My Golden Core is a Star, do you call this cultivating?

Chapter 80: Dao of Heaven Foundation, New Abilities

How much experience did Qi Yuan have stored?

Even Qi Yuan himself did not know.

On the Ascension Platform, the countless minor monsters had given him an immense amount of experience.

In the Absolute Land, nearly three thousand outer demons had also provided a substantial amount of experience.

At this moment, this experience was like an ocean suspended upside down, with only a small outlet allowing it to flow into Qi Yuan’s body.

Qi Yuan held his sword, looking at the massive stone, and said, “I... am not level 99!”

Demon Radiance!
Dominant Power!

Heaven-Slaying Sword Art!
All the major skills and all the minor skills were simultaneously deployed.

Qi Yuan unleashed the strongest sword strike of this world.

“Kill!”

The blazing white light intertwined with the blood-red sword energy, emitting a power far beyond the ordinary.

Qi Yuan’s body bathed in the white and blood light.

His body slowly dissolved, struggling against the blood light,
but a smile still appeared on his lips: “You will die faster than me, haha!”

After saying this, Qi Yuan weakly closed his eyes.

He sat on the steps, his blood already dried, still tightly gripping the sword.

……

Outside the Absolute Land, a few moments earlier.

The Domain Gods from the Yin-Yang Forbidden Land and the Five Elements Forbidden Land finally arrived.

At this time, their expressions were extremely calm.

Soon, they would face the most terrifying outer demons in this world.

The Celestial Dog eating the moon was still happening.

Darkness had already shrouded the world.

However, at that moment, a massive tremor seemed to emanate from the Absolute Land.

Everyone was shocked, looking at each other in dismay.

“What happened?”

“Did the outer demons discover us and plan to ambush us?”

“Look over there, what is that?”

Suddenly, the red-clad man pointed at the sky.

In the heavens, the giant Celestial Dog was eating the moon.

A great sun suddenly rose, turning the entire world as bright as daylight.

Everyone looked up at the sky, an inexplicable sense of fear arising in their hearts, as if a great disaster was imminent.

“Two suns, what’s going on?” Everyone was both shocked and fearful.

“Not good, that sun is going to fall to the earth!”

“The Great Sun in the sky, the sun and moon reversed... This is the revival of the Great Sun!” Yu realized something, a tear of blood falling from the corner of his eye, “So, this is the true ten deaths and no life?”

The other Domain Gods were horrified by the scene.

A great sun was actually falling towards the continent.

Although it might not compare to the high sun in the heavens, it was still a small sun.

Falling to the human world?
What an apocalyptic scene!
The sea would flood back, the earth’s veins would rupture, and all life would turn to ashes.

“Ten deaths and no life?” Xiao Lu looked at the falling great sun, suddenly reconciled, and smiled, “Lord of the Clothing Department, I no longer blame you.”

However, at that moment, a sword suddenly appeared in the sky.

“What is that?”

“Whose sword is it!”

“What’s going on?”

The Domain Gods were stunned.

Because in the sky, a sword appeared, a sword they were familiar with.

The Moon Dynasty, the woman looked up at the heavens, the moon in her eyes turning into a waning moon: “Sir...”

The Garment Forbidden Land, Xiao Jia staggered and ran, seemingly calling for something, falling down, getting up, and falling again.

In the heavens, in front of a great door, a bloodied man sat on the steps, his flesh and blood in tatters, holding a long sword.

He seemed to have come from hell, having endured countless attacks and bites from demons.

His body was covered in wounds.

His eyes were shattered, but he still held the sword, striking at the sun, and then roared, “I... am not level 99!”

With one sword strike, chaos ensued.

The entire world of blazing white had turned half blood-red.

The clash between the blood-red and white light released unimaginable energy.

“Lord of the Clothing Department, that’s the Lord of the Clothing Department!” The red-clad man shouted.

Long Pan looked at the heavens, his eyes flashing with endless emotions, eventually turning into a smile: “How could the person I believe in possibly flee in the face of danger!”

“How is this possible! How is this possible!”

The other Domain Gods looked at the heavens, silent.

Some even felt guilty.

Others had tears of emotion in their eyes.

They saw the bloodied man with a smile on his lips, closing his eyes.

“You die faster than me, haha.” The only sound left in the world.

The sword energy continued to spread.

The blazing white light grew dimmer.

The black Celestial Dog was also severed by that sword.

The great sun was eventually torn apart, turning into countless stars.

