step was completed.

The vortex was originally rotating steadily, but after reaching an extreme point, it strangely began to rotate counter-clockwise.

The changes brought about by this completely different direction of rotation were earth-shattering!

Before, it was just gently screening spiritual power, filtering impurities, and removing elixir toxins.

But once it turned counter-clockwise, a huge devouring force instantly surged out.

The entire sea of Qi boiled in an instant!

Countless spiritual liquids surged towards the reversed spiritual vortex.

This spiritual vortex became larger and larger.

In the blink of an eye, it was as if there was a tornado reaching the sky and the earth in the depths of the ocean, stirring the vast sea.

It seemed that it wasn't lively enough!

A pill suddenly dissolved.

A terrifying medicinal power that had reached the extreme suddenly fell into the ocean.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The moment the medicinal power erupted, nine terrifying thunderclaps exploded in Luo Chen's body.

With every thunderclap, his body would tremble once.

His third-tier ancient physique was actually blasted with fine cracks in this kind of vibration.

It was as if nine thunder dragons wanted to escape from his sea of Qi and break away from this body.

However, Luo Chen did not allow it!

The body is like a cage, the heart is like a prison.

If I haven't escaped, how can I see the Great Dao?

In this terrifying thunder, the terrifying medicinal power had no choice but to surge into the sea of Qi.

As soon as it entered, it was sucked into the sky-reaching tornado that had expanded to the limit.

With the addition of the Mingyuan Elixir's medicinal power, the balance of water and fire, and the floating and sinking of metal and wood in Luo Chen's body, was completely broken.

The nine-layered sea of Qi shattered instantly.

Endless spiritual power fell from the nine heavens with a rumble, smashing the ocean into constant vibration.

If this continued, I'm afraid the sea of Qi would be completely destroyed before the Jin Dan was condensed.

And it was at this moment!

"Settle!"

In the dark, a mighty divine sound fell into the sea of Qi.

Afterwards.

A spiritual pearl as bright as the stars broke free from the acupoint confinement and hovered above the sea of Qi.

At this moment, the sea of Qi was quiet.

But the next moment, it began to vibrate again.

"Not enough!"

"Come again!"

The sound of the soul was issued again, and another spiritual pearl entered the sea of Qi.

If a great expert were to pierce through Luo Chen's body and see the scene in his sea of Qi at this moment.

They would see an unimaginable picture.

In the vast ocean, water and fire clashed, metal and wood floated and sank, and the terrifying physique turned into a solid earth wall, blocking the leakage of spiritual energy.

A giant tornado rotated counter-clockwise, crazily devouring the spiritual energy in the boundless ocean.

It even stirred the nine-layered sea of Qi until it was fragmented.

In the acupoints outside the sky, spiritual pearls fell like stars, like rain, using great power to settle the wild waves and storms raised by the boundless ocean.

I don't know how long passed.

The mighty divine soul sound erupted again.

"Fuse!"

Three hundred and sixty-five stars hovered together above the empty sea of Qi.

Then they turned into meteors and rushed towards the sky-reaching tornado like moths to a flame.

Kan and Li reversed, water and fire helped each other, metal and wood floated and sank, the Great Dao is promising.

The sun and moon in the furnace, creation is self-evident, something from nothing, dragon and tiger gather.

Essence of heaven and marrow of earth, yin soul and yang spirit, all the stars in the sky, all collected in the universe.

Luo Chen fused the upper, middle, and lower three methods, exhausting his entire foundation.

The Jin Dan Great Dao was right before his eyes.

"If not Core Formation now, when?"

With a low roar, the three hundred and sixty-five spiritual pearls that had merged into the tornado began to fuse continuously under the guidance of the main soul.

Not only that, the sky-reaching tornado, which had expanded to the extreme, generated huge pressure, urging them to merge into one from the outside.

In the hazy and chaotic state.

Faintly, a glazed pill, emitting five-colored light, was generated in the chaos of lightning, thunder, wind, and rain!

Tianlan Immortal City.

There were only ten years left until the opening war.

As one of the three immortal cities closest to the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, the number of cultivators gathered in Tianlan Immortal City had already exceeded one million.

There were countless Qi Refining cultivators inside, and the number of Foundation Establishment true cultivators easily reached ten thousand.

Even Jin Dan masters were not as rare as before, where one could only see one or two occasionally.

According to estimates by interested people, there were at least a dozen Jin Dan cultivators in Tianlan now.

This was only for those who lived there daily, not counting those who passed by occasionally.

In such an environment, the lively atmosphere had long been agitated to the extreme.

Everyone was waiting for the start of the opening war ten years later.

However, with so many high-tier cultivators gathered, the demand for spiritual land and caves naturally reached its peak.

The number of caves on Tianlan Peak was not enough before, and now it was even harder to find one.

Especially for Jin Dan cultivators!

They had a more urgent need for high-grade caves.

From time to time, someone would go to the sect on duty to ask when the A-3 cave could be rented.

