Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 337: Chapter 226: Golden Core_1

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No matter whether it was his Taoism Origin Body or his real self, both had stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm.

Compared to that, the mere Golden Core amounted to nothing.

However, Xu Yang still regarded this breakthrough with great importance, even holding expectations for it.

As the saying goes, to review the old is to understand the new.

In his life as Zhuanzhou Mengdie, roaming through countless worlds, his cultivation not only sought to explore the future but also to rectify the past; to mend unseen flaws and imperfections, refining them to perfection.

Only then, could one achieve a Heaven Reaching immortal path.

The Thunder Series before served as an example.

The originally unsurpassable Thunder Series had broken through upon divine epiphany, advancing further to master the Five Elements Divine Thunder.

Just as with the Thunder Series, so it was with other mana points.

Mana points that seemed perfect at the moment, with no visible flaws or room for improvement, might not truly lack advancement possibilities. The issue might be that one’s cultivation was not sufficient, that one’s skills were too low to perceive them.

Cultivators must maintain a humble and cautious heart, a thirst for knowledge that seeks constant improvement.

Therefore…

Xu Yang swept his robe, and five beams of Sprit Light swept out.

Subsequently, five streaks of Escape Light tore through the sky, arriving before the clouds and transforming into five figures.

Five people, three men and two women, of varying ages, performed a ceremonial bow before the cloud bed in unison.

“Disciple Dong Ling, pays respects to Master!”

“Disciple Wang Hu, pays respects to Master!”

“Disciple Huo Li, pays respects to Master!”

“Disciple Chen Xuan, pays respects to Master!”

“Disciple Huang Chang, pays respects to Master!”

The five disciples bowed to the ground, performing a grand salute.

“Rise.”

Xu Yang made a lifting gesture with an open hand, his gaze sweeping over the five before finally nodding, “You all have cultivated well, you have not disappointed your teacher.”

“It is all thanks to Master’s excellent guidance.”

Dressed in palace attire, as red and brilliant as fire, Huo Li took over the conversation with a clever and charming smile.

Xu Yang smiled, without agreeing or disagreeing, and said to them, “Today your teacher will form his Core, and I will need your hard work to assist with the Five Elements True Spirit Map.”

“Yes!”

Upon hearing this, the five did not hesitate in the slightest, answering in unison before ascending swiftly, transforming into five beams of blue, yellow, red, white, and black Spirit Light.

The blue, yellow, red, white, and black lights, within which phantom figures took form, transformed into the five great Divine Beasts.

Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Kylin.

The true spirits of the five great Divine Beasts manifested, occupying the five directions of east, south, west, north, and center, embodying both form and spirit, lifelike in their presence.

This was…

The Five Elements True Spirit Map!

Over the span of ten years, Xu Yang founded White Jade Capital, sought out Demon Transformation Spiritual Objects throughout Xing Country, and ultimately succeeded in collecting five Spirit Beasts corresponding to the Five Elements.

They were…

Dong Ling: The King of Ganoderma Grass from the eastern Dong Mountains, a wood-attributed Demon Transformation Spirit Plant.

Wang Hu: The Spirit Vein Stone Essence from Mount Taibai, a metal-attributed Demon Object.

Huo Li: The Red Flame Snake from the Li Fire Cavern, a fire-attributed Spirit Beast.

Chen Xuan: The Great Turtle from Canglan River, a water-attributed Spirit Beast.

Huang Chang: The Thousand-Year Ginseng from the Hundred Herbs Forest, an earth-attributed Demon Transformation Spirit Plant.

Xu Yang took them under his wing, passed on the Supreme Yin Body Training Skill to assist their Transformation, and then imparted the Five Spirits and Five Elements True Jue for their cultivation.

These Demon Transformation Spirit Beasts, favored by heaven and earth and endowed with destiny, contained divine secrets within themselves, representing the world’s self-rescue attempt. Not only were they innately capable of transforming Demonic Qi and purging filth, their cultivation progressed exceptionally, as they were favored by the world, advancing rapidly, covering great strides in a single day.

In ten years, from start to finish, they all completed the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment Realm, their cultivation closely following Xu Yang, their master, and were only a step away from condensing a Golden Core.

But that was not the main reason Xu Yang summoned them now.

The main reason was the Five Elements True Spirit Map.

Xu Yang first split the Five Spirits and Five Elements True Jue, transforming it into five separate cultivation techniques for them to cultivate.