Clang, a door fell in the Absolute Land.

Among the four forbidden lands and two absolute lands, the Absolute Land no longer existed in the world.

All the Domain Gods looked at the Absolute Land.

They saw, behind the fallen door, a bloody youth sitting on the steps, holding a sword, his eyes closed, with a smile on his lips, as if asleep, or perhaps dreaming a beautiful dream.

“Lord of the Clothing Department!”

The Domain Gods cried out in shock, some with pained expressions, and they rushed madly towards the Absolute Land.

How many battles had they experienced.

This is...

However, in their sight, the broken youth seemed to vanish along with the disappearance of the Absolute Land.

Only a trace of blood-red remained, then disappeared.

……

“Too much history in the world is covered by the passage of time.” The height of the July Sacrificial Priest was not as tall as Jin Li’s, but walking beside Jin Li, she appeared even more dignified.

A flicker of disappointment passed through Jin Li's eyes, and she said nothing.

“The Forbidden Lands and the Absolute Lands, in fact, during the establishment of the Moon Dynasty, besides the four major Forbidden Lands, there were also two Absolute Lands. Now, only one Absolute Land remains.”

After the establishment of the Moon Dynasty, it experienced multiple falls, but was eventually reestablished.

“Another Absolute Land?” Jin Li’s eyes narrowed.

She recalled what Qi Yuan had said about the Four Forbidden Lands and Two Absolute Lands.

“What was the other Absolute Land called, and where is it now?” Jin Li’s tone was a bit excited.

“According to ancient records, that Absolute Land was called the Absolute Land of the Earth.” July said slowly, “It is rumored that the Absolute Land of the Earth was home to a world-destroying giant demon, and there was a faceless swordsman who went there and killed the giant demon.”

“What happened to him?” Jin Li grasped July's arm.

“The Absolute Land of the Earth was shattered, and it’s hard to imagine the kind of power required.

And he... perished along with the giant demon.” July said with a sigh.

“He died?” Jin Li’s expression was a bit dazed.

“There are also ancient records that the establishment of the Moon Dynasty was orchestrated by the faceless swordsman.

Unfortunately, the new emperor later rejected this account.

I don’t know if the faceless swordsman had any connection with our Moon Dynasty, but he did come here.

He even has a statue, just ahead.”

Jin Li looked up and saw a dilapidated temple, with the southern wall collapsed and weeds growing wild.

“Shall we go in and take a look?” July's expression was calm.

Jin Li stepped onto the blue stone floor, her steps urgent yet seemingly slow.

In just a few moments, she entered the temple.

“It’s a pity. Even though the faceless sword god is rumored to have done great things to save the world, among the many temples, his temple has no offerings.” July lamented.

Jin Li stopped and looked at the damaged statue in the temple.

Her mind flashed with countless images, and she remembered many things.

“Your Majesty, did you see what you wished to see?” July’s desolate voice came from behind.

Jin Li looked at the statue and raised her hand.

She grasped the statue’s left hand.

At that moment, the statue’s left hand suddenly exploded.

A green wooden hairpin fell into Jin Li’s hand.

She tightly held the hairpin, recalling Qi Yuan’s second piece of advice. She looked up at the statue and said, “I have seen it, just like seeing you.”

……

In the Garment Forbidden Land.

The cold wooden planks made Qi Yuan feel uncomfortable and somewhat chilly.

He reached out casually, trying to grasp something, but his hands were empty.

“Xiao Jia…”

He called out and opened his eyes.

He found only himself on the wooden planks.

“Xiao Jia?”

He called out again with more force.

But still, no one responded.

The wedding chamber was empty, with no one around.

“Together as One!”

Qi Yuan used his great skill.

Unfortunately, the response he got was silence.

He sat on the cold wooden planks, feeling a bit of a headache.

The only solace was that the skill was still there, and Xiao Jia… was still there.

“Your wife is too unqualified, not even calling me when she goes out.”

Qi Yuan dragged his weak body through the Garment Forbidden Land.

He saw many wedding gowns.

Unfortunately, none were as beautiful as Little Bride’s.

He stumbled and struggled to enter the underground palace: “As they say, couples who have been together for a long time start to resemble each other. I can barely walk a few steps without falling down.
You wouldn’t have been like me before, with a muddled head and too much stuff in it.”

After walking for an hour, Qi Yuan finally entered the underground palace.

“Xiao Jia, we are in the divorce cooling-off period.”

“But since you are not here now, I can’t get a divorce certificate alone.”

