Chapter 400

Hearing that Huang Shengxin was going to go into seclusion immediately after returning, Song Qingming was also somewhat surprised and immediately thought of the reason why he was in such a hurry to go into seclusion.

However, before Song Qingming could ask, Huang Shengxin sighed and said directly: "To tell you the truth, Fellow Daoist Song probably also knows that my lifespan is not long. This time I have already made up my mind to go into a life-or-death seclusion after returning. If I don't break through, I won't come out to see people again.

It is shameful to say, I have cultivated for more than two hundred years in my life. The first half of my path can be said to be smooth sailing. I cultivated to the peak of Foundation Establishment without experiencing too many setbacks. But when it came to the barrier of forming a core, I was repeatedly not favored by heaven. For these decades, I have exhausted my efforts but still cannot find the door to enter.

We Foundation Establishment cultivators, although we are only one step away from this Golden Core Great Dao, it is like the bright moon in the sky, visible but unreachable. I don't know how to cross this natural chasm."

Hearing Huang Shengxin suddenly speak these heartfelt words, Song Qingming and Huang Shengyue, who were present, were silent for a moment, and not knowing what to say, they could only cast their eyes to the side.

Even a genius cultivator like Huang Shengxin, who was the most gifted in Qinghe County for nearly a hundred years, could only say such desolate words when facing this Golden Core Great Dao. If it were the two of them, how much hope could they have?

Foundation Establishment cultivators have at most two hundred years of lifespan. If they cannot form a core, no matter how glorious they are for another hundred years, they will eventually turn into a pile of dust. What cultivators seek in the end is that glimmer of opportunity for eternal life. As his cultivation level gets higher, Song Qingming feels that he is also yearning for it more and more.

"Two fellow Daoists, I will send you here. I hope you have a safe journey!" Watching the two sword lights disappear before his eyes, Song Qingming turned around, stepped on his flying sword, and quickly returned to Mount Tuoyun.

With the departure of many cultivators who participated in the trade fair, the entire Mount Tuoyun also changed from the bustling appearance of the previous few days and slowly became quiet.

Compared to the smaller-scale trade fairs like the auction secretly held by the Tian Dan Alliance and the White Dragon Mountain Assembly, the Mount Tuoyun trade fair, which takes place once every few decades, has much better safety guarantees for the cultivators participating in the trade fair. Basically, there will be no cultivators who will stay on Mount Tuoyun because they are afraid of being targeted.

The Mount Tuoyun trade fair is, after all, held by Old Ancestor Chen himself, and many cultivators who came to participate in the trade fair were invited by him personally. Whether it is those greedy rogue cultivators or the nearby bandit cultivators, generally no one dares to openly plot against those cultivators who participate in the trade fair. Otherwise, that would be slapping Mount Tuoyun in the face and going against Old Ancestor Chen.

In the northern cultivation world of Wei State, the consequences of rashly offending a Golden Core cultivator like Old Ancestor Chen can be imagined. There is no need for this Old Ancestor himself to take action; just the disciples and grandchildren under his command taking action would be enough to wipe out a large bandit cultivator nest like Eagle Nest Ridge.

After living in the temporary cave dwelling on the mountain for another three days, Song Qingming finally received notification from the cultivators sent by Feng Deyang that the day for Old Ancestor Chen to preach was coming soon, and the location was still on the platform on the mountaintop.

Being able to get an opportunity to listen to a Golden Core Old Ancestor preach, not only Song Qingming, but all other cultivators who entered the top ten also cherished this hard-won opportunity very much. By the time Song Qingming arrived at the mountaintop, these Foundation Establishment cultivators had all arrived here without exception.

Besides the cultivators like Song Qingming who participated in the Sword Discussion Assembly, several of Chen Jinliang's disciples, as well as some disciples and followers with higher talent, also arrived here. Everyone sat cross-legged in turn on the open space in the middle of the mountaintop platform.

Not long after, an old man with white whiskers, looking like an immortal, came riding the wind and landed directly in front of everyone.

After Chen Jinliang swept a glance at the many cultivators who were already waiting on the open ground, he walked directly to a gray cushion placed in front and sat down slowly.

"I have actually not discussed the Dao for a long time in these years. This time, it was also because I saw many cultivators with good talent in your younger generation at this trade fair that I had a sudden whim and had this idea of preaching."

"Everyone sitting here today is basically not far from forming a core. I will tell you some of my insights and realizations when I formed my core back then. Of course, what I say is only my personal insights. As for how much you can understand and how much help it will be to you in the future, that can only depend on everyone's own good fortune."

Hearing that Chen Jinliang was going to talk about the insights on forming a core, which was exactly what everyone wanted to know most, everyone present, including Song Qingming, pricked up their ears, not daring to reveal even a trace of extra sound, for fear that they would miss every word that this Golden Core Old Ancestor would say next.

Although Chen Jinliang only spoke for a short half-hour, many of the cultivators present entered into deep thought on the spot. Until this Old Ancestor had already stood up and left the mountaintop, many people were still sitting in their original places, savoring the insights and experiences on cultivation that he had spoken about not long ago.

When Chen Jinliang entered the Dao at a young age, he had been following an old Qi Refining stage Daoist to cultivate. It was not until later that his cultivation talent gradually revealed itself that he had the opportunity to worship under the door of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Although this master of his also helped him a lot, as a Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator with average fame, this master of his could not get him a Foundation Establishment Pill. The barrier of Foundation Establishment mainly relied on Chen Jinliang himself taking the risk of death to break through.

When it came to forming a core, it was the same. Although Chen Jinliang had some opportunities after cultivating to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment and obtained two spiritual items useful for forming a core, his final success in forming a core mainly relied on his own insights into cultivation.

Unlike breaking through Foundation Establishment, which requires transforming the cultivator's physical body and soul, there is no great danger to life in forming a core. Even if the breakthrough fails, at most it is just losing some vitality, which can be slowly recovered after a period of adjustment.

But compared to the difficulty of breaking through Foundation Establishment, the more difficult part of forming a core is that there are too few spiritual items that can assist in forming a core. Third-grade elixirs like the Jade Dust Pill and Void Spirit Pill, which are relatively common, can only increase the probability of forming a core by about half a percent or one percent.

Other better third-grade spiritual items that assist in forming a core are extremely difficult to see near the Fuyun Mountain Range. Even a large Nascent Soul sect like the Carefree Sect can hardly take out one or two pieces.

Because of this, the reliance on external objects when a cultivator breaks through the Golden Core realm is lower than that of Foundation Establishment, and what has more influence is the cultivator's own insights into their own cultivation and techniques.

Especially for cultivators like Chen Jinliang who can successfully form a core as a rogue cultivator, they are basically people with excellent talent in the Dao of cultivation and heart-nature insights. His cultivation insights are exactly what people like Song Qingming and the others need most urgently.