Chapter 455

After strengthening his dantian, Song Qingming also felt that the recovery of his magic power these days could no longer keep up with the speed of consumption. In order not to delay the time of Core Formation, Song Qingming decisively took out a small cyan bottle from his body and poured a drop of Millennium Spirit Milk contained inside into his mouth.

This time, because of the failure to form his core, Song Qingming did not consume much Millennium Spirit Milk. Now he still had a whole bottle on him, which was enough for him to use for the upcoming Core Formation.

Besides the Millennium Spirit Milk, Song Qingming could also borrow the remnant map he carried with him to help restore his magic power. This would also make the time required for the overall process of his Core Formation breakthrough shorter than that of ordinary cultivators.

Relying on directly swallowing the Millennium Spirit Milk and the blessing of the remnant map, in less than a moment, Song Qingming had already replenished the magic power in his body to a full state. Next, he would start to refine the magic power in his dantian to be pure.

After a cultivator breaks through to Foundation Establishment, the original magic power stored in the dantian will directly turn into a liquid form. As the cultivation base improves step by step, after reaching the last level of the Foundation Establishment stage, the ninth level, the original magic power in the body is almost stored to fullness.

After this, continuing to practice can no longer help the cultivator increase their own magic power; they can only slowly purify their own original magic power to prepare for breaking through to the next realm, condensing the Golden Core.

This step of purifying one's own original magic power, although it is very easy for every cultivator who can practice to the peak of Foundation Establishment to do, whether one can do this step well and let the subsequent core condensation be completed smoothly is a test of a cultivator's personal ability.

After restoring the magic power in his body, Song Qingming sat cross-legged and entered a state of meditation, operating the Jade Profound Scripture he practiced, opening several acupuncture points on his body, and starting to vigorously absorb the heaven and earth spiritual energy in the cave dwelling.

The so-called purifying original magic power is actually to constantly and rapidly absorb the heaven and earth spiritual energy from the outside over a period of time, and then directly expel the flawed and mixed spiritual energy in the body from his dantian, allowing the original magic power in the cultivator's own dantian to reach a very pure state in a short time.

To do this well, one not only needs patience but also needs to grasp and control the rhythm of spiritual energy entering the dantian at all times. Once flawed spiritual energy is found to have been inhaled, it must be expelled from the body in time. Otherwise, once these flawed spiritual energies settle into the dantian and mix into one's own original magic power, it will be a waste of all previous efforts, and it will be very difficult to find them again.

The biggest reason Song Qingming fell at this step of core condensation last time was that this step of purifying magic power was not done well, leading to the core liquid being unable to successfully condense into a Golden Core during the later core condensation.

However, this time with the help of the "Spirit Machine Spring Eye," Song Qingming's step of purifying magic power was not only much easier than before, but the spiritual energy inhaled into the body directly from the "Spirit Machine Spring Eye" would be purer than on other spirit veins. Song Qingming would also inhale much less of that flawed spiritual energy during this process than before.

Although Song Qingming's personal experience and other conditions for this closed-door Core Formation were much better than his last closed-door cultivation, he did not become anxious or careless because of this. Song Qingming still walked this step of purifying magic power with great patience.

It wasn't until two full years later that Song Qingming felt that his original magic power was pure enough, and only then did he slowly put away his magic power and complete this step.

At this time, because all the magic power in his whole body had been refined to a very pure level, a trace of spiritual light began to flash on his whole body from time to time, making him look very immortal and ethereal.

After walking through this step of purifying magic power, it could be considered that less than half of the steps of Core Formation had been completed. Now, the original magic power in Song Qingming's dantian had also transformed from the transparent color before into a golden core liquid.

The next step was to directly condense these core liquids in his dantian into a core. As long as this step could be achieved smoothly, Song Qingming would have completed the most difficult step in the process of Core Formation, which could be considered as having one foot already stepped into the Golden Core realm.

The reason Core Formation can stump many Foundation Establishment cultivators in the cultivation world is precisely because the difficulty of this step of core condensation is extremely high. As long as you are not a genius like a Heavenly Spirit Root, no matter how good your spirit root talent is, it is very difficult to pass this hurdle smoothly.

In the cultivation world, the most common reason for all Foundation Establishment cultivators failing to break through to the Golden Core realm is the failure to successfully condense the core. Almost more than 80% of cultivators fell at this step, including Song Qingming, who failed his first Core Formation years ago.

After using a Tier 2 spirit talisman to readjust his state, Song Qingming did not hesitate too much and directly swallowed the "Jade Dust Pill" he had prepared in his hand, once again driving the magic power in his body.

The "Jade Dust Pill" is a type of spirit pill that can assist cultivators in better controlling the magic power in their bodies. This pill can form a layer of magic power barrier outside the dantian when a cultivator is condensing a Golden Core, helping the cultivator isolate the conflict between the original magic power in the dantian and the spiritual energy in other meridians and acupuncture points in the body.

