Chapter 377

"In that case, I must thank Junior Brother Fang Han."

Fang Yu gave a grunt of acknowledgment.

Refining another person's Golden Core is not a wise thing to do in the first place, because another person's Golden Core contains the lifelong heart's blood and the spiritual imprint of their bitter cultivation.

If a cultivator obtained a Golden Core and refined it directly, making it his own, then he could forget about ever stepping into the Longevity Secret Realm in this lifetime.

Cultivating a Golden Core is itself a process of baptism of the spirit and life metamorphosis; without this process, life cannot metamorphose, and if the metamorphosis is impure, one cannot advance to a higher realm.

Only when one's own essence, qi, spirit, Dao, and Gang Qi coalesce into one, condensing the seed of divine power and life, will the body undergo change in the midst of profound metamorphosis. Magic power greatly increases, lifespan greatly increases,

If one directly refines another person's Golden Core, one can certainly gain that person's Golden Core abilities, but loses the possibility of permanent progress and gains no increase in lifespan—it's tantamount to a foolish act, killing the hen to get the egg.

However, the Huang Quan Holy Water has one function: it can slowly decompose a Golden Core, restore it into its source Daoist Gang Qi, and then one can reabsorb that Gang Qi and make it one's own divine power.

It is not a matter of directly absorbing the Golden Core, but of the Golden Core transforming into one's original-element Xu Yuan Qi, and then one uses this original-element Xu Yuan Qi to cultivate anew, cultivating out one's own Golden Core.

This is the best method to steal the power of a Golden Core.

The more divine powers a person cultivates, the undoubtedly more formidable they are. However, a person's lifespan is limited, and cultivating each divine power requires gathering Xu Yuan Qi before it can succeed.

For example, take any random Five Elements Dao-method divine power—following the proper steps, it takes at minimum twenty-three years, at most thirty to fifty years, a full sexagenary cycle, or even over a hundred years.

The crucial point in these hundred-plus years is the search for Xu Yuan Qi; only by finding Xu Yuan Qi can one refine it and transform it into one's own great formation and power.

Cultivation ultimately requires material substance; without Xu Yuan Qi, one imagines cultivating immortality, directly achieving sagehood or Immortal King? That is impossible.

Therefore, cultivating divine powers requires bitterly seeking Xu Yuan Qi and cultivating with bitter toil.

One divine power bitterly practiced for thirty to fifty years, a sexagenary cycle, can reach great completion; with the eight-hundred-year lifespan of the Heavenly Man Realm, being able to cultivate over a dozen divine powers is already incomparably formidable.

This is also why, in today's Cultivation World, a Golden Core Realm expert possessing a dozen-odd divine powers is already a genius among geniuses—like Qian Lan here, with her dozen-odd divine powers, she is already the foremost female true-disciple of the Yuhua Sect.

And now Fang Yu is using the Huang Quan Holy Water to decompose these two Golden Cores, comprehending the forty divine powers within, and then condensing them one by one according to method; because the Golden Cores contain ready-made Daoist Gang Qi, he can save over a thousand years that would otherwise be spent searching for that Gang Qi.

Directly condensing divine powers is following the natural course of water.

This is a great fortuitous encounter, one that simply cannot be replicated.

Were it not for the Huang Quan Holy Water, it would be utterly impossible to achieve.

Only the Huang Quan Holy Water can eliminate the spiritual imprint of Xu Yuan Qi within a Golden Core expert's Golden Core, transforming it into pure, flawless Xu Yuan Qi.

Otherwise, the giants of the Longevity Secret Realm would long ago have been seizing Golden Core experts everywhere, digging out their Golden Cores, directly decomposing them into Xu Yuan Qi, and absorbing them as their own divine powers.

Once they did so, the spiritual imprints of others would enter their minds—normally they could suppress it, but at the critical moment, when the Heart Demon invades, they would immediately suffer qi deviation.

The marvel of the Huang Quan Holy Water lies precisely here.

"Senior Brother Yu is now about to obtain the same fortuitous encounter I received back then."

Many emotions welled up within Fang Han's heart.