“So, when we meet next time, we’ll talk about whether to divorce or not. For now, you are still... my wife?”

“Or should I be chasing after my wife’s funeral pyre?”

“Or, perhaps you should chase after your husband’s funeral pyre? That sounds more interesting.”

Qi Yuan sat in the dark underground palace, taking a breath.

He raised his hand, and the moon pattern on his hand disappeared, like the marks Little Bride had left on him.

He looked at the Garment Forbidden Army still in the underground palace.

“Am I leaving?”

“That Great Sun really dragged on. If I had broken through to level 100 earlier, his true form would definitely not have appeared!”

“This game can’t be completed perfectly.”

Even though the game wasn’t perfectly completed, Qi Yuan still felt a bit melancholic.

Finishing a game was like reaching the end of a TV show; the heart felt empty.

“Rubbish game, I still have a side quest left unfinished!”

“Wait, Jin Li is a player, so it doesn’t count as a quest!”

“Meeting... Next time we meet, the location must be in reality!”

He thought about going to meet Jin Li, with heavy snow falling. He waited for several days but didn’t see her.

His mind was full of thoughts.

He looked at the dust-covered Garment Forbidden Army and inexplicably remembered some words he had seen before and involuntarily said them out loud.

“Once not seeing you, the worries are like accumulated snow, deep in thought throughout the ages.

Now not seeing you, the longing is like the jade dew, inebriating through the ages.

In the future, meeting you again, I will not hate the delay of our meeting, nor resent the shortness of time.”

The last sentence was originally, “If not meeting you again, life would be like a fleeting dream, empty through the ages.”

He thought it was ominous and casually changed it.

He recalled that heavy snow day.

The snow in the game was much bigger than the snow on Blue Star.

The ancient Qi Chuan tree was like a giant Christmas tree.

It didn’t hang corpses, so the Christmas tree Jin Li saw must have been very beautiful.

Qi Yuan snapped out of his fantasy, looked at the Garment Forbidden Army, and instructed, “It’s rare to recite some sentimental verses, so I must bring them to Jin Li!”

After saying this, Qi Yuan, sitting in the underground palace, suddenly laughed heartily: “I am truly fickle.”

...

On the Seven-Colored Peak, snow slowly fell.

Jiang Lingsu, still in her thin long dress, left the thatched cottage.

Glancing at the nearby thatched cottage, a trace of anxiety flashed in her eyes: “It’s been three months, and the senior brother still hasn’t come out?”

It had been three months since the senior brother asked her to help take care of things.

She was somewhat worried about the senior brother having an accident.

After all, the senior brother was still at the Qi Condensation stage and couldn’t truly achieve food abstinence.

Only after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage could he truly abstain from food.

At that moment, a voice came: “Senior Sister, has Senior Brother Qi Yuan not emerged yet?”

Dong Xian, dressed in black, was incongruous against the vast snowfall.

“Not yet. Senior Brother said that this retreat would last a year or more.” Jiang Lingsu replied before returning to her own room.

Dong Xian, hearing this, felt a bit disappointed.

There were only two months left to prepare for the Dragon Seizing Contest.

The Sect Master had instructed him to invite two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

One he had successfully invited was the Sect Master’s son-in-law, the chief disciple of the Five Lights Peak, Senior Brother Kang Fulu.

Senior Brother Kang Fulu was a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, practicing the Five Lights Sacred Method.

He was undeniably the strongest among the Foundation Establishment disciples of the Divine Light Sect.

Dong Xian had paid a high price to invite him.

As for the second Foundation Establishment cultivator, he wanted to invite Qi Yuan.

The Artifact Elder had said that Qi Yuan was extremely mysterious, harboring secrets, and if he reached Foundation Establishment, wielding that treasured kitchen knife, he could even fight against Golden Core cultivators.

If Senior Brother Qi Yuan could help, Dong Xian might truly win the Dragon Seizing Contest and change his fate.

Then his fiancée would no longer be separated from him.

But now, Senior Brother Qi Yuan was still in seclusion, and no one knew when he would come out.

He feared that time might run out.

He waited at the Seven-Colored Peak for a while before finally leaving in disappointment.

“Artifact Elder, shall we consider finding someone else?” Dong Xian couldn’t help but suggest.

The Artifact Elder snorted coldly: “If we are to collaborate, we should collaborate with the strongest. If Kang Fulu’s strength is as great as his words, you naturally have no fear.