With the help of the "Jade Dust Pill," a cultivator can better concentrate their energy on the dantian in their body during the process of condensing the Golden Core, focusing on controlling the core liquid that has already been transformed, without worrying about the magic power in other parts of the body rushing into the dantian randomly, bringing adverse effects to their own condensation of the Golden Core.

After taking the pill for a moment, Song Qingming quickly felt a relatively gentle magic power appear in his body, which soon tightly wrapped the entire dantian. Song Qingming, who had experience, naturally knew that this was the medicinal power of the "Jade Dust Pill" taking effect.

Having reached this step, Song Qingming naturally would not waste time and hurriedly concentrated his energy to start controlling the core liquid that had been prepared in his body.

After Song Qingming started to drive his own magic power, those golden core liquids stored in the inner core also started to rotate slowly and automatically, soon forming a small vortex in the dantian.

At the very center of this core liquid vortex, the color of a trace of core liquid also began to reveal a very dazzling white light. This white light directly penetrated Song Qingming's dantian and flesh and skin, starting to illuminate the entire cave dwelling where he was in closed-door cultivation.

As time passed, the rotation speed of the vortex formed by the core liquid also began to become faster and faster, and the white light on Song Qingming's body became brighter and brighter.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but Song Qingming felt that the core liquids in his dantian had become less than half and were more viscous, so he started to directly control the magic power in his body to compress the core liquids in the dantian.

Soon, the core liquid stored in Song Qingming's dantian was compressed by his control of magic power into an egg-sized spherical shape. This golden sphere started to rotate continuously in Song Qingming's body, also revealing a strong white light.

After successfully gathering and solidifying the core liquid in his body, Song Qingming did not stop and poured another drop of Millennium Spirit Milk into his mouth, starting to increase his magic power to continue polishing the golden sphere in his dantian.

Although this golden sphere was condensed from the true essence core liquid in Song Qingming's body, it was still just a magic core now, and there was still a long distance from the Golden Core in the body of a true Golden Core cultivator. It still required Song Qingming to continue polishing and compressing the true essence inside, so that this magic core could transform into a true Golden Core.

After waiting for the golden sphere in his body to slowly shrink by more than half, Song Qingming took a deep breath and directly transferred a powerful magic power hidden in his internal organs and flesh and blood into his dantian, increasing the magic power to compress the golden sphere in his dantian.

This magic power hidden in Song Qingming's body was precisely the "Hidden Origin Art" he had practiced for many years. After this powerful magic power was added, Song Qingming soon successfully compressed the golden sphere to the size of a thumb tip. Seeing that the Golden Core, which was already 70-80% formed in his body, had no abnormalities, Song Qingming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

If it weren't for the help of the "Hidden Origin Art," this most important step of core condensation—compressing the true essence core liquid—could not have been completed so easily and smoothly by Song Qingming. Spending more than a decade re-cultivating the "Hidden Origin Art" was indeed not a waste of effort.

When Song Qingming started practicing the Jade Profound Scripture years ago, he obtained the "Hidden Origin Art" spell from the technique. Song Qingming, who had just established his foundation, was precisely because he had this spell in his hand that he started to have a bit of confidence in forming a core.

This spell, the "Hidden Origin Art," usually doesn't have much use. The magic power stored in the cultivator's body after practice can only be used at such a critical moment of Core Formation. But just the fact that it can increase the probability of Core Formation by 20% is enough to make the role of the "Hidden Origin Art" far exceed ordinary high-grade spells.

After successfully condensing the true essence core liquid in his body into a Golden Core, Song Qingming had already passed the most important step of Core Formation and could be considered as having one foot already stepped into the Golden Core realm.

At the same time, outside the cave dwelling where Song Qingming was in closed-door cultivation, the monster king Qingluan happened to be enjoying a pot of spirit wine that Song Qingming had given her. Just as she was happily preparing to pour herself another cup, she suddenly felt a change in the surrounding spiritual energy, which was rushing crazily toward a stone door not far from her side that had been closed for a long time.

Seeing this scene, Qingluan's expression changed instantly. She immediately put down the spirit wine she hadn't finished drinking, got up, walked out of the cave dwelling, and came directly to the outside.

Just after flying out from the bottom of the pool, Qingluan saw that a pile of white clouds had already gathered in the sky above her head, and the heaven and earth spiritual energy around the pool was rapidly rushing into the cave dwelling at the bottom of the pool.

This sudden scene made those low-grade monster beasts hiding in their own cave dwellings around feel some abnormalities, and they also ran out one after another to find the place where the heaven and earth spiritual energy was inexplicably gathering.

However, these low-grade monster beasts, just as they approached the cave dwelling by the pool, felt a huge pressure coming from the front, which scared them into turning around and fleeing in a panic, not even daring to return to their original cave dwellings.

"This kid, finally reached the time to form a core. I don't know if he will succeed this time!" After driving away those low-grade monster beasts nearby, Monster King Qingluan looked up at the sky and muttered to herself again.