Afterward, he had them cooperate with himself to comprehend the divine secrets contained within the bodies of these Demon Transformation Spiritual Objects.

To better comprehend these divine secrets, Xu Yang also imparted to them a mana point, which was used to perform the Five Elements True Spirit Map imbued with Divine Intent Taoist Rhyme.

This conceptualized method originated from one of the three great Taoist ancestral homes of the Taoism world, the Pure Yang Palace, whose treasure, the “Pure Yang Sword Diagram,” was its core. It could condense sword intents, saber intents, marital intents, and all sorts of Divine Intent Taoist Rhymes into imagery, and even refine them into treasures for others to observe and comprehend.

Although these five disciples did not possess the prowess of Pure Yang’s ancestor Lü Dongbin, with the help of Xu Yang’s modified Divine Intent Taoist Rhyme and the divine enigma within their bodies, they successfully cultivated the Five Elements True Spirit Map.

Once transformed into the Five Elements True Spirit Map, the divine enigma hidden within their bodies further revealed itself, allowing Xu Yang to directly and more deeply comprehend and experience it.

This was the main reason Xu Yang called them forth.

He needed the Five Elements True Spirits to assist him in cultivation and condense his Golden Core.

The Azure Dragon and White Tiger in the four corners, the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise, with the Kylin at the top commanding the center.

The Five Elements and Five Spirits reveal the secrets of heaven.

Xu Yang wasted no time, with a sweep of his sleeve, beams of Spirit Light flowed forth.

Among the Spirit Light, there were only jade bottles.

The jade bottles opened, and out burst a shower of multicolored lights, spewing out pellets of Golden Core.

Golden Core, Golden Core, the Five Elements Gold Binding Pill!

This too was one of Xu Yang’s achievements over the past decade.

Its said that murder and arson bring a golden belt, and if you ignore the risks, becoming a Robbing Cultivator is indeed a way to amass wealth quickly.

For ten years, Xu Yang traveled all over Xing Country, robbing the Great Xing Mountain, plundering local tyrants, and occasionally stepping beyond Xing Country’s borders, in another identity, to deceive and eliminate a number of fellow Robbing Cultivators. In this way, he quickly amassed a vast fortune in a short time.

Truly a vast fortune!

Because in this world, Yuan Sprit is abundant and the natural resources are extremely rich. Even Loose Cultivators possess considerable wealth, at times occupying some Demon Transformation Spiritual Objects.

Though Sects are strong, they must share some benefits with these Loose Cultivators and cannot oppress them as harshly as the Three Sects of Golden Core in the real world.

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In the real world, the Three Sects of Golden Core are able to strictly exploit Liang Country’s cultivators because the sects are powerful, and the cultivators of Liang Country do not face direct survival pressure, thus they are willing to endure and enjoy whatever peace they can snatch.

But in this world, the survival pressure is immense; without sufficient resources, one is forced onto the Demon Path.

You try being harsh?

If we’re all going to die anyway, why should I let you ride over my head? I’m not afraid of you, not when I have nothing to lose and you have your shoes on!

Pushed into desperation, I’ll go to your sect entrance tonight and use a Gathering Spirit Talisman, transform into a Demon Object, and we can all die together!

Therefore, the major sects dare not exploit Loose Cultivators too harshly, especially those Golden Core Loose Cultivators. If you don’t allow them to possess a Demon Transformation Spiritual Beast, they’ll dare to storm your sect entrance and seek a battle to the death with you, dragging you down with them.

But this is a sect, not Xu Yang; he’s not afraid of others transforming into demons and engaging in a fight to the death.

So, he unscrupulously robbed within Xing Country’s borders, clearing out the Robbing Cultivators, and even made a ruthless sweep through the neighboring countries.

With this, Xu Yang gathered well in advance the Five Elements Spiritual Objects needed for Core Formation, and he even had quite a surplus.

Xu Yang refined these Five Elements Spiritual Objects into Five Elements Gold Binding Pills, which helped him break through and purify his Five Elements Spiritual Root.

Innate objects are indeed good, but acquired creation can also be wonderful.

The effects of the Five Elements Gold Binding Pill are clearly much stronger than the unprocessed Five Elements Spiritual Objects.

Not to mention, Xu Yang didn’t use just one, but…

Forty-five!

Forty-five Five Elements Gold Binding Pills!

Among the Five Elements, nine is the ultimate number.

He was going to form a Nine Turns Five Elements Golden Pill!

Even for someone with Five Elements Spiritual Root, such an approach is considered madness.