But every time, they would get the answer that the cave already had an owner.

This day.

An outer-domain Jin Dan master finally couldn't hold it anymore.

In front of a Luoyun Sect Jin Dan cultivator, he slapped the table and asked angrily.

"A mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, by what right does he occupy the A-3 cave for twenty years?"

The Luoyun Sect Jin Dan lowered his eyelids, "Because he paid enough spirit stones."

The outer-domain cultivator shouted angrily, "But twenty years have passed, right? This is already three years overdue; are you still renting it to him?"

The Luoyun Sect Jin Dan said lightly: "His subordinates have paid for another three years for him; I can't just kick him out, can I!"

The outer-domain cultivator was speechless for a moment.

A moment later, he couldn't help but say: "Can't Fellow Daoist Qu make an exception? I urgently need to practice a great technique to deal with the opening war, and that third-tier spiritual land is indispensable. Giving it to a Foundation Establishment cultivator is truly a waste of heaven's gifts."

"How about this, whatever spirit stones he pays, I will pay the same, how about that?"

Is this first soldiers then gifts?

The Luoyun Sect Jin Dan cultivator surnamed Qu curled his lips.

In the immortal city, it is not based on cultivation, but on spirit stones; at the same price, it is about who comes first.

Besides, your realm is higher than his, but that person's relationship with the Luoyun Sect is better than you, an outsider.

However, he naturally wouldn't explain too much.

Just as he was thinking about what method to use to send this person away, his expression suddenly changed.

Without waiting to talk, he went straight out of the main hall and stared fixedly at the direction of Tianlan Peak.

The outer-domain Jin Dan was first angry, then suddenly realized something.

When he stepped out of the main hall and looked at the direction of Tianlan Peak, he couldn't help but glance at the cultivator surnamed Qu who was staring intently.

It is rumored that Luoyun Sect cultivators are proficient in the way of refining the spirit.

Their spiritual sense is far stronger than those of the same rank.

The other party discovered the phenomenon before him, so the rumor is true.

Was he a bit too rude before?

Just as he was feeling uneasy, he suddenly heard a soft "eh."

"Isn't it just Core Formation, what's there to be surprised about?" The outer-domain Jin Dan was puzzled.

But when he carefully noticed the Core Formation phenomenon on Tianlan Peak, he couldn't help but blurt out.

"Immortal Venerable is above, which great Jin Dan sect's Daoist-level figure is forming a core here!"

The cultivator surnamed Qu glanced at him and snorted coldly: "Ignorant, how can a great sect's Daoist have such a formation?"

The outer-domain Jin Dan was stunned, and then his face turned slightly pale.

Like them, there were not a few Jin Dan cultivators who noticed the phenomenon on Tianlan Peak.

Even later, everyone in Tianlan Immortal City, from Jin Dan masters down to Qi Refining cultivators, noticed the Core Formation phenomenon.

No other reason, it was truly too terrifying.

The wind whistled, and colorful clouds gathered.

The sound of dragons and tigers roaring was endless.

There was also that sky-reaching tornado, rolling back to the sky.

Spiritual energy from all directions gathered towards that tornado.

And this was just the beginning!

About a stick of incense later.

The tornado did not shrink, but became larger and larger.

The mighty momentum swept across the entire Tianlan Peak.

Countless first-tier and second-tier caves vibrated together.

The spiritual energy trapped in the caves surged towards the A-3 cave involuntarily.

Even!

The third-tier spiritual vein under this immortal city was affected.

The expression of the cultivator surnamed Qu went from curiosity at the beginning to surprise, and by the end, it was a look of hesitation.

"Something is wrong!"

"This child's foundation is truly terrifying."

"A mere man-made third-tier spiritual vein is not enough to help him. If he is allowed to swallow it like this, I'm afraid it will destroy most of the cave's layout."

After some hesitation, he finally made up his mind.

"Forget it!"

"The True Person has said, be kind to him."

"I will give him a helping hand!"

With a thought, the cultivator surnamed Qu abandoned the outer-domain Jin Dan and flew towards the central hall of Tianlan Immortal City.

Not long after he left.

The entire Tianlan Immortal City suddenly let out a rumbling vibration.

The outer-domain Jin Dan who remained in place showed a look of disbelief.

"Is this opening the spiritual vein restriction of the immortal city?"

While he was shocked, large amounts of spiritual energy suddenly surged out of the entire immortal city.

The richness directly raised the immortal city, which was only at the first-tier level, to the second-tier!

And the entire Tianlan Peak also turned into a third-tier spiritual land in an instant!

That sky-reaching tornado, with the help of this power, became even more huge.

The act of devouring the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also became more cheerful.

How to describe it?

Only the word "whale swallowing" can describe it!

Also in this process, a figure suddenly stepped up from the misty wind and clouds.

The figure was tall and straight, and the face was illusory.

Only a head of black hair fluttered behind, reflecting the black eyes that illuminated all things, like a god or a demon!