Chapter 225: Senior Sister

"Do you really want to know?"

"Really, really." Lu Yang nodded vigorously, like a chick pecking at rice.

Miss Yun Zhi pondered the pros and cons, feeling that telling him wouldn't hurt; she would just satisfy her Junior Brother's curiosity.

"Very well, since you want to know, I will tell you. But I'll say this again: just listen, do not try to imitate me."

"I definitely won't imitate you." Lu Yang promised.

The Immortal Fairy was also very interested in Miss Yun Zhi's core formation. She wanted to hear what kind of core this junior had formed—could it possibly be stronger than her own Invincible Core?

"That was something that happened several hundred years ago..." Miss Yun Zhi fell into a state of recollection.

Lu Yang blurted out, his tone filled with unconcealable surprise: "Several hundred years ago?!"

Senior Sister was a peerless cold beauty who looked to be in her twenties. Walking down the street with Lu Yang, they looked like siblings. Furthermore, Miss Yun Zhi's attitude toward Lu Yang was not that of an elder, but rather the concern of a mature peer, which led Lu Yang to always have the illusion that Senior Sister was about the same age as him.

Now that Senior Sister spoke of her core formation story as being from hundreds of years ago, Lu Yang finally realized that Senior Sister had the highest seniority among the disciples, and her true age was far greater than he had imagined.

Just how old was Senior Sister? Several hundred years? Could she be nearly a thousand years old?

The above train of thought seemed complex, but it all happened in a single instant, as fast as lightning.

Lu Yang's thoughts flashed by, and without even a moment to think, he shouted out his true thoughts.

As soon as he said it, Lu Yang felt like he was done for.

Miss Yun Zhi's gaze slowly fell onto Lu Yang's shoulders. For a moment, Lu Yang felt as if a gleaming blade was resting across his neck; he was walking on the edge of death, separated from it by only a single thought.

Fortunately, this feeling came and went quickly. Senior Sister withdrew her gaze, did not dwell on Lu Yang's excessive curiosity, and continued.

"Several hundred years ago, I had cultivated to the late Foundation Establishment stage and was preparing to form my core."

"At that time, Master saw that my talent was rare in the world and that I would be able to shoulder great responsibilities in the future, so she told me some secrets to prepare me for what was to come. Among them was the fact that the nameless figure of the ancient era refined stars into continents; the stars we see today are mostly illusions, and the actual stars are beneath our feet."

It is generally accepted in the Cultivation Realm that one is only qualified to know that the stars are fake upon reaching the Nascent Soul stage; the general public and ordinary cultivators are better off believing the world is peaceful.

Otherwise, the public and ordinary cultivators would wonder: if the ancient nameless figure could refine stars into continents once, could they do it again and refine the continents into stars?

It would only add unnecessary worry, so it was better not to tell everyone.

"I should have told you before that I grew up in a secret realm, and only left it later to come to the Congwendao Sect."

Lu Yang nodded. Senior Sister had indeed said that. She said she had lived in a secret realm since she was young, only ever coming into contact with cultivators, and it was the same after she came to the Congwendao Sect. Thus, she did not understand the habits of mortals and didn't know that mortals couldn't take boiling water baths.

—The above was the explanation Senior Sister gave when she was applying medicine to Lu Yang's red, swollen skin after he had taken a boiling water bath.

"There is no night sky in the secret realm. When I left the secret realm and came to the outside world, seeing the starlight scattered beneath the night curtain, I felt that the scene was extremely beautiful."

"When I wasn't cultivating, I would often lie on the grass to watch the stars and count them."

"When Master told me that there were actually no stars left in the sky, I didn't show it on the outside, but I felt disappointed in my heart."

"The stars I saw every day were merely illusions left behind from three hundred thousand years ago. Once I thought of this, I no longer felt the night sky was beautiful."

"When I was pondering what kind of Jin Dan to form, I read in the 'Treatise on Golden Cores' that 'The gold is the firm, rigid, and permanent thing that never decays; the core is the perfect, bright, and pure thing that never lacks.'"

An absurd thought vaguely emerged in Lu Yang's mind: Senior Sister, you wouldn't have done something so outrageous, would you...

He only heard Miss Yun Zhi continue: "At that time, I was thinking: a Jin Dan is flawless and indestructible—isn't that exactly the star I have in mind?"

"Since the stars are gone, why shouldn't I use Golden Cores to replace the stars and recreate the magnificent night sky of the ancient era?"

He thought to himself: As expected, Senior Sister, you really did think that.

"Among Golden Cores, the first grade is the best. So, I formed my core according to the stars I had in mind, creating a new type of first-grade Jin Dan, which I named the Magnificent Star Core."

"At the beginning, my core formation technique was still a bit rusty, but later, as the number of cores I formed increased, my speed also picked up."

"Throughout the entire Jin Dan stage, the main thing I did was continuously form cores, until the number of Golden Cores reached the same amount as the stars in the sky."

Lu Yang gasped; Senior Sister, you really are someone who dares to think and dares to act.

"It is difficult to replace stars with Golden Cores during the Jin Dan stage. When I broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, I let one of the cores shatter to form a Nascent Soul, while the other cores remained in my body."

"Later, when my cultivation was successful, I took all the Golden Cores out of my body to replace the illusions with physical objects, replacing the stars in the night sky."

"The pity is that there are simply too many star illusions in the night sky. Even though I worked hard to form cores, I couldn't match the quantity; the number of Golden Cores is far less than the star illusions."

"But having some is better than having none. Wasn't the hard work of forming cores back then just to replace the star illusions with Golden Cores?"

"So, the stars in the sky now... are a portion of them your Golden Cores?" Lu Yang's tone was unconsciously cautious. There was no other reason; what Senior Sister had done was too outrageous, forcing Lu Yang to be respectful.

"Just a small portion."

"... A small portion is already plenty." Lu Yang didn't even know what to say.

Senior Sister was worried about Lu Yang and warned him repeatedly: "My method of core formation is different from ordinary people's. Do not imitate me just because you find it curious."

"I definitely won't imitate you."

If Lu Yang's previous claim that he wouldn't imitate her was just perfunctory, his answer now was his true inner thought.

It would be too outrageous if this could be imitated. Even thinking about it, he knew the core formation process was definitely not as understated as Senior Sister described.

What did she mean by "the more cores I formed, the faster the speed"? Does that make any sense?

No wonder Senior Sister wrote in her core formation experience: "My core formation has no reference value; please do not imitate. Those who imitate me will die; those who resemble me will die."

Sometimes Lu Yang felt that the gap between people was even greater than the gap between people and dogs. Everyone is cultivating immortality, so why are you the only one so outrageous?

"Fairy, can your Invincible Core compare to Senior Sister's?" Lu Yang asked secretly.

The Immortal Fairy was disdainful of this: "It's just a pile of Golden Cores. No matter how many useless Golden Cores there are, they are still trash. As the second-in-command of the Immortal lineage, you must remember that our Immortal lineage has always valued quality over quantity. This little girl has quantity, while my Jin Dan has quality; the two are incomparable."

"Do you dare say that to Senior Sister's face?" "I dare not."

She said it with righteous indignation.

Lu Yang felt that with Senior Sister as his backer and the Immortal Fairy as his backer, his path of cultivation should be smooth sailing.

Now it seemed that neither of these two backers could be relied upon. Come to think of it, just how old is Senior Sister? ===== CHAPTER 226 =====