But Xu Yang has not only the Five Elements Spiritual Root; he also practices inner and outer cultivation, with his Taoism Origin Body cultivated in four respects.

This foundation can withstand it!

Azure, yellow, red, white, and black, a spectrum of lights, Golden Pill particle by particle, joining the ultimate number of nine times five.

Xu Yang opened his mouth and inhaled, among the dazzling streams of light, the ninety-five Golden Pills entered his stomach.

“Boom!!!”

The body is like a blazing furnace, life is like fire, Golden Pills ingested to refine the Divine Skill.

The forty-five Five Elements Golden Pills surged within the human body’s great furnace, melting within the fire of flesh and life.

The powerful medicinal strength, the pure Yuan Sprit, divided among the Five Elements, entered every limb and bone.

However, within the Yuan Spirit, there was also Demonic Qi, a trace that was already weak to the extreme.

Xu Yang’s current alchemy ability, endowed with the characteristics of “Pill Not Poison,” “transform demons and eliminate evil,” and “Three Turns Golden Pill,” could significantly refine and purify the pill toxins and Demonic Qi within the pills, enhancing the quality and effect of the medicine.

Strong.

But the Demonic Qi was also strong.

The three characteristics of alchemy couldn’t completely purify it, and a trace stubbornly lingered.

Luckily, Xu Yang’s skills weren’t limited to alchemy.

Qi and Blood Furnace!

Yuan Spirit Demon Transformation!

The physical body, like a furnace refining, burned away the last wisp of Demonic Qi, leaving only the pure Five Elements spiritual force.

The Five Elements spiritual force flowed through every limb and bone, merging into the flesh and marrow, and even more to the five viscera and six bowels, and to the very root of life.

“Roar!!!”

The dragon chant resounded, Sprit Light shimmering, as the shadow of an Azure Dragon coalesced into the liver.

Following the Azure Dragon came the White Tiger, the liver was followed by the lungs, and then the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise for the heart, spleen, and kidneys.

The Five Spirits and Five Elements, five viscera corresponding to five attributes, Golden Pills ingested changes to life essence.

And then we see again…

“Boom!!!”

The void shook, Yuan Sprit from all directions surged over powerfully.

Where the cloud bed was situated, it immediately turned into a vortex, as if all rivers flowed into the sea.

In this world, Yuan Spirit is abundant, far surpassing that of the Void Spirit Cave Heaven. Not to mention that Spirit Veins and Spirit Lands can be seen everywhere; they are scattered throughout the world.

Xu Yang established an array on this Wuzhe Lake Island to gather and channel Yuan Spirit, arrange the feng shui, and in less than a decade cultivated a third-tier Spirit Land, disregarding the influence of Demonic Qi, which could completely satisfy the cultivation needs of a Golden Core and even a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Now, as the formation activated, the Yuan Spirit was like an ocean, with all the Spiritual Energy from ten directions being drained, and surging into his body like many rivers flowing together.

If cultivators of this world were to attempt such a practice, even if they didn’t explode from the overwhelming Spiritual Energy, they would be transformed into Demon Objects by the Demonic Qi.

Xu Yang, however, remained undisturbed; within the Five Spirits diagram, he absorbed all the Yuan force for the final push in the breakthrough.

“Boom!!!”

The final strike broke through the heavenly barrier.

Within the body’s great furnace, within the viscera and lungs, a speck of golden light suddenly appeared.

A speck of golden light, vibrant in colors, yet also flawless and extremely pure.

This description might seem contradictory, but if it were seen with one’s own eyes, one would find that there’s not the slightest error in this portrayal.

A speck of golden light, vibrant in colors.

Nine turns to form the pill, flawless and pure.

It is as if the Chaos Yuan Qi is the intermingling of yin and yang, nurturing all things, with innumerable colors far beyond vibrancy. But one Qi is just one Qi, Chaos Yuan is just Chaos Yuan, without any mixed currents or different colors, only the one Chaos Yuan Qi.

Five Elements Nine Turns, the flawless Golden Pill!

“Boom!!!”

At the moment of the pill’s formation, all methods became clear.

Qi Blood and Inner Yuan coalesced into one pill.

Flesh and bones tempered into one embryo.

And then there’s the essence and spirit, the Taoism and Pure Yang Creation.

Five Elements Golden Pill, nine turns into one binding, Yuan Spirit cultivation penetrates through three techniques, all four systems entered into six realms, revealing the exquisite skill of profound methods.