Wait a bit longer; there will be an opportunity!”

Dong Xian nodded upon hearing this.

He had deliberately asked the Artifact Elder to strengthen his own resolve.

……

On the Seven-Colored Peak, the snow piled higher and higher.

Jiang Lingsu grew increasingly worried that the senior brother might really have died in the room, coming to check every day.

However, feeling the breath of the living, she could only slightly ease her worry.

At this moment, inside Qi Yuan’s room.

With his eyes closed, Qi Yuan’s face showed a look of pain.

Sweat continued to stream down his forehead.

Strange voices drifted into his ears.

“Heavenly Grade Secret Art, only 9.99!”

“Damn, my elixir failed again.”

“Shit tastes so good, but I can’t eat it anymore. I’m a Golden Core cultivator now; I can’t be like when I hadn’t awakened spiritual intelligence.”

“Did you hear? Senior Sister and Master slept together. But that’s not all; when Master’s wife found out, she got involved with Senior Sister’s brother.”

“We’ve been lying low in the Divine Light Sect for so many years. When will we act?”

Countless voices surged into Qi Yuan’s ears.

He suddenly opened his eyes, with a moment of confusion, which quickly cleared.

“Am I back?”

“Xiao Jia?”

“……”

“I… succeeded in Foundation Establishment?”

“Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment!”

Yes, after coming out of the game world, Qi Yuan obtained the complete Heavenly Dao fragment.

He used the “Qi Yuan Sutra” to treat the Heavenly Dao as a Foundation Establishment spiritual object and began his Foundation Establishment.

In just half a day, he successfully achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

However, after succeeding in Foundation Establishment, he felt his mind was hazy and extremely drowsy, as if something was targeting him. His consciousness was slowly dissipating, and he couldn’t help but fall into a deep sleep.

He dreamt again.

The content of the dream was unclear to him.

He only remembered that in the dream, he entered a wooden house, where there was a big thing. That big thing saw him and started fighting him.

It must be said that the big thing was very fierce, and Qi Yuan was no match for it.

But Qi Yuan was not easily defeated either; he fought back fiercely until the big thing didn’t drive him out.

He also stayed in the big thing’s house, but the big thing, fearing Qi Yuan would destroy the house, made many agreements with him.

Qi Yuan didn’t remember the details of the agreements.

Upon waking from the dream, amidst his confusion, he heard many strange sounds.

“My strength… is so great. Is this the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?”

Qi Yuan felt that now, without using a knife, he could punch and kill... the Sect Master of the Black Mountain Sect.

As for the Sect Master of his own sect, Kumu True Monarch, Qi Yuan didn’t know because he had never fought him.

“Indeed, as expected of Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. I should be able to leave the countryside and easily defeat high school cultivators, right?”

Qi Yuan got up.

He performed a spell on himself and changed into a new set of clothes.

At this moment, a strange voice entered his mind.

“The chest binding is too small again. It’s annoying.”

Qi Yuan was stunned.

“Could it be that after Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, I’m hearing things?”

“Why am I hearing Junior Sister’s voice?”

“Could it be that I have a secret crush on Junior Sister and am craving her body?”

Thinking this, he left his room.

“Junior Sister.” He called out to the thatched cottage next door.

“Senior Brother? Wait a moment, I’ll come out right away.” Jiang Lingsu’s voice was filled with joy mixed with panic.

Soon, Jiang Lingsu came out of the thatched cottage.

Her face was full of excitement: “Senior Brother, you finally came out of seclusion.”

Qi Yuan then looked at Jiang Lingsu’s chest.

Hmm… indeed very large and spectacular.

“Junior Sister, I have achieved Foundation Establishment.” Riches not returning to the village is like wearing a brocade robe in the dark.

After succeeding in Foundation Establishment, it was definitely time to fantasize about Junior Sister.

“Foundation Establishment?” Jiang Lingsu looked at Qi Yuan with even greater joy, “Congratulations, Senior Brother. Congratulations!”

Qi Yuan, hearing this, looked at Jiang Lingsu with anticipation: “Is that all?”

“Huh?” Jiang Lingsu was stunned, “What else?”

“You should ask me what kind of Foundation Establishment I achieved.” Qi Yuan boasted.

Jiang Lingsu helplessly smiled: “Senior Brother, what kind of Foundation Establishment are you?”

“Since you asked sincerely, I will generously tell you, I, Qi Yuan, achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.” Qi Yuan stood in the snow, like a flamboyant immortal guest.